出生于爱尔兰首都都柏林，5岁时移居伦敦。迈克尔最初的职业是工程师，直到21岁，他才意识到自己的梦想是做一个演员。于是他进入了国家剧院，并有幸得到Laurence Olivier爵士的指导。在一系列Alan Ayckbourn的戏中担任领衔主演。不久之后，他的身影就出现在了皇家国家剧院的舞台上。
Michael Palin is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter. He was one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python.
Adrian Scarborough was born on May 10, 1968 in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England as Adrian Philip Scarborough. He is an actor, known for The King's Speech (2010), Les Misérables (2012) and Notes on a Scandal (2006). He is married to Rose Blackshaw. They have two children.
Ronald Fraser, the British movie and television character actor, was born on April 11, 1930 in Ashton-under-Lyme, England. He began his professional acting career in 1954 and began appearing in small roles in movies and television in 1957. His first major movie credit was as a soldier, Lance Corporal 'Mac' Macleish in The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961). He specialized in playing nasty, brutish types, such as the piggish Private Campbell in Robert Aldrich's World War II drama Too Late the Hero (1970), who robs a corpse, kills a fellow British solder, and deserts his compatriots to surrender to the Japanese before being strung up like a slaughtered hog by the enemy. He also appeared in Aldrich's The Killing of Sister George (1968) and gave a memorable performance as Sergeant Watson in the original The Flight of the Phoenix (1965), also directed by Aldrich. He was versatile enough as an actor to occasionally break type, such as his turn as Colonel Pickering in the 1981 Celebrity Playhouse: Pygmalion (1981), which starred Twiggy as Eliza Dolittle.
出身自演艺世家，父母亲和姊妹都是演员。在伦敦中央音乐和舞蹈学校毕业后，于1957年登台演出，次年便接演电影《面具后面》。60年代初期加入皇家莎翁剧团，逐渐建立了剧场的知名度。1966年她应英国名导卡莱赖兹邀请，演出《摩根》一片，本片让她夺得坎城影后。从此成为英美影坛的红星，除了两度获戛纳电影节最佳女主角及一次奥斯卡女配角外，她还经常以大明星的身份在许多名片中客串小角色，虽然只是惊鸿一瞥，却有让人过目不忘的本事。曾经和英国导演汤尼．李察逊结婚，俩人在1967年离异后，她便和意藉男星法兰哥尼罗双宿双飞，最后仍以分手收场。1993年以《此情可问天》再次获得奥斯卡女配角提名。近年亦以性格演员姿态接演《不可能的任务》、《天地大冲撞》等商业片。
