Luke Pasqualino (born Luca Giuseppe Pasqualino on 19 February 1990 in Peterborough, England) is an English actor, best known for his portrayal of Freddie McClair in the television series Skins.

Pasqualino attended Walton Community School, in Walton, Peterborough. He is of Italian heritage: Sicillian on his father's side and Neapolitan on his mother's. He attended the drama classes held by Martin Tempest at Stamford Art Centre. He auditioned for the part of Tony Stonem in Series 1 of Skins but it went to Nicholas Hoult. Before appearing in Skins he performed numerous plays and had done some modelling. Pasqualino also worked in his father's salon, Image International.

In 2009, Pasqualino played the leading role in a budget film called Stingers Rule!. Pasqualino played Freddie McClair in the third and fourth series of the teen drama Skins. At the end of Series 4, he left Skins, and his character was killed off. He starred in the new series of Casualty in September, as a streetrunner in a shopping mall, and appeared in a 2009 episode of Miranda, a BBC comedy, with Miranda Hart, playing a hotel worker. He will star as character 'Greg' in the upcoming horror film The Apparition alongside Twilight star Ashley Greene and Harry Potter star Tom Felton. He appeared on The Weakest Link and came second after The Inbetweeners actor Simon Bird. He is set to play William "Husker" Adama in the upcoming Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome and currently appears as Paolo in the Showtime series The Borgias.

Ricky Dene Gervais (/dʒərˈveɪz/; born 25 June 1961) is an English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician, writer, and former radio presenter.

Gervais achieved mainstream fame with his television series The Office and the subsequent series Extras, both of which he co-wrote and co-directed with frequent collaborator Stephen Merchant. In addition to writing and directing the shows, Gervais played the lead roles of David Brent in The Office and Andy Millman in Extras. Gervais has also starred in a number of Hollywood films, assuming leading roles in Ghost Town and The Invention of Lying. He has performed on four sell-out stand-up comedy tours, written the best-selling Flanimals book series and starred with Merchant and Karl Pilkington in the most downloaded podcast in the world as of March 2009,The Ricky Gervais Show.

He has won multiple awards and honours, including seven BAFTA Awards, five British Comedy Awards, two Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and the 2006 Rose d'Or, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. In 2007 he was voted the 11th greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups and again in the updated 2010 list as the 3rd greatest stand-up comic. In 2010 he was named on the TIME 100 list of the world's most influential people.