Dapper, debonair, and downright handsome: These 20 hunks have our vote for sexiest guys on the British Isles. With looks this good, we might even go expat.
A Mr. Darcy for any century, Firth off-screen is the perfect gentleman: When Meryl Streep lost a shoe at an awards ceremony, guess who retrieved it and placed it on her foot? (Sigh.)
This spring Laurie will take his final bow as Gregory House, the difficult MD he portrayed for eight seasons on the hit medical drama. We're keeping our fingers crossed he has a change of heart.
There’s nothing sexier than a guy who can make you laugh. Not a classic hunk? As his reluctantly romantic Ghost Town character would scream, “Irrelevant!”
American audiences swooned over the Glasgow-born actor in 2007's Atonement, but this Scot actually came to fame playing Steve McBride on the hit UK series Shameless years before. He even met his wife on set—and she's nine years his senior!
Women have always been Taken with the Irish star—not only his late, lovely wife Natasha Richardson, but his previous love, Helen Mirren, 10 years his senior.
Whoa! Any wonder Rachel Weisz took one look at her costar and decided to move into this Dream House? No less an expert than Angelina Jolie called him one of Hollywood’s “best kissers.”
His boyish good looks took this actor from teen comedies (Chasing Liberty) to sharing the screen with some of Hollywood's biggest heavyweights (Match Point, A Single Man).
Fun facts: This handsome member of London’s Primrose Hill set once bunked with fellow actor Ewan McGregor and was named after the famous Beatles’ song “Hey Jude.”
Oh, Mr. Bates! As Downton Abbey’s tormented, lame valet, Coyle became TV’s unlikeliest sex symbol. But who wouldn’t want Irish-Scottish Coyle, 48, unbuttoning a dinner dress or serving breakfast in bed?
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Jack Davenport
Overshadowed by Johnny Depp in a trio of Pirates flicks, Davenport now takes center stage in TV’s Smash as charismatic director Derek Wills. Whether you win the role or not, it’s worth getting onto this Brit’s casting couch.
At 63, the beautiful boy of Brideshead Revisited hasn’t lost his flair for seduction—just check out Showtime’s The Borgias. And that voice! We could even fall for The Lion King’s villainous Scar.
