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Stephanie Nur

Cast · Known for Lioness

Nur and her family relocated to a different country every 3 years. She lived in Egypt, Romania, Italy, Sri Lanka, Scotland, Jordan and Austria, and speaks fluent Arabic, German, Italian and English. Her command of Arabic is so that she can speak it in a few different dialects: Syrian, Egyptian, and Jordanian. She is the daughter of an Austrian diplomat and a Syrian painter, and her middle name is pronounced "Noor". She graduated from the University of Stirling in Scotland with a MSc in Psychology with Honours; having finished the masters degree in 3 years instead of 5.

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Roy Beck

Roy has an exuberant family film heritage spanning seven decades. As a youngster he followed his father and dabbled in front of camera performances before undergoing formal training at Rank Film Laboratories at Denham. From here successfully moving into TV post-production, editing both in London and Toronto, principally with CBC LE programmes, in the 70s and 80s. He went on to set up and run many of Soho's leading post-production houses. He has been married to TV Producer Nickie Stevens since 1987. They have three children, all of whom have successful careers in television, James in TV and movie SFX post-production, Clementine in ad agency TV production and Jonny as a Music Producer. Roy has returned to front of camera roles to feed his love and passion for the movie production process.

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Kirsty Hinchcliffe

Born into a military family that include her father and two uncles who were in the Royal Australian Air Force, Kirsty studied acting in Sydney and London, before moving to New York. There she appeared in numerous off-Broadway plays and in various television episodes like "Law & Order". She has also appeared in many independent films including "The ...

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Peter J. Gray

The first in his family line to act, Peter grew up far away from TV in a country home where fifty acres of forest and imagination entertained. After high school he struck out on an adventure in South America where he lived on the coast learning Spanish and teaching English. A year away from finishing his degree in International Economics and Development, his University plays kicked him into the acting world. While shooting a short film in Toronto, he stopped by an agency unannounced, soaked with rain, without a resume and introduced himself. Three days after turning him down, the agency found his info and called him in to audition for a Feature film. Since then he has thrown himself headlong into acting and filmmaking.

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Scott Ly

Ly's family were boat refugees out of Vietnam right after the fall of Saigon in April 1975. Scott, the youngest of four children, is the first born in America, in Houston Texas. However, he was raised and considers the San Gabriel Valley, Southern California his hometown. As a natural born athlete, he was the captain of his high school's basketball and wrestling teams. Scott went on to be an expert fighter with dedication and training influenced by the late Bruce Lee. Scott's dedication led him to his daily practice of circuit training, yoga, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and MMA pursuits. His passion for performing on stage and in front of the camera led him to his craft for acting as his main focus.

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Drea Castro

Drea came from a family of singers and learned the art of performance through song.  After growing up singing on stage, she was introduced to acting through high school musical theater.  She fell in love instantly and caught the "acting bug."  She began formal acting training at Ramapo College of NJ and earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Theater.  She most recently portrayed a Suicide Bomber in the 2012 film "Act of Valor."  Some of her projects include working on films such as  "I Think I Love My Wife" (opposite Chris Rock) and "Baby Mama" (opposite Sigourney Weaver and Tina Fey). Her directing debut with the film "The Unknown" starring John Fiore ("The Sopranos") won the Soul Special Recognition Award at the Boston International Film Festival. She is currently directing the feature film documentary, "Baldy for the Blind."

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Ashlyn Stallings

Born into a family of actors and extensively trained, Ashlyn was raised with a passion for dramatic arts. She has made her mark across musical theater in New York and Atlanta, as well as brought countless roles to life on film and network TV and is an award winning actress. She recently co-starred on FX's 'Atlanta', AMC's 'The Walking Dead', BET's 'The Quad', appeared in the indie feature 'Breaking Glass', starred in two films premiered at Cannes Film Festival and has honed her craft as the lead in various unique short films. Ashlyn is also an accomplished dancer and stage actress, with credits such as Shelly & Annie in 'Evil Dead The Musical', Red Riding Hood in 'Into the Woods', swing roles in touring musicals, and a number of variety shows. Ashlyn has trained at the prestigious New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts, as well as extensively in Meisner, dance, stage combat and stunts. While not in the spotlight, Ashlyn is also a photographer and avid hiker. She looks at life as an adventure, strives to make a difference with her art, and also bakes really good oatmeal cookies. Like... really good.

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Anneika Rose

Anneika Rose has family from Sri Lanka. She was born and grew up in Glasgow, the second oldest of six children. Rose has appeared on UK television shows including Shetland, The Midwich Cuckoos, Line of Duty, Deadwater Fell and Ackley Bridge. She also appeared in successful theatre productions of Romeo And Juliet, Behind The Beautiful Forevers and The Empress.

