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Jamie Demetriou is one of the UK's leading comedy actors, writer-performers and character comedians.

His hit debut six-part series STATH LETS FLATS, which he wrote and stars in as the titular character, aired on Channel 4 in 2018 to critical acclaim. The series holds a 100% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Jamie will start filming the second series of the show in May 2019. He was recently nominated for an RTS Award for Best Writer (Comedy) for the series (he wrote 3 episodes with Robert Popper and 3 alone) and earlier this year was nominated for a Broadcast Award for Best Comedy Programme.

He is currently writing, and will star in, PARIAHS - a 6 x 10' series - with Ellie White for BBC3, following a successful set of tasters that were broadcast on iPlayer.

Jamie has also had a feature film script commissioned by Film4 and he wrote and starred in his own Sky Halloween Comedy Short, OH GOD, in 2016.

As an actor, Jamie voiced Moriarty, opposite Johnny Depp's Sherlock, in Paramount's animation feature film SHERLOCK GNOMES. He also played the lead villain Mr Ahmad in the Netflix global-release feature GAME OVER, MAN! alongside the Workaholics team of Anders Holm, Adam Devine and Blake Anderson and from producers Seth Rogen and Scott Rudin.

Jamie played The Professor in Working Title's smash hit, PADDINGTON 2, and can soon be seen in the role of Dimidius in HORRIBLE HISTORIES: THE MOVIE - ROTTEN ROMANS.

Jamie can soon be seen in a regular role in Hulu / MGM's FOUR WEDDINGS reboot.

Other recent television roles include Steve Coogan's THIS TIME WITH ALAN PARTRIDGE for BBC One, Julia Davis' hit series for Sky and HBO, SALLY 4EVER, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge's phenomenon, FLEABAG, for the BBC.

Tamara Smart was last seen starring in Rachel Talalay's "A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting", alongside Oona Laurence, Indya Moore and Tom Felton. Based on the bestselling book trilogy of the same name by Joe Ballarini, the film follows, babysitter Kelly Ferguson (Smart) who's charge is kidnapped by monsters. Kelly is recruited by a secret society of badass babysitters, who protect children destined to change the world. The film streamed on Netflix from October 15, 2020.

In 2020 Tamara was seen in Kenneth Branagh's "Artemis Fowl" alongside Ferdia Shaw and Lara McDonnell. The film is based on the young adult novel of the same name by Eoin Colfer. It is centered on Artemis Fowl (Shaw), a young criminal prodigy, who hunts down a secret society of fairies to find his missing father. Tamara will be seen as the role of 'Juliet Butler,' who is the Niece and protégé of Domovoi Butler (played by Nonso Anozie).

In 2019 she was seen in Nickelodeon's acclaimed reboot of the cult hit-series, "Are You Afraid of the Dark" alongside Lyliana Wray, Sam Ashe Arnold, Miya Cech and Jeremy Ray Taylor. The three-part series follows the lives of the Midnight Society and what happens to the group when the terrifying events of her story start to actually happen in their small town.

In 2018 Tamara was also as part of the BBC ensemble cast of the Hulu crime-drama mini-series, "Hard Sun" as the role of 'Hailey Hicks' alongside Jim Sturgess and Agyness Deyn. The series followed two detectives with opposing viewpoints are forced to work together in a pre-apocalyptic criminal world.

Tamara made her television debut in 2015 at the age of 10 staring in the BBC remake of the comedy series, "The Worst Witch" opposite Bella Ramsey, Clare Higgins and Raquel Cassidy. She was seen as the role of 'Enid Nightshade' one of the first-year witches at Cackle Academy, whose lives are filled with potions, spells and broomsticks -and one disaster after the next.

Tamara resides in London and has been trained in dance.

Londoner Paul Chapman was born in 1939,the younger brother of comedy writer John Chapman and nephew of the actor Edward Chapman. After attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art he graduated in the early 1960s and made his television debut in 1964 in the series 'Curtain of Fear'. Several regular slots in television shows followed,including as an inmate of 'Colditz',Sir Harwell Mincing in the children's period drama 'Return of the Antelope',the pompous - but cuckolded - father of the bride in 'A Bit of a Do', and in two episodes of 'Midsomer Murders'. However he will probably be best known for playing the hen-pecked brother-in-law in long-running sitcom 'As Time Goes By'.

