Joseph Alessi - Orgon

Theatre credits include:  Absurd Person Singular (The Curve, Leicester); Brief Encounter (UK & USA Tour); Assassins (Union Theatre); Dick Whittington (Salisbury Playhouse); Privates on Parade (West Yorkshire Playhouse; Birmingham Rep); Tartuffe (Liverpool Playhouse; Rose Theatre, Kingston); The Drowsy Chaperone (Novello Theatre); Antony & Cleopatra (Royal Shakespeare Company); Julius Caesar (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Tempest (Royal Shakespeare Company); Jerusalem (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Postman Always Rings Twice (Playhouse Theatre, London; West Yorkshire Playhouse); Io Passion (Aldeburgh Opera; Almeida Opera); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre); That Play What I Wrote (National Tour); Romeo and Juliet (Liverpool Playhouse); The Accrington Pals (Minerva Theatre); The Front Page (Chichester Festival Theatre); Polygraph (Nottingham Playhouse Theatre); The Taming of the Shrew (Royal Exchange); Light (Theatre De Complicite); Animal Crackers (Exchange; Barbican; Lyric); The Colour of Justice (Tricycle Theatre).

Television credits include: Revelations, Holby City, In a Land Of Plenty, Wing and a Prayer, Spywatch, 99-1, Kavanagh QC, Pie in the Sky, BBC, All in the Game, The Chief, Minder.

Films include: The Other Woman, Family Business, Bridget Jones' Diary, London Kills me, The Institute Benjamenta, Chaplin.

Eithne Browne - Madame Pernelle

Theatre credits include: Brick Up The Tunnels (Liverpool Royal Court Theatre); Quicksand (The Dukes Theatre, Lancaster), Risa And Fall Of Little Voice (The Dukes Theatre, Lancaster); Tartuffe (Liverpool Playhouse); A Fistful Of Collars (Royal Court Liverpool); Funny Money (Royal Court Liverpool); Wirral Strikes Back (Liverpool Empire); Brick Up The Mersey Tunnel (Royal Court, Liverpool); Dirty Dusting (Royal Court, Liverpool); Merry Ding Dong (Royal Court Liverpool); Eight Miles High (Royal Court, Liverpool); Lost Soul (Royal Court, Liverpool); Night Collar (Royal Court, Liverpool); Cinderella (Royal Court, Liverpool); Home Fires (The Dukes Theatre, Lancaster); Two (Royal Court, Liverpool); Talking Heads (Arts Academy); A Sense Of Justice (Perth Repertory Theatre); To Kill A Mockingbird (Stoke New Vic Theatre); Cinderella (New Brighton Floral Pavilion); Intent To Murder (Vienna's English Theatre); Say Who You Are (Vienna English Theatre); Dick Whittington (Neptune Theatre); River Of Dreams (Liverpool Unity Theatre); Limestone Cowboy (Coventry Belgrade Theatre).

Television credits include: Room At The Top, Waterloo Road, Power Of Poetry, Lilies, Mobile, Doctors, The Royal, Emmerdale, Having It Off, Stretford Wives, Clocking Off, Cold Feet, So What, Peace Keepers.

Simon Coates - Cleante

Theatre credits include: Plenty (Sheffield Crucible); The Prince of Homburg (The Donmar Warehouse); Arthur and George (Birmingham Rep); The Hypochondriac (Liverpool Playhouse & National Tour); The Real Thing (The Gate Theatre Dublin); Wuthering Heights (Birmingham Rep & Chichester Festival Theatre); Tartuffe (Liverpool Playhouse & Rose Theatre, Kingston); Life After Scandal (Hampstead Theatre); The Constant Wife (The Gate Theatre, Dublin & Charleston, USA);  Translations (Royal National Theatre); Arcadia (Bristol Old Vic & Birmingham Rep); Coriolanus (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Merry Wives of Windsor (Royal Shakespeare Company); Hand in Hand (Hampstead Theatre); Loveplay (Royal Shakespeare Company); Luminosity (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Taming Of The Shrew (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Comedy of Errors (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Miser (Chichester Festival Theatre); As You Like It (Cheek by Jowl & Albery Theatre – Olivier Award Nomination for Best Supporting Actor & New York Drama Desk Award Nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Royal National Theatre); Arcadia (Royal National Theatre); Macbeth (Royal National Theatre); Murmuring Judges (Royal National Theatre); Pygmalion (Royal National Theatre); Arturo Ui (Royal National Theatre); Black Snow (Royal National Theatre).

Television credits include: Doctors, Holby City, Eastenders, The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, The Bill, Dream Team, A Touch Of Frost.

Films include: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

Annabelle Dowler - Dorene

Theatre credits include: No Wise Men (Liverpool Playhouse); The Miniaturists (Liverpool Everyman); Tartuffe (Liverpool Playhouse; Rose Theatre, Kingston); The Flint Street Nativity (Liverpool Playhouse); House (Jumped Up Theatre); The Back Pages (Liverpool Everyman); And Then They Came (House of Commons); The Snow Queen (Creation Theatre Company); As You Like It (Creation Theatre Company); The Mayor Of Zalamea (Liverpool Everyman Theatre); Breezeblock Park (Liverpool Playhouse); Charlie Lavender (Southwark Playhouse); The Knack (National Theatre Platform); Perpetua (Birmingham Rep); Peter Pan (Royal National Theatre); Juno & The Paycock (National Theatre Platform).

