Hugh Bonneville’s film credits include Notting Hill, Iris, The Monuments Men, I Came By, as well as the three Downton Abbey and Paddington movies.

His television work includes the BAFTA-winning Twenty Twelve, W1A, (BBC) and Robert Crawley in ITV’s global hit, Downton Abbey, for which he received nominations for a Golden Globe and two Emmys, the cast winning three SAG Awards for Outstanding Ensemble. Hugh played the title role in the mini-series Douglas Is Cancelled and appears in The Agency on Paramount+. The second season of The Gold, a six-part BBC drama about a famous gold bullion robbery, recently aired on BBC One, is on BBC iPlayer and aired on PBS in October. He recently completed filming on Twenty Twenty Six for the BBC, the second series of The Agency and The Gentlemen for Netflix.

Hugh’s stage career spans more than three decades and includes seasons with the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. His most recent appearances were in Enemy of the People and Shadowlands, at Chichester Festival Theatre, and earlier this year he played the title role in Uncle Vanya for the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Berkeley, California, and in Washington DC.

His memoir, Playing Under the Piano is available in paperback, and his first children’s book, Rory Sparkes and the Elephant in the Room, has just been published by Bloomsbury.

Hugh is a patron of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, The National Youth Arts Trust, Scene & Heard, The Primary Shakespeare Company and the South Downs National Park Trust.

Maggie Siff recently completed a seven season run starring as ‘Wendy’ on Showtime’s Billions, for which she has received three Satellite Award nominations. She is also known for the FX series Sons of Anarchy (two Critics’ Choice Award nominations,) and for playing ‘Rachel Menken’ on the first season of AMC’s Mad Men (Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.)  Recent films include The Short History of the Long Road, A Woman/A Part, The Sweet Life, The Fifth Wave, One Percent More Humid, and Concussion.

Siff is also an established theater actress, starring most recently in Creditors Off-Broadway at the Minetta Lane theatre, opposite Liev Schreiber and directed by Ian Rickson. She also starred in Breaking the Story at Second Stage, TFANA’s production of Orpheus Descending, Curse of the Starving Class at Signature Theatre, A Lie of the Mind at the New Group (directed by Ethan Hawke) and in Much Ado About Nothing and The Taming of the Shrew at TFANA. She lives in New York.

Jeff Rawle’s extensive career spans decades in film, television and theatre. His film work includes collaborations with renowned directors such as Mike Leigh (Peterloo), Ben Wheatley (Rebecca) and Mike Newell (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire). Most recently, Jeff has appeared in the second series of Starz’s drama-thriller, The Couple Next Door.  His stage work includes leading roles at the National Theatre (Noises Off, Fram, Cocktail Sticks, Saint George and the Dragon), the Bridge Theatre (Allelujah, Alys, Always), The Old Vic (High Society), and multiple West End productions including Handbagged for Indhu Rubasingham. In 2024, Jeff reprised his role of George in the national tour of Drop The Dead Donkey: The Reawakening.

Theatre credits include: Bull (Mesh Theatre/UK Tour); Banging Denmark (Finborough Theatre – Best Leading Performer nomination Broadway World Awards); Afraid of the Dark (Charing Cross Theatre); The Sunshine Boys (Savoy Theatre, West End); Cool Hand Luke (Aldwych Theatre, West End); Midlife Crisis (Coalition Theatre/Old Vic New Voices); The Country (Salisbury Playhouse); Henry V, Macbeth (Michigan Shakespeare Festival).

Television Credits include: Professor T; Red Dwarf.

Film Credits include: Masters of the Universe (2026).

Fode is a graduate of Guildhall School of Music & Drama. In 2023, he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Black British Theatre Awards, for his performance in Under the Kunde Tree at The Southwark Playhouse. Last year, he made is National Theatre debut in Daniel Raggett’s The Estate. Previous stage work includes the title role in Samuel Takes a Break at the Yard Theatre, directed by Anthony Simpson-Pike; Dipo Barruwa-Etti’s An Unfinished Man, directed by Taio Lawson; and Banquo in Macbeth at the Globe, directed by Abigail Graham.

Fode plays journalist Simon in new Netflix’s Hostage, opposite Suranne Jones, created by Matt Charman. He starred as one of the leads in Stephen Poliakoff’s Summer of Rockets with Keeley Hawes. Other TV credits include BBC’s Vigil: The Reckoning also for the BBC; and he just filmed a role on the next season of Apple TV’s critically acclaimed Slow Horses.

In film, Fode plays Roy in Fisherman’s Friends 2. He can also be seen in Fuze, with Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Flavia De Luce, from by Bahrat Nalluri.

Tony’s most recent theatre credits are: Dr Strangelove (Noel Coward), Nye (National Theatre), The Father and the Assassin (National Theatre), The Fir Tree (The Globe), Antigone (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) and East is East (Birmingham REP/National Theatre). Some of his TV credits include Avoidance, Ackley Bridge, The Duchess, The Crown, The Tunnel, The Windsors, Strike Back, Cuckoo, Pete Vs Life, Silent Witness and Midsommer Murders.

