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Joseph Morgan was born in London and spent his childhood with his family in Swansea, Wales. Morgan moved back to London in his late teens to study acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama. While there he continued to write and experiment with filmmaking, participating in student films and work-shopping scenes from his favorite movies. Upon graduation from Central School, Morgan was hired by acclaimed film director Peter Weir to costar opposite Russell Crowe in 'Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.' Soon after completion of that film, director Oliver Stone hired Morgan for a strong supporting role in the feature film 'Alexander.' After 'Alexander', Morgan spent time working on stage in the West End of London, as well as starring in numerous British television dramas including BBC miniseries 'The Line of Beauty', 'Henry VIII' opposite Emily Blunt, 'Doc Martin' and 'Mansfield Park'. Morgan was also hired by Harmony Korine to play a James Dean impersonator in his film 'Mister Lonely' His big break came in 2009, when Morgan was cast in the leading role in the miniseries 'Ben Hur'. Based on the classic novel and film, 'Ben Hur' was directed by Emmy winner Steve Shill. In 2010, Morgan's film projects included the independent drama 'Angels Crest', and the big-budget film 'Immortals', in which he co-starred with Mickey Rourke. Later that year he was cast as "Klaus" a series regular in the CW hit series 'The Vampire Diaries' After two short years as "Klaus" Morgan was offered a spin-off show called 'The Originals' and centered around his character. 'The Originals' ran for five seasons earning Morgan numerous nominations as well as The People's Choice award for favorite actor in a new show. During his time on the show Morgan spent his hiatus' shooting indie films 'Open Grave' opposite Shalto Copley and 'Desiree' opposite Walton Goggins and and Ron Perlman. He went on to direct three episodes of 'The Originals' bringing his unique style to an established show, garnering a very positive response from colleagues and critics alike. In 2015 Joseph Morgan started a production Company - Night Owl Productions - with his wife and creative partner Persia White. Under that banner they wrote and produced two short films which Morgan directed. The first 'Revelation' went on to play at eight film festivals, winning the best fantasy film award at Flickers. The second 'Carousel' was filmed over seven hard days with a crew of over fifty passionate people striving to achieve maximum production value. It went on to play at numerous film festivals and win Best Drama Short at the London Independent Film Awards August 2018.- Actor
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Tom Sturridge was born in London, England. He is the son of actress Phoebe Nicholls and sometime-actor and full-time director Charles Sturridge, and the grandson of actors Anthony Nicholls and Faith Kent. His maternal great-grandfather, Horace Nicholls, was a prominent photographer.
Tom started his acting career under the guidance of his father's directing, in a re-telling of the Gullivers Travels TV production, when Tom was just 11 years old.
After returning to schooling, Tom attended the prestigious Winchester College but dropped out before he completed his A-Levels.
He returned to acting in 2004, with roles in 'Vanity Fair' and an excellent performance in 'Being Julia'.
In 2005, Tom played a demanding role in a TV production about William Shakespeare, playing William Herbert 'the fair youth', the gay lover of Shakespeare. A tough role handled well saw Tom go from strength to strength as an actor. In that same year, he played a blink-and-you'll-miss-it role in a bizarre mock documentary about two conjoined twins turned rock stars called 'Brothers Of The Head'.
In 2006, Tom took a part in a psychological thriller called 'Like Minds' (also known as 'Murderous Intent') and although that movie may have failed on some levels, it was the chilling performance by Tom Sturridge that won most of the positive notices.
Next, it was rumoured that Tom Sturridge was supposed to be cast in the big Hollywood production 'Jumper', but was dropped in favour of a bigger star in the person of Hayden Christensen.
Next, in 2009, after a nearly three-year absence from the big screen, Tom returned in an all-star comedy called 'The Boat That Rocked', directed by Richard Curtis. The fine cast also included Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rhys Ifans, and Bill Nighy. Although the movie didn't set the box office on fire, it did further show Tom's potential as a future leading man.
Next, stepping up his acting credentials even further, Tom appeared in a stage play called 'Punk Rock'. So good was he in that role that he won the 2009 Critics' Circle Theatre Award.
Upcoming movies: 'Waiting For Forever', 'Junkhearts' and 'On The Road' promise to continue Tom's ascendancy as one of the UK's best new actors.
Tom has a younger brother and sister, Matilda Sturridge and Arthur Sturridge; both have followed Tom into the acting profession.- Actor
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Johnny Harris first burst onto our screens in 2006 in the highly acclaimed British film London to Brighton. The film was voted into Time Out Magazine's '100 Greatest British Films of All Time' and celebrated British director Shane Meadows said of Harris' performance in the film: "It's an incredibly bold and massively powerful performance, the best I've seen on celluloid for a long time."
