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John Peter Bernardo

Editor · Known for Community, Warehouse 13, black-ish

John Peter Bernardo was born on 5 December 1966 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an award winning editor, known for Serenity (2005), Cast Away (2000) and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992).

Andrew Menzies

Production Design · Known for Fury, The Wrecking Crew

Andrew Menzies is a British–Australian production designer and art director. Early in his career, he worked in art departments on notable feature films, including October Sky (1999), Cast Away (2000), What Lies Beneath (2000), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), The Sum of All Fears (2002), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), War of the Worlds (2005), and Avatar (2009), often serving as art director or assistant art director. Over the years, Menzies advanced to lead production designer on a variety of high-profile and diverse productions. His credits include 3:10 to Yuma (2007), The Uninvited (2009), The Crazies (2010), Knight and Day (2010), G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013), Fury (2014), Monster Trucks (2016), Power Rangers (2017), Bright (2017), Mile 22 (2018), The Tax Collector (2020), Sweet Girl (2021), and the video game adaptation Borderlands (2024), and Disney+'s Ironheart (2025).

Jenifer Lewis

Cast · Known for Strong Medicine, Cast Away, Cars

Jenifer Jeanette Lewis (born January 25, 1957) is an American film and television actress and singer. She is one of Hollywood's most familiar faces, with more than 300 appearances in film and television and was dubbed a "national treasure" by TV Guide.com. She began her career appearing in Broadway musicals and worked as a back-up singer for Bette Midler before appearing in the films Beaches and Sister Act. She delivered legendary performances as Tina Turner's mother in What's Love Got to Do With It and in The Preacher's Wife as the mother of Whitney Houston's character. She starred opposite Matt Damon in Clint Eastwood's Hereafter. For director Tyler Perry, she created unforgettable characters in Madea's Family Reunion and Meet the Browns. In the movie Cast Away, she portrayed Tom Hanks' boss. In animated films, Jenifer's uniquely recognizable voice is adored by Disney fans worldwide in roles such as "Flo" in Cars and Cars 2, and as "Mama Odie" in The Princess and the Frog. For six seasons, Jenifer portrayed "Lana Hawkins" on Lifetime's hit series Strong Medicine. She starred on the hit show Black-ish (ABC), where her hilarious portrayal of "Ruby Johnson" earned her a nomination for the 2016 Critics Choice Award. She has also written two books: The Mother of Black Hollywood and Walking in My Joy: In These Streets.

Helen Hunt

Cast · Known for Cast Away, Mad About You, Hacks

Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15, 1963) is an American actress and director. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, four Primetime Emmy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. Hunt rose to fame in 1992, portraying Jamie Buchman in the sitcom Mad About You which earned her three Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress and four Primetime Emmy Awards for Lead Actress. In 1997, Hunt won the Academy Award for Best Actress for starring as Carol Connelly in the romantic comedy As Good as It Gets, while her portrayal of Cheryl Cohen-Greene in The Sessions (2012), gained her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other notable films include Twister (1996), Cast Away (2000), What Women Want (2000), Pay It Forward (2000), Bobby (2006), Soul Surfer (2011), and The Miracle Season (2018). Hunt made her directorial film debut with Then She Found Me (2007), and has directed the film Ride (2014), and episodes of television series, including House of Lies, This Is Us, Feud: Bette and Joan, American Housewife, and the premiere episode of the Mad About You revival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helen Hunt, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Alan Silvestri

Composer · Known for Captain America: The First Avenger, Cast Away, Practical Magic

Alan Anthony Silvestri (born March 26, 1950) is an American composer, conductor, orchestrator and music producer of film scores. He has received two Grammy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and nominations for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. He has been associated with director Robert Zemeckis since 1984, composing music for nearly all of his feature films, including the Back to the Future film series (1985–1990), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Death Becomes Her (1992), Forrest Gump (1994), Contact (1997), What Lies Beneath (2000), Cast Away (2000), The Polar Express (2004), Beowulf (2007), Flight (2012) and The Walk (2015).  Silvestri also scored many other popular movies, including Predator (1987), The Abyss (1989), Father of the Bride (1991), The Bodyguard (1992), Eraser (1996), The Parent Trap (1998), Stuart Little (1999), The Mummy Returns (2001), Lilo & Stitch (2002), Van Helsing (2004), Night at the Museum trilogy, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009), The A-Team (2010),  Ready Player One (2018), and several Marvel Cinematic Universe films, including the Avengers films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Silvestri, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Dmitri S. Boudrine

