Lewis - Fearful Symmetry - 08:15 am Saturday, April 4 on ITV3

Kevin Whately (Actor) .. DI 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.

Lucy Cohu (Actor) .. Marion Hammond

Best Known For: Torchwood and The Queen's Sister.

Early-life: Lucy Ann Cohu was born in Wiltshire in either 1968 or 1970. Her first acting job after graduating from the Central School of Speech and Drama was in a production of Pride and Prejudice at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester. She made her TV debut in a 1991 episode of Casualty.

Career: Cohu has worked extensively on the small screen and her TV credits include roles in Pie in the Sky, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Peak Practice, Soldier Soldier, Wycliffe, Cape Wrath and Forgiven. Her profile increased in 2005 when she portrayed Princess Margaret in The Queen's Sister. More recently, she has starred in Torchwood: Children of Earth, Marple, Silent Witness, Midsomer Murders, Lewis and Ripper Street.

Quote: 'Television normally can fall into one of three categories; you either play mothers, whores or police officers.'

Trivia: In 2008, Cohu won an Emmy for her performance in Forgiven.

Gary Kemp (Actor) .. Tom Garland

Born: October 16, 1959 in London

Best Known For: Spandau Ballet.

Early-life: Born October 16, 1959, in Islington. At 10 his passion for music led his parents, Eileen and Frank, to give him his first guitar. One of his self-penned songs made such an impression on the Bishop of Stepney, he came round to his parents' house to present him with a tape recorder. In the 1970s he and his brother Martin went into acting in the Anna Scher Children's Theatre. They landed bit parts in Jackanory and the Children's Film Foundation movie, Hide and Seek. In 1978, Gary formed The Makers and when former member Richard Miller left, Martin took over on bass.

Career: Kemp changed the band's name to Spandau Ballet and started playing synthesiser as well as guitar. They were highlighted in an ITV documentary in 1980, prompting a number of record companies to sign them. They spent 10 years in the charts with hits such as True, Gold and Through the Barricades. The Kemp brothers returned to acting in 1990 with acclaimed performances in The Krays. After Spandau Ballet split up, Kemp spent his time acting with roles in The Bodyguard and Killing Zoe. Has also appeared in Murder in Mind for the BBC. Spandau Ballet reformed in 2009.

Quote: 'Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.'

Trivia: In 2012, Kemp received an Ivor Novello Award for his body of work.

Con O'Neill (Actor) .. Dr Bob Massey

Born: August 15, 1966 in Weston-super-Mare

Best Known For: A string of stage and TV roles.

Early-life: Born Robert O'Neill on August 15, 1966 in Weston-super-Mare, Con's TV acting debut was a walk-on role in Willy Russell's coming-of-age drama One Summer. At the age of 22, he was cast in another Russell project, playing Mickey on the stage in Blood Brothers. His performance won him the 1988 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical and a Tony nomination for the Broadway version.

Career: O'Neill's other stage credits include The Awakening, A Tribute to the Blue Brothers, Telstar, Midnight Cowboy, The Caretaker, A View from a Bridge, and The Ladykillers. A regular on the small screen, O'Neill's TV credits include Brookside, Pie in the Sky, Tom Jones, Heartbeat, Waking the Dead, Moving Story, Criminal Justice, The Bible, Uncle, Banana and Cucumber. On the big screen, his credits include Dancin' Thru the Dark (1990), Telstar (2008) and Frank (2012). In early 2015, he starred in the 35th-anniversary staging of Educating Rita at the Liverpool Playhouse.

Quote: 'I think Blood Brothers is the most phenomenal musical, you can't help but be moved by it.'

Trivia: In 2011, he won the Manchester Theatre Award for Best Actor for his performance in A View from a Bridge at the Exchange Theatre in Manchester.

Ciaran McMenamin (Actor) .. Nick Addams

Born: October 01, 1975 in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland

Best Known For: Playing Matt Anderson in Primeval.

Early-life: Born on October 1, 1975 in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. He attended St Michael's College before going on to study for a Bachelor's degree at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He graduated in 1998.

Career: McMenamin started landing TV roles in 1998, including that of Jez MacAllister in The Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star. He got the title role in the BBC TV film David Copperfield (1999) and co-starred in To End All Wars (2001). McMenamin later appeared in an episode of Agatha Christie's Marple, co-starred in The Golden Hour and appeared in a one-off special episode of Jonathan Creek. He also had prominent roles in the film The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce (2008), TV series Primeval and docudrama Saving the Titanic (2012). Since then, he has appeared in Death in Paradise, Midsomer Murders and Paula.

Quote: 'Playing a character in your own accent can be a double-edged sword as it makes it harder to get away from ‘yourself' early on in rehearsals, but ultimately it frees you completely to let the emotional journey of the character come out without the technical hurdles of an accent.'

Trivia: He released his debut novel, Skintown, in 2017.

Georgia Taylor (Actor) .. Honey Addams

Born: February 26, 1980 in Wigan

Best Known For: Playing Toyah Battersby in Coronation Street and Ruth Winters on Casualty.

Early-life: Born Claire Jackson on February 26, 1980, in Wigan. After leaving school, she went to Winstanley College in Wigan, where one of her subjects was Theatre Studies. Her first acting role was as a singer alongside Darren Day in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Palace Theatre in Manchester.

Career: Her big break came in 1997 when she landed the role of Coronation Street's Toyah Battersby, while still studying at college. She trod the famous Weatherfield cobbles for five years, picking up a British Soap Award along the way in 2001. Her first part after leaving Corrie was alongside Dennis Waterman in an episode of Where the Heart Is. Since then, Taylor has appeared in military drama Red Cap, Blackpool, The History Boys (on the big screen) and New Street Law. In 2007, she landed the part of junior doctor Ruth Winters in BBC medical drama Casualty, a role she played until December 2011. She joined the cast of Law & Order: UK in 2013.

Quote: 'I've never regretted my decision to leave the Street, even when I'm not working. I wasn't too worried about being typecast, because the girl who left was different from the one that arrived.'

Trivia: Her theatre credits include Christmas is Miles Away at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester.

Gregor Truter (Actor) .. Dr Joshua Ezrin

Pierro Niel-Mee (Actor) .. Gideon Massey

Anna Wilson-Jones (Actor) .. Stanza Massey

Leila Mimmack (Actor) .. Yasmin Randall

Bronson Webb (Actor) .. Silas Whittaker

Kirsty Osmon (Actor) .. Midge Davies

Abigail Hardingham (Actor) .. Jessica Lake

Katrine De Candole (Actor) .. Davina Garland

Merveille Lukeba (Actor) .. Kyle Hutchinson

Georgina Strawson (Actor) .. Lucy Bond

Chloe Rose (Actor) .. Zoe

Russell Lewis (Writer)

Michele Buck (Executive producer)

Damien Timmer (Executive producer)

Chris Burt (Producer)

Nicholas Renton (Director)

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