Career: Whittaker's first professional acting job was in The Storm at Shakespeare's Globe in 2005, but her big break came the following year when she made her film debut alongside Peter O'Toole in Venus, a role which saw her nominated for the British Independent Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer. She went on to star in St Trinian's, One Day and the acclaimed British sci-fi movie Attack the Block. Whittaker also won plaudits for her TV work, most notably as bereaved mother Beth Latimer in Broadchurch and a nurse posing as a doctor in Trust Me. However, her profile received the biggest boost when it was announced she was taking over the Tardis as the 13th Doctor.

Career: Cunningham's debut film role came in Into the West. His on-screen acting continued with minor roles in War of the Buttons, A Little Princess, Cracker-Best Boys and First Knight. Cunningham's breakout role came in Jude, playing Phillotson. He continued with small character roles in Police 2020, Falling for a Dancer, the superb BBC drama Shooting the Past, When the Sky Falls and Revelation. Cunningham came to international prominence with his role as Captain Ryan in the critically acclaimed independent horror film, Dog Soldiers. Since then, Cunningham has starred in numerous high budget British and American films including The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse, The Wind That Shakes the Barley, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Hunger, Clash of the Titans and Centurion.

Career: In 1993, Moran won the So You Think You're Funny award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He went on to become the youngest person to win the Perrier Comedy Award in 1996 at the Edinburgh Festival when he was 24. In 2000, he starred in Black Books, a Channel 4 sitcom about a miserable, unsociable, drunken, chain-smoking, and disorganized book shop owner called Bernard Black. Based on Moran's original idea, the series was brought to life by co-writer and fellow Irishman Graham Linehan. Two more series followed, and his stand-up tours and DVDs remain best-sellers, while his movie career continues to blossom. On the big screen, he has appeared in Shaun of the Dead, A Cock and Bull Story, and Run, Fatboy, Run.

Career: Dunbar has appeared in such notable films as My Left Foot (1989), Hear My Song (1991), The Crying Game (1992) and The General (1998). He has also had leading roles in the films Widows' Peak (1994), Richard III (1995) and Triggermen (2002). On television, he starred in the first episode of Cracker, and has been in many British productions, including Tough Love, Inspector Morse, A Touch of Frost, Murphy's Law, Murder in Mind and Ashes to Ashes. His recent credits include Death in Paradise, Line of Duty, A Touch of Cloth, and Walter. He has many stage credits to his name.