Career: Samantha's first taste of fame came at 18 when she represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest, eventually finishing joint 10th. But it's as an actress that she's now best known. She enjoyed success with sitcom Game On in the mid-1990s before appearing in The Grimleys, Up 'n' Under and Babes in the Wood. A successful run in a West End production of Guys and Dolls came just before she joined EastEnders in 2007. After being involved in a number of major storylines, she took a break from the soap in 2011. She went on to perform in a stage tour of South Pacific, and was also a subject of Who Do You Think You Are? In May 2013, it was confirmed that Samantha would return to EastEnders on a six-month contract.

Career: Marsan's first TV credit was as a yob in a 1992 episode of ITV sitcom The Piglet Files. He went on to have roles in a number of TV shows such as EastEnders, Casualty, Game On, Grange Hill, Kavanagh QC and The Bill. He made his big-screen debut in 1997's Get Well Soon and since then he has appeared in a number of low-budget British movies and big Hollywood blockbusters, including Gangs of New York (2002), 21 Grams (2003), Vera Drake (2004), Mission: Impossible III (2006), Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), V for Vendetta (2005), Hancock (2008), Sherlock Holmes (2009) and its 2011 sequel, War Horse (2011), Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), and The World's End (2013). More recently, he returned to TV in American crime drama Ray Donovan, and British drama Southcliffe.