Midsomer Murders - The Stitcher Society - 11:50 pm Sunday, December 28 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.

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.

Keith Allen (Actor) .. Harry Marx

Born: June 02, 1953 in Gorseinon, near Swansea

Best Known For: Being the bad boy of TV.

Early-life: Despite his allegiance to the England football team, Keith Howell Charles Allen was born in Swansea, South Wales, in 1953. He supports Fulham FC. His brother Kevin is an actor, director and comedian. On leaving school, Keith had a variety of jobs, including coal mining (although he only completed three shifts), running the shooting gallery at a funfair and working in a chicken factory. His big showbusiness break came when he went down a storm at the Comedy Store in 1979.

Career: Allen was in a number of Comic Strip Presents... programmes during the 1980s. He also appeared in an episode of The Young Ones and made his film debut in Crystal Gazing, which he co-wrote. Among his highest profile projects are Scandal, A Very British Coup, Carry On Columbus, The Young Americans, Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, Martin Chuzzlewit, De-Lovely, 24 Hour Party People and The Others. Allen featured in BBC reality show Art School, released football-themed single Vindaloo as part of the band Fat Les, has conducted often-controversial interviews for Channel 4, and was most recently seen playing the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood. More recently, he has starred in The Body Farm, By Any Means, and My Mad Fat Diary.

Quote: "I'm similar to Marmite in many respects. People either love me or hate me."

Trivia: He supports Fulham FC.

Peter De Jersey (Actor) .. Toby Wagner

Lizzy McInnerny (Actor) .. Alberta Tooms

Michael Nardone (Actor) .. Mack McInally

John Thomson (Actor) .. Cooper Steinem

Born: April 02, 1969 in Salford

Best Known For: Cold Feet and The Fast Show.

Early-life: Thomson was born Patrick Francis McAleer in Salford on April 2, 1969 to Mary McAleer, who gave him up for adoption six weeks later. He was adopted from the Catholic Children's Rescue Society by Andrew and Marita Thomson, a businessman and a bookseller from Didsbury. He attended Runshaw College between 1985 and 1987, studying for four A-levels, including theatre studies. He was described as "clearly a talent for comedy". Following this, he turned down a scholarship in America to study drama at Manchester Polytechnic.

Career: While at university, Thomson met Steve Coogan, who secured him a job on Spitting Image. They would continue to collaborate on such programmes as Coogan's Run , the Paul and Pauline Calf video diaries (where he played Fat Bob) and Knowing Me, Knowing You... with Alan Partridge, which he also contributed to writing. In 1994, Thomson appeared in the BBC sketch series The Fast Show. He made guest appearances on various series such as Soldier Soldier, Playing the Field and Men Behaving Badly in the 1990s before being cast as Pete Gifford in the ITV hit comedy drama Cold Feet. He participated in the BBC series Comic Relief does Fame Academy and chalked up several TV shows before starring in another TV series, New Street Law, about a Manchester chambers. He has since appeared in Kingdom and Coronation Street.

Quote: "People who know me know me, but the public believe what they read in the papers. They stare at me. I wonder what they're thinking."

Trivia: Thomson was a contestant in the 2013 series of Celebrity MasterChef.

Harriet Thorpe (Actor) .. Georgie Tremayne

Hannah Waddingham (Actor) .. Mimi Dagmar

Best Known For: A successful stage career.

Early-life: Hannah was born in London in 1974 to opera singer Melodie Waddingham. Hannah knew that performing was the career for her after watching her mother in action at the London Coliseum. Hannah went on to study drama at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts in London.

Career: Waddingham's stage credits include The Beautiful Game, Tonight's the Night, Lautrec, Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens and Grease. She was nominated for an Olivier Award for her portrayal of the Lady of the Lake in Spamalot, a role she went on to play on Broadway. Her other theatre credits include A Little Night Music, Into the Woods, The Wizard of Oz and Kiss Me, Kate. On TV, she has starred in Coupling, William and Mary, Doctors, Agatha Christie's Marple and Benidorm. Her film credits include How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) and Les Miserables (2012).

Quote: "Broadway is everything I dreamed it would be."

Trivia: In 2000, she won two Musical Theatre Awards for the role of Suzanne Valadon in Lautrec.

Silas Carson (Actor) .. Rueben Tooms

Natalie Simpson (Actor) .. Erika Marx

Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (Actor) .. Gideon Tooms

Nimmy March (Actor) .. Julia Steinem

Sirine Saba (Actor) .. Jocasta Farthing

Jeff Povey (Writer)

Roberto Bangura (Director)

Carol Ann Docherty (Producer)

Michele Buck (Executive producer)

Louise Pedersen (Executive producer)

Midsomer Murders: The Stitcher Society

11:50 pm - 01:50 am, Sunday, December 28 on ITV3 (10)

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