He went on to star in Shane Meadows cult television series This Is England '86 receiving BAFTA and Royal Television Society Award nominations for his performance. The final episode of This is England '86 was recently named: 'The Greatest TV Episode of All Time' by The Independent Newspaper.
In 2017, Johnny made his debut as a screenwriter with the highly acclaimed feature film, Jawbone. Harris also starred in and co-produced the movie. He received a BAFTA Film Award nomination for Outstanding Debut, two BIFA Film Award nominations for his performance in the leading role, and a Writers Guild Award nomination for his screenplay. Song-writing icon Paul Weller composed and recorded the soundtrack for Jawbone (his first) and in October 2018, Johnny made his debut behind the camera, directing the video for Paul's hit single, Gravity.
He has starred in film and TV hits including Without Sin, Great Expectations, Jawbone, A Christmas Carol, The Salisbury Poisonings, This is England 86-90, Snow White and the Huntsman, Fortitude, Troy Fall of a City, Medici, Monsters: Dark Continent, From Darkness, Welcome to the Punch, and Jack Thorne's BAFTA Award-winning TV show The Fades.
Nev Pierce, Editor of Empire Magazine, has described Johnny as "An heir to Oldman, in terms of being able to be both sensitive and scary, indelible and real." The Independent described Harris as "One of Britain's finest actors".
Johnny's most recent work includes playing the iconic role of Magwitch in the BBC/FOX/Disney TV adaptation of Great Expectations, alongside Olivia Colman. The show was exec-produced by Tom Hardy and Sir Ridley Scott. He also co-starred alongside, Vicky McClure in ITV's hit new drama series, Without Sin.
Johnny has been cast as Osip Glibnikov in 'A Gentleman in Moscow' with Ewan McGregor. A new 8 part series based on Amor Towles Best-Selling novel for Showtime and Paramount UK. The show is due for release at the end of 2023- Hattie Morahan was born in London in 1978. Her father, Christopher Morahan, is a television and stage director, who is perhaps best known for his television adaptation of The Jewel in the Crown (1984). Her mother, Anna Carteret, is an actress whose most high profile role was that of Inspector Kate Longton, whom she played in the BBC police drama series Juliet Bravo (1980) between 1983 and 1985. Hattie was educated at the Frensham Heights School. Whilst she was at school people would recognize her mother because they had seen Anna on TV in Juliet Bravo. Hattie has said in interviews that for a long time she thought that Manchester was in India because her father was working for Granada but he kept going away to India. In 1995, when she was sixteen years old, her father cast her as Una Gwithiam in a television adaptation of The Peacock Spring (1996), which was broadcast on British television on 1st January 1996.
Hattie studied English Literature at New Hall, Cambridge between 1997 and 2000. This Cambridge University college has since been renamed Murray Edwards College. Whilst she was at Cambridge, she acted in several student drama productions. Hattie played Snowball, the pig based on Trotsky, in a stage adaptation of George Orwell's novel, 'Animal Farm', at the ADC Theatre in Cambridge from 18th to 22nd November 1997. She returned to the ADC Theatre in February 1998 as part of the cast of 'Ticklebang', a new comedy written by Dylan Ritson, and she was part of the cast when the play was put on at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 1998. In November 1998 Hattie decided to switch for the time being from acting to direction, and directed 'The Suicide', a play by Nikolay Erdman, at the ADC in Cambridge, with Blake Ritson, the brother of Dylan, as her assistant director.
Hattie played the part of Catherine in Phillip Breen's production of Arthur Miller's modern classic, 'A View from the Bridge', at the ADC from 9th to 13th February, 1999. This production was re-staged at the National Student Drama Festival at Scarborough in April 1999 and Hattie won the best actress award at the festival. In July 1999 she played Cecily Cardew in an outdoor production of Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of manners, 'The Importance of being Earnest', with Phillip Breen as director and Blake Ritson in the role of Jack Worthing. This played at a number of outdoor venues in and around Cambridge. It was later staged at the ADC in Cambridge from 11th to 13th October 1999.
Towards the end of her time at Cambridge, Hattie played Isabel in Pedro Calderon De la Barca's play, 'The Mayor of Zalamea', at the Cambridge Arts Theatre in the summer of 2000, and in that summer she graduated with a degree in English from Cambridge University. At this point, she was clear that she wanted to pursue a career in acting. Her parents recommended that she enroll at drama school. However, Hattie was eager to get started on her professional acting career. She made a deal with her parents that if she did not get much work in the next twelve months, she would follow their advice and go to drama school.
