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Rafe Joseph Spall (born 10 March 1983) is an English actor on both stage and screen. He is perhaps best known for his titular role in Channel 4's Pete Versus Life and his roles in One Day, Anonymous and the upcoming Ridley Scott film Prometheus.
Spall was born in King's College Hospital, Camberwell, London, England and is the son of actor Timothy Spall and his wife Shane Spall, the second of three children. Unlike his two sisters who are a primary school teacher and a textile designer respectively, Spall followed in his father's footsteps. Named after the protagonist in The Knight of the Burning Pestle, a role his father played in the Royal Shakespeare Company and he would later play himself, Rafe always had ambitions to act. Having done badly at his school Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College, he left to become an actor having joined the National Youth Theatre but after failing to get into his chosen drama schools he begun his career at the bottom.
Spall has frequently collaborated with Edgar Wright appearing in his films Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz alongside Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. He had previously appeared in an episode Spaced the series directed by Wright again starring Frost and Pegg. Spall has also featured in Wright's segment in the 2007 Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez film Grindhouse.
Elize du Toit (born 21 February 1980 in Grahamstown, South Africa) is a South African born actress best known for playing the role of Izzy Davies in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks from 2000 to 2004, with a brief return in 2007.
Elize du Toit was born in Grahamstown, South Africa, the second of four children, to an artist mother and an orthodontist father. She spent most of her childhood in Pretoria, SA. She moved to Berkshire, United Kingdom in December 1994, where she completed her A-levels, attaining straight As in English, French, History and History of Art. She studied History at Edinburgh University. She currently lives in Kensington, London with husband, actor Rafe Spall.
Du Toit won the role of Izzy Davies in the Channel 4 Soap Opera Hollyoaks after an open audition – beating out 40,000 hopefuls. She left the show in 2004 after four years filming in Liverpool.
In November 2011, Du Toit made an appearance in Coronation Street as Jenny, the ex-girlfriend of Matt Carter.
Daniel Jacob Radcliffe (born 23 July 1989) is an English film and stage actor who rose to prominence playing the title character in the Harry Potter film series.
Radcliffe made his acting debut at age ten in BBC One's 1999 television movie David Copperfield, followed by his film debut in 2001's The Tailor of Panama. At age eleven he was cast as the title character in the first Harry Potter film, and he starred in the series for ten years until the release of the eighth and final film in July 2011. He also began to branch out to stage acting in 2007, starring in the London and New York productions of the play Equus and in the 2011 Broadway revival of the musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. In addition, he starred in 2007's December Boys and the 2012 hit horror film The Woman in Black. He will play beat poet Allen Ginsberg in 2013 indie film Kill Your Darlings.
Radcliffe has contributed to many charities, including Demelza House Children's Hospice and The Trevor Project. He has also made public service announcements for the latter. In 2011, he was awarded the Trevor Project's "Hero Award".