| JACKDAVENPORT | Actor in This Life and Pirates of the Caribbean (4,9) |
| ANDREWLINCOLN | English actor whose TV roles include Egg in This Life and Simon in Teachers |
| ORLANDO | First name of lead actor in this year's Carnival Row (7) |
| SHANERICHIE | Comedian and soap actor in this year's I'm A Celeb (5,6) |
| DAVENPORT | Jack _, Miles in This Life and Steve in Coupling (9) |
| CASTINGDIRECTOR | Hollywood figure seeking to "reel in" the actors in this puzzle? |
| OSCAR | Award won by lead actors in this puzzle's starred films: the winners' names are hidden "word search" |
| AMDRAM | Early drink for actors in this? (2-4) |
| MACKENZIE | - - - Crook, star of The Office and Pirates Of The Caribbean (9) |
| STELLAN | _ Skarsgard, Swedish actor who appeared in Mamma Mia! and Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End (7) |
| RIDES | Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean |
| YESENIN | "In this life there's nothing new in dying. / But nor, of course, is living any newer" - last words of Sergei ____, written in his own blood |
| MARKTWAIN | 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure,' said this writer of Tom Sawyer (4,5) |
| WORLDS | Work with foreign lords for this life and the next perhaps (6) |
| EGG | The name of Andrew Lincoln's character in This Life (3) |
| DHIRI | Characters in board hiring Amita as Milly in This Life (5) |
| LEAST | "Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at ___ don't hurt them": Dalai Lama (5) |
| DEATHBED | One's last resting place in this life |
| DANIELA | ___ Nardini, Anna actress in This Life (7) |
| NARDINI | Daniela _, played Anna Forbes in This Life (7) |
