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Lashana Lynch (born 27 November 1987) is a British actress. She plays the leading role of Rosaline in the ABC period drama series Still Star-Crossed.

Lynch is a graduate of the BA Acting course at ArtsEd drama school in London. She made her film debut in the 2011 drama film Fast Girls. She later co-starred in the BBC television film The 7.39. On television, she also has appeared in Silent Witness, Death in Paradise, and was regular cast member on the short-lived BBC comedy Crims in 2015.

In 2016, Lynch was cast as leading character, Rosaline, in the American period drama series Still Star-Crossed produced by Shonda Rhimes.

Lynch is of Jamaican descent.

Dua Lipa is an English singer, songwriter, and model. Her musical career began at age 14, when she began covering songs by other artists on YouTube. In 2015, she was signed with Warner Music Group and released her first single soon after. In December 2016, a documentary about Lipa was commissioned by The Fader magazine, titled See in Blue. In January 2017, Lipa won the EBBA Public Choice Award. Her self-titled debut studio album was released on 2 June 2017. The album spawned seven singles, including two UK top-10 singles "Be the One" and "Idgaf" and the UK number-one single "New Rules", which also reached number six in the US. In 2018, Lipa won two Brit Awards for British Female Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act.

Lipa was born in London, to Albanian parents from Kosovo who had left Pristina in the 1990s. She attended Sylvia Young Theatre School, part-time, before moving to Kosovo with her family in 2008. Lipa grew up listening to her father, singer Dukagjin Lipa. Her given name means "love" in Albanian; its atypical nature was cause for distaste in her youth, but she grew to "enjoy" it as it eliminated the need for a stage name. At the age of 14, she began posting covers of her favorite songs by artists such as P!nk and Nelly Furtado on YouTube. At the age of 15, she moved back to London with aspirations of becoming a singer. Shortly after, she began working as a model. In 2013, she starred in a television advertisement for The X Factor.

In 2015, Lipa began working on her debut album for Warner Music Group. In August 2015, she released her first single "New Love", produced by Emile Haynie and Andrew Wyatt. She released her second single "Be the One", in October 2015. "Be the One" achieved success across Europe, reaching number one in Belgium, Poland and Slovakia, as well as charting within the top 10 in over 11 European territories. In Australia and New Zealand, the song became an airplay success, reaching numbers 6 and 20 respectively. Lipa describes her musical style as "dark pop". On 30 November 2015, she was revealed as one of the acts on the BBC Sound of...2016 long list. Her first tour in the UK and Europe began in January 2016. In November 2016, Lipa concluded her tour through Europe.

In January 2018, Lipa received nominations in five categories at the 2018 Brit Awards, more nominations than any other artist that year. She was nominated for British Female Solo Artist, British Breakthrough Act, MasterCard British Album of the Year (Dua Lipa), British Single of The Year ("New Rules") and British Video of The Year ("New Rules"). This was the first time that a female artist had received five nominations.[36] She performed at the awards ceremony held on 21 February at the O2 Arena in London and collected the awards for British Female Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act.

Lipa announced via social media that she had begun working on new material for her second album. She is working with MNEK, who previously co-wrote her single "Idgaf". The singer also collaborated with electronic music producer Whethan on a song called "High" for the Fifty Shades Freed soundtrack released in February 2018.

Abigail Cruttenden was born on 23 March 1968 in West London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Thuyết Yêu Thương (2014), Await Further Instructions (2018) and Munich - Bờ vực chiến tranh (2021). She has been married to Jonathan R. Fraser since December 2003. She was previously married to Sean Bean.

Terry Kilburn was born on 25 November 1926 in West Ham, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Tạm biệt Mr. Chips (1939), Lolita (1962) and Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1947).

Lynsey Baxter was born on 7 May 1959 in West Ham, London, England, UK. She is an actress and director, known for The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1978) and Real Life (1984).

Linda Henry was born on 24 August 1963 in West Ham, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Beautiful Thing (1996), EastEnders (1985) and Bad Girls (1999). She has been married to Stavros Valiris since July 1992. They have one child.

Gerry Anderson was born on 14 April 1929 in West Hampstead, London, England, UK. He was a writer and producer, known for Joe 90 (1968), Invasion: UFO (1974) and UFO (1970). He was married to Mary Robins, Sylvia Anderson and Betty Wrightman. He died on 26 December 2012 in Henley-on-Thames, England, UK.

