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- Anya Chalotra is an English actress known for playing Jennifer Ashman in the British TV show Wanderlust (2018) and for her role as Yennefer of Vengerberg in the Netflix series The Witcher (2019).
Chalotra was born in a British-Indian family. Her father is of Indian descent while her mother is English. She grew up in Lower Penn village in South Staffordshire, UK, where she lived with her parents, and two siblings. Chalotra completed her schooling at the St. Dominic's Grammar School for Girls in Brewood. and later trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Chalotra has starred in several theater productions including Much Ado About Nothing and The Village.
She is represented by The Artists Partnership talent agency.
On October 10, 2018, it was announced by Deadline that Chalotra would star in a main role as Yennefer of Vengerberg in the Netflix fantasy drama, The Witcher. The series premiered on December 20, 2019. - Actress
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Frances Barber has worked in a string of award-winning productions for the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, taking roles as diverse as Eliza in Pygmalion and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth. Among her film appearances are roles in Stephen Frears' Prick Up Your Ears (1987) and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987), Dennis Potter's Secret Friends (1991) and John Irvine's Shiner (2000) with Michael Caine, Peter Greenaway's A Zed & Two Noughts (1985), Peter Capaldi's Soft Top Hard Shoulder (1992), and Still Crazy (1998). Most recently she has appeared in The Escort (1999) (The Escort) with Daniel Auteuil and Esther Kahn (2000). Frances made her television breakthrough in Mike Leigh's Home Sweet Home (1982). Subsequent TV work includes Kenneth Branagh's Twelfth Night, or What You Will (1988) as Viola, a role she reprised for Branagh on stage, BBC's Annie Besant, Inspector Morse (1987), Spitting Image (1984) and the BBC's adaptation of the Nancy Mitford classic Love in a Cold Climate (2001). On stage, Frances won the 1984 Olivier award for Most Promising Newcomer as Marguerite in the RSC production of Camille. She has worked in some of the UK's most prestigious theatres, including the Royal National Theatre, the RSC, Hull Truck, Oxford Playhouse, the Royal Exchange, the Donmar Warehouse and the Royal Court. Frances was most recently seen on stage in Patrick Marber's production of Closer at The Lyric, Hammersmith. She attended Bangor university.- Actress
- Writer
- Script and Continuity Department
Meera Syal was born on 27 June 1961 in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for Yesterday (2019), Beautiful Thing (1996) and Absolutely Anything (2015). She has been married to Sanjeev Bhaskar since 21 January 2005. They have one child. She was previously married to Chandra Shekhar Bhatia.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Margaret Lee was born on 4 August 1943 in Wolverhampton, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Secret Agent Super Dragon (1966), From the Orient with Fury (1965) and The Violent Four (1968). She was married to Walter Creighton, Gino Malerba and Patrick Anderson. She died on 24 April 2024 in Gloucester, South West England, United Kingdom.- Actor
- Producer
Vyto Ruginis was born in Wolverhampton, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Moneyball (2011), Casualties of War (1989) and Broken Arrow (1996).- Actor
- Director
- Stunts
An accomplished theatre actor, Mr. Bennett appeared on the British stage for fifteen years before moving to Canada in 1986. During this time, he starred in "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole" at the Wyndhams Theatre in London's West End. He also performed in "Ghosts", "Private Lives" and "Rookery Nook" at such theaters as the Haymarket Theatre in Leicester, the Crucible Theatre, the Bristol Old Vic and the King's Head Theatre Club, as well as many seasons on the stages of Canterbury, Newcastle, Nottingham, Plymouth, Manchester, Liverpool and Sheffield in England. From 1992-1996, he starred as the powerful and seductive "Lucien LaCroix" in the Gemini-nominated television series, Forever Knight (1992). In 1995, he received the prestigious Gemini Award for his role in the series, and it was on this show where he made his directorial debut.
His feature film work includes co-starring with Gene Hackman in Narrow Margin (1990), The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick (1988), a poignant drama that was voted Best New Film at both the Toronto Festival of Festivals and the Vancouver International Film Festival in 1988, Legends of the Fall (1994) starring Brad Pitt, Murder at 1600 (1997) starring Wesley Snipes, Top of the Food Chain (1999), a science fiction feature that premiered at the 1998 Toronto Film Festival and The Skulls (2000) starring Craig T. Nelson.- Ann Beach was born on 7 June 1938 in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Notting Hill (1999), The City of the Dead (1960) and Under Milk Wood (1971). She was married to Francis Coleman. She died on 9 March 2017 in the UK.
