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A native of Bournemouth in the UK, Janet Montgomery moved to London when she received a scholarship at a dance school. One of her first acting jobs was a guest star role on the critically-acclaimed UK teen drama series, Skins (2007), as Nicholas Hoult's love interest.

Upon moving to Los Angeles, Montgomery was quickly cast in the Dark Castle film, The Hills Run Red (2009). In addition to guest-starring on FX's The League (2009), she recurred on the HBO series, Entourage (2004) as E's assistant and Drama's girlfriend. She was also a series regular on the Fox series, Human Target (2010), with Mark Valley and Jackie Earle Haley. More recently, Montgomery was the lead of CBS's Made in Jersey (2012).

Montgomery played one of the dancers, opposite Natalie Portman, in Darren Aronofsky's Oscar-nominated psychological thriller, Black Swan (2010). She also starred in Jesse Peretz's Our Idiot Brother (2011), opposite Paul Rudd and Elizabeth Banks.

Other recent projects include Dancing on the Edge (2013), with Chiwetel Ejiofor and Matthew Goode, as well as Spies of Warsaw (2013), opposite David Tennant. She just completed shooting the lead of the independent film, If You See Her (2014), and is about to start shooting the female lead in Salem (2014), the first original series for WGN.

Ben Hardy was born Ben Jones on 2 January 1991 in England, United Kingdom. He grew up in Sherborne and attended The Gryphon School.

Ben starred in The Judas Kiss (1998) play, written by David Hare, in 2012 and played the character Arthur Wellesley, a member of the hotel staff. The play was held in Hampstead Theatre on the September 6, 2012.

On April 19, 2013 it was announced that Ben would play Peter Beale in EastEnders, taking over from Thomas Law who played the character from 2006 until 2010. He made his first appearance as Peter on 7 June 2013. On November 19, 2014 it was announced that Ben would leave the show.

Hardy joined the cast of X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) on February 25, 2015, following his departure from EastEnders in an (at the time) undisclosed role. Since leaving EastEnders that February, he was persistently linked to Singer's next X-Men film, and was at one point rumored to be in the running to play Cyclops, a role that went to Tye Sheridan. However, Hardy ended up playing winged mutant Angel (a.k.a Warren Worthington III).

Jayne Atkinson was born on 18 February 1959 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for Free Willy (1993), The Village (2004) and 24 (2001). She has been married to Michel Gill since 3 October 1998. They have one child. She was previously married to Joe Urla.

Victoria Yeates was born on 19 April 1983 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022), Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) and Call the Midwife (2012). She has been married to Paul Housden since June 2018.

The son of a surveyor, Charles Gray was born and raised in Queen's Park, Bournemouth. As a young actor, he received his vocal training from the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon and at the Old Vic, having long abandoned his first job as clerk for a real estate agent. His voice was to become one of his most valuable tools. In fact, from January 1966, he subtly, almost imperceptibly, dubbed for Jack Hawkins after this actor became unable to speak his lines due to throat cancer. In later years, Gray's trademark voice was regularly heard on television commercials.

Gray's theatrical debut came in 1952 in the part of Charles the Wrestler (he measured 6 foot, 1 inches in height) in "As You Like It", appearing under his original name, 'Donald Gray'. From 1956, as 'Charles' Gray (since there already was a one-armed actor named Donald Gray), he took to leading dramatic roles, and won critical plaudits as Achilles in "Troilus and Cressida", Macduff in "Macbeth" and as the gluttonous Sir Epicure Mammon in Tyrone Guthrie's up-dated version of "The Alchemist", in 1962. He repeated his Old Vic performance as Henry Bolingbroke for his Broadway debut at the Winter Garden Theatre in 1956. A notable later performance, while touring the U.S. and Canada, was as the Prince of Wales in Peter Stone's tale of the famous 19th century actor Edmund Kean ("Kean", 1961). In 1964, Gray won the Clarence Derwent Award as Best Supporting Actor for his part in the controversial play "Poor Bitos", by Jean Anouilh, co-starring Donald Pleasence. He was offered his first role on the big screen, reprising a success on the West End stage in 1958, as Captain Cyril Mavors,in the satirical musical Expresso Bongo (1959).

