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Zoe Gardner
Zoe Gardner is an independent migration policy researcher and campaigner who works in the UK and across Europe to promote rights based and effective migration and refugee policies. She has held policy and communications positions at the European Network on Statelessness, JCWI, Asylum Aid, the Race Equality Foundation and the European Council on Refugees & Exiles. Bio from thelead.uk/zoe-gardner
Tresi Gazal
Cast · Known for Migration
Tresi Gazal is known for Migration (2023), Billy Knight (2024) and Migration: I Love You Always Forever (2023).
Mitchell LaFortune
Writer · Known for Greenland 2: Migration
Mitchell LaFortune is known for Kandahar (2023), Greenland: Migration (2025) and Last Breath (2024).
Luca Diaz
Cast · Known for Stranger Things: Tales from '85
Luca Diaz is known for Erin & Aaron (2023), Migration (2023), Transformers: EarthSpark (2022) and Stranger Things: Tales from 85' (2026)
Mike Tapp
Michael Adrian Tapp is a British Labour Party politician and former soldier who has been the Member of Parliament for Dover and Deal since 2024. He has served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Migration and Citizenship since 2025. This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Mike_Tapp, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
Sandy E. Scott
Sandy E. Scott is known for Starship Troopers (1997), Prey (2022) and Greenland 2: Migration (2026).
Caspar Jennings
Cast · Known for Migration
Caspar Jennings is known as voice actor for Operation Mincemeat (2021), Sing (2016), Sing 2 (2021), and Migration )2023).
John Powell
Composer · Known for Kung Fu Panda, Migration, Minions & Monsters
John Powell is an English composer best known for his film scores. He has been based in Los Angeles since 1997 and has composed the scores to over 70 feature films. He is best known for composing scores for films, including Face/Off, the Bourne film series, the Happy Feet films, United 93, X-Men: The Last Stand, Wicked and its sequel, Evolution, Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, Migration, Drumline, Hancock, The Call of the Wild, Bolt, eight Blue Sky Studios films, and nine DreamWorks Animation films. His work on Happy Feet, Ferdinand, and Solo: A Star Wars Story has earned him three Grammy nominations. He was nominated for an Academy Award for How to Train Your Dragon. Powell was a member of Hans Zimmer's music studio, Remote Control Productions, and has collaborated frequently with other composers from the studio, including Harry Gregson-Williams on Antz, Chicken Run, and Shrek and Zimmer himself on Chill Factor, The Road to El Dorado, and the first two Kung Fu Panda films. He has also collaborated with film directors such as Carlos Saldanha, Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders, Benjamin Renner, Chris Renaud, George Miller, John Woo, Ron Underwood, Doug Liman, Charles Stone III, Simon Otto, Jared Hess, and Paul Greengrass. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Powell (film composer), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Darinka Arones
Cast · Known for Pluribus
Darinka Arones is a Peruvian interdisciplinary artist and recent graduate of the Film and TV department at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She debuted as an actress in Vince Gilligan's TV series Pluribus, with the character of Kusimayu. As an Andean immigrant, Arones is interested in showcasing portrayals of the emotional and psychological processes of migration and adaptation. In her art, she uses saturated colors to highlight the intensity of her homesickness, grief, and melancholy sentiments. Darinka's Quechua background has motivated her to investigate the collectivity, perspective, and existence of her Andean identity and the Quechua language in Western culture. Darinka works and concentrates in the following positions: film director, editor, photographer, director of photography, visual artist, graphic designer, and actress.
Truman Capote
Truman Capote was an American author, many of whose short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized literary classics. At least 20 films and television dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays. Capote rose above a childhood troubled by divorce, a long absence from his mother and multiple migrations. He discovered his calling by the age of 11, and for the rest of his childhood he honed his writing ability. Capote began his professional career writing short stories. Capote earned the most fame with In Cold Blood (1966), a book Capote spent four years writing. A milestone in popular culture, it was the peak of his career, although it was not his final book. In the 1970s, he maintained his celebrity status by appearing on television talk shows.