- Omari Douglas was born on 24 March 1994 in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK. He is an actor, known for I Hate Suzie (2020), It's a Sin (2021) and And Mrs.
- Actor
- Composer
- Director
Liam was born in Wolverhampton, West Midland, England, UK to, parents, Geoff and Karen Payne. He has two older sisters, Nicola and Ruth. Liam was born three weeks early, and as a result he had a lot of health problems.Since age 6 Liam showed signs of musical talent but he had his heart set on becoming an Olympic runner, he was a member of the Wolverhampton and Bilston Athletics Club. He would wake up at 5am every day to run five miles before school. His running dream ended at 14 years old when he narrowly missed out on a spot in the England schools team. At that point, he decided to completely focus on his singing, although he still loves his football club, West Bromwich Albion.- Actor
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- Writer
This versatile artist, who had spent his 20's in New Zealand farming sheep, became novelist, playwright and film exhibitor on his return to Britain in 1918. Eventually he would observe success with The First Born (1928), which he directed and acted in and which was based on his own novel and play. He is better remembered, however, for his character portrayals of oily types, many of them upper-crust cads - such as Cardinal Richelieu in The Three Musketeers (1939). (In his Hollywood debut, he had portrayed King Louis XIII in the 1935 version of that same Dumas classic.)- Actor
- Soundtrack
Charles Simon was born on 4 February 1909 in Tettenhall Wood, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Topsy-Turvy (1999), 102 Dalmatians (2000) and The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997). He was married to Sheila Eves and Nancy McDermid. He died on 16 May 2002 in Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK.- The youngest of three daughters born to iron and steel merchant William 'Copper' Hicks and Hester, She was educated at a girls school in Shrewsbury where she appeared as the Duke of Gloucester in Richard of Bordeaux and as Bottom in A Midsummer Nights Dream, She served as a land girl during WWII and trained for the theatre at the Webber Douglas School in London and graduated in 1947, She made her stage debut in Written For a Lady at the Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool which transferred to the Garrick Theatre in London followed by work at the repertory theatres at New Brighton and Hammersmith
- Actress
- Writer
Mandy Takhar was born on 1 May 1987 in Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. She is an actress and writer, known for Rabb Da Radio (2017), Ekam: Son of Soil (2010) and Biriyani (2013).- Joan Blackham was born on 15 May 1946 in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), Battle for Sevastopol (2015) and Hard Cases (1988). She died on 6 September 2020.
- Scott Moutter was born on 10 November 1984 in Wolverhampton, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Reign of Fire (2002), Ultimate Force (2002) and In a Land of Plenty (2001).
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- Writer
James Holmes was born in 1965 in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Psychoville (2009), Miranda (2009) and Peep Show (2003).- Writer
- Producer
- Actor
Robert Sidaway was born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK. He is a writer and producer, known for Rainbow (1995), Battle of the Brave (2004) and The Optimist (1983).- Actress
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Beverley Knight was born on 22 March 1973 in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK. She is an actress and composer, known for Cinderella (2021), Premonition (2005) and Nynne (2005). She has been married to James O'Keefe since 7 September 2012.- Actor
- Writer
Aaron Thiara was born on 4 May 1993 in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for EastEnders (1985), The Boy with the Topknot (2017) and RSC: As You Like It (2019).- Writer
- Producer
- Actress
Caitlin Moran was born on 9 January 1975 in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK. She is a writer and producer, known for Raised by Wolves (2013), How to Build a Girl (2019) and Queens of British Pop (2009). She has been married to Pete Paphides since December 1999. They have two children.- Actor
- Producer
is a British professional wrestler, currently working for various independent companies in Europe and occasionally the United States under the ring name Trent Seven. Seven debuted in Progress at Chapter 28 alongside Tyler Bate as Moustache Mountain, losing to Damian and Pete Dunne. Seven returned at Chapter 32, losing to Rampage Brown. At Chapter 33, Seven turned heel, attacking Tyler Bate and aligning himself with Pete Dunne to form British Strong Style. At Chapter 36, Seven and Dunne defeated The London Riots (James Davis and Rob Lynch) to win the Progress Tag Team Championships, and successfully defended them in a rematch at Chapter 39. By virtue of winning that match, both Seven and Dunne were entered into a 7 man elimination match for the vacant Progress Wrestling Championship, which was eventually won by Dunne after Tyler Bate returned and attacked Jimmy Havoc, thus turning heel and aligning himself with Seven and Dunne. On December 16, Seven and Dunne were stripped of the Progress Tag Team Championship after Dunne attempted to give his half of the shield to Bate. Two weeks later at Chapter 41, Seven and Bate defeated The London Riots and The LDRS of the New School in a three-way tag team match to win the vacant titles.- Writer
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Tom Parry was born on 16 December 1980 in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK. He is a writer and actor, known for Your Christmas or Mine? (2022), Your Christmas or Mine 2 (2023) and Waffle the Wonder Dog (2018).- Writer
- Actor
Nigel Slater was born in 1958 in Wolverhampton, England, UK. He is a writer and actor, known for The Mad Death (1983), Toast (2010) and Nigel Slater's Middle East (2018).- Tina Packer was born on 28 September 1938 in Wolverhampton, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Doctor Who (1963), David Copperfield (1966) and Two a Penny (1967).
