Since her infamous portrayal of 'Dana Scully' in The X Files television series (and two features), for which she won an Emmy, Golden Globe, and two SAG Awards, Gillian's film credits have included 'The Mighty' with Kieran Culkin; 'Playing By heart' with Sean Connery and Anjelina Jolie; Edith Wharton's classic 'The House of Mirth' (for which she won the Best Actress award at the British Independent Film Awards and The Village Voice Film Critic's Poll for 'Best Performance'); 'The Mighty Celt' (winning her the Irish Film and Television's Audience Award); the hilarious 'Tristam Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story' for Michael Winterbottom with Steve Coogan and Jeremy Northam; 'The Last King of Scotland' with James McAvoy and Forrest Whitaker (who won the oscar for his role in this film); 'How To Lose Friends and Alienate People' with Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst and Jeff Bridges; and 'Boogie Woogie', in which Gillian takes on another hilarious role alongside Stellan Skarsgaard, Danny Huston and Amanda Seyfried.

In the BBC mini-series adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic Bleak House, Anderson starred as Lady Dedlock' and the critically-acclaimed performance earned her a nomination for Best Actress at the British Academy of Film and Television Awards in 2006 and at the Emmy's. She also provided the voice of Queen Vorkana' in the animated comedy short Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind for UK television and the voice of Helene Hanff in the BBC's radio adaptation of '84 Charing Cross Rd'.

Anderson obtained her BFA degree from the prestigious Goodman Theater School at Chicago's DePaul University. She performed in the Manhattan Theatre Club production of Alan Ayckborne's Absent Friends, for which she won a Theatre World Award in 1991. In addition she appeared in Christopher Hampton's The Philanthropist, at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, CT. Anderson made her London stage debut in Michael Weller's 'What The Night Is For" in 2002 and then went on to continued success and critical acclaim in the Royal Court's production of Rebecca Gillman's play 'The Sweetest Swing In Baseball' in 2005. In 2009 Anderson portrayed Nora in Zinnie Harris's adaptation of A Doll's House at London's prestigious West End theatre, The Donmar Warehouse for which she was nominated for an Olivier.

Her recent credits include Elizabeth in Michael Barker's 'Moby Dick' alongside Ethan Hawke and William Hurt, 'Any Human Heart' with Mathew MacFayden, Tom Hollander and Hayley Atwell, The Crimson Petal and The White' and 'Johnny English 2' with Rowan Atkinson and Dominic West.

Over the last 15 years Anderson has been strongly involved in many charity organizations, as a board member of Artist For A New South Africa, a spokesperson for Neurofibromatosis Inc., a founding member of Off The Street Kids and a patron of the Alinyiikira Junior School in Uganda, amongst many many others.

Hussein Chalayan was born in Nicosia, Cyprus. He graduated in 1993 from London's Central St Martins School of Art and Design. His degree collection was immediately bought by Browns, launching him as a significant new fashion force. In 1994 Hussein Chalayan launched his own label. He was named British Designer of the Year in 1999 and in 2000. He uses film, installations and sculptural forms to explore perception and the realities of modern life, with particular interest in cultural identity, migration, anthropology, technology, nature and genetics.

In 2002, Chalayan moved his internationally lauded fashion show from London to Paris where the Hussein Chalayan collection is shown seasonally. The ready-to-wear collection is regularly featured in top fashion magazines and international press as well as carried in the world's best boutiques and is favoured by actresses, musicians, artists and tastemakers on and off the stage or red carpet.

Chalayan lectures regularly about his work and has exhibited in museums worldwide including the V&A in London, The Kyoto Costume Institute, The Musée de la Mode-Palais du Louvre in Paris, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and MOMA in New York. He has directed several short films since 2003. Chalayan represented Turkey in the 2005 Venice Biennale with Absent Presence. In 2005, the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands hosted a retrospective of his work. Critically acclaimed solo exhibitions followed in London at the Design Museum (2009), at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo (2010) and at Istanbul Modern (2010). In 2010 Chalayan opened two exhibitions in London at the Lisson Gallery and Spring Projects.

Throughout the years Chalayan has partnered with artists, musicians, actors and members of the design, art, theatre and fashion fields including Tilda Swinton, Nick Knight, Antony Hegarty from Antony and the Johnsons as well with Scottish Dancer/ Choreographer Michael Clark for the 1998 production current/SEE. In 2010 he also designed costumes for the London Dance Theatre Saddlers Wells Production of 'In The Spirit of Diaghilev'. He has collaborated with Swarovski on a number of shows including creating a range of motion dresses for his Spring/ Summer 07 collection and in 2006 Chalayan created a rotating collar dress for Runway Rocks. His installation piece for Swarovski titled "Repose" exhibited at the Kunsthalle Mannheim gallery and at the Crystal Palace, Milan.