Sean Cronin was born in West London to an English mother and an Irish/Welsh father but has both Spanish and Sicilian in his bloodline. Destiny struck in the early nineties and Sean was badly bitten by the film bug. Due to his intense and menacing presence Sean was asked to play supporting roles in films like 'James Bond, The World Is Not Enough' (1999), 'The Mummy' (1999), 'The Mummy Returns' (2001), 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets' (2002) and 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' are just a few. Moving inevitably from the background to the foreground he more recently plays terrifying vampire 'Cyrus' in 'The Thompsons' (2012), sequel to the Hollywood Vampire movie 'The Hamiltons' (2006) by the 'Butcher Brothers' and in 'London's Finest' (2014) 2012 he plays crazy Russian gangster 'Dellski' and in 'The Callback Queen' (2013), he plays 'east end' gangster 'Arry' and 'Jacob' in 'The Brother' (2013) and 'Masked Syndicate Man' in 'Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation' (2015) lead villain, Kane, in 'Kill Kane' (2016) another lead villain 'Thorn' in Neil Monahan's political horror 'Election Night', head of the Russian Mafia 'Igor' in Fraser Precious's brilliant crime thriller 'Safeguard' and more recently, lead super-villain 'Smiley' in 'Rendel: Cycle of Revenge', head vampire 'Madison' in his very own 'southern fried' vampire road movie 'Bogieville' and yet another 'very twisted' lead villain, 'Admiral Smee' in Lars Janssen's horror re-imagining of a classic, 'Captain Hook: The Cursed Tides'. In parallel, because of his love for all things film, he became a cinematographer and director in his own right shooting dozens of high end music videos, short films, and several features including 'Throw of a Dice' (2012). Sean also directed the award winning 'An Unfortunate Woman' (2015) beautiful period drama 'Irongate' and the award winning heart rending semi-biopic life story of disabled Paul Hodgson 'Give Them Wings' (2021) followed closely by yet another award winning human interest story 'Our Kid'. Sean has also dipped his directorial toe into the horror genre with two very different vampire movies 'Bogieville' and 'Drained', both set for release early 2025 but Sean's most prolific and biggest budget directorial exploit is 'Michael' - The Michael Watson Story' which goes into production spring 2025.

Sean has developed his craft both in acting and film making and is well as being an eclectic and talented film maker he is fast becoming one of the most convincing and sinister 'adversaries' in modern day cinema.

Sean has his own production company 'Magnificent Films'.

Angela and her actress sister Hermione were born of a wealthy family with Angela making her stage debut at the age of 8 as a little orphan girl in The Dawn of Happiness. One night a police officer said that she was too young and wouldn't allow her to perform, The following year she auditioned at The Old Vic Theatre, When she was 10 a newspaper called her 'a consumate little actress, at 11 she was appearing in Shakespeare, as a teenager she was singing and dancing in musicals and pantomimes and became the 'toast of London. She retired briefly when she was18. She appeared in many plays but most enjoyed those by Emlyn Williams - Night Must Fall, The Winslow Boy, Morning Star and The Light of Heart, which he wrote for her, She was married to theatre producer Glen Byam Shaw 1931 -75 and was awarded a CBE for services to the theatre

Was born in London but moved to France when she was only 3 weeks old. Parents Anne and Louis Duchene moved the family back to England in 1962/1963 to the seaside town of Brighton. Kate went onstage at the age of 14 and loved acting from that moment on. She read French & Spanish at Trinity College at Cambridge University.

She then spent a year teaching English in Spain. Kate received no formal training in Drama but she wrote and performed her own material with Cambridge Footlights Company before joining Mikron in 1983. She is best known for her acting in the children's TV show The Worst Witch as Miss Constance Hardbroom. The show ran from 1998 to 2001.

Kate has 2 children: Anna Charlotte Fitzgerald Duchene Hickson born on April 15th 2006 & Daughter Born in late May / early June 2009.

Hazel Douglas enjoyed something of an Indian summer playing scatter-brained and often sharp-tongued matriarchs in a career that spanned eight decades.

Having started her professional career with Harry Hanson's Court Players in the early 1940s, she was most recently seen on television as Derek Jacobi's acidic mother in Vicious, seemingly oblivious that his flatmate Ian McKellen was also his life partner.

