Trivia: Known mostly for portraying Agatha Christie's Belgian detective Hercule Poirot for more than a decade, the short and stocky character actor David Suchet has also enjoyed a lengthy career on stage, screen, and television. Born in London, he studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and eventually joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. Throughout the 1970s, Suchet appeared in numerous stage productions and crime dramas on British television. His did his first film in 1980 with A Tale of Two Cities, but didn't play his first detective until the crime comedy Trenchcoat in 1983. For the rest of the '80s, the British actor played a Middle Eastern terrorist in The Little Drummer Girl, a Russian operative in The Falcon and the Snowman, and a French hunter in Harry and the Hendersons. He also occasionally portrayed real-life figures, including Sigmund Freud in the miniseries Freud, news reporter William L. Shirer in the HBO docudrama Murrow, and movie legend Louis B. Mayer in RKO 281. While the Poirot mysteries would dominate his career in the '90s, Suchet also played some other leading roles: double agent Verloc in miniseries The Secret Agent, based on the novel by Joseph Conrad; Aaron in the TNT television special Moses; and downsized New Yorker Oliver in the American independent film Sunday. Some standard Hollywood action thrillers followed with Executive Decision, Deadly Voyage, and A Perfect Murder being just a few. After 2000, he turned to costume dramas to play Napoleon in Sabotage!, Baron von Stockmar in Victoria & Albert, and upper-crust Augustus Melmotte in The Way We Live Now. He resumed the role of Poirot (after a short break from 1998-1999) just as he started up another detective character, DI John Borne of NCS: Manhunt and NCS 2. In 2003, he played gangster Leo Gillette in the action thriller Foolproof.

Trivia: Supporting actor Hugh Fraser first appeared onscreen in the '70s.

Trivia: Appeared in A-Ha's "Take On Me" video in 1985. In 1998, nominated for a Screen Actors Guild award for his role in Little Voice. Appeared as Chief Inspector Japp in the television adaptation of Poirot between 1989 and 2013. Starred as Willy Loman in the West Yorkshire Playhouse's 2010 production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. As of 2018, has starred as Jaz Milvane in long-running BBC Radio 4 series Ed Reardon's Week since its 2005 debut.

Trivia: Performed as part of the National Youth Theatre. Between 1965 and 1970, played bass guitar in the all-female band The She Trinity. In 1987, became a professional astrologer. Made her professional debut as Cordelia in a production of King Lear. Is perhaps best known for her role as Miss Lemon in ITV Drama Agatha Christie's Poirot.

Trivia: In 1979, performed in a Royal Court Theatre performance of Martin Sherman's play Bent. Between 1990 and 1991, starred as Piers Garfield-Ward in crime series Chancer. Appeared as Dr Will Preston in drama Peak Practice between 1993 and 2002. In 2003, performed in a production of David Hare's play The Secret Rapture. In 2007, played The Narrator in a production of the Rocky Horror Show at the Cheltenham Everyman Theatre.

Trivia: Made her television debut in the 1991 BBC serial The Men's Room. Played the role of Karen Marsden in ITV comedy-drama Cold Feet between 1998 and 2003, reprising the role in the 2016 revival. In 2001, was nominated for a British Comedy Award for Best Actress for her role in Cold Feet. Won the Best Actress award at the inaugural ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards in 2008, for her role in Spooks. In 2019, joined the cast of Luther for the fifth series.

Trivia: British lead actress, onscreen from the '60s.

Trivia: British actor Richard Lintern began his onscreen career in television in his native U.K. in the late '80s, also appearing in feature films such as Malaventura and Jinnah. He would continue to work regularly in TV and film both in Britain and America, most notably showing up in Woody Allen's 2007 film Cassandra's Dream.

Trivia: Possessing the kind of tall, dark good looks that could easily get him mistaken for David Duchovny's British brother, Jeremy Northam has impressed transatlantic audiences as the type of actor who can make everything from giant cockroaches to Jane Austen look sexy.The fourth child of two Cambridge University professors, Northam was born in Cambridge on December 1, 1961. Following his family's move to Bristol in 1972, he got his first taste of the theatrical world when he took a backstage job at a local playhouse. He went on to study English at London University, but after deciding that acting was his true vocation, left school to pursue his career. Drama studies at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, a stint as a singing waiter, and a role in the 1987 TV movie Suspicion followed. In 1989, Northam got his first -- albeit unexpected -- big break when, as an understudy in a production of Hamlet, he took over at the last minute for Daniel Day-Lewis, who suffered a nervous breakdown one night during his performance as the title character. Receiving positive notices for his impromptu portrayal, the actor found further acclaim the following year, with his performance as Edward Voysey in the Royal National Theatre's production of The Voysey Inheritance. Northam won an Olivier Award for Outstanding Newcomer for his work, and after appearing in 1992's Wuthering Heights and the 1995 Canadian feature Voices, he traveled to Los Angeles, where he landed a leading role in The Net (1995) within five days of his arrival. Playing Jack Devlin, Northam managed to make a mark on audiences as the charismatic villain who tries to off heroine Sandra Bullock while still finding time to sleep with her. Later that year, the actor appeared as a ne'er-do-well of a different sort, when he played one of Dora Carrington's army of lovers in Carrington. Although his role was essentially limited to a brief maritime seduction of the illustrious lady (played by Emma Thompson), Northam had already landed the considerably more substantial part of Mr. Knightley in Douglas MacGrath's 1996 adaptation of the Austen novel Emma. Starring opposite Gwyneth Paltrow, Northam won both critical praise and the distinction of being that year's thinking woman's luxury import.The following year, the actor played a supporting role in Steven Spielberg's Amistad and then went on to explore completely different territory with a turn as Mira Sorvino's husband in the big-budget giant cockroach thriller Mimic. In 1998, Northam played another married man when he starred as Parker Posey's husband in the romantic comedy The Misadventures of Margaret. He then returned to the world of corsets and BBC English, first as a lawyer in David Mamet's 1999 adaptation of Terence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy and then as An Ideal Husband in Oliver Parker's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's play. Having gotten the gentrified leading man role down to an science, Northam next went in an entirely different direction as a con man forced to pose as accomplice Steve Zahn's gay lover in a small Texas town in Happy, Texas, which had its premiere at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival.