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Attila Kecskeméthy

Cast · Known for Poor Things

is known for Poor Things (2023) and U-fájlok 4: A testrabló (2015).

Angela Paula Stander

Cast · Known for Now You See Me: Now You Don't, Poor Things

Angela Paula Stander is known for Poor Things (2023).

Emma Hindle

Cast · Known for Poor Things

Emma Hindle is known for Poor Things (2023), Outlander (2014) and Grantchester (2014).

Anders Grundberg

Cast · Known for Wicker, Poor Things

Anders Olof Grundberg is known for Poor Things and Silent Zone.

Jucimar Barbosa

Cast · Known for Poor Things

Jucimar Barbosa is known for Poor Things (2023).

Attila Dobai

Cast · Known for Poor Things

Attila Dobai is known for Poor Things (2023), Holnap tali! (2016) and Oltári történetek (2021).

Jack Barton

Cast · Known for Poor Things

Jack Barton is known for Poor Things, War of the Worlds (2019) and Heartstopper (2022).

Nikki Chamberlin

Cast · Known for Kinds of Kindness

Nikki Chamberlin is known for Poor Things (2023), The Northman (2022) and Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019).

Tony McNamara

Writer · Known for Poor Things

Tony McNamara (born 31 December 1966) is an Australian writer and producer. He is best known for writing the screenplays for The Favourite (2018) and Poor Things (2023). Starting in theater, he transitioned to television, creating The Great and writing for shows like Doctor Doctor. His film career soared with The Favourite, earning an Oscar nomination, followed by another for Poor Things, both with Yorgos Lanthimos, who chose him after reviewing hundreds of playwrights, finding his match in McNamara. He co-wrote Cruella and is scripting a Star Wars film and Evangeline. His style blends historical settings with modern humor, and he directed The Rage in Placid Lake.

Atsushi Nishijima

Cast · Known for Bugonia

Atsushi Nishijima, a Japanese photographer based in New York, is renowned for his still photography in films like Money Monster (2016), Poor Things (2023), and The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017). His most significant collaboration is with Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, spanning nearly a decade since their first project, The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017). Nishijima has worked on Lanthimos’ films, including The Favourite (2018), Poor Things (2023), and Kinds of Kindness (2024), capturing behind-the-scenes moments with a candid, intimate style. Nishijima’s approach, influenced by his Japanese heritage, emphasizes quiet observation and authenticity. Beyond Lanthimos, he has collaborated with directors like Alejandro González Iñárritu and clients like Nike and Apple, while his street photography is showcased in his book Loiter.

Yorgos Mavropsaridis

Editor · Known for Bugonia, Kinds of Kindness, Poor Things

Yorgos Mavropsaridis, born November 21, 1954, in Athens, Greece, is a Greek film editor known for his collaboration with director Yorgos Lanthimos. A London Film School graduate, he began editing commercials, where he met Lanthimos at a Greek advertising agency. Mavropsaridis has edited all of Lanthimos’ films, including Dogtooth (2009), The Lobster (2015), The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), The Favourite (2018), and Poor Things (2023). His minimal-cut editing style enhances narrative flow. He won a 2019 European Film Award for The Favourite and received Oscar nominations for Best Film Editing for The Favourite (2019) and Poor Things (2024). With over 70 projects, including Kinetta (2005), he is introverted, drawn to editing’s solitary nature. Lanthimos tried to replace him but couldn’t, as Mavropsaridis is integral to his vision, editing his work since their advertising days in Greece.

Shona Heath

Production Design · Known for Poor Things

Shona Heath is a British art director and set designer, born in May 1974. After graduating from Brighton University in fashion design (1997), she transitioned into set design, renowned for her surreal, magical creations. Collaborating with photographer Tim Walker for over 20 years, she crafted iconic visuals for Vogue and brands like Dior. As production designer with James Price for Poor Things (2023), she won an Oscar and BAFTA for her imaginative sets. Known for blending surrealism with intricate details, Heath’s work spans exhibitions, fashion, and film.

