I, Jack Wright - Juggling Snakes - 10:40 pm Monday, July 13 on BBC One London

Nikki Amuka-Bird (Actor) .. Sally

Percelle Ascott (Actor) .. Reuben Maguire

Liz Kingsman (Actor) .. DC Kat Jones

(Actor) .. Georgia Wright

Born: October 26, 1981 in Bromley, Kent

Best Known For: Roles in a string of stage and screen hits.

Early-life: Zoe Tapper was born on October 26, 1981, in Bromley, Kent. She trained at the Academy Drama School and at the Central School of Speech and Drama, from which she graduated in the spring of 2003, days before taking on her first film role. She first came to prominence playing Nell Gwynne in Richard Eyre's award-winning film Stage Beauty in 2004 and has since notched up a steady string of stage and screen credits.

Career: Starring roles on TV include playing Mary Collins in A Harlot's Progress for Channel 4, Jane in Oliver Parker's The Private Life of Samuel Pepys alongside Steve Coogan, Gemma in the first series of the Sky One UK TV series Hex, Hermia in the 2005 BBC TV adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Jenny Maple in the BBC miniseries Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, Sheila Steafel in the 2008 BBC TV play The Curse of Steptoe and Anya Raczynski in the action-packed BBC remake of Survivors. She also took the lead role in the small-screen version of the Gothic ghost story Affinity.

Quote: 'I did a stunt with Mackenzie Crook where I had to kick him and grab him by the throat and it was great fun.'

Trivia: On stage, she has appeared in Epitaph For George Dillon in the West End, and Othello at Shakespeare's Globe.

Niamh Cusack (Actor) .. Annie Rouse

John Simm (Actor) .. Gray Wright

Born: July 10, 1970 in Leeds

Best Known For: Playing Sam Tyler in Life on Mars

Early-life: Born John Ronald Simm on July 10, 1970, in Leeds. He was raised in Nelson, Lancashire, and attended Edge End High School. He's the eldest of three children. His father Ronald, a local musician, taught him how to play the guitar and together they toured the region's working men's clubs. In 1986, aged 16, John enrolled at Blackpool Drama College, and two years later moved to London to study Stanislavsky's acting methods at London's Drama Centre.

Career: Simm made his TV debut in a 1992 episode of Rumpole of the Bailey. He also appeared in Heartbeat, TV movie Meat, Dalziel and Pascoe's first drama A Pinch of Snuff, Cracker and the film Boston Kickout. Simm became a familiar face thanks to acclaimed series The Lakes. He went on to appear in such projects as Human Traffic, 24 Hour Party People, Spaced, White Teeth, State of Play and Sex Traffic. Simm's performance as troubled cop Sam Tyler in BBC hit Life on Mars made him a household name. Since then he's appeared in Doctor Who, Mad Dogs, The Village, Mad Dogs and Prey. While continuing his work as an actor, during the 1990s he was also a founder member of the rock band Magic Alex.

Quote: On why he chose to make Life on Mars: 'The mad twist at the start appealed to me. I thought, if I can make that believable I can make anything believable.'

Trivia: He's also played alongside his friend, Echo and the Bunnymen star Ian McCulloch, on albums and live on stage.

Samuel Small (Actor) .. Josh Wright

James Fleet (Actor) .. Bobby Botham

Born: March 11, 1954 in Bilston, Staffordshire

Best Known For: The Vicar of Dibley and Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Early-life: James Edward Fleet was born in Bilston, Staffordshire, on March 11, 1954 to a Scottish mother, Christine, and an English father, Jim. He moved to a town near Aberdeen at the age of 10 with his mother when his dad died. He studied engineering at university before training as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He began his career in the Royal Shakespeare Company, appearing in several plays in the early 1980s.

Career: Fleet is best known for playing the bumbling Tom in the 1984 romantic comedy Four Weddings and a Funeral, and the dim-witted Hugo Horton in the sitcom The Vicar of Dibley. He had a stint in Coronation Street in 2010 and his other TV credits include roles in Midsomer Murders, Being Human, Death Comes to Pemberley and Bad Education. On the big screen, he has appeared in Sense and Sensibility (1995), The Phantom of the Opera (2004) and Charlotte Gray (2001).

