Natalia Tena

Natalia Gastiain Tena (born 1 November 1984 in London, England) is an English-Spanish actress and musician. She is best know for portraying Nymphadora Tonks in four Harry Potter films (2007-11), and the wildling Osha in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011-13, 2016).

I met Natalia at Film & Comic Con Glasgow in August 2022.

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Melita Clarke

Melita Clarke (born 1949 in Hammersmith, London, England) is an actress, whose films include Queen Kong (1976) and The Wildcats of St. Trinian's (1980), and Empire State (1987). She was a "Diamond Girl" in the opening credits of the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever (1971) and had a small (uncredited) part as a witch in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001).

Carole signed the photo below when she appeared at Covcon in Coventry on 7 May 2022. I used the convention's pre-order service to purchase her autograph.

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John Cleese

John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939 in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. Emerging from the Cambridge Footlights in the 1960s, he first achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report. In the late 1960s, he co-founded Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus. Along with his Python co-stars Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Graham Chapman, Cleese starred in Monty Python films, which include Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Life of Brian (1979) and The Meaning of Life (1983).

Cleese and first wife Connie Booth co-wrote the sitcom Fawlty Towers (1975-79) and he starred in it as Basil Fawlty. Cleese co-starred with Kevin Kline, Jamie Lee Curtis, and former Python colleague Michael Palin in A Fish Called Wanda (1989) and Fierce Creatures (1997), both of which he also wrote. For A Fish Called Wanda he was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He has also starred in Time Bandits (1981) and Rat Race (2001) and has appeared in many other films, including Silverado (1985), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), two James Bond films (as R and Q), two Harry Potter films (as Nearly Headless Nick) and the last three Shrek films.

The photo below (already signed through the mail by Prunella Scales in August 2015) was signed by Mr Cleese after Monopoly Events's An Evening with John Cleese in Manchester on 19th July 2021.

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Katie Purvis

Katie Purvis (born in 1966 or 1967) is an English actress who appeared in Return of the Jedi (1983), Labyrinth (1986), Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (2011).

I met Katie at Film & Comic Con Newcastle in March 2014

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Scarlett Byrne

Scarlett Hannah Hefner (née Byrne; born 6 October 1990 in Hammersmith, London, England) is an English actress and model. She is best known for her roles as Pansy Parkinson in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011), as Lexi in the TV series Falling Skies (2014-2015) and also as Nora Hildegard in the TV series The Vampire Diaries (2015-2016). Byrne also appeared in the Marvel television series Runaways (2019).

I met Scarlett at the Entertainment Media Show in London in October 2011.

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Evanna Lynch

Evanna Patricia Lynch (born 16 August 1991 in Termonfeckin, County Louth, Ireland) is an Irish actress, activist, voice actress and narrator. She is best known for her role as Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011) and their tie-in video games, as well as in the 2012 musical A Very Potter Senior Year.

I met Evanna at the Entertainment Media Show in London in October 2011.

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John Hurt

Sir John Vincent Hurt CBE (born 22 January 1940 in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, England; died 25 January 2017 in Cromer, Norfolk, England) was a celebrated English actor whose career spanned more than 50 years.

Hurt's performance in the prison drama Midnight Express (1978) brought him international renown and earned Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards, along with an Academy Award nomination. His BAFTA-nominated portrayal of astronaut Kane, in the science-fiction horror film Alien (1979), contained a scene in which an alien creature burst out of his chest. Hurt earned his third competitive BAFTA, along with his second Oscar and Golden Globe nominations, as John Merrick in David Lynch's biopic The Elephant Man (1980).

Other significant roles during the 1980s included Bob Champion in biopic Champions (1984), Mr. Braddock in the Stephen Frears drama The Hit (1984), Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) and Stephen Ward in the drama depicting the Profumo affair, Scandal (1989). Hurt was again BAFTA-nominated for his work in Irish drama The Field (1990) and played the primary villain, James Graham, in the epic adventure Rob Roy (1995). His later films include the Harry Potter film series (2001–2011), the Hellboy films (2004 and 2008), The Skeleton Key (2005), The Proposition (2005), V for Vendetta (2005), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011). In 2012, he was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement BAFTA Award, in recognition of his "outstanding contribution to cinema". He was knighted in 2015 for his services to drama.

I met John Hurt at the Entertainment Media Show in London in October 2011.

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Peter Burroughs

Peter Burroughs (born 27 January 1947 in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England) is an actor who played a swinging Ewok in Return of the Jedi (1983) and worked on the stunts for the film. Stock footage of his Ewok character in Return of the Jedi was later used in the video game Star Wars: Battlefront (2004). He also had parts in Flash Gordon (1980), The Dark Crystal (1982), Labyrinth (1986), Willow (1988), Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (2011).

I met Peter at Collectormania Glasgow in August 2009.

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Mike Edmonds

Mike Edmonds (born 13 January 1944 in Chelmsford, Essex, England) is an English actor who has appeared in several films, including Flash Gordon (1980), Time Bandits (1981), The Dark Crystal (1982), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (2011). In Return of the Jedi (1983) he portrayed the Ewok Logray and was the operator for Jabba the Hutt's tail.