Cariad Lloyd was born on 21 August 1982 in Barnet, Middlesex, London, England, UK. She is a podcaster and actress, known for Murder in Successville (2015), Peep Show (2003) and Drunk History: UK (2015).

Martin Crewes, was born in Barnet, London, England in the year 1968. At age ten, he moved to Perth, Australia. He graduated in 1990 from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts with a Bachelors of Arts degree in Musical Theater. His father David, who was born in New Zealand, was a performing arts actor, participating in many plays in the UK and Australia, such as the Homecoming (1968). His younger sister Amanda Crewes is also an actress, and graduated from WAAPA in 1998 with a Bachelors in Performing Arts. She just finished performing in the Barking Gecko Theatre Company's production, The Rodeo Kid. His mother Elizabeth and aunt Marie were also performing arts actresses, and the Crewes family were part of Playlovers, an organization that features amateurs in theater in Floreat, WA Australia, for many years. Martin is mainly a Performing Arts actor. His Australian theater credits include: Barnum, The Wizard of Oz, Aspects of Love, Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, West Side Story.

Martin is also a TV actor, and has appeared in many Australian TV shows such as Neighbours, RFDS, Phoenix and The Newlyweds. In 1995 Martin went to Asia to perform the role of Lt. Joe Cable in the musical South Pacific in Chiang Mai, Thailand. In 1996, he played Marius in the international tour of Les Miserables performing in Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea and Cape Town. In 1997, Martin moved to and worked in the UK, and again performed the role of Marius in Les Miserables in London's West End. Martin also appeared in many other musicals while living in London, such as The Rink and Pal Joey .

Martin gained popularity in the UK when he spent two years in the hit Sky TV series Dream Team (1997), as the Hispanic player and manager Luis Amor Rodriguez. In this role, he gained recognition, because of the illicit love affair between his character Luis Amor Rodriguez, and the chairman's wife, Linda Block.

In 1999-2000, he played Anthony Sullivan in series 1 and 2 of ITV mini- series Daylight Robbery (1999). In December 2000 Martin performed the opening number of the Royal Variety Performance. Two years later, Martin portrayed the role of Kaplan in the film Resident Evil (2002). He returned to Australia in late 2001, and has done 3 musicals. "Oh! What a night", "Hair" and from August to October 2002, he portrayed the role as "The Man" Jim Ryan in "The Man from Snowy River Arena Spectacular", which was a huge success through out Australia. His most recent performance was when he played Marius in a concert tour of "Les Miserables" in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland in October and November 2002.

Nigel Marven was born on 27 November 1960 in Barnet, London, England, UK. He is a producer and director, known for Wild Colombia (2012), Miniature Worlds (1987) and Primeval (2007). He has been married to Gillian Impey since 1 May 2004. They have one child. He was previously married to Jenny Hull.

Denyse Alexander was born on 28 June 1931 in Barnet, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Macbeth (1983), Orders to Kill (1958) and The Zero Option (1988). She was previously married to Jack Gold.

