This is a list of alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. It is not exhaustive of all attendees diploma of degree programs at the drama school (not summer courses), only of notable persons who can be reliably sourced as students (most often referenced via RADA's public records).* : " RADA's higher education awards are validated by King's College London". As relevant graduates attend graduation alongside members of the departments which form the King's College London Faculty of Arts and Humanities, they are therefore also considered as alumni of King's.
A
Marisa Abela (BA Acting 2019) Hiran Abeysekera (BA Acting 2011) Polly Adams (Acting Diploma 1958) Trevor Adams (Acting Diploma 1967) Dawn Addams (Acting Diploma 1949) Robert Addie (Acting Diploma 1981) Mark Addy (Acting Diploma 1984) Kay Adshead (Acting Diploma 1975) Amber Agar (BA Acting 2002) Anthony Ainley (Acting Diploma 1964) Yasmine Akram (BA Acting 2007) Jude Akuwudike (Acting Diploma 1987) Meggie Albanesi (Acting Diploma 1917) John Alderton (Acting Diploma 1961) Robert Aldous (Acting Diploma 1955) Ebrahim Alkazi (Acting Diploma 1950) Adie Allen (Acting Diploma 1987) Adrianne Allen (Acting Diploma 1926) Joy Allen (Acting Diploma 1950) Ronald Allen (Acting Diploma 1953) Sheila Allen (Acting Diploma 1951) Peter Amory (Acting Diploma 1985) Jean Anderson (Acting Diploma 1928) Miles Anderson (Acting Diploma 1969) Bernard Archard (Acting Diploma 1938) Jane Arden (Acting Diploma 1946) Philip Arditti (BA Acting 2004) Graham Armitage (Acting Diploma 1952) Jonas Armstrong (BA Acting 2003) Linda Armstrong (Acting Diploma 1995) John Arnatt (Acting Diploma 1936) Gemma Arterton (BA Acting 2007) Hannah Arterton (BA Acting 2011) Robert Atkins (Acting Diploma 1906) Charlotte Attenborough (Acting Diploma 1983) Richard Attenborough (Acting Diploma 1942) Michael Attwell (Stage Management 1964)
B
Sarah Badel (Acting Diploma 1961) John Bailey (Acting Diploma 1933) David Bailie (Acting Diploma 1964) Vincent Ball (Acting Diploma 1951) Fehinti Balogun (BA Acting 2016) David Bamber (Acting Diploma 1979) Frith Banbury (Acting Diploma 1933) Jack Bardoe (BA Acting 2019) Peter Barkworth (Acting Diploma 1948) Bruno Barnabe (Acting Diploma 1927) Diana Barrington (Acting Diploma 1961) John Barron (Acting Diploma 1940) George Bartenieff (Acting Diploma 1953) Ann Baskett (Acting Diploma 1951) Jennifer Bassey (Acting Diploma 1963) Alan Bates (Acting Diploma 1954) David Battley (Acting Diploma 1959) Ciara Baxendale (Acting Foundation 2014) Keith Baxter (Acting Diploma 1953) Lynsey Baxter (Acting Diploma 1985) Trevor Baxter (Acting Diploma 1951) Terence Bayler (Acting Diploma 1953) Ann Beach (Acting Diploma 1957) Stephanie Beacham (Acting Diploma 1967) Sean Bean (Acting Diploma 1983) Stephen Beckett (Acting Diploma 1990) Richard Beckinsale (Acting Diploma 1968) Tony Beckley (Acting Diploma 1952) Brian Bedford (Acting Diploma 1955) Christopher Beeny (Acting Diploma 1959) Paudge Behan (Acting Diploma 1990) Mary