Trivia: British actor Matthew MacFadyen studied at the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before beginning his career on the stage. He joined the renowned theater company Cheek and Jowl, with whom he participated in productions of The School for Scandal, Much Ado About Nothing, The Duchess of Malfi, and other plays. In 1998, he made a much-noticed transition to the screen with the role of Hareton Earnshaw in a television adaptation of Wuthering Heights. He would go on to appear in such films as Enigma and Almost Strangers before being cast in the lead role of Tom Quinn in the spy series MI-5 (aka Spooks) in 2002. He stayed with the series until 2004, and the next year he made yet another foray into period drama, playing the male lead of Mr. Darcy in a big-screen adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, opposite Keira Knightley. He soon followed it up with a turn in the quirky comedy Death at a Funeral in 2007, before signing on for the 2008 Ron Howard film Frost/Nixon. MacFayden would continue to appear on screen in several series to come, most notably on Little Dorrit, The Pillars of the Earth, Any Human Heart, and MI-5.

Trivia: Has been a vegetarian since he was 18; is a patron of the Vegetarian Society. In 1995, released a cover version of "Unchained Melody" with his Soldier Soldier co-star Robson Green; it sold more than a million copies and was the best-selling single of the year. Robson and Jerome donated £27,000 to Greenpeace from the proceeds of their singles. Before his appearance on Game of Thrones in 2011, had not been on screen for 10 years. Is a patron of The Forces-Helpline, a website that helps address any bullying issues in the Navy, Army or Royal Air Force.

Trivia: A specialist at playing sweet-natured husbands and boyfriends, model-cum-actor Adam Rothenberg was born in Tenafly, NJ, and formally trained in New York theater, enjoying roles in on and off-Broadway productions including A Streetcar Named Desire, Birdy, and Danny and the Deep Blue Sea. Rothenburg broke through to international recognition as an on-camera star in 2008 with three roles: that of Katie Holmes' blue-collar husband in the female buddy comedy Mad Money (2008), that of Carter -- a young man who sets out with his brother on a road trip to find their estranged dad -- in the Mariah Carey vehicle Tennessee, and, on the small screen, the role of Augie, the man-Friday of a psychically counseled soulmate seeker on the CBS series The Ex List.

Trivia: Is named after the Moomin character My. Grew up in the Middle East. Became known as MyAnna at school in the Middle East when they joined her first and middle name. Moved to England at the age of 16. Is fluent in Swedish. Is associate-director of the MahWaff Theatre Company. Won a Fringe Report Award for Best Actor in a Political Drama in 2005.

Trivia: At 17, wrote a play called Divorced and Desperate which ran at the Queens Hall Theatre. Was understudy to Kevin Spacey in the 2005 Old Vic production of Richard II. Played Smike in a regional tour and West End production of Nicholas Nickleby in 2007. Nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 2010 What's On Stage Awards for his role in Comedians.

Trivia: Born on a mushroom farm, her family later bought a pub and guesthouse, where she was raised. Has five older brothers. First started acting with the Monaghan Youth Theatre at age 11. Simultaneously appeared in the television series Raw and Ripper Street in 2013. Made her West End debut in the 2013 production of Henrik Ibsen's play Ghosts.

Trivia: Was rejected for four years before being granted a place at RADA. Originally offered a place at Oxford University to study English, but turned it down to go to drama school. Worked in betting shops, bars and delivering sandwiches before going to drama school. Won the Awarded Audience Prize at the RADA Prize Fights when she was at RADA in 2003. Played the role of Cecily Cardew in The Importance of Being Earnest at the Oxford Playhouse in the summer of 2005. Nominated for an Evening Standard Award in 2007 for her role as Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie at the Apollo Theatre in London. Former member of the National Youth Theatre. Played Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry Vll, in the BBC series The White Queen in 2013, based on Philippa Gregory's best-selling novel series The Cousins' War. Also in 2013, starred as Elinor Dashwood in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Sense and Sensibility.

Trivia: Studied history in Cambridge University and did a year at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York. Was deputy editor of the magazine 'Wonderland' until 2009. Has been writing about cinema and music since she was a teenager. Her role on Casualty was her television debut.

Trivia: Attended The Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin. Directed absurdist comedy Couch, which premiered at the 2000 Dublin Fringe Festival. Co-wrote the plays Too Much Of Nothing and One Too Many Mornings with writing partner Mark O'Halloran. Won the Licille Lortel Award for Best Actor in a Play in 2006 for his role in The Lieutenant of Inishmore. Won the 2006 Theater World Award for his portrayal of Padraic in The Lieutenant of Inishmore; his Broadway debut. A video of his audition for the role of Davos in Game Of Thones was leaked on the internet in 2011. Worked with Irish theatre companies The Abbey, Druid, and Passion Machine.

Trivia: Scottish-born Clive Russell is six and a half feet of bone and sinew. Add to his imposing stage presence his impressive acting skill and you have a colossal acting machine that can cry, bend steel, and recite Shakespeare. Russell has used his attributes to play Helfdane the Large in The Thirteenth Warrior, Ajax the Great in Troilus and Cressida, and blacksmith Joe Gargery in Great Expectations. For his portrayal of a gigantic but gentle ex-coal miner in the acclaimed Margaret's Museum, Russell earned a Canadian Academy Award nomination for best actor. Russell's appetite for acting is as big as he is. Between 1997 and 2001, he completed 24 films in addition to TV and other projects, including such high-profile productions as The Mists of Avalon (TV miniseries), Oliver Twist (TV miniseries), and Oscar and Lucinda. No, he probably won't replace Sean Connery as Scotland's most famous actor. But he certainly deserves recognition as one of Scotland's best actors -- right up there among Connery, Ewan McGregor, Dougray Scott, and Robert Carlyle.Russell first performed before an audience in 1960 on the Shari Lewis Show. But it was not until 1980 that he got his first real acting job -- performing on the London stage as the superintendent in Nobel Prize-winner Dario Fo's satire The Accidental Death of an Anarchist, about police corruption in Italy. The reviews were good, and he reprised that role for television in 1983. After further honing his skills in various British TV productions and a handful of films -- including Jute City, The Power of One, The Hawk, and Seconds Out -- Russell received exposure before international audiences as Caleb Garth in the celebrated BBC miniseries Middlemarch, based on the George Eliot novel of the same name. A year later, he fell in love on the movie screen with Helena Bonham Carter in Margaret's Museum, earning laudatory reviews worldwide. Clive Russell had arrived. After more TV roles and another film, Russell played Ralph Fiennes' father in another critically acclaimed film, Oscar and Lucinda. Growing recognition of his acting skills then brought him plum roles in four major TV miniseries: Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, The Railway Children, and The Mists of Avalon. In the same year that he made Mists, Russell also performed in The Emperor's New Clothes, starring Ian Holm as Napoleon. In 2002, his career reached new heights when he took on a role in a BBC/Columbia Tristar production about a mountain-rescue team in Scotland.