Eight months to Mars - Mark Hadlow

He's an actor, comedian, singer, writer, producer, director - one of this country's most prominent entertainers - and he can drive a Mini Cooper very fast. He's been in more than 130 plays, musical theatre shows, dozens of films, television series, commercials and radio voice-overs, and now he's a towering global presence although not literally as 'Dori' the dwarf in the Hobbit trilogy.