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British actor Rory Alexander can currently be seen starring as a young Murtagh Fitzgibbons Fraser in the highly-anticipated Outlander prequel Blood of My Blood for Starz, alongside Harriet Slater, Jamie Roy and Tony Curran and is now in production on S2. His character is a key figure in the Outlander universe, originally portrayed by Duncan LaCroix. In this prequel, the story explores the lives and relationships of the parents of both Jamie and Claire, set in two distinct time periods.  

Further cementing his growing presence in the industry, Rory was longlisted for a BIFA for Best Breakthrough Performance for his leading role as Man in feature film Inland opposite Mark Rylance and Kathryn Hunter. The film explores the fractured identity of a young man after the mysterious disappearance of his mother and premiered to rave reviews at the 2023 BFI London Film Festival with the Guardian praising the film as an “enigmatic, genre-defying picture”. He has recently completed filming on Justin Chadwick’s latest feature Untamed with Emily Barber and Matthew Steer. Rory can also be seen playing the role of Boogie in Danny Boyle’s Pistol alongside Louis Partridge, Thomas Brodie-Sangster and Maisie Williams for FX/Hulu (US) and Disney+(UK). The series follows the Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones and the band’s rise to prominence and notoriety.  

Other notable film and television credits include Element Film’s Dark Windows, DarkGame with Ed Westwick, Kenny Swinney in Sky’s Then You Run with Leah McNamara, Eric in Amazon’s Alex Rider S2 with Vicky McClure, and Netflix’s Anxious People. 

Stage credits include: Passion Fruit (Barbican), Slave Play (West End), Midsummer Night’s Dream (York Theatre Royal), Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (West End), The Visit (National Theatre) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (English Theatre Frankfurt).

Television credits include: Down Cemetery Road (Apple TV), Extraordinary S1 (Disney+), Feel Good S2 (Netflix) and Not Going Out (BBC). 

Film credits include: The Lair (dir. Neil Marshall). 

Theatre includes: Cymbeline, Taming of the Shrew, Princess Essex (Shakespeare’s Globe), Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Complicite), Julius Caesar (RSC), Britannicus (Lyric Hammersmith), Living Newspaper (Royal Court), The Mysteries (Royal Exchange Manchester), Party Skills for the End of the World (Manchester International Festival), Kingdom Come, Richard III – An Arab Tragedy (RSC), Margate/Dreamland, Get Stuff Break Free, The Eye Test (National Theatre), Attack of the Wolfdogs, The Show In Which Hopefully Nothing Happens, Baddies the Musical (Unicorn), The Body, A Mirror for Princes (The Barbican), Cyrano de Bergerac (Northern Stage), Kidstown, The Passion, Praxis Makes Perfect, Shelflife (National Theatre Wales/Berlin Festspiele), There Has Possibly Been An Incident (Soho Theatre), A Speakers Progress (Peter Brook’s Bouffes du Nord Paris/Brooklyn Academy of Music), Pericles (Regent’s Park), SHUNT. 

Film and TV includes: One Hundred & Eighty (Dark Avenue Film Ltd), Doctors, Casualty, The Mysteries, Coast, The Lens  (BBC), Dream Agency (Forest Fringe/Arthaus), Cycles (Toynbee Films), The Gospel of Us ( Welsh Film Council), Hairy Eyeball (Channel 4), England My England (Film 4), Robin Hood (Squint Opera), Better Than Life (Telecaster).

Awards: Stage Award, Best Actor (Pops); Samuel Beckett Theatre Award (The Body). 

Training: Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. 

Recent credits include: Warhorse (UK Tour), Hamnet (RSC & West End) and The Gunpowder Plot (immersive) directed by Hannah Price. 

RSC: Hamnet (RSC/West End). 

Training: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Theatre whilst training: Absolute Scenes, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Romeo and Juliet, Loam, Jumpers for Goalposts, A View from the Bridge, Live Like Pigs (BOVTS). 

Screen credits include: The Gathering (World/ITV), Alex Rider 3 (Amazon), The Fence, Pickney (Blak Wave Productions), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (BOVTS). 

