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Frankie Corio

Cast · Known for Aftersun

Francesca Corio (born 7 July 2010) is a Scottish child actress. She is known for her debut role as Sophie alongside Paul Mescal in Charlotte Wells' directorial debut Aftersun (2022). Corio is from Livingston, West Lothian. She is of Italian descent and has two siblings. Corio was ten when she was cast in Aftersun among 800 submissions from schools and youth clubs across Scotland, and 12 by the film's release.

Blair McClendon

Editor · Known for Aftersun

Blair McClendon is a New York-based film editor, writer, and filmmaker whose work spans documentary and narrative feature film. He edited Charlotte Wells's acclaimed debut Aftersun (2022), starring Oscar nominee Paul Mescal, and Kitty Green's The Assistant (2019), alongside credits including After Sherman, Mr. Soul!, The Last Showgirl, and the Oscar-shortlisted documentary UNION (2024). His films have premiered at Sundance, Cannes, Tribeca, and TIFF. Beyond editing, McClendon is a writer whose criticism and essays have appeared in n+1, The New Republic, and The New York Times Magazine.

Charlotte Wells

Director · Known for Aftersun

Charlotte Wells (born June 13, 1987) is a New York-based Scottish director, writer, and producer. She wrote and directed three short films as a student in the MBA/MFA dual-degree program at NYU where she was supported by BAFTA New York and Los Angeles. Charlotte has been featured in Filmmaker Magazine's “25 Faces of Independent Film” and was a Fellow at the 2020 Sundance Institute Screenwriters and Directors Labs. Aftersun (2022) is her first feature, for which she received a number of accolades, including Gotham and British Independent Film Awards.

Anna Madeley

Cast · Known for Fatherland

Anna Madeley is an English actress. She has been described by the British Theatre Guide's Philip Fisher as one of the United Kingdom's "brightest and most versatile young actresses". She grew up in London and started her career as a child actress. She performed for three seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has appeared in three off-West End productions. She has starred in BBC TV films and on Channel 4. Anna has also done work in radio and film. Madeley grew up in London, attending North London Collegiate School, and began her career as a child actress. She then trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Madeley has performed three seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company: 2001-2002; and 2003-2004. She appeared in The Roman Actor opposite Sir Antony Sher. In 2005 she appeared in three off-West End productions (Laura Wade's Colder Than Here, as well as The Philanthropist (directed by David Grindley) and The Cosmonaut's Last Message..., both at the Donmar Warehouse), and rounded off the year starring as both Aaron and Young Alexander Ashbrook in the original Royal National Theatre production of Helen Edmundson's Coram Boy. In 2006, Madeley starred in two BBC TV films - as the title character in The Secret Life of Mrs Beeton, and in the original drama Aftersun - and the high-profile ITV drama The Outsiders. In 2007, Madeley appeared in Channel 4's Consent, which combined a dramatised vignette about an alleged date rape with a "real life" sequence in which lawyers and a jury made up of members of the public participated in a trial. In February 2007, Madeley played Nina in a production of The Seagull for a time, when the main actress fell ill. She was the only cast member to reprise her role in Grindley's 2009 Broadway production of The Philanthropist. In 2010 she appeared The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, based on a script by Jane English, and starring Maxine Peake as Anne Lister, a 19th-century industrialist who was Britain's "first modern lesbian" and who kept a detailed journal. The film was shown on the opening night at the Frameline Film Festival at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco in June 2010. In January 2013 Madeley starred in Hammer Films' first live theatre play, a new stage adaptation of The Turn of the Screw. In 2016, she played the role of Clarissa Eden in the Netflix series The Crown.