Trivia: Left university to perform with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Was narrator of BBC series Airport between 1996 and 2005. Appointed an OBE in 2010. Awarded an honorary doctorate at the University of Plymouth in 2012. Patron of The Mare and Foal Sanctuary.

Trivia: Joined the Stockton Youth Theatre as a 14-year-old. Performed in the award-winning Dead Fish at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Reprised his role in the touring production of Dead Fish throughout 1994 and 1995. Played the role of DS Gavin Troy in Midsomer Murders between 1998 and 2003. Ran for Leukaemia Research in the 2003 Great north Run.

Trivia: Starred in the 1975 Birmingham Rep production of Equus. Played Sasha in a 1978 production of Ivanov at the Old Vic. Portrayed the role of Joyce Barnaby in Midsomer Murders between 1997 and 2011. Performed in a world tour of Hamlet throughout 1978, alongside Sir Derek Jacobi. Is a Drama tutor at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Trivia: British character actor Neil Dudgeon debuted in the late '80s in his native U.K., and specialized in working-class types with a forceful edge, such as policemen, constables, and inner-city taxi drivers. Dudgeon debuted in Stephen Frears' acclaimed Joe Orton biopic Prick Up Your Ears (1987), then graced the casts of numerous low-profile theatrical movies and telefilms over the following decades, including Revolver (1992), Dirty Tricks (2000), and Messiah 2: Vengeance Is Mine (2002). Dudgeon elevated his profile somewhat in the mid- to late 2000s with bit parts in two key films: the Renée Zellweger/Hugh Grant comedy Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) and director Garth Jennings' bittersweet coming-of-age nostalgia Son of Rambow (2007).

Trivia: Joined the National Youth Theatre as a teenager. Won the Alec Clunes award for Best Actor while studying drama at LAMDA. In 1998, performed in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Herbal Bed. Between 2005 and 2017, played DI Ben Jones in ITV Drama Midsomer Murders. In 2012, was nominated for the Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series award at the Monte Carlo TV Festival for his role in Midsomer Murders.

Trivia: Made her television debut in a 1993 episode of Crime Story. Between 1998 and 2001, starred as Jackie Bradley in period drama Heartbeat. Between 2011 and 2018, starred as Sarah Barnaby in ITV Crime Drama Midsomer Murders. In 2012, was nominated for the Golden Nymph award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series, for her role in Midsomer Murders.

Trivia: Made her television debut in a 1996 episode of A Touch of Frost. Between 1996 and 1997, starred as Alison Dangerfield in medical drama Dangerfield. Between 2002 and 2004, starred as Penny Neville in drama series Teachers. Between 2011 and 2015, starred as Dr. Kate Wilding in crime drama Midsomer Murders. In 2017, opened a diner in Stroud with partner Keith Allen.

Trivia: Was raised in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary.Grew up in an artistic home, her mother was in a dramatic group while her father was in a musical group.Started her acting career in theater.Her work in Goldfish Memory (2003) earned her a nomination for an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in Film/TV.Returned to work just six weeks after the birth of her daughter Ruby.Was a fan of the Harry Potter series before getting the role of Minerva McGonagall in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018).

Trivia: Rosalind Knight is a highly versatile English actress with a particular flair for comedy. She was the daughter of leading man Esmond Knight -- best remembered for his postwar work in the films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger -- and the former Frances Clare; her stepmother was the actress Nora Swinburne. Knight studied at the Old Vic and, after a stint as assistant stage manager at the Midland Theatre Company in Coventry, she moved to the Ipswich Repertory Company, where the other assistant stage manager was future playwright Joe Orton (she subsequently played a small role in the 1987 Orton biopic Prick Up Your Ears).In 1956, Knight was seen by a film producer and signed up for her movie debut, as a schoolgirl in the comedy Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1956). That same year, she starred with her father, cast as father and daughter, in a BBC adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby. Her next film was the trans-Atlantic hit Carry on Nurse (1959), playing Nurse Nightingale, and she subsequently appeared in a co-starring role in Carry on Teacher. She also worked in James Hill's The Kitchen (1961) and Tony Richardson's Tom Jones (1963), in which she played Mrs. Fitzpatrick. Knight was busy in theater for the next few years, although she did get her first exposure on American television through an appearance in the Beverly Hillbillies episode "War of the Roses," part of a five-show story arc that was filmed in England. She also appeared in the French Revolution spoof Start The Revolution Without Me (1970), but most of her work over the next decade was on the stage. Knight returned to the St. Trinian's fold at the end of the decade, this time as a teacher, in The Wildcats of St. Trinian's (1980). She is a familiar figure on British television, in mysteries and comedies alike, even portraying a retired prostitute -- a break from the usual aristocratic parts of her later career -- on Gimme Gimme Gimme.

Trivia: Began his career as a stand-up comedian. Played the role of Tom Buckley in legal drama series Kavanagh QC between 1995 and 2001. Appeared as Minty Peterson on BBC soap opera Eastenders between 2002 and 2010.In 2019, took part in the 19th series of I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! As of 2020, has starred as Fred Buckle in ITV drama Call the Midwife since its 2012 debut.