- David Suchet
David Suchet OBE (born May 2, 1946) is an English actor best known for his television portrayal of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot in the television series "Agatha Christie's Poirot".
- Hugh Fraser
Hugh Fraser is an English actor. He studied acting at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. He was also a member of Telltale, a rock band who performed the theme music for "Rainbow", a childrens' television series. Hugh Fraser has appeared regularly in film and television roles.
- Philip Jackson
Philip Jackson (b. June 18 1948 in Retford, Nottinghamshire) is an English actor, well known for his long running role as Chief Inspector Japp in "Agatha Christie's Poirot." He also played Abbot Hugo de Rainault, brother to the Sheriff of Nottingham, in "Robin of Sherwood." Jackson started acting while studying Drama and German at the University of Bristol, and has worked in the theatre in Liverpool and London.
- Pauline Moran
Pauline Moran (born in Blackpool, Lancashire, England) is an English actress with Irish ancestry, who is best known for her role in Agatha Christie's Poirot. She trained at several schools including the National Youth Theatre and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She is also an astrologer. Although primarily a stage actress, she has appeared in films such as "Three Weeks" (1977), …
- Joely Richardson
Joely Kim Richardson (born 9 January 1965) is an English actress.
- Lysette Anthony
Lysette Anthony is an English film, television, and theatre actor. Her parents are actors Michael Anthony and Bernadette Milnes and her birth name was Lysette Chodzko. Lysette has established herself as a talented and versatile actress and writer. Heralded as the ‘Face of the Eighties’ by David Bailey at the age of 16, Lysette was a highly successful model before she became a household name as an actress at the age of 20.
- Emma Griffiths Malin
Emma Griffiths Malin (born London 1981) is an English-born actress and film director. She was raised by her parents in South Africa. Her grandparents are the actors Mark Eden and Joan Le Mesurier. She starred in the 2004 "Agatha Christie's Poirot" television movie "Death on the Nile" as Jacqueline de Bellefort, and is set to appear in the upcoming film "House of Boys", due for release in 2007, which also features Marianne Faithfull, …
- David Rintoul
David Rintoul (born David Wilson on 29 November 1948 in Aberdeen, Scotland) is a stage and television actor. He studied at Edinburgh University and won a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Rintoul has worked extensively in theatre with companies including the Royal National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company. His appearances have included Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Nights Dream", "Henry IV", "As You Like It", …
- Ann Morrish
Ann Morrish is a British actress. Her television appearances include "The House of Eliott", "Minder", "Softly Softly". She appeared in the 2006 "Midsomer Murders" episode "Four Funerals and a Wedding" as Mildred Danvers. In 1996 she played Emily Arundell in " Agatha Christie's Poirot - Dumb Witness"
- Simon Roberts
Simon Roberts is a British actor. His television appearances have included the role of Alfred in the "Agatha Christie's Poirot" television film, " Hercule Poirot's Christmas".
- Beatie Edney
Beatie Edney is an English television actress. Born Beatrice Edney on 23 October 1962 in London, she is the daughter of famous British actress Sylvia Syms. Edney first came to audiences attention as Heather MacLeod the 1986 film "Highlander", the first film in the Highlander series. She returned to the role again in the 2000 film "Highlander: Endgame".
- Geraldine Somerville
Geraldine Margaret Agnew-Somerville (born 19 May 1967) is a British/Irish actress.
- Jonathan Firth
Jonathan Firth (born 6 April, 1967) is a British actor. Jonathan Firth is the younger brother of Colin Firth and Kate Firth. He was born in Essex, England, and studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama. He has acted in cinematic movies and also has some notable TV appearances, such as Fred Vincy in "Middlemarch" (1994), Sergeant Troy in "Far from the Madding Crowd" (1998) and Prince Albert in "Victoria & Albert" (2001).
- Honeysuckle Weeks
Honeysuckle Weeks (b. 1 August 1979) is an English television and film actress. Weeks was born in Cardiff, Wales and grew up in Chichester, West Sussex. Her parents named her after honeysuckle flowers because they were in bloom when she was born. She was educated at Roedean School and Pembroke College, Oxford, where she read English (graduating with upper-second class honours). She has a younger brother and sister, Rollo and Perdita, …
- Patrick Ryecart
Patrick Geoffrey Ryecart (born May 9, 1952, Leamington Spa) is an English actor. Ryecart has predominantly acted on British television shows since the mid-seventies including "Lillie", "Romeo and Juliet", "The Professionals", "Minder", "Rumpole of the Bailey", "Lovejoy" and "Holby City". In 1986 he appeared in the "Doctor Who" serial "The Trial of a Time Lord" in the "Mindwarp" segment.