As Bathilda Bagshot in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2010) she was the resurrected vessel of Voldemort's deadly snake - a far cry from her early days in repertory in Jersey, Aldershot and with the Carl Bernard Company.

Born in Fulham, London, England as Hazel Mary Smith and briefly evacuated to Newbury during preparations for the Second World War, Douglas spent a year at RADA (where one of her peers was Richard Attenborough) and worked briefly as an assistant stage manager before joining the Women's Royal Naval Service.

After the war, she made her West End debut in a Sunday-night performance of Michael Pearson's Against the Tide at the Whitehall Theatre in 1948.

In 1953 she was seen in See How They Run, the inaugural production at the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch, and returned to the Whitehall Theatre for John Chapman's farce Dry Rot in 1954, her first appearance with Brian Rix's resident company at the venue.

Over the next decade and more, Douglas was a semi-permanent fixture with Rix's farceurs at the Whitehall, while also being seen in Bernard Kops' Change for the Angel (Arts Theatre, 1960), Trelawny of the Wells (Leatherhead Theatre, 1969) and in Michael Pertwee's She's Done It Again (Garrick Theatre, 1969).

Douglas was back in the West End in 1974 sharing the stage with Michael Denison and Dulcie Gray in The Sack Race at the Ambassadors Theatre. The following year, she gave what The Stage described as "a towering performance of all-devouring strength" as Lady Monchensey in TS Eliot's The Family Reunion in Ipswich.

In 1978 she was a founding member of Southern Exchange, the joint touring venture between Swindon's Wyvern Theatre, Poole Arts Centre and the Hexagon Theatre, Reading.

She appeared alongside Anna Neagle in Noel Coward's Relative Values to reopen the Connaught Theatre, Worthing in 1983 and with Harry Worth in Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's Rockefeller and the Red Indians at Basingstoke's Haymarket Theatre in 1987.

Earlier the same year, Douglas was seen in the title role of Chris Martin's Who Killed Hilda Murrell? with the TyneWear Theatre Company.

Her sole Broadway appearance was in Bill Naughton's comedy All in Good Time in 1965.

A steady screen career that began in 1947 gathered pace in her later years when she enjoyed spells in Where the Heart Is (1998-99), At Home With the Braithwaites (2000-03), The Worst Week of My Life (2004) and episodes of Gavin and Stacey (2008) and Psychoville (2011).

Hazel Douglas was born on 2 November 1923 and died on 8 September 8 2016 aged 92.

Prolific and ubiquitous British bit player and dancer Pauline Lesley Chamberlain was born on October 2, 1932 in West Ham, Essex, England. The daughter of a piano player father, Pauline attended a French convent school in Palmers Green as well as learned ballet and tap at a local dance school. Chamberlain went on to attend the Aida Foster Stage School. Pauline and her twin sister Pamela were both featured as chorus girls in a 1948 production of the pantomime "Robin Hood and His Merry Men." The Chamberlain sisters went on to appear together in the pantomime "Robinson Crusoe" and did a tour of Great Britain in "Folies Bergere" for Bernard Delfont. Moreover, Pauline and Pamela were both members of Margaret Kelly's dancing troupe Bluebell Girls, appeared in revues at the London Palladium, and even performed in cabaret together in Brussels, Italy, Scotland, and Great Britain at the Dorchester as The Chamberlain Twins - What a Pair. A pretty brunette with a warm smile and a chipper disposition, Chamberlain first began appearing in films in uncredited minor roles while still in her teens in the late 1940's. Pauline could usually be spotted in movies cutting it up on the dance floor, as a guest at a party, or performing on stage (she was often cast as a showgirl). Chamberlain was featured in scores of films and a bunch of television shows in a career that spanned several decades. Pauline died at age 88 from complications of COVID-19 on January 14, 2021.

Fay Compton was born on 18 September 1894 in West Kensington, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Haunting (1963), Laughter in Paradise (1951) and The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (1951). She was married to Ralph Michael, Leon Quartermaine, Lauri de Frece and Harry Gabriel Pelissier. She died on 12 December 1978 in Hove, East Sussex, England, UK.

