Grantchester

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.

Lauren Carse (Actor) .. Ellie Harding

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.

(Actor) .. Betsey Granger

Born: October 26, 1981 in Bromley, Kent

Best Known For: Roles in a string of stage and screen hits.

Early-life: Zoe Tapper was born on October 26, 1981, in Bromley, Kent. She trained at the Academy Drama School and at the Central School of Speech and Drama, from which she graduated in the spring of 2003, days before taking on her first film role. She first came to prominence playing Nell Gwynne in Richard Eyre's award-winning film Stage Beauty in 2004 and has since notched up a steady string of stage and screen credits.

Career: Starring roles on TV include playing Mary Collins in A Harlot's Progress for Channel 4, Jane in Oliver Parker's The Private Life of Samuel Pepys alongside Steve Coogan, Gemma in the first series of the Sky One UK TV series Hex, Hermia in the 2005 BBC TV adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Jenny Maple in the BBC miniseries Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, Sheila Steafel in the 2008 BBC TV play The Curse of Steptoe and Anya Raczynski in the action-packed BBC remake of Survivors. She also took the lead role in the small-screen version of the Gothic ghost story Affinity.

Quote: 'I did a stunt with Mackenzie Crook where I had to kick him and grab him by the throat and it was great fun.'

Trivia: On stage, she has appeared in Epitaph For George Dillon in the West End, and Othello at Shakespeare's Globe.

Hamza Jeetooa (Actor) .. Tariq Hassan

Mark Umbers (Actor) .. Wyatt Rogers

Tom Morley (Actor) .. Edwin Hensler

Ross Boatman (Actor) .. Vic Morgan

Sandra Huggett (Actor) .. Marie Morgan

Born: September 20, 1973 in Surrey

Best Known For: Playing Holly Miles in Casualty.

Early-life: Born on September 20, 1973 in Surrey to professional golfer Brian Huggett. Sandra grew up in Ross-On-Wye, Herefordshire. She attended Haberdashers Monmouth School for Girls and Mountview Theatre School. Before she started her acting career, she was a test-driver for Ford.

Career: Huggett's first TV role was as Holly Hart in the Channel 5 soap opera Family Affairs from 1997 until 1999. Following this, she joined the cast of Casualty as Holly Miles until 2001. Since then, she has appeared in a number of other TV series, including Doctors, Sweet Medicine and According to Bex. Huggett has worked in theatre, appearing in a touring production of Saturday Night Fever, and she does voiceovers for adverts and TV documentaries. More recently, she played Maxine in BBC Drama In The Club and has appeared in Coronation Street as D.S. MacKinnon.

Quote: 'Doing something different challenges you as an actor and having to do homework and research is great.'

Trivia: She has one daughter, Elsie, who was born in 2010.

Paula Wilcox (Actor) .. Diana

Jim Caesar (Actor) .. Matthew Butler

Jack Donoghue (Actor) .. Lucas Rawlings

Bradley Hall (Actor) .. Larry Peters

Skye Lucia Degruttola (Actor) .. Esme Keating

Rubie-Rose Fearfield (Actor) .. Keating child 1

Rose Allen (Actor) .. Keating child 2

Mason Chalke (Actor) .. Keating child 3

Harley Chalke (Actor) .. Keating child 4

Jake Riddell (Writer)

Daisy Coulam (Adapted by)

Richard Cookson (Producer)

Christiana Ebohon-Green (Director)

Rebecca Eaton (Executive producer)

Emma Kingsman-Lloyd (Executive producer)

10:00 pm - 11:00 pm, Thursday, August 6 on ITV3 (10)

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