Quote: 'Casting directors tend to see me as a posh idiot.'

Trivia: Fleet is a keen biker.

Harry Lloyd (Actor) .. DCI Hector Morgan

Gemma Jones (Actor) .. Rose Wright

James Wilby (Actor) .. Max Preston

Born: February 20, 1958 in Rangoon, Burma

Best Known For: His performances in Merchant Ivory films.

Early-life: Born in 1958 in Rangoon, Burma (his father was an executive with the British Oxygen Company), but raised in England. He attended school in Cumbria and gained a maths degree from Durham University before studing at RADA. While there he starred in the 1982 film Privileged alongside Hugh Grant and Imogen Stubbs. After graduating he gained experience on stage, which led to the lead role in Ismail Merchant and James Ivory's adaptation of EM Forster's novel Maurice, again opposite Hugh Grant.

Career: After impressing in his breakthrough role, Wilby subsequently appeared in a miniseries based on A Tale of Two Cities, and co-starred with Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins in another acclaimed Merchant/Ivory adaptation of EM Forster, Howards End. Though the rest of Wilby's 1990s movies were not as impressively received, he continued to work regularly, turning up in Immaculate Conception, the First World War drama Regeneration, the children's movie Tom's Midnight Garden, and as the bitter lord of the manor in Ken Russell's TV project Lady Chatterley. Wilby reunited with Ismail Merchant in the producer's directorial effort Cotton Mary. He subsequently appeared among the distinguished ensemble populating Robert Altman's Oscar-winning period piece Gosford Park, Midsomer Murders, Poirot and The Great Train Robbery. He also continues to work on stage.

Quote: 'I am lucky enough to find learning my lines really easy. The trouble is that I can't remember anything else, and as soon as I start preparing for a role, telephone numbers, children's birthdays and the names of favourite wines just fly out of the window. It's a real curse.'

Trivia: In his spare time, he enjoys yachting.

Daniel Rigby (Actor) .. John Wright

Ruby Ashbourne Serkis (Actor) .. Emily Wright

Callum Adams (Actor) .. Kyle

Matt Mordak (Actor) .. Aron

Trevor Eve (Actor) .. Jack Wright

Born: July 01, 1951 in Birmingham

Best Known For: Playing 1970s detective Shoestring.

Early-life: Trevor John Eve was born on July 1, 1951, in Birmingham, but was raised in Wales. His father was a drinks wholesaler who was 50 when Eve was born. His mother was 15 years younger. He describes his dad as the most frugal man he's ever met, who saved hard to pay for his education. Eve was disappointed to miss out on being captain of his school cricket team, but knew he was never good enough to turn professional. Instead, he decided to become an artist, but later trained as an architect. He never acted until applying to Rada, and to his surprise, they accepted him.

Career: Eve made his professional debut at the Liverpool Playhouse as Paul McCartney in Willy Russell's John, Paul, George, Ringo - and Bert. Singled out for praise, it demonstrated his early promise. He then appeared in West End production Filumena before playing the roguish private eye Shoestring on TV in 1979, the part that made him a household name and a heart-throb. Laurence Olivier was a fan, and hired Eve to star in his TV series Best Plays. Memorable work since includes The Politician's Wife, A Sense of Guilt, Troy, The Family Man and the brilliant BBC drama Waking the Dead, which ended in 2011 after nine series. His other notable work includes playing game show host Hughie Green in Hughie Green, Most Sincerely, the 2010 ITV remake of Bouquet of Barbed Wire, and three-part drama Kidnap and Ransom. He has also worked and lived in the US, but is now settled in London.

Quote: 'It's astonishing that people connected to solving crime do the job day after day. I don't know how they escape or where they go for rest and relaxation.'

Jalil Lespert (Actor) .. Arnaud Tissier

Sabrina Bartlett (Actor) .. Bella Horrell

Lena Kaur (Actor) .. DC Sam Carver

Chris Lang (Writer)

Nickie Sault (Producer)

Tom Vaughan (Series director)

I, Jack Wright: Juggling Snakes

10:40 pm - 11:25 pm, Monday, July 13 on BBC One London (1)

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Juggling Snakes
Season 1, Episode 4

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