Grantchester

James Norton (Actor) .. Sidney Chambers

Born: July 18, 1985 in London

Best Known For: Playing Sidney Chambers in Grantchester.

Early-life: James Geoffrey Ian Norton was born on July 18, 1985 in London. His family lived in Malton, North Yorkshire and he was educated at Ampleforth College. James read Theology at Fitzwilliam College at Cambridge University and graduated in 2007. He went on to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and got a role in An Education (2009) shortly before he was due to graduate.

Career: After An Education, Norton had a number of theatre roles, including appearances in Posh at Royal Court Theatre, That Face at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield and a touring production of Journey's End. He then went on to get parts in a number of films, including Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (2012), Rush (2013), Belle (2013) and Northmen: A Viking Saga (2014). He has also had a number of roles in TV, including as Henry Alveston in Death Comes to Pemberley, Andrei Bolkonsky in War and Peace, Tommy Lee Royce in Happy Valley and Sidney Chambers in Grantchester.

Quote: 'If it's a sunny day, I get this weird guilt if I'm not making the most of it, so I'll walk or go for a swim or get on my bike, or I'll go to the Heath, just to have a reason to get out.'

Trivia: He received a Fitzwilliam Travel Grant to travel to Northern India and teach and perform for children at 16 schools.

Robson Green (Actor) .. Geordie Keating

Born: December 18, 1964 in Hexham, Northumberland

Best Known For: His role in Soldier Soldier.

Early-life: Born Robson Golightly Green in Hexham, Northumberland, on December 18, 1964, the son of a miner. He has two sisters and a brother. As a child, he harboured ambitions to become a pilot in the RAF and joined the Air Training Corps, but after leaving school, he took a draughtsman's apprenticeship at a shipbuilder's yard instead. However, after appearing in various amateur dramatic productions, he quit his job to take up acting full time.

Career: Robson started out at Newcastle's Live Theatre, and was spotted in BBC production A Night on the Tyne, which led to a regular role in Casualty. He then spent four years in Soldier Soldier, during which he began a successful singing partnership with co-star Jerome Flynn. The pair also starred together in Ain't Misbehavin' in 1997. Other projects include The Student Prince, Touching Evil, Grafters, Northern Lights, Wire in the Blood, Close and True, Being Human and Waterloo Road. A keen fisherman, he has filmed several series of Extreme Fishing with Robson Green, which has taken him across the globe. He also has a production company, Coastal.

Quote: 'Always turn up on time, know your lines and get to know the people you work with.'

Trivia: He supports Newcastle United FC.

Tom Brittney (Actor) .. Will Davenport

Al Weaver (Actor) .. Leonard Finch

Tessa Peake-Jones (Actor) .. Mrs Chapman

Kacey Ainsworth (Actor) .. Cathy Keating

Born: October 19, 1968 in Ware, Hertfordshire

Best Known For: Playing Little Mo in EastEnders.

Early-life: Born on October 19, 1968 in Ware, Hertfordshire to Hazel and Edward. She attended Westfield Junior School in Hoddesdon and Presdales School in Ware, Hertfordshire.

Career: Ainsworth had guest appearances in a number of TV series, such as The Bill and A Touch of Frost, before landing the role of Little Mo in EastEnders. She stayed with the soap opera from 2000 until 2006. Since then, she has starred in such TV series as Holby Blue, The Wright Way and Call the Midwife. Her biggest role since appearing in EastEnders was as Cathy Keating in Granchester.

Quote: On EastEnders: 'I look back on my time on EastEnders with real nostalgia. The Slaters made a big impact and it all worked well.'

Trivia: In 2002, she won Best Actress at the British Soap Award, Most Popular Actress at National Television Awards and Best Soap Actress at TV Quick Awards.

Nick Brimble (Actor) .. Jack Chapman

Born: July 22, 1944 in Bristol

Best Known For: Playing Little John in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

Early-life: Nicholas Brimble was born on July 22, 1944 in Bristol. His father was a schoolteacher and he has two brothers, Ian and Vincent, who have both also become actors. He attended Bristol Grammar School before going on to study Philosophy and English Literature at the University of Sussex, where he got a Master's degree. Nick went on to teach English and Drama at the University of Baghdad but left due to political unrest. He taught at a south London comprehensive school before deciding to try to become an actor.

