Gay British actors ....

Simon Woods

Kieron Richardson

Andrew Hayden-Smith

Andrew Scott is Irish and may not appreciate being labelled British. Other gay British actors include John Sessions, Olly Alexander (better known as a singer but has had several acting roles too), Mark Gatiss and, of course, John Barrowman. There are lots of others but I can't think of them at the moment.

PJ Brennan

Scot actor David Paisley

And PJ is American. The British list isn't doing well.

[quote]The British list isn't doing well.

I expected much.

We have less openly gay actors here and our society and culture is more conservative in many respects than the US. We're also a small country, which doesn't help.

I suppose we may mention soap actors such as Anthony Cotton, John Partridge, Charlie Condou and I am sure there are plenty of others. Must also add Stephen Fry to the list.

Samuel Barnett

Richard Cant

Malcolm Sinclair

Richard Wilson

David Ames from Brit soap Holby City.

I'd like to bend him over a table.

No way R8, the UK has far more out actors/celebrities than the US does.

Michael, French, Ben Daniels, Jeremy Sheffield, Daniel Brocklebank, Darren Bransford - there's no shortage of Grand Old theatre guys and current tv and theatre regulars. It's the ones holding out for Hollywood who hide.

Jeremy Sheffield

Denholm Elliot was married a couple of times, but clearly wasn't straight since he died of AIDS

Dirk Bogarde was too.

Okay, the beautiful Miss Cillian Murphy isn't British -- she's Irish and a lesbian. Does that count?

Sam Heughan. I know he is a Scottish actor but he is gay, no?

Ok. Let's clear this up. British at the moment equals people from England, Scotland and Wales. Those born in Northern Ireland may choose to be either British or Irish. The rest of the island of Ireland is Irish.

Tom Hardy?

Don't forget about Charlie Condou and his giant cock.

[quote] "Denholm Elliot was married a couple of times, but clearly wasn't straight since he died of AIDS"

R18, really? Thick-headed, much? The straight world has always presumed gayness when a man dies of AIDS, but there have been presumably straight nuns who sickened and died after blood transfusions back when the blood supply wasn't screened properly, remember? Were they gay men in drag habits, maybe? Did they secretly abscond from the abbey at night dressed as lumberjacks to go cruise the bars in the Village?

They all smell like urine and ripe smegma. I'm sure they are all so accustomed to it that they cannot smell it on others.

Well, that's a wrap, folks.

Denholm Elliot WAS a huge poof.

And, Peter O'Toole.

And, Alan Bates.

I'm fairly convinced Ewan McGregor is genuinely bi and has had Hayden Christensen amongst others.

R16 Ben Daniels?

My throat gets sore just thinking about him

A shorter list might be 'straight British actors'

Jeremy Northam? Whatever happened to his career?

DId we forget to name Stephen Fry? Or Alan Rickman?

Peter O'Toole was not gay. He was a very promiscuous drunk, but not gay.

R25 - did you post that delightful diatribe from here . . .

Alan Rickman's straight. Very straight, in fact.

Denholm Elliot was bisexual, as were Alan Bates, Sir Alec Guinness, Sir Larry and Jeremy Brett.

Genuinely GAY British actors of past and present.

Dirk Bogarde Charles Gray Tim Curry Peter Wyngarde Richard Chamberlain Sir John Gielgud Ian Charleson Harry Andrews Gordon Jackson Christopher Biggins Edward Hibbert Graham Chapman Ian Charleson John Inman

me!!

Scott Neal from Beautiful Thing and The Bill. He had an affair with the then executive producer of The Bill, Paul Marquess during his second stint in 2002. Paul Marquess later cast him in Hollyoaks.

From the soaps Danny Boy Hatchard and the closet case Danny Miller.

R35 BS. Denholm Elliot and the others were gay.

Peter O'Toole was gayer than a priest's picnic basket.

And. I suppose TECHNICALLY you might call some of those men bisexual solely based on the fact they married women and might occasionally stick their penis in their wives, but for most intents and purposes they were flaming pole smokers....

A tragic trio from the 'Carry On' films: Charles Hawtrey, Frankie Howerd, Kenneth Williams.

R37, not saying your wrong but what is the chat about Danny Miller? I thought he was all cosied up with an actress girlfriend. I know he plays gay but some of his scenes with a previous actor in the soap were almost painful to watch in their awkwardness. At least this time round he seems to have a bit of rapport with Ryan Hawley.

And lets not forget Noel Coward and Ivor Novello, and writers like Terence Rattigan.

Laurence Harvey (not strictly British) was a well known bi/gay too - he certainly know how to charm the older ladies like Hermione Baddeley, Joan Cohn and Margaret Leighton despite being producer James Woolf's "protege", and I am sure Stephen Boyd was, despite his two brief marriages at the start and end of his career. Didn't Sir Michael Redgrave pick him up when Boyd was a doorman at the Odeon Cinema in Leicester Square, London, when Boyd would have been a perfect slice of 50s beefcake - no wonder he was soon in movies.

Then there's John Fraser, and other Aids casualties like Richard Warwick and Gary Bond, and Ian Charleson as mentioned.

Gordon Jackson was married for 39 years, R35 and bred twice, so not totally gay, if at all.

[quote]BS. Denholm Elliot and the others were gay.

Nope.

No mention of Gordon Jackson being "in the life" in Kenneth Williams' diaries. They were edited to prevent embarrassment to/avoid libel suits from various actors and celebrities. They've never printed a full, unexpurgated edition.