As it turned out within a few months Hattie had won a contract with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), and whilst she was there she was able to take advantage of the technical classes and voice coaching to improve her acting technique. Her first professional engagement was as one of the players in a production of 'Hamlet' directed by Steven Pimlott. This was staged first at the Swan Theatre in Stratford upon Avon from 31st March to 13th October 2001 and then at the Barbican Theatre in London from 6th December 2001 to 2nd April 2002. As well as her part as one of the players, Hattie also understudied the role of Ophelia. She was with the RSC for over a year and her other roles for the company included the part of Lucy in 'Love in a Wood', a Restoration comedy by William Wycherley which was staged at the Swan Theatre in Stratford between 12th April and 12th October 2001; Emela in 'The Prisoner's Dilemma' by David Edgar, which was performed at the Other Place in Stratford from 11th July to 13th October 2001; and Tracy, the hotel receptionist, in 'Night of the Soul', a new play written and directed by David Farr, which ran at the Barbican Pit in London from 19th April to 11th May 2002.
After she had completed her time with the RSC, Hattie played the part of Elizabeth in a revival of Somerset Maugham's play 'The Circle' directed by Mark Rosenblatt. This production went on a tour of English regional theaters in the autumn of 2002 starting at the Malvern Theatre, (27th to 31st August), and finishing at the Arts Theatre in Cambridge, (21st to 26th October). In 2003 she played Elaine Harper in 'Arsenic and Old Lace' for Katharine Dore Management at the Strand Theatre in London from 14th February to 31st May, and Louise De la Valliere in 'Power', a new play written by Nick Dear, at the National Theatre in London from 3rd July to 29th October. In 2004 she played Ruby in Peter Flannery's play 'Singer' at the Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn from 10th March to 10th April. She appeared as Totty Vogel Downing, an expert on art fraud seconded to the unsolved case squad in one episode of New Tricks (2003), the popular BBC1 crime drama series, and she took part in a presentation of Eve Ensler's play, 'Necessary Targets', directed by Anna Carteret at the Arts Theatre in London on Sunday 10th October 2004 .
Also in 2004, Hattie took part in a rehearsed reading of 'Othello' at the Globe Theatre in London and she played the part of a receptionist in 'Out of Time', a short film written by Dylan Ritson and directed by his brother Blake. However, Hattie's breakthrough as a stage actress was probably her performance in the title role in a 2004 revival of Euripides' play, 'Iphigenia at Aulis'. This was staged at the National Theatre in London and ran from 12th June to 7th September 2004. The play's director, Katie Mitchell, is a controversial figure in contemporary British theatre, but Hattie is an admirer of her work, and as it turned out 'Iphigenia at Aulis' was the start of a long running collaboration between the two women.
In 2005 she played Beth Lucas, a regular character in the second season of the BBC3 medical drama, Bodies (2004), and she made a guest appearance in the radio version of Trevor's World of Sport (2003). She played Carrie, a media studies graduate interested in a career in talent management, who goes on a work placement at TS Sports Stars. The episode was entitled 'Work Experience' and it was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on 29th November 2005. In the autumn she played Viola in a well received production of William Shakespeare 's play 'Twelfth Night' at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds. This production ran from 17th September to 22nd October 2005. In 2006 she played Penelope Toop in 'See How They Run' for ACT Productions in a tour of regional theaters starting at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth, (15th to 18th February 2006) and finishing at the Malvern Theatre, (4th to 8th April 2006). 'See How They Run' was directed by Douglas Hodge, a good friend of Hattie's fiancé, Blake Ritson. Also in 2006 she played Alice in a BBC Radio 4 production of David Hare's play, 'Plenty', broadcast on 30th September 2006, and in the summer of 2006 Hattie was reunited with Katie Mitchell, who directed her in Anton Chekhov's play 'The Seagull' at the National Theatre. The play ran from 17th June to 23rd September and Hattie won an Ian Charleston award for her performance as Nina in this play.
