Atheist Actors

Helen Mirren		Dame Helen Mirren, DBE (born 26 July 1945) is an English actor. She has won an Academy Award, four SAG Awards, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, four Emmy Awards, and two Cannes Film Festival during her career. Mirren was born Ilyena Vasilievna...
x Cillian Murphy		Cillian Murphy (born 25 May 1976) is an Irish film and theatre actor. He is often noted by critics for his chameleonic performances in diverse roles and distinctive blue eyes. A native of Cork, Murphy began his performing career as a rock musician....
x Christopher Eccleston		Christopher Eccleston (pronounced /ˈɛkəlstən/; born 16 February 1964) is an English stage, film and television actor. His films include Let Him Have It, Shallow Grave, Elizabeth, 28 Days Later, Gone in 60 Seconds and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. In...
x Dave Foley		David Scott "Dave" Foley (born January 4, 1963) is a Canadian comic actor, writer, director and producer best known for his work in The Kids in the Hall, NewsRadio, A Bug's Life and Celebrity Poker Showdown. He also frequently appears on The Late...
x Jack Nicholson		John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American actor, film director and producer. He is renowned for his often dark-themed portrayals of neurotic characters. Nicholson has been nominated for Academy Awards twelve times. He won the...
x Woody Allen		Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author and playwright. Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to screwball sex comedies, have...
x Christopher Guest		Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest (born February 5, 1948), better known as Christopher Guest, is a British-American screenwriter, composer, musician, director, actor and comedian. He is most widely known in Hollywood for having written,...
x Marcus Brigstocke		Marcus Alexander Brigstocke (born 8 May 1973) is an English comedian and satirist who has worked extensively in stand-up comedy, television and radio. He is particularly associated with the 6.30pm comedy slot on BBC Radio 4, having frequently...
x Jodie Foster		Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress, film director and producer. Foster began acting in commercials at three years old, and her first significant role came in the 1976 film Taxi Driver as the preteen...
x Björn Ulvaeus		Björn Kristian Ulvaeus (Swedish pronunciation: [bjœːɳ ɵlˈveːɵs], born 25 April 1945) is a Swedish musician, composer, a former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA (1972–82), and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and...
x Katharine Hepburn		Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress of film, television and stage. Hepburn holds the record for the most Best Actress Oscar wins with four, from 12 nominations. Hepburn won an Emmy Award in 1976 for her...
x Jimmy Carr		James Anthony Patrick "Jimmy" Carr (born 15 September 1972) is a British and Irish comedian, known for his deadpan delivery and dark humour. He is also a writer, actor and presenter of radio and television. Carr moved to a career in comedy in 2000....
x Paul Giamatti		Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti (pronounced /dʒiəˈmɑːti/; born June 6, 1967) is an American actor. Giamatti began his career as a supporting actor in several films produced during the 1990s including Private Parts, The Truman Show, Saving Private...
x Diane Keaton		Diane Keaton (born Diane Hall; January 5, 1946) is an American film actress, director, producer, and writer. Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970. Her first major film role was as Kay Adams-Corleone in The Godfather ...
x Gabriel Byrne		Gabriel James Byrne (born May 12, 1950) is an Irish actor, film director, film producer, writer, and audiobook narrator. His acting career began in the Focus Theatre before he joined London’s Royal Court Theatre in 1979. Byrne's screen début came in...
x Ian McKellen		Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBE (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor. He has received a Tony Award and two Academy Award nominations. His work has spanned genres from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. He is...
x Seth Green		Seth Benjamin Gesshel Green (born February 8, 1974) is an American actor, comedian, voice actor, and television producer. He is well known for his role as Daniel "Oz" Osbourne in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as well as Dr. Evil's son Scott in the ...
x Ingrid Newkirk		Ingrid Newkirk (born June 11, 1949) is a British-born animal rights activist and president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA), the world's largest animal rights organization. She is the author of several books, including Free the...
x George Carlin		George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, actor, and author, who won five Grammy Awards for his comedy albums. Carlin was noted for his black humor as well as his thoughts on...
x Trevor Devall		Trevor Devall (born 1972) is one of the various voice actors who work for Ocean Group, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Trevor has performed various anime roles, most notably Mu La Flaga of Gundam SEED. Other anime roles include Mukotsu of...
x Margot Kidder		Margaret Ruth "Margot" Kidder (born October 17, 1948) is a Canadian-American actress, best known for playing Lois Lane in the Superman movies starring Christopher Reeve. Kidder, one of five children, was born in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories,...
x Gore Vidal		Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (pronounced /ˌɡɔər vɨˈdɑːl/ or /vɨˈdæl/; born October 3, 1925) is an American author, playwright, essayist, screenwriter and political activist. Early in his career he wrote The City and the Pillar (1948), which outraged...
