Trivia: Knew she wanted to pursue acting after playing Captain Hook in a school play at age 9. After graduating from university, co-wrote a play called Shaking Cecilia, which won the Sunday Times Student Playwright Award in 2004. When she auditioned for the role of Cathy in the 2009 adaptation of Wuthering Heights, she had never read the book itself before. Away from acting, she performs as a member of a 1940s doo-wop band The Flirtinis. Is an avid painter in her spare time. Won the lead role in the BBC drama Press in 2018, which was cancelled after the first series. Played the role of Lottie/Ghost of Christmas Present in 2019 in the BBC mini-series A Christmas Carol, based on the Charles Dickens novel of the same name.

Trivia: Describing his career as a "five-years upwards first act and a 25-year sliding second act," actor Robert Forster finally got to settle into a satisfying third act when Quentin Tarantino worked his '70s resurrection magic by casting Forster in Jackie Brown (1997). Born and raised in Rochester, NY, Forster was a high school and college athlete, and occasional school thespian. After graduating from the University of Rochester (his third college) with a degree in psychology, Forster opted for acting over law school. Honing his craft in local theater, Forster subsequently moved to New York City where he landed his first Broadway role in 1965. After garnering attention in a 1967 production of A Streetcar Named Desire opposite Julie Harris, Forster made his movie debut in John Huston's Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) as the au natural horseback-riding private who ignites military officer Marlon Brando's desire. Holding out for interesting offers after Reflections, Forster retreated to Rochester with his wife and worked as a substitute teacher and manual laborer.Enticed back into movies with a role opposite Gregory Peck in Robert Mulligan's Western The Stalking Moon (1968), Forster impressed cinephiles with his third film, Haskell Wexler's seminal counterculture work Medium Cool (1969). As a TV cameraman forced to confront the implications of the tumultuous events he so coolly records, Forster and his co-star, Verna Bloom, were thrust into the real-life turmoil surrounding the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention, while Forster's nuanced performance illuminated his narcissist's metamorphosis. Despite its timely subject, however, Medium Cool made little impression at the box office. Though he continued to work in such varied films as George Cukor's widescreen spectacle Justine (1969) and the location-shot Indian reservation drama Journey Through Rosebud (1972), Forster attempted to move to potentially greener TV pastures as the eponymous '30s detective in the series Banyon (1972). Banyon, however, lasted only one season, as did Forster's subsequent TV stint as a Native American lawman in the series Nakia (1974).Forster's slide into B-movie oblivion was hardly stanched by his forays into TV. Though he managed to acquit himself well onscreen in different kinds of parts, Forster professed no illusions about the quality of such movies as The Don Is Dead (1973), Stunts (1977), Disney's sci-fi The Black Hole (1979), and the Rock Hudson disaster flick Avalanche (1978). The smartly comic, John Sayles-scripted creature feature Alligator (1980) failed to thrive beyond its schlock status; Vigilante (1983), starring Forster as a, well, vigilante, was described by one critic as "truly distasteful." Trying his hand behind the camera, Forster produced, wrote, directed, and starred in, alongside his daughter, Katherine Forster, the detective spoof Hollywood Harry (1986), but he got more mileage that same year out of his performance as an Arab terrorist embarking on jihad in Delta Force (1986). Playing a host of bad guys as well as the occasional not-so-bad-guy, Forster put his four children through college from the late '80s into the early '90s with such video fodder as The Banker (1989) and Peacemaker (1990), as well as the TV series Once a Hero (1987) and the well-received indie 29th Street (1991).His career languishing by the mid-'90s, Forster taught acting classes between occasional roles and maintained an optimistic hope that, "some kid who liked me when he was young was going to turn into a filmmaker and hire me." Two casting near-misses for Reservoir Dogs (1992) and True Romance (1993) later (Lawrence Tierney and Christopher Walken respectively got the parts), the by then agent-less Forster finally got his wish when Banyon and B-movie fan Quentin Tarantino cast him in Jackie Brown (1997). Beating out bigger names for the part, Forster proceeded to steal the film from flamboyant co-stars Robert De Niro and Samuel L. Jackson with his subtle performance as weathered, rueful bail bondsman Max Cherry. Though stellar co-star Pam Grier got more attention as Tarantino's latest career rescue, Forster garnered Jackie Brown's sole Oscar nomination. After his Jackie Brown triumph, Forster's image of low-key, regular guy authority kept him steadily employed. Along with playing the de facto voice of sanity in the TV remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (1998) and Gus Van Sant's retread of Psycho (1998), Forster faced down space (and production) chaos in Walter Hill's ill-fated Supernova (2000) and played the straight man as Jim Carrey's commanding officer in Me, Myself & Irene (2000). Though his brief appearance suggests David Lynch had more in mind for Forster's role in the aborted TV series, Forster's performance as a deadpan police detective still made it into the critically acclaimed film version of Mulholland Drive (2001).He continued to work in a variety of projects including the kids basketball movie Like Mike and the quirky biopic Grand Theft Parsons. He moved to the small screen to play the father of Karen Sisco in the short-lived TV series of the same name. He also appeared occasionally in the cable series Huff, and had a recurring role in the NBC series Heroes. He had his highest profile success in yeas in 2011 when he played the father of George Clooney's comatose wife in Alexander Payne's Oscar-winning The Descendants.