Hattie was part of the cast in 'Asylum Monologues', an event organized by Actors for Human Rights, at Cambridge University on 18th October 2007. She was also busy filming various television and film projects in 2007. She played the part of Sister Clara in New Line Cinema's film of The Golden Compass (2007), which went on general release in Great Britain on 5th December 2007, as well as playing Gale Benson, the daughter of a Conservative member of parliament who becomes involved with the black power movement, in Roger Donaldson's film, The Bank Job (2008). The Bank Job (2008) went on general release in Britain on 29th February 2008. On television she was in two comedies made by Hat Trick productions, namely Outnumbered (2007) and Bike Squad (2008). She won widespread acclaim for her performance as Elinor Dashwood in Andrew Davies' adaptation of Jane Austen's novel, Sense & Sensibility (2008). This was broadcast on BBC1 between 1st and 13th January 2008. This television adaptation was inevitably compared with the 1995 Columbia Tristar film of the same book in which Emma Thompson had played Elinor, although in her preparation for the role Hattie had deliberately avoided watching the film again and decided not to think about Emma Thompson. Hattie won the best actress award at the Shanghai Television Festival for her performance as Elinor Dashwood.
She appeared in several radio dramas in the first quarter of 2008, including 'What I think of my Husband', a radio play by Stephen Wakelam about Thomas Hardy's relationship with his second wife, Florence Dugdale. This was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 31st March and 4th April 2008, and featured excellent performances from both Nigel Anthony as Hardy and Hattie as Florence. She also played the part of Constance in a radio adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's 1945 film Spellbound (1945). This was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday 16th February 2008. Her co-star in this radio play was Benedict Cumberbatch, with whom she appeared in Martin Crimp's play, 'The City'. This play opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London on Thursday 24th April 2008 and ran until Saturday 7th June 2008. It was directed by Katie Mitchell, who also directed Hattie in 'Some Trace of Her', an experimental stage version of Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel, 'The Idiot'. This opened at the Cottesloe stage of the National Theatre in London on Wednesday 23rd July and ran until Tuesday 21st October 2008. She was also in the cast of A Pocket Full of Rye (2008), an Agatha Christie TV drama starring Julia McKenzie as Miss Marple, in which Hattie played Elaine Fortescue, the daughter of a murdered businessman.
In the autumn of 2008 Hattie played the role of Jane again in the second series of the BBC1 situation comedy Outnumbered (2007). On Sunday 2nd November 2008 she returned to Cambridge University, where she gave a talk on her acting career at the Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio. She was one of the readers for 'Active Resistance to Propaganda' by Vivienne Westwood, the Royal Shakespeare Company's Alternative Christmas lecture, which was staged at Wilton's Music Hall in London on Sunday 16th December 2008. She also played the part of Mary in a revival of the T.S. Eliot play 'Family Reunion' at the Donmar Warehouse in London. This play opened on Thursday 20th November 2008 and ran until Saturday 10th January 2009. The play was in a very real sense a family reunion for Hattie since the cast included Hattie's mother Anna Carteret.
In 2009 Hattie played Claire in 'Love Hate'. This was a short film about a charity worker who falls in love with a mysterious woman. It was written and directed by the Ritson brothers, and the cast also included Ben Whishaw, with whom Hattie had previously co-starred in stage productions of 'The Seagull' in 2006 and 'Some Trace of Her' in 2008. In the spring of 2009 Hattie returned to the National Theatre in London to play Kay Conway in 'Time and the Conways' by J.B.Priestley. The play opened on Tuesday 28th April 2009 and completed its run on Sunday 16th August 2009. Hattie played Elizabeth in Meredith Oakes' unusually entitled social comedy, 'Alex Tripped on my fairy', which was broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on Saturday 21st March 2009. She was one of the readers for an edition of the BBC Radio 3 show, 'Words and Music', which went out on Sunday 29th March 2009, and she also narrated a ten part dramatization of 'Lady Audley's Secret' by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. This was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 between Monday 20th April 2009 and Friday 1st May 2009. - Actor
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Archie Madekwe was born on 10 February 1995 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Gran Turismo (2023), Midsommar (2019) and Saltburn (2023).- Actor
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Jack Cutmore-Scott was born on 16 April 1987 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Tenet (2020), Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) and Dunkirk (2017). He has been married to Meaghan Rath since 16 May 2020. They have two children.- Actor
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Elliot Cowan was born on 9 July 1976 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Alexander (2004), Lost in Austen (2008) and The Golden Compass (2007).- Anastasia Hille was born in 1965 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), The Awakening (2011) and The Hole (2001).
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Simona Brown was born in April 1994 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Man Up (2015), Behind Her Eyes (2021) and The Night Manager (2016).- Paul Bazely was born in London in 1968.
