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Chris Black

Writer · Known for Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Sliders

Chris Black is a screenwriter and television producer, from Toledo, Ohio. Black is known for writing and producing mainly science fiction and action series, although he also was a part of the production team of the comedy-drama Desperate Housewives during its first two seasons. Black has produced and written episodes of Cleopatra 2525, The Huntress, Sliders, Star Trek: Enterprise, Hawaii and Standoff. In addition, he has written episodes of several other shows, including Weird Science, Xena: Warrior Princess and Vanished. He also co-wrote the 1997 action movie Masterminds starring Patrick Stewart. In 2022, Black and Matt Fraction co-created Monarch: Legacy of Monsters for Apple TV+. Black also serves as showrunner. Description above from the Wikipedia article Chris Black (screenwriter), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Yoshimitsu Banno

Executive Producer · Known for Godzilla

Yoshimitsu Banno was a Japanese director, writer, and producer best known for his film, Godzilla vs. Hedorah. Banno joined Toho in 1955, studying under directors such as Mikio Naruse, Kengo Furusawa and Seiji Maruyama. He would begin his career as an assistant director under Akira Kurosawa. Banno would be instrumental in the revival of Godzilla at Legendary Pictures. He would serve as an executive producer for Legendary's Godzilla (2014), and following his death in 2017, received posthumous credits as an executive producer for Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Godzilla vs. Kong, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.

Scott Nicholson

Cast · Known for Succession, Longlegs

Scott Nicholson is an American character actor and stunt performer, active since the early 1990s. He is best known for playing Colin Stiles, Logan Roy's "best pal" and loyal bodyguard, across all four seasons of HBO's Succession (2018–2023, 36 episodes). His early screen credits include a Transit Cop in Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995, opposite Samuel L. Jackson), a Rookie Cop in The Devil's Own (1997, opposite Harrison Ford), and a Guard in Timecop (1994). He has worked with directors including Martin Scorsese, Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Gray, Bart Freundlich, and John McTiernan. Off screen he is also a producer, director, and editor working on his own docu-series. His filmography spans over 25 acting credits and extensive stunt work across 80+ productions. Notable film credits include Fresh (1994, opposite Giancarlo Esposito), The Yards (1999, opposite Joaquin Phoenix), The Forgotten (2004, with Julianne Moore), We Own the Night (2007, as Nat the Cop), Remember Me (2010, with Pierce Brosnan), Safe (2012, as Sergeant Mackelvane), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013, as Police Officer #1), Longlegs (2024, as Agent Kurt Kobble), The Monkey (2025, as Burt Burgerson), and The Bride! (2026, as Indiana State Lead Cop). On television he has appeared in Law & Order (1990s–2010s, multiple series), Damages (2009), Mozart in the Jungle (2014), The Michael J. Fox Show (2014), Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023, as Rosenstern), and Monsterland (2020, as Clayton). His stunt work includes doubling Hugh Jackman in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) and X2: X-Men United (2003), and stunts in Inception, The Big Year, War for the Planet of the Apes, and The Predator.

Mari Yamamoto

Cast · Known for Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Mari Yamamoto is a Japanese actress and journalist. Born in Japan, Yamamoto would move with her family to London in 1991, before eventually returning to live in Tokyo in 1994 at the age of 8. She described the experience as akin to being an outsider, where she'd be considered "very Japanese everywhere in the world" but "wasn’t quite Japanese enough" in Japan itself. Yamamoto would study international relations at the International Christian University in Tokyo, where she would obtain her Bachelor of Arts, before moving to New York City to study method acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. During this time she was also part of The Bats acting company at The Flea Theater. She returned to Tokyo following this, and began working in journalism, writing articles for The Daily Beast alongside American journalist Jake Adelstein. Adelstein's book Tokyo Vice was being adapted into a television series for HBO Max, which would see Yamamoto recruited to work on the show's writing staff. She would become a producer on the series in its second season. In 2022, Yamamoto starred in a recurring role in the Apple TV+ series Pachinko as Hana. That same year she would join the cast of Apple's Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. In March 2024, she was cast to star opposite Brendan Fraser in the film Rental Family.