Trivia: Owen Davis, Jr., was perhaps best known, thanks to his name, as the son of one of America's most successful -- if not respected -- playwrights of the early twentieth century. But he also enjoyed an acting career in his own right of some three decades and had embarked on a second career as a producer in the new field of television shortly before his death in a boating accident in 1949. Davis was born in New York City, the son of Owen Davis, Sr., a vastly prolific author of plays. He attended Choate and Yale University, where he majored in drama and was also captain of the boxing team for a time. He studied under George Pierce Baker and later attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. In his early twenties, he toured with Walter Huston in one production, and later made his Broadway debut in Carry On, a play written by Owen Davis, Sr. Davis' first credited screen role was in They Had to See Paris (1929), directed by Frank Borzage and starring Will Rogers; portraying Rogers' college-age son, he essayed the first of the male ingenue parts that would characterize most of his roles over the next decade of his career. One major exception was his next film, Lewis Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), a serious and intense drama, which seems to have shown Davis his limitations as a film actor. Following his work in that movie, he walked away from film work for more than five years, vowing to deepen and broaden his range and experience, which he initially did by joining a company led by actor Richard Bennett, and then an experimental theater company in Maine, where he worked in over 100 roles. By 1936, he was back in Hollywood and this time seemed a candidate for potential stardom, again playing young male leads, with a contract from RKO. He was an attractive type on-screen, specializing in the sort of poor-but-honest go-getter heroes who populate B-dramas, mostly comedies, and the occasional satire, and would that he had been lucky enough to get any of the latter, he might even have found a future in such roles.But the studio's interest waned after a pair of B pictures, the romantic comedy Bunker Bean and the mystery/comedy Grand Jury (both 1936), and by the following year Davis was working at Republic Pictures and Monogram, both part of Hollywood's "second division." He kept busy with supporting roles in some of his father's plays (including the Broaday production of Jezebel), as well as doing B-pictures for MGM and Republic, and ended his screen career with a supporting role in Warner Bros.' Knute Rockne, All American (1940). On-stage, meanwhile, his career peaked a little later with his starring role -- opposite Anita Louise -- in Mr. and Mrs. North, an adaptation of Richard Lockridge's detective stories authored by Davis, Sr.; by the time that play was adapted to the screen (with William Post, Jr. as the male lead), the younger Davis was serving in the armed forces, in military intelligence, following America's entry into the Second World War. After the end of the war, he returned to civilian life and embarked on a new career as a producer at NBC on anthology series such as Chevrolet on Broadway and NBC Repertory Theater. One weekend in late May 1949, Davis and an advertising executive friend decided to go out on Long Island Sound. While the friend was asleep below, Davis remained up on deck as the sloop apparently hit a snag near Hart's Island; when the friend came back on deck, Davis was nowhere to be found. He went ashore to report the disappearance, and while he was at the police station giving a description, an officer in the field called in the description of a drowning victim found by two fishermen that morning. Davis was 41 years old and unmarried at the time of his death.

Trivia: Began her career in Australian theatre. In 1976, made her television debut in Australian soap opera Bellbird. Moved to the United Kingdom in the early 1980s, making her British television debut in a 1984 episode of Minder. In 1991, was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress, for her performance as Marianne in Scenes from a Marriage. Appeared as Gertrude in a 2008 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet, and its 2009 television adaptation. Is an associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company.