His parents are from Chennai, India. He attended a state school in South East London then trained at Manchester Poly School of Theatre (Manchester Met). His first TV role was as Heathcliff in an adaptation of Wuthering Heights. His first regular role was in the Debbie Horsfield BBC series Making Out.
Since then he has worked on film in the US and UK, including roles in Pirates of the Caribbean, Cruella and Dungeons and Dragons. He has featured in many TV series including Black Mirror, Such Brave Girls, and Doctor Who plus six series of Benidorm. He has also worked extensively in British theatre including playing Mahatma Gandhi at the National Theatre and performing in shows in the West End. He has also voiced many of the books of meditation teacher Eknath Easwaran
He is married to the playwright and screenwriter Charlotte Jones. They have two children. - Actress
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Leslie started working at the age of 4 appearing in a television commercial for Fairy Washing up liquid with the line ' Mummy why are your hands so soft?' She switched from modeling to acting after being offered a part in the film 'Quadrophenia'. She is to married actor Lee Chapman and has two sons Joseph born 1990 and Max born 1993. Her sister is former 'Hot Gossip' dancer Debbie Ash. They appeared together as sisters in Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse.- Tim McMullan was born in 1963 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Shakespeare in Love (1998), The Fifth Element (1997) and Enola Holmes 2 (2022).
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Alexander Lincoln was born on 21 January 1994 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for In from the Side (2022), Everything I Know About Love (2022) and Inland (2022).- Producer
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Simon Cowell was born in Lambeth, London and brought up in Elstree, Hertfordshire. He is the son of Julie Cowell (née Josie Dalglish), a ballet dancer, and Eric Selig Phillip Cowell, a music industry executive. Simon started his career in the music industry working in the mailroom at EMI Music Publishing. He worked as a record producer, talent scout and consultant within the music industry before becoming a judge on the hit British TV show Pop Idol (2001) and its U.S. counterpart, American Idol (2002). Cowell's scathing comments were famous during his 10 seasons as a judge on American Idol.- Tahirah was born in South London, England to a Pakistani mother and Jamaican father. She trained at The BRIT School for Performing Arts as well as Identity School of Acting where she studied Theatre.
Tahirah is probably most well known for playing 'Miss Rebecca Jessel' in the Netflix series The Haunting of Bly Manor created by Mike Flanagan, a follow-up to the American anthology supernatural horror drama series The Haunting of Hill House.
Tahirah is well known in the UK for her television credits including ITV crime drama The Tower, which she received a Supporting Actress BAFTA nomination for in 2022.
On the big screen, Tahirah can be seen in Ralph Fiennes' The Invisible Woman and Film 4's See Me alongside Academy Award winner Olivia Colman.
As well as her screen work, Tahirah's passion for theatre has been prevalent throughout her career, and is evident from her credits, which include the lead in the National Theatre's production of Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, and the critically acclaimed 3-hander Firebird, which originated at Hampstead Theatre, and later transferred to Trafalgar Studios in the West End.
Tahirah currently resides in her hometown of London. - Lauren McCrostie was born on 10 January 1996 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016), The Falling (2014) and Second Skin (2016).
- Catherine Russell was born on 17 May 1965 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1991) and The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2001). She has been married to Richard Holmes since 5 September 1988. They have two children.
- Tom Beard was born in London on April 25 1965 to surgeon Charles and his flautist wife Trish and has a brother Alex - who later became CEO at the Royal Opera House. A keen sports player he reached the finals of the Lancashire Rugby Sevens at age eleven and, whilst at Westminster School, was in the first XI at both cricket and football. After graduating from the University of Sussex - where he was a leading member of the student drama society - in German and Politics he enrolled at the Webber Douglas Acting school in London where he was spotted by an agent who cast him as Laertes in Peter Hall's 1994 production of 'Hamlet' Several other roles followed for the Royal Shakespeare Company whilst on television he appeared in a range of populist dramas from 'Poirot' to 'Midsomer Murders'. Away from acting he was a keen angler and a respected gardener in addition to being an avid Chelsea fan. In January 2015 he was diagnosed with cancer and he passed away on July 20, leaving a wife, Polly, and two children Ella and Joe.
