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John Thomas Gauthier

John Thomas Gauthier is an actor, known for The Boys (2019), I, Terrorist (2019) and Martyrs - The Chronicles of Blood (2019).

Morjana Alaoui

Cast · Known for Martyrs

Morjana Alaoui (born November 30, 1982) is a Moroccan actress. She starred in Marock, Pascal Laugier's horror film Martyrs, and Rock the Casbah. Alaoui spent her early life in the Anfa neighborhood of Casablanca, Morocco, and studied at the Casablanca American School. At 18, Alaoui moved to Paris, France, where she studied at the American University of Paris. While attending the university, she met director Laila Marrakchi, who offered her a role in the film Marock (2005). Marock was critically acclaimed and provided Alaoui national fame. In 2007, she began filming Martyrs, for which she is also known. In 2016 Alaoui starred in psychological thriller Broken directed by Shaun Robert Smith. Source: Article "Morjana Alaoui" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Jakob Davies

Jakob Davies is a Canadian born Actor. He began acting in 2009 and was featured in several National and International Commercials. Jakob quickly transitioned to Television and Movies where he has been cast in 19 productions to date. He has been fortunate to portray iconic characters such as "Lex Luther" (Smallville) and the recurring role of "Pinocchio" on ABC's "Once Upon a Time". He has worked with "Martyrs" Director Pascal Laugier on "The Tall Man" and has just completed filming: "The Young and Prodigious Spivet with Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet(Amelie). Despite his acting credits Jakob remains grounded attending public school were he enjoys spending time with his friends.He participates in team sports (Football) and Dance (Hip Hop). He continues to love acting and strives to be his best in each and every project put before him. - IMDb Mini Biography

Caitlin Carmichael

Caitlin Carmichael (born 2004) is an American actress. Her credits include In the Motherhood (2008), Criminal Minds (2009), Shake It Up, iCarly, Hot in Cleveland, Law & Order: LA, and Bag of Bones (all 2011), The Wicked (2013), 300: Rise of an Empire (2014), Martyrs (2015), Young Sheldon and The Good Doctor (both 2017), Life Itself (2018), Midnight in the Switchgrass (2021), and Dwight in Shining Armor (2019–2021).

Peter Noone

Peter Blair Denis Bernard Noone (born 5 November 1947) is an English singer-songwriter, guitarist, pianist and actor. He was the lead singer "Herman" in the 1960s pop group Herman's Hermits. Noone was born in Davyhulme, Lancashire, England, the second of five children, the son of an accountant, and attended English Martyrs (Urmston), Wellacre Primary School (Flixton), Stretford Grammar School, and St Bede's College, Manchester. Noone played a number of acting roles on television, including that of Stanley Fairclough in the soap opera Coronation Street. Noone studied voice and drama at the Manchester School of Music, where he won the Outstanding Young Musician Award. Early in his career, he used the stage name Peter Novac. At 15, he became the lead singer, spokesman and frontman of Herman's Hermits, who were discovered by Harvey Lisberg. As "Herman", the photogenic Noone appeared on the cover of many international publications, including Time Magazine's collage showing new faces in popular music. The Hermits consisted of Noone, Derek “Lek” Leckenby and Keith Hopwood (guitars), Karl Green (bass) and Barry Whitwam (drums). The band's hits included: "I'm into Something Good", "Can't You Hear My Heartbeat", "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter", "Silhouettes", "Wonderful World", "I'm Henry the Eighth, I Am" (in the U.S.), "There's a Kind of Hush", "Just a Little Bit Better", "A Must to Avoid", "Listen People", "The End of the World", "Dandy", and "No Milk Today". Herman's Hermits sold more than 60 million records and had 14 gold singles and seven gold albums. The Hermits were twice named in the U.S. trade paper Cashbox as "Entertainer of the Year". As Herman, Noone performed on hundreds of television programmes and appeared with the Ed Sullivan, Jackie Gleason, Dean Martin and Danny Kaye television programs. He starred in ABC's musical version of The Canterville Ghost, Hallmark Hall of Fame's presentation of the classic Pinocchio (in which he played the title role), and three feature films for MGM: Mrs. Brown, You've Got A Lovely Daughter, Hold On! and When The Boys Meet The Girls. Noone at a dairy in the Netherlands, after his gold record for "No Milk Today" in 1966 They were the opening act of the 1970 Royal Variety Performance from the London Palladium performing a medley of their hits to date followed by their rendition of If I Were a Rich Man, Where is Love? and Old Henry's Fish and Chips. They ended with their recent hit There's a Kind of Hush. ... Source: Article "Peter Noone" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Denise Gough

