The Bill - We Are Family - Part Two - 06:10 am Saturday, January 24 on U&W

Louisa Lytton (Actor) .. PC Beth Green

Born: February 07, 1989 in London

Best Known For: Playing Ruby Allen in EastEnders.

Early-life: Louisa Claire Lytton was born in London on February 7, 1989. She is of Italian descent on her mother's side. Louisa studied at the Sylvia Young Theatre School in London. Her first TV appearance was as a little girl in the 1999 BBC comedy Let Them Eat Cake.

Career: Lytton's big break came in 2005 when she began playing Ruby Allen in EastEnders. She left the show in 2006 and went on to star in The Bill from May 2007 until March 2009. Since then, she has made guest appearances in Casualty and Murdoch Mysteries and starred in the films Payback Season (2012), The Knot (2012) and Young, High and Dead (2013). In 2014, she had a recurring role in the ITV comedy drama Edge of Heaven. Away from acting, Lytton finished in fourth place in the 2006 series of Strictly Come Dancing and finished 9th out of 14 as one half of the United Kingdom's entry for the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest. On the stage, she has starred in Annie and Boogie Nights. In early 2016, she was a contestant on Channel 4's sporting reality show The Jump.

Quote: "Everyone in my family is naturally quite small. I never diet, I just try to eat healthily."

Trivia: Lytton supports Arsenal FC.

Doug Rao (Actor) .. DS Stuart Turner

Bruce Byron (Actor) .. DC Terry Perkins

Ali Bastian (Actor) .. PC Sally Armstrong

Joe Absolom (Actor) .. Mark Lawrence

Born: December 16, 1978 in London

Best Known For: Playing Matthew Rose in EastEnders, and Al in Doc Martin.

Early-life: Born December 16, 1978, in London. He has an older brother, Dan, and younger sister, Cassie. After appearing in a school play as a runner bean at the age of 10, he took up acting professionally. His father sent photos of his three children to an agency just for fun, but Joe became hooked on treading the boards. His first TV appearance came in an advert for peanut butter. More commercials followed.

Career: Absolom made his drama debut in 1991's Antonia and Jane, and hasn't looked back since. He worked consistently throughout his teens - by the time he was 18, he had appeared on TV in the likes of The Bill, Silent Witness and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Touching Evil and Dangerfield followed, but he didn't become a famous face until he starred in EastEnders. He left in 2000 after three years in the soap. Since then he's starred in Extreme Ops, Stan the Man, Unconditional Love, Servants and PoW. He also has a regular role in ITV's comedy drama Doc Martin and featured alongside Kevin Costner and fellow ex-Walford resident Michael Greco in the Western series Hatfields and McCoys.

Quote: "Acting's not a career I contemplated. I thought I'd go to university and spend three years drunk, then try to start to live properly."

Trivia: In 2010, Absolom won a celebrity version of Total Wipeout, winning £10,000 for charity.

Sarah Fuller (Actor) .. Elspeth Brodie

Maya Sondhi (Actor) .. Kim Law

Rosie Rowell (Actor) .. Fiona Marlowe

Ray MacAllan (Actor) .. Alan Marlowe

Sally Rogers (Actor) .. DC Jo Masters

Gary Lucy (Actor) .. PC Will Fletcher

Born: November 27, 1981 in Chigwell

Best Known For: Footballers' Wives.

Early-life: Gary Edward Lucy was born in Chigwell, Essex, on 27 November, 1981, to parents Rosemary and Gary Sr. From a very early age he loved football and has been a lifelong Arsenal fan. He showed a lot of natural flair as a player during his schooling, but despite trying out for both Tottenham Hotspur and Watford, he decided to pursue acting.

