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Kate Nichols

Cast · Known for Subservience, Barbarian

Kate Nichols (born Plamena Nikolaeva Bozhilova, 3 August 1985, Varna, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian actress, producer, and writer who grew up in the UK and trained at Drama Centre London. She is fluent in multiple languages and has performed in classical theatre including Nina in The Seagull in Moscow, Imogen in Cymbeline at Shakespeare's Globe, and Penelope in The Odyssey on a world tour for the Drama Theatre Plovdiv. She is a member of SAG-AFTRA and Equity and is currently based in Los Angeles. Her screen filmography spans international features and television. Notable credits include Barbarian (2022), Memory (2022), The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021), The Piper (2023, with Charlotte Hope and Julian Sands), Subservience (2024, with Megan Fox), Don't Move (2024), and The Cleaner (2025, with Daisy Ridley). Her most recent work includes Red Sonja (2025), The Royal We (2025), and Resonance (2026). On television she has appeared in Pandora (2019), Plebs, and the Bulgarian comedy series Dads (BTV).

Jed Palmer

Composer · Known for Subservience

Jed Palmer is a Australian composer and sound designer who works across television, film and theatre. He has composed music and sound designed for feature films including The Royal Hotel for which he won the Australian Screen Sound Guild Award for Best Sound for a Feature Film (Dir Kitty Green, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival 2023), sci-fi feature Subservience (Dir. S.K Dale), Animals (Dir. Sophie Hyde, Sundance 2019) OtherLife (MIFF 2017, SFF 2017, San Diego 2017) and The Infinite Man (SXSW 2014). In 2018, Jed was nominated for an AACTA award for his score for Upgrade, Leigh Whannell's cult sci-fi action film.

Atanas Srebrev

Cast · Known for Lucky Strike, Subservience

Atanas Srebrev (born April 19, 1971, in Sofia, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian (South Slavic) actor, singer, and voice-over artist, 5′ 11″ (1.80 m) tall, who graduated with a Master's degree in Drama, Theatre, and Acting from the National Academy of Theater and Film Arts in Sofia. Recognized as the first Bulgarian actor to make his own way in Hollywood due to his fluency in English, he has appeared in over 145 films and is highly recognizable among SyFy Channel viewers. He is married to Galina Srebreva (since 2002) and is fluent in Bulgarian, English, Russian, and German. His most notable film credits include Agent Madison in Hellboy (2019), a Blacksmith in 300: Rise of an Empire (2014), Trawler Captain in Mechanic: Resurrection (2016), an American Merc in Rambo: Last Blood (2019), CAT Agent in Angel Has Fallen (2019), Dr. Joseph Myers in Memory (2022, with Julia Roberts), Lewis in Subservience (2024, with Kyra Dagiba), and Chief Wormer in The Toxic Avenger (2023). He is also well known for Undisputed 2: Last Man Standing (2006, as Dmitri), The Contract (2006, as Rodrigues), Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil (2006), Ninja (2009, as Detective Vukovich), Grendel (2007), and Loving Pablo (2017). On stage he has performed lead roles in major musicals including Chicago (Billy Flynn), My Fair Lady (Professor Higgins), Les Misérables (Javert), Evita (Perón), and The Wizard of Oz (Tin Man), and he has done extensive voice-over work for Bulgarian dubs of Moana, The Lego Batman Movie, DC League of Super-Pets, and Mulan (2020).

William Marshall

William Marshall was an American actor, director, and opera singer. He is best known for his title role in Blacula and its sequel Scream Blacula Scream as well as his role on Pee-wee's Playhouse. Marshall made his Broadway debut in 1944 in Carmen Jones. In 1950, he understudied Boris Karloff as Captain Hook in the Broadway production of Peter Pan. He played the leading role of De Lawd in the 1951 revival of The Green Pastures, a role he repeated in 1958 in a BBC telecast of the play. He performed in several Shakespearean plays on the stage in the U. S. and Europe, including the title role in at least six productions of Othello. Harold Hobson of the London Sunday Times praised Marshall’s portrayal as "the best Othello of our time." In 1968, Marshall joined the Center Theatre Group at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles to play Othello in a jazz musical version, Catch My Soul, with Jerry Lee Lewis as Iago. Marshall portrayed Paul Robeson and Frederick Douglass on stage. He researched Douglass' life extensively, and in 1983 produced and played the lead role in Frederick Douglass: Slave and Statesman. Marshall's career on screen began in the 1952 film Lydia Bailey as a Haitian leader. He followed that with a prominent role as Glycon, comrade and fellow gladiator to Victor Mature in the 1954 film Demetrius and the Gladiators. His demeanor, voice and stature gave him a wide range, though he was ill-suited for the subservient roles that many black actors of his generation were most frequently offered. He was a leader of the Mau-Mau uprising in Something of Value, and Attorney General Edward Brooke in The Boston Strangler. He probably received the most notice for his role in the vampire film Blacula and its sequel Scream Blacula Scream. In later years, Marshall played the King of Cartoons on Pee-wee's Playhouse. Despite blacklisting because of his supposed communist connections, Marshall managed to continue appearing in both television and films. He appeared on the British spy series Danger Man in episodes titled "Deadline" and "The Galloping Major". He also won two local Emmys for producing and performing in a PBS production, As Adam Early in the Morning, a theatre piece originally performed on stage. He also was featured in an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour titled, "The Jar", with actors Pat Buttram and George Lindsey. In addition to acting and producing, Marshall taught acting at various universities including the University of California, Irvine, and the Mufandi Institute, an African-American arts and music institution in the Watts section of Los Angeles. He did similar work at Chicago's ETA Creative Arts Foundation, which in 1992 named Marshall one of its Epic Men of the 20th century. Marshall died June 11, 2003, from complications arising from Alzheimer's disease and diabetes. Marshall was considered by many to be a much underrated actor and one who never got his due. Some have remarked that Marshall should have had a much more successful and larger screen career, even saying that Marshall would have been a perfect choice for the role of Thulsa Doom in Conan the Barbarian.