Cast · Known for Andor

Denise Gough (/ˈɡɒfˈ/ GOF; born 28 February 1980) is an Irish actress. On television, she is best known for her roles in the BBC Two crime drama Paula (2017), the ITV miniseries Too Close (2021), and the Disney+ series Andor (2022–2025). Her films include Colette (2018), The Other Lamb (2019), Monday (2020), and Martyrs Lane (2021). She has received a number of accolades, including two Laurence Olivier Awards as well as a nominations for a Tony Award and a British Academy Television Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Denise Gough, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Elyse Cole

Elyse is an American born actress who started taking acting classes at the age of 8. Within 3 months of signing with an agent, Elyse landed a film role in The Secret Children. Later that year she was cast in Cardboard Boxer with Thomas Hayden Church. Soon after, Elyse landed the role of 10-year-old Tris in Divergent. 2014 continued to be a busy year as Elyse booked a role in Fresh Off the Boat and the role as Young Anna in the American remake of the French film Martyrs. In her spare time, Elyse loves to spend time with family and play softball.

Pascal Laugier

Director · Known for Martyrs

Pascal Laugier is a former assistant to director Christophe Gans, having directed the "making-of" documentary about Gans' 2001 film, Brotherhood of the Wolf (Laugier also starred in the film). He has written and directed the fantasy-horror feature films Saint Ange, Martyrs, and The Tall Man. Laugier has been associated with the New French Extremity movement. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pascal Laugier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Mylène Jampanoï

Cast · Known for Martyrs

Mylène Jampanoï (French pronunciation: ​[milɛn ʒɑ̃panɔj]; born Lena Jam-Panoï on 12 July 1980) is a French actress, model, and visual artist. Her first leading role was in the drama film The Chinese Botanist's Daughters (2006). She subsequently garnered international attention for her role in Pascal Laugier's controversial horror film Martyrs (2008). She later had a supporting role in Clint Eastwood's Hereafter (2010), and starred as Bambou in the Serge Gainsbourg biopic, Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (also 2010). Other film credits include the American animated film Kung Fu Panda (2008), the Canadian drama Laurence Anyways (2012), and the Netflix-produced Madame Claude (2021). From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lisa Dwan

Lisa Dwan is an Irish actress. She is best known for her work in theatre, performing in Samuel Beckett adaptations among other works. She began her career in the Fox Kids series Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog (1998–1999). More recently, she starred in the Netflix series Top Boy (2019–2023). She also appeared in the RTÉ soap opera Fair City (2006–2007) and the ITV drama Rock Rivals (2008). Dwan was born in Coosan, Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland, and originally trained as a ballet dancer. She was chosen to dance with Rudolf Nureyev in the Ballet San Jose's production of "Coppélia" in Dublin when she was 12 years old. She left school at 14 after winning a scholarship to attend the Dorothy Stevens School of Ballet in Leeds, and also danced with the London Lewis Ballet Company. Dwan began acting professionally as a teenager. Dwan's first movie was playing the role of Agnes in an adaptation of Oliver Twist, co-starring Elijah Wood and Richard Dreyfuss. Dwan is most well known internationally for her performances and adaptations of Samuel Beckett's works; Kate Kellaway has called her an "Irish actor and Beckett interpreter of the first rank". She performed in Beckett's Not I in London's Battersea Arts Centre in 2005, and was interviewed with Billie Whitelaw, whom Beckett called the "perfect actress", as part of the Beckett celebrations on BBC Radio 3. Beginning in 2006, Whitelaw mentored Dwan on her work on Beckett. Dwan performed the piece again in July 2009 at the Southbank Centre in London in a time of nine minutes and fifty seconds, and again at the International Beckett Festival in 2012. She replicated the feat at Reading University the next year. Beginning in 2013, Dwan toured with "The Beckett Trilogy", consisting of Not I alongside two of Beckett's other short plays, Footfalls and Rockaby, under the direction of Walter Asmus at the Royal Court Theatre, West End, The Barbican Centre, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and performed sold-out shows at various international locations. In a review of her performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Ben Brantley wrote that Dwan "is an instrument of Beckett, in that way saints and martyrs are said to be instruments of God". Dwan regularly writes, lectures, and teaches on theatre, gender, and Beckett. Recent speaking engagements include appearances on BBC radio and television and WNYC. Dwan also writes about Beckett and the arts, including in The Guardian. She has lectured at the École Normale Supérieure, University of Reading and the University of Oxford, and recently completed a residency at Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts, where she taught a class on adapting Beckett's prose work. Dwan was also a 2017–2018 artist in residence at Columbia University, where she worked with Irish writer Colm Toibin on Pale Sister, a play derived from the class they taught called "The Antigone Project". Dwan was a resident fellow at the School of Art and Ballet at New York University from 2017 to 2018.

