Trivia: British actress Emilia Fox attended Oxford University to study her craft, before setting out to begin her professional acting career in the late '90s. She most notably played the title role in the play Katherine Howard at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 1998, and played Clara Copperfield in a TV movie production of David Copperfield. As the new millennium began, Fox had wracked up enough roles on her resumé that she was ready for more substantial parts in projects like the 2003 TV biopic Henry VIII, and the 2005 comedy Keeping Mum. In 2004, she began playing pathologist Nikki Alexander on the TV series Silent Witness, and she stayed with the show for seasons to come. In 2006, she also garnered much praise for her role in the independent dramedy Cashback.

Trivia: Actress Sian Phillips was performing on BBC radio's Welsh-language service at the age of 11. Phillips made her first British television appearance at 17; one year later, she won a Welsh acting award, which paid her way through RADA. She made her London stage debut in 1957, in a charity production of Hedda Gabler. From 1959 through 1979, Sian was the wife of actor Peter O'Toole, with whom she appeared in the 1964 film Becket and the 1969 movie musical Goodbye Mr. Chips. Almost too dynamic for "average" roles, Sian was an unforgettable Livia in the PBS miniseries I, Claudius, and brought a properly mystical bearing to her otherworldly characters in the film fantasies Clash of the Titans (1981) and Dune (1984). Her instinctive regality served her well as narrator of the 1967 documentary The Other World of Mr. Churchill and as the Duchess of Windsor in the made-for-TV The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (1983). A more grounded-in-reality Sian was seen as Ann Smiley in the 1982 miniseries Smiley's People; most recently, she was the American aristocrat Mrs. Archer in The Age of Innocence (1993). A favorite daughter of her home country, Sian Phillips has served in the Welsh Arts Council and as a governor of the National Theatre of Wales, and has received the Welsh theatre world's ultimate accolade: a membership in the Honorary Order of Druids.

Trivia: Born in Sudan to English parents and lived in Israel as a child due to his father's position as a bank manager. Found an affinity for performing at the age of 6 while reciting A.A. Milne poems to his family. Earned a scholarship to the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Was a member of the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool. Made his Broadway debut as Henry Straker in Man and Superman at Circle in the Square Theatre in 1978. Joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in the early 1980s. Starred as Inspector Goole in the 1994 Broadway production of Stephen Daldry's An Inspector Calls. Played the role of Lord Burleigh in Mary Stuart on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre in 2009.

Trivia: Made her professional stage debut in Hangmen at London's Wyndam's Theatre in 2015. Made her television debut in a 2016 episode of Cold Feet. Made her feature film debut in 2016 drama Apostasy. In 2019, starred as DC Muriel Yeardsley in ITV drama Wild Bill.

Trivia: A conservative, bourgeois vicar's daughter who reportedly made a concerted effort to avoid errant behavior as a young woman, the refined and genteel British actress Sophia Myles paradoxically found herself typecast, throughout her early years, in rebellious and "edgy" roles. Myles specialized in tackling parts in adaptations of the classics, and was particularly memorable, for example, as Agnes Fleming in Oliver Twist (1999), Kate in Nicholas Nickleby (2000), and Isolde in Tristan & Isolde (2005). With Myles' transition to Hollywood material, she branched out into more conventional buttered-popcorn fare, such as the effects-heavy sci-fi opuses Underworld: Evolution (2006) and Outlander (2008), and similarly essayed one of the main roles on the fantasy television series Moonlight (2007), playing a beautiful investigative reporter whose life is saved by the program's vampiric lead character. In the years to come, Myles would continue to find success on the small screen, particularly with the British series MI-5.

Trivia: Best known for her role as Hugh Grant's eccentric roommate in the 1994 romantic comedy Four Weddings and a Funeral, British actress Charlotte Coleman had a talent for playing quirky characters thanks in part to her intense and unique personality.Born into a theatrical London household in April of 1968, the youngest daughter (her sister, Lisa, also an actress) of actress Ann Beach and television producer Francis Coleman began acting at the age of eight, receiving her early education at St. Michael's School in Highgate. Later training at the same Camden club as Emma Thompson, Coleman found much success in her early years with roles in such popular television programs as Worzel Gummidge and Educating Marmalade. Expelled from Camden due to her rebellious nature, the unruly teen attempted to sabotage her own career by giving deliberately bad audition performances, only to be thwarted when she was often offered the roles that she had worked so hard to reject. Following her expulsion from Camden, Coleman had a change of heart regarding her career and later paid for an education at the West Country's progressive Dartington with money that she had earned from television roles. Later noted for her role as a lesbian teen in the BBC production of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Coleman would shoot to fame four short years later with her role alongside Grant in the international hit Four Weddings. Increasingly busy into the later 1990s, Coleman turned up in such films as The Young Poisoner's Handbook (1995), The Man With Rain in His Shoes (1998), and Beautiful People (1999). Turning up in the lead for A Loving Act in 2001, Coleman was gaining increasing momentum when a lifelong illness cut short her promising career. A lifelong asthmatic, Coleman died after suffering a major asthma attack in her London home in November of 2001. Coleman was 33.