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Ray Woolf

Woolf and his family arrived in New Zealand in 1962 when he was 17. He had sung in rock bands in his native Dagenham in Essex since the age of 13, and after a few appearances at Auckland dance halls was signed to Zodiac Records and began recording. Throughout the 1970s he featured on a string of pop shows such as In the Groove, On the Beat Side, C'Mon and Happen Inn. Later, he had his own chat show, The Ray Woolf Show, which had its own live band and audience. Woolf also presented New Zealand children's show Playschool for 18 months, sticking by the philosophy of taking any opportunity that came his way. Hosting the show allowed Woolf more freedom than the structured pop shows he was used to. One of his favourite acting roles was when he played the helmsman of the steamship Venture in Peter Jackson's Кинг Конг (2005), released in 2005. He had the occasional line in the movie but his actual screen time was quite short. He liked the job due to the good company on it. Woolf is a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to entertainment and has also starred in shows like The Sound of Music (2004), West Side Story and The New Rocky Horror Show. He has collaborated with a range of musicians over the years, and some of his more ongoing gigs have been with the jazzy Rodger Fox Big Band. Woolf is on the pension these days but is still adamant that he will keep on entertaining and that nothing will change despite the regular pay cheques from the government.

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Yan Xiaopin

Yan was born in an actors's family. She was influenced by her parents and loved art. She had not graduated from middle school. She was admitted to the acting department of Beijing Film Academy in 1982. She played a role in the TV series "On the Water" while playing school, playing an innocent kindness. Zhu Shihui, a young girl, was well received by the audience. Classmate Lin Fangbing.   After graduating in 1986, she was assigned to act as an actor in Shanghai Film Studio. In 1987, she played the leading role in "Two Midnight" and "Sun Rain". "Sun Rain" was her The masterpiece, in which she plays the heroine Liu Yaxi, she accurately grasps the complex mentality of the heroine, and shapes a brand-new contemporary youth image. It was screened at the second film festival of Shanghai university students and caused a sensation on the university campus and resonated. , Won the "Bachelor Award" Best Actress Award. In April and August 1987, she participated in two Chinese film delegations to visit Singapore. In 1988, he played a major role in The Daughter's Sutra (1986) and The Deal under the Noose. In October 1988, he took the "The Daughter's Classic (1986)" to the Shanghai Film Studios for exhibitions in Germany and France. In 1992, she went to the United States with her husband. While studying in the United States, she was hosting the show on a local Chinese TV station. After returning home, she played roles in film and television dramas such as "Beijing in New York", "Sin Debt" and "One Family, Two Systems".

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Hans-Jochen Wagner

Hans-Jochen Wagner comes from a family of teachers and was born as the middle of three brothers in December 1968 in Tübingen. He grew up in Reutlingen, where his mother worked as an anthroposophical art therapist and he attended the Waldorf school. He initially studied teaching in Tübingen (specializing in mathematics and history) and worked on the side as a technician and assistant director at the Reutlingen theater Die Tonne. He then pursued a degree in cultural education in Hildesheim. From 1994 to 1997, he completed his acting training at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. Later, he took a film acting course at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg. In 1997, he was engaged at the Burgtheater in Vienna.. Wagner made his camera debut in 1998 in the short film "Zita - Stories about Deadly Sins." In 2002, he appeared as Martin alongside Harald Schrott and Lisa Martinek in the television film "Die Rückkehr" (The Return), directed by Christoph Stark. His first leading film role was in 2003 in the German-Austrian feature film "Sie haben Knut" (They Have Knut). From 2013 to 2021, he played Detective Chief Inspector Hendrik Verhoeven in nine episodes of the ZDF crime series "Kommissarin Heller" alongside Lisa Wagner and Nina Kronjäger. From 2004 onwards, he took on guest roles in several "Tatort" episodes. Since 2017, he has been appearing as Detective Friedemann Berg in the Black Forest "Tatort" of SWR alongside Eva Löbau. __________ This is an excerpt from Wikipedia. The complete article (/wiki/Hans-Jochen_Wagner) is licenced under „Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike“. The complete list of contributors is available at the source.

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Kellan Rhude

Kellan Rhude grew up in a military family, moving every few years, which shaped his ability to adapt and connect with people from all walks of life. As an actor, he has appeared in Dexter: New Blood, Showtime’s highest-rated miniseries, and brought a moment of levity to the darkness of David Fincher’s The Killer, which premiered in competition at the 2023 Venice International Film Festival. Having grown up on horror films, it’s no surprise he has been part of projects like The Black Phone for Universal, a major hit that now has a sequel set for fall 2025. He played Floyd Tibbits in Salem’s Lot, based on the Stephen King novel, and will soon star in a horror-thriller alongside Jena Malone, Terrence Howard, and Christopher Lloyd. He also has a role in the climax of Appofeniacs, a new thriller featuring Guardians of the Galaxy’s Sean Gunn. Beyond acting, Kellan loves to sing and play guitar. He’s an avid runner, and one of his favorite memories is swimming with wild spinner dolphins in Hawaii. He earned his BFA from Boston University’s College of Fine Arts and is completing a master’s degree in writing at Johns Hopkins University. He writes poetry, essays, and fiction, with the goal of publishing his work in the near future.