Awkwafina
Cast · Known for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, The Bad Guys 2, Migration
Nora Lum (born June 2, 1988), known professionally as Awkwafina (/ˌɔːkwəˈfiːnə/), is an American actress, comedian and rapper. She rose to prominence in 2012 when her rap song "My Vag" became popular on YouTube. She then released her debut album, Yellow Ranger (2014), and appeared on the MTV comedy series Girl Code (2014–2015). She expanded to films with supporting roles in the comedies Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016), Ocean's 8 (2018), Crazy Rich Asians (2018), and Jumanji: The Next Level (2019). She won a Golden Globe Award for her starring role as a grieving young woman in The Farewell (2019). Since 2020, Awkwafina has been a co-creator, writer, and executive producer of the Comedy Central series Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens, where she also plays a fictionalized version of herself. In 2021, she portrayed Katy in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. She has also performed voice roles in the animated films Storks (2016), The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019), Raya and the Last Dragon (2021), The Bad Guys (2022), The Little Mermaid, Migration (both 2023), Kung Fu Panda 4, and IF (both 2024). For starring and producing the TV movie Quiz Lady (2023), she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie. Description above from the Wikipedia article Awkwafina, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Bruno Coulais
Composer · Known for Coraline
Bruno Coulais (born 13 January 1954) is a French composer, most widely known for his music on film soundtracks. Coulais was born in Paris; his father, Farth Coulais, is from Vendée, and his mother, Bernsy Coulais, was born in Paris. Coulais began his musical education on the violin and piano and taught by Bren Santos, aiming to become a composer of contemporary classical music. However, a series of acquaintances gradually re-oriented him towards film music. Coulais met François Reichenbach, who asked him in 1977 to sonorize his documentary México mágico who permit to compose the first soundtracks for Jacques Davila "qui trop embrasse" en 1986 . Until the end of the 1990s, he remained low-profile, composing mainly for television. His name can often be found from TV films by Gérard Marx and Laurent Heynemann. He also composed the soundtracks for Christine Pascal's 1992 film Le Petit Prince a dit, and Agnès Merlet's Le fils du requin in 1993. In 1994, he met the television producer Josée Dayan, who let him write a theme for the TV series La rivière esperance, aired on the France 2 network in autumn 1995. He worked with Dayan again with other major productions such as Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, Balzac, and Les nuiteux. The largest turning point of his career came in 1996, when he worked with directors Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou of the documentary Microcosmos. This single film, which gave a great significance to the music in it, was a great success and made Coulais one of the most wanted composers of French film music. In 1997, he won the César award for the best musical score in a film, as well as a Victoire de la Musique. His reputation was confirmed by the soundtracks to Himalaya (1999) and Les rivières pourpres (2000), and after that Bruno Coulais's name was to be found on most new French blockbusters, such as Belphégor and Vidocq. After producing the soundtrack to Winged Migration in 2001, Coulais announced that he wanted to significantly reduce his contributions to film music, and instead concentrate on other projects, such as the creation of an opera for children, and collaborations with Akhenaton, Akhenaton's group IAM and the Corsican group A Filetta, with whom he had worked since he had made the soundtrack for Jacques Weber's film Don Juan in 1998. In 2002, his name was found on the ending credits of the animation L'Enfant qui voulait être un ours , and in 2004, on Frédéric Schoendoerffer's Agents secrets. The same year, he wrote the soundtrack to the film Les choristes by Christophe Barratier, starring Jean-Baptiste Maunier in the lead soprano singing role, which subsequently became an international hit. The music for this film received as great praise as the film itself, and it won Coulais his third César award. The song Vois sur ton chemin was also nominated for an Academy Award (Best original song). Since then, Coulais's collaborations in cinema seem to be limited to works by directors with whom he already shares some history, in particular Jacques Perrin, Frédéric Schoendoerffer, and James Huth. In 2009, he won at the 37th Annie Awards, in the "Music in a Feature Production" category for Coraline. ... Source: Article "Bruno Coulais" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Jesse Owens
