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Sally Cecilia Hawkins was born in 1976 in Lewisham hospital, London, England, to Jacqui and Colin Hawkins, authors and illustrators of children's books. She is of English and Irish descent. Hawkins was brought up in Greenwich, in southeast London. She attended James Allen's Girls' School in Dulwich. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1998. Hawkins' theatre appearances include Much Ado About Nothing (2000), A Midsummer Night's Dream (2000), Misconceptions (2001), Country Music (2004), and David Hare's adaptation of Federico García Lorca's play The House of Bernarda Alba in 2005. Hawkins made her first notable screen performance as Samantha in the 2002 Mike Leigh film All or Nothing (2002). She also appeared as Slasher in the 2004 film Layer Cake (2004). She played the role of Zena Blake in the BBC adaptation of Sarah Waters' novel, Tipping the Velvet (2002) in 2002. Her first major television role came in 2005, when she played Susan Trinder in the BAFTA-nominated BBC drama Fingersmith (2005), an adaptation of Sarah Waters' novel of the same name, in which she co-starred with Imelda Staunton, as she had in Vera Drake (2004). Since then she has gone on to star in another BBC adaptation, Patrick Hamilton's Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky. Hawkins appeared in three episodes of the BBC comedy series Little Britain (2003), in addition to Ed Reardon's Week on BBC Radio 4. She has also contributed to the BBC Radio 4 series Concrete Cow. In 2006, Hawkins returned to the stage, appearing at the Royal Court Theatre in Jez Butterworth's The Winterling. In 2007, she played the lead in a new film of Jane Austen's Persuasion, and followed this with her critically acclaimed performance in Happy-Go-Lucky (2008). Questions and a minor controversy arose when Hawkins was not nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as Poppy. It was the first year since 2000-01 that the winner of the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was not nominated for an Academy Award, and the first year since 1995-96 that no one from the category was nominated. During 2006 she also made uncredited appearances in Richard Ayoade's Man to Man with Dean Learner where she played various uncredited roles from Personal Assistant to Wife of Steve Pising in various deleted scenes included on the DVD. Hawkins' 2009-10 films included Desert Flower (2009), Never Let Me Go (2010), and Happy Ever Afters (2009). In November 2010, she appeared on Broadway as Vivie in Mrs. Warren's Profession. In 2011, Hawkins appeared in Submarine (2010) and had a supporting role in the film adaptation of Jane Eyre (2011).

In 2017, Sally was highly critically acclaimed for her role as Elisa, a mute janitor, in director Guillermo del Toro fantasy drama The Shape of Water (2017).

Often mistaken for an American because of his skill at imitating accents, actor Tim Roth was born Timothy Simon Roth on May 14, 1961 in Lambeth, London, England. His mother, Ann, was a teacher and landscape painter. His father, Ernie, was a journalist who had changed the family name from "Smith" to "Roth"; Ernie was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an immigrant family of Irish ancestry.

Tim grew up in Dulwich, a middle-class area in the south of London. He demonstrated his talent for picking up accents at an early age when he attended school in Brixton, where he faced persecution from classmates for his comfortable background and quickly perfected a cockney accent to blend in. He attended Camberwell Art College and studied sculpture before he dropped out and pursued acting.

The blonde actor's first big break was the British TV movie Made in Britain (1983). Roth made a huge splash in that film as a young skinhead named Trevor. He next worked with director Mike Leigh on Meantime (1983), which he has counted among his favorite projects. He debuted on the big screen when he filled in for Joe Strummer in the Stephen Frears neo-noir The Hit (1984). Roth gained more attention for his turn as Vincent Van Gogh in Vincent & Theo (1990) and his work opposite Gary Oldman in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990).

He moved to Los Angeles in search of work and caught the eye of young director Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino had envisioned Roth as a possible Mr. Blonde or Mr. Pink in his heist flick Reservoir Dogs (1992), but Roth campaigned for the role of Mr. Orange instead, and ultimately won the part. It proved to be a huge breakthrough for Roth, as audiences found it difficult to forget his performance as a member of a group of jewelry store robbers who is slowly bleeding to death. Tarantino cast Roth again in the landmark film Pulp Fiction (1994). Roth and actress Amanda Plummer played a pair of robbers who hold up a restaurant. 1995 saw the third of Roth's collaborations with Tarantino, a surprisingly slapstick performance in the anthology film Four Rooms (1995). That same year Roth picked up an Academy Award nomination for his campy turn as a villain in the period piece Rob Roy (1995).