I met Mike at Collectormania Glasgow in August 2009.

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Rusty Goffe

Rusty Goffe (born 30 October 1948 in Herne Bay, Kent, England) is an English actor. He appeared as an Oompa-Loompa in the 1971 version of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and as a Jawa in Star Wars (1977), among a few other aliens.

He also appeared in Flash Gordon (1980) and Willow (1988) and had small parts in five Harry Potter films: in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011).

I met Rusty at Collectormania Glasgow in August 2008.

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Warwick Davis

Warwick Ashley Davis (born 3 February 1970 in Epsom, Surrey, England) is an English actor, television presenter, writer, director, comedian and producer. He played the title characters in Willow (1988) and the Leprechaun film series (1993-2003), several characters in the Star Wars franchise (most notably the Ewok Wicket), and Professor Filius Flitwick and Griphook in all eight Harry Potter films (2001-2011). Davis also starred as a fictionalised version of himself in the sitcom Life's Too Short (2011), written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. He has presented ITV game shows Celebrity Squares (2014–2015) and Tenable (2016–present).

I met Warwick at Collectormania Glasgow in August 2009.

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Andy Herd

Andrew Herd is an actor who has appeared in a number of high-profile fantasy films. He is known for his roles as an Ewok and a Jawa in Return of the Jedi (1983), a Goblin in Labyrinth (1986), a Nelwyn Villager in Willow (1988) and a Gringotts Goblin in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011).

I met Andy at Film & Comic Con Newcastle in March 2015.

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Devon Murray

Devon Murray (born 28 October 1988 in Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland) is an Irish actor best known for playing Seamus Finnigan in all eight Harry Potter film series.

I met Devon at Film & Comic Con Newcastle in March 2016.

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Hugh Mitchell

Hugh Mitchell (born 7 September 1989 in Winchester, Hampshire, England) is an English actor, best known for playing Colin Creevey in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2003).

I met Hugh at Collectormania Glasgow in August 2013.

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Harry Melling

Harry Edward Melling (born 13 March 1989 in London, England) is an English actor, best known for playing Dudley Dursley in the Harry Potter films (2001-10). He played a young thespian with no arms or legs in the Coen brothers' 2018 film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.

I met Harry at Collectormania Glasgow in August 2013.

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Trevor Butterfield

Trevor Anthony Butterfield is a British actor and special effects technician.. He played several different roles in the Star Wars movies. He played an Imperial Officer and a Stormtrooper in The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Bossk (filling in for Alan Harris), Lieutenant Blount, a Stormtrooper, Calamari Warrior and Giran in Return of the Jedi (1983).

He was credited as a (senior) special effects technician for many major film productions including Aliens (1986), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Hudson Hawk (1991), Mission: Impossible (1996), Daylight (1996), Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997), Legionnaire (1998), Prometheus (2012) and six of the Harry Potter films (2003-11).

I met Trevor at the Something Bl**dy Awesome convention in Edinburgh in April 2014.

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Trevor Butterfield as Lt. Blount in Return of the Jedi

Chris Rankin

Christopher William "Chris" Rankin (born 8 November 1983 in Auckland, New Zealsn) is a New Zealand-born British actor who is best known for playing Percy Weasley in the Harry Potter film franchise.

He appeared in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011).

I met Chris at Collectormania Glasgow in August 2014.

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Anna Schaffer

Anna Shaffer (born 15 March 1992 in London, England) is an English actress, known for her roles as Ruby Button in teen soap opera Hollyoaks and Romilda Vane in the Harry Potter film series. Shaffer was cast in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) as Romilda Vane, the fourth year student who tried to use a love potion on Harry. She would then reprise this role in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011). She also plays the role of Triss Merigold in the Netflix series The Witcher.

I met Anna at Collectormania Glasgow in August 2014.

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Julian Glover

Julian Wyatt Glover CBE (born 27 March 1935 in Hampstead, London, England) is an English classical actor, with many stage, television and film roles since commencing his career in the 1950s. He is a recipient of the Laurence Olivier Award and has performed many times for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Glover is known for portraying major characters in many popular movie and television franchises. His film roles have included General Maximilian Veers in The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Aristotle Kristatos in the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only (1981) and Walter Donovan in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). He also voiced the giant spider Aragog in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002).

Glover has also appeared frequently on television, especially in the UK, including guest appearances on such series as The Avengers, The Saint, Doctor Who, Blake's 7 and Remington Steele. From 2011-16, he played the recurring supporting role of Grand Maester Pycelle in HBO's Game of Thrones. In January 2013, he appeared as General Beauvilliers in the BBC drama Spies of Warsaw.

I met Mr Glover at the 2014 editions of Film & Comic Con Newcastle (March) and Collectormania Glasgow (August) and at Film & Comic Con Glasgow in August 2022.

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As Grand Maester Pycelle in Game of Thrones

At Film & Comic Con Newcastle in March 2014

As Aris Kristatos in For Your Eyes Only

Signing at Film & Comic Con Glasgow in August 2014

As Walter Donovan in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Signing at Film & Comic Con Glasgow in August 2022