Austin - No Pair, No Bear - 11:05 pm Friday, July 17 on BBC One London

Michael Theo (Actor) .. Austin Hogan

Sally Phillips (Actor) .. Ingrid Hartswood

Born: May 10, 1970 in Hong Kong

Best Known For: Smack the Pony

Early-life: Phillips was born in Hong Kong in 1970, the daughter of Tim Phillips, the chairman of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club who host The Championships, Wimbledon. She was educated at the private Wycombe Abbey School, in Campbell House and then graduated from New College, Oxford with a 1st class degree in Italian. Keen for a career on the stage she was involved in nine consecutive Edinburgh festivals. Her first TV role was in Lee and Herring's Fist of Fun in 1994, shortly after followed by a cameo in Alas Smith and Jones.

Career: Her role as a receptionist in I'm Alan Partridge proved to be her big break and she was nominated for best female newcomer at the British Comedy Awards that year. She had a starring role in the short-lived 1999 British comedy series Hippies (with Simon Pegg and Julian Rhind-Tutt), and also co-created and wrote Smack the Pony, the all-female, double Emmy Award winning comedy show. She appeared in Bridget Jones's Diary as 'Shazzer', and has appeared in such success stories as Jam and Jerusalem and hit comedy Miranda.

Quote: 'Both my boys are obsessed with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and I have spawned the greatest, tiniest Dick Van Dyke impersonators of all time. Me Ol' Bamboo has to be seen to be believed.'

Trivia: She has played the title role in Radio 4 sitcom Clare in the Community since 2004.

Roy Billing (Actor) .. Bill Hogan

Gia Carides (Actor) .. Mel Hogan

Ben Miller (Actor) .. Julian Hartswood

Born: February 24, 1966 in London

Best Known For: His comedy partnership with Alexander Armstrong.

Early-life: Bennet Evan Miller was born on February 24, 1966, in London and raised in Nantwich, Cheshire, where he attended the local comprehensive. Both his parents were teachers, and he has two younger sisters. Ben attended Cambridge University, where he joined the famous Footlights comedy group and met Alexander Armstrong. He began studying for a PhD in physics - his thesis was on novel quantum effects in quasi-zero dimensional mesoscopic electron systems - but abandoned it halfway through to concentrate on comedy instead, forming a duo with Armstrong.

Career: Miller and Armstrong toured pubs and clubs for four years before making their TV debut on Saturday Live in 1995. The following year they were nominated for the prestigious Perrier Award, and landed their own Channel 4 show; they later moved to the BBC. Miller has acted in films including The Parole Officer, Birthday Girl, Johnny English and The Prince and Me, and has also starred in small-screen offerings Marple, Malice Aforethought, The Book Group, The Worst Week of My Life, Moving Wallpaper and Primeval. In 2011, he had a successful run in West End hit The Ladykillers. Miller recently quit his role in BBC hit Death in Paradise.

Quote: 'I like to do completely different things, go from one thing to another, which is possibly why no one knows who I am.'

Trivia: Miller plays the guitar and drums.

Rodger Corser (Actor) .. Roger

Trystan Go (Actor) .. Marnus

Rebecca O'Brien (Director)

Adam Zwar (Writer)

Joe Weatherstone (Producer)

Peter Anderson (Executive producer)

Darren Ashton (Executive producer)

Catherine Nebauer (Executive producer)

Jessica Parker (Executive producer)

Joe Tucker (Executive producer)

Lloyd Woolf (Executive producer)

Austin: No Pair, No Bear

11:05 pm - 11:35 pm, Friday, July 17 on BBC One London (1)

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No Pair, No Bear
Season 2, Episode 4

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