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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008
Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.
Madisen Beaty
Madisen Beaty is an American actress, known for her roles as Daisy Fuller in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Doris Solstad in The Master, Rebeccah Mulcahey in Other People, and as Talya Banks in the ABC Family series The Fosters. Wikipedia
Jacqueline West
Costume Design · Known for Digger, Dune, Dune: Part Three
Jacqueline West is an American fashion and costume designer. She is recognized for her prolific work across small-scale productions and blockbusters in a career spanning over three decades. Her work appears in such acclaimed films as Quills (2000), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), The Social Network (2010), The Tree of Life (2011), Argo (2012), The Revenant (2015), Dune (2021), its sequel Dune: Part Two (2024), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). She has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design five times. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jacqueline West, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Robert Towers
Born Robert L. Towers, he is an actor known for Masters of the Universe (1987), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987). He was previously married to Patricia Kathryn Johnston.
Ceán Chaffin
Producer · Executive Producer · Known for Fight Club, Gone Girl, MINDHUNTER
Ceán Chaffin is an American film producer who has frequently collaborated with director and husband David Fincher. She and her fellow producers were nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and The Social Network (2010). She won American Film Institute's AFI Awards for these films as well as for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011). Chaffin was nominated for Producers Guild of America's Producers of the Year Awards for the three aforementioned films and was also nominated for a British Academy Film Award for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and The Social Network.
Eric Roth
Writer · Executive Producer · Known for A Star Is Born, Dune, House of Cards
Eric R. Roth (born March 22, 1945) is an American screenwriter. He has been nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay: Forrest Gump (1994), The Insider (1999), Munich (2005), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), A Star Is Born (2018), and Dune (2021) — winning for Forrest Gump; he also earned a Best Picture nomination for producing Mank (2020). Roth also worked on screenplays for the Oscar-nominated films Ali (2001), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Eric Roth, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Deneen Tyler
Deneen Tyler is a native of New Orleans with over twenty years of film, television and voice over experience. Like many critically acclaimed actresses, Deneen began her acting career in theatre. Armed with an opportunity given by a friend, her first public performance was at the Black Theater Festival. From there she was cast as Rose in a local production of August Wilson's Fences, at LePetit Theatre in New Orleans, La. Thanks to the Louisiana Tax Incentive, Hollywood literally came to the South. Not long thereafter, Deneen was cast in The Skeleton Key, Big Momma's House 2 and Hurricane Season, as well as television series Friday Night Lights and Treme, just to name a few. Her most prominent roles to date include two Oscar nominated films, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Dallas Buyer's Club; and the Oscar winning film, 12 Years a Slave, in which she played the role of Phebe. Deneen is married with one daughter, Devyn, who played the adult Margaret Northup in 12 Years a Slave. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Deneen Tyler
Joel Bissonnette
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Joel Bissonnette is an American actor. He is originally from Baltimore, Maryland, but was raised in Montreal, Canada. He is a graduate of the Dawson College Theatre Program in Montreal and has been in several plays. He is best known as Arnaud DeFöhn from the SciFi channel's show Invisible Man. He recently played Pavel Tokarev on 24. He has appeared in the films Century Hotel, Boulevard, Suspicious River, The Sum of All Fears, Fight Club, Darkman III, Language of the Heart, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joel Bissonnette, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Elle Fanning
Cast · Known for Margo's Got Money Troubles, Predator: Badlands, Sentimental Value
Mary Elle Fanning (born April 9, 1998) is an American actress. As a child, she made her film debut as the younger version of her sister Dakota Fanning's character in the drama film I Am Sam (2001). She appeared in several other films as a child actress, including Daddy Day Care (2003), Babel (2006), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Phoebe in Wonderland (both 2008), and the miniseries The Lost Room (2006). She then had leading roles in Sofia Coppola's drama Somewhere (2010) and J. J. Abrams' science fiction film Super 8 (2011). Fanning played Princess Aurora in the fantasy films Maleficent (2014) and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019) while working in independent films such as Sally Potter's Ginger & Rosa (2012), Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon (2016), Mike Mills' 20th Century Women (2016), and Coppola's The Beguiled (2017). From 2020 to 2023, she starred as Catherine the Great in the Hulu period satire series The Great, for which she received nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. She has since portrayed Michelle Carter in the Hulu limited series The Girl from Plainville (2022), made her Broadway debut in the play Appropriate (2023), and played a character based on Suze Rotolo in the biographical drama A Complete Unknown (2024).
