Emma Corrin

ORLANDO

Theatre includes: Anna X (Harold Pinter Theatre – Olivier Award nomination and Stage Debut Award for Best West End Performer nomination)

Television includes: The Crown (Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award, SAG and Emmy nomination), Retreat

Film includes: My Policeman, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Deborah Findlay

MRS GRIMSDITCH

Most recently, Deborah portrayed Ruth Defoe in three series of the BBC1 legal drama The Split.

Other recent credits include Coalition (C4), Life In Squares (BBC), Lovesick (Netflix), Collateral (BBC) and The Drowning (C5).

Other TV credits include Maigret with Michael Gambon, Gillian in the ITV drama The Last Train (1999), the recurring character Greer Thornton in four of the six episodes of State of Play and Foyle’s War. She also appeared in four episodes of the 2001 series of The Armstrong and Miller Show and one episode of the acclaimed and original entry of the Messiah TV series. In autumn 2007 she appeared with Judi Dench, Imelda Staunton and Francesca Annis in the BBC1 costume drama series Cranford, playing the role of Miss Augusta Tomkinson, as well as in Wilfred Owen: A Remembrance Tale. She reprised her role as Miss Tomkinson in the two-part Christmas special Return to Cranford. She portrayed Home Secretary Denise Riley in Torchwood‘s 2009 third series Children of Earth. She was featured in separate episodes as agent Mary Carter in October 2003 and lawyer Gemma King in January 2010 of the BBC1 series Silent Witness. In 2010 she also appeared in Agatha Christie’s Poirot “Hallowe’en Party” as Rowena Drake. She also appeared in two episodes of the ITV series Midsomer Murders: as Hilary Richards in “Blue Herrings” (2000) and as Lorna Sloane in “Murder by Magic” (2015). Acted as Sarah Cushing in the television episode of “Sherlock Holmes – The Cardboard Box”, 11 April 1994.

On stage, Findlay played a lead in the original Top Girls at the Royal Court. She appeared in Twelfth Night and The Merchant Of Venice for the RSC. In 1997 she won an Olivier Award, as well as Outer Critics’ Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, for her performance as Hilda, the wife of the painter Stanley Spencer in Pam Gems’ play Stanley. In 2008 she starred in the US premiere of Vincent River by Philip Ridley. In 2009 she appeared alongside Judi Dench in a Donmar West End revival of Madame de Sade. In 2013 she starred in the Donmar Warehouse production of Coriolanus as Volumnia, a role which earned her Clarence Derwent award for best supporting actress. In 2016 Deborah appeared on the stage of The Royal Court Theatre twice: as Sally in Caryl Churchill’s Escaped Alone and as Hazel in Lucy Kirkwood’s The Children. She reprised her role during The Children’s Broadway run, receiving a Tony Award nomination. In 2018, she appeared at the Bridge Theatre in London, playing the role of Sister Gilchrist in Alan Bennett’s Allelujah. In 2021, Deborah featured in Simon Godwin’s filmed production of Romeo & Juliet alongside Jessie Buckley and Josh O’Connor.

Deborah’s feature credits include Making Noise Quietly, Hampstead, Jackie, The Lady in the Van, Arthur Christmas, Vanity Fair, The End of the Affair and Truly Madly Deeply.

Jessica Alade

VIRGINIA, DRUNKEN TORY 1

Training: Guildford School of Acting.

Theatre includes: Hamlet (National Theatre).

Television includes: Showtrial, Buffering and I Hate Suzie. 

Debra Baker

VIRGINIA, FAVILLA, A DEBUTANTE, WIT 2, THE CAPTAIN

Theatre includes: SAD (Omnibus Theatre, Clapham), The Witchfinder’s Sister (Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch), Big Guns (Yard Theatre), Home Theatre (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Radiant Vermin (Soho Theatre & New York).

Television includes: It’s a Sin, King Gary, Holby City, Home, Coronation Street, Call The Midwife, Doctors, Sliced, Close to the Enemy, The Five, Phoneshop.

Film includes: Re-Awakening, Body of Water, London Road, Lie Low, Night Bus.

Radio includes: BBC Radio Drama Company for Radio 4.

Akul Bol

VIRGINIA, EUPHROSYNE, AN IRISH DEBUTANTE, PRUE

Theatre includes: Peter Pan, Attempts On Her Life, Julius Caesar, Philistines (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), Mirthidate, Suréna (Conservatoire National Supériuer d’Art Dramatique), Bite Your Tongue (Talawa Theatre Company), Hamlet (RADA Youth Theatre), The Mini Dream, Encourage the Others (Almeida Theatre), Banana Boys, Fisheress, God is a DJ, Class of ’09 (Hampstead Theatre).   

Television includes: London Kills (Season 4), Messiah, Casualty, Doctors, The Dumping Ground (Seasons 2-5).

