Trivia: His grandfather, Archie McLeod, was a professional football player with Derry City F.C. in Northern Ireland during the 1930s. Acted in school productions through primary and secondary school. As a teenager he wanted to join the actors' union Equity, which already had a person registered with his birth name (David McDonald); he adopted the stage surname Tennant, after Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys. In 2005, became the tenth incarnation of the mysterious time traveller in the sci-fi cult favourite Doctor Who, the show that made him want to be an actor (when Tom Baker was playing the role in the 1970s). Was named 'Coolest Man on TV' in a Radio Times survey in 2007. In 2007, under his birth name, was added to the 159th edition of Who's Who, the United Kingdom's oldest biographical yearbook. Has provided voices for the audio-book versions of Cressida Cowell's How To Train Your Dragon series. Supports the Association for International Cancer Research and Headway Essex, a brain-injury charity. Was voted the third best dressed man in The UK in the GQ readers' poll in 2013. Is an ambassador for Worldwide Cancer Research. His wife is the daughter of Peter Davison who played the fifth Dr Who.

Trivia: Met David Mitchell and Robert Webb while at the University of Cambridge. Features in BBC Radio 4 comedies. Won a Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Breakout Performance for her role in the film Tyrannosaur. Met her husband Ed Sinclair while at Cambridge, they have two children.

Trivia: British actress Jodie Whittaker grew up in a working-class industrial town in Northern England, discovered a passion for theater in mid-adolescence, and left secondary school at 16 with the intention of becoming an actress. Following a transitional period that witnessed her journeying across the U.K. and taking a series of odd jobs, she applied and was accepted to the elite Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. A spate of minor professional assignments followed, including a few television roles and work on-stage at the legendary Globe Theatre, but she scored her first international success -- the one that catapulted her from unknown ingénue to marquee name -- with Venus, a sweet-natured, slice-of-life comedy drama about a young waif who waltzes into the world of a grizzled old man in his final days (eight-time Oscar nominee Peter O'Toole) and changes them both. Whittaker followed up that assignment with stage work in a Neil LaBute play, then appeared in the comedy remake St. Trinian's (2007) and starred opposite Viggo Mortensen in the disturbing period piece Good (2008), about a well-meaning literature professor in the 1930s (Mortensen) who finds himself suddenly swept up into the ranks of the Nazi party thanks to his willingness to make moral compromises.

Trivia: Has appeared in Romeo and Juliet and Richard II on stage. Won the 2008 Manchester Evening News Theatre Award for Best Actor for his role in the stageshow The Man Who Had All The Luck. Awarded Best Supporting Actor at the Crime Thriller Awards in 2013 for his role in Broadchurch. Also in 2013, he produced and starred in the film 1946, based on the life of Hollywood actor, James Stewart, winning the Award of Distinction at the Williamsburg Independent Film Festival in 2014. Has built an extensive catalogue of vocal work for radio drama, prose and poetry; audio books and adverts; and narrating TV documentaries and reality-competition shows. His and his wife's first child, a daughter, was born in April 2015.

Trivia: Took dance lessons from the age of three. Auditioned unsuccessfully for the Central Junior Television Workshop at the age of eleven, but was recalled one week later when another child dropped out. Rejected places at the Royal Ballet and the Italia Conti School because her family couldn't afford the tuition fees, so decided to pursue a career in acting. Continued attending the Central Television Workshop in Nottingham and met Samantha Morton, who mentored her and helped launch her acting career. Appeared in music videos for Plan B's "She Said" with Kaya Scodelario in 2010 and Jake Bugg's "Two Fingers" in 2012. Starred in various short films for the cosmetics brand Illamasqua in 2012, including one titled Born Again. Took part in the Alzheimer's Society Memory Walk for the second time in 2012, which raised over £20,000 for the charity. Met boyfriend Jonny Owen on the set of the film Svengali in 2012, which the two were both starring in. Nottingham Express Transit has named a tram after her. On her maiden trip, was offered a free ride and then accused of fare-dodging because she didn't have a ticket.

