Silent Witness - Commodity - 11:00 pm Monday, July 6 on U&Drama

Emilia Fox (Actor) .. Dr Nikki Alexander

Born: July 31, 1974 in London

Best Known For: Silent Witness.

Early-life: Emilia Rose Elizabeth Fox was born on July 31, 1974, in London, to thespians Edward Fox and Joanna David. With so many relatives involved in the entertainment industry, including her uncles James and Robert, and grandmother Angela, Emilia naturally gravitated towards an acting career and made her screen debut in the acclaimed TV version of Pride and Prejudice alongside Colin Firth and her mother Joanna while still a student at Oxford University. Her younger brother, Freddie, has also decided to follow the family tradition. Emilia is also musical - she plays the cello, piano and trumpet.

Career: Since leaving full-time education, Fox has worked consistently on TV, but still found time to tread the boards and appear in movies. Period dramas Rebecca, The Round Tower and the aforementioned Pride and Prejudice brought her fame, but it was the remake of Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) in 2000 that made her a household name. In 2002 she starred in Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning The Pianist and has more recently worked with Britain's acting elite in Gunpowder, Treason & Plot, The Virgin Queen, Marple: The Moving Finger, Born Equal, Upstairs Downstairs and Fallen Angel. In 2004 she took over from Amanda Burton as the lead actress in Silent Witness, and has been playing forensic pathologist Nikki Alexander ever since.

Quote: On attending film premieres: 'If you want to see that film, then great, but don't do it just to have your photo taken because that's silly, and inevitably you get hurt by it. People start picking up on things about your life that are irrelevant.'

Trivia: She is a patron of the environmental and human rights charity the Environmental Justice Foundation.

David Caves (Actor) .. Jack Hodgson

Richard Lintern (Actor) .. Dr Thomas Chamberlain

Liz Carr (Actor) .. Clarissa Mullery

Elliot Levey (Actor) .. Adam Freedman

Kaye Wragg (Actor) .. DS Anne Burchett

Born: May 04, 1972 in Stockport

Best Known For: The Lakes, The Bill and Holby City.

Early-life: Kaye Michelle Wragg was born in Stockport on May 4, 1972. She went on to study Media Performance at the University of Salford. She first made an impact as an actress playing the manipulative Lucy Archer in Jimmy McGovern's acclaimed 1990s drama The Lakes.

Career: Wragg has been a regular on TV screens, appearing in the likes of The Sins, In a Land of Plenty, Mersey Beat, My Family, Wire in the Blood, No Angels, and The Bill. More recently, she has made guest appearances in Inspector George Gently, Vera, Silk, Call the Midwife, Silent Witness, Waterloo Road and Death in Paradise. In 2015, she became a regular on Holby City.

Quote: 'I'm very scared of the police. I always feel guilty when I've not done anything.'

Trivia: In The Bill, she always tried to do her own stunts.

Hugo Becker (Actor) .. Isaac Dreyfus

Tim Dantay (Actor) .. Ron McNally

Ace Bhatti (Actor) .. Mousa Rashid

Best Known For: Playing Yusef Khan in EastEnders.

Early-life: Ahsen Rafiq Bhatti was born on September 13, 1969 in Nottingham. He started his acting career at age 14, appearing in the children's series Dramarama. Ace trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Career: In the 1990s, Bhatti's career started to take off. He got roles in such TV series as Family Pride, Band of Gold, Cardiac Arrest and Holding On. In 2002, he made an appearance in the film Bend It Like Beckham. The next year, he had the lead part in the TV dark comedy Grease Monkeys. He went on to appear in New Street Law, Secret Diary of a Call Girl and The Sarah Jane Adventures before landing the role of Yusef Khan in EastEnders in 2010. Bhatti departed from the soap opera in 2011 and, since then, he has made appearances in a number of TV series, including Black Work, Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands, DCI Banks and Three Girls.

Quote: 'In my career, I've played quite a few dysfunctional people! But what I've learned is that you also have to find empathy in any character and there's reasons why people are a certain way.'

Trivia: He used to be part of a lifeboat crew.

Alex Norton (Actor) .. David Preston

Heida Reed (Actor) .. Monica Dreyfus

Born: May 22, 1988 in Reykjavik, Iceland

Best Known For: Playing Elizabeth in Poldark.

Early-life: Born Heida Run Sigurdardottir on May 22, 1988 in Reykjavik, Iceland. Heida left Iceland when she was 18 and settled in London when she was 20, where she studied drama at Drama Centre London. She graduated in 2010.

Career: Reed made her feature film debut with a small role in One Day (2011). The next year, she appeared in DCI Banks and starred in the film Vampire Nation (2012). She played Adele Gauthier in the TV series Jo in 2013. Following this, she appeared in Silent Witness and TV mini-series The Lava Field. Reed joined the cast of period drama Poldark in 2015. She plays Elizabeth. Aside from this, she has appeared in the TV series Toast of London and Death in Paradise.

Quote: On acting: "I think you need to believe in your character the way they would themselves if they were real."

Trivia: She was sent to India to film adverts as a teenager and was meant to stay for three months, however she stayed for 18 months after falling in love with the place.

Natalie Cruceru (Actor) .. Zara Dreyfus

Adrian Rawlins (Actor) .. DI John Leighton

Faraz Khokar (Actor) .. Mahmoud

Perdita Avery (Actor) .. Lucy Horton-Jones

Shane Zaza (Actor) .. Sami Rashid

Shani Erez (Actor) .. Ruth

Paul Marc Davis (Actor) .. Benjamin

Nitin Kundra (Actor) .. Bazza Numan

Poppy Corby-Tuech (Actor) .. Eva Liron

Michael Peluso (Actor) .. Carlos Estevez

Brooks Livermore (Actor) .. Uniformed officer

Daniel O'Hara (Director)

Sharon Bloom (Producer)

Phillippa Giles (Executive producer)

Timothy Prager (Writer)

Silent Witness: Commodity

11:00 pm - 01:15 am, Monday, July 6 on U&Drama (20)

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