The Stolen Girl

Holliday Grainger (Actor) .. Nina Thibault/Rebecca Walsh

Born: March 27, 1988 in Didsbury, Manchester

Best Known For: Playing Anastasia in the live action version of Cinderella.

Early-life: Holliday Clark Grainger was born on March 27, 1988 in Didsbury, Manchester. She was scouted by the BBC as a child and appeared in a number of TV series and independent films as a child actor. Holliday attended Parrs Wood High School from 1999 to 2006. She started to study for a degree in English literature at the University of Leeds in 2007 but switched to the Open University, where she gained a first.

Career: Grainger's first role was in the BBC comedy drama series All Quiet on the Preston Front, which was followed by appearances in Casualty, Doctors and Dalziel and Pascoe. She played Megan Boothe in Where the Heart Is, Stacey Appleyard in Waterloo Road and Lucrezia Borgia in The Borgias. During the years when she worked on the latter, Grainger had a string of film appearances in Jane Eyre (2011), Anna Karenina (2012), Great Expectations (2012) and Bel Ami (2012). She played Bonnie Parker in the TV mini-series Bonnie & Clyde and has since gone on to appear in Cinderella (2015), The Finest Hours (2016) and the TV series Strike.

Quote: 'As much as I'd love to be a successful actor, the thought of being recognised in the street is petrifying.'

Trivia: When she was a child, she had lessons in piano, gymnastics and Taekwondo.

Denise Gough (Actor) .. Elisa Blix

Best Known For: Playing the Village Mother in Ridley Scott's Robin Hood.

Early-life: Born in 1980 in Ennis, Republic of Ireland. Denise is the seventh of 11 children. She left school at 15 to go to London with her then-boyfriend and worked in menial jobs for several years before taking a Saturday acting class. Denise then got a place at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts in Wandsworth and graduated in 2003.

Career: Gough made her debut TV appearance in Casualty. After that, she got guest roles in such TV series as The Bill, Waking the Dead, Silent Witness and Holby City. She also appeared in the films Outlanders (2007), The Kid (2010) and Robin Hood (2010). Gough then went on to get recurring roles in the TV series Stella and Titanic: Blood and Steel, as well as a role in Ken Loach's Jimmy's Hall (2014). More recently, she starred in the BBC Two series Paula. Gough has had more success on stage than on screen and has appeared in such plays as Our New Girl, The Painter, Messiah V: The Rapture and People, Places and Things. She has also been a voice actress in such games as Divinity: Dragon Commander, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Mass Effect: Andromeda.

Quote: 'I like playing women who are not apologetic for what they do in their lives.'

Trivia: She supports the Equal Representation for Actresses campaign, which aims for a 50:50 gender split in stage roles.

Jim Sturgess (Actor) .. Fred Blix

Born: May 16, 1978 in London

Best Known For: Across the Universe and One Day.

Early-life: James Anthony Sturgess was born in London on May 16, 1978, but grew up in Farnham, Surrey. His first taste of acting came at the age of eight when he auditioned for a local theatre group. His main interest, however, was music and he started his first band when he was 15. He went on to study media performance at Salford University and it was here that he began to seriously consider acting as a career. He began making short films and wrote and performed a one-man show, which led to him being signed by an agent.

Career: Sturgess moved to London in 2000 and joined the band Called Saint Faith. He took small acting roles to fund his musical adventures. His big break came in 2007 when he won a leading role in Julie Taymor's musical film Across the Universe. He followed this with parts in The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), 21 (2008), Crossing Over (2009), Heartless (2009) and The Way Back (2010). His breakthrough came in 2011 when he starred alongside Anne Hathaway in One Day. His recent work includes Cloud Atlas (2012) and Upside Down (2013).

Quote: 'British actors come at acting from a slightly different angle.'

Trivia: He voiced an owl in Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010).

Xavier Samuel (Actor) .. Marcus Turner

Ariella McCabe (Actor) .. Lucia Blix

Kerry Fox (Actor) .. Deborah Stanton

Born: July 30, 1966 in Wellington, New Zealand

Best Known For: Starring in Shallow Grave.

Early-life: Kerry was born in New Zealand in 1966, and grew up just outside Wellington. She discovered her love of acting at a young age, but didn't originally plan to pursue it as a career, choosing to go to Victoria University instead. From there, she went on to win a place at the New Zealand Drama School, now called Toi Whakaari, where she caught the eye of director Jane Campion.

Career: Shortly after graduating, Kerry was cast in the lead role of Jane Campion's An Angel at My Table, a biopic of New Zealand writer Janet Frame. Despite winning rave reviews for her performance, Kerry says it took a while for the offers to come flooding in - she believes the two stone she put on for the role may have been a factor. However, she went on to be cast in director Danny Boyle's acclaimed TV drama Mr Wroe's Virgins in 1993 and his film Shallow Grave the following year, and since then she's continued to mix TV and film work. Her credits include Welcome to Sarajevo, The Murder Room and Inconceivable, and in 2009 she reunited with Campion for Bright Star.

Quote: 'I want to work really hard and I want to be challenged - I don't want to faff around.'

Trivia: Fox has developed a reputation for playing fiercely intelligent, independent-minded woman.

Catherine Vranken (Actor) .. Tatiana

Ambika Mod (Actor) .. Selma Desai

Steven Pacey (Actor) .. Daniel Stanton

Amelia Ling (Actor) .. Josephine

Willow Marrison (Actor) .. Rose

Paulie Bovingdon (Actor) .. George Blix

Bronagh Waugh (Actor) .. DI Shona Sinclair

Layo-Christina Akinlude (Actor) .. DS Lizzie Walker

Michael Workeye (Actor) .. Kaleb Negasi

Ingrid Bolton-Gabrielsen (Actor) .. Gemma

Stephane Soo Mongo (Actor) .. Amié

(Actor) .. João Borges

Beatrice Campbell (Actor) .. Lucia Blix

Robyn Betteridge (Actor) .. Josephine Thibault

Finnegan Oldfield (Actor) .. Anton Blanchard

Catherine Moulton (Writer)

Eva Husson (Executive producer)

Hannah Scott (Executive producer)

Tanya Seghatchian (Executive producer)

John Woodward (Executive producer)

Nicola Shindler (Executive producer)

Alex Dahl (Executive producer)

James Dean (Producer)

9:00 pm - 10:00 pm, Wednesday, March 25 on ITV1 London (3)

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Season 1, Episode 5

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