Lucy Davis (born 2 January 1973) is an English actress. She is best known for playing the character Dawn Tinsley in the BBC comedy, "The Office". Davis played Maria Lucas in the BBC's 1995 production of "Pride and Prejudice". She has also appeared in the films "Sex Lives of the Potato Men" (2004), had a role in "Shaun of the Dead" (2004), …

Kellie Bright (born 1 July 1976, Essex, England) is an actress who is probably still best known for her roles as a child actress on British television in the late 1980s and the 1990s. Trained at the Sylvia Young Theatre School, Bright appeared as Sally Simpkins in two series (and a Christmas special) of the ITV children's TV series, "T-Bag", …

Norman Painting, OBE (Born April 23 1924 in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire) is an actor who has played Phil Archer in the BBC Radio 4 soap opera "The Archers" since the pilot episodes were aired on the BBC Midlands Home Service in summer 1950. The series went national on January 1 1951. He is the longest-serving member of the cast. Painting, a graduate of The University of Birmingham and Christ Church, University of Oxford, was already an interviewer, …

Ballard Berkeley (born Ballard Blascheck; 6 August 1904 - 16 January 1988) was an English actor best remembered for his role in the British sitcom "Fawlty Towers", in which he played the character of Major Gowen. He was born in 1904 in Margate, Kent, England. Berkely served as a Special Constable with the Metropolitan Police during World War II, witnessing The Blitz at first hand

Francis George Middlemass (28 May 1919 - 8 September 2006) was an English actor, known as Frank Middlemass, who even in his early career played older roles. He is best remembered for his television roles as Rocky Hardcastle in "As Time Goes By", Algy Herries in "To Serve Them All My Days" and Dr. Alex Ferrenby in "Heartbeat". Middlemass was also active with in the Royal Shakespeare Company and played Dan Archer in "The Archers".

Tamsin Greig, born 23 February 1967) is an English actress best known for her comedy performances. As of 2006 she is probably best known for two Channel 4 television comedy parts: Fran Katzenjammer in "Black Books" and Dr. Caroline Todd in "Green Wing". Other notable roles include Alice Chenery in BBC One's comedy drama "Love Soup" and Debbie Aldridge in BBC Radio 4's soap opera "The Archers".

Charles Henry Collingwood (born May 30 1943) is a British actor. Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, and educated at Sherborne School in Dorset, England, he trained at RADA. He is best known for playing the role of Brian Aldridge in the long-running BBC Radio 4 soap opera "The Archers". He is married to Judy Bennett who plays Shula Hebden Lloyd in the series.

Felicity Jones (born 1984) is a British actress best known to a television audiences for her role as the school bully Ethel Hallow in the series "The Worst Witch" and its spin-off "Weirdsister College". After the first season of "The Worst Witch", Jones was replaced by Katy Allen. When "Weirdsister College" began in 2001, Jones returned as Hallow.

Jack May (23 April 1922 - 19 September 1997) was an English actor most well known for his portrayal of wine bar owner Nelson Gabriel in the long-running BBC radio drama, "The Archers". He was also the regular character of the butler William E. Simms in two series of the BBC1 fantasy / adventure television series "Adam Adamant Lives!" from 1966-67. A noted voice actor, he provided the voice for Igor, …

Carole Boyd is a British actress. She has had a career in theatre, television and radio, and plays Lynda Snell in Radio 4's The Archers. Boyd trained at the Birmingham School of Speech and Drama, where she won the principal national prize for voice, and the Carleton Hobbs Award. Her TV appearances include Hetty Wainthrop Investigates, Virtual Murder, Mrs Melly in Bodger and Badger, and the voice of all the female characters in Postman Pat.

William Gaminara is a British actor and screenwriter, best known for playing pathologist Dr Leo Dalton in the BBC's Silent Witness (2002 to date). His other television roles have included Will Newman in Attachments and Dr Andrew Bower in Casualty. Gaminara voiced Dr Richard Locke in the long-running radio soap opera, The Archers. He has also narrated numerous audiobooks, including several Sharpe novels.