Why do we keep rising to P/M/B/T's bait? He posts about the same subjects over and over and over, inflicting his bland obsessions on the rest of us. And we keep answering.

He must have posted a thousand "what's it like to live in England/this British actor is handsome/I wonder what Tom Hardy had for breakfast" threads. Short of his dying in a grease fire (crosses fingers), our best solution is to ignore him and hopefully the little snowflake will drift somewhere else, to blight another board with his mediocrity.

Wow r45 Bitch much?

Michael Redgrave, Richard Wilson, John Mahoney.

Bump because I want to know if Jeremy Northam is really gay or not. I think I read that he's gay (but closeted for his entire professional career) and "weird" (what that means wasn't elaborated on).

Anyone here had him?

I always thought Jeremy Northam was a decent actor and a very classy, handsome man. Have not read any gossip about him, straight or gay.

hmmm... am I not British enough?

Eddie Redmayne!

ALL OF THEM.

Ben Whishaw (again, probably)

Dino Fetscher

Will Young, primarily a signer, he also acts.

Jeremy Northam is not straight, I'm sure of it.

Simon Callow. One of the old school, been out years

Damn, Callow already mentioned by OP!

If we count chat show hosts: Graham Norton, Alan Carr and new guy Rylan Clark

No one's mentioned my Celebrity Big Brother housemate John Partridge, star of Eastenders and numerous regional theatre productions. And before anyone suggests he's a steroid using vicious queen, I've thought the exact same thing when I was alive.

r59 I'd fuck Rylan Clark in the ass.

Ben Wishaw is out r53. In a civil partnership. Lovely bloke.

Yes Jeremy Northam is a bit of a mystery. Seemed to produce a wife when it looked as though Hollywood beckoned and then nada. Saw him on stage a few times. Very attractive man. I think he and the wife are now divorced.

Stank sleeves, all of them.

Benedict Cumberbatch,Tom Hiddleston,Kenneth Branagh(bisexual)

What happened to Matthew Rhys, whom everyone at Datalounge insisted was gay until he hooked up with and impregnated offscreen co-star Kerry Russell from the hit series The Americans.

Matthew Goode

Never mind. I think Matthew Goode is straight. I thought this was another thread.

Dr Christian Jessen. Not an actor, but a presenter (as well as a doctor). He presents a lot of medical type programmes.

Why do people use such obnoxious websites as the one at R68?

Bump

Freddie Fox

Show me a 100% straight actor and I'll show you an Edward Everett Horton action picture.

Matt Lucas

Daniel Brockebank

Samuel Barnett

Also Derren Brown. He's a magician but he does a lot of tv work

Gregg Sulkin

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Satya Bhabha

Augustus Prew

Tom Hiddleston!

Russel Tovey

And Russell is a bottom.

Matthew Tennyson

According to the gossip: Sam Reid.

Tim Roth is bi.

Is George MacKay gay? He was dating Saoirse Ronan years ago Saoirse is a closeted lesbian so does it make George gay? anyway, He's a great actor. I'm following his works since 2013 (He had three films for 2013: For Those in Peril , Sunshine on Leith and How I Live Now ) he was a child actor and working since 2003 .

more pictures from him

George MacKay at The 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, Jan 2017

Hard to say R86. He doesn't seem to have much of a social media presence. He was good in Pride but that doesn't mean anything.

Is Toby Kebbell straight?

more recent picture

The scorchingly hot Reece Noi

More Reece:

^Last pic was shot by his bf, btw.

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Is Luke Evans even "out"? He's not in, but do the parents taking their kids to Beauty and the Beat know it?

Yes, Luke is out. In fact, there are tons of threads devoted to him.

Sir Dirk Bogarde

Luke Evans wasn't out until weeks ago.

If by weeks you mean, 2014 R99

Ben Daniels

Ah Luke Evans. First he was out the closet, then in the closet, then bearding, now back out.

Uh, I guess your not familiar with the Luke Evans story. Came out in The Advocate magazine years ago when he was a stage actor. Closeted and bearded when he started to get films, got called out on it and is now back out I guess.

Ian Charleson, Richard Warwick, Roddy McDowell ...

Jude Law. Big Pussy hound. Loves soccer.

Scorchingly tepid, R92.

Relative unknown Emrhys Cooper

Has anyone seen Emrhys Cooper in "I Want to Get Married"?

R108 No

what about Jason Isaacs?

R110 Not gay, just British.

The British actors have the foreskin advantage which American actors don't.

Rob Mallard

[quote]The British actors have the foreskin, which American actors don't.

Fixed.

Newcomer Alex Lawther pings really hard -he barely started but he's already played 3 gay roles (although it could be just the "starting out" factor) and he generally exhibits a very twinky behaviour.

What about Tony and BIFA nominated actor Matthew Beard? Gorgeous and talented a little reminds me of Ben Whishaw.

He is known for his work on The Imitation Game (2014), An Education (2009) and One Day (2011).

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Aaron Johnson and Matthew Beard

R119 Seems like mostly wishful thinking

Matthew, Ben and Alex

Aiden Shaw

British author, musician, model and former gay pornographic film actor

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famewhore Tom

Tom Holland.

That's not Tom, r125 - the video is is mislabeled; it's Harrison with another one of their Brit School classmates.

I think the late husband of Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, said it best, (and I paraphrase): 'for god sake, I am an actor and all actors are gay!"(Reading the listing of actors suspected of being gay (in the U.K.)) I would have to agree with R. Burton!)

What about me?

I read Sean Harris is gay. Not very famous, but terrific actor.