Wilbur Fitzgerald
Wilbur Fitzgerald is an actor and attorney from Georgia, known for his TV work on series including In the Heat of the Night (1989-1995), Friday Night Lights (2007), Prison Break (2006-2008), and Drop Dead Diva (2009-2014), and for film work including The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), The East (2013), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). Wilbur is a member in good standing of the Georgia Bar (admitted in 1973). - IMDb Mini Biography
Richmond Arquette
Cast · Known for Fight Club, Zodiac
Richmond Arquette (born Mitchell Richmond Arquette, 21 August 1963, New York City, New York) is an American actor and writer. He is the son of actor Lewis Arquette and actress Brenda Denaut, and the brother of David Arquette, Rosanna Arquette, Patricia Arquette, and Alexis Arquette. He made his film debut as "Farm Boy Number 3" in Paul Mazursky's The Pickle (1993) and gained wider recognition as the delivery man in the climactic scene of David Fincher's Se7en (1995). He is primarily a character actor with over 60 screen credits spanning three decades. His filmography includes Fight Club (1999, as an intern at the hospital), Scream 3 (2000), Zodiac (2007, as Zodiac 1 / Zodiac 2), Halloween (2007, as Deputy Charles), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008, as John Grimm), Made of Honor (2008, as Gary), Smashed (2012, as Arlo), Broken Blood (2013, as Peebo — which he also co-wrote, earning a Best Screenplay nomination at the Northeast Film Festival), This Is Martin Bonner (2013, as Travis Holloway), Mansfield 66/67 (2017, as Anton LaVey), and Mank (2020, as a Heckler). On television he had a recurring role as Colin De Quisto in Dirt (2007–2008, 5 episodes) and guest appearances in Criminal Minds (2005), Prison Break (2005, 2009), Medium (2006), Monk (2007), Lie to Me (2009), Terriers (2010), and CSI: Miami (2011).
Julia Ormond
Cast · Known for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Julia Karin Ormond (born 4 January 1965) is an English actress who has appeared in film and television and on stage. Ormond rose to prominence in the 1990s with film appearances in The Baby of Mâcon (1993), Legends of the Fall (1994), First Knight (1995), Sabrina (1995), Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997), and The Barber of Siberia (1998). Other notable roles include Doris Side in Inland Empire (2006), Lisa Howard in Che (2008), Caroline Fuller in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), and Vivien Leigh in My Week with Marilyn (2011). On television, Ormond won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her role in the HBO film Temple Grandin (2010). She is also known for her starring role as antagonist Elizabeth Kublek in The Walking Dead: World Beyond (2020 - 2021).
Devyn A. Tyler
Cast · Known for Snowfall
Devyn Ariel Tyler is an American actress. She is a regular on the TV series Snowfall and Clarice. Tyler was born in New Orleans to actress Deneen Tyler. She attended the Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston and graduated from Columbia University in 2013. She has been acting since age eight, landing minor roles in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and The Great Debaters before taking a break to study French and Francophone studies at Columbia. She returned to acting after college, appearing in TV shows Clarice (2021–present) as well as The Underground Railroad (2021), Fear the Walking Dead (2020), The Purge (2018–2020) and Watchmen (2019). Her movie credits include Deep Water (2022).