Trivia: When he was a young boy, his mother worked with puppets, masks and acted as a member of Cannon Hill Theatre, based at Midlands Art Centre. His father used to play electric organ for bands such as Fine Young Cannibals and UB40. Formed an indie rock band, Edmund, named after Edmund Pevensie from The Chronicles of Narnia when he was a teenager. Created his own theatre company called Fuego with his friend Richard Morgan in 2002. Recorded his own version of "Let It Go" from Frozen on the BBC Radio 1 show, singing how he was no longer in Doctor Who. Nominated for Most Promising Newcomer in the Evening Standard Theatre Awards in 2007. As a musician and composer, wrote the music for stage shows including Artefacts by Mike Bartlett in 2007 and The Frontline by Che Walker in 2008. Voted Best Supporting Actor by readers of Doctor Who magazine for his work in the 2010 season. Performed the lead role of Guy in the Broadway musical Once in 2013, and later performed the same role in the West End production. Was part of a group of celebrities who designed cards for children's charity Coram, helping to raise £8,500 after they were sold on eBay.

Trivia: Is perhaps best known for playing the role of Sharon Theodopolopodous in ITV sitcom Birds of a Feather between 1989 and 1998, reprising the role in the 2014 revival. In 1990, won the Best TV Comedy Newcomer British Comedy Award for her performance in Birds of a Feather. In 1997, was nominated for the Best Actress BAFTA TV Award for her performance in The Sculptress. In 2007, opened The Pauline Quirke Academy of Performing Arts, a UK-wide extracurricular centre for young people. Appeared as Hazel Rhodes in Emmerdale between 2010 and 2012.

Trivia: Actor Will Mellor made his feature-film debut as one of two male leads opposite Heather Graham and Mia Kirshner in the Eric Styles-directed romantic comedy Miss Conception (2008).

Trivia: While in high school, represented Western Australia in volleyball for three years. After graduating high school, enrolled at Curtain University, but deferred to travel around the world. Made her TV debut in the Australian series Crash Palace. Performed in a Griffin Theatre Company production of October in 2007.

Trivia: Took part in many productions at Blag Youth Theatre, a company run by her parents. Appeared in 2,000 Feet Away in 2008 at the Bush Theatre opposite Joseph Fiennes. Was paid £1 to keep a plot twist a secret when starring in Broadchurch. Played one part of Lucia's personality in the play 3 Winters, at London's National Theatre in 2015. Worked with a voice coach in 2016 to perfect an Australian accent for her part in the horror film, The Windmill Massacre, by listening to recordings and actively seeking advice. Has stated that she is selective about the roles she chooses, preferring to play women who are strong, complex, and not simply passive objects.

Trivia: A former martial arts champion, David Bradley played leads and supporting roles in low-budget or direct-to-video actioners since 1988.

Trivia: Wrote his first song, a paean to the Norwegian town of Stavanger, upon being inspired during a visit for a family friend's wedding. Left home at age 17 and moved to London to begin his professional career. Uses the alias Raleigh Ritchie for his music career, which is a combination of the names of Bill Murray's and Luke Wilson's respective characters in the Wes Anderson film The Royal Tenenbaums. Debut studio album You're a Man Now, Boy was released in 2016 on Columbia Records.

Trivia: The Waller-Bridge family were landed gentry of Cuckfield, Sussex. Descended from The Rev. Sir Egerton Leigh, 2nd Baronet, Conservative MP for Mid Cheshire from 1873 to 1876. Her maternal grandfather was Sir John Edward Longueville Clerke, 12th Baronet, of Hitcham, Buckinghamshire. Was inspired by her childhood nickname 'Flea' for the title of Fleabag. Set up the theatre company DryWrite with writer-director Vicky Jones to showcase young, talented writers. Made her acting debut in the play Roaring Trade at Soho Theatre in 2009. Played the role of Marian in a theatre production of Mydidae in 2013 at the Trafalgar Studios in London. In 2014, played the role of Jo in a theatre production of The One at the Soho Theatre. Was signed by US agent UTA in 2016, shortly before the American debut of Fleabag.As a playwright, she wrote the series Good. Clean. Fun. Best known as the creator, writer and star of the BBC series Fleabag and as the head writer and executive producer of the first series of the BBC America thriller Killing Eve. Both series have been highly acclaimed as among the 100 greatest television series of the 21st century by The Guardian, which ranked the former at no.8 and the latter at no. 30. Voiced and performed the role of droid L3-37 in Solo: A Star Wars Story in 2018. Co-wrote the screenplay for the 25th James Bond film, No Time to Die, along with Neal Purvis and Robert Wade in 2019. A versatile actress who writes and has appeared in films, on stage and in television programmes.