Willem Dafoe

Cast · Known for Finding Nemo, Inside Man, Nosferatu

William James "Willem" Dafoe (/dəˈfoʊ/ də-FOH; born July 22, 1955) is an American actor. Known for his prolific career portraying diverse roles in both mainstream and arthouse films, he is the recipient of various accolades, including a Volpi Cup Award for Best Actor, with nominations for four Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, and four Golden Globe Awards. He received an Honorary Golden Bear in 2018. Born in Appleton, Wisconsin, Dafoe made his film debut with an uncredited role in Heaven's Gate (1980). He is known for collaborating with both mainstream and auteur filmmakers, including Paul Schrader, Abel Ferrara, Sam Raimi, Yorgos Lanthimos, Lars von Trier, Julian Schnabel, Andrew Stanton, Wes Anderson, and Robert Eggers. He received Academy Award nominations for playing a compassionate army sergeant in the war drama Platoon (1986), Max Schreck in the mystery film Shadow of the Vampire (2000), a kindly motel manager in the coming-of-age film The Florida Project (2017), and Vincent van Gogh in the biopic At Eternity's Gate (2018). His other films credits include To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Wild at Heart (1990), The English Patient (1996), American Psycho (2000), Animal Factory (2000), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Antichrist (2009), The Hunter (2011), John Carter (2012), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), John Wick (2014), The Lighthouse (2019), Togo (2019), Poor Things (2023), and Nosferatu (2024). Dafoe was a founding member of experimental theatre company The Wooster Group. He portrayed Norman Osborn in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man film trilogy (2002–2007) and reprised the role in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). He has also voiced roles in the animated films Finding Nemo (2003), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), and The Boy and the Heron (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Willem Dafoe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Jerrod Carmichael

Cast · Known for Poor Things

Rothaniel Jerrod Carmichael (born June 22, 1987) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. Carmichael created and starred in the semi-biographical NBC sitcom The Carmichael Show. At the age of 20, Carmichael moved to Los Angeles to pursue his dream of being a stand-up comic, before he had ever tried stand-up. His first time doing stand-up was an open-mic night at The Comedy Store in West Hollywood. Working his way up through the clubs, Carmichael appeared in the "New Faces" showcase at the 2011 Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal. Carmichael's breakout role was in the 2014 film Neighbors. He was also on the TV show The Goodwin Games. He has released three stand-up HBO comedy specials. The first, Jerrod Carmichael: Love at the Store, was released in 2014. It was directed by Spike Lee and filmed at The Comedy Store, where Carmichael had first performed stand-up. The second, Jerrod Carmichael: 8, was released on March 11, 2017. It was filmed in the New York Masonic Hall's Grand Lodge Room and directed by comedian Bo Burnham. The latest, Jerrod Carmichael: Rothaniel, also directed by Burnham, won him his first Primetime Emmy Award, and was notable for featuring the moment he came out as gay to the public. His eponymous NBC sitcom, on which he starred in and produced, has been well-received and is notable for its envelope-pushing approach to topical subjects like Black Lives Matter, LGBT issues, gun rights, politics, and the reality of being African American in the United States. The show is semi-autobiographical. Carmichael made an appearance on Tyler, the Creator's fifth album Igor in 2019, narrating the album using short phrases to find logic in the title character Igor's state of mind. In the same year, he was hired by Quentin Tarantino to co-write a film adaptation based on the Django/Zorro crossover comic book series. He created, directed, produced, and starred in the HBO documentaries Home Videos and Sermon on the Mount which are autobiographical. He starred in the comedy thriller film On the Count of Three in 2021, which was also his feature directorial debut. In 2022, Carmichael hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time, and hosted the 80th Golden Globe Awards. In 2023 Carmichael starred in Academy Award-winning film Poor Things, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. In 2024, Carmichael will star in the Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show, a documentary series revolving around his life.

Floriana Lima

Cast · Known for Marvel's The Punisher, Supergirl, Tracker

Lima was a series regular in the internet comedy Poor Paul (2008-2009) and later became a series regular in Fox's medical drama The Mob Doctor (2012-2013). She had a recurring role in NBC's spy series Allegiance (2015), was a series regular in ABC's thriller The Family (2016) and has a recurring role in Fox's action drama Lethal Weapon (2016). From 2016-2017, Lima played lesbian Detective Maggie Sawyer in season two & three of The CW's Supergirl. In 2018, Lima played the character of psychiatrist Krista Dumont in the second season of Netflix's The Punisher. In 2019, Lima joined the second season of ABC's A Million Little Things as military veteran & physical therapist Darcy Cooper. She became a series regular in season 3 (2021). Lima made one-off appearances in episodes of How I Met Your Mother (2008), Ghost Whisperer (2009), Melrose Place (2009), House (2010), In Plain Sight (2010), Franklin & Bash (2011) and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2014).

