Jim Norton (born January 4, 1938) is an Irish character actor who frequently plays clergymen, most notably Bishop Brennan in the sitcom "Father Ted". He also played Albert Einstein in two episodes of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and the Ombuds, a judge, and Dr. Lazarenn, a Markab doctor, on "Babylon 5". In addition, he has recorded the whole of James Joyce's "Ulysses" for Naxos Audio.

Jonathan Pryce (born June 1, 1947) is a Welsh film, television, and stage actor who has starred in such films as "Brazil" and the "Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy".

Valentine Ruth Henshall (born March 7, 1967), known as Ruthie Henshall, is a British singer, dancer and actress. She was born in Bromley, London, England. Henshall's early ambition was to be a ballet dancer, but she lacked the necessary physique. At the age of 19, after studying at the Laine Theatre Arts drama school in Epsom, …

Rufus Frederik Sewell (born October 29, 1967) is a British actor. In film, he appeared in "The Woodlanders", "Dangerous Beauty", "Dark City", "A Knight's Tale", and "Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence". On television, he became well known for his role as the hero, Will Ladislaw, in the BBC adaptation of George Eliot's "Middlemarch".

Eve Best, is a British actress best known for her stage work. Best grew up in Ladbroke Grove and attended Wycombe Abbey Girls’ School before going on to Lincoln College, Oxford where she read English. Among her earliest public performances were with the the W11 Opera children's opera company in London at the age of nine. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London graduating in 1999, …

Terry Johnson (1955 -) is a British dramatist and director working for stage, television and film. He is a Literary Associate at the Royal Court Theatre. At The Court he directed "Dumb Show" by Joe Penhall and recently opened his play "Piano/Forte". Johnson's stage work has been produced around the world. He has won nine British Theatre awards including the Olivier Award for Best Comedy 1994 and 1999, Playwright of the Year 1995, …

Sir Nigel Hawthorne, CBE (5 April, 1929 – 26 December, 2001) was a renowned English actor. He was born in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, although he grew up in South Africa, where he was educated by the Christian Brothers. He returned to the United Kingdom in the 1950s to pursue acting. In a long and varied career, which began with an advert for Mackeson stout and a bit part in "Dad's Army", …

Adrian Keith Noble (born 19 July 1950) was the Artistic Director and Chief Exectutive of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1990 to 2003. After he graduated from the Chichester High School he studied at the university of Bristol. He began his professional career as a director at the London Drama Centre. In 1976 he moved on to the Bristol Old Vic and working at the same time for the TV. From 1980 till 1981 he worked at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, …

John Dempsey is a theatrical lyricist and playwright who has worked in Britain and the United States. Much of his work in musical theater has been written with composer Dana P. Rowe. With Rowe, he wrote the book and lyrics for "Zombie Prom" (1995), "The Fix" (directed by Sam Mendes, 1997), and the stage adaptation of John Updike's "The Witches of Eastwick" (2000).

Roger Rees (born on May 4, 1944) is a British-American actor.

Gary Griffin, born 1960 in St. Louis, Missouri, is an American theater director. Griffin grew up in Rockford, Illinois, where he graduated from East High School in 1978. From there, he moved to Chicago, where he began his directing career in 1988.

Alex Jennings (born 10 May 1957) is an award-winning English actor best known for his appearance in "The Queen" (2006) in which he played the role of HRH The Prince of Wales.

John Wood, CBE, (born January 1, 1930) is an English actor. Wood was born in Derbyshire. Known as a stage actor, he has played extensively in Shakespeare, having joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in the 1970s. He has also appeared in many of Tom Stoppard's plays; he won a Tony Award in 1976 for the role of Henry Carr in Stoppard's "Travesties", …

Jeremy Philip Northam (born December 1, 1961 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England) is an English actor. Son of John Northam (d. 2005), an Ibsen specialist and teacher first at Clare College, Cambridge, and later at Bristol, Jeremy was educated at Bristol Grammar School and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Northam performed at the Royal National Theatre, where he replaced Daniel Day Lewis in the role of Hamlet (1988).

Julia McKenzie is a British actress and theatre director. In London’s West End her performing credits include "Guys and Dolls" (Miss Adelaide) and "Sweeney Todd" (Mrs Lovett), winning the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for both, and "Woman in Mind" for which she received the Evening Standard Award for Best Actress.

Ben Chaplin (born Benedict Greenwood on 31 July 1970, Sunderland) is an English actor who first came to public attention for his performance as Matthew Malone in the first series of the sitcom "Game On". After departing the series (his character was later acted by Neil Stuke) he co-starred in several movies including "The Truth About Cats and Dogs", Terrence Malick's "The Thin Red Line", "Murder By Numbers", …

Kelly Reilly (born 8 July 1977) is an English actress who, in 2004, became the youngest ever "best actress" nominee at the Olivier Awards. She grew up in Kingston in Surrey, in a working-class family. She was inspired to act after seeing a performance of "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui", and made her professional debut in an episode of "Prime Suspect", aged 17, while still studying for her A-levels. In her episode she acted alongside Helen Mirren.

