Jill Balcon, (3 January 1925 – 18 July 2009) was a British actress of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry, and mother of Daniel Day-Lewis. Jacob Adler (1855–1926), Yiddish actor.Bennett Arron (born 1973), actor, writer, and comedian.Gabrielle Anwar, of Indian Muslim and Austrian Jewish ancestry, daughter of Tariq Anwar (film editor).By the year 2000, British-Jewish comics may have reached their largest numbers. The Independent observed that British-Jewish comedians had taken the lead from American-Jewish comedian Jackie Mason by laughing at their own Jewish neuroses, Jewish mothers, and their leaning towards chicken soup and chopped liver, which they would not have done a decade prior. Stephen Brook wrote in The Club in 1989 that while there had been Jewish actors in British theatre, Jews had been more prominent as producers or agents. In the 1970s, TV scripts by British-Jewish playwright Jack Rosenthal called Bar Mitzvah Boy and The Evacuees were praised as "unprecedented British-Jewish depictions". In the early 1930s, the Imperial Fascist League's anti-semitic newspaper The Fascist sought to isolate the Jews in British cinema. The number of Jews contributing to British cinema increased after 1933, when Jews were prohibited from working in Nazi Germany. This list of British Jewish entertainers includes entertainers (actors, directors, screenwriters, musicians, film makers and others, including well known writers, social reformers, journalists, intellectuals, painters, photographers, fashion designers, sculptors, entrepreneurs and creative artists) from the United Kingdom and its predecessor states who are or were Jewish.
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