Lewis - Generation of Vipers - 08:15 am Sunday, March 29 on ITV3

Kevin Whately (Actor) .. DI Robert Lewis

Born: February 06, 1951 in Newcastle upon Tyne

Best Known For: Playing John Thaw's right-hand man Lewis in Inspector Morse.

Early-life: Kevin George Edward Whately was born on February 6, 1951, in Hexham, and grew up in the remote Northumberland countryside. His father was in the Navy, and Whately only saw him two or three times a year. He began acting at the age of four and it remained a passion throughout school, alongside a short-lived desire to be a doctor. When his careers teacher advised against acting, he went into accountancy for three years. He later trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. His brother, Frank, is a drama lecturer.

Career: Whately's TV debut came in a 1979 episode of Shoestring. Two years later he had a six-week stint on Coronation Street. His big break came in 1983, when he landed the role of Neville in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. In 1987, he made his first appearance as Sgt Lewis in Morse, and has since appeared in Peak Practice, the TV dramas Trip Trap, Gobble, and The Broker's Man, as well as Oscar-winning drama The English Patient. Other projects include Paranoid, Silent Cry, Murder in Mind, Purely Belter, Promoted to Glory and The Children. He's now the star of hit Morse spin-off Lewis.

Quote: On John Thaw: 'John had a wonderful sense of humour which is belied sometimes by journalists' impression of him as irascible. He was a wonderful mimic, particularly of people on the set rather than famous people.'

Trivia: Married to actress Madeleine Newton, who appeared alongside him in both Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and Inspector Morse. They have two children, Kieran and Kitty. His daughter is an acclaimed opera singer.

Laurence Fox (Actor) .. DS Hathaway

Born: May 26, 1978 in Yorkshire

Best Known For: Lewis.

Early-life: Laurence Paul Fox was born in Yorkshire on May 26, 1978. Born into a theatrical family, he is the son of actor James Fox and the nephew of actor Edward Fox and theatre and film producer Robert Fox. Acting relatives also include his brother Jack and sister Lydia, and cousins Emilia Fox and Freddie Fox. Two years after leaving Harrow, Laurence developed a love of acting and enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Rada). During his time there, he appeared in a number of stage productions.

Career: Fox was still studying at Rada when he landed a role in his first feature film, 2001 horror-thriller The Hole. He went on to star in Gosford Park (2001), TV miniseries Island at War and TV movie Colditz. His big break came in 2006 when he was cast alongside Kevin Whately in Inspector Morse spin-off Lewis. Other credits include Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), Becoming Jane (2007), W.E. (2011) and TV movie Fast Freddie, the Widow and Me. Fox has also featured in a number of stage productions, including Strangers on a Train at London's Gielgud Theatre.

Quote: 'Acting can be a great job, but you do have to make up things to do when you're not working.'

Trivia: Wed fellow actress Billie Piper in 2007.

Clare Holman (Actor) .. Dr Laura Hobson

Rebecca Front (Actor) .. Ch Supt Innocent

Born: May 16, 1964 in Stoke Newington

Best Known For: The Thick of It.

Early-life: Rebecca Louise Front was born in Stoke Newington on May 16, 1964. She comes from an artistic family - her father is an artist, her mother writes children's stories and her brother Jeremy writes (he and Rebecca often write together, most notably Radio 4's Incredible Women). Rebecca knew she wanted to act from the age of six or seven. After leaving school, she studied at St Hugh's College, Oxford, where she began performing with the Oxford Theatre Group.

Career: Front's comedy career took off with the Radio 4 show The Bobo Girls, the second series of which was produced by Armando Iannucci, with whom she's worked with numerous times since, most notably on The Thick of It. Other comedy projects include On the Hour, The Day Today, Absolute Power, The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer, The Spa and various Alan Partridge projects. Front has also dabbled in drama, with roles in The Rotters' Club, Kavanagh QC, Lewis, Jonathan Creek, and Humans.