Cast · Known for Cast Away

Dmitri Boudrin is an actor, teacher and producer. Born in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR. In 1989 he graduated from the Shchukin Higher Theatre School. He played at the Vakhtangov Theatre and the Oleg Tabakov Theatre Studio. Since 1992 he has lived and worked in the USA. In 1997 he graduated from the producing department of the University of California, Los Angeles. He has been a producer and director in more than 75 Canadian and American projects. He played 70 roles in Hollywood films and TV series, including Cast Away, The X-Files, Lost, The Bloodhound and others. Since 1998 he was invited to teach at the Michael Chekhov Actors Studio in Los Angeles (Michael Chekhov Studio USA West), and successfully worked there until 2008. Currently, he is a teacher of acting and history of acting techniques at the acting school "Stella Adler Studio Los Angeles". Since 2001, he has been the founder and artistic director of the international organization "American-Russian Theater Alliance", which is engaged in the development of educational international programs and joint television and film projects with the USA and Canada.

Arthur Schmidt

Editor · Known for Back to the Future, Back to the Future Part II, Cast Away

From Wikipedia, the free encylopedia. Arthur Robert Schmidt (June 17, 1937 – August 5, 2023) was an American film editor with about 27 film credits between 1977 and 2005. Schmidt had an extended collaboration with director Robert Zemeckis from the Back to the Future film trilogy (1985—1990) to Cast Away (2000). Description above from the Wikipedia article Arthur Schmidt, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Tom Woodruff Jr.

Tom Woodruff Jr. (born January 21, 1959) is an American actor, director, producer and special effects supervisor. He won an Academy Award for Best Special Effects for his work on the 1992 dark fantasy film Death Becomes Her; that same year he was also nominated for the same award for Alien 3. Some of his most notable works include: The Santa Clause, Starship Troopers, Cast Away, It and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Woodruff Jr., licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Jackie Torres

Jackie Torres is a Puerto Rican actress, writer, director and producer who gained notoriety while producing the top shows Marcano...El Show and Con lo que cuenta este pais in her native Puerto Rico and La Hora Lunatica in Los Angeles California, all for the Telemundo Television Network. Her move to Los Angeles introduced her to the cinema world. She directed the urban films The Price of the American Dream & East LA King for Laguna Productions and Crossing Frontiers for her own company Jakmar Entertainment. As an actress she has acted in over 20 films and TV series including Domino: Battle of the Bones, After Words, Black Monday, Bosch, ER, The District, Miss Cast Away and the Island Girls, Blood Relatives, and El Güero Estrada. She obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications at the University of Maryland, College Park. After that, she got a Master’s Degree from the University of Puerto Rico.

William Broyles Jr.

Writer · Known for Cast Away, Entrapment, Unfaithful

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William Dodson Broyles, Jr. (born October 8, 1944) is an American screenwriter, who has worked on the television series China Beach (1988–1991), and the films Apollo 13 (1995), Cast Away (2000), Entrapment (1999), Planet of the Apes (2001), Unfaithful (2002), The Polar Express (2004), and Jarhead (2005). He also assisted in the screenplay of "Saving Private Ryan" (1998). Description above from the Wikipedia article William Broyles, Jr., licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Tom Hanks

Cast · Known for Cast Away, Saving Private Ryan, That Thing You Do!

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, Hanks is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is widely regarded as an American cultural icon. Hanks made his breakthrough with leading roles in the comedies Splash (1984) and Big (1988). He won two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor for starring as a gay lawyer suffering from AIDS in Philadelphia (1993) and a young man with below-average IQ in Forrest Gump (1994). Hanks collaborated with film director Steven Spielberg on five films: Saving Private Ryan (1998), Catch Me If You Can (2002), The Terminal (2004), Bridge of Spies (2015), and The Post (2017), as well as the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers, which launched him as a director, producer, and screenwriter. Hanks' other notable films include the romantic comedies Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and You've Got Mail (1998); the dramas Apollo 13 (1995), The Green Mile (1999), Cast Away (2000), Road to Perdition (2002), and Cloud Atlas (2012); and the biographical dramas Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Captain Phillips (2013), Sully (2016), and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019). He has also appeared as the title character in the Robert Langdon film series, and has voiced Sheriff Woody in the Toy Story film series. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Hanks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Robert Stromberg

