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Rory Michael Kinnear is an English actor and playwright who has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre. In 2014, he won the Olivier Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Shakespeare's villain Iago in the National Theatre production of Othello.

He is known for playing Bill Tanner in the James Bond films Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, and Spectre, and in various video games of the franchise. He is the youngest actor to play the role of Bill Tanner. He also won a Laurence Olivier Award for portraying Sir Fopling Flutter in a 2008 version of The Man of Mode by George Etherege, and a British Independent Film Award for his performance in the 2012 film Broken. On TV, he is known for playing Michael on the BBC comedy Count Arthur Strong (2013-), Lord Lucan in the two-part ITV series Lucan, and the lead role of Prime Minister Michael Callow in The National Anthem, the first episode of the anthology series Black Mirror.

Kinnear was born in Hammersmith, London, England, the son of the actor Roy Kinnear and actress Carmel Cryan. He has two sisters, Kirsty and Karina. He is the grandson of the international rugby union and rugby league player Roy Kinnear and the godson of actor Michael Williams, late husband of Judi Dench. Educated at Tower House School and St Paul's School, London, London, he read English at Balliol College, Oxford, and then studied acting at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Kinnear's performances in Phyllida Lloyd's production of Mary Stuart and Trevor Nunn's Hamlet, in which he played Laertes, met with acclaim. He also achieved recognition as the outrageous Sir Fopling Flutter in The Man of Mode at the National Theatre, winning a Laurence Olivier Award and Ian Charleson Award. Other notable theatre work includes the lead in Thomas Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy, the role of Pyotr in Gorky's Philistines and the role of Mitia in a stage adaptation of the Nikita Mikhalkov film Burnt by the Sun, all for the National Theatre.

In 2010, he played Angelo in Measure for Measure at the Almeida Theatre. Later in 2010 he played the title role in Hamlet at the National Theatre. The two portrayals won him the best actor award in the Evening Standard drama awards for 2010.

Kinnear appeared in The Last of the Haussmans by Stephen Beresford at the Royal National Theatre during the summer of 2012. The production was broadcast to cinemas around the world on 11 October 2012 through the National Theatre Live programme.

He starred as Iago opposite Adrian Lester in the title role of Othello in 2013 at the National Theatre throughout the summer of 2013. Both actors won the Best Actor award in the Evening Standard Theatre Awards for their roles; the award is traditionally given to only one actor, but the judges were unable to choose between the pair.

From September 2013 the Bush Theatre in London staged Kinnear's debut play The Herd, directed by Howard Davies. The play ran at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago beginning 2 April 2015. In October 2017 he appeared in the title role of Young Marx, the premiere production at the Bridge Theatre. He returned to the Olivier Theatre at the National Theatre to star as the title role in Macbeth opposite Anne-Marie Duff from February 2018.

He portrays Bill Tanner in the Daniel Craig era James Bond film series after taking over from Michael Kitchen. He is the fourth person to play the character. He has appeared in Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015). As well as the films, Kinnear also lends his voice and likeness to the Bond video games; GoldenEye 007 (2010), James Bond 007: Blood Stone (2010) and 007 Legends (2012). In 2014, he played the fictional character, Detective Nock, in The Imitation Game based loosely on the biography Alan Turing:The Enigma by Andrew Hodges. In January 2017 he portrayed Ellmann in the Netflix film iBoy.

Further to his theatre work he received particularly positive reviews for his sympathetic portrayal of Denis Thatcher in The Long Walk to Finchley (2008), a BBC dramatisation of the early years of Margaret Thatcher's political career, which also starred Andrea Riseborough and Samuel West.

He also starred alongside Lucy Punch and Toby Stephens in the BBC Two series Vexed. Broadcast on 19 October 2010, he was the co-lead in the BBC4 TV drama, The First Men in the Moon written by and co-starring Mark Gatiss.

In 2011, he provided narration during the BBC Proms production of 'Henry V - suite' arranged by Muir Mathieson during their Film Music Prom.[15] He appeared in the lead role of Prime Minister Michael Callow in "The National Anthem", the first episode of the anthology series Black Mirror.

In July 2012, Kinnear appeared as Bolingbroke in Richard II, a BBC Two adaptation of the play of the same name, with Ben Whishaw as King Richard and Patrick Stewart as John of Gaunt.

From 2013 onwards, he has starred in the BBC series Count Arthur Strong as Michael. He has also appeared in the Channel 4 drama Southcliffe.

In December 2013 he appeared as British peer and suspected murderer Lord Lucan in the two-part ITV series Lucan.

He also appeared as Frankenstein's monster in the Showtime television series Penny Dreadful, which premiered 11 May 2014.

In 2017 he appeared in the British miniseries Guerrilla as a Chief Inspector in the Special Branches.

In 2017 he starred as Robert Lessing in the BBC Two comedy series Quacks, which ridicules the early days of medicine in England.

In 2018 he appeared in the first episode of the fourth series of the BBC One comedy series Inside No. 9, Zanzibar, which being a Shakespearean parody, was written in mainly rhyming couplets, with Rory Kinnear playing identical twins and long-lost sons.