Career: Gary made his screen debut in Sky One's Dream Team back in 1997, but it was his performance as Luke Morgan in Hollyoaks that shot him to fame two years later. The character was at the centre of several important plots, including a controversial male rape storyline, and he became a firm favourite with fans. In 2002 he moved to ITV1 to appear in three seasons of the glossy drama Footballers' Wives alongside Gillian Taylforth and Zoe Lucker. The feature-length Ray Winstone drama She's Gone followed in 2004, and a year later joined the cast of The Bill. In 2010, he finished runner-up in the fifth series of Dancing on Ice. In 2012, he joined the cast of EastEnders as Danny Pennant. He stayed with the show until February 2014.

Quote: "We're not here for a long time, we're here for a good time."

Trivia: He has created a number of online businesses, including drivinglessonsfinder.co.uk.

Bryony Afferson (Actor) .. Ellie Rogers

Jason Barnett (Actor) .. CSE Eddie Olosunje

Sharon Duce (Actor) .. Doreen Hutton

Micah Balfour (Actor) .. PC Benjamin Gayle

Roberta Taylor (Actor) .. Insp Gina Gold

Born: February 26, 1948 in London

Best Known For: Playing Irene Raymond in EastEnders and Inspector Gina Gold in The Bill.

Early-life: Born the illegitimate child of a bus conductor on 26 February, 1948, in London, Roberta was brought up by her mother, aunts and grandmother. She was always very close to her mum, and they lived in the same street in London before she died suddenly of bronchial pneumonia. Roberta documented her early years in the 2005 memoir Too Many Mothers. After attending drama school in London, she joined the highly acclaimed Glasgow Citizens' Company and worked for years in theatre.

Career: Appeared in the projects Ladykillers, Inspector Morse, The Witches, Tom & Viv, Dangerfield and Silent Witness before being cast as Irene Raymond in EastEnders. She stayed with the hit soap for three years until 2000, then went on to appear in Doctors and Holby City. After four previous appearances in The Bill, she was finally cast as Gina Gold in 2002, and played the same character in spin-off series MIT: Murder Investigation Team. She also appeared in the BBC's 2005 critically acclaimed adaptation of Bleak House.

Quote: "It's fantastic to play somebody like Gina (in The Bill). She is just so sarcastic with everybody. It takes people's breath away and she is not shocked by anything."

Trivia: Away from acting, she is an active supporter of the Labour Party.

Lisa Maxwell (Actor) .. DI Samantha Nixon

Born: November 24, 1963 in London

Best Known For: The Bill and Loose Women.

Early-life: Born on November 24, 1963, in Elephant and Castle, London. She was raised by her mother Val, a solicitor's receptionist, after her father walked out on them; she met him again when she was 45. Thanks to her performances at the Italia Conti Stage School, she was encouraged to pursue a showbusiness career by her mum. At 11, she won a role in the stage production Annie, appeared in the TV drama Ballet Shoes and made the schools programme A Place Like Home.

Career: Maxwell's first big break came in the early 1980s, when she was picked to front youth programme No Limits. She also provided the voice of Kira in 1982's cult movie The Dark Crystal. A role in the film Remembrance followed, as did TV series Splash. She became a household name while appearing alongside Russ Abbot and Les Dennis in their comedy series. Her popularity led to her own show, and in 1993 she moved to America. Maxwell landed the role of Daphne in Frasier but, after criticising the scripts, was replaced by Jane Leeves. She returned to the UK where she worked on stage and appeared in In Deep, before joining The Bill as Sam Nixon in 2002. She has appeared as a regular contributor on Loose Women since 2009.

Quote: On working with Russ Abbott: "They were happy, happy days. Just imagine this, you get up every morning and all you've got to do is go and play silly beggars."

Trivia: Maxwell proposed to her partner Paul Jessup, on the traditional Leap Year Day (29 February 2012).

Gemma Lawrence (Actor) .. Lucy Burton

Tom Higgins (Writer)

Nigel Douglas (Director)

Sylvie Boden (Producer)

The Bill: We Are Family - Part Two

06:10 am - 07:00 am, Saturday, January 24 on U&W (25)

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We Are Family - Part Two
Season 24, Episode 40

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