For the next forty years, heavy-set, silver-haired, jut-jawed Charles Gray used his imposing frame and mellifluous voice to great effect in creating for the screen a memorable gallery of egocentric, imperious toffs, and suave, sardonic super-villains. While his performances at times verged on the camp, Gray cheerfully allowed himself to be cast within his range of basically unsympathetic characters, which he could play well and with ease. He tended to favour television as his preferred medium, though some of his most popular roles were for the big screen. Among his niche of staple characters were the coldly pompous military heavies (General Gabler in The Night of the Generals (1967), or the perpetually sneering, overbearing upper-class twits (true-to-form, as defecting spy Hillary Vance in the Thriller (1973) episode "Night is the Time for Killing"). At his evil best, he was commanding as the demonic acolyte Mocata, in The Devil Rides Out (1968) and as the feline-stroking, velvety-voiced nemesis of James Bond, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, in Diamonds Are Forever (1971). He was also suitably sinister as Bates the Butler, one of the red herrings of Agatha Christie's The Mirror Crack'd (1980).

Gray's recurring roles included Lord Seacroft (senior, as well as junior) in the short-lived satirical miniseries The Upper Crusts (1973) as a down-on-his-heels aristocrat, keeping up appearances after being forced to live in a high-rise housing estate; and as the sedentary brother of the famous sleuth at 221b Baker Street, Mycroft, in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976). Later, he was utilised as temporary replacement, first for Edward Hardwicke,and, subsequently, for the hospitalised star Jeremy Brett, in Granada Television's various instalments of the Sherlock Holmes saga (1985-1994). Gray died of cancer in March 2000, aged 71.

Hetty Baynes was born in 1956 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for Cordelia (2019), The Casual Vacancy (2015) and The Hour (2011). She was previously married to Ken Russell.

Ray Lonnen was born on 18 May 1940 in Bournemouth, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Wicked City (1987), Holly (1972) and Harry's Game (1982). He was married to Lynn Dalby, Jean Conyers and Tara Ward. He died on 11 July 2014 in the UK.

Julian Bleach was born on 29 December 1963 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The Brothers Grimm (2005), Les Misérables (2012) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015).

Neil Linpow is a multi award winning British and Irish actor, writer and director. He was born in Bournemouth, England and is of Irish and Chinese descent. He is best known for his dramatic narrative work, writing and starring in the crime thrillers - Little Bone Lodge (2023), Lesson 7 (2020) and Time (2019).

Jade is an English Actress born in Bournemouth, Dorset.

She is most known as Patricia Williamson in the Belgian/American/British Teen Drama Mystery television series of Nickelodeon: House of Anubis.

She has a twin sister, Nikita Ramsay who is also acting.

Her first professional acting job was X-Men 2 as a X-Kid.

She has appeared in a lot of movies and television shows in which she mostly acts along side her twin, Nikita.

Greg Austin is an English actor best known for his roles as a young Gordon Selfridge in ITV's Mr. Selfridge, and as Charlie Smith in the BBC Doctor Who spin-off, Class.

Prior to becoming an actor, Austin started as a dancer, leading him to study a musical theatre degree at Arts Educational in London. Upon graduating in 2013, he has since appeared in a number of different television series and short films.

From 2014 to 2016, Austin starred in the ITV series Mr. Selfridge, as a young Gordon Selfridge, the heir to the shopping empire. Landing the role before graduating promised big things for the young actor.

In 2016, Austin was announced as one of the main cast in the BBC Three Doctor Who spin-off, Class. Introduced into the Whoniverse, Austin's character is an alien, the last of his species who is rescued by the Twelfth Doctor. Posing as a 17-year-old student from Sheffield, Austin has often mentioned the depth required to play the character.

Alongside his most notable credits, Greg Austin has recently appeared in the British detective series Endeavour, and science fiction series, Humans.

Cedric Smith was born on 21 September 1943 in Bournemouth, England, UK. He is an actor and director, known for Avonlea (1990), The Campbells (1986) and X-Men (1992).

