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Lorn Macdonald is a Scottish actor. He was born in Kirkcaldy and brought up in Edinburgh. In 2015 he graduated from the prestigious Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He made his feature film debut in 'Beats' in which he won a Scottish Bafta for Best Actor in film. Other work includes 'Bridgerton', 'Outlander' and 'Shetland'.- Jack Greenlees is a Scottish stage and screen actor, known for Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017), Outlaw King (2018), C.B. Strike (2017), and The Swarm (2023).
Jack Greenlees studied English Literature & History of Art at the University of St Andrews prior to moving to London to train as an actor. He trained at Drama Studio London, graduating in 2012. - Actor
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Ncuti Gatwa was born on 15 October 1992 in Nyarugenge, Kigali, Rwanda. He is an actor, known for Barbie (2023), Sex Education (2019) and Doctor Who (2023).- Actress
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Freya Mavor was born in Glasgow but grew up in Canonmills, Edinburgh, after moving there with her family. She also spent four years of her early adolescence in La Rochelle, France, before moving back to Scotland.
Mavor declared she first became interested in acting after watching The Shining (1980) when she was 10 years old.
She studied in Edinburgh, La Rochelle, is a member of the National Youth Theatre and has studied physical theatre at l'Ecole du Jeu in Paris.
Mavor made her professional debut in 2011, when she gained a lead role as Mini McGuinness in the seventh Alo (2012), eighth Liv (2012), ninth Mini and Franky (2012) and tenth Finale (2012) episodes of sixth season of BAFTA-winning drama Skins (2011). She gained this role after going through an open audition process, with more than 8,000 other teenagers auditioning for the show.
Since starting out Freya has gone on to a build a career between France and the UK. She has worked on features such as The Emperor of Paris (2018) alongside Vincent Cassel, and indie films such as The Sense of an Ending (2017) by Ritesh Batra or The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (2015) by Joann Sfar. Her TV credits include The ABC Murders (2018) (BBC), Twice Upon a Time (2019) (Arte/Netflix)
Mavor has always expressed a love of the theatre an made her own stage debut in London for the play Good Canary, directed by John Malkovich, where she played a drug addict battling with mental illness.
Freya was Screen International Star of Tomorrow 2013 and also won the Fashion Icon of the Year Award at the 2011 Scottish Fashion Awards.- Actor
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Rising star Jack Lowden grew up in the Scottish Borders. He graduated from the prestigious Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 2011. He has had enormous success on stage in leading roles, including his performance as Oswald in Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts", for which he won both the Ian Charleson Award and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2014; the play was filmed and is available to view online. After an assortment of television and film appearances, his breakout international screen role has been as Nikolai Rostov (Natasha's brother) in the six-hour BBC miniseries War & Peace (2016), leading to an array of leading roles in films.- Actor
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Chris Jenks was born on 14 August 1988. He is an actor and producer, known for Sex Education (2019), Karen Pirie (2022) and Miracle Workers (2019).- Erin Armstrong was born on 18 September 1995 in Scotland. She is an actress, known for Shetland (2013), World's End (2015) and Rillington Place (2016).
- Julia Brown is a Scottish / Irish actor. She grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland and moved to London at the age of 18. She started her career at 16 in BBC's "MI High". After a short stint at drama school, Julia worked again with the BBC on crime-drama series "Shetland".
In 2019, Julia landed the lead role of Lois Bennett in BBC/PBS' "World On Fire". Her character finds a wartime role that exploits her remarkable singing talent. Brown herself is a gifted vocalist and sang much of the soundtrack that accompanies the episodes. In 2022, she reprised her role after a long gap in filming due to the pandemic. The show was released globally in 2023.
In other work, she has performed a host of roles on prominent TV series. This year, she can also be seen in ITV's crime-drama "Payback". Julia made a return as a recurring character in the sixth season of the critically acclaimed mystery crime drama "Shetland", rejoining the team after a series break. In "Anthony", we see her lead alongside Toheeb Jimoh as Jimmy McGovern pens the life that Anthony Walker could have lived. In the same year, she was seen as Ecgywn, future Queen consort of Wessex, in Netflix's popular "The Last Kingdom", based on Bernard Cornwell's stirring Saxon Stories, reprising her role from series 3. She was also seen in Netflix's The Alienist sequel: "The Angel Of Darkness".
In 2024, Julia will lead psychological thriller horror, "Daddy's Head". Mathew James Wilkinson (Yesterday) produces alongside Patrick Tolan (T.I.M) for Stigma Films, with finance provided by Quickfire Films, Arthrofilm, Shoutloud Creative, OnSight, and Capture. AMP is distributing. - Sorcha Groundsell was born in 1998 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Far from the Apple Tree (2019), The Innocents (2018) and The Harrowing (2020).
- Abigail Lawrie was born in 1997 in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. She is an actress, known for Tin Star (2017), Our Ladies (2019) and The Man with the Iron Heart (2017).
- Rona Morison was born on 8 September 1990 in the UK. She is an actress, known for Ready Player One (2018), Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) and Our Ladies (2019).
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Richard Madden, born 18 June 1986, is a Scottish stage, film, and television actor best known for portraying Robb Stark in the HBO series "Game of Thrones" and Prince Kit in Disney's "Cinderella." Starring as David Budd in the BBC miniseries "Bodyguard" has also brought him more international acclaim and attention including a Golden Globe and other nominations. Despite his seemingly overnight success, Madden has been acting since he was in his teens, with only a brief break where he focused on school.
Madden was born in Elderslie, Renfrewshire, Scotland, where he was brought up with two sisters. His mother, Pat, is a classroom assistant, and his father, Richard, is in the fire brigade.- Actress
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Kerry Browne is an actor born and raised in Paisley (Pàislig), Scotland. She is of Irish and Scottish ancestry and is the only one in her family to pursue a career in acting, developing a love for the arts from a young age. She began her career in theatre; performing at Glasgow's West End Festival, before branching into film.