- Steve Pemberton
Steve Pemberton (b. 1 September 1967, Blackburn, Lancashire, England) is an English comedy writer and performer, most famous as a member of "The League of Gentlemen" along with fellow performers Reece Shearsmith, Mark Gatiss and co-writer Jeremy Dyson. Pemberton attended St. Michael's CE High School in Chorley, Lancashire where his acting skills were first realised. Pemberton graduated from Bretton Hall Arts Campus with a BA (hons) in Theatre Arts.
- Nicholas Farrell
Nicholas Farrell is a British stage, film and television actor. His early screen career included the role of Aubrey Montague in the 1981 film "Chariots of Fire". In 1983, he starred as Edmund Bertram in a television adaptation of the Jane Austen novel, "Mansfield Park". In 1984, he appeared in "Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes" and "The Jewel in the Crown".
- Guy Andrews
Guy Andrews is a British television writer who has written for television programmes including "Absolute Power", "Agatha Christie's Poirot", and "Chancer".
- Frederick Treves
Frederick William Treves is an English character actor with an extensive repertoire. He specialises in avuncular military and titled types. He was born on 29 March 1925 in Margate, Kent, England. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. His over a hundred television credits include roles in "The Cazalets", "The Jewel in the Crown", "A Dance to the Music of Time", "The Politician's Wife", "To Play the King", …
- Claire Price
Claire Price was born on 4 July 1972 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire and is an actress best known for her current portrayal as DS Siobhan Clarke in the TV drama Rebus broadcast on the ITV Network. She plays opposite Ken Stott, (DI John Rebus) in the adaptations of the Inspector Rebus novels by Scottish author Ian Rankin. Previous television work has included one-episode roles in many other long-running crime drama series including "Dalziel and Pascoe", …
- David Horovitch
David Horovitch (born 11 August 1945) is an English actor best known for playing the character of Inspector Slack in "Miss Marple". David Horovitch trained at the Central School for Speech and Drama in the 1960's. He has played many roles on popular british TV shows in the past 40 years including: "The New Avengers", "Hold the Back Page", "Bulman, "Boon, "Agatha Christie's Poirot", "Love Hurts", "Westbeach", …
- Donald Sumpter
Donald Sumpter is a British actor. Born 13 February 1943 in the UK, Sumpter has appeared in film and television since the mid 1960s. One of his early television appearances was the 1968 "Doctor Who" episode "The Wheel in Space" with Patrick Troughton as the Doctor. He appeared in "Doctor Who" again in the 1972 episode "The Sea Devils" with Jon Pertwee.
- Anthony Calf
Anthony Calf is a British actor, born in 1959 in Hammersmith, London (UK). He has recurring roles in the television medical drama "Holby City", as Michael Beauchamp, and "New Tricks" as Strickland. He has also worked in theatre, where his credits include productions of "The Madness of King George III" with the National Theatre and "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
- Donald Douglas
Donald Douglas is a British actor who has appeared in films and many well known television shows including "Doctor Who", "Blake's 7", and "The Avengers". His film appearances include "A Bridge Too Far" (1977), "Highlander: Endgame" (2000) and the role of Admiral Darcy in the "Bridget Jones's Diary" movies. He played Tsar Alexander I in the 1972 BBC television adaptation of "War & Peace", starring Anthony Hopkins.
- Andrew Marshall
Andrew Marshall (1954-) is an English comedy scriptwriter, most noted for the domestic sitcom "2point4 children". He was also the inspiration for Marvin the Paranoid Android in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Although he had also previously adapted stories for "Agatha Christie's Poirot", in 2002 he made a further move into writing "straight" drama, with the fantasy/horror-based "Strange". He has also written several screenplays.
- Kate Buffery
Kate Buffery (born Katherine Rose Buffery on 23 July 1957) is an English actress from Cambridge. She is best known for her regular roles as Det. Insp. Pat North in the crime series "Trial and Retribution" and Liz Grainger in all three series of LWT's secret agent drama "Wish Me Luck". Her other TV work includes "The Rainbow", "Midsomer Murders" and "Agatha Christie's Poirot" ("Dumb Witness").