The daughter of glamorous British film star Margaret Lockwood was destined for an acting career by the age of five when she was enrolled in a theatrical school. Around this time her parents separated and then divorced three years later. Young Julia was often left in the care of a nanny, though her mother remained on hand to provide gentle prodding into the world of entertainment. Julia's film debut duly followed in 1947 with a tiny role in Daphne Du Maurier's Hungry Hill (1947). Mother and daughter also shared the stage on several occasions. In 1953, Julia returned to the screen as the juvenile lead in a television adaptation of Johanna Spyri's Swiss classic novel Heidi (1953). 'Toots', as she was affectionately called, went on to reprise her role in a BBC children's serial in 1954. By decade's end, she had moved from standard teenage family fare (including The Flying Eye (1955), which is possibly the first film to presage the development of drones) to bawdy comedy (Please Turn Over (1959), directed by the regular helmsman of the Carry On franchise, Gerald Thomas). Julia spent most of the 60s alternating between stage ('Peter Pan', 'Arsenic and Old Lace') and TV work. She twice more co-starred with her mother in The Royalty (1957) and its sequel The Flying Swan (1965), about the daily goings on at a posh London hotel. Her last recurring role was in a short-lived sitcom with Richard Briers, Birds on the Wing (1971), which ran to just six episodes. Julia married the character actor Ernest Clark (best known as the bluff Sir Geoffrey Loftus in the 1970s "Doctor" comedies) in December 1972. With her husband, she retired to her 14th century Somerset farmhouse in 1976 where she devoted herself to raising a family.

Nathaniel Curtis was born on 29 December 1990 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK. He is an actor, known for It's a Sin (2021), The Witcher: Blood Origin (2022) and Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix (2023).

Nikita is an English Actress born in Bournemouth, Dorset now based in Los Angeles. She is known for her role as Piper Williamson in the TV Series 'House of Anubis' on Nickelodeon.

Some of her film work includes 'All About Evil' starring Natasha Lyonne and Thomas Dekker, 'A Haunting at Silver Falls' & 'A Haunting at Silver Falls: The Return' on Netflix as well as 'The Myth of the American Sleepover' which premiered at SXSW and The Cannes Film Festival.

Nikitas voice can also be heard in many animated projects including 'Its a Small World: the animated series' for Disney, Bratz Toys and 'Dance Central' video game for Xbox.

Juliette Kaplan was born on 2 October 1939 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Last of the Summer Wine (1973), Don't Let Go (2013) and A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (1958). She was married to Harold Hoser. She died on 10 October 2019 in Kent, England, UK.

Alison was born in January 1968. Her big break came after a casting director saw her in Anthony Neilson's hit The Censor at The Royal Court, and invited her to audition for Butterfly Collectors to play opposite Pete Postlethwaite. She then played the evil Renee Williams in Bad Girls (1999), and she was subsequently offered the role of Hazel Bailey in Footballers' Wives (2002). She's also known for her recurring character DI Samantha Keeble in Eastenders. Alison co-created the critically acclaimed series Harlots.

Jan Waters was born on 28 January 1937 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Play for Today (1970), The Saint (1962) and Jason King (1971).

Nicholas McArdle was born in 1940 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The Gnomes of Dulwich (1969), Erasmus Microman (1988) and Softly Softly (1966).

Janine Wood was born on 30 December 1963 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Wuthering Heights (1992), Cuban Fury (2014) and Bugs (1995).

As a young boy in England, Lawrence Grant became a great admirer of the Native American peoples. He devoured every book or article he could get his hands on relating to their culture and history. Years later Grant got the opportunity to spend some months living with several Native American tribes in Wyoming and Montana. He filmed his experiences using an early motion picture color film process called Kinemacolor. Later, after editing the thousands of feet of film he shot, Grant embarked on a lecture tour that he named "Travels with Kinemacolor".

Grant first came to America in 1908 with a repertoire company that also starred Pauline Frederick. Within a few years he was able to launch a successful 25 year career as a Hollywood character actor.

Lawrence Grant died on 19 February 1952, in Santa Barbara, California, at the age of 81. His health began to fail him the previous year after four performances he gave at the Santa Barbara Lobero Theater during a major heat wave. Though married four times, the only immediate family he had at the time of his death was four nieces living in England.

Naomi Ryan was born on 24 May 1977 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Doctor Who (2005) and Hard Time Bus (2015).

Alexandra Hayes was born on 18 March 1989 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK. She is an assistant director, known for Morbius (2022), No Time to Die (2021) and Infinite (2021).

Jason Montgomery was born on 22 July 1990 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Murder Capital (2015), Undesirable and Invited for Dinner (2016).

Gabrielle Brune was born on 12 February 1912 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Tomorrow We Live (1942), The Handle Bar (1947) and The Harassed Hero (1954). She died on 18 January 2005 in Chichester, Sussex, England, UK.