Hayley Bell (Acting Diploma 1933) Derek Benfield (Acting Diploma 1949) Christopher Benjamin (Acting Diploma 1958) Colin Bennett (Acting Diploma 1973) Edward Bennett (BA Acting 2004) Hywel Bennett (Acting Diploma 1964) Jill Bennett (Acting Diploma 1945) John Bennett (Acting Diploma 1953) Louise Bennett-Coverley (Acting Diploma 1946) Pippa Bennett-Warner (BA Acting 2010) George Benson (Acting Diploma 1930) Mark Benton (Acting Diploma 1990) Michael Benz (BA Acting 2007) Stephen Beresford (Acting Diploma 1994) Sia Berkeley (BA Acting 2006) Eric Berry (Acting Diploma 1933) Eve Best (Acting Diploma 1999) Kirsty Besterman (BA Acting 2002) Val Bettin (Acting Diploma 1951) Rodney Bewes (Acting Diploma 1956) Christopher H. Bidmead (Acting Diploma 1962) Isabel Bigley (Acting Diploma 1948) Theodore Bikel (Acting Diploma 1948) Leo Bill (Acting Diploma 2001) Pepper Binkley (BA Acting 2004) Norman Bird (Acting Diploma 1943) Nora Francisca Blackburne (Acting Diploma 1936) Adam Blackwood (Acting Diploma 1981) Isla Blair (Acting Diploma 1963) Arthur Blake (Acting Diploma 1954) Michael Blakemore (Acting Diploma 1952) Caroline Blakiston (Acting Diploma 1957) JB Blanc (Acting Diploma 1990) Joyce Bland (Acting Diploma 1927) Peter Blythe (Acting Diploma 1958) Ross Boatman (Acting Diploma 1986) Ken Bones (Acting Diploma 1973) Oliver Boot (Acting Diploma 2001) James Booth (Acting Diploma 1956) Annika Boras (BA Acting 2005) Bruce Bould (Acting Diploma 1969) Peter Bowles (Acting Diploma 1956) Margot Boyd (Acting Diploma 1933) David Bradley (Acting Diploma 1968) Booker Bradshaw (Acting Diploma 1964) Hilda Braid (Acting Diploma 1948) Gina Bramhill (BA Acting 2009) Kenneth Branagh (Acting Diploma 1981) Bernard Bresslaw (Acting Diploma 1953) Alan Bridges (Acting Diploma 1948) Anita Briem (BA Acting 2004) Richard Briers (Acting Diploma 1956) Francine Brody (Acting Diploma 1983) Faith Brook (Acting Diploma 1942) Sian Brooke (BA Acting 2002) Jacqueline Brookes (Acting Diploma 1953) Sally Brophy (Acting Diploma 1949) Arthur Brough (Acting Diploma 1928) Pamela Brown (Acting Diploma 1936) Angela Browne (Acting Diploma 1955) Tom Browne (Acting) Dugald Bruce Lockhart (Acting Diploma 1994) Joshua Bryant (Acting Diploma 1964) Andrew Buchan (BA Acting 2005) Jessie Buckley (BA Acting 2013) Kate Buffery (Acting Diploma 1979) Suzanne Burden (Acting Diploma 1979) John Burgess (Acting Diploma 1954) Alfred Burke (Acting Diploma 1939) David Burke (Acting Diploma 1960) Tom Burke (BA Acting 2002) Edward Burnham (Acting Diploma 1938) Lorraine Burroughs (BA Acting 2003) Kezia Burrows (BA Acting 2004) David Burt (Acting Diploma 1973) Donald Burton (Acting Diploma 1958) Anthony Bushell (Acting Diploma 1926) David Butler (Acting Diploma 1953) Neville Buswell (Acting Diploma 1964) Chanya Button (MA Theatre Directing 2010) Barbara Bryne (Acting Diploma 1947)
C