Elisa Lasowski

Cast · Known for Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Elisa Lasowski (Elisa Wald-Lasowski, born 15 November 1986, The Hague, Netherlands) is a French actress who grew up in the Netherlands, Algeria, and France. She is fluent in French, English, Spanish, Dutch, and German. She studied at Goldsmiths University and trained at the Drama Studio London. Her father is a writer and her brother a photographer. In 2018 she became the face of a Loewe fragrance, and in 2015 she appeared as the "girl with a tail" in the music video for David Bowie's Blackstar. Lasowski made her screen debut in Eastern Promises (2007) (Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts), followed by Somers Town (2008) (Thomas Turgoose). Her breakthrough came as Queen Marie-Thérèse in Versailles (2015–2018) (George Blagden, Laura Haddock). Other notable roles include Denitzi in Burnt (2015) (Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller), Alice in Kompromat (2022) (Jérémie Renier, Cécile de France), and Michelle Duvall in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023–2024) (Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell). She also appeared in Game of Thrones (2013) (Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington) and Olivier Assayas' The Wizard of the Kremlin (Jude Law, Paul Dano).

Charlie Hewson

Charlie Hewson (born Charles Warren Hewson, February 2, 1982, in Manhattan, New York City) is an American actor, singer-songwriter, composer, and producer, 6′ 5″ (196 cm) tall, raised in Darien, Connecticut. He graduated from Princeton University with a degree in English and a Certificate in Theatre and Dance, and trained at The Actors Center Summer Conservatory in New York City. He worked as a stage actor in New York for seven years before moving to Los Angeles in 2011. He is married with one daughter, and his sibling is Tory Tunnell. His most notable film credits include Brian in Awake (2007, with Hayden Christensen), JoJo in The Nanny Diaries (2007, with Scarlett Johansson), a role in Going the Distance (2010, with Drew Barrymore), Andrew in Holy Rollers (2010, with Jesse Eisenberg), Rich Guy in The Bounty Hunter (2010, with Jennifer Aniston), Receptionist/Best Man in Arthur (2011, with Russell Brand), Tibber in The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best (2011), Steph in Butter on the Latch (2013, 80% on Rotten Tomatoes), and GT in My Blind Brother (2016). On television he is best known as Dr. Ethan Parker in Spinning Out (2020, Netflix), James in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023, 3 episodes, with Kurt Russell), Blake in White Collar (2010, 3 episodes), and a role in Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin (2022), with additional credits in Pan Am (2011), Gossip Girl (2008), Upload (2020), Underground (2016), and Night Court (2023). He also voiced a character in We Bare Bears (2019) and the video game Gears 5 (2019).

Gaynor Holmes

Executive Producer · Known for Shetland, Vigil, Waterloo Road

Gaynor Holmes is a Producer for BBC Scotland known for Monarch of the Glen (2000), Nightsleeper (2024) and The Field of Blood (2011).

Dawn Steele

Glaswegian actress Dawn Steele is best known for her work on TV series including Monarch of the Glen, Tinsel Town, The Key, Sea of Souls, Wild at Heart, and Holby City.

Martin Compston

Martin Compston (born 8 May 1984) is a Scottish actor and former professional footballer. He is perhaps most notable for his role as Liam in Sweet Sixteen, and for his role as Ewan Brodie in Monarch of the Glen. Description above from the Wikipedia article Martin Compston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Kevin Cahoon

Kevin Cahoon was born on 21 July 1971 in Houston, Texas, USA. He is an actor and director, known for GLOW (2017), Monarch (2022) and A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017).

Lloyd Owen

Cast · Known for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Lloyd Owen was born in Westminster, London, England, UK. He is an actor and director, known for Apollo 18 (2011), Monarch of the Glen (2000) and Miss Potter (2006). He is married to Juliette Mole. They have two children.

