Midsomer Murders - With Baited Breath - 6:00 pm Sunday, June 7 on ITV3

Neil Dudgeon (Actor) .. DCI John Barnaby

Born: January 01, 1961 in Doncaster

Best Known For: Being the new Barnaby in Midsomer Murders.

Early-life: Born in Doncaster in 1961. His dad drove a bread delivery van and his mum was an assistant supermarket manager, although they both also performed on the club circuit. Neil credits his own love of acting to a teacher who forced him to read aloud in an assembly _ it was supposed to be a punishment for misbehaving in class, but Neil found he actually enjoyed it. He went to appear in school plays, before studying drama at Rada.

Career: Neil made his film debut in 1987 with an uncredited role in Prick Up Your Ears, and went on to appear in London's Burning on TV the following year. He's worked pretty steadily since then in a wide range of TV shows, although he admits he's most frequently cast as a cop _ he's starred in Inspector Morse, Out of the Blue, Between the Lines, Messiah and Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking. Last year it was announced that he would be taking on his most high-profile police role to date when he took over from John Nettles as the star of Midsomer Murders. He has also starred alongside Caroline Quentin in the sitcom Life of Riley.

Quote: On joining Midsomer Murders: "My secret dream is that viewers will switch on, watch it all the way through and not notice there's a new bloke in it."

Trivia: He has starred in a number of dramas on Radio 3 and Radio 4.

Nick Hendrix (Actor) .. DS Jamie Winter

Annette Badland (Actor) .. Fleur Perkins

Born: August 26, 1950 in Birmingham

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

Early-life: Annette was born in Birmingham on August 26, 1950. She trained at the East 15 Acting School in London. In 1975, she made her TV debut as a tap dancing pupil in The Naked Civil Servant. Her next project was the film Jabberwocky (1977).

Career: During a long and prolific acting career, Badland has made appearances in a number of popular TV shows, including Shoestring, The Gentle Touch, Minder, Bergerac, All Creatures Great and Small, Making Out, Love Hurts, Outside Edge, and The Bill. Her film credits include The Grotesque (1995), Little Voice (1998), Beautiful People (1999) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). More recently, she has starred in Doctor Who, All the Small Things, You, Me & Them, Man Down, Father Brown, Wizards vs Aliens, and Outlander. In 2014, she joined the cast of EastEnders, playing Babe Smith.

Quote: 'The sea has always been a strong force for me - if I want to think about things I tend to go off to the coast.'

Trivia: Badland was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild award with her fellow cast members for Little Voice.

Aneurin Barnard (Actor) .. Freddie Lamb

Born: May 08, 1987 in Ogwr, Mid Glamorgan

Fiona Dolman (Actor) .. Sarah Barnaby

Born: January 01, 1970 in Findhorn, Moray

Best Known For: The Royal Today, Heartbeat and Midsomer Murders.

Early-life: Fiona Jane Dolman was born in Findhorn, Moray, on January 1, 1970 to Rosemary and Gordon. She is the youngest daughter of four children. Her father worked in the RAF and he moved his family to Gibraltar when Fiona was 15. In 1993, she made her TV acting debut in Crime Story.

Career: Roles followed for Dolman on the small screen in Strike Force, A Touch of Frost, The Knock and Ultraviolet. In 1998, she joined the cast of Heartbeat playing Jackie Lambert. She went on to have a recurring role in The Royal Today. In 2011, she began playing Sarah Barnaby alongside Neil Dudgeon in Midsomer Murders.

Quote: On working with the Barnaby's dog on Midsomer Murders: 'We have sausages strapped to bags and in pockets so the dog follows you around.'

Trivia: At the age of 16 and 17 years, Dolman won awards at the Gibraltar RAF ladies windsurfing championships.

Eleanor Fanyinka (Actor) .. Jade-Marie Pierce

Vincent Franklin (Actor) .. Artie Blythe

Born: November 03, 1966 in Yorkshire

Best Known For: A string of roles.

Early-life: Vincent Warren Franklin was born in Yorkshire on November 3, 1966. While studying drama at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Vincent worked shifts in a Clifton restaurant. He made his TV debut in an edition of Sharman in 1996.

Career: Franklin is best known for playing PR guru Stewart Pearson in The Thick of It. His other TV credits include The Office, Doc Martin, Twenty Twelve and the TV movie That Day We Sang. In 2015, he played his first lead role, in Channel 4 drama Cucumber. He has appeared in a number of films, including Topsy-Turvy (1999), From Hell (2001), The Bourne Identity (2002), Vera Drake (2004), Mr Turner (2014) and The Riot Club (2014). He also has extensive theatre credits.