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- Additional Crew
- Executive
Kenton Allen was born in 1965 in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK. He is a producer and executive, known for Him & Her (2010), The Royle Family (1998) and Friday Night Dinner (2011). He is married to Imogen Edwards-Jones.- Actor
- Producer
Tony Gibbons was born on 14 March 1983 in Wolverhampton, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Evolution War, Emmerdale Farm (1972) and Future Lies (2018).- Helen Geake was born in 1967 in Wolverhampton, England, UK.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Adrian Hume Robinson was born on 6 December 1973 in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK. He is an actor and director, known for Tandem (2011), Waltz into Moonlight (2015) and A Wake, a Sleep (2010).- Actor
- Soundtrack
Peter Mackriel was born in April 1934 in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Les Misérables (1998), The Avengers (1961) and Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (1973).- Actor
- Composer
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
Kevin Rowland was born on 17 August 1953 in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK. He is an actor and composer, known for The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (2009) and Tommy Boy (1995).- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Alex Newport was born on 12 September 1970 in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK. He is a composer, known for To Die For (1995), The Half of It (2020) and The Dresden Sun.- Radzi Chinyanganya was born on 12 September 1987 in Wolverhampton, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016), WWE: NXT UK (2018) and Cannonball (2017).
- Actor
- Director
Rex Garner was born on 31 January 1921 in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for Shadow Squad (1957), Survivor (1987) and Birds of Paradise (1981). He was married to Tammy Bonell. He died on 17 May 2015 in Havant, Hampshire, England, UK.- Kate Crutchley was born in 1944 in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Prostitute (1980), Murder in Mind (2001) and Backup (1995). She died on 22 July 2013 in London, England, UK.
- Additional Crew
- Actor
- Production Manager
John Fabian was born on 19 May 1927 in Wolverhampton, England, UK. He was an actor and production manager, known for A Town Like Alice (1956), The Onedin Line (1971) and BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950). He died on 11 April 2012 in the UK.- Actor
- Composer
- Music Department
Jim Lea was born on 14 June 1949 in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK. He is an actor and composer, known for Rush (2013), Tropic Thunder (2008) and Rock of Ages (2012).- Frederick Hall was born on 10 May 1923 in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Curtain of Fear (1964), Emmerdale Farm (1972) and Girl in a Black Bikini (1967). He died in November 1995 in Camden, London, England, UK.
- Laurence Meynell was born on 10 August 1899 in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK. Laurence was a writer, known for Crown v. Stevens (1936), The House in Marsh Road (1960) and The Umbrella (1933). Laurence was married to Joan Henley. Laurence died on 14 April 1989 in Hove, East Sussex, England, UK.
- Paula Bacon was born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK. She is known for King of Thieves (2018), Crimetime (1996) and Food of Love (1997).
- Stella Riley was born on 22 August 1933 in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Fredric March Presents Tales from Dickens (1959), Decameron Nights (1953) and Gilbert and Sullivan (1953). She was previously married to Howard Goorney.