He can most recently be seen in Acorn Antiques The Musical and next seen in Ludwig

Trained at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Theatre credits include: A Man For All Seasons (National Tour/Harold Pinter Theatre); Murder On The Orient Express (Bath/Chichester); Shadowlands (Chichester); The Winslow Boy (National Tour); The Beaux’ Stratagem (National Theatre); Old Money (Hampstead); An Inspector Calls (Garrick/Novello/Wyndham); Plague Over England (Finborough); Bedroom Farce (National Tour); Whipping It Up (Bush/National Tour); The Madras House (Orange Tree); The Shell Seekers (National Tour); The Madness Of George III (West Yorkshire Playhouse/Birmingham Rep); The Merchant Of Venice (ACTER/US Tour); The Woman In Black (Fortune Theatre/Tour); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park); The Rivals (Derby/Philadelphia); An Old Man’s Love (National Tour); Charley’s Aunt (Southampton); The Life Of Galileo (Almeida); The Return Of The Prodigal (Orange Tree); Saturday, Sunday, Monday (Birmingham Rep); Dearest Ivor (Sonning); Sinners and Saints (Croydon Warehouse); The Soldier’s Tale (National Tour); Clay (Ipswich); Another Country, The Elephant Man (Northampton).

Theatre credits include: Vershinin in Three Sisters (White Bear Theatre); Ferdinand in Loves Labour’s Lost (Rosemary Branch Theatre); Claudius in Hamlet (Rose Playhouse); Duke Senior/Le Beau in As You Like It (Theatre Space North East); Barry in The Uninvited Guest (Theatre Space North East); Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (Electric Press Productions); Dr Bailey in Dinosaur Dreams (Etcetera Theatre); Bernhardi in Professor Bernhardi (Foreign Affairs); Harry in Come Dance with Me (Tour); and Martin in Existential Fish and Dread (Tour). Television includes Eastenders and Casualty.

Theatre credits include: Here and Now (Original Cast- The Alexandra, Birmingham); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Palace Theatre); Good Luck Studio (Original Cast – UK Tour – Mischief Theatre); Gangsta Granny (UK Tour); Taming of the Clueless (The Show Must Go Online); Dick Whittington (Hackney Empire); Peter Pan (Troubadour White City Theatre/National Theatre); Tina, The Tina Turner Musical (Original Cast – Aldwych Theatre); Jack and the Beanstalk (Salisbury Playhouse); Spamalot (English Theatre Frankfurt); American Idiot (Arts Theatre & UK Tour); Dusty (Charing Cross Theatre); Hairspray (York Opera House); The BFG (Birmingham Rep); and Bare (Greenwich Theatre).

Theatre credits include: The Secret Garden (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); More Ghost Stories (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse and Tour); My Beautiful Laundrette (Curve Theatre and UK Tour); Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (UK Tour); The Apology (Arcola Theatre); Bend It Like Beckham: The Musical (Phoenix Theatre); The Show Must Go On! Live (Palace Theatre); 2020: Collection 1 Monologues (Tara Theatre); Halls The Musical (Turbine Theatre); Pink Sari Revolution (Curve Theatre); Scrooge: The Musical (Curve Theatre); Romeo & Juliet/ Macbeth (National Theatre); and The Importance of Being Earnest (Curve Theatre).

Workshops include: Billy Liar (Good Chance Theatre); Who Let the Gods Out (Polka Theatre); Here and Now (ROYO); The Witches (National Theatre); Back in The Daytimer (Kahani Arts); The House of Harbinder Kaur (Kali Theatre/ Tara Theatre); Run, Rebel (Pilot Theatre); Extraordinary Women (Waterloo East Theatre); Great British Bake Off: The Musical; and The Boy In the Dress (Royal Shakespeare Company).

Television and voiceover credits include: Bad Sisters (Merman-Sapphire, Apple) Doctors (BBC); Back (Big Talk Productions/ Channel 4); Final Fantasy XIV (Side/ Square Enix); Slow Air (Naked Productions/ BBC Radio 4) Vergil (Naked Productions/ Amazon Audible); Middlemarch Monologues (Naked Productions/ BBC Radio 3); and Cadbury Secret Santa (VCCP).

Leighton Pugh trained at LAMDA.

Theatre credits include: Operation Epsilon at the Southwark Playhouse Elephant; The Lehman Trilogy The Habit of Art, Rocket to the Moon and A Woman Killed with Kindness at the National Theatre; The Birthday Party at the Harold Pinter; There at the Royal Court; Faustus at the Etcetera; and Macbeth and True West at the English Theatre, Essen.

TV credits include: 50 Ways to Kill Your Lover, Grandpa in my Pocket and Fingersmith.

