Darren Beaumont trained at ARTTS international where he was presented with their award for outstanding achievement. From there Darren toured extensively before settling to spend a few years with Twisting Yarn developing shows alongside the Alhambra Theatre (Bradford) and regular roles with Live Theatre (Newcastle).
His television appearances include the BBC's Inspector George Gently as well as A Passionate Woman. More recently Darren has been moving further into film, most notably with his role in Frank and a role in 'Harrigans Nick' to be released later this year.
Con O'Neill has many prodigious theatre credits having been with The Royal National Theatre and The Royal Exchange among many others.
During his career Con has won a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance in Blood Brothers as well as a nomination for Broadway's Tony Award for Best Actor. He also starred in Dancin' Thru The Dark, the film adaptation of Willy Russell's Stags And Hens and played Cougar Glass opposite Jude Law in the world premiere of Philip Ridley's stage play, The Fastest Clock In The Universe. Con has also had success in a variety of television roles including Criminal Justice.
More recently, he played Joe Meek in Telstar: The Joe Meek Story, which was nominated for a British Independent Film Award (BIFA) and Dennis in The Kid both directed by Nick Moran. An Olivier nomination for Best Actor was given for his role in the theatre play of Telstar. In 2011, he took the role of dockworker Eddie Carbone in Arthur Miller's A View From The Bridge at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre, which received rave reviews and has just won him a 'Best Actor' award at The Manchester Theatre Award.
Kellie plays 'Polly' in 'Frank'. Her forthcoming film work also includes British Features 'Riot', 'Run for your Wife', 'Everyone's Going to Die' (Premiers at Sundance 2013) & 'Girl on a Bicycle' (Warner Bros/Wiedemann & Berg) directed by Jeremy Leven (The Notebook, My Sister's Keeper) - all for cinema release 2012/3.
Other film work includes; 'Venus', 'Heidi', 'The Baseline', 'The Sick House', 'Too Much, Too Young', 'The Best Man', Doctor Jekyll & Mr Hyde' and 'Wimbledon'.
For television Kellie is best known for playing 'Carly Wicks' in 'EastEnders (BBC) where she left in 2008 after clocking up over 220 episodes. Other TV work includes 'Lewis' (ITV) 'Parents of The Band' (BBC) 'Happy Slaps' (C4) 'Murder City' (ITV) 'Sex, Football & Scoring Goals' (C4) 'Secret Futures' (BBC) 'The Office: Christmas Specials' (BBC) & three part BBC drama 'Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky'. She plays the lead role of 'Lydia' in web series 'Self Centered'.
For Theatre Kellie has worked for The Menier Chocolate Factory, National Theatre, Soho Theatre & Royal Court. She played 'Nancy' in Neil Bartlett's 'Oliver Twist' for The Lyric Hammersmith. Kellie was also part of the 10 year anniversary cast of 'The Vagina Monologues'.
She has also worked extensively for BBC Radio 4. Most recently she played 'Maudie Miller' in 'Flare Path' for BBC Radio 3 as part of Terence Rattigan's Centenary.
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Ellie Bindman is a young talent on the rise appearing in various dance and singing revues produced by Sage Academy of Theatre Arts and now appearing in her first feature film, Frank.
Ellie has also won roles at The Peoples' Theatre in Newcastle and as one of the children in the theatre production of Oliver at the Sunderland Empire. Since appearing in Frank, Ellie has had roles in two short films and is about to shoot a music video.