Agatha Christie's Marple - A Caribbean Mystery - 11:50 pm Monday, April 6 on ITV3

Julia McKenzie (Actor) .. Miss Marple

Born: February 17, 1941 in Enfield

Best Known For: Fresh Fields and Miss Marple.

Early-life: Julia Kathleen McKenzie was born on February 17, 1941 in Enfield to Kathleen and Albion. She was all set to begin training to become a French teacher when she landed a scholarship to study opera. After graduating from the Guildhall School of Music, she toured in operettas and musical comedies for a number of years before landing a role in 1969 in the London production of Mame.

Career: In the early 1970s, McKenzie took over one of the leading roles in Stephen Sondheim's Company. And so began a long association with Sondheim's work. Her big break came in the mid-1970s in the musical review Side by Side by Sondheim. It was a big success in London and New York. During the 1980s, McKenzie won an Olivier Award for her portrayal of Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls at the National Theatre. McKenzie has also worked extensively on TV, notably in Fresh Fields and its spin-off French Fields, Blott on the Landscape and Cranford. More recently, she has played the title roles in ITV drama Marple and one-off BBC children's drama Gangsta Granny.

Quote: 'It's very easy for people to say actors are jealous, but I've never found that, I've always found them very loveable as we know we are all children at heart.'

Trivia: In its day, Fresh Fields was the most popular programme of the week.

Antony Sher (Actor) .. Rafiel

Born: June 14, 1949 in Cape Town, South Africa

Best Known For: His award-winning stage work.

Early-life: Born in Cape Town in 1949. He has said he felt like an outsider growing up in South Africa, due to his sexuality. At school, he showed a talent for art, but gravitated towards drama after discovering that acting helped him to overcome his shyness. After completing his compulsory national service, Antony moved to London in 1968 to study acting but was rejected by the Central School of Speech and Drama and Rada, where he was advised to try a different career. However, this only made him more determined to succeed.

Career: Antony got his break at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool in the early 1970s, where his contemporaries included Julie Walters and Jonathan Pryce, and landed the role of Ringo Starr in Willy Russell's John, Paul, George, Ringo and Bert. TV fame came in 1981 when he played the lead in the series The History Man, and he has gone to appear in the likes of The Jury, God on Trial, and The Shadow Line as well as movies such as The Wind in the Willows and Three and Out. However, his best-known work has been on the stage, and he won the prestigious Olivier Award for Richard III in 1985 and then again for Stanley in 1997. He was knighted in 2001, and in recent years has also returned to his first love, painting.

Quote: 'I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.'

Trivia: Sher is the author of several books.

Kingsley Ben-Adir (Actor) .. Errol

Pippa Bennett-Warner (Actor) .. Victoria

Warren Brown (Actor) .. Jackson

Born: May 11, 1978 in Warrington

Best Known For: Hollyoaks and Luther.

Early-life: Warren was born in Warrington on May 11, 1978. For 10 years, he was involved in the world of Thai boxing. During this time, he won two world titles. He retired from the sport to pursue a career in acting. After appearing in two episodes of Channel 4 drama Shameless, Warren played Andy Holt in teen soap opera Hollyoaks.

Career: Roles followed for Brown in Grownups, Casualty, Mobile, Casualty, Spooks, The Bill, Occupation, Criminal Justice and Single Father. More recently, he played DS Justin Ripley in BBC drama Luther. His other TV credits include Good Cop, Agatha Christie's Marple, By Any Means and X Company.

Quote: 'I believe in miracles and the power of the individual to make a positive difference in the world.'

Trivia: Brown was nominated for a number of British Soap Awards for his time in Hollyoaks.

MyAnna Buring (Actor) .. Lucky Dyson

Born: September 22, 1984 in Sweden

Best Known For: Her roles in the The Descent and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn.

Early-life: Buring was born on 22 September, 1984, in Sweden, where she spent the first 16 years of her life before moving to England. She attended high school at the American British Academy in Muscat, Oman, before graduating from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 2004.

Career: Her first major telly role came in the form of a two-episode Doctor Who story. Various bit roles followed in Much Ado About Nothing, Midsomer Murders and Casualty, before the bright lights of the silver screen beckoned. Buring is well-known for her roles in The Descent, Lesbian Vampire Killers, Kill List, White Heat and as vampire Tanya in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn.

Quote: 'When you're on set, there are always people around you, so that's fine. When I'm scared of the dark it's when I'm on my own, or a pitch black night. I keep telling myself that it's not just me, but it's tied in to that thing of ‘the unknown' and I'm trying to work on that slowly but surely.'

Trivia: She co-runs MahWaff Theatre Company.

