The Girl On The Train

Theatrical credits include: leading the recent UK tour of Peter James’ Wish You Were Dead. Other acting credits include 2:22 A Ghost Story and Ivanov, both for the West End, as well as A Christmas Carol, Backbeat and The Christmasurus. Giovanna also appears in the feature film The Boat That Rocked.

Giovanna is also a hugely successful author, podcast host and Queen of The Castleafter winning I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here in 2020. In 2013, Giovanna published her first fiction book, Billy and Me, and has recently published her sixth novel Walking On Sunshine. Together with her husband Tom Fletcher, the pair have combined their love of writing to pen a trilogy of Sunday Times best-selling books. Giovanna’s first non-fiction book Happy Mum, Happy Baby was a No.1 bestseller that she later turned into an award-winning podcast with Pixiu, which has so far enjoyed 145 episodes and counting, and over 20 million listeners. Adding to her non-fiction work in 2020, Giovanna wrote Letters on Motherhood, another bestseller.

Giovanna is a proud patron for Breast Cancer Awareness charity CoppaFeel! and an ambassador for The Prince’s Trust and Tommy’s.

Key Credits: Louisa Lytton (EastEnders, 2:22 A Ghost Story, Murdoch Mysteries)

Louisa is perhaps best known for playing the role of Ruby Allen for over two decades in BBC’s EastEnders. Her TV work includes; Murdoch Mysteries for Amazon Prime and Edge of Heaven for ITV.

On stage she recently starred as Jenny in 2:22 A Ghost Story for the number 1 UK tour.

Laura Whitmore trained at the Leinster School of Music and Drama, studied Shakespeare at RADA and holds a degree in Journalism from Dublin City University.

She wrote and starred in the short film Sadhbh for which she won The Ros Hubbard award for acting in 2019. She toured in the role of Cleo in Peter James’ Not Dead Enough in 2017. Her film/TV acting credits include Queenie, Hulu’s Four Weddings and a Funeral, 4.3.2.1 and Storage 24. Her first lead in a feature film A Mother For An Hour is out later this year as well as interactive sci fi thriller Hello Stranger starring Sir Derek Jacobi.

She is a successful radio and television broadcaster best known for hosting MTV and the Bafta winning Love Island, the I’m A Celebrity spin off show, Celeb Juice and her own breakfast show on ITV. She launched her documentary Laura Whitmore Investigates in 2023 and is currently working on a new documentary series. This year she also embarked on Comic Relief’s Snow Way Back Arctic Trek to raise vital funds for Red Nose Day which can be seen in a primetime BBC1 documentary.

She currently hosts BBC Podcast, Murder They Wrote alongside Iain Stirling.

She started her TV career in 2008 winning MTV’s Pick me MTV and becoming the face of MTV Europe for almost a decade. She has interviewed some of the biggest musical artists and actors in the world.

In March 2021 she released her first book, No One Can Change Your Life Except For You which has gone on to become a Sunday Times Bestseller.

In 2022 she made her West End debut as Jenny in 2.22: A Ghost Story and returned home to play Lauren in its limited Dublin run in 2024.

Training: Oxford School of Drama

Theatre includes: Imperium Part I and Part II, Troilus and Cressida (RSC/ Gielgud Theatre); Bang Bang (Exeter Northcutt / Uk Tour); Romeo and Juliet, Richard III (Shakespeare Rose Theatre); Switzerland (English Theatre Frankfurt); Hamlet (Guildford Shakespeare Company); Comedy of Errors (Mercury Theatre, Colchester); Love All ( Jermyn Street Theatre); Richard II ( Guildford Shakespeare Company); A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Great Gatsby ( Storyhouse/Grosvenor Park Open air Theatre); The Circle (Theatre Royal Bath/ Uk Tour) and Romeo and Juliet (Guildford Shakespeare Company).

Television Includes: The Witcher (Netflix) and Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Amazon Prime).

Zena trained at the Oxford School of Drama.

