Holby City - Playing with Fire - 10:35 am Monday, April 27 on U&Drama +1

Amanda Mealing (Actor) .. Connie Beauchamp

Born: April 22, 1968 in London

Best Known For: Playing Connie Beauchamp in Holby City and Casualty.

Early-life: Amanda Jane Mealing was born in London on April 22, 1968 and grew up in Dulwich, South London. The youngest of four children, she is the only adopted member of her family. Her older brother, who was 14 years her senior, died after using heroin when she was 15. At the age of six, Amanda made her professional debut in a Julie Andrews TV special. She started taking Saturday classes at the Italia Conti Academy, before enrolling full-time when she was nine. As a child star, she went on to land roles in Just William, The Morecambe & Wise Show, and Grange Hill.

Career: Mealing went on to appear G.B.H., Anglo Saxon Attitudes, The House of Eliott, The Darling Buds of May and The Detectives. She had recurring roles in Jake's Progress, The Grand, and The Lakes. She joined the cast of Holby City in 2004, playing cardiothoracic consultant Connie Beauchamp. During a break from the series, she appeared in Strike Back: Project Dawn, Death in Paradise, and Law and Order: UK. In 2014, she reprised her role as Connie Beauchamp in Holby City sister show Casualty.

Quote: On her Connie Beauchamp character: 'She's on a mission to take over, and she doesn't care whose toes she has to step on to do it.'

Trivia: Mealing discovered that her birth mother modelled for Biba in London during the 1960s and her biological father was a half-Sierra Leonean poet and activist. The day after giving birth to her second son, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She made a full recovery.

Chinna Wodu (Actor) .. Sean Thompson

Sharon Maughan (Actor) .. Tricia Williams

Ian Aspinall (Actor) .. Mubbs Hussein

Kim Vithana (Actor) .. Rosie Sattar

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.

Jaye Jacobs (Actor) .. Donna Jackson

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.

Patricia Potter (Actor) .. Diane Lloyd

Mark Moraghan (Actor) .. Owen Davis

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?

Deborah Poplett (Actor) .. Anna Chandler

Tony O'Callaghan (Actor) .. Brian Coates

Steve Sarossy (Actor) .. Ronnie Coates

Laura Pyper (Actor) .. Alison Kerman

Travis Oliver (Actor) .. Martin Kerman

Richard Sumitro (Actor) .. Kris Thaker

Alan Turkington (Actor) .. Dean Podd

Roger Barclay (Actor) .. Guy Winters

Colin Bytheway (Writer)

Simon Meyers (Director)

Oliver Kent (Producer)

Holby City: Playing with Fire

10:35 am - 11:40 am, Monday, April 27 on U&Drama +1 (60)

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