James Marsters was born on 20 August 1962 in Greenville, California, and trained at Juilliard, the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts, and the American Conservatory Theatre. He spent ten years working in regional theatre across Chicago and Seattle before moving to Los Angeles to pursue screen acting. He is best known as Spike, the…
Emily Deschanel was born on 11 October 1976 in Los Angeles, California, into a deeply creative family — her father is the Oscar-nominated cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, her mother is actress Mary Jo Deschanel, and her younger sister is actress and singer Zooey Deschanel. She graduated from Boston University’s Professional Actors Training Program in 1998, having…
David Boreanaz was born on 16 May 1969 in Buffalo, New York, and grew up in Philadelphia, the son of a local television weatherman. He studied cinema and photography at Ithaca College before moving to Los Angeles, where he worked as a parking attendant and house painter while pursuing small acting roles. He was discovered,…
Caroline “Carrie” Henn was born on 7 May 1976, the daughter of a US Air Force Master Sergeant whose postings took the family to England in the mid-1980s. At nine years old, with absolutely no prior acting experience, she was spotted by casting agents while in her school cafeteria near the family’s base at RAF…
Kerry Shale was born on 4 June 1952 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and is a North American actor long based in London. He has worked at many of Britain’s most prestigious theatre venues including the National Theatre, the Donmar Warehouse, the Almeida and the Royal Court, and his West End credits include Frost/Nixon alongside Michael…
Danny John-Jules was born on 16 September 1960 in Paddington, London, to parents from Dominica who arrived in Britain aboard HMT Empire Windrush. Before his television career he was a professional dancer, performing in West End productions and as part of the dance group Second Generation. He was a member of the original cast of…
Craig Charles was born on 11 July 1964 in Liverpool, to a Guyanese father and an Irish mother. He began his career as a performance poet on the British cabaret circuit before landing the role that would define his career: Dave Lister, the last human alive aboard a mining spacecraft, in the science fiction sitcom…
Pierro Niel-Mee is a British actor whose television credits include the ITV drama Bouquet of Barbed Wire (2010), the acclaimed spy thriller Slow Horses (2022), and the BBC’s Harlots. In 2025 he appeared as Schikaneder in the BBC’s Amadeus. Most recently, Pierro joined the Star Wars universe in the second and final season of the…