Saffron Dey (Judith) 

Theatre: Inertia (Kings Playground), Blacklist – R&D (Mercury Theatre), Ain’t i a woman? (Tower Theatre), Top Girls (Liverpool Everyman). 

Theatre whilst at ALRA: Consensual, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Laramie Project, Antigone, Boy Gets Girl. 

Television: Call The Midwife. 

Short film: The Angry Man and The Washing Machine, Flying Monkey, Lungs, Estate. 

Commercial: Un-Safe Spaces Now (Missing Link Films), Bloom & Wild (Academy Films), Aldi – Teatime Takedown (McCann London), EE – Best Seats In The House (Saatchi & Saatchi), Bose: Live Loud, Love Quiet (Pretty Bird), BT Infinity and Beyond (AMVBBDO). 

Theatre includes: This Is My Family (Southwark Playhouse), Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Lost Disc (Soho Theatre), Hedda Gabler, Get Carter, Season Ticket, Oh What A Lovely War, Pub Quiz, Wind In The Willows (Northern Stage), Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Two (Manchester Theatre Awards Best Actress Nomination), As You Like It (Manchester Royal Exchange), I Can’t Sing! (Palladium), Cooking With Elvis (Hull Truck), Tyne, 13.1, Jump, Me And Cilla, A Nightingale Sang, Rhino And The Drum (Live Theatre Newcastle). 

Television includes: Vera, Ted Lasso, Rain Dogs, The Bay, Vic And Bob’s Big Night Out, Boy Meets Girl, The Kennedys, Hebburn, Truckers, The Ministry Of Curious Stuff, Holby City And Steel River Blues. 

Film Includes: Ammonite. 

Heather trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She made her professional stage debut in The Book Of Dust: La Belle Sauvage at the Bridge Theatre directed by Nicholas Hytner. Other stage performances include: We Could All Be Perfect at the Sheffield Crucible, Run, Rebel for Pilot Theatre.  

Her TV credits include: DI RAY (Series reg, S2, ITV), Call The Midwife (BBC), Grace (ITV), Casualty, Doctors (BBC), Isle Of Sh*te (upcoming, Channel 4).  

Film includes: The Colour Room, starring Phoebe Dynevor and Matthew Goode. 

Thalia Gambe is an Actor graduating from Rose Bruford College Acting Course in 2024.  

Credits include: Punk Rock (Stratford East Theatre) and Blue Corridor 15 (BBC Creating a Scene). 

Theatre includes: War Horse (National Theatre Productions), Hamnet (RSC & West End), Enemy of the People, Wonderland, Shebeen, Of Mice and Men, The Ashes (Nottingham Playhouse), Passion, (Theatre du Chatelet, Paris), Warhorse (National Theatre UK, Ireland, South Africa/ Tenth Anniversary/ International Tours), Much Ado About Nothing, (Colchester Mercury), Seeing The Lights (New Vic), Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Macbeth and 1984, (Hull Truck), Crying in the Chapel, (Fink On/Contact Theatre), Wasteland and Sir Gawain and The Green Knight (New Perspectives), Look Back in Anger (Harrogate/Oldham), Bloodtide, Road, Lord of the Flies (Pilot Theatre/ Theatre Royal York/ Lyric Hammersmith), Macbeth, (Theatre Royal York), Aeroplane Bones, (Bristol Old Vic),  Waking and Sleeping Dogs (Red Ladder), We’re Going On A Bear Hunt (Polka/ Lakeside Arts), Glory, (Theatre Clwyd). 

Television credits include: The long shadow, Sherwood, World on Fire, Gunpowder, Happy Valley, Doctors, The Chase, Holby City, Most Mysterious Murders, Grange Hill, North and South, Eastenders, Casualty (BBC), Downton Abbey, Emmerdale, Coronation Street, Boy Meets Girl, Blue Murder, The Royal, Heartbeat, Cold Feet (ITV), Ghost Squad, North Square (ch4) Urban Gothic (ch5). 

Feature Films: When The Lights Went Out, The Devil Outside, The Colour Room, Apartment 7a. Radio: Out of the Blue BBC Radio 4. 

Ava trained at LAMDA. She starred in Ben Wheatley’s TV series, Generation Z (Channel 4), Silent Witness (BBC) and the upcoming series, Believe Me (ITV).   

