Gerard Butler has been named the best British actor in Hollywood.

The Scottish hunk - who is best known for playing King Leonidas in '300' - beat a host of stars, including Christian Bale and double-Oscar winner Daniel Day Lewis to win the title in a poll of more than 1,000 UK film fans by the DVD rental service LoveFilm.

Kate Winslet is worth £60 million to Britain.

'The Reader' actress was the first celebrity to be "audited" by the UK Film Council, which looked to put a specific value on the country's creative industries and chose the English star as the first example for her success abroad and public profile.

Charlize Theron would love to "kick a*s" as Catwoman.

The Hollywood actress is thrilled to learn she is in the running to play the super-villain alongside Christian Bale and Sir Michael Caine in the upcoming sequel to Batman blockbuster 'The Dark Knight'.

Johnny Depp gossiped about his "Public Enemies" co-stars in French. The 46-year-old actor has revealed he and French beauty Marion Cotillard would speak to each other in the European language so cast and crew members would not know what they were talking about.

He said: "We would sometimes speak French to each other on the set, especially when we didn't want anyone else to know what we were saying!"

Christian Bale doesn't have a cell phone. The "Terminator Salvation" actor, who has a four-year-old daughter Emmeline with wife Sandra 'Sibi' Blazic, prefers a "low-maintenance" existence and lives in a modest house.