Trivia: British actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste first became known to an international audience through her breakthrough performance in Mike Leigh's Secrets & Lies (1996). Jean-Baptiste has received Best Supporting Actress Oscar, BAFTA, and Golden Globe nominations for her measured, insightful portrayal of a young woman who is reunited with her biological mother who gave her up for adoption at birth. Jean-Baptiste subsequently began doing steady work in both film and television, appearing in a disparate number of films, including Noah Baumbach's Mr. Jealousy (1997), the psychological thriller A Murder of Crows (1998), the independent comedy How to Make the Cruelest Month (1998), and Nancy Savoca's The 24-Hour Woman (1999). The beginning of the next decade founding Jean-Baptiste scoring roles in the thriller The Cell, the comedy drama 28 Days, and the thriller Spy Game. From 2002 to 2009 Jean-Baptiste could be seen in the Jerry Bruckheimer produced CBS television series Without a Trace as FBI agent Vivian Johnson who works in the missing persons division. She appeared in the 2006 drama Jam, and joined the cast of City of Ember (2008), a science-fiction fantasy drama following a society living in an underground city following a nuclear war. In 2010 the actress joined the cast of Takers, a crime thriller, and starred in Secrets in the Walls, a made-for-television horror film from Lifetime the same year. In addition to acting, Jean-Baptiste is also a composer. She supplied the music for Leigh's Career Girls in 1997.

Trivia: Wrote her first novel, Anita and Me, in 1996. Appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1997. Won the Betty Trask Award for her first novel Anita and Me and the Media Personality of the Year Award at the Commission for Racial Equality's annual Race in the Media awards in 2000. Featured on the British number one record, "Spirit in the Sky," performing with Gareth Gates and her co-stars from The Kumars at No.42, in aid of Comic Relief, in 2003. Appeared as a guest on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in 2003, having chosen an eclectic range of music and opted for a piano as her luxury item to take with her to the island. Voted one of the 50 funniest people in Britain by The Guardian in 2003. While on the BBC show Who Do You Think You Are?, discovered that both of her grandfathers were involved in the struggle for independence in India. Was a guest at Prince Charles' wedding to Camilla Parker Bowles in 2005. Was appointed visiting professor of contemporary theatre at St Catherine's College, Oxford in 2011-12, and has honorary degrees from SOAS, University of London and from the University of Roehampton. Played Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2012. Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2015, for her services to Drama and Literature. Was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2017. Writes occasionally for The Guardian.

