Trivia: Grew up in a converted stable in the grounds of Kenmure castle in Scotland. Performed in many plays while at school. Before graduation, was one of four students chosen to represent the RSAMD at the BBC Carlton Hobbs radio talent competition. Auditioned numerous times for Game of Thrones, but was never cast in the series. Played Batman in touring stage show Batman Live in 2011 and 2012. Made a citizen's arrest in a London record shop after catching a shoplifter in 2012. Presented an award at the 2013 Scottish British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards. Was a prominent supporter of Scottish independence during the 2014 referendum, believing it would result in more democracy for the people of Scotland. Established the charitable foundation My Peak Challenge in 2015, a training, nutrition and support programme, which provides a sense of community to the participants as they work towards personal goals and raise money for charity. Took part in the Great North Run in 2016 to raise funds for Bloodwise which he has supported since 2011, and became president of Scotland Bloodwise. Was named Global Brand Ambassador by English clothing label Barbour in 2016, and has released several collections since his initial autumn/winter line in 2017, all of which he co-designed. Ran both the Stirling and EMF Edinburgh Marathons in less than a month to raise money for Cahonas Scotland and their Testicular Cancer Education and Awareness Programme in 2018, raising more than £38,000 for the charity.

Trivia: Found fame after coming second in an Australian magazine's model search in 2002. Chose as one of 25 Most Influential Gay and Lesbian Australians in 2008 and 2009, by the online community Same Same. Collaborated with fashion label Milk & Honey in 2010, released a personalized footwear line with Gallaz and has worked with Phoebe Dahl on her Faircloth & Supply label. Became an ambassador for Maybelline New York Australia in 2001; has the Maybelline slogan "Maybe she's born with it" tattooed on her collarbone. Wrote, produced and starred in a gender awareness short film Break Free in 2014, which recevied over 10 million views. Ambassador for youth services foundation Headspace, after suffering from severe bullying herself as a child. Took part in the Rhino Saverz campaign 2015, which aims to save African rhinoceroses from poachers.

Trivia: Andy Serkis always wanted a future in entertainment. Growing up in Ruslip Manor, England, he visualized himself working behind the scenes in production. Today, he is an impressive British character actor with over 50 stage, television, and film credits, distinguished performances on both Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery!, and a highly coveted role in Peter Jackson's three-part adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Serkis began his acting career in theater. He has appeared on almost every renowned British stage -- the Royal Court, the Royal Exchange Manchester, the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Hull Truck, Dukes Lancaster, the Nuffield Studio, and Donmar Warehouse -- and in a host of popular plays. His resumé includes performances in King Lear, Othello, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, Faust, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and a star-studded production of Hurly Burly with Kelly MacDonald, Elizabeth McGovern, Rupert Graves, and Stephen Dillane. The actor has fashioned a television career as prolific as his stage work. In 1987, Serkis made his small-screen debut in two episodes of the Rik Mayall vehicle The New Statesman. He then signed on as Sparky Plugs in the BBC series Morris Minor's Marvelous Motors (1989), a comedy about eccentric mechanics that specialize in fixing a type of car that no one in town owns. The next decade saw Serkis acting in several of Britain's heralded miniseries. In 1994, he appeared in the murder-mystery Finney. In 1996, he played Sergeant Corrigan in a television adaptation of Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse. In 1999, he starred in the Mystery! production Touching Evil as a grief counselor who tends to the husbands of women murdered by a brutal serial killer. In 2000, Masterpiece Theatre opened its 30th season with an adaptation of Oliver Twist that featured Serkis as Charles Dickens' terrifying loose cannon, Bill Sykes. That same year, the actor joined the international cast of Hallmark Hall of Fame's Arabian Nights, which included Dougray Scott, Mili Avital, and Rufus Sewell. In between juggling theater and television work, Serkis made his feature-film debut in the thriller Grushko (1993). His big-screen performances include a part in Mike Leigh's Career Girls (1997), a memorable turn as a wacky choreographer in the director's Topsy Turvy (1999), and the portrayal of 18th century English poet John Thelwall in Julian Temple's raucous Pandaemonium (2000). Serkis' most demanding role, however, did not require him to appear onscreen. Serkis supplied the voice and movement for the computer-animated creature Gollum in all three installments of Peter Jackson's trilogy The Lord of the Rings -- The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002), and The Return of the King (2003). The slithery Gollum, once a naïve hobbit, is driven mad by the force of the ring and displays emotions that range from childlike to menacing. Though Gollum only lurks in the background in the first film, he is of major importance to the rest of the trilogy. Serkis worked closely with technicians from Weta Workshop and Digital to produce an empathetic and palpable representation of Tolkien's character. He performed in a suit covered in reflectors that were tracked by a computer-driven camera. Animation was then superimposed over his movement, producing one of the most realistic computer-generated images in modern cinema. After completing The Lord of the Rings, Serkis quickly returned to the London stage. In the summer of 2001, he starred with Sinead Cusack and Catherine McCormack in the U.K. production of Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind at the Donmar Warehouse. The play was one of the last productions overseen by the Donmar's former artistic director, Oscar winner Sam Mendes. The actor also began filming a WWI film with Billy Elliot's Jamie Bell, and wrote and directed his first short film, Snake. Besides starring his Hurly Burly co-star, Rupert Graves, Snake features Serkis' longtime partner, actress Lorraine Ashbourne. The couple has two children, Sonny and Ruby.In 2005 he served as the human model for Peter Jackson's King Kong. The next year he appeared in The Prestige, and the year after that he played a convicted murderer in Longford. He had a major starring role in Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll playing legendary British rock star Ian Dury. In 2011 he was the model for Captain Haddock in Steven Spielberg's motion capture version of The Adventures of Tintin, and that same year he earned rave reviews for being the model for Caesar, the creature at the center of Rise of the Planet of the Apes. He returned to the roll of Gollum for Peter Jackson's two Hobbit films in 2012 and 2013.

