Showtime : Meadowlands Cast

Born in Liverpool, England, BAFTA-nominated actor DAVID MORRISSEY graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and took on a number of challenging stage roles for both the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre before becoming a recognized talent in a host of powerful and award-winning television dramas including State of Play and Viva Blackpool. His portrayal of "British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown" in Stephen Frears' The Deal (written by The Queen's Peter Morgan) earned him a Royal Television Society Award. Notable feature film credits include The Other Boleyn Girl with Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson, Captain Corelli's Mandolin opposite Nicolas Cage and Penelope Cruz, Derailed with Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen, Basic Instinct 2 with Sharon Stone, Hilary & Jackie, Some Voices, Born Romantic and Stoned. He recently rejoined MEADOWLANDS' Ecosse Films for The WaterHorse about the Loch Ness Monster legend. Aside from his acting career, Morrissey has founded his own production company, Tubedale Films, through which he co-produced the award-winning Patrice Leconte film L'Homme Du Train starring Johnny Hallyday. David Morrissey was most recently seen opposite Hilary Swank in the feature film The Reaping.

After training at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, LUCY COHU worked extensively on television, exploring her range in shows such as Poirot, Sweet Medicine and the TV adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca. Her role as Princess Margaret in the TV film The Queen's Sister won her widespread acclaim, and she was nominated for a BAFTA TV Award and Emmy®-nominated for "Best performance by An Actress". Film credits include Robert Altman's Gosford Park, and Ecosse Films' Becoming Jane, starring Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters and Maggie Smith.

The voice of "Emma" on the long-running BBC Radio 4 serial The Archers, FELICITY JONES began her acting career while studying at Wadham College, Oxford. Her TV credits include Treasure Seekers, The Worst Witch, Weirdsister College and Servants. She will soon be seen in the lead role of "Fanny Price" in a forthcoming TV adaptation of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey.

HARRY TREADAWAY was nominated as "Most Promising Screen Newcomer" at the British Independent Film Awards for his first feature film Brothers of the Head. He continues to study acting at LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts). Raised in Devon, England, as a young teenager he played guitar in a band formed with his twin brother, Luke. TV appearances include Marple, Sleeping Murder, Afterlife and Recovery. He will soon be seen starring alongside Samantha Morton in Control, the forthcoming biopic of 1970s band Joy Division.

RALPH BROWN's numerous feature film credits include Straightheads, The Shooter, Eragon, Puritan, Mean Machine, Stoned, Dominion: Prequel To The Exorcist, Star Wars: Episode 1 — The Phantom Menace, Amistad, The Crying Game and Scandal. Brown has also acted in many popular TV dramas, comedies and sitcoms from Nighty Night to Coronation Street, Spooks, Life On Mars, Waking The Dead, Ivanhoe and Dalziel And Pascoe.

Born in London, NINA SOSANYA trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance. Joining the Royal Shakespeare Company, she played in Henry V before moving to the National Theatre for Anthony & Cleopatra and House and Garden. On TV, Sosanya has appeared in Kitchen, Sorted, Wide Sargasso Sea, Nathan Barley, Doctor Who, Teachers, The Jury, Casanova and Prime Suspect 2. Her film credits include Love, Actually, Code 46 and Renaissance.

MELANIE HILL attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London where she won the Vanburgh Award. Her stage plays include Women Beware Women, Under Milk Wood, Twelfth Night, Deathtrap and Dirty Linen. She became a household name as "Aveline" in the longrunning British sitcom Bread. Other TV appearances include Auf Wiedersehen Pet, Silent Witness and Crocodile Shoes. She has appeared in the feature films Shopping, Brassed Off, When Saturday Comes, From Hell and Stardust.

Rising newcomer ELLA SMITH has appeared in the British television series Holby City and Strictly Confidential.

TRISTAN GEMMILL emigrated along with his family to Australia at 15, studying drama at Melbourne University before returning to England. Since then, his TV appearances have included the popular British dramas Coronation Street, London's Burning, EastEnders, Poirot and Strictly Confidential.

Rising star TOM HARDY left the London Drama Centre to appear in Band Of Brothers. Roles in the feature films Black Hawk Down, Star Trek: Nemesis and Layer Cake followed. He was nominated for a 2004 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for "Most Promising Newcomer" for In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings at the Hampstead Theatre. He was also awarded the 2003 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for "Outstanding Newcomer" for his performances in Blood and In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings. His other feature credits include Minotaur, Marie Antoinette, Scenes Of A Sexual Nature and WAZ. On television, Hardy has appeared in A For Andromeda, Sweeney Todd, The Virgin Queen and Gideon's Daughter. He will soon be seen playing the title role in the TV adaptation of the best-selling memoir Stuart: A Life Backwards.

An accomplished break-dancer and disc jockey, DON GILET's first television appearance was in the children's show Playaway. Since then he has made appearances in Brothers And Sisters, Babyfather, Casualty, Holby City, Silent Witness, 55 Degrees North, Doctor Who and The Ruby In The Smoke.

Since graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, SIAN BROOKE has appeared in Dinotopia, All About George, Under The Greenwood Tree, A Touch Of Frost, Housewife 49 and Foyle's War.

SCOT WILLIAMS made his debut in the film Backbeat playing early Beatles drummer Pete Best. Other feature roles include The Tulse Luper Suitcases Part 1 & 2, Tempesta and Victims. He has been seen on television in Lilies, Mersey Beat, Nice Guy Eddie, Where the Heart Is, Lock Stock... and In His Life: The John Lennon Story, in which he again played Pete Best.