Trivia: Studied quantum physics at Cambridge University, England. Started studying for his PhD but abandoned it to follow a career in comedy. Spent four years doing gigs in pubs with friend Alexander Armstrong. Performed at the Edinburgh Fringe festival for the first time with Armstrong in 1994. Released a book about physics called It's Not Rocket Science.

Trivia: Filmed Spark, his first short, while studying business marketing at California State University.Directed, wrote and composed the score for Dependency (2005), his AFI thesis film.Shortly after graduating from AFI, was hired to write Kennedy High.Won Best Directorial Debut of a Feature Film at the Beverly Hills Film and New Media Festival for his film 5 Star Day (2010).His film Battle Scars (2015) won the Founders' Choice Award for Best Feature Film at the GI Film Festival.

Trivia: Moved to New York as a teenager, to escape The Troubles in Northern Ireland. During a period of discontent with acting, formed and fronted his own band, Adie Dunbar and The Jonahs. Played a minor role in the 1988 film The Dawning with Anthony Hopkins and Hugh Grant, which led to further early roles in his acting career. Co-wrote and starred in the 1991 film, Hear My Song, based on the Irish tenor Josef Locke and nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 1993 BAFTA awards. Played Oscar Wilde in A Trinity of Two at Liberty Hall in Dublin in 2005. Appeared in the 2007 West End revival of Boeing-Boeing. Received an honorary degree from the University of Ulster for his services to acting in 2009. Avid supporter of Arsenal Football Club. Has played the role of Superintendent Ted Hastings in the BBC drama Line of Duty since 2012. Best known for his television and theatre work. Has staged productions as director for the Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival.

Trivia: Son of Jamaican parents who emigrated to England in the 1950s.One of eight siblings.Played tennis on the junior professional circuit.Joined the Royal Court Youth Theatre at the age of 17.At the age of 24, became the first actor of African descent to play Othello in Othello on the main Royal Shakespeare Company stage since Paul Robeson did 40 years earlier.In 2006, participated in the television dance contest Strictly Come Dancing, he partenered with Camilla Dallerup and was eliminated in week six.

Trivia: After her debut film Mississippi Masala (1992) became an art house hit, Sarita Choudhury was determined not to "go Hollywood," focusing her acting energies on independent film instead. Raised in Jamaica, Mexico, and Italy, the half-Indian, half-English Choudhury studied economics at Queens University in Ontario before switching to acting. She casually auditioned for Mississippi Masala and wound up cast as the lead opposite Denzel Washington in the singular interracial romance between a Southern African American man and a transplanted Indian woman. Despite the film's surprise success, Choudhury stuck to her non-Hollywood roots, putting her exotic looks and talent to versatile use as a Pakistani country-western singer in Wild West (1992), a Chilean maid in Bille August's adaptation of The House of the Spirits (1993), and a lesbian mother in Fresh Kill (1994). Choudhury worked with Mississippi Masala director Mira Nair again in The Perez Family (1995) and played the cuckolded queen Tara in Nair's frankly-sensual feminist parable Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996). By the late 1990s, Choudhury added a touch of Hollywood to her repertoire with supporting roles in the glossy Alfred Hitchcock remake A Perfect Murder (1998) and the John Cassavetes retread Gloria (1999).Back in more original territory, Choudhury regained her footing somewhat with a series of television roles on such small-screen dramas as Homicide: Life on the Streets, Deadline, 100 Centre Street, and Law and Order. A series of key roles in such little-seen independents as Rhythm of the Saints, Marmalade, and Indocumentados was offset by lesser roles in wuch wide-release efforts as It Runs in the Family, She Hate Me, and M. Night Shyamalan's Lady in the Water, proving that even if she didn't headline every movie she appeared in, Choudhury was still a worthy supporting player who was always worth watching.

Trivia: Between 2000 and 2005, starred as Nick Harper in long-running BBC sitcom My Family. In 2002, won the Best Comedy Newcomer British Comedy Award for his role in My Family. In 2003, starred as Colin Frissell in the blockbuster romantic comedy Love, Actually. In 2008, appeared in the first UK run of Neil LaBute's play Fat Pig. Between 2014 and 2017, starred as DI Humphrey Goodman in the comedy-drama series Death in Paradise.