Quote: 'I'd love a role in Sherlock. Or maybe I could play a Doctor Who monster or something. That'd be brilliant.'

Trivia: Front's father, Charles Front, designed the title logo for The Beatles album Rubber Soul.

Jason Durr (Actor) .. DI Peterson

Born: December 02, 1967 in Singapore

Best Known For: Playing Mike Bradley in Heartbeat and David Hide in Casualty.

Early-life: Born on December 2, 1967 in Singapore and raised in Hong Kong. Jason trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before attending the Royal Shakespeare Company. Here, he worked with director Trevor Nunn in Measure for Measure and The Blue Angel and with director Adrian Noble in Macbeth.

Career: Since his days with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Durr has made a number of TV appearances in such shows as Inspector Morse and A Dark Adapted Eye and in television films like Gawain and the Green Knight (1991) and Sharpe's Battle (1995). He landed the role of policeman Mike Bradley in the TV series Heartbeat in 1997 and played the character until 2003. His other TV credits include Above Suspicion, Lewis and New Tricks. Durr also played the lead role in Down Dog (2014). More recently, he has played David Hide in Casualty.

Quote: 'I have lived all over the world but my heart now lies in the English countryside - if only it didn't rain quite so much.'

Trivia: He enjoys rock climbing.

Toby Stephens (Actor) .. David Connelly

Born: March 21, 1969 in London

Best Known For: Being a Bond villain.

Early-life: Toby Stephens was born on April 21, 1969, at the Middlesex Hospital, London. He is the son of actors Robert Stephens and Maggie Smith. They divorced in the mid-1970s and Toby didn't see his father for 10 years, although they later became close and stayed friends until Robert's death in 1995. Toby and his brother Christopher (also an actor, using the stage name Chris Larkin) were raised by Smith and her second husband Beverley Cross. Stephens trained at the London Academy of Dramatic Art.

Career: Stevens first professional work came as a stage hand at the Chichester Festival Theatre, where he eventually won small roles. In 1992 he got his big break in TV series The Camomile Lawn and made his film debut in Orlando. He spent the next four years gaining rave reviews in theatre. Since then, he's appeared in Twelfth Night, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Photographing Fairies, Poirot, The Great Gatsby, and Cambridge Spies. He also played the young Clint Eastwood in Space Cowboys. His biggest role to date was as the villain in the James Bond movie Die Another Day. He also played the super spy himself in radio productions of Dr No and Goldfinger. He was an acclaimed Mr Rochester in an adaptation of Jane Eyre, played Prince John in the third series of Robin Hood, and has an acclaimed stage career.

Quote: 'If I ever read that actors know what they're doing, they are either immensely successful movie stars or they are just lying.'

Julie Cox (Actor) .. Miranda Thornton

Daniel Lapaine (Actor) .. Kit Renton

Born: April 16, 1970 in Sydney

Best Known For: Being the bridegroom in Muriel's Wedding.

Early-life: Daniel Lapaine was born in Sydney on April 16, 1970. His father originally came from Italy, but emigrated to Australia following the Second World War. Daniel trained to be an actor at the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art, and graduated in 1992. Shortly afterwards, he began acting on stage, working with the Sydney Theatre and Bell Shakespeare companies, and made his TV debut the following year in The Feds: Deception.

Career: Lapaine first came to international attention when he appeared as a South African swimmer in Muriel's Wedding in 1994. Since then, he's cropped up in numerous American, British and Australian movies, including Polish Wedding (1998), 54 (1998), Brokedown Palace (1999), Double Jeopardy (1999) and The Abduction Club (2002). He's also become a familiar face on British TV thanks to roles in dramas such as Red Cap, Poirot , Jane Hall, Hotel Babylon, Waking the Dead, Vera, Death in Paradise and Inspector George Gently.

Quote: 'I usually play roles that seem like nice charming guys on the outside but are in fact dirty, horrible drug-pushing murderers.'

Trivia: Lapaine married actress Fay Ripley in 2001.

