Cadfael - The Sanctuary Sparrow - 08:40 am Sunday, January 4 on ITV4

Derek Jacobi (Actor) .. Brother Cadfael

Born: October 22, 1938 in London

Best Known For: His classical roles.

Early-life: Derek George Jacobi was born on October 22, 1938, in Leytonstone, east London. His mother was a secretary and his father managed a department store. He is an only child. He became hooked on movies and dancing as a boy and played Hamlet at school, with the production later appearing at the Edinburgh Festival. During his time there, he was invited to meet an agent, who told him that, at 18, he was too young to become a star. Jacobi spent the next three years studying history at Cambridge, where he befriended Ian McKellen and Trevor Nunn.

Career: Following acclaimed performances at university, Jacobi joined Birmingham Rep. He was spotted by Laurence Olivier, who invited him to join the National Theatre Company. He made his film debut alongside Olivier in 1965's Othello. Since then, Jacobi has continued to make acclaimed appearances on stage and screen. Among his films are The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, Love Is the Devil, Gladiator, Gosford Park, The King's Speech and Hereafter. He inspired Kenneth Branagh to become an actor and worked alongside him in Henry V, Hamlet and Dead Again. Jacobi won a Bafta for I, Claudius in 1977, starred in the medieval-set series Cadfael, played The Master in Doctor Who, is the narrator of In the Night Garden and scored a surprise hit with Last Tango in Halifax.

Quote: "As an actor conscious that you are in a theatre, you still have to make it look as spontaneous as if you did not know that you are being watched by 1,000 pairs of eyes."

Trivia: He received a knighthood in 1994.

Sean Pertwee (Actor) .. Hugh Beringar

Born: June 04, 1964 in London

Best Known For: Being the son of Doctor Who.

Early-life: Born June 4, 1964, in London, the second child of actor Jon Pertwee and his German wife Ingeborg. He has an older sister called Dariel. He was raised in Barnes, south-west London, and Ibiza, and had a happy childhood, although he admits to having gone through a wild phase. On leaving school, Pertwee worked behind the scenes for Southern TV, which produced his father's Worzel Gummidge series, but turned to acting when the company folded.

Career: While awaiting his big break, Pertwee trained as an animator and designed album covers. He worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and made his film debut with a brief role in 1987's Prick Up Your Ears. His appearances in such projects as Blue Juice, Stiff Upper Lips, Cadfael, Cleopatra, Event Horizon, The 51st State and Dog Soldiers turned him into a heart-throb. He was co-owner of production company Natural Nylon with his friends Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Jude Law and Sadie Frost, until its demise in 2003. A prolific voice-over artist, he's also appeared in The Tudors and the Goal movies. His recent projects include UFO, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, Elementary and Gotham.

Quote: "The whole movie star thing, I tell you, mate, it's just not for me."

Trivia: He has voiced characters in a number of video games.

Peter Copley (Actor) .. Abbot Herribert

Michael Culver (Actor) .. Prior Robert

Julian Firth (Actor) .. Brother Jerome

Roy Barraclough (Actor) .. Walter Aurifaber

Rosalie Crutchley (Actor) .. Juliana Aurifaber

Fiona Gillies (Actor) .. Susanna Aurifaber

Maria Miles (Actor) .. Margery Aurifaber

Hugh Bonneville (Actor) .. Daniel Aurifaber

Born: November 10, 1963 in London

Best Known For: Downton Abbey.

Early-life: Born Hugh Richard Bonneville Williams on November 10, 1963, in London. When he was younger he was often mistaken for rugby hero Will Carling. After leaving school with good exam results, he was accepted by Cambridge University, where he was taught theology by Dr Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury. "Everything he said went completely over my head," says Bonneville of Williams's lectures. He originally wanted to be a lawyer, but decided to tread the boards instead.

Career: Following a spell on stage, Bonneville made his TV debut in teen sitcom Dodgem. He spent the next few years dividing his time between theatre, TV and film work, having small parts in such projects as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Cadfael, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Tomorrow Never Dies, Bugs, and Mosley. He had a regular role in sitcom Holding the Baby, but finally became a recognisable face thanks to the movie Notting Hill in 1999. Since then he's appeared in The Cazalets, Madame Bovary, The Gathering Storm, Tipping the Velvet, Doctor Zhivago, Twenty Twelve, and Love Again. He won rave reviews for his role in the TV comedy Freezing and Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story. However, he's become a TV superstar on both sides of the Atlantic in recent years thanks to his starring role in period drama Downton Abbey. Recent projects have included W1A and The Monuments Men.

Quote: "I was once congratulated in Oxford Street for my brilliant portrayal of Mr Darcy, so apparently I looked like Colin Firth when I had curly hair. I reckon I could play him in a biopic."

Trivia: He is a patron of the London children's charity Scene & Heard and medical relief charity Medical Emergency Relief International.

Steven Mackintosh (Actor) .. Liliwin

Born: April 30, 1967 in Cambridge

Best Known For: Playing a drug-dealer in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

Early-life: Steven Mackintosh was born on April 30, 1967, in Cambridge. He caught the drama bug and got his first acting job at 13. When more roles started flooding in, he had to decide between going to drama school or carrying on with his conventional education. He decided to pursue acting.