Guy Ritchie was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK on September 10, 1968. After watching Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) as a child, Guy realized that what he wanted to do was make films. He never attended film school, saying that the work of film school graduates was boring and unwatchable. At 15 years old, he dropped out of school and in 1995, got a job as a runner, ultimately starting his film career. He quickly progressed and was directing music promos for bands and commercials by 1995.

The profits that he made from directing these promos was invested into writing and making the film The Hard Case (1995), a 20-minute short film that is also the prequel to his debut feature Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998). Sting's wife, Trudie Styler, saw The Hard Case (1995) and invested in the feature film. Once completed, 10 British distributors turned the film down before it eventually was released in the UK in 1998 and in the US in 1999; the film put Ritchie on the map as one of the hottest rising filmmakers of the time, and launched the careers of actors Jason Statham, Jason Flemyng, and Vinnie Jones, among others.

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) was followed by Snatch (2000), this time with a bigger budget and a few more familiar faces such as Brad Pitt, Dennis Farina, Benicio Del Toro alongside returning actors Jason Statham, Vinnie Jones and Jason Flemyng. At the end of 2000, Ritchie married the pop superstar Madonna in Scotland, and proceeded to work with his famous wife on a variety of film and video projects, including the short Star (2001), made for BMW and co-starring Clive Owen, and the controversial video "What It Feels Like for a Girl," which was called out for its violence. In 2002, the couple embarked on a remake of the 1974 Lina Wertmüller film Swept Away (2002); the new film was a critical and commercial flop, winning five Razzie Awards. Ritchie followed up with the Vegas heist film Revolver (2005), which was panned, but won favor with the crime thriller RocknRolla (2008), which featured a game, energetic cast and brought American attention to rising stars Gerard Butler and Tom Hardy.

The next year saw the release of Sherlock Holmes (2009), starring Robert Downey Jr. in the title role and Jude Law as his cohort Dr. Watson. The film received mostly good reviews but, more important for Ritchie's career, was a solid blockbuster hit that grossed more than $520 million dollars worldwide and spawned a sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011). Ritchie is tentatively scheduled to direct an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.

Ritchie has two sons with Madonna: Rocco, born in 2000, and an adopted son, David, born in 2005. In late 2008, the couple confirmed reports that they were splitting up, and agreed to a divorce settlement that was finalized in December of that year. In September 2011, Ritchie's girlfriend, model Jacqui Ainsley, gave birth to a son, Rafael, and in July 2012 the couple announced they were expecting their second child.

Philippa "Pippa" Haywood is an English actress who trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Haywood was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. She has an extensive television career which includes portraying the much put-upon Helen Brittas in the BBC One comedy series The Brittas Empire (1991-1997), Julie Chadwick in the 2007 BBC Two comedy Fear, Stress & Anger and the hot-tempered, sex-mad human resources director Joanna Clore in Green Wing (2004-2006), for which she won the "best comedy female performance" award at the 2005 Rose d'Or television festival in Lucerne, Switzerland).

She has also done many dramatic roles, including Jenny Thorne in the 1988 ITV drama serial The One Game, and Mrs. Upjohn in the 2008 Agatha Christie's Poirot episode "Cat Among the Pigeons". In 2002 Haywood was a guest star in the last episode of the first series of The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.

In 2007 she played the role of Veronica Gray in the first episode of the second series of Lewis and also had a guest role in a 2009 episode of Kingdom, and portrayed the disgraced Miss Bunting in several episodes of the first series of Mr Selfridge (2013). Since 2012 she has played one of the lead roles, Harriet, on the BBC One drama Prisoners' Wives, and costarred as Detective Superintendent Julie Dodson on the ITV drama series Scott & Bailey. In 2015 she appeared in the BBC TV adaptation of E.F. Benson's Mapp and Lucia, as Susan Wyse.

In 2015, Haywood took over the role of Helen Golightly in the long-running BBC Radio 4 comedy Clare in the Community. The character was previously played by Liza Tarbuck.

Haywood has also worked in film and theatre. Recent stage credits include: House & Garden, Private Lives, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, Requiem and Landscape with Weapon at the National Theatre. She was then playing the lead role in Wanderlust at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs. On December 18th 2016 she starred in Midsomer Murders with Hugh Dennis.

Llana Barron is an award winning film actress, producer and screenwriter. She is best known for her work in 'Curse of Aurore' and 'Izzy Lyon: The Unspun Truth.' She has received Best Actress awards for her performances in 'Curse of Aurore' at the Ravenheart Film Festival in Oslo Norway, and for the short film, 'Committed', at the Boston Film Festival. Llana's voice has been featured in a number of video games, most notably as the character Elle Holloway in 'Silent Hill: Homecoming'. In addition to acting, Llana is also an award winning composer and sound designer, with credits both in film and video games.

