Trivia: Best known as one-half of the British sketch comedy team French and Saunders and as the star of the long-running sitcom The Vicar of Dibley, the unabashedly full-figured, rubber-faced Welsh comedienne Dawn French began life in the harbor town of Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, on October 11, 1957. As a young woman, French trained at London's Central School of Speech and Drama, where she famously met fellow student Jennifer Saunders, then another aspiring comic. The two not only forged a lifelong friendship, but teamed up at the tail end of the 1970s as a comedy act. French suggested that they audition in response to a Stage magazine ad for up-and-coming comedians; this led instantly to a niche at the infamous Comic Strip Club, performing alongside Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson, and others on a weekly basis. A regular gig with this troupe on its BBC "movie spoof" sketch comedy series The Comic Strip Presents -- which ran from 1982 to 1988, with a four-year revival in 1990 and a three-year revival in 1998 -- so furthered public awareness of French and Saunders and dramatically heightened their popularity that a spin-off series was naturally inevitable. French & Saunders debuted in 1987 to off-the-chart ratings and sensational critical reviews. The pair scripted and starred in episodes; French's most famous and beloved bits included caricatures of Catherine Zeta-Jones, Madonna, and Cher. French debuted in feature films circa 1987, alongside Saunders and many of her Comic Strip cohorts, in the jet-black comedy Eat the Rich -- a spoof of cannibalism with guest spots by Paul McCartney, Koo Stark, Robbie Coltrane, and others. The film, however, was understandably reviled by critics on both sides of the Atlantic and disappeared quickly, which may explain why French gravitated back to television. Alongside her ongoing involvement in French & Saunders as a writer and performer (which continued through the first several years of the new millennium), French launched a second series in 1994, The Vicar of Dibley. The program cast her as the supremely unconventional and irreverent (female) vicar of the title -- a new arrival in a village of eccentric people -- with a flair for devouring mounds of chocolate and tossing out potshots and double-entendres left and right. Vicar, like French & Saunders, scored with the public and press and lasted 13 years, finally wrapping in January 2007. In 2004, French -- perhaps having fully rebounded from the Eat the Rich debacle -- returned in full glory to feature films, this time more respectably and to improved critical reception. She lent a supporting role as The Fat Lady (in the painting) in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) and voiced Mrs. Beaver in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005). French also essayed the role of a therapist in Alek Keshishian's Love and Other Disasters, starring Brittany Murphy and Matthew Rhys. She voiced Miss Forcible in the 2007 animated fantasy Coraline. The characterization of The Fat Lady in Harry Potter is not a unique one for French. Early on, the comic actress used her weight (which has visibly increased over the years) as a key source of her schtick, not only in her BBC series but also in television advertisements. In late 2001, she did spots in the U.K. for Terry's Chocolate Orange segment candies which had her notoriously refusing to share, and an ad for Terry's Chocolate Orange Snowballs which had French rolling down a giant ski slope until she resembled a massive snowball. Off-camera, French is a vociferous proponent of "full-figured" women and markets the oversized female clothing line Sixteen 47 throughout Great Britain.

Trivia: Has an English father and American mother. Began acting as a member of the Medieval Players. Worked with Mark Saban as a street theatre duo in The Two Marks. Appeared as a car salesman in a SEAT television advertisment. Is the voice of the fox in the Old Speckeled Hen advertisment.

Trivia: After graduating from drama school, performed as part of independent theatre Arts Threshold. Is perhaps best known for playing Hayley Cropper in long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street between 1998 and 2014. In 2014, won the National Television Award for Best Serial Drama Performance for her work on Coronation Street. In 2016, co-founded the Manchester-based grassroots theatre company Take Back, along with Rebekah Harrison and Grant Archer. Is a patron of multiple organisations, including Trans Media Watch, Manchester People's Assembly, and the Sophie Lancaster Foundation.

Trivia: Worked in publishing before pursuing a career in entertainment. Began studying at the East 15 Acting School at the age of 27. Nominated for two BAFTA TV Awards in 2011 and 2013, for her writing on sitcom Getting On. In 2011, won the Royal Television Society award for Best Writing in a Comedy, for her work on sitcom Getting On. In 2014, co-wrote, co-produced and co-starred in sitcom Puppy Love.

Trivia: Joined the South East London School Drama Group at the age of 14. Studied architecture before turning to a career in acting. Joined the Royal Shakespeare Company following graduation from drama school. Between 1990 and 1996, played the role of Martin "Ash" Ashford in Casualty, returning to the role in 2013 and 2016. In 2013, took part in the eleventh series of Strictly Come Dancing, making it to the semi-final.

Trivia: In 2016, was nominated for the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre. Is perhaps best known for playing Lance Corporal Will Jensen in drama series Strike Back between 2017 and 2018. In 2016, appeared in Kenneth Branagh's big-screen adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express as Colonel John Armstrong.

Trivia: Credits her three years at university for discovering her voice as an actress and meeting people who encouraged her and told her she was good enough. Says they were the best three years of her life. Moved to London after graduation and took unpaid acting jobs, open mic slots and worked as an extra to make ends meet and become known. Ran the London Marathon in 2012 with her two brothers, raising money for the National Society for Epilepsy. In 2014, brother Russell Howard was in the middle of a stand-up show when he discovered Kerry had given birth; he stopped the show to call his family and had the audience sing "Happy Birthday."

Trivia: Won a scholarship to get Oxford Drama School. Is well known for his portrayal of 'baddie' Jez Quigley on Coronation Street. Met his wife on the set of Coronation Street. Likes working in America and hopes to continue his acting career there. Favourite actors include: Gary Oldham, Anthony Hopkins, Meryl Streep and Kenneth Cranham - who he worked with on Rome.