Jennifer Calvert (Acting Diploma 1985) Adam Campbell (BA Acting 2004) Ken Campbell (Acting Diploma 1961) Nicholas Campbell (Acting) Phoebe Campbell (BA Acting 2022) Jessica Capshaw (Acting) John Carlisle (Acting Diploma 1958) Kitty Carlisle (Acting) Ian Carmichael (Acting Diploma 1941, left) Michael Carter (Acting Diploma 1969) Pip Carter (BA Acting 2006) Paul Carson (Acting Diploma 1961) Peter Cartwright (Acting Diploma 1961) Bertie Carvel (BA Acting 2003) John Castle (Acting Diploma 1964) John Cater (Acting Diploma 1953) Katy Cavanagh (Acting Diploma 1995) Antoinette Cellier (Acting Diploma 1933) Lolita Chakrabarti (Acting Diploma 1990) John Chandos (Acting Diploma 1938) Oona Chaplin (BA Acting 2007) John Chapman (Acting Diploma 1950) Paul Chapman (Acting Diploma 1959) Jan Chappell (Acting Diploma 1964) Maria Charles (Acting Diploma 1946) Stephan Chase (Acting Diploma 1967) Heather Chasen (Acting Diploma 1944) Tom Chatto (Acting) Tsai Chin (Acting Diploma 1956) Dennis Chinnery (Acting Diploma 1949) Erik Chitty (Acting Diploma 1933) Chipo Chung (BA Acting 2003) Diana Churchill (Acting Diploma 1932) Diane Cilento (Acting Diploma 1952) Diane Clare (Acting Diploma 1955) Susan Clark (Acting Diploma 1962) Nicholas Clay (Acting Diploma 1968) Charlie Clements (MA Theatre Lab 2014) Carol Cleveland (Acting Diploma 1963) Sian Clifford (BA Acting 2006) Peter Coke (Acting Diploma 1935) Olivia Cole (Acting Diploma 1964) Noel Coleman (Acting Diploma 1941) Richard Coleman (Acting Diploma 1953) Charles Collingwood (Acting Diploma 1965) Joan Collins (Acting Diploma 1951) John D. Collins (Acting Diploma 1963) Christopher Colquhoun (Acting Diploma 1992) Jarlath Conroy (Acting Diploma 1971) David Cook (Acting Diploma 1961) Georgina Cookson (Acting Diploma 1938) Saffron Coomber (BA Acting 2018) Daisy May Cooper (BA Acting 2010) Stuart Cooper (Acting Diploma 1963) Lu Corfield (BA Acting 2003) James Cossins (Acting Diploma 1951) Nicolas Coster (Acting Diploma 1951) Matthew Cottle (Acting Diploma 1990) Tom Courtenay (Acting Diploma 1960) Elliot Cowan (Acting Diploma 2001) Brenda Cowling (Acting Diploma 1949) Jonny Coyne (Acting Diploma 1983) Lauren Crace (BA Acting 2008) Kenneth Cranham (Acting Diploma 1966) Lorcan Cranitch (Acting Diploma 1982) Anthony Creighton (Acting Diploma 1948) Don Crosby (Acting Diploma 1949) Ben Cross (Acting Diploma 1972) Ian Cullen (Acting Diploma 1958) Roland Culver (Acting Diploma 1926) David Cunliffe (Acting Diploma 1953) Patricia Cutts (Acting Diploma 1943)
D
Billy Dainty (Acting Diploma 1945) Audrey Dalton (Acting Diploma 1952) Timothy Dalton (Acting Diploma 1966) Siobhan Daly Leora Dana (Acting Diploma 1948) Paul Daneman (Acting Diploma 1949) Josie D'Arby (Acting Diploma 1995) Paul Darrow (Acting Diploma 1962) Arthur Darvill (BA Acting 2006) Lucy Davenport (Acting Diploma 1999) Deddie Davies (Acting Diploma 1958) Lynette Davies (Acting Diploma 1969) Petra Davies (Acting Diploma 1949) Pamela Ann Davy (Acting Diploma 1960) Robert Daws (Acting Diploma 1979) David Dawson (BA Acting 2005) Jamie de Courcey (Acting Diploma 1998) Edward de Souza (Acting Diploma 1957) Francis de