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Daisy Donovan was born on 23 July 1973 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for Death at a Funeral (2007), Wild Child (2008) and Millions (2004). She has been married to Dan Mazer since 2005. They have two children.- Actress
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Jill Viola Gascoine was born in Lambeth, London, on April 11 1937. She was educated at Tiffin's Girls School (by her own account, a traumatic experience) and later studied at the Italia Conti Academy of Performing Arts in London. She began her career as a fifteen-year old chorine in pantomime and spent a decade-long apprenticeship singing and dancing in revues and musicals. Married at 28, her first husband was a compulsive gambler who also resented her ambition of becoming an actress and abandoned her and her two children some time during the late 60s. Having to support her family on a single income, Gascoine found work in Glasgow cabaret as a singer and dancer. She was eventually able to get into acting with a repertory company in Dundee and from there (with the aid of theatrical agent Marina Martin) landed parts in popular television dramas including Dr. Finlay's Casebook (1962), Dixon of Dock Green (1955), Softly Softly: Task Force (1969) and Raffles (1975).
Her first recurring TV role was as Letty, the prim, philanthropically-minded wife of taciturn sea captain James Onedin (Peter Gilmore) in The Onedin Line (1971). However, she ultimately became best-known for her role as the emancipated, forthright DI Maggie Forbes in the ITV series The Gentle Touch (1980), the very first British police drama featuring a female (senior) police officer. The concept may well have been inspired by the earlier American series Police Woman (1974). Publicity claimed that London 'bobbies' wrote to the producers of Gentle Touch, attesting to its authenticity (interesting footnote: the reason why there was never any footage of Maggie actually driving a car was that Gascoine had never learned to drive). There was a later, more action-oriented spin-off, entitled C.A.T.S. Eyes (1985) (akin to a British Charlie's Angels (1976)), with Maggie turned private eye.
In addition to her television work, the actress also performed on the West End stage, including a starring role as Dorothy Brock in a 1987 revival of the musical 42nd Street at The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Her younger co-star (as Peggy Sawyer) was Catherine Zeta-Jones. In 1986, Gascoine married fellow London-born actor Alfred Molina and in the 90s made her home in Los Angeles, though she returned to the U.K. on a number of occasions. As her screen work began to wind down, she turned to writing, publishing a trio of novels, respectively, in 1995, 1995 and 1997. Gascoine made an appearance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2008, whereupon she announced her retirement from acting. Five years later, it was revealed that she had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. She died at a Los Angeles care facility on 28 April 2020 at the age of 83.- Leo Staar is a British actor born in London, where he still lives. Leo grew up in Worthing, near Brighton in West Sussex. After graduating from drama school in 2009, Leo went straight into theatre. His first play was Thea Sharrock's production of 'After the Dance' at the National Theatre, alongside Benedict Cumberbatch. He then went onto Nick Hytner's production of 'Hamlet', also at the National Theatre, with Rory Kinear. Leo is most known for playing Alec Jesmond in the BBC's 'Call the Midwife'. Other television work includes Stephen Poliakoff's 'Dancing on the Edge' and 'Lewis'. Leo has most recently been playing the sidekick to Rowan Atkinson's 'Maigret', Inspector Lapointe.
- Nadine Marshall was born on 30 September 1972 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for The Smoking Room (2004), A Street Cat Named Bob (2016) and Paddington 2 (2017).
- Amanda Hillwood was born on 26 February 1957 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Die Hard 2 (1990), A Very Peculiar Practice (1986) and Inspector Morse (1987). She has been married to Matt Frewer since 10 November 1984. They have one child.
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John Orchard was born on 15 November 1928 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), Capone (1975) and Remington Steele (1982). He was married to Carol Randall. He died on 3 November 1995 in London, England, UK.- Stunts
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Award winning Stunt Coordinator and 2nd Unit Director Greg Powell has over 40 years experience in the film industry.
Greg has a vast knowledge in all aspects of stunts as a performer and a coordinator including Fighting, Cars, Motorcycles, Boats, HGV, Horses, Battle Sequences, Fire, Explosions, Wirework and many more. This allows him to guarantee all stunts are covered professionally and safely.
Greg has a 2014 Taurus Stunt Award for Best Coordinator for his work on Fast & Furious 6.
For more info on Greg's experience in the industry please visit stuntsworldwide or see his full credit listing on IMDB.- Lee Quigley was born on 13 August 1976 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Superman (1978). He died on 10 March 1991 in Eastbourne, England, UK.
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Richard Blackwood was born on 15 May 1972 in Clapham, Lambeth, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for EastEnders (1985), Hollyoaks (1995) and Outside Bet (2012).- Actor
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Harry Fowler was born on 10 December 1926 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Pickwick Papers (1952), Hue and Cry (1947) and Went the Day Well? (1942). He was married to Catherine Palmer and Joan Dowling. He died on 4 January 2012 in London, England, UK.- Writer
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Born in London in 1961, Chris Lang is a British screenwriter, producer and actor who has written a number of British drama series, notably the award-winning Unforgotten (2015), the four-part thriller Innocent (2018) and the Netflix series The Hookup Plan (2018).
