An Oak Tree Cast and Creatives

Adjoa Andoh

Adjoa Andoh is an actor, writer, director, with a career spanning 4 decades.

Theatre includes: The Snow Queen, In the Red and Brown Water, Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Young Vic); Co-director of and actor in Richard II (Shakespeare’s Globe); director, co-producer and actor in Richard lll (Liverpool Everyman/The Rose Theatre).

Television includes: Bridgerton, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton story, The Witcher (Netflix); The Red King (ALIBI/ITV); Silent Witness (BBC); Dr Who, Casualty, Law & Order UK and Eastenders.

Film includes: Invictus; Fractured; Adulthood, Brotherhood, I Is A Long Memoried Woman, A Prayer Before Birth and What My Mother Told Me.

Lorraine Ashbourne

Theatre includes: Til The Stars Come Down (National Theatre - nominated for Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress), Three Sisters (National Theatre); Good People (Hampstead/West End); Aunt Dan and Lemon, Babies, The Kitchen, The Land of the Living (Royal Court); The Phoenician Women, The Relapse (RSC); Fool for Love (Donmar); She’s in Your Hands (Shaftesbury); Othello, The Brothers Karamazov, The Odd Women, She Stoops to Conquer (winner of Manchester Evening News Awards for Best Actress) (Royal Exchange).

Television includes: Cheat, Unforgotten, Jericho, After the Flood (ITV); Bridgerton (Netflix); Alma’s Not Normal, Sherwood, The Syndicate, Public Enemies, Playing The Field, The Street, Jane Eyre, City Central, Public Enemies (BBC); This Way Up, Coming Up (Channel 4); Extraordinary (Disney+).

Film includes: Distant Voices, Still Lives (Best film at Cannes), The Selfish Giant (2013 BAFTA nomination), Child 44, Oranges and Sunshine, Adult Life Skills, King Kong, Fever Pitch, A Bunch of Amateurs, Resurrected, Breathe, Allelujah!, Blinded by the Light.

Jessie Buckley

Olivier Award-winning and Oscar-nominated Jessie Buckley is known for her transformative performances in film, TV and on stage.

Theatre includes: Cabaret (Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical - Playhouse Theatre); Amadeus (Chichester Festival Theatre); Venice Preserved (The Spectators Guild); Henry V (Noel Coward Theatre); The Tempest (The Globe); A Little Night Music (Menier Chocolate Factory).

Film includes: The Bride, Hamnet, Wicked Little Letters, Fingernails, Men, The Lost Daughter, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Misbehaviour, The Courier, Judy, A Battle in Waterloo (Short), Wild Rose, Pulsar (Short), Beast, Red Light (Short), The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle, Crosswinds, Join My Band.

Television includes: Great Performances - Series 48 (PBS); Romeo & Juliet (Cuba Pictures/NT Live); Fargo (FX); Chernobyl (HBO); The Woman In White, The Last Post, Taboo, War and Peace (BBC); Endeavour (ITV).

Tim Crouch

Tim Crouch is an Obie-award winning writer and theatre-maker. He was an actor before starting to write and he still performs in much of his work.

Theatre as a Writer: Toto Kerblammo! (Unicorn); Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel (Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh and tour); Are you a Robot? (Wonder Fools); Superglue (National Theatre Connections); Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation (NTS and Royal Court); Beginners (Unicorn); Adler and Gibb (Royal Court and tour); what happens to the hope at the end of the evening (Almeida); I, Cinna (the poet) (RSC and Unicorn); I, Malvolio (Brighton Festival and tour); John, Antonio & Nancy (Royal Court Rough Cuts); The Author (Royal Court and tour); ENGLAND (Traverse Theatre, The Fruitmarket Gallery and tour), My Arm (Traverse Theatre and tour), Shopping for Shoes (National Theatre Education).