x Bruce Lee		Bruce Lee (Chinese: 李小龍; pinyin: Lǐ Xiăolóng, born Lee Jun-fan (Chinese: 李振藩; pinyin: Lǐ Zhènfān); 27 November 1940 – 20 July 1973) was a Chinese American actor, martial arts instructor, philosopher, film director, film producer, screenwriter, and...
x Butterfly McQueen		Thelma "Butterfly" McQueen (January 8, 1911 – December 22, 1995) was an American actress. Originally a dancer, McQueen appeared as Prissy, Scarlett O'Hara's maid in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind. Born Thelma McQueen in Tampa, Florida, she had...
x Steve Wozniak		Stephen Gary "Woz" Wozniak (born August 11, 1950 in San Jose, California) is an American computer engineer who co-founded Apple Computer, Inc. (now Apple Inc.) with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne. His inventions and machines are credited with...
x Janeane Garofalo		Janeane Garofalo (pronounced /dʒəˈniːn ɡəˈrɒfəloʊ/; born September 28, 1964) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, political activist, writer, and former co-host on the now defunct Air America Radio's The Majority Report. Garofalo continues to...
x Alan Cumming		Alan Cumming, OBE (born 27 January 1965) is a Scottish stage, television and film actor, writer, director, producer and author. His roles have included the Emcee in Cabaret, Boris Grishenko in GoldenEye, Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler in X2: X-Men United,...
x David Cross		David Cross (born April 4, 1964) is an American actor, writer and stand-up comedian perhaps best known for his work on HBO's sketch comedy series Mr. Show and for his role as Tobias Fünke in the FOX sitcom Arrested Development. David Cross was born...
x Richard Branson		Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is a British industrialist, best known for his Virgin brand of over 360 companies. At age 16, Branson had his first successful business venture, publishing a magazine called Student. In 1970,...
x Keith Allen		Keith Philip George Allen (born 2 June 1953) is a Welsh actor, comedian, musician, singer–songwriter, artist, author, and television presenter. He is the father of British singer Lily Allen. He appeared in a number of films made by The Comic Strip...
x Rachel Griffiths		Rachel Anne Griffiths (born 18 December 1968) is an Australian film and television actress who came to prominence in the 1994 film Muriel's Wedding. Among her other notable roles, she is particularly well known for her portrayal of Brenda Chenowith...
x Paul Mazursky		Paul Mazursky (born April 25, 1930) is an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He was born Irwin Mazursky in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Jean (née Gerson), a piano player for dance classes, and David Mazursky, a laborer. His...
x Andy Serkis		Andrew C. G. "Andy" Serkis (born 20 April 1964) is an English actor, director and author. He is popularly known for playing Gollum in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, for which he earned several nominations and the Saturn Award for Best...
x Ricky Gervais		Ricky Dene Gervais (born 25 June 1961) is an English comedian, actor, director, producer, writer and broadcaster. Gervais achieved mainstream fame with his television series The Office and the subsequent series Extras, both of which he co-wrote and...
x Kirk Jones		Kirk Jones (born November 3, 1970) also referred to as Sticky Fingaz or Sticky, is a American rapper, actor, and a member of the hip-hop group Onyx. As an actor, he is perhaps best known for his television roles as Private Maurice "Smoke" Williams...
x Warren Mitchell		Warren Mitchell (born 14 January 1926) is an English actor who rose to initial prominence in the role of bigoted cockney Alf Garnett in the BBC television series Till Death Us Do Part (1965-1975) scripted by Johnny Speight. He holds both British and...
x Roman Polański		Roman Polanski (Polish: Roman Polański, Polish pronunciation: [ˈrɔman pɔˈlaɲskʲi]) born 18 August 1933 in France is a Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Polanski began his career in Poland, to where his family relocated in 1937 and...
x Harvey Fierstein		Harvey Forbes Fierstein (born June 6, 1952) is an American actor and playwright, noted for the early (1982) distinction of winning Tony Awards for both writing and playing the lead role in his long-running play Torch Song Trilogy, about a gay drag...
x Sathyaraj		Sathyaraj (Tamil: சத்யராஜ்) (born 3 October 1954) is a Tamil film actor and media personality in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. A Tamil activist and political influence, he has acted in over 100 films, ranging from action and drama to comedy. In 2007,...
x Eddie Izzard		Edward John "Eddie" Izzard (born 7 February 1962) is a British stand-up comedian, actor and voice-over artist. His comedy style takes the form of rambling, whimsical monologue and self-referential pantomime. Izzard's works include stand-up sets...