Christos Politis

Cast · Known for The Shine

Christos Piatoulakis (Heraklion, 27 December 1942 - Athens, 5 January 2026), known artistically by the pseudonym Christos Politis, was a Greek actor of theater, television and cinema. He worked in the theater from 1966-1967 to 1997-1998, in more than 45 theater productions, while in the cinema, mainly, from 1968 to 1974, participating in 18 films. He worked on television from 1973 to 2005, starring in 8 television series. He was born on 27 December 1942 in Heraklion, Crete, where he grew up, originally from the village of Kavousi, Rethymno. He was a graduate of the Drama School of the National Theater (1965). He first appeared in the troupe of Yannis Fertis - Xenia Kalogeropoulou, in the play Ten Little Negroes (1965-1966) and was followed by the troupe of Titika Nikiforakis - Nikos Hatziskos in the plays Too Bad for Nothing (1968) and Tea and Sympathy (1969) while he collaborated with the troupe of Kostas Mousouris and the National Theatre. He worked in theatre from 1966 to 1998, participating in over 45 theatre productions, and in cinema, from 1968 to 1974, participating in 18 films. He worked in television from 1973 to 2005, starring in 8 television series, with the best known being the series Lampsi by Nikos Foskolos. He first appeared in cinema with a very small role in 1968, in Nikos Foskolos' film Avenue of Hate and with a leading role in 1969 in the films Saint Nektarios: The Protector of the Poor. In 1969, he also won the Best Supporting Actor award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, for his performance in the film The Girl of 17. He then collaborated mainly with film producer James Parris. He reappeared in cinema in 2022, after many decades of abstinence, participating in the film Broadway by Christos Massalas. He first appeared on television in 1973, in the series The Nets of Terror. Among other things, he participated in the series Queen Amalia with Al. Vougiouklakis and Dimitris Papamichael (1975) and Aphrodite with Nora Valsami (1977). In the 1980s, he had few participations in television programs. In 1991, he reappeared on television with N. Foskolos' daily series I Lampsi, a collaboration that established him in the consciousness of the television audience as "Iago Drako", a role he performed for 14 years, until the summer of 2005. His participation in Lampsi was one of his last artistic activities. During the 1970s and 1980s he participated in several theatrical productions for radio and television and in two video productions, in the late 1980s. He died on January 5, 2026, at the age of 83.

Hugh Thompson

Cast · Known for Little Lorraine

Hugh Thompson is a Canadian stage and screen actor known for Blessed Stranger: After Flight 111, Black Harbour and Forgive Me. Thompson won the Gemini Award for Blessed Stranger: After Flight 111. He was nominated for an ACTRA Award and a Canadian Screen Award for his work on Forgive Me. For his theatre work, Thompson was honored by the Robert Merritt Awards for his performances in Whale Riding Weather in 2013 for The Beauty Queen of Leenane in 2012, for Kingfisher Days in 2018, and was nominated for his work in Jacob's Wake in 2004 and Some Blow Flutes in 2019. His other film credits have included Noise, Whole New Thing, Poor Boy's Game, Copperhead, Splinters and Stage Mother.

Bray Poor

Cast · Known for Great Performances

Edith Poor

Christine Poor

Kwajo Tweneboa

Social housing activist and content creator Kwajo Tweneboa tirelessly campaigns against poor social housing conditions.

Sean Gallagher

Sean Campbell Gallagher (born 2 September 1965) is a British actor, trained at the Poor School in London. From 1992 he has appeared in many theatre productions, television series and films.

William J. Barber II

Reverend William J. Barber II is an American Protestant minister and political activist. He is the President and Senior Lecturer at Repairers of the Breach and co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.

William Smith

Cast · Known for Hawaii Five-O

William Smith was an American film and television actor who appeared in more than 300 feature films and television productions, best known for playing Anthony Falconetti on the TV mini series "Rich Man, Poor Man". He held a BA from Syracuse and an MA in Russian Studies from UCLA. Born in Columbia, Missouri, Smith began his acting career at the age of eight in 1942; he entered films as a child actor in such films as The Ghost of Frankenstein, The Song of Bernadette and Meet Me in St. Louis. He was a regular on the 1961 ABC television series The Asphalt Jungle, portraying police Sergeant Danny Keller. One of his earliest leading roles was as Joe Riley, a Texas Ranger on the NBC western series Laredo. In 1967, Smith guest starred as Jude Bonner on James Arness's long-lived western Gunsmoke. Smith was cast as John Richard Parker, brother of Cynthia Ann Parker, both taken hostage in Texas by the Comanche, in the 1969 episode "The Understanding" of the syndicated television series Death Valley Days, which was hosted by Robert Taylor. In the story line, Parker contracts the plague, is left for dead by his fellow Comanche warriors, and is rescued by his future Mexican wife, Yolanda (Emily Banks). He played outlaw turned temporary sheriff Hendry Brown in the 1969 episode "The Restless Man". In that story line, Brown takes the job of sheriff to tame a lawless town, begins to court a young woman (again played by Emily Banks), but soon returns to his deadly outlaw ways in search of bigger thrills. On Gunsmoke, Smith appeared in a 1972 episode, "Hostage!"; his character beats and rapes Amanda Blake's character Miss Kitty Russell and shoots her twice in the back. Smith has been described as the "greatest bad-guy character actor of our time".