Continuing to take on disparate roles, Roth did his own singing (with an American accent to boot) in the lightweight Woody Allen musical Everyone Says I Love You (1996). He starred opposite Tupac Shakur in Shakur's last film, the twisted comedy Gridlock'd (1997). The pair received positive critical notices for their comic chemistry. Standing in contrast to the criminals and baddies that crowd his CV, Roth's work as the innocent, seafaring pianist in the Giuseppe Tornatore film The Legend of 1900 (1998) became something of a fan favorite. Grittier fare followed when Roth made his directorial debut with The War Zone (1999), a frank, critically acclaimed drama about a family torn apart by incest. He made his next high-profile appearance as an actor as General Thade, an evil simian in the Tim Burton remake of Planet of the Apes (2001). Roth was, of course, all but unrecognizable in his primate make-up.

Roth has continued to enjoy a mix of art house and mainstream work, including everything from the lead role in Francis Ford Coppola's esoteric Youth Without Youth (2007) to becoming "The Abomination" in the special effects-heavy blockbuster The Incredible Hulk (2008). Roth took his first major American television role when he signed on to the Fox-TV series Lie to Me (2009)

Amanda Mealing was born on 22 April 1967 in Dulwich, London, England, UK. She is an actress and director, known for Casualty (1986), Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and Holby City (1999). She has been married to Richard Sainsbury since 2 July 1998. They have two children.

Sue Perkins was born on 22 September 1969 in East Dulwich, London, England, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for Last Christmas (2019), The Great British Baking Show (2010) and Urban Myths (2017).

He was the third child of William Ernest Ball, a bank manager and Rosina whose other children were Marjorie, who died in 1980 and John, Thornton was his mother's maiden name and his middle name, He played the cello in his school's orchestra and was a corporal in the Officer's Training Corps which he left in1937 and became a clerk with the Guardian Insurance Company in London leaving to follow a colleague who'd left to be an actor and Frank thought he'd do the same and enrolled in the London School of Dramatic Art evening classes. In 1939 the school evacuated to Whitney in Oxfordshire. He went with them and still a student acted in the local repertory company which contained Peter Jones, In '1941 he was in the West End with Donald Wolfit and after that a year in The Scarlet #Pimpernel at Manchester Opera House where he met actress Beryl Evans, September '43 he was in the RAF and sent to Nova Scotia to train as a navigator, became a pilot officer and stayed on after the war in the entertainment unit with 3 corporals- Peter Sellers, Dick Emery and Tony Hancock. He was demobbed in 1947 and the same year in the musical The Dancing Years. Mid November 1950 he was compare on television's The Centre Show , a variety show in which Hugh Lloyd made his debut. Frank married Beryl on the 5th January 1945 and had a daughter, Jane in 1946 and lived in West Wickham in Kent

Laurie Davidson was born on 1 July 1992 in Dulwich, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Cats (2019), The Good Liar (2019) and The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die (2023).

Edward Randell was born on 2 July 1988 in Dulwich, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023), Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) and Doctor Strange (2016).

Kenneth Farrington was born on 18 April 1936 in Dulwich, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Emmerdale Farm (1972), An Age of Kings (1960) and Coronation Street (1960). He was previously married to Patricia Heneghan.

Denis Shaw was born on 7 April 1921 in Dulwich, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Viking Queen (1967), The Avengers (1961) and BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950). He died on 28 February 1971 in London, England, UK.

Enid Blyton (11 August 1897 - 28 November 1968) was an English author. She was born in Dulwich, South London, England. She was one of the world's most famous children's writers. She is also one of the most prolific authors of all time. This means that she wrote a great number of books. Her most famous stories are the Famous Five stories, about a group of four children (Dick, Julian, Anne, and Georgina, who wanted to be called George) and their dog (Timmy) who have many adventures, and her Noddy books for small children.

Her parents wanted her to become a concert pianist (someone who plays the piano), but Enid wanted to be a teacher. Her parents agreed to let her train as a teacher. She began teaching in 1919 in Kent, not far from where she grew up in Beckenham.

As a child and teenager her main interest had been writing poems, stories and other items. She had sent many of them to magazines but had never had any published. As she worked as a teacher she began to have her articles, about children and education printed in a magazine called Teachers' World. Her first book, called Child Whispers came out in 1922. It was a book of her poems with illustrations.