Hussein Chalayan has been the Creative Director of Asprey and of TSE New York and has designed capsule collections for Top Shop, Marks & Spencer and most recently collaborated with J Brand Jeans. In February 2008 he was appointed Creative Director of Puma.

In 2006 Hussein Chalayan was awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honour's list.

In a career spanning nearly 40 years, Antony Gormley has made sculpture that explores the relation of the human body to space at large, explicitly in large-scale installations like Another Place, Domain Field and Inside Australia, and implicitly in works such as Clearing, Breathing Room and Blind Light where the work becomes a frame through which the viewer becomes the viewed. By using his own existence as a test ground, Gormley's work transforms a site of subjective experience into one of collective projection. Increasingly, the artist has taken his practice beyond the gallery, engaging the public in active participation, as in Clay and the Collective Body (Helsinki) and the acclaimed One & Other commission in London's Trafalgar Square.

Gormley's work has been widely exhibited throughout the UK with solo shows at the Whitechapel, Serpentine, Tate, Hayward Gallery, British Museum and White Cube. His work has been exhibited internationally in one-man shows at museums including Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Denmark), Malmö Konsthall (Sweden), Kunsthalle zu Kiel (Germany), National Museum of Modern Chinese History (Beijing), Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso (Mexico City) and Kunsthaus Bregenz (Austria). Gormley has also participated in group shows at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Venice Biennale and Documenta 8 (Kassel, Germany). Major public works include Angel of the North (Gateshead), Another Place (Crosby Beach, Liverpool) and Habitat (Anchorage, USA).

Gormley was awarded the Turner Prize in 1994, the South Bank Prize for Visual Art in 1999 and the Bernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture in 2007. He was made an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) in 1997 and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Trinity College, Cambridge and Jesus College, Cambridge. Gormley has been a Royal Academician since 2003 and a British Museum Trustee since 2007.

Antony Gormley was born in London in 1950.

Anish Kapoor is one of the most influential sculptors of his generation. Born in 1954 in Bombay, he has lived in London since the early 1970s. Over the past twenty years he has exhibited extensively with solo shows at venues including Kunsthalle Basel, Tate, Hayward Gallery, the Royal Academy in London, Reina Sofia in Madrid, CAPC in Bordeaux, Haus der Kunst in Munich and in 2010 his first major exhibition in India took place at the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi and the Mehboob Film Studios in Mumbai.

He has participated in many group shows internationally including those at Whitechapel Art Gallery, Serpentine Gallery in London, Documenta IX in Kassel, Moderna Museet in Stockholm and Jeu de Paume and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. He represented Britain at the Paris Biennale in 1982 and at the Venice Biennale in 1990, where he was awarded the ‘Premio Duemila’. He won the Turner Prize in 1991 and received the prestigious Unilever Commission for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in 2002. Among his major permanent commissions is Cloud Gate (2004) for the Millennium Park in Chicago, Dismemberment Site I for the sculpture park The Farm, Kaipara Bay, New Zealand and Temenos in Middlesborough, unveiled in 2010, as the first of a series of large scale works for Tees Valley. Also in 2010 Kapoor was awarded the commission with Cecil Balmond for a permanent artwork for the London 2012 Olympic Park, Orbit, and in 2011 exhibited Leviathan as part of the Monumenta series at the Grand Palais organised by the French Ministry for Culture and Communication.

He was awarded Honorary Fellowships by the London Institute and Leeds University (1997), University of Wolverhampton (1999) and the Royal Institute of British Architects (2001). He was elected Royal Academician in 1999 and in 2003 was awarded a CBE. In 2009 he acted as Guest Artistic Director of the Brighton Festival, and in 2011 was awarded the Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters and the Premium Imperiale.

Anish Kapoor is represented by the Lisson Gallery, London; Gladstone Gallery, NewYork; Regen Projects, Los Angeles; Kukje Gallery, Seoul, SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo; Galleria Continua and Galleria Massimo Minini in Italy and Kamel Mennour in Paris.

Arlene Phillips is a world-renowned choreographer with her work seen in widely in theatre, feature films, concert arenas, television, music videos and commercials.