Film includes: The Swimmers.

Lucy Briers

VIRGINIA, QUEEN ELIZABETH I

Theatre includes: All of Us (National Theatre), Rosmersholm (Duke of York’s Theatre), Wild East (Young Vic), Forty Years On, The Seagull, Ivanov (Chichester Festival Theatre), Wolf Hall, Bring up the Bodies, Top Girls (West End).

Television includes: House of the Dragon, Home, Endeavour, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Pride & Prejudice, Count Arthur Strong, Press, Mrs Wilson, Gentleman Jack, Victoria, The Thick of it, Twenty Twelve.

Film includes: My Policeman, Emma, The Show, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, Genius

Richard Cant

VIRGINIA, HARRIET 1, HARRIET 2, KITTY

Theatre includes: Handbagged, Wife (Kiln), Henry VI: Rebellion, Wars Of The Roses, Maydays, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing (RSC), The Normal Heart, Mr. Gum And The Dancing Bear, War Horse (NT), Talent, Original Sin, The Country Wife (Sheffield Crucible), After Edward, Edward II (Sam Wanamaker), My Night With Reg, St Joan (Donmar Warehouse), Medea (Almeida Theatre), The Trial (Young Vic), Stella (LIFT), Salome (Headlong), Cymbeline, Troilus And Cressida, As You Like It (Cheek By Jowl), Other People (Royal Court), Angels In America (Library), Waterland (Eastern Angles).

Television includes: It’s A Sin, The Crown, Taboo, Silent Witness, Outlander, Mapp and Lucia, Vexed, Above Suspicion, Gunpowder Treason And Plot, Dr. Who, Bleak House, Shackleton, Midsomer Murders, The Way We Live Now, Doctors, The Bill, Gimme Gimme Gimme, This Life.

Film includes: My Policeman, Mary – Queen of Scots, Stan and Ollie, Take Care, Sparkle, The Lawless Heart.

Radio and Video work includes: Road To Heaven, Medieval Hitchhiker (Radio), Assassin’s Creed III/IV, 007 Legends (Video Games).

Melissa Lowe

VIRGINIA, DRUNKEN TORY 2

Theatre credits include:  Taylor in A Billion Times I Love You (Liverpool Everyman Theatre); Bex in Hungry (Soho Theatre/ ROUNDABOUT @ Summerhall – Edinburgh Festival Fringe); June in Gypsy (Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester); Belle in A Christmas Carol (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds); Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest (Octagon Theatre Bolton); Sally in The Cat in the Hat (Leicester Curve/UK Tour) and Me and My Girl (Chichester Festival Theatre).

Screen credits include: The Midwich Cuckoos on Sky.

Jodie McNee

VIRGINIA, FOOTMAN, MARMADUKE

Theatre includes: Adult Children (Donmar Warehouse), Unprecedented: Fear Fatigue, Faustus: The Damned Woman (Headlong), Venice Preserved, Measure for Measure, Written on the Heart (RSC), Anatomy of a Suicide (Royal Court), Nora: A Doll’s House, The Night Watch, Hamlet, Orpheus Descending, A Taste of Honey (Royal Exchange), Twelfth Night (Liverpool Everyman), The Oak Tree, Our Country’s Good, Three Winters (National Theatre), Game (Almeida).

Television includes: Mrs Sidhu Investigates, Culprits, Hollington Drive, Britannia series 1-3, Anthony, Agatha and the Death of X, Vera, Little Boy Blue, Ripper Street, Criminal Justice 2, Poirot, The Liverpool Nativity.

Film includes: Judy, Official Secrets, Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, The Physician.

Oliver Wickham

VIRGINIA, CLORINDA, A DEBUTANTE, WIT 1

Theatre includes: Macbeth (Queen’s Theatre), Either (Hampstead Theatre), Out of Water (Offie Nominated Best Performance) (Orange Tree Theatre), Romeo & Juliet(Cambridge Arts Theatre), SIX The Musical (Edinburgh Fringe 2017) 

Television includes: Wednesday (Netflix), Chloe (BBC/Amazon Prime)

Radio includes: Fathers and Sons (BBC)

Millicent Wong

VIRGINIA, SASHA, NELL

Training: Royal Central School of Speech & Drama

 Theatre includes: Henry V (Donmar Warehouse), Shake my Bones, Living Newspaper Edition 6, Pah-La (Royal Court), Athena (Yard Theatre), After Life (National Theatre), The Doctor (ATG), The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (Bridge Theatre), The King of Hell’s Palace (Hampstead Theatre).

Television includes: Silent Witness, Annika, Dracula.

Other work includes: Forbidden City: Portrait of an Empress (Singapore Repertory Theatre), Beauty World (Dick Lee Entertainment) Hanuman (Imitating the Dog).