Bruce Alexander - Gilbert Wedgecroft

Bruce Alexander appeared at the Almeida Theatre in The Tempest in 2000; his other extensive theatre credits include All’s Well That Ends Well, Cymbeline, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It, and The Merry Wives of Windsor for the RSC; The Reporter, The History Boys, The Mandate, and A Fair Quarrel for the National Theatre; Life After Scandal at Hampstead Theatre, Pericles at the Lyric Hammersmith, The Beggar’s Opera for the Orange Tree Theatre,and King Lear at The Globe Theatre. His television work includes Heartbeat, Midsomer Murders, The Brittas Empire, Peak Practice, Poirot, Thatcher: The Last Days, Keeping Up Appearances, and A Touch of Frost. His films include Churchill at War, A Christmas Carol, Ladybird Ladybird, and Nostradamus.

Max Bennett - Walter Kent
 
Max Bennett trained with the National Youth Theatre and L’Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris. He has recently finished filming for the upcoming film The Duchess, and appeared on stage in Cymbeline directed by Trevor Nunn at Cambridge Arts Theatre and a national tour of Under The Blue, Blue Moon with Cambridge Footlights.

Nancy Carroll - Amy O'Connell
 
Nancy last appeared at the Almeida Theatre in Jonathan Kent’s production of King Lear. Her other extensive theatre credits include Coward, Cocktails and Cabaret for Chichester Festival Theatre and The Enchantment, Man of Mode, The Voysey Inheritence, The False Servant and The Talking Cure all for the National Theatre.  For the RSC her credits include Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, As You Like It, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe and The Winter’s Tale. Sam West has previously directed her in The Lady’s Not for Burning for Chichester Festival Theatre.  Her film credits include Iris and An Ideal Husband and on television she has been seen in Cambridge Spies, Doctors and Midsomer Murders.

Richard Cordery - Russell Blackborough

Richard Cordery’s theatre credits include Michael Boyd’s productions of Henry VI Parts 1, 2 and 3, Richard II and Richard III, Nancy Meckler’s production of The Comedy of Errors and Lindsey Posner’s production of Volpone, all for the RSC. His other theatre credits include Othello for Michael Attenborough in Stratford Ontario, The Winter’s Tale for the Young Vic and The Front Page for Chichester Festival Theatre. His film credits include The Loss Adjuster and Lorenzo’s Oil.  On television his work includes Midsomer Murders, Absolute Power, The Falklands Play and Trauma.

Patrick Drury - Justin O'Connell

Patrick Drury’s theatre credits include Fram, Major Barbara, and The Enchantment for the National Theatre, Mother Courage and Her Children, Hamlet, Twelfth Night and King Lear for English Touring Theatre, Someone Else’s Shoes for English Touring Theatre and Soho Theatre, Afore Night Come for the Young Vic and Silas Marner for The Orange Tree Theatre. His film work includes Laughterhouse, The Awakening and The Nightingale Saga, while his television credits include Silent Witness, Judge John Deed, Cold Blood, Father Ted and Midsomer Murders.

Peter Eyre - Lord Charles Cantilupe
 
Peter Eyre’s Almeida Theatre credits include Camera Obscura, Chère Maître in which he played opposite Irene Worth and Hamlet in which he played Polonius.  His other, more recent, theatre credits include Ring Round the Moon at the Playhouse, The Cherry Orchard for Sheffield Crucible,  Terre Haute for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, on tour nationally and in the West End, The Wild Duck for the Old Vic and Don Carlos for Sheffield Theatres and The Gielgud.  His film credits include The Affair of the Necklace, Surviving Picasso, Remains of the Day and Maurice.  His television credits include Question of God, Cambridge Spies, Don Quixote, Bertie and Elizabeth and Friends.

Will Keen - Henry Trebell

Will Keen was last at the Almeida Theatre as T S Eliot in Tom and Viv. His other theatre credits include The Arsonists for the Royal Court, Kiss of the Spider Woman for the Donmar Warehouse, Five Gold Rings - also for the Almeida, Cheek by Jowl’s The Changeling at the Barbican, The Rubenstein Kiss for the Hampstead Theatre, Peter Hall’s productions of Don Juan and Man and Superman for the Theatre Royal Bath, Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia at the National Theatre, and Neil Bartlett's production of Pericles at the Lyric Hammersmith.  His film work includes Love and Other Disasters and The Nine Lives of Thomas Katz.  On television he has been seen as Francis Bacon in C4’s Elizabeth and Cezanne in The Impressionists for the BBC.