James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games. Owens specialized in the sprints and the long jump and was recognized in his lifetime as "perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history". He set three world records and tied another, all in less than an hour, at the 1935 Big Ten track meet in Ann Arbor, Michigan—a feat that has never been equaled and has been called "the greatest 45 minutes ever in sport". He achieved international fame at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, by winning four gold medals: 100 meters, long jump, 200 meters, and 4 × 100-meter relay. He was the most successful athlete at the Games and, as a black American man, was credited with "single-handedly crushing Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy". The Jesse Owens Award is USA Track and Field's highest accolade for the year's best track and field athlete. Owens was ranked by ESPN as the sixth greatest North American athlete of the 20th century and the highest-ranked in his sport. In 1999, he was on the six-man short-list for the BBC's Sports Personality of the Century. Jesse Owens, originally known as J.C., was the youngest of ten children (three girls and seven boys) born to Henry Cleveland Owens (a sharecropper) and Mary Emma Fitzgerald in Oakville, Alabama, on September 12, 1913. He was the grandson of a slave. At the age of nine, he and his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio for better opportunities as part of the Great Migration (1910–40) when 1.6 million African Americans left the segregated and rural South for the urban and industrial North. When his new teacher asked his name to enter in her roll book, he said "J.C.", but because of his strong Southern accent, she thought he said "Jesse". The name stuck, and he was known as Jesse Owens for the rest of his life. As a youth, Owens took different menial jobs in his spare time: he delivered groceries, loaded freight cars, and worked in a shoe repair shop while his father and older brother worked at a steel mill. During this period, Owens realized that he had a passion for running. Throughout his life, Owens attributed the success of his athletic career to the encouragement of Charles Riley, his junior high school track coach at Fairmount Junior High School. Since Owens worked after school, Riley allowed him to practice before school instead. Owens and Minnie Ruth Solomon (1915–2001) met at Fairmont Junior High School in Cleveland when he was 15 and she was 13. They dated steadily through high school. Ruth gave birth to their first daughter Gloria in 1932. They married on July 5, 1935, and had two more daughters together: Marlene, born in 1937, and Beverly, born in 1940. They remained married until his death in 1980. Owens first came to national attention when he was a student of East Technical High School in Cleveland; he equaled the world record of 9.4 seconds in the 100 yards (91 m) dash and long-jumped 24 feet 9+1⁄2 inches (7.56 m) at the 1933 National High School Championship in Chicago. ... Source: Article "Jesse Owens" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Mary Jackson
Cast · Known for The Waltons
One of those strikingly familiar matrons you just can't place, character actress Mary Jackson is probably best known for her recurring role as one of the delightfully eccentric bootlegging sisters, "Miss Emily" Baldwin, on the series The Waltons (1971) that ran for nine seasons. She was born November 22, 1910 in rural Milford, Michigan, and earned a bachelor's degree from West Michigan University in 1932. A Depression-era school teacher for one year before pursuing her interest in theater, she returned to college (this time Michigan State University) in a fine arts program. She started out on the Chicago stage and in summer stock before migrating to the larger stages in New York and Los Angeles. Film and TV roles did not come her way until well into middle age. Guesting on such TV shows as "The Andy Griffith Show," "The Twilight Zone," "My Three Sons," "Hazel," "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Barnaby Jones" and "Highway to Heaven," she usually appeared as ladylike small-town citizens. She was also part of the