Kerry currently resides in Scotland, UK and is working on various writing projects; her most recent film is based on her award-winning screenplay Song of the Selkie (2024) which has just entered the festival circuit and where Kerry makes her directorial debut. Her script placed in Raindance, The British Short Film Awards and recently received a Remi-Award at the 57th WorldFest Houston Film Festival (the oldest independent film festival in the world). Currently, the screenplay is listed in the top 1% of all short projects on Coverfly and is ranked No. 5 in their "Top Rated Fantasy Short Screenplays of All Time".
She founded her own production company, Seal Woman Productions in 2023.- Conor Berry was born on 18 March 1994 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He is an actor, known for Schemers (2020).
- Rebecca trained as an actress at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama where she graduated from in 2011. She was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. She has worked with The National Theatre of Scotland and is related to the Glaswegian photographer Harry Benson. She now lives and works in London.
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Lorne MacFadyen was born on May 27th 1990. He is a Scottish actor from the Isle of Skye known for Vigil (2021), Starstruck (2023), Malpractice (2023), Outlaw King (2018), Operation Mincemeat (2022),The Little Stranger (2018), Grantchester (2017), Six Four (2023), The Lazarus Project (2023), The Liberator (2020), The Angel's Share (2012), Tina and Bobby (2017), The Level (2016), Shetland (2014) and Pistol (2022).- From bringing characters to life on stage and appearing in hit television series, award-nominated actor Tunji Kasim has quickly made a name for himself in the entertainment industry as "one to watch," and he isn't slowing down anytime soon. This year, Tunji reprises his starring role as Ned 'Nick' Nickerson on The CW's hit supernatural thriller/drama series "Nancy Drew". Based on the iconic books created by publisher Edward L. Stratemeyer and written by a variety of authors under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene, the show follows brilliant teen sleuth Nancy Drew (Kennedy McMann) as she solves mysteries in her hometown of Horseshoe Bay, Maine. Tunji instantly became a fan favorite as Nick, a former teenage convict (also Nancy's ex-boyfriend) who is forced to confront his previous life in Florida, while working to help solve crimes alongside his new friends in Maine. Season three of "Nancy Drew" is slated to premiere on October 8, 2021.
Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and raised in Nigeria until he was 12, Tunji is the youngest of three children. Having a Nigerian father, a Scottish mother and growing up in both countries, Tunji and his sisters were immersed in a rich, diverse, blended cultural experience. Upon moving back to Scotland as a pre-teen, Tunji enrolled in drama classes and began participating in local musicals and theatre. At 17 he was accepted into the prestigious Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow, and before he even graduated was cast in Michael Attenborough's Big White Fog at the Almeida Theatre in London, making his professional onstage debut. Arriving in London as a young man and being exposed to a melting pot of cultures and ethnicities from all walks of life, Tunji felt a surprising sense of relief. Growing up in Nigeria with a predominantly Black community and in contrast, moving to Scotland, which is largely white, arriving in London married multiple worlds together. For the first time, Tunji didn't feel out of place.
On stage, Tunji went on to star in The Brothers Size written by Oscar winner Tarell Alvin McCraney ("Moonlight") and directed by Bijan Sheibani. He was nominated for an Ian Charleston Award for starring in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Julius Caesar and went on to be in a handful of plays with the RSC, which brought him to New York City's Park Avenue Armory, marking his first time working in the United States. Additional theatre credits for Tunji include Network by Lee Hall (adapted from the 1976 film), Simon Godwin's Antony and Cleopatra, and Yael Farber's Les Blancs, all at the National Theatre. As well as David Farr's King Lear and Chris Luscombe's Much Ado about Nothing at the RSC. Film credits for Tunji include Bill Condon's "Good Liar," and Dan Krauss' "The Kill Team."
When he isn't on set, you can find Tunji barefoot-running, always setting a new physical challenge for himself. Last year he ran a sub-20-minute 5km, incorporating fundraising for Covenant House Vancouver, which provides support for at-risk street youth in the Vancouver B.C. area. This year he has challenged himself to run a total of 1000km. Tunji is also vegan and is passionate about living a life that excludes all forms of animal exploitation and cruelty, whether it be from food, clothing, and more. He has a huge place in his heart for giving back and has been active with a handful of organizations over the years. He currently splits his time between London and Vancouver, where he films "Nancy Drew." - Henry Pettigrew is known for The Danish Girl (2015), Line of Duty (2012) and Guilt (2019). He has been married to Ophelia Lovibond since 1 May 2022.
- Ross Anderson was born July 15th 1987 in Paisley, Scotland. He grew up in Bo'ness; a small harbour town in West Lothian, Scotland; the eldest of six brothers.
He studied at Drama Centre London in 2008, leaving a year early in 2010 after being cast in the National Theatre Of Scotland's Olivier Award winning "Black Watch". Ross first appeared on television screens as Lomax in the BBC One series "Privates". He then made his film debut after Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G.Wilson cast him opposite Andrea Riseborough and Damian Lewis in the Eon produced "The Silent Storm" (2014) which premiered at the 2014 BFI London Film Festival. He was then cast in Angelina Jolie's "Unbroken" (2014) opposite Jack O'Connell and Justin Kurzel's "Macbeth" (2015) alongside Michael Fassbender.
He also starred opposite Kaya Scodelario and Barry Pepper in Paramount's hit summer blockbuster "Crawl" (2019) from producer Sam Raimi and acclaimed horror director Alexandre Aja. As well as Netflix series "The Last Kingdom" (2022) and feature "Seven Kings Must Die" (2023).