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Geraldine McEwan was born in Old Windsor, England and made her theatre debut at the age of 14 at the Theatre Royal in Windsor. By the age of 18 she was starring in London's West End in several long-running popular productions. During the 1950s she acted with the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1961.

She had leading roles as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing with Christopher Plummer, Ophelia in Hamlet, The Princess of France in Love's Labour's Lost, Marina in Pericles and played opposite Dorothy Tutin in Twelfth Night which also toured Moscow and Leningrad.

Miss McEwan originated the female lead role in Joe Orton's Loot, captivated Broadway with productions of The School for Scandal, The Private Ear and the Public Eye, and most recently, The Chairs, earning her a Tony nomination for best actress.

As a member of the Royal National Theatre, acting along side Albert Finney, and Laurence Olivier, Geraldine spent the 1960s and 70s with memorable roles including The Dance of Death, Love for Love, A Flea in Her Ear, Chez Nous, Home and Beauty, The Browning Version, Harlequinade and The White Devil. In 1976 she had the distinction of being nominated for an Olivier Award in two separate categories.

In 1983 she won the Evening Standard Best Actress Award for The Rivals. In 1991 she won the BAFTA Best Actress Award for her intense and powerful performance as the Mother in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1989) and in 1995 she won the Evening Standard Best Actress Award for her performance of Lady Wishfort in The Way of the World.

In 1998, McEwan was nominated for a Tony Award in the Best Actress Category for The Chairs. Her numerous television credits include the highly acclaimed The Barchester Chronicles (1982) with Alan Rickman, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1978), Mulberry (1992), and the immensely popular Mapp & Lucia (1985). Her film work includes The Dance of Death (1969) with Laurence Olivier, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) with Alan Rickman, Henry V (1989) and Love's Labour's Lost (2000), both with Kenneth Branagh, and most recently The Magdalene Sisters (2002), The Lazarus Child (2004), Vanity Fair (2004) and Carrie's War (2004). In 2003, Geraldine was chosen to play Agatha Christie's Jane Marple. She recently retired from that role after completing 12 hugely popular two-hour mysteries for ITV/PBS.

British actress Sasha Jackson is primarily based in London (whilst also having Los Angeles and Atlanta bases) and travels worldwide for work commitments. Sasha has an EB1 Green Card in recognition of her talent and body of work and is a member of British Equity. Sasha has trained with some of LA's most respected and renowned acting coaches, among them: Ivana Chubbuck (as a Masterclass member), Andrew Magarian, Taylor Sheridan and Warner Loughlin and has had intensive one-to-one dialect coaching with the master of voices, Bob Corff, which has given her a US accent that is widely regarded among the casting community as "flawless". She has also perfected numerous other accents and is a skilled mimic, which further increases her suitability to fill a wide range of characters of various nationalities. Through her professional training in weapons and martial arts as the lead female in both Jarhead 3: The Siege (2016), The Perfect Weapon (2016) and "Snapshot", Sasha is fast gaining a strong reputation as an action heroine whilst being equally comfortable using her comedic timing in roles for Fuller House (2016) and The Royals (2015). Sasha, who has proven herself to be a versatile and talented actor in a wide variety of roles and genres, relishes learning new physical skills for projects and, indeed, embraces the challenges that such roles bring, including surfing the huge winter waves in South Africa for Blue Crush 2 (2011) and learning multiple dance disciplines and styles for the lead in a dance movie. Sasha, who competitively represented the South of England in High Board Diving and who is also a former District Trampolining champion, has already had a diverse career encompassing projects which saw her take the lead in several successful independent feature films, UK television series as an actress, presenter and herself as well as commercials, modelling assignments, as a Government-backed singer and also as the "face" and Worldwide Ambassador of two companies in the UK and Dubai.

Janie Dee won the Olivier, Evening Standard and Critics' Circle Awards for Best Actress for Alan Ayckbourn's Comic Potential which she performed in London and New York, and the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Performance in a Musical for Carousel, directed by Nicholas Hytner at the National Theatre.

She has worked extensively with both Sir Alan Ayckbourn and Harold Pinter, originating roles in Ayckbourn's Comic Potential, House and Garden, and Dreams from a Summerhouse and starred in Pinter's Old Times, Betrayal and the film of Celebration, opposite Colin Firth (Channel 4). She has worked extensively with Sir Peter Hall who directed Janie in Much Ado About Nothing, Betrayal and Design For Living. Recent dramatic roles include: Michael Frayn's Noises Off at the Old Vic and West End, Lucy Kirkwood's NSFW at the Royal Court, (earning a fourth Olivier Award nomination), Blithe Spirit at the Gielgud Theatre, with Dame Angela Lansbury and A Midsummer Night's Dream on tour in Asia and Russia for Shakespeare's Globe.

Janie has performed in numerous classic musicals, both in the West End and across the UK, including: Cats, Cabaret, Showboat (RSC at the London Palladium), South Pacific, The Sound of Music, The King And I, My One and Only (Olivier Award Nomination) and Mack and Mabel, opposite David Soul. She starred in Hello Dolly! at Curve Leicester, for which she received the TMA UK Theatre Award for Best Performance in a Musical, the Stephen Sondheim revue, Putting It Together at the St James Theatre, London and a 40th Anniversary concert performance of A Little Night Music at the Palace Theatre.

She regularly performs in cabaret at Crazy Coqs, The Pheasantry and King's Place and is a champion of new musical theatre writing.

Her screen credits include; Me and Orson Welles (directed by Richard Linklater), Harold Pinter: A Celebration (BBC4), Dare to be Wild, written and directed by Vivienne DeCourcy, and The Trouble With Dot and Harry, written and directed by Sundance Festival grand prize-winner, Gary Walkow. TV credits include: In Love With Shakespeare (Sky Arts), The Southbank Show (Sir Peter Hall), Death in Holy Orders, The Murder Room (BBC) and House of Cards (Warner Bros).