British actors crossing the pond to be cast in big-time American movies and television shows. As a child actor, Nicholas Hoult tended to play characters who were British like him.

Equity, the actors' union, has given six months' notice on its agreement with movie bosses over fees which, it says, do not take account of the millions which some films rake in. The British ...

Jean Marsh, the striking British-born actor who was both the co-creator and a beloved award-winning star of Upstairs, Downstairs, the seminal 1970s British drama series about class in Edwardian ...