Robert Fox (born 23 March 1952) is a successful English theatre and film producer, whose work includes the 2002 film, "The Hours". He was born the third son of theatrical agent Robin Fox and actress Angela Worthington. He is a younger brother of actors Edward Fox and James Fox. He is also a paternal half-brother of actor Daniel Chatto and a brother-in-law of Lady Sarah Chatto. The actress Emilia Fox is his niece. His grandfather was playwright Frederick Lonsdale.

David Lan is an English playwright, filmmaker, theatre director and social anthropologist. Born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1952, he emigrated to London in 1972. Since 2000 he has been artistic director of the Young Vic theatre in London's South Bank.

Ned Sherrin (born 18 February 1931 in Somerset, England) is a broadcaster, author and stage director. He attended Sexey's School, in Bruton, Somerset. Although he read law at Exeter College, Oxford and subsequently qualified as a barrister, he became involved in theatre at Oxford and joined British television at the founding of independent television in 1956, producing shows for ATV in Birmingham.

Mark Elder, CBE (born 2 June 1947) is an British conductor.

Malcolm Sinclair is a British stage and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as 'Assistant Chief Constable Freddy Fisher' in the television series "Pie in the Sky" (1994-1997), although he has an extensive number of film, television and theatre roles to his credit. A former student of the Old Vic Theatre School in Bristol, Sinclair has performed with theatre companies such as the Royal National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company.

Sophie Thompson (b. 1962) is an award-winning British actress who currently plays Stella Crawford in "EastEnders".

Dana P. Rowe is an American musical theater composer whose works have been performed in New York and London. Much of his work has been written with lyricist John Dempsey. With Dempsey, he wrote the music for "Zombie Prom" (1995), "The Fix" (directed by Sam Mendes, 1997), and the stage adaptation of John Updike's "The Witches of Eastwick" (2000).

Ryan Molloy is a British singer, songwriter and actor, who replaced Holly Johnson as the lead singer in Frankie Goes to Hollywood. He has also been successful in musical theatre, appearing in a number of hit musicals in the UK. Originally coming from Monkseaton in Tyneside, Molloy moved to London to train as an actor. He attended The Poor School;and later also trained at the University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles and New York.

Adam Long was a founding member of The Reduced Shakespeare Company. From 1987-2003 he co-wrote and performed "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)" "The Complete History of America (abridged)", "The Reduced Shakespeare Radio Show" for the BBC World Service, and "The Ring Reduced", a 30 minute condensation of Wagner's Ring Cycle for Channel 4 television.

Steven Pacey (born 5 June 1957 in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire) is an English actor, best known for his role as Del Tarrant in the third and fourth seasons of the sci-fi series Blake's 7. Other notable television appearances include "Heartbeat", "Lovejoy", " M.I.T.: Murder Investigation Team", "Murder in Mind", "Pie in the Sky" and "Spooks".

Ursula Martinez is an Anglo-Spanish performance artist noted for her use of nudity and non-actors. Her father is English and her mother Spanish. She has worked with experimental theater groups Forced Entertainment, Insomniac Productions, The Glee Club, and Duckie. In the 1990s she began to combine this with her experience in cabaret, establishing a reputation in the queer arts community. With collaborator Mark Whitelaw, she created "A Family Outing", …

Jessica Hynes (born Jessica Stevenson in 1972) is an English actress and writer, most renowned as one of the creators, writers and stars of the UK sitcom "Spaced". She was known professionally as Jessica Stevenson until 2007

Pauline Flanagan (June 29, 1925 - June 28, 2003) was a County Sligo, Irish Free State-born actress who had a long career on stage. Her family was deeply political and supported the Republican (anti-Treaty) side during the Irish Civil War. Both of her parents served as Lords Mayor of Sligo. Pauline Flanagan had brothers who supported the IRA during the Irish Civil War. She was good friends with fellow actresses Joan O'Hara, …

Rachel Leskovac (born 6 August, 1975) is an Olivier award-nominated British actress. Leskovac trained at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, graduating in 1998. She first received critical note for her performance as the young Viv in the musical "Spend Spend Spend". She found a wider fanbase playing homicidal nurse Kelly Yorke in "Holby City". Leskovac is married to the musician David Tench. They are expecting their first child in 2007.

Virginia McKenna OBE, (born June 7, 1931 in London) is an English stage and screen actress, author and wildlife campaigner. McKenna trained as an actress at the Central School of Speech and Drama then worked on stage in London's West End theatres before making her motion picture debut in 1952. She continued to appear in both films and on stage and in 1954/1955 was a member of the Old Vic theatre company.

Dame Anne Evans DBE (born August 20 1941, London) is an internationally successful Welsh soprano. Anne Evans made her debut as Countess Ceprano in "La Traviata" 1967 in Geneva and went on to make her debut in a leading role in 1968 as Fiordiligi in "Così fan tutte" at the then Sadler's Wells, later English National Opera in 1968 to critical acclaim. In the early years of her career, she sang many of the leading Puccini and Mozart soprano roles, …

Simon Coates is a British actor who has worked extensively with the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, with whom he has appeared throughout the world. He has appeared in many celebrated productions including Robert Lepage's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Tim Supple's "The Comedy of Errors", David Farr's "Coriolanus" and Declan Donnelan's "As You Like It", …