Eoin Christopher Macken (born 21 February 1983) is an Irish actor and film maker.

Macken has modelled for Abercrombie and Fitch,Ralph Lauren, and GQ.

He has appeared in films such as The Callback Queen, Studs,3Crosses and Centurion, and as Gavin Cluxton on RTE television show Fair City,also as Sir Gwaine on BBC series "Merlin".

Macken has directed two feature films; Christian Blake in 2008, which screened in the 2008 Galway Film Fleadh before being released on May 19, 2009 in the USA with distributor Celebrity Distribution and Dreaming For You, shot in New York, and selected for the 2009 Galway Film Fleadh.

Macken directed the documentary The Fashion of Modelling which screened on RTE on May 24, 2009.

Macken began his modelling and acting career in the University College Dublin Fashion Show in 2002 and 2003, when he subsequently joined the model agency Morgan the Agency and was selected as the face of the Abercrombie and Fitch 2003 campaign.

Macken studied acting and began theatre in the UCD drama society, and with Graham Cantwell and Rachel Rath in the Attic Studio. In 2005 Macken got his first major film role in 2006's Studs directed by Paul Mercier, also starring Brendan Gleeson and Emmett J. Scanlan. Subsequently Macken played leading roles in indie films Triple Bill and Rise of the Bricks, before moving to Los Angeles to train with acting coach Vincent Chase after completing his honors degree in Psychology. There he directed his first film, the 22 minute short film Dreaming For You, selected for the 2007 Los Angeles Short Film Festival.

Macken or Mackan (from Irish: Meacan) is a small hamlet and townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, off the A509 main Enniskillen to Derrylin road. Once quite a sizeable village it has now dwindled to containing only a few scattered farmsteads.

Macken was the scene of a famous skirmish on the evening of 13 July 1829 between Catholics and Protestants during which four Protestants were murdered. Nineteen Catholics were later charged for their part in the affair. One of them, Ignatius McManus, was hanged and most of the remainder were transported to Botany Bay, Australia.

Coordinates: 54°15′38″N 7°38′16″W / 54.2605°N 7.6377°W / 54.2605; -7.6377

Colin Morgan (born 1 January 1986) is an Irish actor from Armagh, Northern Ireland, best known for playing the title character in the BBC TV series Merlin. Morgan went to Integrated College Dungannon and, during his third year, won the 'Denis Rooney Associates' Cup awarded to the best overall student of that academic year. After gaining a National Diploma in Performing Arts (Acting) and studying at Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education in 2004, he went on to study at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (formerly the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama), situated in Glasgow, from where he graduated in 2007. In November 2010 The Belfast Metropolitan College honoured Morgan with an Award of Distinction for his contribution to the Arts.

On stage in 2007, Morgan debuted as Vernon Little in the title role of the Young Vic's adaptation of DBC Pierre's Vernon God Little and as Esteban in the Old Vic stage adaptation of Pedro Almodóvar's Todo sobre mi madre (All About My Mother). In 2008, he appeared as Jimmy Rosario in the Young Vic production of Thomas Babe's A Prayer For My Daughter. In 2011, he played Carlos in the Royal Court Theatre production of Colombian dramaturg Pedro Miguel Rozo's play Our Private Life.

Katherine "Katie" Elizabeth McGrath (born 24 October^{[citation needed]} 1983) is an Irish actress from Ashford, County Wicklow, Ireland, best known for playing Morgana in the BBC One TV series Merlin.

McGrath graduated in History at the Trinity College, Dublin. She wanted to work in fashion journalism and took a job at Image magazine, before becoming a wardrobe assistant on the set of The Tudors.

While working on The Tudors, McGrath was advised to try acting, so she sent photographs around Irish agents. She then won a large role playing Morgana on BBC Merlin.

She said:

McGrath was cast in Damage, an Irish TV-movie in 2007. She also starred in Bedrock Productions's play La Marea at the Dublin Theatre Festival 2007.

She also appeared in the feature films Eden and Freakdog, before being cast in Merlin.

Katie McGrath also starred in a five-part docudrama for Channel 4 exploring the life of Queen Elizabeth II, in which she played a young Princess Margaret.

In 2010, McGrath was cast in Madonna's directorial debut W.E., a King Edward VIII biopic. It was later revealed that McGrath is to play Lady Thelma Furness, the king's former mistress who introduces him to Wallis Simpson.

Tom Hopper is an English actor who has appeared in several television programmmes and films including Merlin, Doctor Who, Casualty and Tormented. He is best known for playing Sir Percival in the BBC series Merlin.

His next screen role will be in the Rhys Hayward WWII film Grace and Danger. The film is due for release in 2013.

Hopper studied acting at Rose Bruford College graduating with an honours degree in 2006. His theatre roles while at Rose Bruford included, The Tempest, The Way of the World, Colliers Friday Night and Festen.

Since graduating, he gained roles in which he was nominated for The Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature and Initiation (Max Q Film) in 2007.^{[citation needed]}

Hopper was cast in As You Like It at the Watford Palace Theatre and has appeared in various television programmmes and films such as Saxon, Casualty, Kingdom and Doctors.

Hopper portrayed Marcus in Tormented, a comedy-horror film about a bullied teenager who comes back from the dead to take revenge on his classmates. The film was made by BBC Films, Slingshot & Forward Films. It was released internationally by Pathe, on May 22, 2009 in the UK.