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Michelle Keegan was born on 3 June 1987 in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Coronation Street (1960), Our Girl (2013) and Brassic (2019). She has been married to Mark Wright since 24 May 2015.

Andrew Buchan was born on 19 February 1979 in Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for All the Money in the World (2017), Broadchurch (2013) and Garrow's Law (2009). He has been married to Amy Nuttall since 8 September 2012. They have one child.

Claire Elizabeth Foy (born 16 April 1984) is an English actress. She studied acting at the Liverpool John Moores University and the Oxford School of Drama and made her screen debut in the pilot of the supernatural comedy series Being Human, in 2008. Following her professional stage debut at the Royal National Theatre, she played the title role in the BBC One miniseries Little Dorrit (2008), and made her film debut in the American historical fantasy drama Season of the Witch (2011). Following leading roles in the television series The Promise (2011) and Crossbones (2014), Foy received praise for portraying the ill-fated queen Anne Boleyn in the miniseries Wolf Hall (2015).

Foy gained international recognition for portraying the young Queen Elizabeth II in the first two seasons of the Netflix series The Crown (2016-2017), for which she won a Golden Globe and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, among other awards. In 2018, she starred in Steven Soderbergh's psychological thriller Unsane and portrayed Janet Shearon, wife of astronaut Neil Armstrong, in Damien Chazelle's biopic First Man. For the latter, she was nominated for the BAFTA and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress.

Foy was born in Stockport. She has said that her mother, Caroline, comes from "a massive Irish family". Her maternal grandparents were from Dublin and Kildare, respectively. She grew up in Manchester and Leeds, the youngest of three children. Her family later moved to Longwick, Buckinghamshire, for her father's job as a salesman for Rank Xerox. Her parents divorced when she was eight.

Foy attended Aylesbury High School, a girls' grammar school, from the age of twelve; she then attended Liverpool John Moores University, studying drama and screen studies. She also trained in a one-year course at the Oxford School of Drama. She graduated in 2007 and moved to Peckham to share a house "with five friends from drama school".

Aimee Lou Wood is an English actress who starred as Aimee Gibbs, a central character in the Netflix comedy series Sex Education, in 2019 alongside co-stars Asa Butterfield and Gillian Anderson.

Aimee Lou Wood came from Manchester, England and studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where she successfully graduated in 2017, obtaining BA Degree in Acting (H Level). During her time at RADA, Wood was involved in many productions, such as Scuttlers directed by Hannah Eidinow playing "Margaret", also as "Goody" in Vinegar Tom directed by Cressida Brown. Wood was " , "Jess" in Hen, a short film directed by James Larkin, "Yulia" in Summerfolk directed by Deborah Paige and many more. Her special skills include stand-up comedy, stage combat, singing soprano, flamenco dancing and writing.

In 2019, Wood made her screen debut as Aimee Gibbs, a main character in the Netflix comedy-drama series Sex Education, alongside co-stars Emma Mackey, Asa Butterfield, Ncuti Gatwa and Gillian Anderson. Woods had originally auditioned for the part of 'Lily' (played by Tanya Reynolds), but was more than happy to land the role of Aimee Gibbs. Wood's Agent is Lizzie Newell, Independent Talent Group.

Robert James-Collier was born on September 23, 1976 in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. He is an actor, known for his role as Thomas Barrow in Downton Abbey (for which he won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series), The Ritual (2017) and Coronation Street.

Gerard Horan was born in Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Beauty and the Beast (2017), Frankenstein (1994) and Much Ado About Nothing (1993).

Anthony Flanagan was born in 1972 in Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Life on Mars (2006), Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 (2009) and Doctor Who (2005). He has been married to Rebekah Staton since 4 June 2011. They have one child.

Eliot Salt was born in Stockport, England, UK. Eliot is an actor and writer, known for We Live in Time (2024), Amicable and Slow Horses (2022).

Ben Crompton was born in 1974 in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, UK. He is an actor and director, known for Kill List (2011), Game of Thrones (2011) and 102 Dalmatians (2000). He has been married to Liv Lorent since 2008. They have two children.

