The Good Ship Murder - At Sea - 3:00 pm Monday, February 23 on 5

Shayne Ward (Actor) .. Jack Grayling

Born: October 16, 1984 in Tameside, Greater Manchester

Best Known For: Winning The X Factor.

Early-life: Shayne Thomas Ward was born on October 16, 1984 in Tameside, Greater Manchester to Irish Traveller parents who had settled in England. He entered talent show Popstars: The Rivals when he was 18 and reached the final 30 contestants. Before taking part in The X Factor, he performed at pubs, clubs and weddings with a band called Destiny.

Career: Ward won the second season of The X Factor in 2005, launching his music career. He released his first single, That's My Goal, the same year and released his self-titled debut album in 2006. His follow-up, Breathless, was released in 2007 and this third album, Obsession, came out in 2010. Ward went on to star in West End musical Rock of Ages as Stacee Jaxx and then played the Artilleryman in the final arena tour of Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds. In 2015, he released his fourth album, Closer, and began playing Aidan Connor on Coronation Street.

Quote: 'I love a challenge, and I think it's when people least expect you to do something that you often do your best.'

Trivia: He was nominated for Best Newcomer at the British Soap Awards in 2016 for his work in Coronation Street.

Catherine Tyldesley (Actor) .. Kate Woods

Born: September 17, 1983 in Salford

Best Known For: Playing Eva Price in Coronation Street.

Early-life: Born in Salford on September 17, 1983, Catherine studied acting at the Birmingham School of Acting. She made her TV debut in a 2006 episode of No Angels. A year later, she played the lead role in Liverpool-set BBC One drama Lilies.

Career: Other roles followed in The Street, Florence Nightingale, Doctors, Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1983, Scallywagga, Shameless, The Royal, and Trollied. Between August and October 2010, she portrayed prison guard Abi Peterson in Emmerdale. Her first taste of life on Coronation Street came in 2006 when she played a midwife for one episode. Five years later she returned to the famous cobbles as recurring character Eva Price, a role she continues to play.

Quote: On working on Coronation Street: 'Every day I feel so grateful and so lucky. I'm a huge, huge fan of the show and always have been.'

Trivia: Tyldesley has modelled clothes for House of Fraser.

Zak Douglas (Actor) .. Jamil Al-Rashid

Claire Sweeney (Actor) .. Beverly Carnell

Born: April 17, 1971 in Liverpool

Best Known For: Playing Lindsey Corkhill on Brookside.

Early-life: Born in Walton, Liverpool in 1971, Claire developed a love of music and drama at a young age. When she was 11, her mum sent to the Elliott-Clarke Stage School in Liverpool, mainly because she had bad memories of attending the local comprehensive, which strengthened Claire's ambition to be a performer. At 18, she won a place at the prestigious Italia Conti School in London, and in 1991 made a brief appearance as Lindsey on Brookside, before leaving to concentrate on her singing career.

Career: Claire spent four years singing on cruise ships, and when she got back to dry land in 1995, decided to get in touch with the Brookside producers to see if they would be interested in bringing her character back. As luck would have it, they were working on a storyline involving Lindsey, and she got the role. Claire stayed with the soap until 2003, but her profile received a further boost when she came second in the first series of Celebrity Big Brother in 2001. Since then, she has acted in the series Clocking Off and Merseybeat, released an album and performed extensively on stage in musicals including Chicago, Guys and Dolls, and Fosse. She's also competed in Strictly Come Dancing, and worked as a presenter on shows including Here Comes the Sun, Challenge of a Lifetime and 60 Minute Makeover.

Quote: 'It's funny how it's all worked out. I just see myself as a working actress - I do shows, I do bits for the telly and I really don't analyse it.'

Trivia: She co-wrote the comedy musical Sex and the Suburbs. It was staged in 2014.

Geoffrey Breton (Actor) .. Piers de Vreese

Nikolai Tsankov (Actor) .. Yuval Goldmann

Vincent Ebrahim (Actor) .. Capt Gregory Jennings

Rahul Arya (Actor) .. BL Zeebub

Jacqueline Boatswain (Actor) .. Wendy Weston

Born: June 22, 1962 in Bedford, England

Best Known For: Playing Simone Loveday in Hollyoaks.

Early-life: Born on June 22, 1962 in Bedford, England. As a child, Jacqueline showed a musical talent and joined a London ballet school at age 17. She sang and danced on the West End for 15 years before turning to acting.

Career: Boatswain's first acting role was in Doctors in 2001, although she had previously appeared in such TV series as Red Dwarf as a dancer. One of Boatswain's best known roles is that of Mrs Bassinger in Grange Hill, which she played between 2003 and 2005. After that, she had guest appearances in such TV series as Life on Mars, The Royal and Torchwood. She played Patreesha St Rose in Shameless in 2013 and also Victoria in Wolfblood from 2014 to 2016. In 2015, she joined the cast of Hollyoaks as Simone Loveday.

Quote: On changing from dancing to acting: 'In this country we don't see musical theatre as acting so I thought I had to retrain. That doesn't happen in the States as it's all one industry, but we do love a bit of inverted snobbery here!'

Trivia: She was nominated for Best Female Vocal Performance in a Video Game in a Supporting Role at the Behind the Voice Actors Awards 2016 for her performance in Bloodborne.

Jeffrey Mundell (Actor) .. Keith Lomax

Florin Piersic Jnr (Actor) .. Nikolai Volkov

Douglas Rand (Actor) .. Lee Stanard

Yuna Shin (Actor) .. Dr Sharon Tan

Joe Ainsworth (Writer)

Sandra MacIver (Series producer)

Paul Matthew Thompson (Executive producer)

Mike Benson (Executive producer)

Steve Hughes (Director)

The Good Ship Murder: At Sea

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Monday, February 23 on 5 (5)

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