Black Doves is undoubtedly the TV present that has acquired us all speaking proper now.

The Netflix spy thriller has already received unanimous reward from critics because of its spectacular solid and sparked comparisons with award-winning reveals like Gradual Horses and Pleased Valley – and the very fact the entire thing is ready over Christmas simply makes it much more ultimate viewing for this December.

In case you’ve already began Black Doves – or, certainly, you shortly binged the entire thing – the probabilities are you’ve gotten been left pondering the place you’ve seen no less than one or two members of the solid earlier than.

And for that, we’ve acquired you lined. Right here’s a fast information to the celebrities of Black Doves’ most notable credit up to now…

Yeah, OK, you in all probability already know the place you’ve seen Keira Knightley earlier than. She is, in spite of everything, Keira Knightley. However simply in case.

After her massive break in Bend It Like Beckham, Keira joined the Pirates Of The Caribbean franchise as Elizabeth Swann, and went on to painting Elizabeth Bennett in a preferred adaptation of Pleasure & Prejudice. She was later nominated for Oscars for her performances in Atonement and The Imitation Sport.

In fact, Black Doves in all probability received’t be the one time you’re seeing Keira this festive season, as she’s additionally among the many sprawling ensemble solid of the Christmas rom-com Love Really.

Amongst Ben Whishaw’s greatest on-screen roles are Q in the newest James Bond films, a grown-up Michael Banks within the Disney sequel Mary Poppins Returns and the interval drama Brideshead Revisited.

He’s additionally a two-time Emmy winner because of his performances in Legal Justice and A Very English Scandal, and you will have additionally seen him in This Is Going To Damage, Fargo or London Spy.

And even if you happen to don’t suppose you’re acquainted with Ben’s work, it’s extremely possible you’ve no less than heard him, as a result of he’s the present voice of Paddington Bear.

A real legend of British telly, we’re hoping that Black Doves may be yet one more massive step on the way in which to international recognition for Sarah Lancashire.

Sarah acquired her begin within the long-running serials Coronation Avenue and The place The Coronary heart Is, earlier than turning into a staple of British dramas like Rose And Maloney, Final Tango In Halifax and Pleased Valley, for which she received two Baftas.

In the previous couple of years, she’s dipped her two into big-screen performing, showing in Danny Boyle’s Yesterday and the film adaptation of the musical All people’s Speaking About Jamie, in addition to the sequence Kiri, MotherFatherSon and Julia, an HBO manufacturing through which she took the lead because the chef Julia Little one.

An achieved martial artist in addition to an actor, Andrew performed the lead in all three seasons of the TV sequence Warrior.

You might need additionally seen him within the James Corden manufacturing The Incorrect Mans, the supernatural sequence The Innocents or the motion comedy Bullet Practice, through which he shared the display screen with Brad Pitt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Joey King.

Like Sarah Lancashire, Andrew is probably most well-known for his work in British TV dramas, enjoying Mark Latimer in Broadchurch.

He additionally has a historical past of enjoying real-life figures together with Andrew Parker-Bowles in The Crown, Thomas Extra in The Spanish Princess, Henri Matisse in Genius, William Garrow in Garrow’s Regulation and former well being secretary Matt Hancock in This England.

He additionally performed Felim Bichan in Trade, and acted in movies like Nowhere Boy and All The Cash In The World.

Omari Douglas’ display screen debut got here in 2021 when he landed the scene-stealing position of Roscoe within the much-loved drama It’s A Sin, incomes him a Bafta nomination.

Since then, his credit have included season two of I Hate Suzie, the TV drama Nolly and the romantic comedy Rye Lane – however it’s within the theatre the place Omari has actually thrived.

After originating the position of Clifford Bradshaw within the present West Finish revival of Cabaret, Omari has been treading the boards with Russell Tovey in Constellations, and joined the solid of the hard-hitting novel A Little Life’s stage adaptation.

A two-time Bafta winner, because of Murdered By My Father and Sherwood, Adeel Akhtar lately performed police officer Sami Kierce in one other Netflix manufacturing, Idiot Me As soon as.

His different credit embrace the crime drama The Tunnel, the Channel 4 thriller Utopia (through which he performed a survivalist conspiracy theorist Wilson Wilson, incomes himself yet one more TV Bafta nod), the surreal sitcom Ghosted and the second and fourth seasons of Killing Eve.

Harry Potter followers would possibly keep in mind Kathryn for her position as Arabella Figg in The Order Of The Phoenix, whereas Star Wars devotees will recognise her from the TV spin-off Andor, launched in 2022.

Kathryn has been particularly booked and busy in the previous couple of years, showing in all the things from the Oscar-winning Poor Issues and the divisive Megalopolis to the Eggers Brothers horror The Entrance Room and Ryan Murphy’s Grotesquerie.

Though Black Doves is Ella Lily Hyland’s greatest undertaking up to now, you continue to might need seen her performing earlier than

Final yr, the Irish actor took the lead in Amazon Prime’s tennis drama Fifteen-Love, co-starring Aidan Turner, additionally appeared within the mysterious big-screen drama Silent Roar.

A few of Sam’s most up-to-date credit embrace A Very Royal Scandal, the Amazon drama based mostly on Prince Andrew’s notorious Newsnight interview, the hard-hitting true crime dramas Litvinenko and Stephen and Ridley Scott’s historic epic Napoleon.

You could have beforehand seen him in Chernobyl, Alien vs. Predator, Vera Drake or Mank.

Curiously, Sam additionally has a connection to Physician Who’s early years, as his grandfather was Patrick Troughton, the second actor to play the Time Lord.

Black Doves is streaming now on Netflix.