Fiona Hale
Cast · Known for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Fiona Hale (February 7, 1926 – April 22, 2014) was an American actress. Her career began in 1949 in the movie Harriet Craig. She is known for her roles in Minority Report (2002), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), and Seven Pounds (2008).
Angus Wall
Editor · Known for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Social Network, Zodiac
Angus Alexander Wall (born March 15, 1967) is a film editor and film title designer. He and fellow film editor Kirk Baxter won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the David Fincher film The Social Network (2010) and again the next year for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011). He and Baxter were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, and the American Cinema Editors Eddie Award for the 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, also directed by David Fincher. Wall's title design work on the HBO television series Carnivàle and Game of Thrones both received Emmy Awards in 2004 and 2011, respectively, and his work on the series Rome's titles was nominated for the BAFTA Award in 2005. Wall graduated from Woodberry Forest School in Virginia in 1984. He then earned a BA from Bowdoin College in 1988. In 1992, he and Linda Carlson started the firm Rock Paper Scissors, which has become "a respected West Hollywood creative editorial house known for its commercial work for such clients as BMW, HP, and Nike." Wall's relationship with the director David Fincher extends back to 1988, when Wall entered the entertainment industry. Wall had edited some commercials directed by David Fincher, and he edited the titles for Fincher's film Se7en. He became an "editorial consultant" on Fight Club (1999), which was edited by James Haygood, and he then co-edited Panic Room (2002) with Haygood. While Wall became the sole editor credited on Zodiac (2007), Kirk Baxter worked with him as an "additional editor." Wall proposed to Fincher that Baxter be the co-editor for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Wall and his firm are noted for being early adopters of all-digital filmmaking using digital cameras. The film Zodiac (2007), which was directed by Fincher and edited by Wall, is noted as "the first major motion picture created without using film or tape," although some parts of the film were shot with conventional cameras. One important aspect of using digital cameras is that the director can view a scene immediately after it is recorded; as Fincher commented in an interview, "Dailies almost always end up being disappointing, like the veil is pierced and you look at it for the first time and think, 'Oh my god, this is what I really have to work with.' But when you can see what you have as it's gathered, it can be a much less neurotic process." Digital filmmaking also creates new possibilities for film editing compared to the "cutting" of reels of physical film; among these possibilities are subtle changes in the timing of an actor's performance and the combining of two different takes of a given scene within a single frame. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has the additional novel element that the facial performances in many of the film's scenes were recorded independently of the body performances and were combined to create the final film. Brad Pitt's face performances for Button were used in all the scenes, but for many of the scenes, a second actor's performance was used for the rest of Button's body. Description above from the Wikipedia article Angus Wall, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Elias Koteas
Cast · Known for Shooter, Zodiac, Chicago P.D.
Elias Koteas (born March 11, 1961) is a Canadian actor, known for his roles as Alvin "Al" Olinsky on the series Chicago P.D., Tom True on Goliath, Lionel Shrike in Now You See Me (2013), Col. Marks on Combat Hospital, James Skinner on The Killing, Laeddis in Shutter Island (2010), Monsieur Gateau in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Jack Payne in the film Shooter (2007), Peter Brandt in Collateral Damage (2002), Capt. James Stars in The Thin Red Line (1998), Edgar Reese in Fallen (1998), Antonio Freeman in Gattaca (1997), and Casey Jones in two of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films. He won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film Ararat (2002). He has appeared in many films including Some Kind of Wonderful (1987), The Adjuster (1991), Exotica (1994), The Prophecy (1995), Crash (1996), Living Out Loud (1998), Harrison's Flowers (2002), Zodiac (2007), and Skinwalkers (2007).
Taraji P. Henson
Cast · Known for Empire, Why Did I Get Married Again?, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Taraji P. Henson (born September 11, 1970) is an American actress, producer and singer. She studied acting at Howard University and began her Hollywood career as guest star on several television shows before making her breakthrough in the movie Baby Boy (2001). In 2005, she starred in Hustle & Flow and played Queenie in David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), for which she received an Academy Award nomination. In 2016, Time named Henson one of the 100 most influential people in the world on the annual Time 100 list. Henson also released an autobiography titled Around The Way Girl.
