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The Handmaiden
2016
1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sook-hee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle Kouzuki. But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to steal her fortune.
Kim Tae-ri
Cast · Known for The Handmaiden
Kim Tae-ri (김태리) is a South Korean actress. Kim started her career appearing in theater productions and modelling in TV adverts. She made her feature film debut in Park Chan-wook's film The Handmaiden (2016) where she was chosen from among 1,500 candidates who auditioned for the role. Park's first impression of Kim reminded him strongly of his first meeting with actress Kang Hye-jung, who had her career breakthrough in Park's film Oldboy (2003). Kim also starred in 1987: When the Day Comes (2017) and Little Forest (2018).
Lee Ji-ha
Lee Ji-ha (born October 7, 1970) is a South Korean actress and model. She is known for her roles in dramas such as The Smile Has Left Your Eyes, My Unfamiliar Family, Sweet Home and Squid Game, the latter gaining her international fame. She also appeared in movies The Bros, The Handmaiden and Tabloid Truth.
Kim Min-hee
Cast · Known for The Handmaiden
Kim Min-hee (김민희, born 1 March 1982) is a South Korean actress and former fashion model. In 2017, she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival for her performance in Hong Sang-soo's film On the Beach at Night Alone (2017). She is known as one of the muses of director Hong Sang-soo and gained international recognition in her leading role in auteur Park Chan-wook's film The Handmaiden (2016).
Kim Hae-sook
Cast · Known for The Handmaiden
Kim Hae-Sook (born December 30, 1955) is a South Korean actress. She made her acting debut in 1974. She has won numerous awards for her various roles in countless television dramas and films. You can find her in dramas and films such as, “I Hear Your Voice” (2013), “Pinocchio” (2015), “My Father is Strange” (2017), “Mother of Mine” (2019), “Thirst” (2009), “The Handmaiden” (2016), and “Tomorrow” (2022).
Park Chan-wook
Director · Known for The Handmaiden
Park Chan-wook (Korean: 박찬욱; pronounced [pak̚tɕʰanuk̚]; born 23 August 1963) is a South Korean filmmaker and former film critic. Widely regarded as a leading figure in South Korean and 21st-century world cinema, he is known for films that blend crime, mystery, and thriller elements with other genres. His films are noted for their cinematography, framing, black humour, and often brutal subject matter. After two unsuccessful films in the 1990s, which he has since largely disowned, Park came to prominence with his acclaimed third directorial effort, Joint Security Area (2000), which became the highest-grossing film in South Korean history at the time and which Park himself prefers to be regarded as his directorial debut. Using his newfound creative freedom, he would go on to direct the films forming his unofficial The Vengeance Trilogy: Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002), a financial failure that polarised critics, followed by Oldboy (2003) and Lady Vengeance (2005), both of which received critical acclaim and were financially successful. Oldboy in particular is regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, and helped establish Park as a well-known director outside his native country. Most of Park's work following The Vengeance Trilogy was also commercially and critically successful both in South Korea and internationally, such as Thirst (2009), The Handmaiden (2016), which earned Park the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language, and Decision to Leave (2022), which won the Best Director award at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. He directed the English-language miniseries The Little Drummer Girl (2018) and The Sympathizer (2024). His 2025 film No Other Choice was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. Description above from the Wikipedia article Park Chan-wook, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Amrita Acharia
Amrita Acharia (also spelled Acharya) is a Norwegian actress of Ukrainian and Nepalese background. Acharia was born in Nepal to a Nepalese father and Ukrainian mother. She grew up in Kathmandu, Ukraine, England and Tromsø. She speaks Ukrainian, Russian and English, in addition to learning Norwegian when she moved to Norway at age thirteen. After finishing high school in Norway, she moved to England at age nineteen to pursue her acting career. Acharia played the role of the Dothraki handmaiden Irri in the first two seasons of Game of Thrones. Her character was written out of the series during the second season, despite surviving far longer in the books upon which the series is based. In 2011, Acharia starred in the one off BBC Christmas show, Lapland.
Keira Knightley
Cast · Known for The Imitation Game, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Keira Christina Knightley (born 26 March 1985) is an English actress. She has starred in both independent films and big-budget blockbusters and is particularly noted for her roles in period dramas. Her accolades include two Empire Awards and nominations for two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, one Screen Actors Guild Award and one Laurence Olivier Award. Knightley was appointed an OBE in the 2018 Birthday Honours for services to drama and charity. Born in London to actors Will Knightley and Sharman Macdonald, Knightley obtained an agent at age six and initially worked commercials and television films. She appeared as Sabé, Padmé Amidala's handmaiden, in the science fiction blockbuster Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999). Knightley had a break-through role portraying a tomboy footballer in the sports film Bend It Like Beckham (2002). She achieved global stardom with her portrayal of Elizabeth Swann in the fantasy swashbuckler series Pirates of the Caribbean. In the same year, she appeared in the Christmas romantic comedy Love Actually (2003) and was labelled a promising teen star. For her portrayal of Elizabeth Bennet in the period romance Pride & Prejudice (2005), Knightley was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. At age 20, she became the third-youngest Best Actress nominee at the time. Knightley starred in a series of further period pieces, portraying a complex love interest in Atonement (2007), tastemaker Georgiana Cavendish in The Duchess (2008), and the titular socialite in Anna Karenina (2012). She then forayed into contemporary dramas, appearing as an aspiring musician in Begin Again (2013) and a medical student in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014). Knightley returned to historical films by playing cryptoanalyst Joan Clarke in The Imitation Game (2014), earning her a second round of Academy Award and BAFTA nominations, and starred as the eponymous belle époque writer in Colette (2018) to critical acclaim. On stage, Knightley has appeared in two West End productions: The Misanthrope in 2009, which earned her an Olivier Award nomination, and The Children's Hour in 2011. She also starred as the eponymous heroine in the 2015 Broadway production of Thérèse Raquin. Knightley is known for her outspoken stance on social issues, and has worked extensively with Amnesty International, Oxfam, and Comic Relief. She is married to musician James Righton, with whom she has two daughters.
