Berlin Station - Everything's Gonna Be Alt-Right - 11:35 pm Thursday, January 8 on ITV4

Richard Armitage (Actor) .. Daniel Miller

Born: August 22, 1971 in Leicester

Best Known For: BBC period drama Robin Hood, and Spooks.

Early-life: Richard Crispin Armitage was born on August 22, 1971, to parents John and Margaret, an engineer and secretary respectively. He was raised in Leicester and attended Pattison College in Coventry, before heading off to Budapest, Hungary, when he was 17 to join the circus. He eventually went to the London Academy for Music and Dramatic Arts to train as an actor. He also plays cello, guitar and flute.

Career: Armitage's first appearance on screen was in Brit-flick This Year's Love, with several small roles in Doctors, Casualty and Spooks following shortly afterwards. He landed the part of Capt Iain Macalwain in ITV1's Ultimate Force in 2003, and his star rose even higher thanks to Cold Feet, where he played Lee, and a major role in costume drama North & South, based on the Elizabeth Gaskell novel. He's since starred in a TV version of Macbeth, The Golden Hour, George Gently and Robin Hood. Armitage also took over from Rupert Penry-Jones as the male lead in Spooks.

Quote: On being asked what he knew of the Impressionist movement before starring as Claude Monet: "I've eaten my dinner off placemats and sent Mother's Day cards with Monet's Water Lilies on them, but that was about it."

Trivia: He has provided the voiceovers for a number of TV and radio advertisements.

Rhys Ifans (Actor) .. Hector DeJean

Born: July 28, 1968 in Ruthin, Wales

Best Known For: Spike in Notting Hill.

Early-life: Rhys Owain Evans was born on July 22, 1968, in Ruthin, Wales. Welsh is his first language. He's the son of two teachers, and has a brother, Llyr, who's also an actor. Ifans changed his name when he was 13, "just to be difficult and awkward". Around the same time he joined a youth theatre, and later moved to London to study acting at the Guildhall School.

Career: Ifans spent 18 months at the National Theatre and has also appeared at Manchester's Royal Exchange theatre. His first TV appearances were in Welsh-language programmes for S4C. In 1995, he made his movie debut in Streetlife. Two years later he appeared on the small screen in The Sin Eater and Trial and Retribution, and starred in the film Twin Town with his brother. Notting Hill made him a star in 1999. Since then he's featured in Kevin and Perry Go Large, Little Nicky, The 51st State, The Shipping News and Vanity Fair. His recent work includes Enduring Love, Hannibal Rising, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, The Boat That Rocked, Greenberg, Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, and The Amazing Spider-Man.

Quote: "The Welsh are not made to go out in the sun. They start to photosynthesise."

Trivia: In 2012, he became patron of the Living Paths Society.

Leland Orser (Actor) .. Robert Kirsch

Keke Palmer (Actor) .. April Lewis

John Doman (Actor) .. Richard Hanes

Michelle Forbes (Actor) .. Valerie Edwards

Ashley Judd (Actor) .. BB Yates

Born: April 19, 1968 in Los Angeles

Best Known For: Acting and political activism.

Early-life: Born Ashley Tyler Ciminella in Los Angeles on April 19, 1968, to country music singer Naomi Judd and marketing analyst Michael Ciminella. Her elder half-sister, Wynonna, is also a country music singer. Ashley's parents divorced in the early 1970s and her mother raised her in Kentucky. She went on to attend the University of Kentucky. After college, she moved to Hollywood and studied with acting teacher Robert Carnegie at Playhouse West. In 1991, she made her TV acting debut in two editions of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Career: From 1991 to 1994, Judd had a recurring role in the TV drama Sisters. She made her film debut with a small role in Kuffs (1992), and received critical acclaim a year later for her next movie, Ruby in Paradise. Since then, she has starred in Heat (1995), TV movie Norma Jean & Marilyn, Kiss the Girls (1997), Double Jeopardy (1997) and De-Lovely (2004). She has not played a lead role in a Hollywood movie since Twisted flopped in 2004.

Quote: "I was always told I was special. And I was also assured that I had a gift and a purpose."

Trivia: Judd is a global ambassador for YouthAIDS. She also supports a number of other charities and foundations, including Children's Medical Research Institute, Five & Alive, Jeans for Genes, and Malaria No More.

Richard Jenkins (Actor) .. Steven Frost

Born: May 04, 1947 in DeKalb, Illinois

Best Known For: The Visitor and The Cabin in the Woods.

Early-life: Richard Dale Jenkins was born in DeKalb, Illinois, on May 4, 1947 to dentist Dale and housewife Mary. He went on to study drama at Illinois Wesleyan University. He joined the Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island, and later served as its artistic director between 1990 and 1994. He made his debut in front of the camera in 1974 TV movie Feasting with Panthers.

Career: Jenkins has enjoyed a long career, mostly in supporting roles. His film credits include Silverado (1985), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), The Witches of Eastwick (1987), How to Make an American Quilt (1995), There's Something About Mary (1998), Me, Myself and Irene (2000), Step Brothers (2008) and The Three Stooges (2012). He had a rare lead role in the critically acclaimed The Vistor (2007). His recent films include The Cabin in the Woods (2012), Jack Reacher (2012) and White House Down (2013). On the small screen, he had a recurring role in Six Feet Under.

Quote: "There's nothing like walking onto a Hollywood sound stage."

Trivia: To make ends meet, he once drove a linen truck - his boss was actor John C Reilly's father.

Thomas Kretschmann (Actor) .. Otto Ganz

Born: September 08, 1962 in Dessau, East Germany

Best Known For: Playing Nazi officers in a number of films.

Early-life: Thomas was born in Dessau, East Germany, on September 8, 1962. Before showing any interest in acting, he trained to become an Olympic swimmer. At the age of 19, he crossed the borders of four countries in a month-long journey to reach West Germany. He was 25 when he began acting and went on to star in a number of European films and TV series.

Career: Kretschmann caught the eye of Hollywood casting directors when he played Captain Wilm Hosenfeld in Roman Polanski's The Pianist (2002). Since then, he has starred in Downfall (2004), Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004), King Kong (2005), Valkyrie (2008), The Young Victoria (2009) and Cars 2 (2011) as the voice of Professor Z. On the small screen, he starred in short-lived American supernatural drama The River. He can currently be seen playing Abraham Van Helsing in TV horror drama Dracula.

Quote: "I was born long after the [Second World] war but I still carry this collective guilt around."

Trivia: Kretschmann made his stage debut in Macbeth.

Mina Tander (Actor) .. Esther Krug

Emilia Schule (Actor) .. Lena Ganz

Heino Ferch (Actor) .. Joseph Emmerich

Natalia Worner (Actor) .. Katerina Gerhardt

Jannis Niewohner (Actor) .. Armando

Tony Basgallop (Writer)

Bradford Winters (Writer)

Christoph Schrewe (Director)

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