Trevor Harrison (born in Stourbridge, West Midlands, England on 16 March 1957) is an English actor best known for his role as Eddie Grundy in the BBC Radio 4 soap opera, "The Archers". Seeing Richard Harris in the film Camelot inspired him to be an actor. He was educated at the Grange Secondary Modern School in Stourbridge, them succeeded in getting an audition at Birmingham Theatre School.

Ysanne Churchman (born 14th May 1925) worked as an actress and narrator on British radio, TV and film for over 50 years (1938-1993). She achieved national fame as 'Grace Archer' in the eponymous long running BBC drama series, when Grace perished in a fire on the night when ITV launched in 1955. Ysanne Churchman was born on 14th May 1925 in Sutton Coldfield to Andrew Churchman and Gladys Dale, well-known stage and radio performers in London.

Mary Wimbush (March 19 1924 in Kenton, Middlesex - October 31 2005) was an English actress, whose career spanned sixty years from the 1940s to the 2000s. Active across film, television, theatre and radio, she was perhaps best known for her role as the character of Julia Pargetter in BBC Radio 4's popular soap opera "The Archers", a part she played from 1992 until her death. Wimbush's father was a schoolmaster and her mother had trained at RADA, …

Terry Molloy is an English actor known predominantly for his work on radio and television. Molloy has been a member of the cast of BBC Radio 4's "The Archers" playing Mike Tucker since 1973 and has won awards for his work as an actor on radio. On television, Terry is perhaps best known for his role in the long-running science fiction series "Doctor Who" as the mad scientist, Davros, the creator of the Daleks, in the stories "Resurrection of the Daleks", …

Edward Kelsey (born 1930 in Petersfield, Hampshire) is a British actor of stage and screen as well as a voiceover artist. He is perhaps best recognized as the voice of Joe Grundy on the long-running BBC radio soap opera "The Archers". On television, he is known for voicing the characters of Colonel K and Baron Silas Greenback on the cult animated series "DangerMouse". He has also appeared on such popular British TV programmes as "The Avengers", …

Annette Badland (born Edgbaston, Birmingham) is an English actress. Her training took place at East 15 Acting School, London. She has appeared in many television roles including "Bergerac" (1981-1984), "2point4 children", "Jackanory", "The Demon Headmaster", "The Worst Witch", "The Queen's Nose" and "Coronation Street", as well as an early appearance in series one of the "Hale & Pace" show in a number of sketches.

Graham Seed (born 12 July 1950 in London) is an English actor. He trained at RADA and is best known for playing Nigel Pargetter in the BBC radio series "The Archers". He also played the adult Britanicus, son of the emperor Claudius in the BBC adaptation of Robert Graves, "I, Claudius".

Norman Shelley was an English actor, best known for his work in radio, in particular for the BBC's "Children's Hour". He also had a recurring role in the long-running radio soap opera "The Archers". Perhaps Shelley's single best-known role was as Winnie-the-Pooh in "The Children's Hour" adaptations of A. A. Milne's stories - for many people of the right age, his is the definitive voice of Pooh. Other roles for "The Children's Hour" included Dr.

Robert Mawdesley (c. 1900 - 30 September 1953) was an English actor, best remembered as the voice of the first Walter Gabriel in the long-running radio programme "The Archers", which has been running as a daily serial on BBC Radio since 1 January, 1951. Mawdesley was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk, where he was a keen actor in school plays. Although he had a part in Basil Dean's movie "Loyalties" (1933), …

Arnold Ridley OBE (January 7, 1896 - March 12, 1984) was a British playwright and actor.

Ian Anthony Brooker (born 22 September 1959) better known as Ian Brooker is a versatile character actor, with experience of theatre, television and film. However, it is in the medium of radio and audio drama that he is best known. Ian is the ninth generation of a theatrical family that first went on stage in the mid eighteenth century.

Timothy Charles Robert Noel Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland and Viscount Woodstock (born Tasmania 1 June 1953) is an English actor and inventor, usually known as Tim Bentinck.