Oliver Ford Davies (Actor) .. Maj Palgrave

Montserrat Lombard (Actor) .. Esther Walters

Born: August 01, 1982 in London

Best Known For: Playing WPC Sharon 'Shaz' Granger in Ashes to Ashes

Early-life: Born in 1982 in London (a year after Ashes to Ashes is set). She developed a passion for acting from an early age and first caught the public's eye in a credit card advert in which a large nosed boyfriend sneezed over her parents. She made her TV debut in BBC One drama Doctors in 2002.

Career: Montserrat went on to star in cult comedy Nathan Barley in 2005 and the Tamsin Greig comedy drama Love Soup, which is currently enjoying a second serving. Other hits include Carrie & Barry, No Angels, Saxondale, Roman's Empire and Hyperdrive. Has a brief appearance in the late Heath Ledger's final movie, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus: 'There's only five main characters and one of them is called Sally,' she explains. 'I play Sally's friend. It's just wonderful.'

Quote: 'If I could change one thing about myself it would be my shyness.'

Trivia: She voiced the role of Mirania in the 2011-2012 game The Last Story for the Nintendo Wii.

Alastair Mackenzie (Actor) .. Col Hillingdon

Charles Mesure (Actor) .. Greg Dyson

Hermione Norris (Actor) .. Evelyn Hillingdon

Best Known For: Playing Karen in Cold Feet.

Early-life: Born in London in February 1967. Her businessman father Michael named her Hermione after Helen of Troy's daughter - her mother, a health visitor, is called Helen. Her parents split when she was four, after which she had what she describes as a 'formal' relationship with her dad, who died suddenly just as she was beginning her acting career. She was brought up by her mum and grandmother in Derbyshire and London along with her three sisters and two half-sisters, and initially trained as a dancer before turning to acting.

Career: Norris enjoyed a great deal of success on the stage, starring in Stephen Poliakoff's Blinded by the Sun at the National Theatre and the world premiere of Reader by Arile Dorfman. She also appeared in a production of the Chekov play The Seagull at the Moscow Art Theatre. Norris took small parts in TV series such as Casualty, Peak Practice and Drop the Dead Donkey, but didn't become a household name until she won the role of Karen in Cold Feet. In the years since she's appeared in the one-off drama Falling Apart, opposite Robson Green in the crime series Wire in the Blood, spy drama Spooks and as Stephen Fry's half-sister in Kingdom, which was written by her husband. She's also returned to the stage on several occasions.

Quote: 'It makes a statement my name. Immediately country homes, fishing and shooting spring to mind and that's not the reality of where I come from.'

Trivia: She often gets cast as well-spoken women.

Daniel Rigby (Actor) .. Canon Prescott

Charity Wakefield (Actor) .. Molly Kendall

Robert Webb (Actor) .. Tim Kendall

Born: September 29, 1972 in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire

Best Known For: His partnership with David Mitchell.

Early-life: Robert Patrick Webb was born on September 29, 1972, in Boston, Lincolnshire. He was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in Horncastle. While Webb was in the lower sixth form preparing for his A-levels, his mother died of breast cancer. Aged 20, he went to Robinson College, Cambridge, where he studied English and was a member of the Footlights. He met David Mitchell during an audition for a Footlights production of Cinderella in 1993.

Career: Mitchell and Webb put together their first project in January 1995, a show about the First World War. From this, the duo were given the chance to write for Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller and for series two of sketch show Big Train. In 2001, they were commissioned to write a sketch show of their own, entitled The Mitchell and Webb Situation, which ran for six episodes on the now defunct cable channel Play UK. The pair's big break came in 2003, with starring roles in the Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show, which led to movie projects. In solo work, Webb has appeared in offbeat sitcom The Smoking Room, and the film Confetti. Other projects include Fresh Meat, Our Men, Ambassadors and Marple.

Quote: 'When somebody says 'Do you want to do some funny ads for not many days in the year and be paid more than you would be for an entire series of Peep Show?' the answer, obviously, is, 'Yeah, that's fine''.

Trivia: He won the charity event Let's Dance for Comic Relief in 2009.

Andrea Dondolo (Actor) .. Mama Zogbe

Jose Moreira Vaz (Actor) .. Sgt Weston

Anele Matoti (Actor) .. Insp Daventry

Jeremy Crutchley (Actor) .. Ian Fleming

Charlie Higson (Actor) .. James Bond

Agatha Christie (Writer)

Peter McAleese (Producer)

Charles Palmer (Director)

Agatha Christie's Marple: A Caribbean Mystery

11:50 pm - 01:50 am, Monday, April 6 on ITV3 (10)

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A Caribbean Mystery
Season 6, Episode 1

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