Will Mellor was born on 3 April 1976 in Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (2001), Miss Conception (2008) and Unforgiven (2009). He has been married to Michelle McSween since August 2007. They have two children.

Jennifer Hennessy was born in 1970 in Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Dickensian (2015), Paradox (2009) and South Riding (2011).

Maura McGiveney was born Mary Alish McGiveney on February 28, 1939 in Stockport, England, the daughter of "quick change" actor Owen McGiveney and Elizabeth Hughes. She studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and first came to Hollywood to work in film, appearing in an uncredited role as an attendant in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959). Primarily working in television, she was in several episodes of Perry Mason and Hawaii 5-0, and also appeared in Dr. Kildare, McHale's Navy, The Virginian, Laredo and My Three Sons.

McGiveney earned a Golden Globe nomination from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as Most Promising Newcomer of 1966 for her role as Claire Hackett in the farcical comedy Do Not Disturb, with Doris Day and Rod Taylor. On stage, she appeared in Harvey, The Second City, and The Fantasticks, among other productions.

Maura was a comedian and singer as well as an actress. In what she hoped to be her ticket to fame, she appeared in Turn-On, a projected series similar to the successful TV show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. Turn-On's sole episode aired February 5, 1969, with the curvaceous McGiveney as "The Body Politic," a member of the repertory company. The rather sexually explicit themes, jokes and remarks led to ABC affiliates refusing to broadcast the second episode, and the sponsor Bristol-Myers immediately cancelled it, even though five shows were filmed and twenty-one more were planned. Maura said, "I still can't understand it. We were all so sure it was going to be a big hit."

On January 10, 1972, she married longtime on-and-off boyfriend William Szathmary, also known on television as Bill Dana, in Las Vegas, NV. The couple were divorced four months later in Los Angeles.

Maura McGiveney died of cirrhosis of the liver on November 10, 1990 in Sherman Oaks, CA. at the age of 51.

Kaye Wragg was born on 15 December 1972 in Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for The Bill (1984), Wire in the Blood (2002) and No Angels (2004). She has been married to Jamie Darling since 17 November 2007. They have two children.

Darren Shahlavi was seven years old when he started training in martial arts in an old drama theatre in Manchester, England. Inspired by Bruce Lees films and other action movies such as Star Wars, he dreamed of being a movie actor and would show up to his Judo class at the drama hall early to watch the actors rehearsing and performing plays.

When Darren was seventeen years old he attended a seminar for "Hong Kong style fight choreography", by Kung Fu star Donnie Yen, which gave him the confidence to pursue his dream of working in Hong Kong movies as a stepping stone to Hollywood. Then, in the early nineties, a young Shahlavi moved to Hong Kong where he began his career as a stuntman until Director Yuen Woo-Ping hired him as the lead villain in the Kung Fu classic Tai Chi Chuan. As a string of martial arts films followed, Darren also used his fighting skills as a stunt performer in studio blockbusters such as "Riddick", "Blade 3", "300", "Watchmen" and the "Night at the Museum" films, as well as supporting roles in Hollywood movies such as "I Spy" playing a boxer fighting Eddie Murphy, "The Final Cut" with Robin Williams, and guest star roles in TV shows such as "Sanctuary", "Human Target" and "Reaper."

In 2010, Darren made a triumphant return to Hong Kong action films, co-starring opposite his childhood heroes Donnie Yen and Sammo Kam-Bo Hung in the Wilson Yip directed Ip Man 2 (2010). Shahlavi plays the evil British boxing champion "The Twister" in the semi-biographical story of Bruce Lee's real life kung fu master, Ip Man. The film opened to huge critical and commercial acclaim, becoming the most successful Asian film at the box office in 2010 and widely recognized as the biggest and best martial arts film of the past decade. Following Ip Man 2's successful theatrical run in the United States, Darren has a renewed following amongst action film fans with new films set for release in 2011 including "Born to Raise Hell" opposite Steven Seagal, "Hangar 14" with Steve Austin as well as starring roles in "Aladdin and the Curse of the Djinn" and Mortal Kombat for Warner Brothers.