The phrase has now been enshrined in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. "The time is a quarter to two," the announcer would intone. "This is the BBC Light Programme for mothers and children at home. Are you ready for the music? When it stops, Daphne Oxenford will be here to speak to you." "The music" - the Berceuse from Faure's Dolly Suite - was the signal for an audience of pre-school children across the country to settle down. Then, as a regular storyteller on the show from 1950 until 1971 (others were Julia Lang and Dorothy Smith), Daphne Oxenford would read the story of the day. "Few radio memories come as misty-eyed as this," noted the radio historian Paul Donovan. But Daphne Oxenford also appeared on television - notably in early episodes of Coronation Street. Between 1960 and 1963 she played Esther Hayes, making her debut in episode two. Although the character was a spinster with a criminal brother, she thought the role dull and left after a couple of years, finally returning for guest appearances in 1971 and 1972, when she was last seen at the wedding of Ernest Bishop to Emily Nugent. For 26 years Daphne Oxenford was also a regular voice on What the Papers Say, Granada Television's irreverent weekly survey of the British Press, in which she was required to articulate excerpts from publications ranging from the tabloids to The Daily Telegraph, often in assumed voices. The daughter of an accountant, Daphne Margaret du Grivel Oxenford was born on October 31 1919 at Barnet, north London. From school she trained at the Embassy School of Acting in Swiss Cottage, later the Central School of Speech and Drama, under Sybil Thorndike's sister Eileen. During the war she worked briefly in a bank and later as a censor, but hated having to read people's private correspondence and was relieved to join ENSA entertaining troops and, after VE-Day, spending time in Germany broadcasting for radio. Later in 1945 she appeared with Sonnie Hale and Nellie Wallace in the revue That'll Be The Day. Her first radio engagement was in Let's Join In! for schools radio in 1947, followed in 1949 by her television debut in Oranges and Lemons, a show in which she had worked at the Lyric (Hammersmith) and Globe Theatres. She also appeared in a television adaptation of Tuppence Coloured, the stage revue in which she had worked with Joyce Grenfell and Max Adrian at the Lyric and Globe in 1947. Although her regular radio work with Listen With Mother occupied her from 1950, Daphne Oxenford continued to develop her stage career. She had roles in productions at the Library Theatre, Manchester, of The Happiest Days Of Your Life, in which she was Miss Gossage, the games mistress played in the later film version by Joyce Grenfell, and Candida (both 1955). In 1969 she appeared in Spring And Port Wine and Relatively Speaking at the same venue. In 1979 she played Violet in a revival of TS Eliot's The Family Reunion, starring Edward Fox, at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, and at the Vaudeville when it transferred to the West End the following year. She appeared as Miss Prism in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest at the Nottingham Playhouse in October 1990, and returned to Manchester to play Emmy in The Doctors' Dilemma at the Royal Exchange in 1991. The following year, at the Library Theatre, she was Ethel Thayler in a stage version of the film On Golden Pond. From 1956 Daphne Oxenford made regular television appearances with her friend Joyce Grenfell in the comedienne's sketch show Joyce Grenfell Requests The Pleasure. She was the mother in John Mortimer's autobiographical A Voyage Round My Father (1969), and throughout the 1970s and 1980s appeared in numerous comedy series with Jimmy Tarbuck, Les Dawson and Dick Emery, dramas in the Play For Today slot and popular sitcoms including Some Mothers Do Have 'Em, Rising Damp and Man About The House. She played Mrs Patterson, the village grocer, in To The Manor Born (1979-81). She continued to make cameo appearances throughout the 1980s and 1990s in television series such as The Bill, Brookside and Casualty. In 2002 she played the Queen Mother in an American television biopic about the life of Prince William. Although she looked the part, she was dismayed by some of the lines, protesting that the Queen Mother would never have said "when the chips are down". However she was told that American audiences needed to comprehend the dialogue. Daphne Oxenford's feature film credits included parts in Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969), That'll Be The Day (1973), and as Mrs Pumphrey in All Creatures Great And Small (1974). She married, in 1951, David Marshall. They lived in Altrincham, Cheshire, until 2001 when they moved to Essex. After her husband's death in 2003 she moved to the actors' retirement home at Denville Hall, Northwood, from where she continued to do occasional television jobs, taking roles in The Royal (2003), Midsomer Murders (2004), Heartbeat (2004-05), and Doctor Who (2008). She lived until the age of 93.

Martin entered the film industry at 18 as a trainee for Oscar winning SFX supervisor George Gibbs. Moving on from models and effects he entered the prosthetic and creature field working at Pinewood studios for 5 years, it was here he met Clive Barker on Nightbreed, Clive would eventually give Martin his break in storyboarding on Lord of Illusions in Los Angeles. Martin continues to develop his skills in cinematic storytelling and visual design.

Mark Kermode's trademark intense, often frightening rants about various films which he likes or dislikes has earned him something of a 'cult' following in the UK. He began his career in film journalism and broadcasting in the 1980s after studying English at Manchester University, where he wrote his Ph.D thesis on horror fiction. After starting work as a van driver (he claims he was appointed as a film critic after he crashed the van), he began working for magazines such as City Life, Time Out and the NME and since then has also worked for The Independent, The Guardian, Vox, Empire, Flicks, Fangoria, and Neon among others.

