Death in Paradise

Don Gilet (Actor) .. DI Mervin Wilson

Best Known For: Babyfather, EastEnders and 55 Degrees North.

Early-life: Born in Walsall in 1967, he was raised with two older sisters and always showed a love of drama. An early job was hosting a children's show called Playabout with Floella Benjamin. He also appeared in the video for Gabrielle's Out of Reach, before taking one-off roles in various TV dramas.

Career: Don's first TV acting job was on The Imaginitively Named Punt and Dennis Show, but his big break came in 2001 with Babyfather, a BBC TWO drama based on the books by Patrick Augustus. After getting his big break playing nice but daft Johnny Lindo, Don Gilet went on to front detective series 55 Degrees North. He joined the cast of EastEnders earlier this year and has admitted that he was considering giving up acting prior to landing the tole. His theatre credits include Orlando in As You Like It at the Royal National Theatre, and the lead role in a critically acclaimed production of Ben Johnson's The Alchemist at London's Riverside Studios. In 2014, he joined the cast of Holby City.

Quote: "The door has opened a little bit wider, but it hasn't been flung open. People haven't just gone and said, 'let's give loads of black people parts', but certainly people realise that we can do it."

Trivia: He has appeared in a number of pantomimes.

Don Warrington (Actor) .. Commissioner Selwyn Patterson

Born: May 23, 1951 in Trinidad

Best Known For: Playing Philip Smith in ITV sitcom Rising Damp.

Early-life: Born Don Williams in Trinidad on May 23, 1951. He has an older brother. His father, Basil Kydd, died suddenly in Trinidad at the age of 48 in 1958 when Don was six. His mother, Shirley, decided to make a new life for herself in England while Don and his brother were looked after back in Trinidad by his grandmother. Shirley settled in Newcastle with a job at a metal factory and returned to Trinidad to collect her two sons. When Don was 12, his mother left for America to retrain as a nurse. Don and his brother were then looked after in England by his Auntie Lena. Don was 17 when he landed his first job as an assistant stage manager at Newcastle's Flora Robson Playhouse. He moved to London to train at the Drama Centre and then landed the role that made him famous.

Career: Warrington began playing Philip Smith in ITV sitcom Rising Damp in 1974 alongside Leonard Rossiter and Richard Beckinsale. The hugely popular series ran until 1978 and led to a spin-off film. Decades later, Warrington directed the first UK stage tour of Rising Damp in 2013. He has also starred in Triangle, Crown Court, CATS Eyes, To Play the King, Grange Hill, Manchild, Holby City and The Crouches. More recently, he has appeared in Doctor Who, New Street Law, Casualty, Waking the Dead, Lewis and Death in Paradise. He has also performed with the National Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company, and the Bristol Old Vic. He competed in the sixth series of Strictly Come Dancing with professional dancer Lilia Kopylova. They were eliminated in week five.

Quote: "My brother and I were the only black kids in our school. The way you survive in those circumstances is to become like the locals, so I became a Geordie who was good at football."

Trivia: Warrington was awarded an MBE in 2008.

Shantol Jackson (Actor) .. DS Naomi Thomas

Shaquille Ali-Yebuah (Actor) .. Officer Sebastian Rose

Catherine Garton (Actor) .. Sgt Mattie Fletcher

Elizabeth Bourgine (Actor) .. Catherine Bordey

Scarlett Alice Johnson (Actor) .. Keira Mayhew

Ace Bhatti (Actor) .. Alasdair Hartnell

Lizzie Davidson (Actor) .. Stacey Warber

Hermione Norris (Actor) .. Margot Hartnell

Best Known For: Playing Karen in Cold Feet.

Early-life: Born in London in February 1967. Her businessman father Michael named her Hermione after Helen of Troy's daughter - her mother, a health visitor, is called Helen. Her parents split when she was four, after which she had what she describes as a "formal" relationship with her dad, who died suddenly just as she was beginning her acting career. She was brought up by her mum and grandmother in Derbyshire and London along with her three sisters and two half-sisters, and initially trained as a dancer before turning to acting.

Career: Norris enjoyed a great deal of success on the stage, starring in Stephen Poliakoff's Blinded by the Sun at the National Theatre and the world premiere of Reader by Arile Dorfman. She also appeared in a production of the Chekov play The Seagull at the Moscow Art Theatre. Norris took small parts in TV series such as Casualty, Peak Practice and Drop the Dead Donkey, but didn't become a household name until she won the role of Karen in Cold Feet. In the years since she's appeared in the one-off drama Falling Apart, opposite Robson Green in the crime series Wire in the Blood, spy drama Spooks and as Stephen Fry's half-sister in Kingdom, which was written by her husband. She's also returned to the stage on several occasions.

Quote: "It makes a statement my name. Immediately country homes, fishing and shooting spring to mind and that's not the reality of where I come from."

Trivia: She often gets cast as well-spoken women.

Sean Delaney (Actor) .. Luke Warber

Gary Wilmot (Actor) .. Anton Busette

Daniel Ward (Actor) .. Solomon Clarke

James Hall (Writer)

Poz Watson (Writer)

Ray McBride (Producer)

Ian Aryeh (Director)

Tim Key (Executive producer)

Amy Rodriguez (Executive producer)

9:00 pm - 10:00 pm, Friday, February 6 on BBC One London HD (101)

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