| RICKMAN | Alan ---, late actor noted for his portrayals of villains |
| EDMUNDKEAN | Which English actor was known for his portrayal of villains in Shakespeare's plays? |
| CHAMBERLAIN | Richard ___, late actor noted for his roles in Dr Kildare and The Thorn Birds (11) |
| ARKIN | Alan ***** , late actor who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 2006 film 'Little Miss Sunshine' (5) |
| NIGELSTOCK | Actor noted for his portrayal of Dr Watson in a Sherlock Holmes TV series of the 1960s (5,5) |
| CONNERY | Name the film actor, noted for his portrayal of James Bond, Sean ... (7) |
| LUGOSI | Bela, Hungarian-born US actor noted for his portrayal of the title character in the 1931 film Dracula (6) |
| KEAN | Tragedian noted for his portrayal of Shakespearean villains and for his histrionic spat with the father of Abraham Lincoln's assassin, Junius Brutus Booth (4) |
| CHARLES | Jeannette, late actress noted for her portrayals of Queen Elizabeth II (7) |
| RENEMAGRITTE | Surrealist artist noted for his portrayal of a pipe in his painting "La Trahison des images" (4,8) |
| SPENSER | Poet noted for his portrayal of virtues through knights' quests in The Faerie Queene and a series of 12 eclogues named after months in The Shepheardes Calender (7) |
| ALAN | Forename of Sir Ayckbourn, dramatist renowned for his satirical portrayals of the British middle class (4) |
| BINGCROSBY | First actor to garner two Oscar nominations for portrayals of the same character |
| AUSTEN | Jane --, English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle-class families (6) |
| ROTH | Which US novelist was noted for his portrayal of modern Jewish life and wrote the novella Goodbye Columbus (1959)? (4) |
| STREEP | Meryl -; actress noted for portrayals of figures including Margaret Thatcher and Emmeline Pankhurst (6) |
| STALLONE | Actor whose two acting Oscar nominations are for 1976 and 2015 portrayals of the same character |
| MANTEGNA | Andrea ___, Italian Renaissance artist known for full-length portrayals of the stricken St Sebastian (8) |
| RECONSTRUCTIONS | Portrayals of past events from fraud among others followed by angry protests (15) |
| ROLES | Portrayals of a bad loser |