Lorraine Pilkington

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lorraine Pilkington is an Irish actress from Dublin, who is best known for her role as Katrina Finlay on Monarch of the Glen. Trained at the Gaiety School of Acting, Pilkington began her career at the age of 15 when she appeared in The Miracle directed by Neil Jordan. She appeared onstage in the plays The Plough and the Stars and The Iceman Cometh. At age 18 she moved to London where she was given a part in a Miramax film which eventually fell through. After returning to Dublin, Pilkington appeared in various films like Human Traffic and My Kingdom, a retelling of King Lear. In 2000, she was cast as Katrina Finlay, a schoolteacher in a Scottish village in the BBC television series, Monarch of the Glen. After leaving the show at the beginning of the third season, she appeared in various other television productions such as Rough Diamond and Outnumbered. She married Simon Massey, the director of Monarch of the Glen, in 2001. They have three sons, Milo, Luca and Inigo. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lorraine Pilkington, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Kim Jong-tae

Cast · Known for Colony, My Dearest

Kim Jong-tae (김종태) is a South Korean actor born on April 25, 1975. Beginning his performing career in stage theater after graduating from Suwon University, he established a prolific television and film career as a prominent character actor. His major television drama credits include roles in Something in the Rain (2018), One Spring Night (2019), The King: Eternal Monarch (2020), Do You Like Brahms? (2020), More Than Friends (2020), Now, We Are Breaking Up (2021–2022), and My Dearest (2023).

Woo Do-hwan

Cast · Known for Bloodhounds, Made in Korea

Woo Do-hwan (born July 12, 1992) is a South Korean actor. He is best known for his roles in the television dramas Save Me (2017), Mad Dog (2017), Tempted (2018), My Country: The New Age (2019), The King: Eternal Monarch (2020), Bloodhounds (2023) and Mr. Plankton (2024). He also appeared in the film The Divine Fury (2019).

Alastair Mackenzie

Cast · Known for Andor

Alastair Mackenzie is a Scottish actor. He was born in 1970 in Trinafour, near Perth and educated at Westbourne House School and Glenalmond College in Perthshire. Mackenzie left home at the age of 18 and moved to London. Though best known as playing the young laird Archie MacDonald in the BBC drama Monarch of the Glen, he also has some theatre and film credits to his name. He lives in Islington with his wife, Scottish actress Susan Vidler, with whom he has one daughter, Martha, born in February 2000. His brother is director David Mackenzie, with whom he co-founded Sigma Films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alastair Mackenzie, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Josh Rhett Noble

Josh Rhett Noble is an American stage, TV, voice and film actor. He appeared in Law & Order: SVU, directed by Fred Berner as "Officer Bobby Johnson". He is known for various guest star roles in television (including stints in I'd Kill for You and the Jay-Z produced Time: The Kalief Browder Story) and for providing voice and motion capture for the Rockstar produced video game Red Dead Redemption 2. He most recently was seen in the Selena Gomez produced film This is the Year as "Jared" and the premiere episode of Monarch on FOX opposite Susan Sarandon and Trace Adkins.

Adam Croasdell

Adam Croasdell (born July 10, 1980) is a Zimbabwean-born British actor. He played the role of Dr. Al Jenkins on the BBC soap opera EastEnders and has appeared on shows such as Blood of Zeus (2020-25), Castlevania (2017-21), Monarch (2022), NCIS (2003) and Preacher (2016-19). He has also voiced characters such as Torvin in the 2014 video game Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Ignis Scientia in 2016’s Final Fantasy XV and both Alfred Pennyworth and Nightwing in the film Batman Ninja (2018).

Richard Briers

Cast · Known for Peter Pan

Richard David Briers, CBE (14 January 1934 – 17 February 2013) was an English actor. His fifty-year career encompassed television, stage, film and radio. Briers first came to prominence as George Starling in Marriage Lines (1961–66), but it was a decade later, when he narrated Roobarb and Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk (1974–76) and when he played Tom Good in the BBC sitcom The Good Life (1975–78), that he became a household name. Later, he starred as Martin in Ever Decreasing Circles (1984–89), and he had a leading role as Hector in Monarch of the Glen (2000–05). From the late 1980s, with Kenneth Branagh as director, he performed Shakespearean roles in Henry V (1989), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Hamlet (1996), and As You Like It (2006).