Theatre as Director: I, Cinna (the poet), The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear (RSC); Jeramee, Hartleby and Oooglemore, Beginners, Toto Kerblammo! (Unicorn Theatre), The Complete Deaths (Spymonkey/Brighton Festival) PEAT (Ark, Dublin).

TV/Radio: Don’t Forget the Driver (BBC2), If on a winter’s night a traveller (BBC Radio 4).

Arthur Darvill

Theatre includes: Oklahoma! (Young Vic/West End); Antipodes (National); Dr Faustus (Globe); Once (Broadway/ West End); Rare Earth Metal (Royal Court); Our Boys (Duchess); Stacey (Arcola); Terre Haute (Nabokov); Treasure Island (National); Swimming With Sharks (West End); Marine Parade (Brighton Festival); Elevenses/Beginning to End (Somerset House).

Film includes: Brides; And Mrs; Robin Hood; Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll.

Television includes: Apollo Has Fallen (Amazon); DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (Sky/CW); Dr Who (BBC); A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, Broadchurch (ITV); Grace (ITV); Three Little Birds (ITV); World On Fire (BBC); Danny and the Human Zoo (BBC); Sandman (Netflix); Little Dorrit (BBC); The White Queen (Starz).

Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù

Theatre includes: The Brothers Size (Young Vic); Rhinoceros (Almeida); Death of a Salesman (West End); One Night in Miami (Donmar); Coriolanus (Barbican); The Whipping Man (Theatre Royal Plymouth).

Film includes: My Father’s Shadow, Mr Malcom’s List, His House (BAFTA EE Rising Star Award nomination and British Independent Film Award nomination for Best Actor), The Gorge; Haven: Above Sky; Silent Night; Sand Castle; The Huntsman; Criminal.

Television includes: Gangs of London (Sky); Slow Horses (Apple TV); Black Rabbit (Netflix); Humans, Black Mirror (Channel 4); Next of Kin, State of the Union (BBC); The Halcyon (ITV).

Alfred Enoch

Theatre includes: Tree (Young Vic); As You Like It (West End); Pericles (RSC); Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe); King Lear (Royal Exchange); Coriolanus (Donmar); Timon of Athens, Antigone (National Theatre); Crave (CFT/West End); Red (Wyndham’s Theatre).

Television includes: Couple Next Door (Channel 4); Foundation (Apple TV); Trust Me, Sherlock. Troy: Fall of City, Miss Austen (BBC); How to Get Away with Murder (ABC); Broadchurch (ITV).

Film includes: The Critic, This is Christmas, Harry Potter, Tigers, Medida Provisoria.

Mark Gatiss

Mark Gatiss has had a long and varied career as a writer, director and producer behind the camera, as well as being an award-winning actor.

Theatre includes: The Motive and the Cue (West End - Olivier Award for Best Actor); Director of The Unfriend (West End); The Madness of George III (Nottingham Playhouse).

Television includes: The League of Gentlemen, Doctor Who, An Adventure in Space and Time, Sherlock (BBC).

Film includes: Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, The Favourite, The Father, Christopher Robin.

Julie Hesmondhalgh

Theatre includes: Punch (Young Vic/Nottingham Playhouse); Blue Now (Manchester Factory); White Rabbit Red Rabbit (Soho Place); The Jungle (St Ann's Warehouse New York); The Greatest Play in the History of the World (Trafalgar Studios/National Tour); The Report with Lemn Sissay, God Bless the Child (Royal Court); Mother Courage and Her Children, The Almighty Sometimes, Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster, Blindsided, Wit (Best Female Performer 2017 MTA - Royal Exchange); There Are No Beginnings (Leeds Playhouse).

Television includes: Alma's Not Normal, The Pact, The A Word, Dr Who, Happy Valley, Black Roses (Royal Television Society Best Actress 2014); Moving On; Inside No 9 (BBC); Mr Bates vs the Post Office, The Trouble with Maggie Cole, Broadchurch, Hayley Cropper in Coronation Street 1998-2014 (National TV Award 2014, Royal Television Society Award 2013 - ITV); You & Me, Catastrophe, Cucumber (Channel 4).

