Career: Hoult was talent-spotted at the age of three by a director struck by his concentration during a production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and landed his first film role aged five in Intimate Relations alongside Julie Walters and Rupert Graves. Then followed a steady, if not thunderous, stream of work in the likes of The Bill and Casualty, before he found himself as Hugh Grant's surrogate son in About a Boy. That led to high-profile roles in such critically acclaimed fare as Nicolas Cage movie The Weather Man and the Richard E Grant film Wah-Wah. Most recently he has wowed critics and earned a huge army of fans for his work on the Channel 4 teen drama Skins and TV movie Coming Down the Mountain. His recent film work includes roles in Kidulthood, A Single Man, Clash of the Titans, and X-Men: First Class.

Career: In 2008, Collins covered the US presidential campaign as a presenter on Nickelodeon show Kids Pick the President. A year later, she appeared in two episodes of teen drama 90210. In her film debut, she played Sandra Bullock's daughter in The Blind Side (2009). Since then, Collins has starred in Priest (2011), Mirror Mirror (2012), Stuck in Love (2012), The English Teacher (2013) and The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013).

Career: Ferris first made an impact in the 1985 drama series Connie. Other than The Darling Buds of May, she has also appeared in TV shows Hardwicke House, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Paradise Heights, Where the Heart Is, Rosemary & Thyme, Gavin & Stacey and Grandma's House. A 'Jill of all trades', Pam has appeared in a number of Royal Court Theatre and Royal National Theatre productions, and in films like Matilda, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Children of Men, Nativity!, Telstar, and Malice in Wonderland. In 2012, she began playing Sister Evangelina in Call the Midwife.

Career: Following acclaimed performances at university, Jacobi joined Birmingham Rep. He was spotted by Laurence Olivier, who invited him to join the National Theatre Company. He made his film debut alongside Olivier in 1965's Othello. Since then, Jacobi has continued to make acclaimed appearances on stage and screen. Among his films are The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, Love Is the Devil, Gladiator, Gosford Park, The King's Speech and Hereafter. He inspired Kenneth Branagh to become an actor and worked alongside him in Henry V, Hamlet and Dead Again. Jacobi won a Bafta for I, Claudius in 1977, starred in the medieval-set series Cadfael, played The Master in Doctor Who, is the narrator of In the Night Garden and scored a surprise hit with Last Tango in Halifax.