ensemble in Peter Bogdanovich's first low-budget film thriller Targets (1968), which was Boris Karloff's last feature. In the 70s she started gathering up character bits here and there, such as her nuns in the all-star epic Airport (1970) and the horror Audrey Rose (1977). A variety of pleasant, maternal parts came her way, including Lynn Carlin's mother in the Blake Edwards' western Wild Rovers (1971) and Jane Fonda's in the comedy caper Fun with Dick and Jane (1977). She supported Fonda again in the Vietnam-era drama Coming Home (1978), was among the cast in the cultish Big Top Pee-wee (1988) and had a noticeable role in Steve Martin's Leap of Faith (1992). As for "The Waltons" success, character actress Dorothy Stickney played the part of Emily in the initial TV pilot along with Josephine Hutchinson as older sister Mamie. When the series came to fruition, Mary and actress Helen Kleeb, another one of those "I've seen her before" character faces, took over the spinster roles. Both she and Kleeb continued their sister act periodically in several Walton "reunion" TV-movies, which included assorted weddings and holiday gatherings. Both ladies made their final TV appearances in A Walton Easter (1997). Kleeb died of natural causes in 2003 at age 96. Mary passed away two years later at age 95 of complications from Parkinson's disease. - IMDb Mini Biography
Khadija Speer
See Khadija in a couple of highly anticipated television shows, starting with FX's Atlanta, Season 3 Episode 7 streaming now on HULU, and MSNBC's and Peacock's The Best Man: Final Chapters Episode 1 on Peacock TV. Khadija Speer is an actress, dancer, producer, and writer. She also has a love affair with talk show radio and television presenting and producing. On account of Khadija being a people's person she loves hosting live events where she gets to actively interact with her audiences. Being a Caribbean Gyal, born and raised in the twin island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Khadija loves the outdoors, particularly waterfalls, the ocean, and marine life. Khadija lives by her personal credo, "Be the LOVE you want to receive." After attending the Department of Creative and Festival Arts, University of the West Indies where she obtained honors B.A degrees in Theatre Arts and Festival Management, Khadija taught high school and worked in media for 13 years before migrating to the USA. She also works as a creative industries consultant. Khadija loves God and loves people and further contributes to the beauty of the world, by way of philanthropy and volunteer work.
Jane McGregor
Jane McGregor is a Canadian actress, best known for her roles in Flower & Garnet (2002), Slap Her, She's French! (2002), and That Beautiful Somewhere (2006), as well as her recurring role on the CTV series Robson Arms (2005). McGregor's career began with classes at the Vancouver Youth Theatre at the age of eight, which were followed by toy commercials. Her first television series appearance was a guest role on two episodes of the Canadian classic The Odyssey (1992). Following this she appeared in a string of made-for-television movies. In 2000 she landed a lead in the MTV series Live Through This (2000), followed by the multi-Emmy Award-winning TV Movie Bang Bang You're Dead (2002). In 2002 she starred in the American comedy Slap Her, She's French! (2002). She played Starla Grady, a popular Texas cheerleader, opposite Piper Perabo and Micheal McKean. Later that year she did the Canadian independent film Flower & Garnet (2002), where she played Flower, an isolated, pregnant teenager. The film premiered at Toronto International Film Festival, played in the Berlin International Film Festival, and won several awards. Jane's performance was very well received. Jane guest starred on The CW's Supernatural (2005), and played opposite Keri Rusell in the TV Movie The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005). She starred with Roy Dupuis in That Beautiful Somewhere (2006) as Catherine Nyland, an archaeologist suffering from debilitating migraines. From 2005 to 2008 she had a recurring role as Alicia Plecas in the Canadian series Robson Arms (2005). In 2007 she appeared in American Venus (2007) as Jenna Lane, a competitive ice skater hovering on the brink of a mental breakdown due to her controlling mother (portrayed by Rebecca De Mornay). Most recently, Jane appeared on Fox's Fringe (2008), CTV's _"The Listener" (2009- )_, Fox's _"Almost Human" (2013- )_, FX's _"Fargo" (2014- )_ and the upcoming The 9th Life of Louis Drax (2016).