In the early 1990s he moved into radio broadcasting, contributing to and presenting various programmes and shows on BBC radio networks. He also worked as film critic and presenter for Channel 4's 'Extreme Cinema' strand, introducing notorious films such as Crash (1996) and Man Bites Dog (1992), and he wrote and presented many documentaries for Channel 4 and the BBC such as On the Edge of 'Blade Runner' (2000), and Scream and Scream Again: A History of the Slasher Film (2000), The Fear of God: 25 Years of 'The Exorcist' (1998) and The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection' (2000) etc.

Iain Anders was born on 8 February 1933 in Barnet, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Avengers (1961), Taggart (1983) and A Horseman Riding By (1978). He died on 5 September 1997 in Chichester, Sussex, England, UK.

Tony Palmer was born on 29 August 1941 in Barnet, London, England, UK. He is a director and editor, known for Testimony (1987), Great Performances (1971) and Wagner (1983). He is married to Michela. They have three children. He was previously married to Angela Huth.

Gary Grant was born in 1977 in Barnet, North London, England, UK. He is an actor and director, known for Enemy Lines (2020), Giri/Haji (2019) and I Made This for You (2018).

Johnny Vaughan was born on 16 July 1966 in Barnet, North London, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for 'Orrible (2001), Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005) and Top Buzzer (2004). He has been married to Antonia Davies since 5 August 1999. They have two children.

Claire Porter was born on 11 May 1965 in Barnet, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Worst Witch (1998), To the Waters and the Wild (2011) and Doctors (2000). She died on 15 September 2016 in Camden, London, England, UK.

Andrew "Andy" Cunningham (13 May 1950 - 5 June 2017), was an English actor, puppeteer and writer. He was perhaps best known as the creator and main writer of the children's BBC television series, Bodger & Badger, in which he acted as Simon Bodger and his pet, Badger.

Cunningham studied at the University of Cambridge, where he read English. He was in a long-term relationship with co-star Jane Bassett who played Mousey in Bodger & Badger. They later separated but remained good friends. He also had a daughter, Phoebe.

He was also the uncredited puppeteer of Ephant Mon, Jabba the Hutt's Head of Security in Return of the Jedi (1983). Comedian Julian Clary got his first job from Cunningham.

Cunningham died due to cancer on 5 June 2017 at Royal Sussex County Hospital with his former partner and his family around him.

Juliette Alexandra was born in Barnet, London, England, UK. Juliette is an actor, known for The Witcher (2019), Sex Education (2019) and The Witcher Rats spinoff.

Margaret Clifton was born on 25 October 1918 in Barnet, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Poirot (1989), Folio (1955) and Encounter (1952). She died on 17 September 2001 in Westminster, London, England, UK.

Jamie Christopher was born in 1971 in Barnet, London, England, UK. He was an assistant director and producer, known for Black Widow (2021), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022). He was married to Carly. He died on 29 August 2023 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Olive Mercer was born on 15 September 1905 in Hendon, Middlesex [now in Barnet, London], England, UK. She was an actress, known for Wives and Daughters (1971), Dad's Army (1968) and Sex and the Other Woman (1972). She was married to Charles Harry Mercer. She died on 2 January 1983 in Hillingdon, Hillingdon, London, England, UK.

Bill MacIlwraith was born on 13 April 1928 in Friern Barnet, London, England, UK. Bill was a writer, known for The Anniversary (1968), R3 (1964) and The Big Day (1960). Bill was married to Elizabeth Elston. Bill died on 9 May 2016.

Adrian Cairns was born on 12 October 1924 in Finchley, Middlesex [now in Barnet, London], England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Vise (1954), Diagnosis: Murder (1974) and A Stranger on the Hills (1970). He was married to Laura Cairns and Pamela Wingfield. He died on 23 March 2003 in Bristol, England, UK.

Kenneth Poitevin was born in 1940 in Barnet, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Boy Meets Girl (1967) and Theatre 625 (1964). He died on 30 November 1967 in Hampstead, London, England, UK.

Cassidy Janson was born on 30 July 1980 in Barnet, North London, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for Lost in London Anthology (2025), The Hike (2011) and Casualty (1986).

Pete Bellotte was born on 28 August 1943 in Barnet, London, England, UK. He is a composer, known for Scarface (1983), The Martian (2015) and Zoolander 2 (2016).