Alex Lawther

Theatre includes: The Jungle (Young Vic/West End/St Ann's Warehouse, NYC); Hamlet (The Armory, NYC); The Tempest (Les Bouffes du Nord, Paris); The Winter's Tale (La Criée, Marseille); South Downs (Chichester Festival Theatre/West End).

Television includes: The End of the F*cking World, Black Mirror (Channel 4/Netflix); Alien:Earth, Star Wars: Andor (Disney+).

Film includes: The Last Duel, Earwig, Les Traducteurs, The Imitation Game - London Critics' Circle Award for Young British Performer of the Year.
 

Eddie Marsan

30 years of remarkable work, marked by his recent OBE and 2 BIFA awards for Vera Drake and Happy Go Lucky (Mike Leigh), Eddie Marsan is one of the most exciting and versatile actors today.

This is the first time he’s appeared on stage in 23 years.

Theatre includes: The Homecoming, Chips With Everything (National Theatre); Richard III (Pleasance).

Television includes: Ray Donovan (ShowTime); Franklin (Apple TV+); The Power (Amazon); Deceit (Channel 4); Supacell; The Bombing of Pan Am 103 (BBC, Netflix); King and Conqueror (BBC/CBS); Reunion, The Winter King, The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe (ITV).

Film includes: Back to Black, Firebrand, Hancock, Deadpool 2, FairPlay, 21 Grams, Vesper, The Disappearance of Alice Creed, God’s Pocket, The World’s End, Tyrannosaur, Still Life, Atomic Blonde, Vice, White Boy Rick, Gangs of New York, War Horse, V for Vendetta, Mission Impossible 3, Snow White and the Huntsman, Hobbs and Shaw, Sherlock Holmes.

Meera Syal

Award-winning British actress, comedian and writer.

Theatre includes: Much Ado About Nothing (RSC); Behind the Beautiful Forevers, A Tupperware of Ashes (BAFTA Fellowship and Olivier Nomination for Best Actress - National Theatre); Romeo and Juliet, Noises Off (West End); Shirley Valentine (What's On Stage Award for Best Actress - Menier Chocolate Factory/West End).

Television includes: Mrs Sidhu Investigates (Acorn TV); Goodness Gracious Me, The Kumars at Number 42, The Split , Back to Life (BBC); Broadchurch (ITV); Code 404 (Sky); Roar (Apple TV); The Devil’s Hour, The Wheel of Time (Amazon).

Film includes: Anita & Me, Yesterday, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, Paddington 2, Doctor Strange, Beautiful Thing, Absolutely Anything, Alice Through the Looking Glass, SPIN, The Almond and the Seahorse.

Nina Sosanya

Theatre includes: The Other Place (National Theatre); Platonov and Ivanov (Chichester Festival Theatre/National Theatre); Elegy, Privacy, The Vote (Donmar). 

Television includes: Baby Reindeer, Too Much (Netflix); Surface 2 (Apple TV+); Good Omens 2 (Amazon); Screw (Channel 4); Brave New World, Little Birds, His Dark Materials (BBC/HBO); Killing Eve 2 (BBC/BBC America). 

Film includes: Love Actually, Red Joan, Brian & Charles, David Brent: Life on the Road, The End We Start.

David Tennant

David’s career has seen him win numerous awards including an International Emmy, a Critics Circle Award and the NTA Special Recognition Award.

Theatre includes: Macbeth (Donmar/West End - Olivier Award nomination), Good (Olivier Award nomination - Harold Pinter), Don Juan in Soho (WhatsOnStage Award - Wyndham’s Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (Wyndham’s Theatre), Richard II (WhatsOnStage Award - RSC/Barbican/BAM).

