Holby City - Great Expectations - 09:30 am Monday, June 22 on U&Drama

Adrian Edmondson (Actor) .. Percy Durant

Born: January 24, 1957 in Bradford

Best Known For: His comedy partnership with Rik Mayall.

Early-life: Adrian Charles Edmondson was born in Bradford on January 24, 1957, the son of a teacher working for the Armed Forces. He was the second of four children. When Adrian was a year old, his family moved to Cyprus, then on to Bahrain and Uganda. At the age of 11, he was sent back to Britain to attend Pocklington School in East Yorkshire, where he was a boarder. At Manchester University, he met Rik Mayall, and later appeared in a one-man show at the National Student Drama Festival before joining forces with Mayall professionally.

Career: The duo went down a storm at the Edinburgh Festival in 1979 and became one of the main attractions at The Comedy Store and The Comic Strip clubs in London. Edmondson's TV debut came in November 1982 when The Comic Strip Presents… was shown on Channel 4's opening night. Days later, The Young Ones made him a famous face on BBC Two. Since then, he's starred in Saturday Live, Filthy, Rich and Catflap, Bottom, Guest House Paradiso (1999) and Jonathan Creek. He has directed television shows and pop videos, appeared in numerous stage plays, and written the novel The Gobbler. Edmondson showed his talent for serious acting when he spent three years in Holby City. He teamed up with Mayall once again in the winning performance on BBC One's Let's Dance for Comic Relief in 2011. Edmondson has appeared as a presenter on The Dales, Ade in Britain, That's Britain and Ade at Sea. He won Celebrity MasterChef in 2013. In 2016, he took part in The Great Sport Relief Bake Off and starred in an adaptation of Bits Of Me Are Falling Apart at the Soho Theatre in London.

Quote: 'From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.'

Trivia: Married comedy actress Jennifer Saunders in 1985.

Hugh Quarshie (Actor) .. Ric Griffin

Born: December 25, 1954 in Accra, Ghana

Best Known For: Playing Ric Griffin in Holby City.

Early-life: Hugh Antony Kobna Quarshie was born on December 22, 1954, in Accra, Ghana, where he spent the first few years of his life. He moved to England and grew up in Golders Green, north London. Hugh went to school in Cheltenham and later studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford, where he was president of the African Society, and co-director of the Oxford and Cambridge Shakespeare Company. After graduating, he worked as a journalist, becoming a sub-editor at West Africa Magazine.

Career: Made his small-screen debut in 1979 TV movie The Knowledge, and later featured in TV series Angels, Surgical Spirit and Medics. Appeared as Julius Caesar and Macbeth for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Starred in a string of movies including Highlander and Nightbreed. While filming Star Wars: Episode One _ The Phantom Menace in Italy, he drew more autograph hunters than co-star Liam Neeson because of his role as a priest in Italian horror film La Chiesa. He was asked to reprise his role of Captain Panaka in Attack of the Clones but turned it down. Over the past few years he has appeared in Conspiracy of Silence, The Afternoon Play, Doctor Who and Holby City.

Quote: 'My attitude to acting is if you take it too seriously then you're not taking your life seriously enough.'

Trivia: In 2010, he traced his Ghanaian and Dutch origins in an episode of Who Do You Think You Are?

Patricia Potter (Actor) .. Diane Lloyd

Luisa Bradshaw-White (Actor) .. Lisa Fox

Born: December 09, 1974 in London

Best Known For: This Life, Holby City and EastEnders.

Early-life: Luisa was born in London on December 9, 1974. She has an older sister, Sasha. She got into acting at a young age and portrayed Maria Watts in Grange Hill between 1991 and 1994.

Career: Bradshaw-White's first break came in 1996, when she played Kira in popular BBC drama This Life. She went on to make guest appearances in A Touch of Frost, The Bill, Birds of a Feather and London's Burning. She had recurring roles in Bad Girls and Holby City. In 2013, she joined the cast of EastEnders as Tina Carter.

Quote: 'I was only 19 when I was in This Life and all the attention was mental. There were all these parties. It was full on and it was very difficult to keep grounded.'

Trivia: She is a vegetarian.

Art Malik (Actor) .. Zubin Khan

Born: November 13, 1952 in Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Best Known For: The Jewel In The Crown and A Passage To India.

Early-life: Born Athar Ul-Haque on November 13, 1952, in Bahawalpur, Pakistan. One of six children, he moved to London when he was two. At the age of 10 he was sent to boarding school in Pakistan to 'rediscover his roots', returning to England a year later. He had his first theatrical experience at school and decided he wanted to act, a choice that didn't please his parents. He tried business studies before winning a scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1974.

