Ludwig

David Mitchell (Actor) .. John `Ludwig" Taylor

Born: July 14, 1974 in Salisbury

Best Known For: Being one half of hysterical duo Mitchell and Webb.

Early-life: Born David James Stuart Mitchell in Salisbury on July 14, 1974. He has a younger brother called Daniel. His parents were hotel managers who later moved to Oxford, where they became lecturers in hotel management. He claims he always wanted to be an actor or comedian, but told people he planned to become a barrister to please his parents. In 1993 David went to Peterhouse College, Cambridge, to study history. He performed with the famous Cambridge Footlights, eventually becoming the society president. It was in his first year at university that he met Robert Webb at an audition for a student pantomime production of Cinderella.

Career: After graduating, Mitchell worked an usher at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith. He and Webb took a number of shows to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival before being asked to write for Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller and for surreal comedy series Big Train. In 2001, they made their first sketch show, The Mitchell and Webb Situation, which ran for six episodes on the now-defunct cable channel Play UK. Their next project came in 2003, with the award-winning Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show. They've also worked together on That Mitchell and Webb Sound, That Mitchell and Webb Look and the film Magicians. Solo, Mitchell has appeared on 10 O'Clock Live and numerous panel shows, including Would I Lie to You?, where he's a regular team captain. His autobiography, Back Story: A Memoir, was published in 2012.

Quote: 'I think, fundamentally, the people I want to make laugh are British. I can't ever imagine living abroad.'

Trivia: He writes columns for The Observer and The Guardian.

Anna Maxwell Martin (Actor) .. Lucy Betts-Taylor

Best Known For: Bleak House.

Early-life: Born Anna Charlotte Martin in Beverley, East Yorkshire, on May 10, 1977. She has an older brother called Adam, and their mother gave up her job as a research scientist to raise them. Their father was the managing director of a pharmaceutical company; he died after a battle with cancer when Anna was 24. After leaving school, she studied history at Liverpool University, then enrolled at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Career: Martin's TV debut came in an episode of Midsomer Murders, but she first made a mark on the acting world on stage, thanks to an acclaimed performance in the National Theatre's epic, six-hour adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials during the winter of 2003 and 2004. A year later she won a Bafta for her performance in the BBC's Bleak House; she picked up her second Bafta for Poppy Shakespeare in 2008. In fact, everything Martin touches seems to turn to gold - she's suffered very few flops or misfires in her career so far. On stage she's impressed in the likes of The Entertainer, Cabaret and Measure for Measure, while other TV projects include Freefall, Moonshot, South Riding, The Bletchley Circle and Death Comes to Pemberley (which was partly shot in her home town). Martin has been less active on film, with Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013) and Philomena (2013) the highlights.

Quote: On period dramas: 'I just don't like it: the hair, the make-up, the corsets, the hours in costume. I'd rather have no make-up on and wear an anorak.'

Trivia: When she was a child, Martin wanted to be Whitney Houston.

Dipo Ola (Actor) .. DCI Russell Carter

Mark Bonnar (Actor) .. Gareth Fisher

Sian Clifford (Actor) .. Joanne Kemper

Dorothy Atkinson (Actor) .. DCS Carol Shaw

Ben Ashenden (Actor) .. DC Ethan Cole

Rumi Sutton (Actor) .. DC Caitlin Sullivan

Dylan Hughes (Actor) .. Henry Betts-Taylor

Daniel Lawrence Taylor (Actor) .. Aiden Mooney

Gary Beadle (Actor) .. Phillip Mooney

Best Known For: Playing Paul Trueman in EastEnders.

Early-life: Gary was born in London in 1965. At the age of eight, he performed in a stage version of Bugsy Malone. Gary and his brother Rikki and sister Carleen went to the Anna Scher Theatre School. In 1980, Gary made his TV debut in an episode of the drama series The Squad. He has been a regular on the small screen ever since.

Career: Beadle is perhaps best known for playing Paul Trueman in EastEnders, a role he performed between 2001 and 2004. His TV credits also include Making Out, The Glam Metal Detectives, Operation Good Guys, Holby City, Thieves Like Us, The Sarah Jane Adventures and Crime Stories. More recently, he has starred in The Interceptor. His film credits include Wit (2001), Until Death (2007), Cockneys vs Zombies (2012), and In the Heart of the Sea (2015).

Quote: 'One of the main reasons that I got into acting was so that I could play several different people and live in other people's worlds.'

Trivia: Beadle enjoys boxing, cricket, football and playing percussion.

Michael Wildman (Actor) .. DCC Clint Radley

Bairavi Manoharan (Actor) .. Hannah Foster

Rory Douglas-Speed (Actor) .. Tristan Price

Michelle Greenidge (Actor) .. Jackie Mooney

Tsion Habte (Actor) .. Sienna Mooney

Lloyd Bowen (Actor) .. Owen Doyle

Mark Brotherhood (Writer)

Kenton Allen (Executive producer)

Kathryn O'Connor (Executive producer)

Chris Sussman (Executive producer)

Toby Welch (Executive producer)

Georgie Fallon (Producer)

George Kane (Director)

9:00 pm - 10:00 pm, Thursday, August 27 on BBC One London (1)

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