Male actors from Essex

Russell Edward Brand (born 4 June 1975) is an English comedian, actor, radio host, writer, and activist.

Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint (born 24 August 1988) is an English actor. He rose to fame for his role as Ron Weasley, one of the three main characters in the Harry Potter film series. Grint was cast as Ron at age eleven, having previously acted only in school plays and at his local theatre group. From 2001 to 2011, he starred in all eight Harry Potter films.

Elliot Cowan (born 9 July 1976) is an English actor, known for portraying Corporal Jem Poynton in Ultimate Force, Mr Darcy in Lost in Austen, and Ptolemy in the 2004 film Alexander. He also starred as Lorenzo de' Medici in Da Vinci's Demons and Daron-Vex in Krypton. Cowan most recently is known for playing King Henry Tudor in the STARZ series The Spanish Princess.

Bobby Lockwood is an actor. In 2006, when he was twelve, he appeared in the BBC series Waterloo Road. He had a leading role in the CBBC show Wolfblood, for which he won a British Academy Children's Award as best performer. In 2014 Lockwood won the BBC One athletics show Tumble.

Stephen Moyer (born Stephen John Emery; 11 October 1969) is an English film and television actor and director who is best known as vampire Bill Compton in the HBO series True Blood. He was born in Brentwood, Essex and attended St Martin's, a comprehensive school in Hutton, Essex. His first television role was in 1993 as Philip Masefield in the TV adaptation of the play Conjugal Rites, written by actor/playwright Roger Hall.

Daniel John Dyer (born 24 July 1977) is an English actor and presenter. Dyer's breakthrough role was as Moff in Human Traffic, with other notable roles as Billy the Limpet in Mean Machine and as Tommy Johnson in The Football Factory. Following the success of The Football Factory, Dyer was often typecast in "hard-man" roles, although it was this image that allowed him to present The Real Football Factories, its spin-off, The Real Football Factories International and Danny Dyer's Deadliest Men. Dyer has also worked in theatre, having appeared in three plays written by Harold Pinter, with whom he had a close friendship.

Dean-Charles Chapman (born in Romford, 7 September 1997) is an English actor, known for portraying Billy Elliot in the West End theatre production of Billy Elliot the Musical, Tommen Baratheon in the fourth, fifth and sixth seasons of the HBO drama series Game of Thrones and Lance Corporal Tom Blake in the World War I film 1917, released in 2019. His other notable roles include the titular character of the CBBC sitcom The Revolting World of Stanley Brown, and Castor during the third season of the AMC martial arts drama series Into the Badlands.

Mario Lorenzo Falcone (born 21 February 1988) is an English television personality. He is known for his appearances in the reality programme The Only Way Is Essex.

Russell George Tovey (born 14 November 1981) is an English actor. He is known for playing the role of werewolf George Sands in the BBC's supernatural drama Being Human, Rudge in both the stage and film versions of The History Boys, Steve in the BBC Three sitcom Him & Her, Kevin Matheson in the HBO original series Looking and its subsequent series finale television film Looking: The Movie, Titanic midshipman Alonzo Frame in the Doctor Who episode "Voyage of the Damned" (a role he reprised in a cameo in "The End of Time: Part Two") and as Henry Knight in BBC TV series Sherlock. He has also starred as Harry Doyle in the drama-thriller series Quantico on the ABC network.

Thomas Payne (born 21 December 1982) is an English actor. He is known for appearing on AMC's The Walking Dead as Paul "Jesus" Rovia, and BBC's Waterloo Road as Brett Aspinall. He has portrayed Malcolm Bright on the American television series Prodigal Son since 2019.