Scott Aukerman

Scottrick "Scott" Aukerman, born with an innate gift for turning the mundane into madness, entered the world on July 2nd, 1970, armed with a knack for comedy that could tickle a stone-faced statue. As a comedian, writer, and producer, he's mastered the art of turning awkward moments into uproarious tales that leave stomachs sore from laughter. Raised on a diet of punchlines and pop culture references, Scott's comedic genius emerged from the primordial soup of late-night TV watching marathons of old sitcoms and sketch comedy shows. Armed with a wit as sharp as a well-honed butter knife, he conquered the world of comedy like a mad scientist concocting the perfect joke in his lab. With a podcast empire that could rival an overzealous monarch's reign, Scott pioneered the world of improvised comedy podcasts, where the bizarre meets the brilliant, and spontaneity reigns supreme. His shows are a delightful rollercoaster ride through the absurd, complete with hilarious characters and offbeat humour that's a sanctuary for the eccentric and a refuge for the wonderfully weird. Scott Aukerman, the comedic maestro with a penchant for the peculiar, continues to captivate audiences with his infectious humour, proving that in this crazy world, laughter truly is the best medicine—preferably taken in large doses, delivered by a master jokester like Scott. Scott is married to actress, former girlfriend, and fellow podcaster Kulap Vilaysack. The couple are proud parents to a nepo-baby named Emerald and two dogs, Georgia Michaela and Molly Ringwald.

Leslie Feist

Leslie Feist (born February 13, 1976), known mononymously as Feist, is a Canadian and American indie pop singer-songwriter and guitarist, performing both as a solo artist and as a member of the indie rock group Broken Social Scene. Feist launched her solo music career in 1999 with the release of Monarch. Her subsequent studio albums, Let It Die, released in 2004, and The Reminder, released in 2007, were critically acclaimed and commercially successful, selling over 2.5 million copies. The Reminder earned Feist four Grammy nominations, including a nomination for Best New Artist. She has received 11 Juno Awards, including two Artist of the Year. Her fourth studio album, Metals, was released in 2011. In 2012, Feist collaborated on a split EP with metal group Mastodon, releasing an interactive music video in the process. She has released six studio albums as of 2023, Feist received three Juno awards at the 2012 ceremony: Artist of the Year, Adult Alternative Album of the Year for Metals, and Music DVD of the Year for her documentary Look at What the Light Did Now., additionally she was nominated for four Grammy Awards including Best Pop Vocal Album for The Reminder and Best New Artist. Leslie Feist was born on February 13, 1976, in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her parents are both artists. Her father, Harold Feist, was an American-Canadian abstract expressionist painter who taught fine arts at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick. Her mother, Lyn Feist, was a student of ceramics from Saskatchewan. After their first child, Ben, was born, the family moved to Sackville. Feist is also the niece of guitarist Dan Achen, who played in the 1990s rock band Junkhouse and had also produced for numerous artists (Achen died in 2010 due to a heart attack). Feist's parents divorced soon after she was born and Ben, Feist and their mother moved to Regina, Saskatchewan, where they lived with her grandparents. They later moved to Calgary, Alberta, where she attended Bishop Carroll High School as well as Alternative High School. She aspired to be a writer, and spent much of her youth singing in choirs. At the age of 12, Feist performed as one of 1,000 dancers in the opening ceremonies of the Calgary Winter Olympics, which she cites as inspiration for the video "1234." As her father is American, Feist has dual Canadian-U.S. citizenship, joking later that she was given U.S. citizenship as part of a deal with Apple. In 1991, at age 15, Feist got her start in music when she founded and was the lead vocalist for a Calgary punk band called Placebo (not to be confused with the English band Placebo). She and her bandmates won a local Battle of the Bands competition and were awarded the opening slot at the festival Infest 1993, featuring the Ramones. At this concert she met Brendan Canning, whose band hHead performed immediately before hers, and with whom she joined in Broken Social Scene ten years later. ... Source: Article "Feist (singer)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Claire Nielson