- Pippa Guard
Pippa Guard born 13 October 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland is a British actress. She belongs to a well-known theatrical family, whose members include her uncle Philip Guard, cousins Christopher Guard and Domimic Guard, and younger brother Alex Guard. However, Guard's father was an engineer who moved the family to Kent, and then to Canada. Guard briefly attended the University of Montreal, first studying English and drama and then nursing, …
- Tamzin Malleson
Tamzin Malleson (born 1973 in Manchester, England) is a British actress. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London. She played one of the starring roles (Penny Neville) in the Channel 4 comedy, Teachers, for three of the show's four seasons and also starred in one of ITV's Poirot adaptations, "Evil Under The Sun." Malleson has also appeared in The Bill, and in the popular detective show A Touch of Frost, …
- Ann Bell
Ann Bell (born 29 April 1940) is a Cheshire-born British actress, probably best known for playing prisoner of war Marion Jefferson in the BBC World War II drama series "Tenko" during the early 1980s. She also played the title role in the 1963 BBC adaptation "Jane Eyre" in addition to many guest roles on television, including "The Avengers", "The Saint", "Danger Man", "The Baron", "The Troubleshooters", "Callan", …
- Zoe Telford
Zoe Telford (born 1973) is a British actress who has appeared in several television programmes including "Absolute Power", "Teachers", "Agatha Christie's Poirot - Death on the Nile" and "The Golden Hour", as well as the films "Match Point" and "Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo".
- Allie Byrne
Allie Byrne is a British stage, film and television actress. She is the daughter of actor Michael Byrne. Her first major television role was in the "Agatha Christie's Poirot" adaptation of "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" in 1990. She has since appeared in episodes of "The Bill", "Goodnight Sweetheart", "Men Behaving Badly", "A Touch of Frost" and "Van der Valk".
- Norma West
Norma West is a British actress, born 19 November 1943 in Cape Town, South Africa. Her television appearances include "A Touch of Frost," "Lovejoy," "The Murder at the Vicarage" (1986 adaptation). She played Hilary in the 1982 television adaptation of John Le Carre's "Smiley's People" and the role of Wilhelmina Lawson in "Agatha Christie's Poirot" - "Dumb Witness."
- Brigit Forsyth
Brigit Forsyth (born July 28 1940, in Edinburgh, Scotland) is an actress. Television programs in which she has had a leading role include "Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?" as Thelma, "The Glamour Girls", "The Practice", "Sharon and Elsie", "Dark Season", and "Boon". She has also guested on "The Bill", "Coronation Street".
- Joanna McCallum
Joanna McCallum is a British theatre, film and television actress. She is the daughter of British actress Googie Withers and Australian actor John McCallum. She has also worked extensively in theatre where her acting credits include "Hamlet" at the Globe Theatre. She played Virginia Woolf in the 1994 film "Tom & Viv. " Her television appearances have included episodes of "Holby City", "All Creatures Great and Small", …
- Elspet Gray
Elspet Gray, The Lady Rix, (born 12 April 1929 in Inverness, Scotland) is a Scottish actress who is known for playing The Queen in the first series of the BBC sitcom "Blackadder". Elspet Gray has appeared in many television programmes, her first appearance being in "Love in Waiting" in 1948. She has also appeared in "Fawlty Towers", a 1983 "Doctor Who" story, "dinnerladies", "Catweazle", …
- John Michie
John Michie (born 25 October 1956 in Burma) is a British television and film actor, best known for his role as DI Robbie Ross on the Scottish detective television series "Taggart". Born in Burma, and raised in Kenya, when Michie was 12 his family settled in Edinburgh, Scotland. At the age of 19 he traveled to Australia where he worked various odd jobs. Returning to Scotland two years later, he took a job as a stage hand at the Traverse Theatre, …
- Julia St. John
Julia St. John (b.4th January 1960) is a British actress. Her television appearances include "A Touch of Frost", "The Brittas Empire" and "Agatha Christie's Poirot".
- Anthony Valentine
Anthony Valentine is a British actor. He is best known for his roles on television, most notably the titular "Raffles", the sinister SS officer Major Mohn in the BBC drama "Colditz" and the psychopathic Toby Meres in the series "Callan". He also achieved fame as the voice of "Dr. X" on Queensrÿche's seminal 1988 album, "Operation: Mindcrime". Other appearances include "A for Andromeda", "Z Cars", "The Avengers", "Softly, …
- Paul Herzberg
Paul Herzberg is a South African actor and playwright. Born in 1953 in Cape Town, he studied acting and scriptwriting at the University of Cape Town. He moved to the UK in 1976, where he studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. As an actor, his film and television appearances include "Cry Freedom", "Smiley's People" and " Agatha Christie's Poirot - Dumb Witness".
- Tim Wylton
Tim Wylton (born 27 February 1940 in Bangor-on-Dee, Wales) in an English television actor best known for his roles Stanley Dawkins in "My Hero" and Lol Ferris in "As Time Goes By". Wylton has been acting on British television since 1964, when he made an appearance on "The Comedy of Errors". Other early appearances include "The Liver Birds", "The Sweeney", "Maybury", "The Dustbinmen" and "Juliet Bravo".