Trivia: Trained with the National Youth Theatre. Made her professional television debut in an episode of Whitechapel before graduating college. Made her stage debut in the West End of London production of Viva Forever! in 2012.

Trivia: Son of Trinidadian parents.Worked as a personal trainer before pursuing acting.Studied acting at London's Actors Centre.Winner of the 2003 Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising Performer and the 2009 BAFTA Orange Rising Star Award.Creator of the comic book superhero series The Troop.In 2016, was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters by the London Metropolitan University.Cofounder of the production company Unstoppable Film and Television.

Trivia: Welsh-born actor Owain Yeoman studied theater at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and English Literature at Brasenose College at Oxford University before beginning his professional career, playing the role of Lysander in 2004's Troy. He soon later scored the role of Steven Daedelus on the series Kitchen Confidential, and later Lucas Dalton on The Nine. More TV success would follow in 2008, as Yeoman picked up the roles of Sgt. Eric Kocher on Generation Kill and Wayne Rigsby on The Mentalist.

Trivia: Gained an interest in acting after performing in a Cub Scout play as a young child. Chose the stage name Richard as a tribute to an English teacher he admired as an 11-year-old student. Was in the same term as fellow actor Mark Rylance while studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Is a classical theatre actor who joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986 and has regularly performed in RSC productions since. In 1989, played the role of Puck in an RSC production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Originated the role of Christopher Marlowe in Peter Whelan's School of Night in 1993. Starred in the titular role in a national tour of Hamlet with Birmingham Repertory Theatre from 1999 until 2001. Performed the role of Romeo opposite Kathryn Hunter as Juliet in Ben Power's adaptation of the Shakespearean play titled A Tender Thing in 2012. Played the role of Ben Jonson opposite Patrick Stewart in a stage production of Bingo at the Old Vic. Made his Broadway debut as Prime Minister Harold Wilson in The Audience opposite Helen Mirren. Is an Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Trivia: Her father was a foreign correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, leading her to travel abroad occasionally to spend time with her parents in India, Tehran and Beirut. Became a stage manager and worked in repertory theatre after graduating from RADA. Spent ten years on landmark soap, Coronation Street, before leaving in 1971. 18.9 million people watched the funeral of her character, Val, in Coronation Street, in 1971, after she had been electrocuted by a faulty hair drier. Filmed scenes for Love Actually (2003), playing a headmistress tending to her dying partner, but her scenes were ultimately cut from the film. Won the London Film Critics Circle Award for British Actress of the Year in 2004 for the film The Mother. Played Jack's mother in Into the Woods at the Royal Opera House in London in 2007. Appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2010. Received an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of Sunderland in 2015. Underwent hip replacement surgery in 2019.