Wolff (Acting Diploma 1935) Aimée Delamain (Acting Diploma 1931) Mark Denham (Acting Diploma 1997) Peter Dennis (Acting) Elisabeth Dermot-Walsh (Acting Diploma 1997) Pauline Devaney (Acting Diploma 1964) Mark Dexter (Acting Diploma 1995) Arnold Diamond (Acting Diploma 1936) Peter Diamond (Acting Diploma 1951) Richard Digby Day (Directing Certificate 1963) Frank Dillane (BA Acting 2013) Lisa Dillon (BA Acting 2002) Adele Dixon (Acting Diploma 1926) Joe Dixon (Acting Diploma 1987) Richard Dormer (Acting Diploma 1991) Roy Dotrice (Acting Diploma 1947) Donald Douglas (Acting Diploma 1959) Robert Douglas (Acting Diploma 1928) Shirley Douglas (Acting Diploma 1954) Fabia Drake (Acting Diploma 1923) Gabrielle Drake (Acting Diploma 1964) Amanda Drew (Acting Diploma 1992) James Dreyfus (Acting Diploma 1990) Duncan Duff (Acting Diploma 1987) Elizabeth Dulau (Acting Diploma 2020) Ian Dunnett Jnr (Acting Diploma 2020) Joanna Dunham (Acting Diploma 1958) Nick Dunning (Acting Diploma 1977) Noel Dyson (Acting Diploma 1938)
E
Adetomiwa Edun (BA Acting 2008) Alan Edwards (Acting Diploma 1944) Peter Egan (Acting Diploma 1966) Taron Egerton (BA Acting 2012) Lisa Eichhorn (Acting Diploma 1977) Xanthe Elbrick Denholm Elliott (Acting Diploma 1942, left) Harry Elton (Acting Diploma 1953) Barry England (Acting Diploma 1954) Robert Englund (Acting – American branch) Brian Epstein (Acting Diploma 1957) Cynthia Erivo (BA Acting 2010) Jill Esmond (Acting Diploma 1926) Clifford Evans (Acting Diploma 1932) Edith Evans (Acting Diploma 1926) Tenniel Evans (Acting Diploma 1951) Trevor Eve (Acting Diploma 1973) Barbara Ewing (Acting Diploma 1965)
F
O. T. Fagbenle (Acting Diploma 2001) David Fahm (Acting Diploma 1995) Christopher Fairbank (Acting Diploma 1974) Moris Farhi (Acting Diploma 1956) Suzanne Farrington (Acting Diploma 1953) Patsy Ferran (BA Acting 2014) Ralph Fiennes (Acting Diploma 1985) Frank Finlay (Acting Diploma 1955) Albert Finney (Acting Diploma 1956) Martin Fisk (Acting Diploma 1971) Walter Fitzgerald (Acting Diploma 1923) Ian Fitzgibbon (Acting Diploma 1987) Rory Fleck Byrne (BA Acting 2010) Susan Fleetwood (Acting Diploma 1964) Diane Fletcher (Acting Diploma 1966) June Flewett (Acting Diploma 1947) Theodore J. Flicker (Acting Diploma 1952) Daniel Flynn (Acting Diploma 1982) Eric Flynn (Acting Diploma 1959) Lillian Fontaine Bryan Forbes (Acting Diploma 1944) Louise Ford (BA Acting 2007) John Forgeham (Acting Diploma 1963) Brigit Forsyth (Acting Diploma 1960) Derek Fowlds (Acting Diploma 1960) Edward Fox (Acting Diploma 1959) Laurence Fox (Acting Diploma 2001) Phoebe Fox (BA Acting 2010) Rosemary Frankau (Acting Diploma 1953) Richard Franklin (Acting Diploma 1965) John Franklyn-Robbins (Acting Diploma 1949) Helen Fraser (Acting Diploma 1960) Ronald Fraser (Acting Diploma 1953) Naomi Frederick (Acting Diploma 2001) Jonathan Frid (Acting Diploma 1949) Joel Fry (BA Acting 2005) Vera Fusek (Acting Diploma 1952)
G
Craig Gallivan (BA Acting 2005) Michael Gambon (Acting)