1.   Among those in the press gallery was British actor and director Sir Ian McKellen, who in recent years has become an activist for gay rights.

2.   And British actor Brian Cox is unforgettable as the highest-ranking Nazi on trial.

3.   Anglophilia, however, has ruled Hollywood since talkies forced film to rely on British actors.

4.   As my friendship with British actor Christopher Lee grew through the ensuing decade, I learned how important Fairbanks was to him at a crucial time.

5.   As the only child of a brief marriage between the American actor Tammy Grimes and the British actor Christopher Plummer, Ms. Plummer had an unusual upbringing.

6.   Beethoven is played by Gary Oldman, the chameleonic British actor whose recent performances have shown an unhappy tendency toward the laughably histrionic.

7.   Besides, the British actor has more important things on his mind.

8.   Both Thurman and British actor Law do fine work as well, locating the vulnerable human warmth at the heart of their coldly conceived organisms.

9.   According to one of her co-stars, British actor Hugh Grant, that took some doing.

10.   Again, he has Rupert Everett for his lead, and again, the British actor proves indispensable.