Quote: 'I played a Tory party spin doctor for five years and nobody said to me, are you really a Tory? But as soon as you play a gay character, people want to know if you're really gay.'

Trivia: Franklin is a founder of the communications consultancy Quietroom.

Nitin Ganatra (Actor) .. Eric Skye

Born: June 30, 1967 in Kenya

Best Known For: Playing Masood Ahmed in EastEnders.

Early-life: Born Nitin Chandra Ganatra in Kenya on June 30, 1967, his family's origins are in India. His great grandfather had arrived in Kenya to work on the railways. Nitin was three when his family moved to Coventry. He went on to study Drama, Film and Television at the University of Bristol.

Career: His many film and TV appearances include roles in Truly Madly Deeply (1990), Secrets & Lies (1996), This Life, Extremely Dangerous, Murder in Mind, The Jury, Rescue Me, Being April, Holby City and Bride & Prejudice (2004). In 2005, he became known to worldwide audiences for playing Prince Pondicherry in Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He went on to star in Meet the Magoons, Jane Hall, The Bill, New Tricks and Mumbai Calling before joining EastEnders in 2007 as good-natured postman Masood Ahmed. More recently, he investigated why his family moved to England in Who Do You Think You Are?

Quote: 'I've got that sort of face that always, always gets stopped at immigration and customs. It just says ‘come here sir we need to do a strip search''

Trivia: At the British Soap Awards 2009, Ganatra and his EastEnders co-star Nina Wadia won the award for Best On Screen Partnership.

Miles Jupp (Actor) .. Cornelius Tetbury

Born: September 08, 1979 in Newcastle Upon Tyne

Best Known For: Starring in Rev and Balamory

Early-life: Miles was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1979, but spent most of his childhood in London. His father was a minister in the United Reform Church, and it initially looked as if Miles was going to follow in his footsteps when he studied Divinity at the University of Edinburgh. However, he combined his studies _ and a job as a trainee chaplain in the local psychiatric hospital _ with performing as a stand-up comedian.

Career: His stand-up career started to take off _ he won the So You Think You're Funny? competition in 2001 and two years later was nominated for the Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In 2002, he also won over a younger audience when he was cast as Archie the inventor in the children's TV series Balamory, which ran for three years. Since then, he's gone on to appear in acclaimed sitcoms such as The Thick Of It and Rev, and has cropped up on numerous panel shows. He's also appeared in films ranging from Johnny English Reborn to Grimsby and The Legend of Tarzan, and took over from Sandi Toksvig as the host of Radio 4's The News Quiz.

Quote: On being typecast as polite, repressed characters: "I was moaning about this the other day to a friend and he said: 'What are you expecting to play - a Mexican drug lord?'"

Trivia: Miles starred as the actor David Tomlinson, who is probably best know for his role in Mary Poppins, in the one-man play The Life I Lead. He took on the project after numerous people _ including Tomlinson's eldest son _ remarked on the similarities between them.

Nicola Stephenson (Actor) .. Izzy Silvermane

Born: July 05, 1971 in Oldham

Best Known For: A string of TV roles.

Early-life: Nicola was born in Oldham on July 5, 1971. She made her TV debut in Children's Ward, but her big break came in the same year when she began playing Margaret Clemence in Channel 4 soap Brookside. Her on-air kiss with co-star Anna Friel on Brookside was the first pre-watershed lesbian kiss on British TV. A clip of the kiss was broadcast around the world during the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony.

Career: After leaving Brookside in 1993, Stephenson went on to star in a number of popular TV shows, including The Bill, Casualty, Holby City, Clocking Off, Christmas Lights, Northern Lights, City Lights, The Chase, All at Sea, and Waterloo Road. More recently, she starred in ITV drama Safe House.

Quote: 'I have the knees of an eight-year-old child - all covered in bruises - because I am so accident- prone.'

Trivia: Stephenson needed to become a qualified fork-lift driver for her role in Clocking Off.

Bronagh Waugh (Actor) .. Blaise McQuinn

Lloyd Everitt (Actor) .. Harper Kaplan

Andrew Brooke (Actor) .. Lex Bedford

Morgan Watkins (Actor) .. Griffin Twigg

Krupa Pattani (Actor) .. Simone Skye

John Stahl (Actor) .. Damian Lint

Paul Hunter (Actor) .. Gert Michaels

Isabel Shaw (Actor) .. Betty Barnaby

Chelsea Mather (Actor) .. Chelsea

Jeff Povey (Writer)

Jennie Darnell (Director)

Guy Hescott (Producer)

Michele Buck (Executive producer)

Louise Pedersen (Executive producer)

Midsomer Murders: With Baited Breath

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm, Sunday, June 7 on ITV3 (10)

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With Baited Breath
Season 21, Episode 4

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