Secret Diary of a Call Girl

Billie Piper (Actor) .. Belle/Hannah

Born: September 22, 1982 in Swindon, Wiltshire

Best Known For: Being Doctor Who's sidekick and high-flying escort Belle de Jour.

Early-life: Born Lianne Paul Piper on September 22, 1982, in Swindon, Wiltshire. Mum and dad Paul and Mandy changed her name three weeks after registering her birth. She has three younger siblings Charlie, Harley and Ellie. She attended Brookfield Primary School and Bradon Forest Secondary before joining the nationally famous ranks of the Sylvia Young Theatre School in London.

Career: After being talent spotted in Saturday morning ITV show Scratchy and Co, Piper signed a record contract at 15, and subsequently became the youngest ever artist to go straight to the top of the UK singles chart with Because We Want To. More hits followed and two successful albums before she quit music in 2003 to become an actress. Her early roles in The Canterbury Tales and one-off drama Bella and the Boys earned rave reviews. Her biggest break came in 2004 when it was announced she would be Doctor Who's companion Rose Tyler in the revived BBC sci-fi series. She's also appeared in The Ruby in the Smoke, Mansfield Park, The Shadow in the North and Secret Diary of a Call Girl.

Quote: 'Weight doesn't matter as long as you're happy with yourself.'

Trivia: Piper won the Princess of Pop gong at the 1998 Smash Hits Awards.

Cherie Lunghi (Actor) .. Stephanie

Born: April 04, 1952 in London

Best Known For: The Manageress and a series of coffee adverts.

Early-life: Cherie Mary Lunghi was born on April 4, 1952, in Nottingham, the daughter of an Italian and his English wife. She was raised in London by her mother and her aunts after her father returned to Italy. Cherie began acting as a child on radio and in TV and eventually studied at Homerton College, Cambridge. Her acting training came at the Arts Educational School and the Central School of Speech and Drama. She has also been keen on dancing, aerobics, horse-riding, painting and playing the piano from an early age.

Career: Lunghi started out on stage, but made her TV debut in a 1968 episode of the BBC's classic Sherlock Holmes series. She's worked steadily ever since on the small and big screens, cropping up in the likes of Edward & Mrs Simpson, Excalibur, Tales of the Unexpected, The Monocled Mutineer, The Mission, and Ellis Island. However, it was popular footballing drama The Manageress which made her a major TV star in 1989. Since then, Lunghi has appeared in the likes of The Buccaneers, A Question of Guilt, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Jack and Sarah, EastEnders, Cutting It, Midsomer Murders and Casualty 1906. She was a Strictly Come Dancing contestant in 2008.

Quote: 'It's intriguing to get your head around people who have evil intent. It's pretty complicated.'

Trivia: Lunghi has narrated Who Do You Think You Are?

Aleksandar Mikic (Actor) .. Alex

Iddo Goldberg (Actor) .. Ben

Toyah Willcox (Actor) .. Hannah's mum

Born: May 18, 1958 in Birmingham

Career: Willcox's first film was 1977's Jubilee, the year she formed her band. Acting projects such as Quadrophenia, The Tempest and Quatermass followed as her musical career took off. She had chart success in the early 1980s with such songs as It's a Mystery and I Want to be Free, but always maintained a discreet distance from the excesses of the punk scene. Since that era, she's juggled her theatre, TV, film and music careers. Other notable productions include TV movie The Ebony Tower, and stage hits Cabaret and Calamity Jane. Willcox also lent her voice to The Teletubbies and appeared in the second series of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! She continues to perform on stage, and has been a panellist on Loose Women. In January 2014, she was a contestant on ITV reality series Splash!

Quote: 'It wasn't that I saw Sex Pistols and thought: 'Oh, that changed my life'. I saw them and my reaction was: 'I can do better, I'll go to London to do it'. From then on I knew I didn't have to behave in a social norm. Because I wasn't alone.'

Trivia: In 2008, Willcox took part in the Great Walk to Beijing alongside other celebrities to raise money for Olivia Newton-John's cancer charity.

Best Known For: Her singing and acting careers.

Early-life: Born Toyah Ann Willcox on May 18, 1958, in King's Heath, Birmingham. Her father ran his own joinery business. Toyah suffered numerous health issues as a child and spent a lot of time having physiotherapy. She always wanted to be a performer and has been a big fan of Doctor Who from an early age. She was a rebellious teenager who had a difficult relationship with her mother but, after leaving school, she gained a place at the Old Rep Drama School in her home city.

Stuart Organ (Actor) .. Hannah's dad

Joanna Bobin (Actor) .. Hannah's sister

Robert J Purdy (Actor) .. Hannah's brother-in-law

Jamie Sives (Actor) .. Jay

Aislinn Sands (Actor) .. May

Rachel Fielding (Actor) .. Party organiser

Thom Fell (Actor) .. Waiter

Scarlette O'Harlette (Actor) .. Burlesque act

Emily Butterfield (Actor) .. Rachel

Keira Malik (Actor) .. Tanya

Maggie Lloyd-Williams (Actor) .. Yolanda

Greg Brenman (Executive producer)

Avril MacRory (Executive producer)

Michael Foster (Executive producer)

Chrissy Skinns (Producer)

Yann Demange (Director)

10:30 pm - 11:00 pm, Tuesday, September 1 on Together TV +1 (90)

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