Michelle Dockery (born 15 December 1981) is an English actress of stage and screen, and a singer. She is known for her role as Lady Mary Crawley in the ITV/PBS drama series Downton Abbey. She made her television debut in Fingersmith in 2005.

Dockery is the youngest of three daughters of Michael Dockery, a native of Athlone, Ireland, who worked his way up from driving a van to becoming a surveyor, and his wife Lorraine, is from Stepney, East London. After working as a driver, in his 50s, her father graduated in occupational hygiene and qualified as an environmental analyst, becoming the first person to survey the British bases in Antarctica. Dockery's great-grandmother Maud Malyon was born in 1910 in Newham, East London, and was a domestic servant. She was just 17 when she married grocer’s assistant William Henry Oakman, 18, at West Ham Register Office.

Dockery was born and brought up in Romford, East London. She was educated first at the Chadwell Heath Foundation School in Chadwell Heath, later known as Chadwell Heath Academy. She was then trained at the Finch Stage School. At the age of 18, with two A-levels, she won a place at London’s Guildhall School of Music & Drama (Guildhall School of Music & Drama). She graduated from London's Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2004..

David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947) is an American television host and comedian. He hosts the late night television talk show, Late Show with David Letterman, broadcast on CBS. Letterman has been a fixture on late night television since the 1982 debut of Late Night with David Letterman on NBC. Letterman recently surpassed friend and mentor Johnny Carson for having the longest late-night hosting career in the United States of America.

Letterman is also a television and film producer. His company Worldwide Pants produces his show as well as its network follow-up The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Worldwide Pants has also produced several prime-time comedies, the most successful of which was Everybody Loves Raymond, currently in syndication.

In 1996, David Letterman was ranked #45 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time.

Letterman was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. His father, Harry Joseph Letterman (April 1915 – February 1973), was a florist of British descent; his mother Dorothy Letterman (née Hofert, now Dorothy Mengering), a Presbyterian church secretary of German descent, is an occasional figure on the show, usually at holidays and birthdays.

Jessica Brown Findlay (born 14 September 1989) is a British actress, best known for playing Lady Sybil Crawley in ITV's Downton Abbey.

Brown Findlay is the daughter of a teacher's assistant and a financial advisor. She trained with the National Youth Ballet and the Associates of the Royal Ballet. Aged 15, she was invited to dance with the Kirov at the Royal Opera House for a summer season.

She attended Furze Platt Senior School in Maidenhead. At the end of her GCSEs, Brown Findlay was accepted to a number of ballet schools but chose to go to the Arts Educational School, because of the A-level courses it provided and its pastoral care. She attended for two years and in her second year had three operations on her ankles, the last of which went wrong. Waking up from the anaesthetic, she was told she would never dance again. She said that she always had acting in the back of her mind, but was never really able to go out and try it. After encouragement from an art teacher, she applied for and got onto Tring Park School (Hertfordshire) and then onto a Fine Art course at St Martin’s. While there, she took up acting classes.

Jessica Brown (born in Solihull, West Midlands) is editor of the Daily Star''s celebrity column Goss.

Brown went to Solihull Sixth Form College, she left with three A Levels in English Language and Literature, Sociology and Geography. She then graduated from Staffordshire University with a B.A. in Media Studies and Sociology.

Brown's career as a journalist started in Birmingham when she was employed as the music editor for 69 Magazine in 2002. She also had a weekly showbiz column in the Solihull And Warwickshire Guardian. She became a celebrity reporter for Star magazine between 2007–2008 and worked as a freelance showbiz journalist for New! magazine, Sunday Mirror, Daily Mirror and The People.

Brown co-presented the breakfast show for Global Radio on Galaxy Birmingham for five years from 2002. She also hosted her own Saturday breakfast show and a break beat show Breakz and Beatz every Friday night on the Galaxy digital network DAB.

Brown joined Goss at the Daily Star full-time in 2009 as one of The Goss Girls, she was promoted to showbiz editor in March 2010.

Laura Carmichael (born 1986) is a British actress. She was educated at Shirley Junior School, The Mountbatten School, Peter Symonds College, and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Carmichael's TV appearances include appearing on Downton Abbey as Lady Edith Crawley. She is also a member of The Fitzrovia Radio Hour.