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Joe Gilgun was born on 9 March 1984 in Chorley, Lancashire, England. He is an actor who first appeared in Coronation Street (1960) when he was only 10 years old. Later, he became known through Emmerdale Farm (1972) and the film This Is England (2006). He also appeared in its spin-off series This Is England '86 (2010), This Is England '88 (2011), and This Is England '90 (2015).

He then replaced Robert Sheehan as the lead in Misfits (2009) from the third series onward. He then managed to win another big role by starring as the vampire Cassidy in AMC's critically acclaimed drama series Preacher (2016).

As of 2021, he's the lead in the Sky One comedy-drama Brassic (2019), a role he's been playing since 2019.

Besides these television roles, he also appeared in feature films like Harry Brown (2009), Screwed (2011), Lockout (2012), Pride (2014), The Last Witch Hunter (2015), and The Infiltrator (2016).

Adam Nagaitis was born and raised in Chorley, Lancashire. At the age of 19, Adam left the UK to study acting at the Stella Adler Conservatory in New York. Following this, Adam returned to the UK to study at RADA. Out of RADA, Adam was offered a role in Yann Demanges' first feature film, the BIFA-winning and BAFTA nominated '71.

Ken Morley was born on 17 January 1943 in Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Coronation Street: After Hours (1999), Coronation Street (1960) and 'Allo 'Allo! (1982).

Bethany Black is an actor, stand-up comedian, and transgender activist from Preston, Lancashire. She started performing in comedy clubs in 2005, reaching the final of Chortle's Student Comedy Awards and being nominated for "Best Debut" at the Leicester Comedy Festival. Her highly confessional solo shows (covering gender reassignment, alcoholism and drug abuse) have played at the Edinburgh Fringe and all around the world. [[Cucumber]] and [[Banana]] mark her debut as a professional actor, where she was also the first trans woman to play a trans woman in a leading role on British Television.

Loui Batley was born in 1987 in Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Hollyoaks Later (2008), Hollyoaks (1995) and Following Footsteps (2015). She has been married to Simon Lawson since July 2013. They have two children.

Anthony Pedley was born in 1944 in Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Fierce Creatures (1997), A Fish Called Wanda (1988) and The Old Curiosity Shop (1979).

David Ambrose was born on 21 February 1943 in Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK. He is a writer and director, known for The Final Countdown (1980), The Survivor (1981) and Year of the Gun (1991). He was previously married to Lauren Huguette Hammerili.

Peter Schofield was born on 29 July 1928 in Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Airline (1982), The Georgian House (1976) and Emmerdale Farm (1972). He was married to Jean Lockhart. He died on 29 July 2003 in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.

Alan Wareing became interested in directing through amateur theatre. After directing several plays he started working in television, first as an assistant floor manager and then as a production assistant before taking the BBC's director's course. Among the BBC shows he worked on were The Onedin Line (1971), Blake's 7 (1978), Juliet Bravo (1980), EastEnders (1985), and Casualty (1986). He had worked on Doctor Who (1963) as a PA on The Keeper of Traken: Part One (1981) and Timelash: Part One (1985) before returning to the show as a freelance director to handle The Greatest Show in the Galaxy: Part One (1988), Ghost Light: Part One (1989) and Survival: Part One (1989). Since then he has continued to direct, including Ghoul-Lashed! for Sky TV.

Perhaps one of the most intriguing individuals associated with the Titanic because of the many unique events that happened both before and after the sinking. As a young man, he assured his sister the sea wasn't wet enough to drown him and went on to prove just that. Charles Lightoller's career at sea began in 1888 at the age of thirteen and was a harrowing one almost from the start. On his second voyage, his ship was demasted twice before running aground on a deserted island. In 1898, lured by the promise of riches, Lightoller left the sea to become one of the thousands who moiled for gold in the Klondike. Unfortunately, he was unsuccessful and after a brief stint as a cowboy, he rode the rails back east as a hobo before returning to England broke.

Eager to resume his sailing career, he joined the White Star Line around the turn of the century and was assigned as a junior officer on a run to Australia. It was on this run that he met his future wife Sylvia. He would later be assigned to the Titanic in 1912 and survived the ship's sinking by clinging to an overturned lifeboat in the freezing water with thirty other men all night before being rescued. Lightoller would survive still two more shipwrecks during World War I when the steamship Oceanic ran aground in 1914 and then again in 1918 when the destroyer Falcon. A month later, however, while commmanding the destroyer Garry, Lightoller rammed and sank a German U-Boat. Though badly damaged, the Garry remained afloat and Lightoller received a promotion for his actions.

After the war ended, Lightoller resumed service with the White Star Line, but found being associated with the Titanic had forever tainted him in his employer's eyes, dashing any hope of attaining a peacetime command. A disillusioned Lightoller quit the White Star Line and left the sea altogether, taking various jobs to support his family, including chicken farmer and owner of a guest home. The Lightoller family eventually acquired a small craft which Sylvia named the Sundowner, which was used by Lightoller, at the request of the British government, to survey the European coastline months before World War II broke out.

In June of 1940, he distinguished himself one final time by taking his beloved Sundowner across the English channel to rescue a hundred and twenty-seven men at the evacuation of Dunkirk. Lightoller spent his final years managing a boatyard used by the London River Police. The man the sea couldn't claim died on December 8, 1952 at the age of seventy-eight.

Gordon Langford Rowe was born on 23 September 1936 in Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Advocate (1993), Blood & Peaches (1995) and Twisted Tales (2005). He was married to Dorothy Rowe. He died on 26 August 2007 in Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK.

Phil Cool was born in Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK. He is known for Phil Cool (1992), Punk Strut: The Movie (2016) and Cool Head (1991).

Rhoda Rogers was born on 31 May 1925 in Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Perils of Pendragon (1974), Mother Goose (1959) and The Grand Order of Water Rats presents (1957). She died on 13 March 1976 in Westminster, London, England, UK.

Neil Hardy was born on 24 February 1983 in Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for StreetDance 3D (2010), Cutting It (2002) and Bob & Rose (2001).

S.A. Cookson was born on 6 September 1868 in Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for King John (1899), Hamlet (1913) and Henry VIII (1911). He was married to Kathleen Babbage and Ada Whittall. He died on 27 February 1947 in Bridgwater, Somerset, England, UK.

John Foxx was born in Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK. He is known for Rory O'Shea Was Here (2004), LFO: LFO (1990) and Identification of a Woman (1982).

Hal Draper was born on 23 December 1951 in Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Switch (2001), Not from Where I'm Standing (2004) and Grandad (2003). He died on 27 December 2012.

David Birtwistle was born on 14 May 1926 in Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK. He was a producer, known for Time Is My Enemy (1954) and Adventure in the Hopfields (1954). He died on 14 January 1998 in Lambeth, London, England, UK.

F.R. Pryor was born in 1862 in Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK. F.R. was a writer, known for Marigold (1938), Theatre Parade (1936) and Marigold (1948). F.R. died in 1937 in Sussex, England, UK.