Crookhaven - Crooxeat - 3:50 pm Sunday, April 5 on BBC One London

Lucas Leach (Actor) .. Gabriel Avery

Arthur Darvill (Actor) .. The Leopard

Born: June 17, 1982 in Birmingham

Best Known For: Playing Rory in Doctor Who.

Early-life: Born Thomas Arthur Darvill on June 17, 1982, in Birmingham. He has a younger sister. They grew up around performers and performing - his mother was a member of the Cannon Hill Puppet Theatre, with which she toured the world as a puppeteer and actor. His father played organ for artists such as Edwin Starr, Ruby Turner, Fine Young Cannibals and UB40. Arthur began acting at 10 with the Stage2 Youth Theatre Company.

Career: In 2000, Darvill began presenting continuity links on CITV. He left a year later and founded his own theatre company, Fuego's Men. At 18 he settled in London to take up a place at Rada. Many of his early roles came on stage, including in an acclaimed production of Terre Haute at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He worked with future Doctor Who co-star Matt Smith in Swimming with Sharks in 2007. A year later, he made his TV debut in He Kills Coppers and followed it with Little Dorrit, but it was travelling with the Time Lord as Rory Williams that made him a star. Other projects since include the films Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, and Robin Hood.

Quote: On leaving Doctor Who: 'I'm really going to miss the people. Me, Matt and Karen are still in touch, so we're going to see each other whenever we can, but it's different when you're not working together any more. Brilliant, brilliant actors - we know each other so well. We'll still chat.'

Trivia: Away from acting, Darvill plays guitar and keyboards, and collects taxidermy.

Keith Allen (Actor) .. Erasmus Sisman

Born: June 02, 1953 in Gorseinon, near Swansea

Best Known For: Being the bad boy of TV.

Early-life: Despite his allegiance to the England football team, Keith Howell Charles Allen was born in Swansea, South Wales, in 1953. He supports Fulham FC. His brother Kevin is an actor, director and comedian. On leaving school, Keith had a variety of jobs, including coal mining (although he only completed three shifts), running the shooting gallery at a funfair and working in a chicken factory. His big showbusiness break came when he went down a storm at the Comedy Store in 1979.

Career: Allen was in a number of Comic Strip Presents... programmes during the 1980s. He also appeared in an episode of The Young Ones and made his film debut in Crystal Gazing, which he co-wrote. Among his highest profile projects are Scandal, A Very British Coup, Carry On Columbus, The Young Americans, Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, Martin Chuzzlewit, De-Lovely, 24 Hour Party People and The Others. Allen featured in BBC reality show Art School, released football-themed single Vindaloo as part of the band Fat Les, has conducted often-controversial interviews for Channel 4, and was most recently seen playing the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood. More recently, he has starred in The Body Farm, By Any Means, and My Mad Fat Diary.

Quote: 'I'm similar to Marmite in many respects. People either love me or hate me.'

Trivia: He supports Fulham FC.

Julie Hesmondhalgh (Actor) .. Grandma Sue

Born: February 25, 1970 in Accrington, Lancashire

Best Known For: Playing transsexual Hayley Cropper in Coronation Street.

Early-life: Julie Claire Hesmondhalgh was born in Accrington, Lancashire, on February 25, 1970. She initially dreamed of becoming a social worker, though went on to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art from 1988 to 1991, where one of her classmates was Benito Martinez, who went on to appear in US drama The Shield and Million Dollar Baby. On finishing her training, Julie spent several years with Arts Threshold, a small independent theatre in London.

Career: Hesmondhalgh's career began to take off in the 1990s, with appearances in The Bill, The Dwelling Place and Dalziel and Pascoe, as well as acclaimed comedy drama Pat and Margaret, alongside Victoria Wood and Julie Walters. She got her big break playing Hayley in Coronation Street in 1998, where she became the first transsexual character on a British serial. She's also been a panellist on Loose Women, and in 2007 began a year-long break from Corrie to allow her to spend more time with her family. She returned in 2008, but left the soap in January 2014 following a gruelling and controversial storyline in which the much-loved Hayley committed suicide while battling terminal cancer. She's since returned to the stage.

Quote: 'I like to think I'm slightly more funky than Hayley, but there is definitely a bit of 'anorak' in me too. I try to strike a balance between being rock 'n' roll and real prefect material.'

Trivia: Hesmondhalgh supports Manchester City.

Dougray Scott (Actor) .. Caspian Lockett

Born: November 25, 1965 in Glenrothes, Scotland

Best Known For: Mission: Impossible II.

Early-life: Born Stephen Dougray Scott on November 25, 1965, in Glenrothes, Scotland. He studied at the Kirkcaldy College of Technology and the Welsh College of Music and Drama, where he was named the most promising drama student. He made his stage debut as Jem in To Kill a Mockingbird. On discovering there was already an actor registered with Equity called Stephen Scott, he adopted Dougray, his middle name and his French grandmother's surname.

Career: Dougray made his TV debut in an episode of Taggart in 1992, the same year he also appeared in Lovejoy, Tell Tale Hearts and his first film, The Weak and Wide Astray. Three years later he got his big break when he was cast as Major Rory Taylor in Soldier Soldier. He followed that with The Crow Road and Twin Town before moving to Hollywood to make Ever After and Deep Impact. A well-known face on both sides of the Atlantic, Dougray's work also includes Mission: Impossible II, This Year's Love, Enigma and Ripley's Game. He was a frontrunner to replace Pierce Brosnan as James Bond before it eventually went to Daniel Craig. More recently, he has starred on TV in The Day of the Triffids, My Week with Marilyn, Hitman and United. He is constantly in demand.

Quote: 'I do what I feel is right at the time. Opportunities come along and I take them or I don't. I feel happy about what I'm doing, and I work instinctively.'

Trivia: Dougray is a celebrity supporter of the British Red Cross.

Amari Bacchus (Actor) .. Ade Okoro

Leila Khan (Actor) .. Amira Dhawan

Carmel Laniado (Actor) .. Penelope Lockett

Sani Thabo (Actor) .. Ede Okoro

Aerona Shi (Actor) .. Jia Ou

Tipper Seifert-Cleveland (Actor) .. Nicki/Villette

Emily Maitlis (Actor) .. Miss Clarke

Ti Barbosa (Actor) .. Leon

Genesis Lynea (Actor) .. Whisper

Tobias Jowett (Actor) .. Ishaan

Glenn Speers (Actor) .. Len

Naomi Wirthner (Actor) .. Matilda Jericho

Anna-Sophia Eden (Actor) .. Isabella

Mark Freeland (Executive producer)

Jamie Magnus Stone (Director)

Leon McGeown-Fee (Producer)

Sumerah Srivastav (Writer)

Crookhaven: Crooxeat

3:50 pm - 4:35 pm, Sunday, April 5 on BBC One London (1)

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Season 1, Episode 6

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