- Actor
- Producer
Born in Wolverhampton in 1944. Educated at Regis School and Birmingham Theatre School where he won the Outstanding Student Award. Seasons of twice nightly rep followed in 1968 and was then engaged by Peter Dews at Birmingham Repertory Theatre in Othello, Romeo & Juliet, St. Joan and After The Rain with Michael Gambon and Timothy Dalton. Laurence then acted in and directed Children's Theatre seasons in Weston-Super-Mare and Burnham-on-Sea. Dick Condon invited him to Ireland in 1968 as leading man in Billy Liar, The Heiress, Barefoot in the Park and Boeing-Boeing. He then played the Prince in Tom Thumb with Maureen Potter and in Alfie, with Ray McAnally, also at the Gaiety Theatre Dublin. He was a member of the Gate Theatre Company from 1969 to 1971 and, in 1972 returned to Birmingham Rep to play in Vivat,Vivat,Regina! for Peter Dews. On returning to Ireland, he appeared in all the major Dublin Theatres playing leading roles in Arms & the Man, The Knack, Michaelmas Eve, See How they Run, Peg o' My Heart, Hamlet, Under Milk Wood, Major Barbara, The Hour Glass, Box & Cox, King Lear, Pantomimes and several Summer Revues. In 1974, he joined the RTE Radio Drama Department as an actor and performed in over 750 plays Film appearances include Privilege, The Manions of America, Cal, Hello Stranger and The Escapist. Television appearances include, Thirty Minute Theatre, Rainbow City, United, Aladdin, The Burke Enigma, Kilmore House, Heritage, Remington Steele, Dear Sarah, Law & Order, The Clinic, Fair City and The Tudors. Recent theatre includes, All's Well That Ends Well at the Helix Theatre Dublin, his solo performance on tour as Charles Dickens in his own creation, Dickens in Dublin, and The Constant Wife at the Gate Theatre Dublin and Dock Street Theatre, Charleston, South Carolina, June 2007. His autobiography, "Rising Without Trace", was published by Ashfield Press in 2007. Recent film; played Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol, 2012, for October Eleven Films.- Arthur Ridley was born on 19 February 1894 in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Operation Diplomat (1952), Little Women (1950) and BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950). He died on 11 March 1978 in Chelsea, London, England, UK.
- Born in Wolverhampton in 1968, Paul trained in Cardiff, at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, graduating in 1990.
Since then Paul has worked as an actor, theatre director and for the past 10 years as an acting coach.
The first 20 years of Paul's careers were spent working in theatre until his break into TV came in 2008, appearing in, first, Doctors, as aggressive drunk, Trevor Brookfield, then in Coronation Street, as former lover to Michelle Conor, JD. Paul Spent 7 months in total, on Coronation Street before next appearing on our screens in s early in 2013, as Mob boss, Chris Pearson, in Prisoner's Wives (Season 2). In 2014, Paul first joined the cast of Emmerdale, eventually spending 5 years on the show as one of the 2 village policemen, playing PC Gary Stone.
Paul continues to work in TV, Film and Theatre and has 2 films due out in 2022/23. Both are Horror movies. Lure and The Experiment. - Michael Langdon was born on 12 November 1920 in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Die Fledermaus (1983), The Gondoliers (1972) and Faust (1952). He died on 12 March 1991 in Hove, East Sussex, England, UK.
- Daisy Adair was born on 9 October 1886 in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Emmerdale Farm (1972), Winning Widows (1961) and No Hiding Place (1959). She died in 1976 in Hillingdon, Middlesex, England, UK.
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- Actor
Michael Darlow was born on 13 June 1934 in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK. He is a director and producer, known for The Final Solution (1979), The World at War (1973) and Theatre Night (1985).- Luke McCarthy was born on 20 March 1995 in Wolverhampton, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Rogue Heroes (2022).
- Costume Designer
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
Sue Blane studied costume design at Wolverhampton College of Art and Central School of Art and Design, finishing in 1971. She went to work for the Glasgow Citizen's Theatre, where she designed the costumes for Lindsay Kemp's production of The Maids in 1971, starring Tim Curry as Solange, wearing a black corset. She met director Jim Sharman in London in 1973, when he was looking for a costume designer for Richard O'Brien's new, low-budget musical The Rocky Horror Show at the Royal Court's Theatre Upstairs. Won over by Sharman's desperation, and pleased to be working with Tim Curry again, she borrowed Curry's corset from the Citizen's Theatre, glued on sequins, and created Frank-n-Furter's look and those of the other characters. Blane designed the Los Angeles (Roxy), Australia and 1975 Broadway productions of the play, as well as The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) and its sequel Shock Treatment (1981). Blane became a respected London theatre costume designer, with occasional forays into film and TV.- Philip Garston-Jones was born on 22 May 1912 in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Swizzlewick (1964), The Crime of the Century (1956) and St. Ives (1955). He died on 19 November 1979 in Birmingham, England, UK.
- Producer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Writer
Rowan is an independent filmmaker, having produced and directed a number of short films since 2002 as well as Production Managing several features and working as DOP for a television mini-series. Before taking on the role of Producer for 'Where Demons Hide', he recently co-produced the 72 Project feature film 'The Confusion of Tongues', starring Sadie Frost, Gemma Atkinson and Kate O'Toole. Alongside running his own production company, Rowan has previously worked for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the BBC and as festival director for an international film festival..