Horrible Histories

Sarah Hadland (Actor) .. Queen Victoria

Born: May 15, 1971 in London

Best Known For: Playing Stevie in Miranda.

Early-life: Sarah was born in London on May 15, 1971. She trained in dance from an early age and became involved with the Scamps youth group in Wilmslow. She went on to train at the Laine Theatre Arts College in Epsom and it wasn't long before she began starring in West End musicals such as Cats and Grease.

Career: Hadland began making her mark on TV in episodes of Bad Girls, Casualty, The Bill, Peep Show and Doctors. She landed bigger roles in Green Wing and Broken News. Since then, she has starred in Moving Wallpaper, That Mitchell and Webb Look, Horrible Histories, Waterloo Road, The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff and The Job Lot. On the big screen, she has starred in Confetti (2006), Magicians (2007) and Leap Year (2010). She reached a wider audience in 2009 when she began playing Stevie in BBC sitcom Miranda.

Quote: 'You start to realise that everyone's got an inner Miranda or Stevie that they're struggling with; who feels that they don't fit in, or can't get it right with men.'

Trivia: Hadland has been the voiceover artist for a number of commercials and voiced characters in a number of video games.

Ben Miller (Actor) .. King John

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.

Simon Farnaby (Actor)

Jim Howick (Actor)

Jalaal Hartley (Actor)

Tom Stourton (Actor)

Naz Osmanoglu (Actor)

Adam Riches (Actor)

Born: December 10, 1979 in Cambridge

Best Known For: His comedy shows.

Early-life: Born December 10, 1979 in Cambridge and raised in Glasgow and London. Adam attended Sutton Grammar School for Boys. After working at Disneyland Paris for a brief time, he studied media and performance at Salford University.

Career: Riches had small roles in such TV series as A Touch of Frost and Always and Everyone before he did his first comedy show at Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2003 with Jim Johnson. In 2007, he returned to the Fringe with the show Victor and again in 2008 with Alpha Males. His 2011 show, Bring Me the Head of Adam Riches, won the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award and was transferred to Soho Theatre in London in 2012. Since then, he has had acting roles on TV, including as Tony in Detectorists and various historical figures in Drunk History: UK and Horrible Histories. His next comedy show, Adam of the Riches, was on at Edinburgh Fringe in 2014. He was also a panelist on an episode of 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and he appeared in the film A Street Cat Named Bob (2016).

Quote: 'There's so much power, fun and uniqueness that you can have in a live performance, something that's happening right there.'

Trivia: He broke his leg while performing Alpha Males after slipping on some yoghurt.

Jessica Ransom (Actor)

Sanjeev Bhaskar (Actor)

Born: June 28, 1964 in Ealing

Best Known For: The Kumars at No 42.

Early-life: Born on June 28, 1964, in Ealing, London, to Asian immigrants living in Hounslow. He gained a degree and worked in marketing for seven years, writing monologues and sketches as a hobby. After realising he didn't like working in an office, he began performing comedy routines in clubs. His friend, musician Nitin Sawhney, encouraged him after the duo realised nobody was doing stand-up about being Asian and British. They formed a double act called The Secret Indians (Non-Asian) in 1996.

Career: As Bhaskar and Sawhney's stage act grew in popularity they were noticed by the producer of sketch show The Real McCoy, who introduced Bhaskar to Kulvinder Ghir, Nina Wadia and Meera Syal - who then formed the Goodness Gracious Me team. It began on radio, before making its TV debut in 1998. It was an instant success. Since then, he's appeared in Notting Hill, The Guru, Anita and Me, and cult chat-show The Kumars at No 42. He's also starred in the West End in long-running hit Art and visited his ancestral home in what is now Pakistan during the travelogue India with Sanjeev Bhaskar. Other acting gigs include sitcom Mumbai Calling and daytime drama The Indian Doctor.

Quote: 'Most of my characters are based on truth. The Kumars at No 42 are basically my parents.'

Trivia: He married actress Meera Syal in 2005. They have a son, Shaan.

Ian Curtis (Director)

Simon Gibney (Director)

Tom Miller (Series producer)

Bill Hobbins (Executive producer)

Melissa Hardinge (Executive producer)

Richard Bradley (Executive producer)

12:20 pm - 12:50 pm, Sunday, July 5 on CBBC (201)

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Season 6, Episode 14

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