Fleabag

Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Actor) .. Fleabag

Born: July 14, 1985 in London

Early-life: Born in London in 1985 _ both her parents are descended from baronets. She has a younger brother, Jasper, and an older sister, Isobel, who would go on to compose the music for Fleabag. Phoebe realised at eight that she wanted to act and after appearing in various school plays, she won a place at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she admits she initially struggled with her confidence. After graduating, Phoebe didn't work for two years.

Best Known For: Creating and starring in Fleabag

Career: Her friend Vicky Jones suggested that as they weren't getting parts, they should create their own, and Waller-Bridge began writing plays. She also started winning roles in series including Doctors, Broadchurch and Bad Education, as well as the films Albert Nobbs and The Iron Lady. In 2016, Phoebe wrote and starred in two comedies _ Channel 4's Crashing and BBC Three's Fleabag, which was based on her one-woman play of the same name. Fleabag became a huge critical hit, winning her a Bafta and two Royal Television Society Awards. Since then, Waller-Bridge has made a second series of Fleabag, brought the acclaimed Killing Eve to the small screen and played an outspoken droid in Solo: A Star Wars Story.

Quote: "It feels like, recently, a lot of female anger has been unleashed. Which is exciting for me because I've always found female rage very appealing."

Trivia: She'd never seen a Star Wars film before starring in Solo, and claims she didn't realise that her character was a robot because she didn't know what 'droid' meant.

Ben Aldridge (Actor) .. A******* guy

Jenny Rainsford (Actor) .. Boo

Olivia Colman (Actor) .. Godmother

Born: January 30, 1974 in Norfolk

Best Known For: Rev, Peep Show and Broadchurch.

Early-life: Born Sarah Caroline Colman on January 30, 1974, in Norfolk. She claims she relied on making her fellow pupils laugh at school because she wasn't very academic, but went on to study at Cambridge, where she met future collaborators David Mitchell and Robert Webb. Colman initially intended to become a primary school teacher, but switched to drama and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She hasn't looked back since.

Career: Colman's first TV work came in the series Bruiser in 2000, and was followed by appearances alongside her old friends David and Robert in The Mitchell and Webb Situation sketch show. She had a brief role in The Office, but it wasn't until Peep Show, Look Around You and Green Wing came along that people started to sit up and take notice. Since then she's featured in Hot Fuzz, That Mitchell and Webb Look, Beautiful People, Doctor Who, Twenty Twelve and Rev. More recently she made the move from comedy to drama in The Iron Lady, the hugely acclaimed Tyrannosaur and Hyde Park on Hudson. In 2013, she starred in the acclaimed ITV drama Broadchurch, which won her a Bafta TV award for Best Actress.

Quote: 'If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked with before.'

Trivia: She has voiced a number of TV commercials.

Bill Paterson (Actor) .. Dad

Born: June 03, 1945 in Glasgow

Best Known For: A number of small-screen TV roles.

Early-life: Bill Paterson was born on June 3, 1945, in Glasgow. He spent three years as a quantity surveyor before doing a teaching course at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He was about to accept an educational role when he was offered a place with the Citizen's Theatre. His big break came at the Edinburgh Festival in The Great Northern Welly Boot Show, a satire by Billy Connolly about striking shipbuilders.

Career: Paterson's TV debut came in 1977's Bafta-winning Licking Hitler. A year later he appeared in The Vanishing Army and Smiley's People. He went on to feature in such films as The Killing Fields, A Private Function, Defence of the Realm, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Chaplin, Bright Young Things and Truly, Madly, Deeply. Other TV projects include The Singing Detective, Traffik, The Crow Road, Doctor Zhivago, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, and Law & Order: UK. He was also nominated for an Olivier Award for Bertolt Brecht's Schwekyk in the Second World War in 1982 and has done extensive voiceover work on TV and radio.

Quote: 'I don't think acting has ever been my passion, but it's a very nice way of making a living.'

Trivia: Paterson turned down one of the leads in Alien.

Hugh Skinner (Actor) .. Harry

Sian Clifford (Actor) .. Claire

Brett Gelman (Actor) .. Martin

Anthony Welsh (Actor) .. Jack

Hugh Dennis (Actor) .. Bank manager

Born: February 13, 1962 in Kettering

Best Known For: His regular slot on Mock the Week and The Now Show on Radio 4.

Early-life: Peter Hugh Dennis was born in Kettering on February 13, 1962. His father was Bishop of Saint Edmundsbury and Ipswich. Hugh read geography at Cambridge, where he joined the famous Footlights and met future comedy partner Steve Punt. After graduating, he worked at Unilever for six years. Hugh and Steve worked the comedy circuit, including London's Comedy Store. There, they were spotted by Jasper Carrott, who offered the pair a slot on his show Carrott Confidential.

Career: Punt and Dennis moved on to work on The Mary Whitehouse Experience, alongside Rob Newman and David Baddiel, before branching out into their own radio series, It's Been A Bad Week and the hugely popular The Now Show. Over the years, Dennis has appeared in a string of comedy shows, including The Imaginatively Titled Punt and Dennis Show, Mock the Week and Have I Got News For You. As well as keeping busy with plenty of voice-over work, Dennis is also an accomplished actor. His CV boasts roles in My Hero and the popular sitcom Outnumbered. He has been involved with The Now Show on Radio 4 since 1998.

Quote: 'Everyone's careers go at different paces; you need to forget what other people are doing and concentrate on your own progress.'

Trivia: Away from performing, in 2007, Dennis took part in a mountain stage of the Tour de France.

Kae Alexander (Actor) .. Elaine

Harry Williams (Executive producer)

Jack Williams (Executive producer)

Lydia Hampson (Producer)

Harry Bradbeer (Director)

12:45 am - 01:10 am, Friday, July 24 on BBC Three (23)

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