The Inbetweeners - The Fashion Show - 10:30 pm Friday, December 26 on E4

Simon Bird (Actor) .. Will

Born: August 19, 1984 in Guildford, Surrey

Best Known For: The Inbetweeners.

Early-life: Simon Antony Bird was born in Guildford, Surrey, in 1984. He attended the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, where he became an accomplished violinist and took part in a variety of orchestras. He then moved on to study English at Queens' College, Cambridge. Alongside his studies, he got involved with the illustrious Footlights drama group, eventually being elected as its chairman in 2005.

Career: After leaving Cambridge, Bird set up the sketch comedy group The House of Windsor with Inbetweeners co-star Joe Thomas. They performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 2007 and 2008, receiving favourable coverage in the national press. His breakthrough came in 2008 when he was cast as Will McKenzie in the delightfully crude high-school sitcom The Inbetweeners. He was named Best Actor at the 2009 British Comedy Awards. Three series of The Inbetweeners was followed by a hugely successful movie version. The movie sequel was released in August 2014. He has also hosted comedy panel show The King is Dead and starred in Friday Night Dinner and Chickens.

Quote: "I'm pretty geeky I think. I don't really have to act that much! Hopefully I'm not quite as officious as Will, but yeah I've definitely got some geeky tendencies."

Joe Thomas (Actor) .. Simon

Born: October 28, 1983 in Chelmsford, Essex

Best Known For: The Inbetweeners and Fresh Meat.

Early-life: Joseph Thomas was born in Chelmsford, Essex, on October 28, 1983. He read history at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and it was here that he was a member of the Footlights with his Inbetweeners co-star Simon Bird. He performed with the Footlights at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in All's Well That Ends Well.

Career: Thomas's big break came in 2008 when he began playing Simon Cooper in hugely popular E4 sitcom The Inbetweeners. It ran for three series until 2010 and The Inbetweeners Movie was a big box-office success in 2011. More recently, Joe has played Kingsley in E4 comedy drama Fresh Meat and George in Sky1 comedy Chickens, which Joe writes with co-stars Simon Bird and Jonny Sweet. The Inbetweeners 2 was released in cinemas in August 2014.

Quote: "I did have dreams of becoming a pipe-smoking professor who bumbled around and drank real ale."

Trivia: He can play the guitar and the violin.

James Buckley (Actor) .. Jay

Born: August 14, 1987 in Croydon

Best Known For: Playing Jay Cartwright in The Inbetweeners and a young Del Boy Trotter in Rock & Chips.

Early-life: James Patrick Buckley was born in Croydon on August 14, 1987. At the age of two, he moved with his family to Dagenham. He began going to a stage school at weekends from the age of seven. At the age of 11, he landed his first professional acting jobs in West End shows Whistle Down the Wind and Les Miserables.

Career: Buckley's big break came in 2008 when he was cast in the role of Jay Cartwright in E4 comedy The Inbetweeners alongside Simon Bird, Blake Harrison and Joe Thomas. Three series were followed by two hugely successful spin-off movies. He has also played a young Del Boy Trotter in BBC comedy drama Rock & Chips, and Mr Norris in the TV movie The Boy in the Dress.

Quote: On The Inbetweeners: "As soon as we're all together we're juvenile."

Trivia: He is heavily in demand as a voiceover artist for commercials. In 2012, he made his directorial debut when he directed a music video for Essex band The Milk.

Blake Harrison (Actor) .. Neil

Born: July 22, 1985 in London

Best Known For: Playing Neil Sutherland in The Inbetweeners.

Early-life: Born Blake Harrison Keenan in London on July 22, 1985, he went on to attend the Brit School and the East 15 Acting School.

Career: Harrison's big break as an actor came in 2008 when he was cast in the role of Neil Sutherland in E4 comedy The Inbetweeners alongside Simon Bird, James Buckley and Joe Thomas. Three series were followed by two hugely successful spin-off movies. His other TV credits include Him & Her, The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, White Van Man, Bleak Old Shop of Stuff, Big Bad World and Edge of Heaven.

Quote: "I've never had a plan B."

Trivia: In 2014, Harrison began voicing the character Scoop in a revamped version of Bob the Builder. He supports Millwall FC.

Emily Head (Actor) .. Carli

Born: December 15, 1988 in Fulham, London

Best Known For: Playing Carli D'Amato in The Inbetweeners.

Early-life: Emily Rose Head was born on December 15, 1988 in Fulham, London. She is the oldest daughter of actor Anthony Head. Emily studied for a BTEC in acting at the BRIT School in Croydon.

Career: Head's earliest TV roles were in Trial and Retribution and Doc Martin. She also appeared alongside her father in The Invisibles. Her breakthrough role was in The Inbetweeners, where she played Carli D'Amato, the love interest of Simon Cooper (Joe Thomas). She reprised this role for The Inbetweeners Movie (2011). Since then, she has appeared in Doctors and the TV movie Rita (2013). In 2016, she joined the cast of Emmerdale as Rebecca White.

Quote: On being Anthony Head's daughter and an actor: "My dad knows how difficult it can be, there have been a few conversations with him about when you don't get the part you have been thinking about for the past six months."

Trivia: She went to the same school as Katy B and Adele.

Ben Palmer (Director)

Damon Beesley (Producer)

Iain Morris (Producer)

The Inbetweeners: The Fashion Show

10:30 pm - 11:00 pm, Friday, December 26 on E4 (13)

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