Career: Brimble started his acting career in theatre, beginning with a job as youth theatre organiser at the Marlowe Theatre and also acting in some of the theatre's plays. He went on to perform in theatre productions by a number of companies. In 1973, he started landing TV roles, starting with Wessex Tales. Following this, he appeared in such TV productions as The Sweeney, The Professionals and Dempsey and Makepeace. His film roles included Sweeney! (1977), Silver Dream Racer (1980) and Who Dares Wins (1982) before he was cast as Little John in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991). Since then, he has appeared in such films as Loch Ness (1996), Seven Days to Live (2000) and A Knight's Tale (2001). Meanwhile, in TV, he has appeared in To Play the King, Ivanhoe, Emmerdale, The Bill and Grantchester.

Quote: 'Your job as an actor is to look like you know what you are doing - even if you don't.'

Trivia: He went to every play at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre from the age of 11 until he went to university at 18.

Oliver Dimsdale (Actor) .. Daniel Marlowe

Simona Brown (Actor) .. Violet Todd

Paterson Joseph (Actor) .. Rev Nathaniel Todd

Born: June 22, 1965 in London

Best Known For: A string of TV roles.

Early-life: Paterson was born in London on June 22, 1965. He trained to be an actor at the Studio '68 of Theatre Arts, London, and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. In 1989, he made his TV debut in the drama Streetwise. Roles followed in The Bill, Between the Lines, Soldier Soldier, Neverwhere, and Casualty.

Career: Joseph has starred in a number of TV shows, playing recurring roles in My Dad's the Prime Minister, William and Mary, Green Wing, Jekyll, Hyperdrive, Chop Socky Chooks, That Mitchell and Webb Look, Survivors, and Peep Show. More recently, he has starred in Law & Order: UK, The Leftovers, Babylon, and Safe House. His film credits include In the Name of the Father (1993), The Beach (2000) and The Other Man (2008).

Quote: On the police: 'It will always be different for people who are considered to be not working class in this country. I think the middle classes have a very different idea of what and who the police are.'

Trivia: In 1991, Joseph won second prize in the Ian Charleson Awards for his 1990 performances of Oswald in King Lear, Dumaine in Love's Labour's Lost, and the Marquis de Mota in The Last Days of Don Juan, all for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Samuel West (Actor) .. Prof Henry Barkley

Born: June 19, 1966 in London

Best Known For: His roles in Howards End and Hornblower.

Early-life: Samuel Alexander Joseph West was born in south London on June 19, 1966, to thespians Prunella Scales and Timothy West. He has a younger brother, Joe, and an older half-sister, Juliet, from his father's first marriage. His childhood was spent either at home with his mother or visiting his father on location around the globe. His parents discouraged him from becoming an actor, and at first it seemed their ploy worked when he concentrated on studying science at school. He planned to study physics at Oxford University, but switched to English.

Career: West had a small part in TV series Nanny when he was 13, but didn't become hooked on acting until appearing with Oxford University's theatre group. He went on to appear in a TV adaptation of the Chronicles of Narnia as Prince Caspian, but 1992's Howards End was his big break, earning him a Bafta nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Since then he's appeared in A Feast at Midnight, Carrington, Persuasion, Jane Eyre, Stiff Upper Lips, Hornblower, Iris, and Van Helsing. He also starred in the critically acclaimed play ENRON in 2009 and alongside his father in Caryl Churchill's two-hander A Number, in 2011. In 2012 he appeared as grumpy angel Zac Gist in ITV1's fantasy drama Eternal Law. More recently he featured in Hyde Park on Hudson and Mr Selfridge.

Quote: 'The problem with being fashionable is you become unfashionable.'

Trivia: In 2005 West became the artistic director of Sheffield Theatres, eventually leaving two years later when the city's Crucible was closed for refurbishment. He's also directed a number of plays.

Antony Acheampong (Actor) .. Robert Deveaux

Sandra Teles (Actor) .. Madhia Barkley

Tok Stephen (Actor) .. Charles Todd

Dominic Herman-Day (Actor) .. Gregory Jones

Bradley Hall (Actor) .. Larry Peters

Sarah Crowden (Actor) .. Mrs Bennett

Skye Lucia Degruttola (Actor) .. Esme Keating

Daisy Coulam (Executive producer)

Richard Cookson (Producer)

Rhian Griffiths (Producer)

Tim Fywell (Director)

Diederick Santer (Executive producer)

Emma Kingsman-Lloyd (Executive producer)

10:00 pm - 11:00 pm, Friday, July 31 on ITV3 (10)

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