Mahershala Ali
Cast · Known for True Detective, Wildwood, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mahershala Ali (/məˈhɜːrʃələ/ mə-HUR-shə-lə; born Mahershalalhashbaz Gilmore on February 16, 1974) is an American actor. He has received multiple accolades, including two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019, and in 2020, The New York Times ranked him among the 25 greatest actors of the 21st century. After pursuing an MFA degree from New York University, Ali began his career as a regular on television series Crossing Jordan (2001–02) and Threat Matrix (2003–04), before his breakthrough role as Richard Tyler in the science fiction series The 4400 (2004–07). His first major film role was in the David Fincher-directed fantasy The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). He gained wider attention for supporting roles in the final two films of the original The Hunger Games film series and in House of Cards, for which he received his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Ali won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performances as a drug dealer in the drama Moonlight (2016) and as Don Shirley in the comedy-drama Green Book (2018). He is the first Black actor to win two Academy Awards in the same category and the second Black actor to win multiple acting Oscars. Ali won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program for executive producing We Are the Dream: The Kids of the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest (2020). In 2019, he played a troubled police officer in the third season of the HBO anthology crime series True Detective, and in 2020, he starred in the second season of the Hulu comedy-drama series Ramy. He was nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards for both performances. Ali has also played Cornell "Cottonmouth" Stokes in the first season of the Netflix series Luke Cage (2016) and voiced Aaron Davis in the animated films Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Mahershala Ali, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Phyllis Somerville
Cast · Known for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Phyllis Jeanne Somerville (December 12, 1943 – July 16, 2020) was an American stage, film, and television actress. She is best known for her roles in Little Children (2006), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Surviving Family (2012), The Big C (2010–2013), and Outsiders (2016–2017).
Alexandre Desplat
Composer · Known for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun, The Imitation Game
Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat (French:[alɛksɑ̃dʁ dɛspla]; born 23 August 1961) is a French film composer and conductor. He has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Grammy Awards. Desplat was made an Officer of the Ordre national du Mérite and a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres both in 2016. Desplat has received two Academy Awards for Best Original Score for The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) and The Shape of Water (2017). He was Oscar-nominated for The Queen (2006), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), The King's Speech (2010), Argo (2012), Philomena (2013), The Imitation Game (2014), Isle of Dogs (2018), and Little Women (2019). Desplat has composed scores for a wide range of films, including low-budget independent productions and large-scale blockbusters, such as The Golden Compass (2007), The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010) & Part 2 (2011), Moonrise Kingdom (2012), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Godzilla (2014), Unbroken (2014), The French Dispatch (2021), Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022) and Jurassic World Rebirth (2025). He has collaborated with directors such as Wes Anderson, Chris Weitz, Terrence Malick, George Clooney, Roman Polanski, Guillermo del Toro and Gareth Edwards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alexandre Desplat, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Adrian Armas
Adrian Armas was born on January 30, 1977 in San Fernando Valley, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Mystery Men (1999), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and 13 Going on 30 (2004).