Sam Bain is a writer/producer. He is of English/Australian descent. His mother was the British comedy actress Rosemary Frankau and his father, Bill Bain, was an Australian Emmy-award winning director. He went to Manchester University where he met his writing partner for 25 years, Jesse Armstrong. They have a production company in London called Various Artists Ltd with producers Phil Clarke and Roberto Troni. Sam lives in Los Feliz, Los Angeles with his wife actress/writer Wendy Meredith (Bain). He is known for the award winning TV comedy series Peep Show and Fresh Meat.

Glen Murphy was born in West Ham, London, he boxed for the famous West Ham and Repton boxing clubs, then started his acting career at the Half Moon Theater in 1980. It was 2 years of more London Theater before he got his break on film with Blake Edwards' Victor/Victoria. Glen was a London Champion in Boxing & Football & is a 3rd Dan karate black belt and still trains in the Kyokushin style martial art today with the 7th Dan Hall of Fame, Jamie O Keefe. In 1955 his father Terence was the first ever sportsman on ITV, His latest Film Lost in Italy (aka Lords of London) has won the New York Hells Kitchen Film Festivals World Cinema Best Film award.and he won the Abruzzo film festival "best actor" award in Italy. And is in pre-production with the feature film "Finger of Suspicion" due to shoot in 2019

Barbara Archer was born in 1934 in West Ham, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Dracula (1958), Up the Junction (1968) and Model for Murder (1959).

John Dearth was born on 16 October 1920 in West Ham, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Avengers (1961), The Escape of R.D.7 (1961) and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955). He died on 17 March 1984 in London, England, UK.

Florence Brudenell-Bruce was born on 21 November 1985 in Fulham, West London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Thám Tử Tài Ba (2012), Tình Yêu Ngày Nay (2009) and Robocroc (2013). She has been married to Henry Edward Hugh St. George since 6 July 2013. They have one child.

Paloma Kai Shockley Elsesser (born April 12, 1992) is an American plus size fashion model. She was born to an African-American mother and a father of Chilean-Swiss descent and raised in Los Angeles, California. She moved to New York City, New York in 2010, to attend The New School to study psychology and literature. Elsesser was discovered on Instagram by makeup artist Pat McGrath and has modeled for Nike, Inc., Fenty Beauty, Proenza Schouler, and Mercedes-Benz.

Prolific and ubiquitous British background player George Hilsdon was born on April 25, 1907 in West Ham, London, England. Hilsdon first began appearing in films in often uncredited minor roles in the mid-1940's. A burly fellow with a gruff face and receding silver gray hair, George was frequently cast as policemen, news vendors, or security guards. Hilsdon died at age 75 on May 28, 1982 in Essex, England. Predeceased by his wife Ivy Lilian Benge, he was survived by two children.

John Rapley was born on 18 April 1935 in West Ham, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Người Voi (1980), Jane and the Lost City (1987) and Goodnight Sweetheart (1993). He died on 18 April 2016 in Theydon Bois, Essex, England, UK.

Daughter of Henry Walter Flewett (1892-1970) and Winifred Johnson Flewett (1896-1967). Educated at Sacred Heart Convent School (R.C.), London and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (1945-1947). After being evacuated with her school to Oxford during the war, became a volunteer housekeeper and hen-keeper in the household of C.S. Lewis, several times deferring her acceptance of a place at RADA. Founded Jill Freud and Company (1980), a non-profit repertory company. In 2001 received an Honorary Doctorate in Civil Law from the University of East Anglia "for services to the theatre." Married writer Clement Freud, grandson of Sigmund Freud, 4 September 1950. Clement later became M.P. for the Isle of Ely 1973-1987, was knighted in 1987, and became rector of St. Andrew's University 2003. With his knighthood, Jill Freud became "Lady Freud."

Hal Cruttenden was born in 1969 in West London, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for The Stephen K. Amos Show (2010), The Omid Djalili Show (2007) and Mrs Dalloway (1997).

Victor Lucas was born on 12 July 1919 in West Ham, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Doctor Who (1963), World's End (1981) and Testament of Youth (1979). He was married to Marjorie Sommerville. He died on 17 November 2000 in Barnet, London, England, UK.

James Culliford was born on 8 September 1927 in West Ham, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Quatermass and the Pit (1967), Doctor Who (1963) and The Trygon Factor (1966). He died on 23 March 2002 in Brighton, Sussex, England, UK.