Claire Nielson (née Isbister) was a Scottish actress primarily known for her television roles. On television, she played the wife of the belligerent American guest, Mr. Hamilton, in the "Waldorf Salad" episode of Fawlty Towers, appeared as Jean 'Porridge' Carter, Geoffrey Stock's secretary, in the popular 1960s crime series Ghost Squad and played the wife of Rikki Fulton's character in many sketches of the Scottish Hogmanay show Scotch and Wry from 1978 until 1993. Other TV credits include Warship, Sutherland's Law, Upstairs, Downstairs, Monarch of the Glen, The Brothers, The Two Ronnies, Take The High Road, Z-Cars, Special Branch, Thriller and Taggart. She also appeared as Barbara Grant in the 1971 film version of Kidnapped, opposite Michael Caine and Trevor Howard.and an episode of Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads.

Andrew McNair

Cast · Known for The Tudors

Andrew Robert McNair (born 15 June 1979, in London) is an English actor, probably best known for his role on Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks. McNair began his television career in 2001 on Channel 4's Hollyoaks. He played the role of mechanic Dan Hunter for three years, appearing at the very centre of many of the show's most high-profile storylines, until he quit the show in 2004. Andy McNair made his final appearance as Dan in December 2004, which his character was killed off in a car explosion. Following his Hollyoaks departure, McNair appeared in a number of small roles on television, including established series such as Casualty, Dream Team and Doctors among others. In 2009, Andy joined the third season of Showtime series The Tudors, playing Thomas Seymour. The show is based on the reign of English monarch Henry VIII. He also appeared on bbc drama Waterloo Road as a drug dealer called Darren. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Robert Fyfe

Cast · Known for Last of the Summer Wine, Cloud Atlas

Robert Fyfe was a Scottish-born actor, who is best remembered for his role on the long-running British sitcom Last of the Summer Wine, where he played the character of Howard between 1985 and 2010. He also appeared in the movies Xtro, The 51st State, Around the World in 80 Days and Babel. Other credits include guest appearances on Z Cars, Survivors, The Gentle Touch, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Monarch of the Glen.

Anthony Strachan

Scottish actor of stage, film and TV, Anthony Strachan has worked extensively in television including: Mountain Goats BBC 1; Bob Servant Series 2 BBC Scotland; Sunset Song Terence Davies; Bob Servant Independent BBC Scotland; Garrow’s Law Twenty Twenty Productions; Gary Tank Commander, Rab C Nesbitt, Will And Greg Sketch Show BBC Comedy Unit; Lip Service Kudos For BBC 3; Hotel Babylon Carnival Productions For BBC; Pramface, Holby City, Sunburn BBC; Inspector Rebus, Taggart SMG; High Times 2, High Times STV; Monarch Of The Glen Ecosse; Border Café Series Hartswood; Young Persons Guide To Being A Rockstar Channel 4 Television; Take The High Road Scottish Television. Antony’s film work includes: Sunset Song Terence Davies; Redirected Kino Kultas, Emilis Velyvis; Afterlife Gabriel Films; Sylvia Ariel Films; Once Upon A Time In The Midlands Midland Films; 16 Years Of Alcohol 16 Years Ltd; Young Blades Mario Andreacchio; The Trench William Boyd; Rbs Commerical; The Right Move Commerical. On the Stage Antony’s work includes: The Day I Swapped My Dad For Two Goldfish, National Theatre Of Scotland; Mother Goose, Perth Theatre; Sergeant Cracker’s Christmas Quest, Carnegie Hall; Peter Pan 360 Entertainment, San Francisco; Jack And The Beanstalk, Pinocchio, Mother Goose, ; Babes In The Wood, Aladdin Adam Smith Theatre; Sunshine On Leith Dundee Rep and Festival Theatre Edinburgh; A Winter’s Tale, Much Ado About Nothing Royal Lyceum; Once Upon A Dragon, The Houghmagandie Grid Iron; Elizabeth Gordon Quinn National Theatre of Scotland; Into The Dark Visible Fictions; Much Ado About Nothing, Worzel Gummidge Byre Theatre; Brazil The Latchmere Theatre; When The Dons Were Kings Lemon Tree; The Good Person Of Szechwan, Petra Tag Theatre Company; The Arbor Sheffield Crucible Theatre.