The Last Detective - Willesden Confidential - 12:10 am Saturday, August 1 on U&Drama +1

Peter Davison (Actor) .. DC `Dangerous" Davies

Born: April 13, 1951 in Streatham, London

Best Known For: Being the fifth Doctor Who.

Early-life: Born Peter Moffett on April 13, 1951, in Streatham, south London. He moved with his three sisters to Surrey when his parents, Sheila and Claude, bought a village store. He had an undistinguished time at Winston Churchill School, but he did enjoy music and drama. After leaving with three O-levels, he considered teaching, but entered the Central School of Speech and Drama after catching the acting bug through amateur performances. To avoid confusion with director Peter Moffatt, he changed his surname to Davison.

Career: Davison's first professional role was in Love's Labour's Lost at Nottingham Playhouse in 1972 and his TV debut came in a 1975 episode of The Tomorrow People. A lean spell followed (during which he spent 18 months working in a tax office in Twickenham), but his big break came in 1978 when he landed the role of Tristan Farnon in All Creatures Great and Small. In 1981, he took over from Tom Baker as the fifth Doctor Who, but quit three years later for fear of being typecast. Other career highlights include A Very Peculiar Practice, Campion, At Home with the Braithwaites, The Last Detective, The Complete Guide to Parenting, Distant Shores and Law & Order: UK. Throughout 2010, he starred in the West End production of Legally Blonde, and directed and wrote a spoof documentary called The Five(ish) Doctors to tie in with Doctor Who's 50th anniversary in 2013.

Quote: 'You don't ever decide you're old - at least I haven't yet. I'm still quite surprised if I get dragged for a night out somewhere why I'm yawning by half-past-11.'

Trivia: He composed the theme tunes for Button Moon and Mixed Blessings. His actress daughter, Georgia Moffett, is married to David Tennant.

Sean Hughes (Actor) .. Mod Lewis

Born: November 19, 1965 in London

Best Known For: His award-winning stand-up comedy and earlier role as a team captain on Never Mind the Buzzcocks.

Early-life: Born John Hughes in London on November 19, 1965, to a working-class Catholic family. He moved with his parents and two brothers to Dublin, where he grew up. He changed schools several times and found it difficult to form solid friendships and became a victim of bullying - a situation he has written about and discussed on numerous occasions. Returning to London as a teenager, he set his sights on a job at the Comedy Store and began working as a stand-up comedian. In 1990 he became the youngest ever recipient of the prestigious Perrier Award for Comedy.

Career: The show A One Night Stand with Sean Hughes toured the UK and Australia, as well as performances in Los Angeles, Montreal and Toronto. In 1991 he made a brief but memorable appearance in Alan Parker's acclaimed movie The Commitments as a record label executive, before writing and appearing in the aptly titled Sean's Show for Channel 4 a year later. Other TV programmes followed, including Sean's Shorts, but it was his six-year stint as a team captain on the irreverent music quiz Never Mind the Buzzcocks that made him a household name. His dramatic acting has included roles in Murder Most Horrid, Gormenghast, Girl on a Cycle, The Last Detective, Coronation Street, Agatha Christie's Marple, and Round Ireland with a Fridge.

Quote: When a 2004 performance was poorly attended, he said: 'Never mind the show, let's go to the pub,' before taking the audience for a pint.

Trivia: He has also written successful novels, prose and poetry.

Rob Spendlove (Actor) .. DI Ray Aspinall

Emma Amos (Actor) .. Julie Davies

Charlie De'Ath (Actor) .. DS Steve Pimlott

Billy Geraghty (Actor) .. DC Darren Barrett

Vineeta Rishi (Actor) .. WPC Kapoor

Jamie Foreman (Actor) .. Leonard Crowe

Aidan Gillen (Actor) .. Steve Fallon

Born: April 24, 1968 in Dublin

Best Known For: Queer as Folk and Game of Thrones.

Early-life: Born Aidan Murphy in Dublin on April 24, 1968. As a teenager, he began his acting career with the Dublin Youth Theatre. His big break came in 1999 when he landed a lead role in Russell T Davies' Channel 4 drama Queer as Folk and its sequel, for which he received a Bafta nomination.

Career: In 2004, Gillen received a Tony Award nomination for his Broadway performance in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker. This led to a role in acclaimed HBO drama The Wire. In 2011, he began playing Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish in HBO drama Game of Thrones. His film credits include The Dark Knight Rises (2012), The Good Man (2012), Mister John (2013) and Calvary (2014). In 2011, he began presenting RTE music series Other Voices. Since then, he has appeared in BBC drama Mayday and RTE dramas Love/Hate and Charlie. He also voiced Paul Serene in the video game Quantum Break and its accompanying TV series.

Quote: 'In drama you can either pretend everything is OK, or you can show the world as it really is in the hope that it gets better.'

Trivia: He has narrated a number of audiobooks, including Roddy Doyle's Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.

Michelle Collins (Actor) .. Maureen Fallon

Born: May 28, 1961 in Hackney, London

Best Known For: Playing Cindy Beale in EastEnders and Stella Price in Coronation Street.

Early-life: Born Michelle Danielle Collins on May 28, 1961, in Hackney, London. When Collins was a baby, her father walked out, leaving her mother to bring up two daughters. Collins dreamed of becoming an actress, but didn't do anything about it until the age of 16 when her best friend Kate died of a heart attack. Suddenly life seemed short, and Collins set about getting onto a drama course.

Career: A self-confessed workaholic, her first professional job was as a backing singer for Mari Wilson, which she followed up by appearing in a Squeeze video. She made several minor TV appearances before joining EastEnders in 1988. Since quitting her role as Cindy Beale in the BBC soap she has starred in numerous other major TV shows - including Sunburn (she also released the theme tune as a single), Real Women, Ella and the Mothers, Daylight Robbery, Rock Rivals and Getting Out. She joined the cast of Coronation Street in 2011, playing Stella Price, the landlady of the Rovers Return, but left three years later. She's since appeared in Casualty.

Quote: 'I'm not too beautiful, I'm not too ugly. I'm normal, and I think other women find me accessible.'

Trivia: Away from showbusiness, she is a committed supporter of Oxfam and has travelled to various countries to witness the charity's work in action.

Dorian Lough (Actor) .. Andy Holden

Cathryn Bradshaw (Actor) .. Vicky Kingwell

William Vanderpuye (Actor) .. Sgt Willis

Stephen Aintree (Actor) .. Wilf

Kevin Doyle (Actor) .. Alan Kingwell

Penny Bunton (Actor) .. Chief Supt Pickard

Sid Mitchell (Actor) .. Roly Kingwell

Connor Byrne (Actor) .. Geoff Fallon

Thomas Byrne (Actor) .. Bobby Fallon

Nick Bartlett (Actor) .. Car Park Attendant

Mae Wright (Actor) .. Zoe

Russell Lewis (Writer)

Tim Vaughan (Writer)

Nick Hurran (Producer)

Matthew Evans (Director)

Michele Buck (Executive producer)

The Last Detective: Willesden Confidential

12:10 am - 01:45 am, Saturday, August 1 on U&Drama +1 (60)

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