Nigel Allan Havers is an English actor. His film roles include Lord Andrew Lindsay in the 1981 British film Chariots of Fire, which earned him a BAFTA nomination; as Dr. Rawlins in the 1987 Steven Spielberg war drama, Empire of the Sun; and as Ronny in the 1984 David Lean epic A Passage to India. Television roles include Tom Latimer in the British TV comedy series Don't Wait Up and Lewis Archer in Coronation Street, between 2009 and 2019.
Josie Lawrence is an English comedian and actress best known for her work with the Comedy Store Players improvisational troupe, the television series Whose Line Is It Anyway? and as Manda Best in EastEnders.
Josie Isabel Long is a British comedian. She started performing as a stand-up at the age of 14 and won the BBC New Comedy Awards at 17.
Jim Field Smith is an English film and television director, writer and producer.
Mathew Frazer Horne is an English actor, comedian, television presenter and narrator. He is best known for appearing on several BBC sketch shows and sitcoms, most notably Gavin & Stacey, The Catherine Tate Show, Horne & Corden, and Bad Education.
Saxondale is an English television situation comedy programme, starring Steve Coogan and co-written by Coogan and Neil Maclennan. The series is directed by Matt Lipsey and produced by Ted Dowd. Coogan and Henry Normal served as executive producers. The show is set in Stevenage and depicts middle-class suburban life.
Rasmus Hardiker is a British actor, best known for voicing Scott and Alan Tracy in the reboot animated television series Thunderbirds Are Go. He played Raymond in Steve Coogan's sitcom Saxondale and Ben in the Jack Dee comedy Lead Balloon. Hardiker was also in the BBC3 sketch series The Wrong Door.
Peter Julian Robin Morgan, is a British screenwriter and playwright best known for his work on stage and film and television. He is known as the playwright behind The Audience and Frost/Nixon and the screenwriter of The Queen (2006), Frost/Nixon (2008), The Damned United (2009), and Rush (2013). Morgan is also known for writing the television films The Deal (2003), Longford (2006), and The Special Relationship (2010). He currently serves as creator and showrunner of the Netflix series The Crown (2016–present).
Kimberley Nixon is a British actress. Nixon is known for her role as Sophy Hutton in the BBC One period drama Cranford and various films such as Wild Child and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging. More recently she has starred as Josie Jones in the Channel 4 comedy-drama Fresh Meat and as Sarah Pearson in the BBC Two comedy Hebburn.
Mathew John Baynton is an English actor, writer, comedian, singer, and musician best known as a member of the British Horrible Histories troupe in which he starred in the TV series Horrible Histories; as well as an actor in Yonderland and Ghosts. He was also the co-creator, writer and star of the sitcom The Wrong Mans. Other major television roles include Deano in Gavin & Stacey, Chris Pitt-Goddard in Spy, Simon in Peep Show, and twin brothers Jamie Winton and Ariel Conroy in You, Me and the Apocalypse.
James "Jim" Howick is an English actor and writer, known for his appearances in television series such as Horrible Histories, Yonderland, Sex Education, Peep Show and Ghosts.
Groove High is a musical-comedy television series that aired on Disney Channel from November 2012 to March 2013. A mixture of live action and animation, the series centers around touring rock pop stars Tom and Zoe as they reminisce their time at their performing arts high school Groove High.
The Wrong Mans is a British BBC Television comedy-drama series, co-produced with the American online television provider Hulu. It premiered on BBC Two on 24 September 2013 and in the United States on 11 November 2013. Considered a critical and ratings success, it was co-created and written by Gavin & Stacey alumni James Corden and Mathew Baynton as an attempt to combine the situation comedy format with the intricate plotting and storytelling tropes of an action-adventure series.
Yonderland is a British sitcom television series that was broadcast on Sky 1 from November 2013 to December 2016. It was produced by Sioned Wiliam, and was created by, written by and starred the main performers from CBBC's series Horrible Histories.
Liam Williams is an English comedian, actor and writer, known for his wry poetic presentation style. He was nominated for Best Newcomer at the 2013 Edinburgh Comedy Awards and for Best Show at the 2014 awards.
Kieran Hodgson is a British character comedian, actor, and writer. He was brought up in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire and educated at the University of Oxford.
Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed! is a British computer-animated television series based on the Dennis the Menace strip from the British comic The Beano created by David Law. The strip first launched in 1951. It began on CBBC on 6 November 2017 and is the third animated adaptation of the strip after Dennis and Gnasher and Dennis the Menace and Gnasher. The series stars Freddie Fox as Dennis. A second series began on 13 July 2020. A feature film based on the series titled The Dennis And Gnasher Movie was released on May 6, 2022.
Ghosts is a British sitcom first broadcast on BBC One in April 2019. The series follows a collection of ghosts from different historical periods haunting a country house while sharing the house with its new living occupants. The series is written and performed by many of the cast members of Horrible Histories and Yonderland. The series also airs jointly on both HBO Max and Britbox in the US and CBC Gem in Canada.
The Horrible Histories troupe is a group consisting of Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard, and Ben Willbond.