Production Design · Director · Known for Alice in Wonderland, Avatar, Maleficent

Robert Stromberg is an Emmy Award and Academy Award winning visual effects artist, specialized in matte paintings, who worked for Bill Taylor and Syd Dutton as part of their company Illusion Arts, Inc. on Star Trek: First Contact, the Star Trek: The Next Generation third and fifth season episodes "The Best of Both Worlds" and "A Matter Of Time", the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine second season episode "Tribunal" and the Star Trek: Voyager first season episode "Caretaker". For "Tribunal", Stromberg created the matte painting of Cardassia Prime and for "Caretaker" created the matte paintings for the Ocampa underground city. During his time on Star Trek, Stromberg earned one Emmy Award nomination and two wins. He made his directorial debut with the 2014 Disney film Maleficent, a re-imagining of the iconic Disney villain. Stromberg earned an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Individual Achievement – Special Visual Effects in 1995 for his work on the television drama Fatherland, shared with Richard Patterson and David S. Williams, Jr., In 2008 he won another Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special for the John Adams episode Join Or Die, for which he also won two Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Created Environment in a Broadcast Program or Commercial and for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Miniseries, Movie or Special. He was previously nominated for a Visual Effects Society Award in 2006 for his work on the drama Memoirs of a Geisha. His work on Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World in 2004 earned him three more nominations and one win: an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects, a BAFTA Film Award nomination for Best Achievement in Special Visual Effects, a Visual Effects Society Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Motion Picture, shared with Brooke Breton, and the win of a Golden Satellite Award for Best Visual Effects. The following years he worked as matte artist/ digital matte artist on projects such as Tremors (1990), Cape Fear (1991), A Few Good Men (1992), Addams Family Values (1993), Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994), From Dusk till Dawn (1996), The Birdcage (1996), Dragonheart (1996), Daylight (1996), Patch Adams (1998), Battlefield Earth (2000), Cast Away (2000), 15 Minutes (2001), Men in Black II (2002), Catch Me If You Can (2002), Bad Boys II (2003), and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003). In 2010 Stromberg and Rick Carter received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Production Design for their work on Avatar. Star Trek production designer Scott Chambliss is also nominated in this category. Stromberg, Rick Carter, and Kim Sinclair won the Academy Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction for their work on Avatar at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. In 2011 Stromberg and Karen O'Hara received the Academy Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction for their work on Alice in Wonderland at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards. Also in 2011 he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series for his work as Visual Effects Supervisor on the crime series Boardwalk Empire.

Alan Cassell

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alan Cassell (born 1932) was an Australian actor, born in the UK and best known for his roles in film and television. Cassell was one of the actors who worked in Bruce Beresford's early Australian films. Film credits include:Money Movers, Cathy's Child (for which he was nominated for "Best Actor"), Squizzy Taylor, Breaker Morant, Puberty Blues and The Club. His most recent films are The Honorable Wally Norman and Strange Bedfellows. TV roles include: Taurus Rising, Special Squad, The Flying Doctors, The Power, The Passion, Blue Heelers, SeaChange, Stingers and MDA. Cassell commenced his acting career in WA and worked for many years as a stage Actor. Winning "Best Actor of the Year" for his role in "A Day in the Death of Joe Egg" He later worked for the Sydney Theatre Company and the Melbourne Theatre Company. He was in the original cast of "Away" which toured to New York and appeared in "Sweet Bird of Youth" with Lauren Bacall for the Sydney Theatre Company. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Cassell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. ​

Gregory Apps

Casting · Known for Knowing

Gregory Richard "Greg" Apps is an Australian film casting consultant and actor. He cast Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Eric Bana, Sam Worthington, and Hugo Weaving in the roles that brought them to wide public recognition. Apps was born in 1955, and from 1967 until 1973 he attended Newington College. In the 1970s, Apps began his working life as an actor. He appeared in the films The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Mad Dog Morgan, and Sunday Too Far Away and on stage in the original Melbourne/Adelaide production of The Rocky Horror Show. In 1982 he first started casting at the ABC Melbourne. He has since cast TV commercials, TV series, and over 70 feature films. For seven years he was on the board of the Australian Film Institute, and he is the current president of the Casting Guild of Australia. Apps is married to Australian actress and casting director Robyn Gibbes. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gregory Apps, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Richard Huggett

Richard Huggett (born 1965) is an Australian film, television and theatre actor. After graduating from NIDA in 1988, Huggett guested in an episode of Home and Away, before he was cast as villain Sonny Bennett in E Street (1990).