x Jacques Brel		Jacques Romain Georges Brel (French pronunciation: [ʒak bʁɛl]; 8 April 1929 – 9 October 1978) was a Belgian singer-songwriter. Brel composed and recorded his songs almost exclusively in French, although he recorded a number of songs in Flemish. Brel...
x David Cronenberg		David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking...
x Stephen Fry		Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, writer, journalist, comedian, television presenter, film director and a director of Norwich City Football Club. He first came to attention in the 1982 Cambridge Footlights Revue...
x Rebecca Lord		Rebecca Lord (born February 16, 1973) is the stage name of a French pornographic actress who has been active since 1993. After moving to the U.S., she achieved popularity in the porn industry there. Originally from Paris, France, Lord attended...
x S. Epatha Merkerson		S. Epatha Merkerson (born Sharon Epatha Merkerson; November 28, 1952) is an American actress. She has also received two Tony Award nominations. She is known for her roles as Reba the Mail Lady on Pee Wee's Playhouse in the 1980s, and as the no...
x Patton Oswalt		Patton Oswalt (born January 27, 1969) is an American stand-up comedian, writer and actor. Oswalt was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, to Carla and Larry J. Oswalt, a career US Marine Corps Officer. He grew up in Sterling, Virginia and is a 1987...
x Steve Jocz		Stephen Martin "Steve" Jocz (nicknamed Stevo32 or Stevo) (was born on July 23, 1981), and is best known as the drummer for Canadian punk band Sum 41. Jocz (pronounced Yotch) is of Polish descent. He was born in Ajax, Ontario, to Marg and Phil Jocz,...
x Henry Rollins		Henry Rollins (born Henry Lawrence Garfield; February 13, 1961) is an American singer-songwriter, raconteur, stand-up comedian, spoken word artist, writer, publisher, actor, radio DJ, and activist. After joining the short-lived Washington D.C.-based...
x Seth MacFarlane		Seth Woodbury MacFarlane ( /sɛθ wʊdˈbæriː mɪkˈfɑrlən/; born October 26, 1973) is an American animator, writer, producer, actor, singer, voice actor, and director best known for creating the animated sitcoms Family Guy, American Dad! and The...
x Skandar Keynes		Skandar Keynes (born Alexander Amin Casper Keynes) (born 5 September 1991) is an English actor. He is best known for starring as Edmund Pevensie in The Chronicles of Narnia film series. He has appeared in the first two installments, The Lion, the...
x John Lydon		John Joseph Lydon (born 31 January 1956), also known by the former stage name Johnny Rotten, is a British singer-songwriter and television presenter, best known as the lead singer of punk band the Sex Pistols from 1975 until 1978, and again for...
x Richard Dawkins		Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author. He was formerly Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford and was a fellow of New College, Oxford....
x Sarah Vowell		Sarah Jane Vowell (born December 27, 1969) is an American author, journalist, and commentator. Often referred to as a "social observer," Vowell has written five nonfiction books on American history and culture, and was a contributing editor for the...
x William B. Davis		William Bruce Davis (born January 13, 1938) is a Canadian actor, known for his role as the The Smoking Man on The X-Files. He has also appeared in Stargate SG-1 as Damaris, a Prior of the Ori and as Mayor Tate on Smallville. Most recently he has...
x Carl Reiner		Carl Reiner (born March 20, 1922) is an American actor, film director, producer, writer and comedian. He has won nine Emmy Awards and one Grammy Award during this career. He has the distinction of being the only person to appear on all five...
x Joe Higgins		Joe Higgins (born 20 May 1949) is an Irish Socialist Party politician. He was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Dublin constituency at the 2009 European Parliament election. He was the sole Socialist Party Teachta Dála (TD...
x Luis Buñuel		Luis Buñuel Portolés (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈlwiz βuˈɲwel]; 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish filmmaker who also acquired Mexican citizenship and worked in Spain, Mexico, France and the United States. He is considered one of the...
x Julia Sweeney		Julia Anne Sweeney (born October 10, 1959) is an American actress, comedian and author best known as a cast member on Saturday Night Live and for her autobiographical solo shows. Sweeney was born in Spokane, Washington, the daughter of Jeri, a...
x Sarah Bernhardt		Sarah Bernhardt (born circa October 23, 1844 – March 26, 1923) was a French stage and early film actress, and has been referred to as "the most famous actress the world has ever known". Bernhardt made her fame on the stages of Europe in the 1870s,...
x Penn Jillette		Penn Fraser Jillette (born March 5, 1955) is an American magician, comedian, illusionist, juggler, musician and writer known for his work with fellow illusionist Teller in the team Penn & Teller, and advocacy of atheism, Objectivism, libertarian...