A writer/producer in film, television and theater, 2017 marks the launch of Gregory's U.K. production company, King of Kings Worldwide at the Cannes Film Festival. On King of King's production slate for 2017/2018 are four feature films and two TV series -- Tsar Lear, an adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear set in 19th c. Tsarist Russia, Strange Days, a dark comedy about Jim Morrison of The Doors, Werewolves of London, a horror/comedy, Redemption, a serial killer thriller, and Majic and The Circus for television -- the former a low-tech sci-fi thriller about the end of the world, and the latter a drama/comedy with original music inspired by Mr. Martin's experiences growing up in the eye of the storm of The Beatles. His substantial career as an actor has included the title roles in Hamlet and Peer Gynt, the starring role in a CBS mini-series alongside Richard Burton, Faye Dunaway and Liam Neeson, and a series of acclaimed performances on stage in London and New York alongside fellows actors Daniel Day-Lewis and Kevin Spacey. He continues to act, and is developing two one-man shows for performances in New York 2018/2019.

Erica Creer was born in 1947 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Circle of Iron (1978), The Great Muppet Caper (1981) and The Dogs of War (1980).

A television and film producer. He has been a producer at the BBC since 1980, when he produced Russell Harty's chat show Harty. He moved on to executive producing at the BBC in 1986, working on sketch show A Bit of Fry and Laurie, and became Head of Comedy Entertainment in 1994, mainly responsible for sketch shows.

Plowman was educated in Welwyn Garden City and at University College, Oxford, where was a member of the University College Players and made friends with others who went on to establish successful careers in comedy. One, Mel Smith, directed Plowman in a production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. After Oxford, Plowman followed Smith to the Royal Court Theatre, where he met the director Lindsay Anderson. Plowman worked in theatre for a while, then joined Granada TV.

He was responsible for producing and commissioning programmes produced in-house at the BBC, of which the greatest successes include The Office and French & Saunders. Plowman became Head of Comedy in October 2005, and now oversees the BBC's in-house comedy production, but no longer commissions programmes. In June 2007, Plowman announced he was quitting his post at the BBC after 27 years. He decided to become a freelance producer for other shows and hoped to carry on his relationship with the BBC, continuing to create programmes "for them and elsewhere."

In December 2003, The Observer named him in its list of the '50 Funniest or Most Influential People in British Comedy'.

On 14 March 2006, he was honoured with the 'Judges' Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Television' at the Royal Television Society awards.

Plowman was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to British comedy.

Nelly Currant was born in 2005 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for The Nevers (2021), Renegade Nell (2024) and Silverpoint (2022).

Richard Fegen was born on 30 June 1947 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK. He is a writer, known for Woof! (1989), The Brittas Empire (1991) and Woof! (1989). He has been married to Charmian Sadgrove since 1982. They have two children.

Gary Tomkins was born in 1963 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK. He is an art director, known for Sleepy Hollow (1999), Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) and Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015).

Nigel Griggs was born on 18 August 1949 in Hatfield, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Incident at Raven's Gate (1988), Kissing Paris (2008) and A Night in Heaven (1983).

Gwen Currant was born in 2005 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Club Zero (2023), Renegade Nell (2024) and Ivy (2024).

Jordan Wood was born on 11 April 1984 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK. He is a producer, known for Why? Factor (2012), Glass City (2011) and How to Animate (2006).

Andrew Norriss was born in 1956 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK. He is a writer, known for Woof! (1989), The Brittas Empire (1991) and Bernard's Watch (1997).

Rosalie Bradford was born on 27 August 1943 in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, USA. She died on 29 November 2006 in Lakeland, Florida, USA.

Martin Carthy was born on 21 May 1940 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK. He is an actor and composer, known for Remember Me (2014), Serjeant Musgrave's Dance (1965) and Plays of Today (1969). He was previously married to Norma Waterson.

Colin Blunstone was born on 24 June 1945 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for A Merry War (1997), Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965) and Just Like a Woman (1992).

John Deaton was born in 1940 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK. He is known for Superman (1978), Willow (1988) and Superman III (1983).

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil is a British statesman, serving as prime minister three times for a total of over thirteen years. A member of the Conservative Party, he was the last prime minister to serve his term while a member of the House of Lords (Alec Douglas-Home was very briefly a member of the House of Lords at the start of his premiership, but he renounced his peerage and subsequently sat in the House of Commons).

Bridget Lynch-Blosse was born on 10 February 1958 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Star Cops (1987), Doctor Who (1963) and Juliet Bravo (1980).

Sal Solo was born on 5 September 1954 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Classix Nouveaux: Never Again (1981), Classix Nouveaux: Guilty (1981) and Classix Nouveaux: Is It A Dream (version 1) (1982).

Stephen Ward was born on 19 October 1912 in Lemsford Vicarage, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK. He died on 3 August 1963 in St Stephen's Hospital, London, England, UK.

David Cecil was born on 19 April 1902 in Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, England, UK. He died on 1 January 1986 in Cranborne, Dorset, England, UK.

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil was born on 27 August 1893 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK. He was married to Elizabeth Vere Cavendish. He died on 23 February 1972 in London, England, UK.

J.B. Smith was born on 25 March 1910 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England. J.B. is known for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Blow-Up (1966) and Where Eagles Dare (1968). J.B. died in 1980 in Berkshire, England.