Theatre credits include: A Voyage Round My Father (Jonathan Church Productions / UK Tour); Charlotte & Theodore (Theatre Royal Bath, Richmond Theatre & Cambridge Arts Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Iris Theatre & Actors’ Church Covent Garden), Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet (Orange Tree Theatre); Importance of Being Earnest (Immersion Theatre), Othello (English Theatre of Hamburg) and Tallulah Brown’s There’s a Monster in the Lake.

Short Film: Another Stage (BadgerFox Productions) for which she won Best Actress in the 48 Hour Film Fest Awards and Sisters (Daniel Johnson Productions).

Theatre includes: Room 13 (The Barn Theatre); Sherlock Holmes in The Great Murder Mystery (The Lost Estate); The Girl On The Train (Salisbury Playhouse); Jules & Jim (Jermyn Street Theatre); The City & The Town (Riksteatern/Wilton's Music Hall/UK Tour); Jekyll & Hyde (GSC); Murder On The Orient Express (Chichester Festival Theatre/Theatre Royal Bath); The Comedy Of Errors (Ballaghaderreen, Ireland); Much Ado About Nothing (Dubai Opera/New English Shakespeare); Twelfth Night, Henry V, The Borrowers (Storyhouse, Chester); Othello-macbeth (Lyric Hammersmith/HOME, Manchester); Boudica, The Inn At Lydda (Shakespeare's Globe); Hammer House of Horror (Hoxton Hall); Demons (Shoreditch Hall); Waiting For God (UK Tour); A Christmas Carol (Fitzrovia Radio Hour/Seabright); A Midsummer Night's Dream (US Tour); Macbeth (Omnibus, London); Sleight & Hand (Highbrow TV/BBC Arts); Softcops, Antony & Cleopatra (RSC/Public Theater, NYC/Gablestage, Miami); Mansfield Park (UK Tour); Othello, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Chester); Lady Windermere's Fan, Edward II, Lady From The Sea, Comedy Of Errors (Royal Exchange); The Black Diamond (Punchdrunk); Collision, Stand Up Diggers All (Latitude); Sexing The Cherry (Southbank Centre); The Man With The Flower... (Oxford Playhouse/Greenwich Theatre/Tour); The Carnival (Southwark Playhouse); Dr Faustus, Breakwater (Liverpool Everyman/Playhouse); So Little Of You Left (Young Vic Genesis/Tour); Dr Faustus, School For Scandal (Greenwich Theatre/Stage On Screen); Ex, The Big Break, Borders (Hampstead Theatre); The Garden (Riverside Studios); Without Laughing (Theatre 503); Hanging Around (Kneehigh); An Inspector Calls (Dukes Lancaster); The Alice Project (BAC/Spill); Lock The Gates (Lyric Hammersmith); Misper, Dido & Aeneas (Glyndebourne); Curse Of The Egyptian Mummy (Regent's Park) and Murder In The Cathedral (Westminster/Southwark Cathedrals).

TV/Film includes: Killing Sherlock; Lost Pirate Kingdom; Outlander; The Last Czars; Shakespeare Uncovered; New Tricks; The Bible; Holby; The Insiders; Hex; Dan Clark's Guide To Work; Thirty7; Envoi; Sc.25; Bluebird; The Briefcase; Doctors; A Tale Of 2 Girls and Message In A Bottle.

Radio includes various BBC productions & live broadcasts for London Resonance/BBC New Writing.

Theatre includes: The Third Man (Menier Chocolate Factory/VBW); Works of Art (Turbine Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Frankenstein, Great Expectations (NYT REP Company); Victoria’s Knickers (Soho Theatre) and To Paint The Earth (Southwark Playhouse).

TV includes: FBI International; Trying; Locked Up Abroad and 110 Weeks.

Film includes: Surviving Earth; Your Christmas or Mine and Obsession.

Training: Paul trained at ALRA.