Cate Blanchett
Cast · Known for Cinderella, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Catherine Elise Blanchett (born May 14, 1969) is an Australian actor and producer. Regarded as one of the best actresses of her generation, she is known for her versatile work across independent films, blockbusters, and the stage. Blanchett is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. After graduating from the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Blanchett began her acting career on the Australian stage, taking on roles in Electra in 1992 and Hamlet in 1994. She came to international attention as Elizabeth I in the drama film Elizabeth (1998), for which she won the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Actress, and received her first of seven Academy Award nominations. Her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator (2004) won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She later won the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing a neurotic former socialite in Woody Allen's comedy-drama Blue Jasmine (2013). Blanchett's other Oscar-nominated roles include Notes on a Scandal (2006), I'm Not There (2007), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), and Carol (2015). Her highest-grossing films include The Lord of the Rings (2001–2003) and The Hobbit (2012–2014) trilogies, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), Cinderella (2015), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), and Ocean's 8 (2018). Blanchett has performed in over 20 theatre productions. From 2008 to 2013, she and her husband, Andrew Upton, were the artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company. Some of her stage roles during that period were in revivals of A Streetcar Named Desire, Uncle Vanya and The Maids, garnering several theatre awards and nominations. She made her Broadway debut in 2017 in The Present, for which she received a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play nomination. Blanchett has also received Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie and Outstanding Limited Series as producer for the FX/Hulu historical drama miniseries Mrs. America (2020).
Grayson Thorne Kilpatrick
Cast · Known for The End of Oak Street
Grayson Thorne Kilpatrick was born in Huntsville, AL to Sherry and Charles Kilpatrick. In 2013, at the age of 9 he fell in love with Acting. Grayson took some local acting classes at Hollywood Huntsville in Huntsville, AL and Gray Studio in Nashville, TN in 2013 Grayson made his screen debut with Tom Lester, Victoria Jackson and Ray Stevens in "Campin' Buddies". From 2013 until end of 2015 Grayson had received 24 IMDb credit for Feature Films, Short Films and TV Series. In 2016, Grayson and his family moved to Los Angeles where Grayson has already received several more IMDb credit for various TV Series and Films. Grayson joined the Screen Actors Guild and became SAG-AFTRA in February 2016, only one month after moving to L.A. Grayson has worked with legendary actors Shia LeBeouf, Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Bill Hader, Fred Armisen, Jamie Costa, Stephen Dorff, Rob Riggle, Alpha Trivette, Greg Alan Williams, Danny Vinson and Henry Zebrowski. Grayson is known for his roles in Chicken Girls:The Movie, American Horror Story, Dave and many more Grayson currently takes acting Classes from David Gray at Gray Studios in L.A as well as the Margie Haber Studios. Grayson takes private acting classes with Wendy Ann Faraone an on set Disney acting coach for shows as "Liv and Maddie", Carrie Ann Hunt actress from "Magic Mike" and Danny Vinson actor from such films as "Walk the Line", "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and many more... Grayson is currently pursing his Black Belt in Karate, and taking Surfing, and Parkour lessons. His hobbies is playing Minecraft with his friends, Archery and watching College Football (Alabama Crimson Tide).
David Fincher
Director · Executive Producer · Known for Alien³, Fight Club, House of Cards
David Andrew Leo Fincher (born August 28, 1962) is an American film director. His films, mostly thrillers, have received 40 nominations at the Academy Awards, including three for him as Best Director. Born in Denver, Colorado, Fincher was interested in filmmaking at an early age. He directed numerous music videos, most notably Madonna's "Express Yourself" in 1989 and "Vogue" in 1990, both of which won him the MTV Video Music Award for Best Direction. He made his feature film debut with Alien 3 (1992), which garnered mixed reviews, followed by the thriller Seven (1995), which was better received. Fincher found lukewarm success with The Game (1997) and Fight Club (1999), but the latter eventually became a cult classic. In 2002, he returned to prominence with the thriller Panic Room starring Jodie Foster. Fincher also directed Zodiac (2007), The Social Network (2010), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), and Mank (2020). For The Social Network, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director and BAFTA Award for Best Direction. His biggest commercial successes are The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and Gone Girl (2014), both of which grossed more than $300 million worldwide, with the former earning thirteen nominations at the Academy Awards, and eleven at the British Academy Film Awards. He also served as an executive producer and director for the Netflix series House of Cards (2013–2018) and Mindhunter (2017–2019), winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for the pilot episode of House of Cards. Fincher was the co-founder of Propaganda Films, a film, and music.