 Television credits include: Silent Witness, Eastenders, Lewis - The Quality of Mercy, The Bill, The Six Wives Of Henry VIII, United, The 11 O'Clock Show.

 Films include: Foster

Ilan Goodman - Damis

Theatre credits include: Chicken Soup with Barley (Royal Court); Danton's Death (National Theatre); Six Degrees Of Separation (Old Vic); Miss Nightingale (The Lowry Theatre; Kings Head); Dorian Gray (Leicester Square Theatre); Austentatious (Landor Theatre); All Quiet On The Western Front (Nottingham Playhouse & Tour); Breaking The Silence (Nottingham Playhouse); The Script Factor (Soho Theatre); The Glass Menagerie (Ipswich New Wolsey); Little Wolf's Book Of Badness (Hampstead Theatre); Six Days (Camden People's Theatre); 24 Hour Plays (Old Vic).

Television credits include: Lost Cosmonauts, Broadside.

Films include: The Echelon Conspiracy

Rebecca Lacey - Elmire

Theatre credits include: Tartuffe (Liverpool Playhouse; Rose Theatre, Kingston); Amy’s View (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre & Tour); It's Not The End Of The World (Edinburgh Festival Theatre); Love For Love (Chichester Festival Theatre); Dead Funny; Eva Peron (Richmond Orange Tree Theatre); The Provok'd Wife (PW Producution).

Television credits include: The Bill, Hustle, Heartbeat, MIT, Murder In Suburbia, Monarch of the Glen, Murder in Mind, Badger, Casualty, A Touch Of Frost, Heavy Weather, The Smiths, Crown Prosecutor, Ruth Rendell Mysteries - Vanity Dies Hard, Game On, The Darling Buds of May, May To December, Perfect Scoundrels, Home To Roost, Hannay, Rockliffe's Babies, The Bretts - 2 Series, Lovejoy, Chance in a Million, Fresh Fields, Shine On Harvey Moon, Dramarama, Vice Versa.

Films include: Arthur's Dyke, The Romanovs, Carry On Columbus.

Emily Pithon - Mariane

Theatre credits include: My Family And Other Animals and Two Planks And A Passion (York Theatre Royal); Tis Pity She's a Whore and Unquiet (Liverpool Everyman); Taking Steps (Orange Tree Theatre); Blithe Spirit (Oldham Coliseum); Noises Off, Suddenly Last  Summer, The Birthday Party, A Chorus of Disapproval, the Crucible and Blithe Spirit (Theatr Clwyd Cymru); Tartuffe and All My Sons (Liverpool Playhouse); The Merchant of Venice (Bolton Octagon); People At Sea and Lady Windermere's Fan (Salisbury Playhouse); The Beggar's Opera, A Chorus of Disapproval and The Wizard of Oz (Bristol Old Vic); Blood Red Saffron Yellow  (Drum Theatre Plymouth); Pericles (Ludlow Festival); The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe, The Winter's Tale and A Midsummer Night's Dream (RSC) and Herakles (The Gate).

Television credits include: Doctors, Holby City, Love Soup and Casualty. (BBC)

Alan Stocks - Loyal/Officer

Theatre credits include: Twelfth Night (Lyric)

Television credits include: Robin Hood, Ghostboat, Doctors, Holby City, Rome, Blue Blood, Wire In The Blood, The Plan Man, Casualty, Entering the Blue Zone, Auf Wiedersehen Pet, Merseybeat, Murder In Mind, Eastenders, North Square, City Central, Dockers, Jason and The Argonauts, This Life, Grushko.

Hiran Abeysekera - Valere

Training: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

Theatre whilst training includes: All About My Mother, Pornography, The Young Idea, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A School For Scandal.

Theatre in Sri Lanka includes: Romeo and Juliet (British Council), Equus (British Council), Blood Wedding (The Playhouse Kotte)

Colin Tierney - Tartuffe

Theatre credits include: Hamlet (Sheffield Crucible); Hedda Gabler (Theatre Royal, Bath & Tour); One Minute (Courtyard Theatre, Hoxton); The Hour We Know Nothing of Each Other (National Studio); Our Country's Good (Liverpool Playhouse); Ladies of Leisure (Liverpool Playhouse); Paul (National Theatre); How Love is Spelt (Bush Theatre); Cold Meat Party (Royal National Exchange); The Seagull (Royal Exchange Theatre); Exiles (Young Vic Theatre); Duchess of Malfi (Royal Shakespeare Company); Death of Cool (Hampstead Theatre); Guilding Star (Liverpool Everyman & Royal National Theatre); Hamlet (Bristol Old Vic Theatre); Othello (National Theatre & World Tour); Ivanov (Almeida Theatre); The Machine Wreckers (National Theatre); Henry VI (RSC Tour); The Life Of Galileo (Almeida Theatre); Look Back In Anger (Plymouth); No Remission (Tour); Sienna Red (Peter Hall Company).

Television credits include: D.C.I. Banks, Garrow's Law, New Tricks, Casualty, Waterloo Road, The Bill, Inspector Lynley, Silent Witness, The Walk, Island at War, Serious & Organised, Foyle's War, Mersey Beat, The Vice, Tough Love, Midsomer Murders, Soldier Soldier, Between the Lines, Mad and Sandy, Cracker, An Unsuitable Job For A Woman, Mccallum.

Films include: Nowhere Boy, The Ombudsman, For Zeta, Splintered, Bye Bye Baby.