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Sarah Wilson

Sarah Wilson is known for Surviving Family (2012), The Catalyst (2016) and A Little Help (2010).

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Rachael Marie

Rachael Marie is known for Modern Family (2009), The Flash: Crossover (2009) and House (2004).

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Irene Roseen

Irene Roseen is known for The Family Man (2000), The Benchwarmers (2006) and Star Trek (2009).

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Andriana Manfredi

Born to a large blended family of seven children in Fresno, California. Andriana Katarina Manfredi took her first drama class in junior high. Moving to Los Angeles at 18 years old, she began auditioning for roles on TV, commercial ads and print. She is half Indian, the other half of her ethnicity is of Italian, Mexican, Swedish and French descent.

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Van Crosby

Van Crosby was born into a blended family in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is the youngest of four siblings, which include Jordan Crosby, Zach Fite and Haley Fite. He relocated from Fishers, Indiana, to Los Angeles at the age of 2 and soon began working in the entertainment industry, following in the footsteps of his sister Haley. Crosby appeared in his first national print job for Marsico Funds at 3 years old and his first national commercial at the age of 4 for Little Tikes. He has gone on to appear in several others over the years, including a recently aired Audi commercial. He has also guest starred in the series About a Boy and Criminal Minds. In his spare time, Crosby enjoys making short films with his friends, playing computer games and learning new flips on his trampoline.

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Landon Taylor Klotz

Landon Taylor Klotz is known for Modern Family (2009), Shameless (2011) and The Goldbergs (2013).

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Winslow Fegley

Cast · Known for Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile

Winslow was born into a family of actors: he is the son of actors Michael Fegley and Merce Tonne, and brother to actors August Fegley and Oakes Fegley. Winslow developed his skills in 2017 while starring in the stage production of A Billion Nights on Earth, a production he also added creative collaboration to, with avant-garde theatre director Thaddeus Phillips. The show was developed at the Buntport Theatre in Denver, CO, over the summer of 2017, then toured to sold out houses in Philadelphia in September 2017, and was featured as part of the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in November that year, where it again sold out its run. In 2018 Winslow landed his first television role, guest-starring on the hilarious TV-Land show Teachers. He then spent the spring filming 8 episodes of the Disney Channel series Fast Layne, as Mel (which debuted in 2019). After wrapping up on the limited series, he went directly into production in the title role of Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made directed by Academy Award-winner Tom McCarthy. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and then debuted in early 2020 as one of the first original features for the Disney+ streaming platform. In the fall of 2018 Winslow co-starred in the Jacob Chase-helmed horror film Come Play, opposite Azhy Robertson and Gillian Jacobs (released fall 2020). In 2019, he guest-starred as a preteen Sean in ABC's hit show The Good Doctor. In the final months of 2020, Winslow returned to work filming Nightbooks, starring as Alex opposite Kristen Ritter and Lydia Jewett. The David Yarovesky-directed picture debuted in the Netflix Top 10 in the fall of 2021. In the beginning of 2021, Winslow starred as Jake Doyle in what would be the HBO Max 2021 holiday hit 8-Bit Christmas with Neal Patrick Harris, Steve Zahn, and June Diane Raphael.

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Joseph Bonilla

Joseph Bonilla is known for Modern Family (2009), Eaglewalk (2012) and The Young and the Restless (1973).

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Aubree Young

Aubree Young is known for Modern Family (2009), Chicago Med (2015) and Nina Needs to Go (2014).

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Cheyn Cole

Cheyn Cole is known for Modern Family (2009), Cara (2015) and House of Lies (2012).

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Claudia Ferri

Claudia Ferri was born into a multicultural family in Montreal. Her father of Italian Origins and her mother's ancestry is Irish, Scottish, French and Native American. When all the members of her family got together for festivities, Italian, French, English or Arab was spoken among cousins or aunts and uncles. It's no surprise that she is multilingual (English, Italian, French and Spanish) on screen too. The eastern coast of U.S.A. is a familiar scene to her, as many of her childhood summers would see the family traveling down to New York State, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, where they would visit cousins and relatives. Later, her parents built a home and took up residence in Naples, Florida. Claudia was in fact visiting her parents in Naples when a phone call from her agent informed her that she was considered to play opposite Aidan Quinn & Donald Sutherland in "The assignment", which proved to be her first big break in film.

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Humayun Saeed

Humayun was born into an enlightened family on July 27, 1971, in Karachi. Being the eldest amongst five brothers, his parents expected a lot from him. From 1995 onwards, he associated himself with Pakistani television. First he appeared as an artist in numerous television plays and drama serials. His first play was "Yeh Jahan". Later, he started his own production, known as H.S. Production. From 'H.S. Production', he has produced the serial, "Tum he to ho", "Pehli Khahish", "Adhuray Khawab", "Dil wo bay mehar" and "Undekhi". He was teamed up with Sonia Saeed, Perveen Malik, Ghazala Butt and others, in the play, 'Shayad Kay Bahar Aaye'. Producer, Sultana Siddiqui, director, Rana Sheikh.