Roger Hammond (21 March 1936 - 8 November 2012) was an English character actor who appeared in many films and television series.

Hammond's father was a chartered accountant and managing director of a cotton mill. He attended Stockport Grammar School for two years followed by Bryanston School in Dorset. He then went up to Emmanuel College, Cambridge where he initially read English, then switched to archaeology and anthropology and he appeared extensively in their drama programme, alongside actors such as Ian McKellen, Derek Jacobi, and John Wood. Following that, he attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. In 1963, he joined the Arts Theatre Company, and appeared in a number of productions there.

In 1964, Hammond made his first television appearance, as Tidiman in an episode of The Villains, and his first film appearance the next year. Although he worked primarily as a television actor in his early years, from the 1990s his career was more focused on film, and his credits boast an impressive 125 credits in a variety of roles, ranging from all sorts of genres, although mostly in costume dramas and period pieces. Hammond's credits include the Prince of Wales in The Duchess of Duke Street, Valence in A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia, and Cecil in A Good Woman. Hammond was also cast as a clergyman several times, including as the Archbishop in Ian McKellen's Richard III, the Bishop de Cambrai in The Princes in the Tower, and as the Chief Augur in the HBO television drama Rome.

In the early 1990s, Hammond appeared in one episode of One Foot in the Grave (1990) and two episodes of 'Allo 'Allo! (1982).

Hammond additionally contributed to some audio books on tape, appearing in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, and The Tempest.

Gillian Bevan was born on 13 February 1956 in Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Teachers (2001), Loved by You (1997) and Hamlet (2015).

Tess Daly was born on 29 March 1969 in Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for My Team: The Cheerleaders (2014), Duran Duran: Serious (1990) and Duran Duran: Violence of Summer (Love's Taking Over) (1990). She has been married to Vernon Kay since 12 September 2003. They have two children.

Danny Miller was born on 2 January 1991 in Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK. He is an actor and director, known for Emmerdale Farm (1972), Pace (2020) and Pace. He has been married to Steph Jones since 22 July 2022. They have two children.

Kerry Bennett is a British actress of Seychelles heritage, who grew up near Stockport in the UK. She moved to London at eighteen, when she was awarded a place on the BA Acting at East 15 Acting School.

She is known for roles in Threesome (2022), We Die Young (2019) and Bulletproof (2018), as well as UK TV favourites Coronation Street (2017) and Casualty (2016).

She is an ambassador for NK Theatre Arts.

Yvette Fielding was born on 23 September 1968 in Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK. She is a producer and actress, known for EastEnders (1985), Juliet Bravo (1980) and Let's Parlez Franglais (1984). She has been married to Karl Beattie since 1999. They have one child. She was previously married to Barry Sweeney.

Melissa Drabble was born on 30 January 1982 in Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK. She has been married to Mark Drabble since 14 January 1999. They have two children.

Nicholas Frankau was born on 16 July 1954 in Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for 'Allo 'Allo! (1982), The Mixer (1992) and Sky Bandits (1986).

Kelly Wenham was born on 28 November 1983 in Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK. Kelly is an actor and director, known for A Kind of Kidnapping (2023), Life on Mars (2006) and Payback Season (2012).

Carol Morley was born in Manchester, England. She attended Central St Martins College of Art, where she graduated with a first class degree in fine art film and video. Her films include The Alcohol Years, a BAFTA nominated film about her scurrilous teenage past, Dreams of a Life, which went behind the anonymous newspaper headline about Joyce Vincent who lay dead in her flat for three years, and The Falling, a BBC Films/BFI backed film, set in a girls' school in England in 1969, which revolved around an outbreak of mass psychogenic illness, featuring Maisie Williams, Florence Pugh and Maxine Peake.

Donald Gee was born on 28 September 1937 in Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for 1990 (1977), Born and Bred (2002) and Doctor Who (1963). He was married to Shirley Thieman. He died on 14 January 2022 in the United Kingdom.