Arlene appeared as a judge on BBC1's hugely popular Strictly Come Dancing. She first came to the attention of the British public when she created the dance group Hot Gossip. Arlene appeared on Strictly Dance Fever and she collaborated with Bruno Tonioli to create DanceX and Dance War. She recently created a new musical drama Britannia High and is currently creating her own dance show, the first to embrace every style of dance. Arlene will soon come back to our screens in a new series of So You Think You Can Dance for the BBC.

Pet Shop Boys are the UK's most successful pop duo with 12 Top Ten studio albums and 40 Top 20 singles, including four number one records.

Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe first met in 1981 and began writing songs together. Their first single "West End girls" was released in 1984 as a one-off single but the following year they signed to Parlophone/EMI Records and a new version of "West End girls" climbed to the top of the charts. The single went on to reach number one in nine countries, including the USA. Their success continued with the release of further UK number one hits, "It's a sin", "Always on my mind" and "Heart". They won Brit awards for Best Single in 1987 and Best Group in 1988. Other awards have followed, including Ivor Novello awards for songwriting in 1987 and 1988 and, in 2000, a third Ivor for Outstanding Contribution to British Music. In 2009 they were presented with the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music.

Their musical collaborations have included duets, productions or remixes for Dusty Springfield, Liza Minnelli, David Bowie, Elton John, Blur, Yoko Ono, Electronic, Rammstein, Madonna, Lady Gaga and The Killers. They have written or co-written songs for, amongst others, Shirley Bassey and Girls Aloud.

Pet Shop Boys' visual presentation has always been strikingly original. Their record sleeves, mostly created in collaboration with designer Mark Farrow, would, in their early and influential use of white space, lead to a re-evaluation of the art of record and CD design. This keen visual sense informs everything presented under the group's name, from books to tour merchandise to newspaper adverts. Video directors have included Eric Watson, Derek Jarman, Howard Greenhalgh and Bruce Weber.

Pet Shop Boys have long had a dedicated interest in combining music with theatre and film. Their first tour in 1989 was conceived with artist/director Derek Jarman, and on subsequent tour productions their collaborators included David Alden and David Fielding from the ENO, architect Zaha Hadid, theatre designers Ian MacNeil and Es Devlin and artist/director Sam Taylor-Wood. In 2001 their musical, Closer to Heaven, written with playwright Jonathan Harvey, was produced in the West End by The Really Useful Group. In 2004 they wrote a soundtrack to the classic silent film, Battleship Potemkin, which was first performed with the Dresdner Sinfoniker orchestra in a free concert in Trafalgar Square, presented by the Mayor of London and the ICA. This spectacular event has subsequently been repeated at various outdoor settings in Germany, Spain and again in the UK at the Swan Hunter shipyard on Tyneside.

In 2009 Pet Shop Boys' tenth studio album, "Yes", entered the UK charts at number four. It was followed by their 18-month Pandemonium tour of the UK, Europe and the Americas, including a headlining Saturday night slot at the Glastonbury Festival, and garnered some of the best reviews of their career with The Times calling it "the ravishing pop spectacle of the year".

Tennant and Lowe began writing The Most Incredible Thing in 2008 and see it as a logical development in a career in which they have created pop music and combined it with theatre, dance, art and film.

Trained at RADA and is best known for his role in One Foot In The Grave which has won him numerous awards including a British Comedy Award and two BAFTAs.

From 1996 until 1999 he was Rector of Glasgow University and is now the visiting professor for Drama there. He has honorary degrees from both Glasgow University and the University of Caledonia.

Numerous theatre include: Malvolio in Greg Doran's production of Twelfth Night (RSC and West End), starred in Whipping It Up (The Bush, West End, Tour), Waiting For Godot (Manchester Exchange), What The Butler Saw (National Theatre), Uncle Vanya (Traverse).

Recent Television credits include: Gaius in Merlin, New Tricks, Demons, Kingdom, Reichenbach Falls, The True Voice of Prostitution, Dr Who, Born And Bred, High Stakes.

Film roles include: Love And Other Disasters, Women Talking Dirty, The Man Who New Too Little, Gulliver's Travels, Soft Top Hard Shoulder, Carry On Columbus, How To Get Ahead In Advertising, Prick Up Your Ears, Passage To India.

Richard is a Director and he is a former Associate Director of the Royal Court Theatre. Directing work includes: Primo at the National Theatre starring Antony Sher which transferred to Hampstead and then to Broadway. He also directed the film version for HBO/BBC. Currently Richard is an Associate Director for Sheffield Theatres. Work at Sheffield Crucible theatre includes That Face starring Frances Barber and last year The Pride starring Daniel Evans and Lungs which was co-produced by Paines Plough.

In 1994 he was awarded the OBE for services to drama as a director and actor.