Ahmad Shah Massoud

Ahmad Shah Massoud (c. 1953 – 9 September 2001) was an Afghan military leader and politician. Known as the "Lion of Panjshir", he was the foremost commander of the Afghan mujahideen against Soviet occupation during the Soviet–Afghan War from 1979 to 1989. Later, in the 1990s, he led the government's military wing against rival militias, and actively fought against the Taliban and their allies, from the time the regime rose to power in 1996, and until his assassination in 2001. Massoud came from a Tajik Sunni Muslim background in the Panjshir Valley in northern Afghanistan. He began studying engineering at Polytechnical University of Kabul in the 1970s, where he developed Islamist and anti-communist views. He joined the Jamiat-i Islami of Burhanuddin Rabbani and, in 1975, participated in a failed uprising against President Daoud Khan's government. During the Soviet–Afghan War, he successfully resisted the Soviets from taking the Panjshir Valley. In 1992, he signed the Peshawar Accord, a peace and power-sharing agreement, in the post-communist Islamic State of Afghanistan. He was appointed the Minister of Defense as well as the government's main military commander. The accord was opposed by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and other warlords, who attacked Kabul and initiated the Second Afghan Civil War (1992–1996). Following the rise of the Taliban in 1996, Massoud, who rejected the group's extremist interpretation of Islam, returned to armed opposition. He became the military leader of the Northern Alliance, which by 2000 controlled only 5–10% of the country. In 2001, he visited Europe and urged European Parliament leaders for humanitarian aid to combat the Afghan people's conditions under the Taliban. On September 9, 2001, Massoud was killed in a suicide bombing by two al-Qaeda assassins. Two days later, al-Qaeda operatives carried out the September 11 attacks in the United States. Within weeks, American and NATO forces invaded Afghanistan, allying with the Northern Alliance and toppling the Taliban from power. By December 2001, the coalition had secured control over the country. Regarded as one of the most influential guerrilla leaders in modern history, Massoud became an icon of several anti-imperialist movements and gained the status of a cult of personality. He was posthumously named the national hero of Afghanistan by the order of President Hamid Karzai after the Taliban were ousted from power in 2001. The date of Massoud's death, 9 September, was observed as "Martyrs' Day" under the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. His son Ahmad Massoud is leading the National Resistance Front (NRF) against the Taliban. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ahmad Shah Massoud, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Doug Vickers

Doug Vickers has been a proud ensemble member at A Red Orchid Theatre since 2001. He has appeared in Killing Game, An Evening at the Talk House, Accidentally Like a Martyr, The Nether, The Mutilated, Simpatico, Louis Slotin Sonata, The Mandrake, Fatboy, The Meek, Hunger and Thirst, Four Murders, Eric Larue, The Grey Zone, George Dandin, The Treatment, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, and The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. Over the years at A Red Orchid, he has also worked in administrative capacities in the areas of grant writing and production. He has appeared on The Bear (2023)