Career: Mackintosh made his TV debut in 1983 series Nanny, and went on to appear in Doctor Who, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4,The Bill, Care (for which he won a Royal Television Society Award), London Kills Me, The Buddha of Suburbia, Cadfael, Blue Juice, Prime Suspect, Undercover Heart and The Land Girls. He won Best Actor at the Brussels International Film Festival for his part in gender-bending comedy Different for Girls. Theatre roles have included Brighton Beach Memoirs and My Zinc Bed. His recent work includes Underworld: Evolution (and its second sequel), Shiny Shiny Bright New Hole in My Heart, Criminal Justice, Mo, and Luther.

Quote: "I'm not ambitious to be well-known, or for the accolades, but I am to do the stuff I like."

Patrick Brennan (Actor) .. John Boneth

Roger Booth (Actor) .. Baldwin Peche

Sara Stephens (Actor) .. Rannilt

David Tysall (Actor) .. Iestyn

Toby Jones (Actor) .. Griffin

Born: September 07, 1966 in London

Best Known For: A string of TV and film roles.

Early-life: Toby Edward Heslewood Jones was born in London on September 7, 1966 to actors Jennifer and Freddie Jones. His brother Casper is also an actor and his other brother Rupert is a director. Toby studied drama at the University of Manchester and at L'Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq in Paris. He made his acting debut in the film Orlando (1992). Since then, he has starred in scores of film and TV productions.

Career: Jones' TV credits include Cadfael, Midsomer Murders, The Last Detective, Doctor Who, Poirot and the miniseries Titanic. On the big screen, the in-demand actor has starred in Infamous (2006), St Trinian's (2007), Frost/Nixon (2008), W (2008), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), My Week with Marilyn (2011), The Hunger Games films, Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and Serena (2014). More recently, he has starred on TV in Agent Carter, Wayward Pines, Capital, Detectorists and The Secret Agent. He plays Captain Mainwaring in Dad's Army (2016). He was nominated for a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Alfred Hitchcock in the TV movie The Girl.

Quote: "I work best when a little scared, when there's so much more than the lines to think about."

Trivia: Jones was the voice of Dobby the House Elf in the Harry Potter movies.

Natascha McElhone (Actor) .. Cecily Corde

Born: December 14, 1971 in London

Best Known For: Playing opposite David Duchovny in US comedy-drama Californication.

Early-life: Natascha Abigail Taylor was born December 14, 1971, in Hampstead, London to journalist parents. They separated when she was two and her mother, Noreen Taylor, moved the family to Brighton. Natascha studied Irish dancing from age six to 12, and was educated at St Mary's School For Girls. She graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in 1993. Honed her craft on stage in Richard III, The Count of Monte Cristo and Midsummer Night's Dream. She made her TV debut in Bergerac in 1991 and went on to appear in Absolutely Fabulous a year later.

Career: McElhone made her film debut in 1996 offering Surviving Picasso, and appeared in Dennis Potter's final projects Karaoke and Cold Lazarus in the same year. Hollywood movies The Devil's Own, The Truman Show and Ronin boosted her profile, but over the past few years she's struggled to find hit projects with Love's Labours Lost, The Contaminated Man and Killing Me Softly among the movies which vanished without a trace. Solaris was also a costly flop, but she fared better in Charles Dance's movie Ladies in Lavender. She's currently playing David Duchovny's estranged partner in US series Californication and her recent projects have also included The Secret of Moonacre and Thorne: Sleepyhead.

Quote: On hearing the news of her husband's death: "I dropped the phone and my knees buckled under me."

Trivia: Married to Dr Martin Kelly for 10 years until his death in 2008. They had three children (their third son, Rex, was born five months after Kelly died).

Michael Nightingale (Actor) .. Ailwin Corde

Mark Charnock (Actor) .. Brother Oswin

Born: March 23, 1968 in Bolton

Best Known For: Playing Marlon Dingle in Emmerdale.

Early-life: Born in Bolton, Lancashire, on March 23, 1968, Mark was educated at Canon Slade School. He won a place at Hull University, but gave up his degree to pursue a career in acting, going on to join the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.

Career: Mark's first screen role was in an episode of 2point4 Children, and he had a bit part in Coronation Street before he found fame in Emmerdale. Prior to landing the role of Marlon, he starred alongside Derek Jacobi as the bumbling Brother Oswin in Cadfael. He first appeared in the Yorkshire-based soap in 1996 and has since gone on to become one of its most popular characters. He won a British Soap Award in 2004.

Quote: "I'm lucky really. I play a character than gets a lot of comedy and I also, every now and then, get some great drama. So my artistic thirst is quenched by the show. But I never plan beyond the next contract. It's presumptuous."

Trivia: Mark and actor Dale Meeks appeared as the Blues Brothers in Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes and they won.

Albie Woodington (Actor) .. Sergeant Warden

Peter Gyori (Actor) .. Daniel's Friend

Steven Beard (Actor) .. Brother Anselm

Raymond Llewellyn (Actor) .. Madog

Graham Theakston (Director)

Russell Lewis (Writer)

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