She was married soon after. She left teaching and began to have more success with her books. She wrote in and was the editor of magazine for children called Sunny Stories. The stories she wrote for this magazine were so popular that the magazine was then called Enid Blyton's Sunny Stories. The magazine came out every two weeks. Many of Enid's most famous books were first printed in this magazine in parts.

Enid Blyton has been in The Guinness Book of Records as one of the world's biggest selling writers. She is also included because she wrote more books than almost any other writer (about 700). Her books were published in many different languages. She said that she found writing them easy. In the last few years of her life she had a disease which damaged her mind, called presenile dementia. Her books still sell in large numbers, and used to be owned by her family. A few years ago her family sold them, and now her works belong to a private company.

Enid Blyton did a lot of work for charity and had a club for children which helped them to give money to charity. She was married twice and had two daughters. She died of Alzheimer's disease in Hampstead, London.

Chris Eubank was born on 8 August 1966 in Dulwich, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The Calcium Kid (2004), Phats & Small: Turn Around (1999) and Scared of the Dark (2023). He was previously married to Karron Eubank.

Anne Shelton was born on 10 November 1923 in Dulwich, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Kill Your Darlings (2013), Enigma (2001) and King Arthur Was a Gentleman (1942). She was married to David Reid. She died on 31 July 1994 in Herstmonceux, England, UK.

Glenn Tilbrook was born on 31 August 1957 in Dulwich, London, England, UK. He is a composer and actor, known for The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996), Reality Bites (1994) and Hackers (1995). He is married to Suzanne Hunt. They have two children. He was previously married to Jane Tilbrook.

Keith Hampshire was born on 23 November 1945 in Dulwich, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland (1987), Rock & Rule (1983) and The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000).

Emma Hanby was born on 29 September 1982 in East Dulwich, London, England, UK. Emma is known for The Tomorrow People (1992).

Norma Shebbeare was born on 23 October 1914 in Dulwich, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Women in Love (1969), 10 Rillington Place (1971) and The Woman in White (1982). She was married to Norman Miller and William G C Shebbeare. She died on 24 January 2015 in Hampstead, London, England, UK.

Steve Brookstein was born on 10 November 1968 in Dulwich, London, England, UK. He is a talent agent. He has been married to Eileen Hunter since 26 August 2006. They have two children.

Robert Atkins was born on 10 August 1886 in Dulwich, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Black Magic (1949) and Peg of Old Drury (1935). He was married to Ethel Gladys Davey and Mary Sumner (actress, 1888-1956). He died on 9 February 1972 in London, England, UK.

A.E.W. Mason was born on 7 May 1865 in Everleigh, Dulwich, London, England, UK. A.E.W. was a writer, known for The Four Feathers (2002), The Flirting Widow (1930) and Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955). A.E.W. died on 22 November 1948 in London, England, UK.

Ed Simons was born on 9 June 1970 in Dulwich, London, England, UK. He is a composer and actor, known for Hanna (2011), The Saint (1997) and Vanilla Sky (2001).

Sheila O'Neill was born on 5 May 1930 in Dulwich, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Summer Holiday (1963), I've Gotta Horse (1965) and Half a Sixpence (1967). She was married to Don Lawson. She died on 16 October 2017 in Chichester, West Sussex, England, UK.

Dora Gregory was born on 2 September 1872 in Dulwich, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for A Bill of Divorcement (1922), The Skin Game (1931) and The Card (1922). She died on 5 March 1954 in London, England, UK.

'Lonesome' Dave Peverett was born on 16 April 1943 in Dulwich, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Nebraska (2013), Wild Hogs (2007) and I Love You Phillip Morris (2009). He died on 7 February 2000 in Orlando, Florida, USA.

Dennis Main-Wilson was born in Dulwich, London, the son of an engineer. He attended grammar school in Lewisham. He served in the Tank Corps during WWII. After being demobbed, he joined the BBC and produced many radio shows including The Goon Show and Hancock's Half Hour. In 1957 he moved to TV and produced shows such as "The Rag Trade" and "The Dick Emery Show".

David Farrell was born on 28 August 1919 in Dulwich, London, England, UK. He is known for Eye of the Needle (1981), Death Wish 3 (1985) and Sword of the Valiant (1984). He died on 3 January 2013 in London, England, UK.