Has appeared in many television programs, such as Fist of Fun, occasionally in Comedy Nation, the giggling receptionist in I'm Alan Partridge, Holding the Baby, and In The Red, and more recently in Smack the Pony and Hippies.

Most recently played lead soprano, Leonora Braham, in Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy and appeared in Wonderland, Trainspotting and Rob Roy.  The Scottish actress is more widely known for the popular BBC1 series Hamish Macbeth (1995), in which she played Isobel Sutherland, the dark-haired journalist whose frequent run-ins with the only other sane member of the tiny community, Hamish Macbeth (Robert Carlyle), took a romantic turn at the end of the last series.

Television credits include: Jason and the Argonauts; Arabian Nights; Sex, Chips and Rock 'n' Roll; Heat of the Sun; The Scarlet Pimpernel; A Dance to the Music of Time; and Soldier Soldier.

A graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Callis' West End debut in Old Wicket Songs alongside Bob Hoskins earned him the 1996 Jack Tinker Award for Most Promising Newcomer.

Made her first major appearance in the US starring in The Duchess of Duke Street. Trained at the Royal Academy of the Dramatic Arts, where she won the Gold Medal in 1962, Jones has had a remarkable career on the stage, in very diverse roles, and has been a member of both the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Gemma Jones' film work includes The Devils with Vanessa Redgrave, Feast of July with Ben Chaplin,  Sense and Sensibility with Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet and Hugh Grant and Wilde with Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave and Stephen Fry.

One of England's most versatile actors, whose bumbling comic skills, laid over an essentially decent character, have proved useful in Hollywood. Broadbent has starred in Bullets Over Broadway, The Avengers, Little Voice, The Borrowers, Enchanted April, The Crying Game, Brazil, and Smilla's Sense of Snow. He won a Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival in 1999 for his performance as the librettist WS Gilbert in Mike Leigh's film, Topsy Turvy.

Popular comedienne on British television, in particular through her work in several series with writer/performer Victoria Wood.  Has also appeared on television in straight drama including Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, The Darling Buds of May, A Dark Adapted Eye and The Return of the Native.

Her stage roles have included Jessica Tilehouse in Sam Mendes' production of The Sea at the Royal National Theatre for which she won the Clarence Derwent Award for Best Supporting Actress. Films include The Borrowers and Hilary and Jackie.

Caught the attention of critics and audiences alike as the Jewish maid who survives both the abuse and the attraction of Ralph Fiennes’ sadistic Commander Goeth in Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List.

Davidtz then portrayed a seductive but fragile caterer opposite Kenneth Branagh in Robert Altman’s critically acclaimed thriller The Gingerbread Man. Her other work includes Miramax’s Mansfield Park, Murder in the First opposite Kevin Bacon Feast of July, Matilda, and the supernatural thriller Fallen opposite Denzel Washington.

"My name is Pussy Galore," growled a leather-clad Blackman in 1964's Goldfinger. "I must be dreaming," says Bond. "Don't flatter yourself," she replies. "I'm immune to your charms." Blackman's stint as the husky-voiced stunt pilot made her an instant Hollywood icon, though in Britain she was already renowned as karate queen Cathy Gale on TV's The Avengers (1962), preceding Diana Rigg's Emma Peel.

Blackman has a one-woman show about history's femmes fatales, "Dishonourable Ladies" and recently appeared as Joy Adamson in To Walk with Lions in 1999.
 

A graduate of the Central School of Speech and Drama, Faulkner, 52, has numerous film and TV credits in his portfolio, including leading guest appearances in Taggart and A Touch of Frost. He recently played the lead role in David Pinner’s play, Lenin in Love, at the New End Theatre in Hampstead, North London.
 

After attending the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, Pearson, 41, got his big break in television with Drop The Dead Donkey and then the award winning Between The Lines. He has appeared in numerous comedies and dramas on the small screen. His stage works includes a London production of Closer; while in film, he appeared as Colin Firth's father (in flashback) in Fever Pitch in 1997.