Kristy Wright
Kristy Wright (born 14 July 1978; name also erroneously given as Kirsty Wright) is an Australian actress. Wright was born in Sydney, Australia, the oldest child in her family, with three stepbrothers and two half-sisters. Hoping to win a contest for acting lessons, she sent in her photograph and ended up with a full year's paid tuition. Her first part was a guest role in Police Rescue. From 1995 until 1999 she played the part of Chloe Richards in the Australian soap opera Home and Away and briefly returned to this role in December 2005, when her character died from an embolism resulting from a car accident. Following Home and Away she starred in Chuck Finn, Above the Law and Something in the Air. She went on to feature inCrash Palace as well as a political satire called Corridors of Power. Following this success she was picked up to feature in an American TV show, Beastmaster as a ninja warrior. She also appeared in a short film, Sweet Dreams. She worked on an episode of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's – The Lost World, and has also featured in the Australian drama,The Alice. She had a minor role as the hand maiden Moteé in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. She moved to Los Angeles in 2005 or 2006 and quit acting in 2011 and worked in event management. On August 8, 2013, she gave birth to Jai Jacoby, during her 27th week of pregnacy. Jai weighed in at only 2 lbs 4 oz and 14 1/2 inches long. Her partner is Michaelis Jacoby.
The Handmaid's Tale
2017
Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.
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Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.
Owen Painter
Cast · Known for The Shards, Wednesday
Owen Painter is known for The Handmaid's Tale (2017), Tiny Beautiful Things (2023) and Wednesday (2022).
Teagan Wright
Teagan Wright is known for The Handmaid's Tale (2017), The Strain (2014) and Murdoch Mysteries (2008).
Andy McQueen
Andy McQueen is a Canadian actor who is best known for his roles in the films Disappearance at Clifton Hill (2019), Fahrenheit 451 (2018), and Books of Blood (2020). He has also appeared in the television series The Handmaid's Tale, Jack Ryan, The Girlfriend Experience, and Station Eleven. McQueen was born in 1991 in Toronto, Ontario. He studied acting at the Canadian Film Centre and made his professional acting debut in the 2017 film Brown Girl Begins. He has since appeared in a number of films and television shows, including the recurring role of Detective Malik Abed in the television series Coroner. In 2019, McQueen was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the film Disappearance at Clifton Hill. He has also received critical acclaim for his work in the films Fahrenheit 451 and Books of Blood.
Genevieve Angelson
Genevieve Angelson is an American actress, best known for playing Alanis Wheeler on The Handmaid's Tale, Indigo on The Afterparty, Patti Robinson on Good Girls Revolt, and Ruth on Flack.
Marissa Jo Cerar
Marissa Jo Cerar is a writer and producer. Cerar is known for The Handmaid's Tale (2017), The Fosters (2013) and 13 Reasons Why (2017). She was nominated for a Primetime Emmy in 2020.
Alex Frankson
Alex is a Toronto actor with a Theatre degree from the University of Victoria. Some recent film credits include Belushi's Toilet, Reign, Blood and Fury: America's Civil War, The Expanse, Dark Matter, and The Handmaids Tale.
Bruce Miller
Writer · Known for Eureka, The Handmaid's Tale
Bruce Miller is a television writer and producer known for Eureka (2006), The 100 (2014), and The Handmaid's Tale (2017). For his work on the latter series he won the 2017 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series, which make it the first series on a streaming platform to win an "Outstanding Series" Emmy.
Jason Díaz
Jason Díaz is an actor and director, known for The 100 (2014), Charmed (2018) and The Handmaid's Tale (2017).
Luxton Handspiker
Cast · Known for PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
Luxton Handspiker is an actor, known for Slumberland (2022), The Handmaid's Tale (2017) and Nightbooks (2021).
Jenessa Grant
Jenessa Grant is a Canadian actress. She has played the characters Mud in Orphan Black, Ofsamuel in The Handmaid's Tale and Aylee in Reign. She also portrays Faith Seed in the video game Far Cry 5.
Amanda Brugel
Cast · Known for Dark Matter, The Handmaid's Tale
Amanda Brugel is a highly acclaimed Canadian actress and producer best known for her iconic television roles, most notably as Rita Blue in Hulu's dystopian drama series The Handmaid's Tale and Nina Gomez in the CBC comedy Kim's Convenience. She has built a prolific career spanning both comedy and drama.
Sherry Thomas
Casting · Known for Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad, Pluribus
Sherry Thomas was born on 29 June 1969 in Northampton, Massachusetts, USA. She is a casting director and producer, known for Breaking Bad (2008), Barry (2018) and The Handmaid's Tale (2017).
Sydney Sweeney
Cast · Known for Anyone but You, The Housemaid, Euphoria
Sydney Bernice Sweeney (born September 12, 1997) is an American actress. She gained early recognition for her roles in Everything Sucks!, The Handmaid's Tale, and Sharp Objects in 2018. She received wider acclaim for her performances in the drama series Euphoria (2019–2026) and the first season of the anthology series The White Lotus (2021), both of which earned her nominations for Primetime Emmy Awards. In film, Sweeney garnered critical acclaim for her performances in the drama film Reality (2023) and for her portrayal of professional boxer Christy Martin in the biopic Christy (2025), and has also appeared in the box office hits Anyone but You (2023) and The Housemaid (2025). Her other film credits include Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), Madame Web (2024), and Immaculate (2024).