Melissa George

Cast · Known for In Treatment, Mulholland Drive

Melissa Suzanne George (born 6 August 1976) is an Australian film and television actress who has worked in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Melissa is perhaps best known for her role as Angel Parrish on the Australian soap opera Home and Away. The show was followed for appearances in the series, including Roar and Thieves. Melissa also has appeared in the hit shows Alias and In Treatment. Her film debut was in the neo-noir science fiction feature Dark City (1998), and later was cast in supporting roles in the films The Limey (1999) and David Lynch's drama Mulholland Dr. (2001). Other film appearances include the remake of The Amityville Horror (2005), the thriller Turistas (2006), and the vampire horror 30 Days of Night (2007). She has earned critical acclaim recently for her starring role in the psychological horror Triangle (2009). Description above from the Wikipedia article Melissa George, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Liza Fernandez

An award-winning American/Canadian/Australian actress, Liza Fernandez, has performed extensively on both stage and screen. She is best known for her television work on Mom, The Good Place, How to Get Away with Murder, and Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders. Her cast mates include: Allison Janney (Mom, CBS), Kristen Bell (The Good Place), Holt McCallany (Mindhunter), Gary Sinise (Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders), Dominic West and Maura Tierney (The Affair), Frances McDormand and Lili Taylor (52nd St Project), to name a few. She was nominated for an Ovation Award for "Best Featured Actress in a Play".

Debra Lawrance

Cast · Known for Blue Heelers

Debra Lawrance (born 1 January 1957) is an Australian television and film actress. She is best known for her role on Home and Away, as Pippa Ross, which she played from 1990 to 1998. Lawrance met her husband Dennis Coard when he was cast as Pippa's second husband on Home and Away as Michael Ross. They married in 1992 and have two children.

Ashleigh Brewer

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ashleigh May Brewer (born 9 December 1990) is an Australian actress. She had a recurring role in The Sleepover Club, before she joined the cast of H2O: Just Add Water. Brewer played the role of Kate Ramsay in the long-running Australian soap opera Neighbours from 2009 until 2014. She portrayed Ivy Forrester on the CBS Daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful from 2014 to 2018. Later that same year, she joined the cast of Home and Away as Chelsea Campbell for six months. Born and raised in Brisbane, Brewer graduated from Forest Lake College in 2008. After moving to Melbourne, Brewer shared a flat with fellow Neighbours co-star Margot Robbie.[

Rose Riley

Rose Riley is an Australian actress, known for her roles on Australian TV series as Sienna Blake in Home and Away and as Anna Davis in Back to the Rafters. After graduating from high school, Riley began her training at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Three years later, she made the move from Perth to Sydney where she began her career as an actor. Rose has scored various roles in the Australian film and television industry, notably in ABC dramas Mystery Road and Total Control, and Australian indie film Book Week. More recently she worked on FX's Mr Inbetween and played Sharee, a detention center guard, in six-part drama Stateless for Matchbox Pictures. She was thrilled to be cast as Anna in the return series Back to the Rafters for Amazon Prime/7.

Belinda Emmett

Belinda Emmett was an Australian actress and singer. She was best known for her roles in the TV drama series Home and Away and All Saints. She was married to Australian television host, comedian and media personality Rove McManus on 29 January 2005. Emmett was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1998, aged 24. She took a break from her role as Rebecca Fisher/Nash on Home and Away (during which time the part was played by Megan Connolly) and underwent surgery to remove a malignant tumour, followed by six weeks of radiotherapy. She left the cast of Home and Away the following year and went on to appear in nine episodes of All Saints as Jodi Horner between 2000 and 2001. Emmett died from breast cancer in Sydney, New South Wales, at the age of 32, on 11th November 2006.