Forced Entertainment shows: Out of Order (International tour), 12am: Awake and Looking Down (Festival d’Automne, Paris), Under Bright Light (PACT, Essen), And on the Thousandth Night (international tour), Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare (international tour), Speak Bitterness (MCA Chicago) and The Last Adventures (Asia Culture Centre, South Korea).  

Other theatre work includes: Heartbreaking Final (Wiener Festwochen, Vienna), ’Trainers: or The Brutal Unpleasant Atmosphere of this Most Disagreeable Season’ (The Gate Theatre), No Planet B (Jacksons Lane). 

Theatre: Coriolanus (National Theatre), The Other Boleyn Girl (Chichester), Ocean at the End of the Lane (West End and National Theatre Tour), All My Sons (Manchester Royal Exchange and UK Tour), Wild East (Young Vic), The Winter’s Tale (RSC), The Sweet Science of Bruising (Southwark Playhouse). 

Screen: A Million Days, The Letter for The King (Netflix), The Great (Hulu), McMafia, Thirteen, Delicious, London Has Fallen, The Honorable Woman, Lewis, Doctor Who.    

RSC: The Tempest, Roberto Zucco and Measure for Measure. 

Theatre: Coven (Kiln), London Tide, Paradise, Jellyfish, Macbeth, My Country, Another World, An Oak Tree, Everyman, Edward II, Table and Timon of Athens (NT), The Ocean at the End of the Lane (NT/West End), Pygmalion, The Lorax and Cinderella (Old Vic), Medea (Soho Place), A Christmas Carol (Rose, Kingston), Cleft (Rough Magic/Galway Festival), Bright Phoenix (Liverpool Everyman), Beryl (West Yorkshire Playhouse), 66 Books (Bush), Lidless (West End/Hightide), Draw Me Close, Vernon God Little and The Art of Random Whistling (Young Vic), The Bacchae, Mary Barton, Electra and Mayhem (Manchester Royal Exchange), Dancing at Lughnasa (Birmingham Rep), Romeo and Juliet, The Antipodes and Hamlet (Shakespeare’s Globe), Comfort Me With Apples (Hampstead), Assassins (Sheffield Crucible), Seasons Greetings and Popcorn (Liverpool Playhouse), The Laramie Project (West End), A Passage to India, The Magic Toyshop and Jane Eyre (Shared Experience), Maid Marian and her Merry Men (Bristol Old Vic). 

Television: Supacell, Father Brown, Belgravia, My Country, Grantchester, Dark Angel, EastEnders, Prisoners’ Wives, Call the Midwife, Land Girls, Sirens, South Riding, Silent Witness, Poppy Shakespeare, Bad Mother’s Handbook, Waterloo Road, No Angels, Murphy’s Law, Fat Friends, Outlaws, M.I.T and Casualty. 

Film: Broken and The Libertine. 

Matilda trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and drama. She’s thrilled to be making her RSC debut.  

Theatre credits include: BROS (Kings Heads Theatre), A Very Expensive Poison (Chapter Theatre Cardiff), Dissonance (Young Vic), DNA-I (Criterion Theatre).    

Bert Seymour is a LAMDA-trained actor and linguist.

His recent TV work includes: Bridgerton (Netflix), Masters of The Air (Apple TV+), The Crown (Netflix), Say Nothing (FX), The Diplomat (Sky), The Girl Before (BBC), Endeavour (ITV), and Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes (Disney+).

He will soon appear in the French feature film LES PARFAITS (Dir. Ludovic Bernard), Mike Newell’s latest feature THE BITTER END, as well as the independent feature RED FLAGS (Dir. Bradley Porter.)

On stage Bert recently played ‘Caesar’ in Anthony & Cleopatra (Dir. Blanche McIntyre) at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, ‘Andrew Carter’ in Pressure (Dir. John Dove) in the West End, and Bertie Wooster in Perfect Nonsense (Dir. Patrick Marlowe.)

Bert speaks fluent French & Italian, high level Mandarin, and signs Level 3 BSL. He also performs regular Improvised comedy, occasional stand-up, and sings in a folk/shanty band.