Helen Lindsay - Countess Mortimer/Bertha
 
Helen Lindsay has previously appeared at the Almeida Theatre in Chatski directed by Jonathan Kent; her other extensive theatre credits include Granville Barker’s The Voysey Inheritance at the National Theatre, An Ideal Husband at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, An Inspector Calls on the West End, Les Liaisons Dangereuse for the RSC, Thark at the Lyric Hammersmith, Habeus Corpus for Nottingham Playhouse and The Rivals and Charley’s Aunt for Oxford Playhouse Tour. Her film credits include Leningrad, The Wedding Date, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, AKA, Secrets and The Tribe, and her television work includes Poirot, Foyle’s War, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Ella and Her Mothers and Misomer Murders.

Phoebe Nicholls - Frances Trebell

Phoebe Nicholls has recently appeared in The Vortex in the West End and on national tour, Three Women and a Piano Tuner at the Hampstead Theatre, Hysteria at the Royal Court, An Inspector Calls and Pravada at the National Theatre, Three Sisters and The Seagull in the West End, and The Cherry Orchard at Chichester Festival Theatre. Her film credits include Cuckoos, Persuasion, Fairy Tale, Heart of Darkness and The Elephant Man, and her extensive television work includes Clapham Junction, The Trial of Tony Blair, All About Me, Spooks, The Brief, Hawking, Foyle’s War, Prime Suspect VI, Shackleton, and Second Sight.

Hugh Ross - Cyril Horsham

Hugh Ross’ recent theatre credits include Bent at Trafalgar Studios, 5/11 at Chichester Festival Theatre, Pyranees at the Tron Theatre Glasgow, Menier Chocolate Factory and Watford Palace Theatre, Love Me Tonight at Hampstead Theatre, The Woman in Black at the Fortune Theatre, West End, Hare Trilogy at the Birmingham Rep, and A Prayer for Owen Meany and Battle Royal for the National Theatre. His film work includes Young Hannibal, Charlotte Grey, The Four Feathers, Gooseberries Don’t Dance and Trainspotting. His television credits include The Palace, Mine All Mine, Sea of Souls and The Cazalet Chronicles.

Jeany Spark - Lucy Davenport 
 
Jeany Spark trained at RADA where she appeared in productions including A Mouthful of Birds, Scenes From the Big Picture, and Rabbit. She has also appeared in Twelfth Night at Houghton Hall (Theatre Royal Norwich Fundraiser). Her television credits include Wallander, Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Lewis.

Giles Taylor - Butler/Vivian Saumarez 

Giles Taylor’s theatre credits include The Music Man at Chichester Festival Theatre, Othello and Relative Values at Salisbury Playhouse, The Wizard of Oz at Birmingham Rep/West Yorkshire Playhouse, numerous productions at the Open Air Theatre Regent’s Park including Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Longitude at Greenwich Theatre, and The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merchant of Venice and Talk of the City for the RSC.  His film credits include Tom and Viv and Orlando, whilst on television he has appeared in Stuart: A Life Backwards, Friends and Crocodiles, Secrets of the Psychics and Karaoke. He has also performed several radio plays.

Michael Thomas - George Farrant
 
Michael Thomas previously appeared in Festen at the Almeida Theatre and its West End transfer; his other extensive theatre credits include St Joan, Pillars of the Community, A Winter’s Tale, The Rivals and Oresteia for the National Theatre, Women Beware Women, Edward III, The Roman Actor, The Comedy of Errors, Henry V and Henry IV Part 2 for the RSC, Our Country’s Good at the Liverpool Everyman Playhouse,  In Praise of Love and King Lear at Chichester Festival Theatre, Under The Curse for the Gate Theatre, and Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Hamlet for the Actors’ Shakespeare Company. His television credits include Holby Blue, Trial and Retribution, Ultimate Force III and EastEnders, while his film credits include Paper Mask.

Jessica Turner - Lady Julia Farrant

Jessica Turner recently appeared in the national tour of Present Laughter, as well as Girl in the Goldfish Bowl at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, and King Lear for English Touring Co/Young Vic. She has appeared in numerous productions at the National Theatre including Speer, Equus, and Animal Farm, whilst her other theatre credits include Good at the Donmar Warehouse, Haiti/Rwanda at the Tricycle Theatre, That Summer at the Hampstead Theatre, and In Order of Appearance, Much Ado About Nothing and The Last Mrs Cheney at Chichester Festival Theatre. Her television credits include Countdown to War: Iraq, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Waking The Dead, Spooks, The Cazalet Chronicles and Polterguests. Her film work includes Deeply and The Mill on the Floss.