Television includes: Testament (Roarlight); The Waking of A Nation (Sony India); Father Brown (BBC); Happy Valley S3 (BBC); Andor (Disney+); Ragdoll (Sid Gentle Films); Carnival Row (Amazon); Pennyworth (Warner Bros); Holby City (BBC); Peaky Blinders (Tiger Aspect/BBC); WPC 56 (BBC); The Arms Drop (Fridthjof Films); Eternal Law (Kudos/ITV); Casualty (BBC); Doctors (BBC); Emmerdale (YTV); Strictly Confidential (Rollem Productions); Dalziel & Pascoe (BBC); Holby City (BBC); No Angels (Channel 4); Clocking Off (BBC); Heartbeat (Yorkshire Television) and The Echo (BBC).

Stage includes: Witness For The Prosecution (London County Hall); The Canterville Ghost (Unicorn Theatre); Othello (English Touring Theatre); The Invisible Man (Queen's Theatre Hornchurch); The Seven Acts of Mercy (RSC); The Two Noble Kinsmen (RSC); Inkheart (HOME, Manchester); A Doll's House (Sherman); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Squerryes Court); Richard III (Jamie Lloyd Prods/ATG); but i cd only whisper (Arcola/Tabula Rasa Theatre); Man in the Middle (Theatre503); The Two-Character Play (Jermyn Street & Provincetown Theatre, USA); Decade (Theatre 503); Isfahan Calling (Old Red Lion); Kurtz (Hampstead New End); The London Plays (Iso Productions); Woman In Black (Madinat Theatre, Dubai); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Royal Exchange Theatre); The Night Before Christmas (Theatre 503); Richard II (Royal Shakespeare Company); La Lupa (Royal Shakespeare Company); Romeo And Juliet (Hull Truck); The Killing Floor (Bridewell Theatre); The Duel (Lyric Hammersmith); A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Dukes Lancaster): The Three Musketeers (The Dukes Lancaster); The Power and the Glory (Etcetera Theatre); Paper, Scissors, Stone (White Bear Theatre); The Gingerman (White Bear Theatre) and Merlin (Arts Threshold).

Jason’s theatre work includes: Twelve Angry Men (UK & Eire tour 2024); Girl on the Train (Salisbury Playhouse); How the Other Half Loves (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Five Finger Exercise (Coronet Theatre); Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors (RSC); A Christmas Carol (Queens Theatre, Barnstable); Uncle Vanya (HOME); The Pleasureman (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow); Chekov (National Theatre Studio) and Saved (Bolton Octagon) for which he won the Manchester Evening News Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

Television includes: Happy Valley; Finding Alice; I Knew Jesus; Agatha Raisin; Legends of Tomorrow; Safe House; Death in Paradise; Emmerdale; Larkrise to Candleford; Waterloo Road; The Hitch; Cutting It and Clocking Off.

Film includes: The Jealous God; Do Not Disturb and A Small Obsession.

Jason is also an artist and recently competed in and won Celebrity Portrait of the Year.

Training: East 15 Acting School.

Stage credits include: Jekyll & Hyde (National Theatre, UK tour) and Text & Delete (Kings Head Theatre).

Ellie recently wrapped on a new series for Paramount directed by Guy Ritchie.

Training: Graduated with a degree in Music from University of Bristol before going to study acting at Drama Centre London.

Theatre includes: The Full Monty (UK Tour); The Eagle and the Seagull (Bridge House Theatre/Brighton Fringe); The Mystery Plays (York Minster); A Christmas Carol (East Riding Theatre); One, Two, TREE (Windsor Fringe); Austen: The Musical (East Riding Theatre/UK Tour) and 30 Little plays about Love (York Theatre Royal).

Film includes: Giant (AGC Studios/Balboa Productions/Big Safari); No Daves Allowed (Reclaim Productions); Shlock: A Desi Sherlock (Blaze International); Run From Hell (Bearing 305 Productions) and Leaves In Fall (LA Femme Film Festival: Best Short winner).