Career: Malik took on minor roles until his big break came in The Jewel In The Crown. During the filming, director David Lean headhunted him for A Passage To India. Both were released in 1984, bringing Malik instant fame. In demand ever since, he has appeared in a host of TV and movie productions, including Bond movie The Living Daylights. He established himself as a movie villain in 1994 action blockbuster True Lies, and played a special needs teacher in acclaimed thriller Clockwork Mice. In recent years, Malik has appeared on the small screen in Life Support, Hotel!, Messiah, Holby City, The Nativity, Upstairs Downstairs, and Borgia.

Quote: 'Am I a star? I hope not, because star is just rats spelled backwards.'

Trivia: Malik was on the verge of being declared bankrupt before he landed a lucrative role in True Lies.

Robert Powell (Actor) .. Mark Williams

Born: June 01, 1944 in Salford

Best Known For: Jesus of Nazareth and The Thirty Nine Steps.

Early-life: Robert Thomas Powell was born on June 1, 1944, in Salford, Manchester, the youngest of three children. After leaving school, Powell studied law at Manchester University, where he became hooked on acting. The director of a student play advised him to ditch his plans to become a solicitor and try treading the boards instead. He left university so he could hone his craft at a theatre in Stoke-on-Trent, before moving to London in 1964.

Career: Powell made his film debut in 1967's Robbery, and had a small part in 1969's The Italian Job. A role in spooky TV show Doomwatch made him a star in the UK, but he quit after a year to tackle different projects. Roles in such productions as Asylum, The Edwardians, Mahler, and Tommy followed. In 1977 he landed the lead in epic miniseries Jesus of Nazareth, which introduced him to an international audience. Powell followed it with remakes of The Four Feathers and The Thirty-Nine Steps. Since then, he's continued to work steadily, appearing in the likes of The Detectives, Hannay, The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Colour Me Kubrick. In 2005, he joined the cast of Holby City as surgeon Mark Williams, where he remained for six years.

Quote: 'I did say about 30 years ago that I would not be acting all my life. It's extraordinary how wrong I was.'

Trivia: In December 2014, he played Ebenezer Scrooge in a Radio 4 adaptation of A Christmas Carol.

Tina Hobley (Actor) .. Chrissie Williams

Born: May 20, 1972 in London

Best Known For: Holby City and her Corrie days.

Early-life: Very shy as a child, London-born Tina was sent to speech and drama classes in an attempt to counter her introversion. Hobley enrolled with a very strict speech and drama teacher, whom she adored and stayed with for many years, before moving from there to the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art (WDADA).

Career: Hobley is best known for playing feisty ward sister Chrissie Williams in BBC medical drama Holby City. After graduating from WDADA, where she trained from 1990 to 1993, Hobley starred in a number of TV dramas, including Coronation Street, Harbour Lights and The Bill. In 2014, she took part in Celebrity MasterChef. She has also appeared in All Star Mr & Mrs, Comic Relief Does Fame Academy and Big Star's Little Star with her daughter Olivia. In early 2016, she was a contestant on Channel 4's sporting reality show The Jump.

Quote: 'I haven't lived the normal actor's life, where I don't know where my next job is coming from - but that in itself feels exciting.'

Trivia: Hobley supports the Starlight Foundation.

Ian Aspinall (Actor) .. Mubbs Hussein

Verona Joseph (Actor) .. Jess Griffin

Sharon Maughan (Actor) .. Patricia Williams

Jaye Jacobs (Actor) .. Donna Jackson

Anthony Calf (Actor) .. Michael Beauchamp

Alex Macqueen (Actor) .. Dr Green

Tim Stern (Actor) .. Les Grenhalgh

Dallas Campbell (Actor) .. Kevin Grenhalgh

Lynn Roden (Actor) .. Sheila Grenhalgh

Colin McFarlane (Actor) .. Felix Kente

Madeline Appiah (Actor) .. Efua Mansah

Elizabeth Marmur (Actor) .. Monica Keppel

Lizzie Rogan (Actor) .. Debbie Maloney

Emma Field-Rayner (Actor) .. Adelle Kester

Martin Jameson (Writer)

Simon Massey (Director)

Claire Armspach (Producer)

Holby City: Great Expectations

09:30 am - 10:50 am, Monday, June 22 on U&Drama (20)

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