All The British Actors from 'The White Lotus,' Ranked

Even though The White Lotus is created and written by the very American multi-hyphenate Mike White, who also acts, directs, and was in a season of The Amazing Race, its international yet predominantly English-speaking acting ensembles have made me think of it as a British series. The brief seasons, dry wit, and ceaseless ratcheting up of funny-to-awful tension among the characters all remind me very strongly of Britcoms, and the whodunit and whydunit aspects of the now-traditional murders call back to the locked room mysteries of Agatha Christie’s heyday.

The White Lotus’s third season drew to a surprisingly snoozy close on Sunday, with Jason Isaacs’ North Carolinian patriarch Tim Ratliff choosing life over intra-familial murder-suicide and the maximally cruel, accidental death of Aimee Lou Wood’s Chelsea, making now a perfect time to rank the characters portrayed by British (and in one case, British-ish) actors.

The ranking isn’t in order of worst-to-best because I do think all of these performances are decent-to-excellent – think of it as working our way up a strong, vibrant field of players to the All-Series MVP. All rankings are in the eye of the beholder, so if the order of your picks varies wildly from mine, let me know how and why!