Trivia: A popular British character actor, Tom Wilkinson specializes in playing men suffering from some sort of emotional repression and/or pretensions of societal grandeur. Active in film and television since the mid-'70s, Wilkinson became familiar to an international audience in 1997 with his role as of one of six unemployed workers who strip for cash in Peter Cattaneo's enormously successful comedy The Full Monty. That same year, he was featured in Gillian Armstrong's Oscar and Lucinda, and as the rabidly unpleasant father of Lord Alfred Douglas, Oscar Wilde's young lover in Wilde. Wilkinson was also shown to memorable effect as a theater financier with acting aspirations in Shakespeare in Love (1998); also in 1998, he acted in one of his few leading roles in The Governess, portraying a 19th century photographer with an eye for the film's title character (Minnie Driver). Though he would appear in such popular mainstream films as Rush Hour (1998) and The Patriot (2000) over the next few years, it was his role in director Todd Field's emotionally intense In the Bedroom that earned Wilkinson (as well as co-star Marisa Tomei) an Oscar nod. After that success, his career began to really take off, and in just the next few years, he would appear in over a dozen films in roles of varying size. In 2003, he starred in HBO movie Normal as a married, middle-aged man who decides to start living his life as a woman and eventually have a sex-change operation. Acting alongside Jessica Lange, Wilkinson earned both Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for his brave and moving performance. In addition, he would also play a menacing, licentious patron of the arts in Girl With a Pearl Earring (2003) and an experimental doctor erasing his patient's memories in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), written by Charlie Kaufman and starring Jim Carrey.Now an established star thanks to his impressive body of work, Wilkinson was called upon to appear in a number of high profile Hollywood hits, and could always be counted on to deliver in spades. Still, Wilkinson had the talent and foresight to always offset each blockbuster with at least one low-key, character-driven drama, and for every scenery-chewing Batman Begins villain, a serious-minded Separate Lies lawyer or Ripley Under Ground Scotland Yard detective would be quick to follow. After doing battle with Beelzebub in 2005's frightening, fact-based horror film The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Wilkinson would once again shift gears with impressive grace to portray the patriarch of a Texas family whose attempts to maintain order over his wildly dysfunctional family lead to a wild night on the town that ultimately helps him to restore his perspective in Night of the White Pants. Later that same year Wilkinson would pull back a bit for a supporting role in The Last Kiss - a romantic comedy drama starring Scrubs' Zach Braff and directed by Tony Goldwyn. 2007 brough WIlkinson yet another role that earned him uniformly strong reviews. His mentally unhinged lawyer in Michael Clayton garnered him a slew of year end accolades including Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor. That same year he became part of the Woddy Allen family with a starring role in Cassandra's Dream. In 2008 he appeared as Ben Franklin in the award-winning HBO miniseries John Adams, as well as Valkyrie and RocknRolla. He reteamed with Michael Clayton mastermind Tony Gilroy for 2009's Duplicity, playing the CEO of a multinational corporation, and appeared in The Ghost Writer for director Roman Polanski the next year. In 2012 he was part for the all-star British ensemble put together for The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

Trivia: Speaks fluent French. Played for the South East England's Under 16 and Under 18 football teams. Played for the Senior Eastern Counties rugby team. Broke the Guinness World Record for the highest reverse bungee jump in 2008. Had an uncredited role in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Broke the Guinness World Record for the most pumpkins smashed in one minute in 2010. Has done various stunts to raise money for charity including climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, running 145 miles in five days and burning 10,000 calories in one day. Supports the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, Haven House Children's Hospice and the Holly Lodge Centre. Since 2000, has run 14 marathons in order to raise funds for the charities he supports. Has played regularly for England in Soccer Aid events which raise money for the Unicef charity. In September 2017, played as a member of footballer Les Ferdinand's team for Game 4 Grenfell.