Freddie Fox (Actor) .. Sebastian Dromgoole

Born: April 05, 1989 in Hammersmith, London

Best Known For: Playing King Louis XIII in The Three Musketeers.

Early-life: Frederick Samson Robert Morice Fox was born on April 5, 1989 in Hammersmith, London to actor Edward Fox and actress Joanna David. His sister, Emilia, is also an actress. Freddie was educated at Arnold House School in London and Bryanston School in Dorset. He graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2010.

Career: Fox's early credits include St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (2009), Worried About the Boy (2010) and the TV series Any Human Heart. His first big role was as King Louis XIII in The Three Musketeers (2011). Since then, he has played Freddie Baxter in the two TV series Banana and Cucumber and Rubio in the film King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017). He has also had some notable roles in theatre, including as Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas in The Judas Kiss at Hampstead Theatre, as well as on a UK tour and in London's West End.

Quote: 'The value of entertainment can easily be so underestimated and underrated but ultimately all of life is a game and a play for everybody.'

Trivia: He won third prize at the Ian Charleson Awards in 2016 for his performance as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet at the Sheffield Crucible.

Roxanne McKee (Actor) .. Briony Keagan

Alex Hanson (Actor) .. Francis Mitchell

Kate Maravan (Actor) .. Sophie Leland

Don Warrington (Actor) .. Marcus Harding

Born: May 23, 1951 in Trinidad

Best Known For: Playing Philip Smith in ITV sitcom Rising Damp.

Early-life: Born Don Williams in Trinidad on May 23, 1951. He has an older brother. His father, Basil Kydd, died suddenly in Trinidad at the age of 48 in 1958 when Don was six. His mother, Shirley, decided to make a new life for herself in England while Don and his brother were looked after back in Trinidad by his grandmother. Shirley settled in Newcastle with a job at a metal factory and returned to Trinidad to collect her two sons. When Don was 12, his mother left for America to retrain as a nurse. Don and his brother were then looked after in England by his Auntie Lena. Don was 17 when he landed his first job as an assistant stage manager at Newcastle's Flora Robson Playhouse. He moved to London to train at the Drama Centre and then landed the role that made him famous.

Career: Warrington began playing Philip Smith in ITV sitcom Rising Damp in 1974 alongside Leonard Rossiter and Richard Beckinsale. The hugely popular series ran until 1978 and led to a spin-off film. Decades later, Warrington directed the first UK stage tour of Rising Damp in 2013. He has also starred in Triangle, Crown Court, CATS Eyes, To Play the King, Grange Hill, Manchild, Holby City and The Crouches. More recently, he has appeared in Doctor Who, New Street Law, Casualty, Waking the Dead, Lewis and Death in Paradise. He has also performed with the National Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company, and the Bristol Old Vic. He competed in the sixth series of Strictly Come Dancing with professional dancer Lilia Kopylova. They were eliminated in week five.

Quote: 'My brother and I were the only black kids in our school. The way you survive in those circumstances is to become like the locals, so I became a Geordie who was good at football.'

Trivia: Warrington was awarded an MBE in 2008.

Kemi-Bo Jacobs (Actor) .. WPC Lockhart

Alton Letto (Actor) .. Gurdip Sohal

Royce Pierreson (Actor) .. Oliver Bowcock

Jack Holden (Actor) .. Ben Newbound

Josh O'Connor (Actor) .. Charlie Stephenson

Katie McGuinness (Actor) .. Samantha Earnshaw

Tanya Moodie (Actor) .. Felicity Prior

Jo-Anne Stockham (Actor) .. Helen Mitchell

John Flanaghan (Actor) .. Tony Mangold

Patrick Harbinson (Writer)

Michele Buck (Executive producer)

Damien Timmer (Executive producer)

Chris Burt (Producer)

David O'Neill (Director)

Lewis: Generation of Vipers

08:15 am - 10:10 am, Sunday, March 29 on ITV3 (10)

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Generation of Vipers
Season 6, Episode 2

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