Lang began his writing career in 1993, writing on British TV series including The Bill (1984-2010) (which earned him a Writer's Guild nomination), Soldier Soldier (1991-1997) and The Knock (1994). In 2000, he wrote his first original drama _"The Glass" (2001)_, and has since written a number of successful, critically acclaimed TV movies and dramas (including Sirens (2002), Unconditional Love (2003), Lawless (2004), The Reckoning (2011), and Undeniable (2014) as well as contributing many episodes to existing shows like Hustle (2004- ) and Sky Atlantic's The Tunnel (2013).
Lang is best known as the writer, creator and executive producer of the critically acclaimed Unforgotten (2015). The series starred Nicola Walker (who was nominated for a Press Guild Award for best actress) and Sanjeev Bhaskar, Trevor Eve, Sir Tom Courtenay (who was nominated for an RTS award for best actor, and who won the BAFTA for best supporting actor) Sanjeev Bhaskar and Bernard Hill. Season One was first broadcast in Autumn 2015. ITV recommissioned the series: Season 2 was broadcast in February 2017, Season 3 in July 2018 and Season 4 in 2020. Season 4 of Unforgotten earned a Bafta nomination in the category Best Drama Series.
"Dark Heart (2016)", which Lang adapted from the Adam Creed novel, was first broadcast in November 2016. He also co-wrote the four-part thriller "Innocent (2018)", starring Lee Ingleby, first broadcast in May 2018. The series was adapted for German television as Unschuldig (2018), and broadcast in December 2019
A second series of "Innocent", co-written with Matthew Arlidge and starring Katherine Kelly was broadcast in May 2021.
He created the series The Hookup Plan (2018) (Plan Coeur) with Noémie Saglio for Netflix, which was renewed for t second season in 2019
Lang wrote the four-part drama The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe (2022), starring Eddie Marsan and Monica Dolan based on the true story of prison officer John Darwin, who faked his own death to claim life insurance and avoid bankruptcy - unbeknownst to his two sons.
Unforgotten has been re-commissioned for a fifth season and is currently in production
As an actor he worked on such British television series as Drop the Dead Donkey, Outside Edge, A Dance to the Music of Time and All Along the Watchtower. As a voice actor, he has contributed to films such as A Monkey's Tale, and the Children's television series Kipper the Dog.
He co-founded the production company TXTV with Matthew Arlidge and Jeremy Gwilt, which produces much of his work, and generates other original projects for British broadcasters. He lives in London with his wife and their children.- Camera and Electrical Department
Elliot Rodger was born on 24 July 1991 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. He died on 23 May 2014 in Isla Vista, California, USA.- Actor
- Composer
- Soundtrack
As Eddie Tenpole was considered as replacement for Johnny Rotten in the Sex Pistols, and recorded "Rock around the Clock" with the band on "The Great Rock and Roll Swindle" LP. Had some chart success with his own band Tenpole Tudor, principally "Swords of a Thousand Men". Took over from Richard O'Brien as host of UK gameshow "The Crystal Maze" in the early 1990s.- Writer
- Producer
- Actor
Mo Gilligan was born on 19 February 1988 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. He is a writer and producer, known for The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan (2019), The Big Narstie Show (2018) and All Star Happy Hour with Mo Gilligan (2020).- Dan Fredenburgh was born in Lambeth, London, England, UK. Dan is an actor and writer, known for The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), Love Actually (2003) and Spies of Warsaw (2013).
- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
John Salthouse was born on 16 June 1951 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for An American Werewolf in London (1981), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and A Bridge Too Far (1977).- Zaraah Abrahams was born on 7 January 1987 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Payback Season (2012), Coronation Street (1960) and Waterloo Road (2006).
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Jack Haig was born on 5 January 1913 in Streatham, Lambeth, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for 'Allo 'Allo! (1982), Hugh and I (1962) and The Gnomes of Dulwich (1969). He was married to Sybil E Dunn. He died on 4 July 1989 in Hampstead, Camden, London, England, UK.- Tommy Godfrey was born on 20 June 1916 in Lambeth, South London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Love Thy Neighbour (1972), Passport to Pimlico (1949) and The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975). He died on 24 June 1984 in London, England, UK.
