Graham Abbey (born Graham Robert Thomson Abbey on March 24, 1971 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian film, television and stage actor, who is best known for his role as Gray Jackson in TV drama The Border.

At the then Stratford Festival of Canada (now Stratford Shakespeare Festival), the eleven year-old Graham Abbey took up small parts in A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Merry Wives of Windsor. In the following season, he returned with roles in As You Like It and Macbeth. His first role was as a forest gnome at the Festival Theatre, and he explained his interest as: “there was a room full of doughnuts and I got to get out of school”.

After two years at Stratford, he gave up acting. He left Stratford Central Secondary School, moved to Kingston, Ontario, and in 1994, graduated from Queen's University with a degree in political science.

In 1997, he rejoined the Stratford Festival with a leading role (Happy Loman in Death of a Salesman), a supporting role (Paris in Romeo and Juliet), and an ensemble role (the Chorus in Oedipus Rex). He left the Stratford Festival in 2006, after performing in Coriolanus in his eighth consecutive season, and has since been focusing on film and television and a writing project of his own.

Ross Petty (born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on August 29, 1946) is a Canadian actor and theatre producer. He is best known for his eponymous production company, which stages family theatre productions in Toronto every holiday season.

Petty was born in Winnipeg.

In Europe, he sang at Le Lido in Paris and appeared with Betty Grable in the London West End musical Belle Starr. In the United States, he made his Broadway debut in Arthur Kopit's Wings, created the role of Eddie Dorrance on All My Children, and co-starred with Ginger Rogers and Sid Caesar in a national tour of Cole Porter’s Anything Goes.

He appeared in the U.S. and Canada in the title role of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, directed by Hal Prince. His film and television credits include Extreme Measures with Gene Hackman and Hugh Grant, Perry Mason, Spenser: For Hire, Monk, Loving Friends and Perfect Couples, Forever Knight, E.N.G., Night Heat, Seeing Things, Hot Shots, All My Children, A Judgement in Stone, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, Counterstrike, The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, Traders, F/X2 and Martha Inc: The Martha Stewart Story.

Melissa Crystal O'Neil (born July 12, 1988) is a Canadian singer who was the winner of the third season of Canadian Idol in 2005. She was the first female winner and is the second youngest idol winner in the world, with the youngest being 2004 Australian Idol winner Casey Donovan . She is of Chinese, Irish and French heritage.

O'Neil was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta by her parents Tim O'Neil and Alison Yeung. She attended Terry Fox Junior High School in and then studied at Lester B. Pearson High School, both of which are situated in her home town of Calgary. Prior to her Canadian Idol experience, she had worked at a daycare centre, and had also been involved in local musical theatre productions. Her mother stated that her daughter only became interested in singing around three years before her audition for Canadian Idol. Melissa has one sibling, a younger brother named Colin Patrick O'Neil, whom she is very close to.

Her maternal grandfather gave her a Chinese name (Chinese: 奧詩敏; Cantonese Yale: Ou Sīmáhn).

Daniel Jonathan “Dan” Stevens (born 10 October 1982) is a British actor.

Stevens was adopted at birth and had a rebellious youth. He has a younger brother who was also adopted.

Stevens boarded at Tonbridge School, a public school in Kent, where he became interested in drama after auditioning for the title role in Macbeth with his teacher, novelist Jonathan Smith (father of cricketer Ed Smith). Stevens went on to read English Literature at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and narrowly missed out on a first despite devoting much of his time to theatre during his final year. While at Cambridge he was a member of the Footlights and gained acting experience with the National Youth Theatre. He was first spotted by acclaimed director Sir Peter Hall during a student production.

Stevens has worked extensively in theatre in Britain and the United States, working with Peter Hall many times. He was nominated for an Ian Charleson Award for his portrayal of Orlando in As You Like It for the Peter Hall Company in 2005.

Graham William Walker, known by his stage name Graham Norton, (born 4 April 1963) is an Irish actor, comedian, television presenter and columnist. He is the host of comedy chat programme The Graham Norton Show on BBC One in the UK and BBC America in the US. Hot Press has described him as "the 21st century's answer to Terry Wogan", with both men sharing an Irish background and the common link of being a BBC Radio 2 presenter and the BBC television commentator of the Eurovision Song Contest. Norton has won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Entertainment Performance on five occassions.

Norton was born in Clondalkin, a suburb of Dublin, but grew up in Bandon, County Cork, Ireland to a Protestant family. He was educated at Bandon Grammar School, in County Cork and then University College Cork but did not complete his studies.

In 1992 his stand-up comedy drag act in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as a tea-towel clad Mother Teresa of Calcutta made the press when Scottish Television's religious affairs department mistakenly thought he represented the real Mother Teresa.