BBC radio includes: Words and Music: Dante, Scenes from Provincial Life, Murder by the Book, Gawain and the Green Knight and The Tragical Adventures of Heinrich von Kleist. He has recorded audio dramas for Big Finish Productions and narrated more than three hundred audiobooks.

Ernest graduated from the Guildford School Of Acting in 2022 with a First Class Honours Degree.

Theatre credits include: Clueless – The Musical (Trafalgar Theatre); Your Lie In April (Harold Pinter Theatre); Miss Saigon (Sheffield Crucible); Jack and The Beanstalk (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre); Dick Whittington (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre).

Concerts include: Unbound: Alive in Concert (Hoxton Hall); Your Lie In April (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); Children Of Eden (Cadogan Hall); West End Does: Love (Cadogan Hall); and One Young World: Opening Ceremony (Royal Albert Hall).

Theatre credits include: The Shadow in the Mirror (Sonning); A Knight’s Tale (Manchester Opera House); The Mirror and the Light (Gielgud Theatre); Witness For The Prosecution (West End); The Oyster Problem (Jermyn Street Theatre); Wonderland (Nottingham/Northern Stage); Shakespeare in Love (UK tour); King Charles III (UK tour & Sydney); This House (National Theatre/West End/Chichester); Twelfth Night, A Christmas Carol, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merchant of Venice, Talk of the City (RSC); Wolf Hall, Bring Up The Bodies (RSC, West End & Broadway); An Ideal Husband, The Way of the World, The Music Man (Chichester); After The Dance (National Theatre); Travesties, The Importance of Being Earnest, (Birmingham); The Wizard of Oz, The Secret Garden (Leeds/Birmingham); Blithe Spirit (Nottingham); Waste (Almeida); Othello, Relative Values (Salisbury); Longitude (Greenwich); The Duchess of Malfi (Stoke); Macbeth, Lady Be Good, Twelfth Night, Cymbeline, HMS Pinafore, Much Ado About Nothing, The Pirates of Penzance, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Open Air Theatre, London); Neville’s Island, Dreams from a Summer House (Newbury); Whenever (Scarborough); Summer Lightning, Dangerous Corner (Northampton).

Film & Television credits include:  Tom and Viv, Orlando, Victoria, The Musketeers, Mr Selfridge, Foyle’s War, Stuart: A Life Backwards, Stephen Poliakoff’s Friends and Crocodiles, Sentenced, Karaoke, Wycliffe, Lindsay Anderson’s Is That All There Is?, Scarlet and Black, The Princess Switch.

Also a Verse and Rhetoric Consultant, Giles has worked on Dido, Queen of Carthage for the RSC and Antony & Cleopatra for Shakespeare’s Globe. His book – Dramatic Adventures in Rhetoric – co-authored with Philip Wilson, is published by Oberon Books.

Ayrton is thrilled to join the cast of Shadowlands and he would like to thank his family, his teachers  and his agent Laura-Jane for their ongoing support.

Training: Theatre4kids, LJ Wrey Performing Arts and The Actors Umbrella

Theatre Credits:  Tiny Tim in Antic Disposition’s A Christmas Carol (Middle Temple Hall, London); Robert in a workshop and rehearsed reading of Feather Boy (Dominion Theatre, London); Gustave in Love  Never Dies (Tour of China); Jeremy Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (UK tour); Young Harry in Inter Alia (The National Theatre); Michael Hobbs in Elf, The musical (The Aldwych).

Other credits: Young Otis, Sex Education (Netflix); Fin in Starchild (a short film by Positive Story Productions).  Ayrton has a number of appearances in Netflix, Apple TV and Studio 100 productions due for  release early 2026.

Nathan’s debut West End role was in Manhunt (Royal Court Theatre) playing ‘Young Raoul Moat’. His screen roles include ‘Alfie’ in Babies (BBC), ‘Sam’ in Time To Fly, and ‘Michael’ in a Waitrose commercial!

Nathan is a competitive BMX rider; he enjoys Gymnastics, Motorcross and Kayaking and lives on an Alpaca Farm!

Nathan is thrilled to be cast as Douglas in Shadowlands, and is a keen reader of CS Lewis books especially the Narnia series!

Training: The Theatre Workshop, Royal Academy of Music

Louis began his professional career as Jeremy in the UK Tour of ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’. He then originated the lead role of Barry in David Baddiel’s new musical ‘The Parent Agency’ at Chester Storyhouse. Louis is so excited to be making his West End debut as Douglas in ‘Shadowlands’.

Theatre credits include: Gavroche in the 40th Anniversary of Les Miserables (Theatre Royal, Brighton); Little Guido in Nine (Susie Sainsbury Theatre); Christopher Robin in Winnie the Pooh (Brighton Open Air Theatre); Barry in The Parent Agency (Storyhouse, Chester); and Jeremy in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (UK Tour). Louis would like to thank his family, teachers and his agents at Daisy and Dukes for their continued support.