Olivia Chenery

Cast · Known for Ghost Soldier

Olivia Jane Grierson (née Chenery; born 11 March 1989) is an English actress and environmental advocate. Her films include Brotherhood (2016) and 10x10 (2018). On television, she is known for her roles in the BBC series Queens: The Virgin and the Martyr (2017) and the Sky One series Bulletproof (2020–2021). Chenery was born in the South London Borough of Croydon to parents Emma and Julian. She has two sisters. She joined the National Youth Theatre and went on to study at the London School of Musical Theatre, graduating in 2010. Chenery made her television debut as a Plantagenet Princess in the 2013 HBO and BBC Two comedy Family Tree and her feature film debut as Sandy in the 2014 science fiction thriller The Anomaly. This was followed in 2015 by roles in the film Legacy and as a witch in the second season of the Showtime and Sky Atlantic horror series Penny Dreadful. Chenery had lead roles in the 2016 and 2018 films Brotherhood as Sariya and 10x10 as Alana Lewis, respectively. In 2017, she starred as Mary, Queen of Scots in the British-Spanish historical drama Queens: The Virgin and the Martyr, made for Televisión Española and the BBC. In 2020, Chenery joined the main cast of the Sky One police procedural Bulletproof for its second series as Scarlett "Scooch" Hailton. She had a recurring role as Holly in the 2021 Netflix science fiction series The One. Chenery appeared in the 2022 and 2023 films Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher and Jericho Ridge. In the 2023 local elections, Chenery (under her married name Olivia Grierson) unsuccessfully stood to represent Oxted South for the Green Party on Tandridge District Council.

Rebekah Kennedy

Rebekah Kennedy began acting on the stage. Rebekah spent all of her time doing theatre and it wasn't until later that she truly discovered the screen. Soon came an amazing opportunity when Rebekah booked the lead role Hanna in the feature, "House Hunting" with Marc Singer and Art LaFleur and then went on to play Caroline Boutine in the feature, "Creature," starring Mehcad Brooks and Serinda Swan. Then came another wonderful opportunity when she booked a supporting role in the feature, "Season of the Witch" with Nicolas Cage. Rebekah made her television debut on the TNT show, "Memphis Beat." She also had a guest star role in the long running TV show "Criminal Minds" on CBS, the lead guest star Esther Labott in The Book of Esther on "Law & Order SVU" on NBC, and most recently as the crazy drug addict Melly Wyatt in "Station 19" on ABC. Rebekah first hit the big screen when she played the young Peasant Turk Girl in "Season of the Witch" with Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman, which landed in theaters January 2011, "Creature" which opened in September 2011, and then as one of the leads in the horror film "Bastard" with After Dark Films and Fox Home Entertainment which opened in October 2015. "A Dark Foe" with Graham Greene and Selma Blair opened in select theaters July 2021 and most recently "The Unseen" which played in select theaters June 30th 2023 with RJ Mitte. Rebekah can also be seen in Netflix's "To The Bone" starring Lily Collins and Keanu Reeves. "Let Me Make You A Martyr" with Mark Boone Junior, "Street Level" with Sons of Anarchy's David Labrava and Mark Boone Junior, and "Limbo" with James Purefoy. She most recently can be seen starring as the mute girl Jojo in the Amazon prime movie "Los Angeles" and as the starring witch Masha in "Two Witches" that is taking the horror world by storm. She also most recently wrapped "The Veil" with Sean O'Bryan that premiered at the Austin Film Festival and "Crust" with Sean Whalen, Daniel Roebuck, and Alan Ruck that will be releasing this Fall. Rebekah is also heavily involved with reaching out to the homeless and has done work with the Covenant House in Los Angeles.