Television includes: The Hack, Rivals (BAFTA Nominated), Doctor Who (BAFTA Wales, TV Choice award), Good Omens, Inside Man, Staged, The Escape Artist, Des (Broadcasting Press Guild Award, and National Television Award), Litvenenko, Broadchurch (three TV Choice awards Crime Writers Association award), Deadwater Fell, Camping, Criminal, Jessica Jones.

Films include: The Thursday Murder Club, Mary Queen of Scots, You, Me & Him, Mad to Be Normal, What We Did on Our Holiday, Fright Night, The Decoy Bride, Glorious 39, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Bright Young Things, LA Without a Map, and Jude.

Michelle Terry

Michelle is an Olivier Award winning Actress, written for stage and screen and currently the Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe.

Theatre includes: Three Sisters, Richard III, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2013 & 2023), King Lear, Twelfth Night, The Fir Tree (Director), The Taming of the Shrew, Henry IV, Macbeth, Hamlet, As You Like It (2015 & 2018), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare’s Globe); Henry V (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Cleansed, Comedy of Errors, London Assurance, All’s Well That Ends Well, England People Very Nice (National Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Winter’s Tale, Pericles, The Crucible (RSC); Privacy, The Man Who Had All The Luck, (Donmar); Before the Party (Almeida); In The Republic of Happiness, Tribes (Royal Court); Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (Arcola); War on Terror, Two Cigarettes, 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover (Bush); Blithe Spirit (West End).

Television includes: Marcella (ITV); The Café (Writer & Actor: Sky); Extras (BBC).

Luke Thompson

Theatre includes: Love Labour’s Lost, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar, The Broken Heart (Shakespeare’s Globe); A Little Life (West End); King Lear (RSC); Hamlet, Oresteia (Almeida); Tiger Country (Hampstead); Brilliant Jerks (Southwark).

Television includes: Bridgerton, Transatlantic (Netflix); Kiss Me First (Channel 4/ Netflix); In the Club (BBC); The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (ITV).

Film includes: Misbehaviour, Making Noise Quietly, Dunkirk.

Russell Tovey

Russell Tovey is an award-winning actor.

Theatre includes: Constellations (West End), Angels in America, The History Boys, His Dark Materials (National Theatre) The Lover/The Collection (Pinter at the Pinter) A View from the Bridge (Broadway) The Pass, A Miracle, Plasticine (Royal Court Theatre).

Television includes: Feud: Capote and the Swans, American Horror Story (FOX); Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes (Disney+); The War Between The Land and The Sea (BBC/Disney+); Years and Years (HBO/BBC); Him and Her, Starstruck, Sherlock, The Night Manager, Juice, Being Human (BBC); Looking (HBO); The Job Lot (ITV); Quantico (ABC).

Film includes: Plainclothes, The Pass, The Good Liar, Love Again, The History Boys, Allelujah, Grabbers, The Lady in the Van, Mindhorn, Pride.

Indira Varma

Indira Varma 

Theatre includes: The Skin of Our Teeth (Young Vic); Oedipus (The Old Vic); Present Laughter (The Old Vic - Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress), The Seagull (West End); Celebration (Broadway); Macbeth (UK and Washington DC tour); Exit The King, Man and Superman, Ivanov, Othello (National Theatre); Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare’s Globe); Dance of Death, Twelfth Night, The Vortex, Privates on Parade (Donmar); Ingredient X, The Vertical Hour, The Country (Royal Court); Hysteria (Theatre Royal Bath).

Television includes: Cold Water (ITV); The Night Manager, Doctor Who, The Capture, Luther, Silk (BBC); Obsession (Netflix); Extrapolations (Apple TV); Obi-Wan Kenobi (Disney+); This Way Up (Channel 4); Patrick Melrose, Game of Thrones, Rome (HBO/Sky Atlantic); For Life (ABC); Paranoid (ITV).

Film includes: The Assessment, The Trouble With Jessica, Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1, Crisis, Official Secrets, Exodus Gods and Kings, Bride and Prejudice, Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love.