Trivia: Born in England circa 1945, actress Charlotte Rampling is the daughter of a British colonel who went on to become a NATO commander and relatively successful painter. After attending the Jeanne d'Arc Académie pour Jeunes Filles in Versailles and the prestigious St. Hilda's school in Bushley, England, Rampling worked as a model before making her film debut as a water skier in The Knack...and How to Get It (1965), director Richard Lester's acclaimed sex comedy. Her breakout role, however, wouldn't come until a year later, when she performed opposite Lynn Redgrave as the bitchy but beautiful roommate of the title character in Georgy Girl (1966). Georgy Girl set the standard for Rampling's further work, which, while not always popular with mainstream audiences, could never be conceived of as mundane. Quite the contrary, in fact -- from her role as a hitchhiker in Vanishing Point (1971) to her portrayal of Ann Boleyn in Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972) to her performance as a woman in love with a chimpanzee in Max My Love (1986), Rampling became notorious for her bold, meaningful characters. Luchino Visconti's The Damned (1969) is no exception to the rule (the incestuous political drama was originally rated X in the United States); neither was her work with Sean Connery in John Boorman's sci-fi adventure Zardoz (1973). That said, Rampling's most intense role was, arguably, that of a concentration camp survivor who is reunited with the Nazi guard (Dirk Bogarde) who tortured her throughout her captivity in 1974's The Night Porter.In 1975, Rampling starred opposite Robert Mitchum in the post-noir detective thriller Farewell, My Lovely, and offered a passionate rendering of a violent heiress confined to a mental institution in the French/Italian/German collaboration La Chair de l'Orchidée. The actress' success continued to grow throughout the latter half of the 1970s, and in 1980, Rampling played a lead role alongside Woody Allen in Stardust Memories, the follow-up to the much-hailed Manhattan. Shortly afterward, Rampling could be seen as the deceitful Laura in director Sidney Lumet's courtroom drama The Verdict (1982) with Paul Newman. Rampling spent much of the mid-'80s filming in Europe; one of her most notable performances during that time was as the mysterious mistress of a murder victim in the French crime thriller On Ne Meurt Que Deux Fois, though she would return to America for Alan Parker's Angel Heart. The heavily praised voodoo-themed crime thriller featured Rampling as an ill-fated woman whose heart is irrevocably extracted from her body.Though her fondness for murder mysteries and historical political dramas still manifested itself through her performances in Paris by Night (1989) and Invasion of Privacy (1996), Rampling also found luck in several moderately well-received comedies, including Time is Money (1994) and Asphalt Tango (1997). However, her name was launched back into the A-list after her performance as a complicated aunt in the multi-award-winning The Wings of the Dove with Helena Bonham Carter. In 2000, Rampling was nominated for her own Oscar; her portrayal of a phenomenally distraught widow in Under the Sand was praised by critics and audiences alike as one of the best performances of the year. After participating in several documentaries and the espionage thriller Spy Game (2001), Rampling starred as a conservative mystery writer in director François Ozon's Swimming Pool -- the role would win her an award for Best Actress from the European Film Academy in 2003. After her success with Swimming Pool, Rampling went on to play supporting roles in The Statement (2003) and Immortel Ad Vitam (2004).Rampling continued to work in both English and French language projects, playing the Countess Spencer in The Duchess (2008), and later reunited with co-star Keira Knightley for Never Let Me Go (2010). In 2011, she appeared in Lars von Trier's Melancholia; the following year, she earned an Emmy nomination for her work in the BBC miniseries Restless. In 2015, she nabbed her first Academy Award nomination for her work in 45 Years.

Trivia: Had an interest in boxing as a child but gave up after breaking her knuckle by punching a wet sand bag. Won an Ian Charleson award for her roles in Titus Andronicus and The Taming of the Shrew in 2003. Named Bachelorette of the Year by Wales On Sunday in 2006. Won the BAFTA Cymru award for Best Actress in 2007 for her role in Torchwood. Appeared in the West End premiere of All New People, written and starring Zach Braff, in 2012. Won Wales' Sexiest Woman award in 2013.

Trivia: Pretty, blonde-haired British actress Eliza Bennett broke into entertainment at the age of nine, with an 18-month turn on the London stage in the Sherman-Sams musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, then quickly moved into features -- achieving a steady output of film roles by mid-adolescence. During her early years, she specialized largely, though not exclusively, in science fiction and fantasy, a somewhat ironic fact given her reportedly limited off-camera interest in those genres. Her cinematic work commenced with a supporting turn as Princess Arabella in Martha Coolidge's lighthearted romantic comedy The Prince & Me. After that, Bennett appeared in such projects as the big-screen fantasy comedy Nanny McPhee (2005), the disaster-themed sci-fi telemovie Supernova (2005), the family-oriented time travel fantasy From Time to Time (2009), and the Iain Softley-directed literary fantasy Inkheart (2009), for which she took on a lead role.