Jordan Rodrigues

Jordan Rodrigues (born 20 July, 1992) is an Australian singer, dancer and actor best known for playing Jai Fernandez in Home and Away and Christian Reed in Dance Academy. Rodrigues's first professional acting experience was when he played the role of the young Simba in The Lion King's Australian tour at the Capitol Theatre starting in October 2003. Rodrigues then trained as a dancer at Brent Street in Sydney for over ten years. He began acting in 2008, and made his debut in Home and Away for the part of Jai Fernandez. In 2009, Rodrigues was nominated for a TV Week Silver Logie as Most Popular New Talent after he finished his role on Home and Away. In 2009, he landed a main role in the ABC series Dance Academy. He was cast as one of the main characters, Christian Reed. In 2013, he appeared in the Australian 4-part mini-series Better Man. He went on to reprise his role in the 2017 film Dance Academy: The Movie. From 2014 to 2018, he had a recurring role in the ABC family show The Fosters in the second to fifth season. He starred in film Breaking Through as JJ. In 2017, he appeared in Greta Gerwig's A24 film Lady Bird as Miguel McPherson, the titular character's older brother. From 2018, he played Trey Emory, one of the main characters in the Hulu original series Light as a Feather.

Ben Oxenbould

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ben Oxenbould (born 2 March 1969) is an Australian actor and comedian, best known for his work in the Australian film and television industry. In 1980, Oxenbould was cast as "Hubert 'Fatty' Finn" in the film Fatty Finn.  He then appeared in several films and television programs, including Home and Away, G. P. and Echo Point.  Oxenbould was cast as the character "Ben" in the sitcom, Hey Dad..!, appearing on the show between 1991 and 1994. In 2000 Oxenbould helped set up the BBAS Memorial School, a school in Bardia, Nepal, a remote Nepalese mountain village. In 2005, he organised a fundraiser for the school, which was supported by Australian entertainers, including singers Tex Perkins and Tim Rogers and comedian Akmal Saleh and artwork by the school's students was auctioned. From 2003 to 2005 Oxenbould featured as one of the ensemble cast of the sketch comedy series Comedy Inc., in which he was noted for several characters, including his parody of cricketer Shane Warne.  A review of Comedy Inc: The Late Shift published in The Australian in 2005 described Oxenbould's performance in the show as: "continu[ing] to display a gift for parody and a range that goes from high camp to seriously blue collar."  He left the program in 2005. In 2000 Oxenbould won the "Best Actor" award in the Sydney Fringe Festival's annual "Big Competition For Little Plays". In 2007 he starred in the film Black Water, a thriller set in the Australian outback and featuring a man-eating crocodile.  In 2010 he appeared in the film Wicked Love: The Maria Korp Story, a film based on the true story of Maria Korp who was murdered by her husband's lover in 2005.  Oxenbould has also done extensive work as a voice-over artist, as well as work in short films and theatre. On 24 March 2010, Oxenbould appeared on Australian television programme A Current Affair to support claims of sexual abuse made by fellow actor, Sarah Monahan. Oxenbould claimed to have witnessed another child actress being molested by a male cast member. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Oxenbould , licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Harve Presnell

Cast · Known for Fargo, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

Harve Presnell (September 14, 1933 – June 30, 2009) was an American actor and singer. He began his career in the mid 1950s as a classical baritone, singing with orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States. His career reoriented away from classical music to musical theatre in 1960 after Meredith Willson cast him in the lead role of his new Broadway musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown. His portrayal of "Leadville Johnny" was a resounding success and he reprised the role in the 1964 film version of the musical, winning a Golden Globe Award for his portrayal. Presnell went on to star in a few more films during the 1960s, but by the early 1970s that aspect of his career came to a standstill. From 1970 to 1995 he mostly worked as a musical theatre performer on Broadway, the West End, and in touring productions out of New York. In his early 60s, Presnell saw a resurgence in his movie career which lasted until his death. He portrayed character roles in films like Fargo (1996), Saving Private Ryan (1998), and Flags of Our Fathers (2006). He also appeared on television as Mr. Parker in The Pretender and Lew Staziak in Andy Barker, P.I.. He had recurring roles on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and Dawson's Creek. Description above from the Wikipedia article Harve Presnell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.