Jake Silbermann

Jake Silbermann is an American actor, writer, director, producer and former model best known for his role as Noah Mayer in the soap opera "As The World Turns (2007 - 2010)." Mr. Silbermann made his commercial debut in an international campaign for "Gillette Fusion Power" in 2006. He had his first daytime appearance in the defunct soap opera "Guiding Light (2007)," but it wasn't until his portrayal of Noah Mayer in As The World turns, as one-half of the first gay super couple on daytime television, that his name gained popularity. Since then, He balanced his career as an actor with his career as a model for DNA Model Management. He also developed the short film "Stuffer (2010)," a project that paved his future as a writer, actor and producer. Stuffer, was admitted into 25 film festivals and won 6 awards in total. After his run in As The World Turns, Mr. Silbermann delved in his origins as a stage actor, He starred in Off-Broadway productions like "Dracula (2010)" and "Phaedra Bakwards (2011)," which encouraged him to found his own theatre company. "The Camisade Theatre Company" was founded in 2011 with the involvement of the actor Malcolm Madera and the writer Samuel Brett Williams. Together, they gave life to "Derby Day (2011)", an Off-Broadway play they took to cities like New York, Los Angeles, Little Rock, and Edinburgh (Scotland). Mr. Silbermann continued performing under the wing of the critically acclaimed playwright David Adjmi in productions such as "3C (2012)" and "Marie Antoinette (2012)." Later, He had his breakthrough on Broadway with the play "The Assembled Parties (2013)" of the director Richard Greenberg, where He shared the stage with actors of the caliber of Judith Light, Jessica Hecht and Jeremy Shamos. Mr. Silbermann's love for the stage never fade, his performances in "Picasso at the Lapin Agile (2014)" and "Danny and the deep blue sea (2023)," understudying Christopher Abbot, are proof of his passion for theatre. In 2026, he took part of the 6 times Tony winner play "Death of a Salesman" on Broadway next to Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf. Jake Silbermann had several guest roles in prime time TV series like "Gossip Girl (2008)," "The Good Wife (2011)," "Person of Interest (2014)," "The Marvelous Ms. Maisel (2018)," "Bull (2019)," "The Blacklist (2023)" and more. He also co-starred in independent films such as "Let me make you a martyr (2016),"Pain and Suffering: A legal comedy (2017),""The Report (2019)," "Twelve (2019),""The Atlantic city story (2020)," among others. In 2018, he gained fame in the world of video games when he provided the voice and motion capture of Captain Lyndon Monroe in the video game "Red Dead Redemption 2" by RockStar Games. In 2024, He co-founded "Secret Beach Productions LLC," a full-service film, video, and theatrical production house based in Brooklyn, with the actress, Erica Pappas. They successfully produced the short films "Little One (2024)" and "Stockholm (2026)," and developed their first feature film "Barbizon (2026)", a project written by Mr. Silbermann in which He's also acting, producing and making his directorial debut.

Burhanuddin Rabbani

Burhanuddin Rabbani (20 September 1940 – 20 September 2011) was an Afghan politician and teacher who served as the sixth president of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996, and again from November to December 2001 (in exile from 1996 to 2001). Born in the Badakhshan Province, Rabbani studied at Kabul University and worked there as a professor of Islamic theology. He formed the Jamiat-e Islami at the university which attracted then-students Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and Ahmad Shah Massoud, both would eventually become the two leading commanders of the Afghan mujahideen in the Soviet–Afghan War from 1979. Rabbani was chosen to be the President of Afghanistan after the end of the former communist regime in 1992. Rabbani and his Islamic State of Afghanistan government was later forced into exile by the Taliban, and he then served as the political head of the Northern Alliance, an alliance of various political groups who fought against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. During his time in the office, there were a lot of internal clashes between different fighting groups. After the Taliban government was toppled during Operation Enduring Freedom, Rabbani returned to Kabul and served briefly as president from 13 November to 22 December 2001, when Hamid Karzai was chosen as his succeeding interim leader at the Bonn International Conference. In later years he became head of Afghanistan National Front (known in the media as United National Front), the largest political opposition to Karzai's government. On 20 September 2011, Rabbani was assassinated by a suicide bomber entering his home in Kabul. As suggested by the Afghan parliament, Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai gave him the title of "Martyr of Peace". His son Salahuddin Rabbani was chosen in April 2012 to lead efforts to forge peace in Afghanistan with the Taliban. Description above from the Wikipedia article Burhanuddin Rabbani, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.