- Director
- Cinematographer
- Special Effects
Roy Kellino was born on April 22, 1912 in London, England as Philip Roy Gislingham. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Four Star Playhouse (1952), _Schlitz Playhouse (1951) (TV Series)_, and Charade (1954). He was married firstly to Pamela Ostrer (later known as Pamela Mason), and secondly to Barbara Billingsley. He died unexpectedly on November 18, 1956 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actress
- Casting Director
- Director
Carole Ruggier was born in March 1957 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. She is an actress and casting director, known for God of War (2018), Agent Carter (2015) and Abruptio (2023). She has been married to Bryan Bowen since 1987.- Actress
- Producer
Danielle Harold was born on 30 May 1992 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for EastEnders (1985), Billy's Olympic Nightmare (2012) and American Road Trip.- Johnny Shannon was born on 29 July 1932 in Lambeth, South London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Beryl's Lot (1973), Performance (1970) and Scotch on the Rocks (1973).
- Writer
- Producer
- Director
Simon Moore was born on 1 March 1958 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. He is a writer and producer, known for Traffic (2000), The Quick and the Dead (1995) and Traffik (1989).- Doorn Van Steyn was born on 30 November 1921 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Tel Aviv Taxi (1956), The Trojan Brothers (1946) and The Madame Gambles (1951). She was married to Roger Moore, Ami Sollel and Wilhelmus van Steyn. She died on 23 August 2010.
- Mary Clare was a versatile British character actress of redoubtable presence. On the London stage from 1910 (some sources say 1912), she later alternated her theatrical appearances with acting on screen. During the 1920's and 30's, she specialised in stately characters and villainesses in period dramas. On stage, she was best served as star of Noël Coward's "Cavalcade", or in John Galsworthy's "The Skin Game" (a role she later reprised for the screen). Cinema gave her fewer opportunities to shine, but she made the most of her often small parts, moving easily between widely diverse characterisations: from the shady Baroness of The Lady Vanishes (1938) to snooty Lady Hingston in Portrait of Clare (1950); from the matronly Nazi spy, minder of would-be Mata Hari Phyllis Stanley, in The Next of Kin (1942), to that "poor desolate creature" Mrs. Corney in Oliver Twist (1948). Among her many dominant performances in support, there was also a solitary, but noteworthy, leading role in the mystery Mrs. Pym of Scotland Yard (1940).
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Alice St. Clair was born in July 1988 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Before I Sleep (2013), William & Catherine: A Royal Romance (2011) and Sarah's Key (2010).- Producer
- Director
- Writer
George Waud was born on 23 February 1967 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. George is a producer and director, known for Snakes on a Plane (2006), Domestic Disturbance (2001) and Pipe Dream. George has been married to Charlotte Tilbury since June 2014. They have two children.- Actor
- Additional Crew
Son of actress Mia Farrow and film composer André Previn. Attended a boarding school in Germany called Louisenlund. Is a government major at Connecticut College in New London, CT. Interned at the Late Show with David Letterman (1993). He hopes to "go into the movie industry and make great films."- Mathew Bose was born on 3 July 1967 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Emmerdale Farm (1972), Coupling (2000) and Silent Witness (1996).
- Actor
- Producer
Don McCorkindale was born on 21 March 1939 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Layer Cake (2004), Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984).- Director
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Paul Harrison has directed/produced over 100 episodes of some of Britain's most successful TV series, which include Midsomer Murders (20th Anniversary Episode), A Touch of Frost and Ballykissangel.
Within the past five years, he worked in South Africa on the ITV drama Wild at Heart andthe BBC drama Death in Paradise in Guadeloupe. He recently directed the comedy Trollied as well as two episodes of the contemporary and quirky crime drama Agatha Raisin; both for Sky.
http://paulharrisondirector.co.uk/
Paul Harrison's awards and nominations include:
BAFTA: Best Youth Entertainment for YOUR MOTHER WOULDN'T LIKE IT SERIES 1
BAFTA nomination: Best Drama Series for BALLYKISSANGEL
BAFTA nomination: Best Youth Entertainment for YOUR MOTHER WOULDN'T LIKE IT SERIES 2
BAFTA nomination: Best Family Drama for COME BACK LUCY
Royal Society Television Awards: Best Drama and Comedy Drama A TOUCH OF FROST BALLYKISSANGEL DIAMOND GEEZER
National Television Awards: A TOUCH OF FROST BALLYKISSANGEL
Irish Film and Television Nomination: Best Television Drama for BALLYKISSANGEL
New York Film and Television Award for DIAMOND GEEZER