Christian Louis Cooke (born 15 September 1987 in Leeds, West Yorkshire) is an English actor, known for playing Luke Kirkwall in Where the Heart Is, Luke Rutherford in Demons, Dorian Gaudain in Trinity, Freddie in Cemetery Junction and Len Matthews in the Channel 4 mini series The Promise.

Cooke was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, where he attended St. Mary's Catholic High School, Menston and Bingley Arts Centre. He has an older brother, Alex, and younger sister, Gabrielle.

Cooke began his acting career at the age of 10 when he appeared in a production of Bedazzled at the Bingley Arts Centre. His first television appearance was in a commercial for Birds Eye beef burgers. His career has progressed from there.

Cooke played the role of Luke Kirkwall from 2000 to 2006 in the ITV drama Where the Heart Is. He has also guest starred in Doctors, The Royal, Casualty and George Gently. He starred in one episode of the BBC's Robin Hood as Will Scarlett's younger brother, Luke Scarlett.

Cooke also appeared in BBC One's The Chase and played Brae Marrack in the ITV1 soap opera Echo Beach. He guest starred in the 2008 Doctor Who episodes "The Sontaran Stratagem" and "The Poison Sky", playing UNIT soldier Ross Jenkins, who is killed off in the later episode. In early 2009, he played the lead role of Luke Rutherford in ITV1 supernatural drama Demons.

Itay Tiran (Hebrew: איתי טיראן‎) (born March 23, 1980) is an Israeli stage and screen actor, known for his position against Israeli settlements and for his roles in Forgiveness (2006),Beaufort (2007), The Debt (2007), Homeland (2008), Lebanon (2009), and The Promise (2011).

Tiran is one of the most acclaimed Israeli actors of his day. His performances have gained him various awards and nominations in Israeli theater and film, winning the award for Most Promising Actor in Israel Theater in 2003, Best Actor in 2005 for his performance as Hamlet in the Israeli Cameri Theater production of the Shakespeare play; Best Supporting Actor for his role as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Amadeus at the 2009 Israel Theater Awards. Itay was nominated for Best Actor at the Israeli Film Academy Awards for his roles in Forgiveness and The Debt. In 2009 Tiran collaborated with world renowned German conductor Kurt Masur in Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream. They performed together with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in Tel Aviv moving on to Paris to perform with the Orchestre National de France at the St. Denis Festival and at the Musee D'Orsay. In 2009 Tiran joined the Gropius Ensemble [1] formed by young conductor Daniel Cohen combining modern classical music and theatrical elements, performing pieces like Kafka's Kofadam and A Soldier's Tale by Stravinsky. Tiran's directing debut (2010) with Georg Büchner's Woyzeck in which he also played the title role, earned him a well-deserved critical acclaim as a theater director. In March 2011 Tiran and Kurt Masur met again, this time in the Davis Symphony Hall of San Francisco together with the San Francisco Symphony for the performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream. The San Francisco Chronicle called Tiran's impersonations "relevant and virtuosic".

The Promise is a British television serial in four episodes written and directed by Peter Kosminsky, with music by Debbie Wiseman, which premiered on 6 February 2011 on Channel 4. It deals with a young woman going to Israel/Palestine in the present day, using her visit to investigate her soldier grandfather's part in the post-war phase of the British Mandate of Palestine.

Erin Matthews is an eighteen-year old British teenager about to start her gap year. She is unwillingly taken to see her grandfather Len, now in his eighties, who is in hospital having been paralysed by a major stroke. Erin hardly knows him; but reluctantly helping her mother to clear out his flat, she finds a diary describing her grandfather's time as a Sergeant in the 6th Airborne Division in British Mandate Palestine after the Second World War. Her mother wants her to bin it; but Erin surreptitiously keeps it, and decides to take up her best friend Eliza on her offer to spend some time in Israel, while Eliza, who has UK/Israeli dual citizenship, undergoes basic training for her compulsory Israeli military service. As they fly out Erin starts to read the diary, and becomes fascinated: the diary opens with Len describing "the worst day of his life so far" – the horrors he is finding on liberating Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. From now on the series intercuts between the two stories as they develop, hers in 2005 and his in the 1940s.