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The Polar Express

2004

When a doubting young boy takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe.

Meagan Moore

Cast · Known for Ben 10

Meagan Moore is known for The Polar Express (2004), House (2004) and Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse (2001). Meagan began dancing at the age of 2 and soon moved on to the wonderful world of acting at age 11. She has performed in numerous musicals such as "The Wizard of Oz", "Mame", "Bye Bye Birdie", and "The Music Man", just to name a few at regional theatres all over the country. She has also done a staged reading for "Little Foxes" at the Pasadena Playhouse. In 2000, she got her first on camera role in the independent film "Up Against Amanda" and soon began starring in commercials for SBC, MTV, and The Home Depot as well as a co-starring spot on "Close To Home". Meagan has also done many voice overs including some for the San Diego Zoo, Doritos, Carl's Jr., and "Adventures in Odyssey". Her latest project is the upcoming cartoon network show "Ben 10" where she plays Gwen.

Bobby Block

Cast · Known for Shrek, Home on the Range

Bobby Block is known for his work on Shrek (2001), The Polar Express (2004) and Finding Nemo (2003).

Evan Sabara

Evan Sabara is an American actor. He won the Young Artist Special Award for Outstanding Voice Performance, which Sabara shared with eleven other actors in the film The Polar Express.

Eddie Deezen

Cast · Known for The Polar Express, Dexter's Laboratory

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Eddie Deezen (born March 6, 1957) is an American character actor, voice actor and comedian, best known for his bit parts as nerd characters in 1970s and 1980s films such as Grease, Grease 2, Midnight Madness, 1941 and WarGames, as well as for larger roles in a number of independent cult films, including Surf II: The End of the Trilogy and I Wanna Hold Your Hand. As a voice actor, he is easily recognizable for his distinctively high-pitched and nasally voice, most notably used for the characters of Mandark in the Cartoon Network series Dexter's Laboratory, Snipes the Magpie in Rock-A-Doodle, Ned in Kim Possible and Lenny the Know-It-All in The Polar Express. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eddie Deezen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

William Broyles Jr.

Writer · Known for Cast Away, Entrapment, The Polar Express

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William Dodson Broyles, Jr. (born October 8, 1944) is an American screenwriter, who has worked on the television series China Beach (1988–1991), and the films Apollo 13 (1995), Cast Away (2000), Entrapment (1999), Planet of the Apes (2001), Unfaithful (2002), The Polar Express (2004), and Jarhead (2005). He also assisted in the screenplay of "Saving Private Ryan" (1998). Description above from the Wikipedia article William Broyles, Jr., licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Rick Carter

Production Design · Known for Avatar, Back to the Future Part II, Cast Away

Rick Carter (born 1952, Los Angeles, California) is an American production designer and art director. He is best known for his collaborations with directors Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis, particularly on the films Back to the Future Part II, Back to the Future Part III, Jurassic Park, Forrest Gump, The Polar Express, War Horse, and Lincoln. He is also known for his work on James Cameron's Avatar, and for the J. J. Abrams-directed Star Wars films The Force Awakens and The Rise of Skywalker. He is a two-time winner of the Academy Award for Best Production Design for his work on Avatar and Lincoln. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rick Carter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Daryl Sabara

Cast · Known for After the Dark, Ben 10, The Polar Express

Daryl Sabara (born June 14, 1992) is an American film and television actor, best known for playing Juni Cortez in the Spy Kids trilogy, as well as for a variety of television and film appearances, including Wizards of Waverly Place, Father of the Pride, The Polar Express, Keeping Up with the Steins, Halloween, and the reality show America's Most Talented Kids, on which he was a judge. He is currently the lead actor in Cartoon Network's Generator Rex.

Chris Coppola

Cast · Known for Friday the 13th

Chris Coppola (born November 26, 1968, Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor and comedian who has no relation to the Coppola filmmaking family. His family moved to California during his childhood, and he graduated from California State University, Long Beach, where he stumbled into acting after accidentally registering for the wrong class in his final semester. He then worked at Industrial Light & Magic in San Francisco before returning to Los Angeles to study acting at the Lost Studio, training on plays by Pinter, Shanley, Chekhov, and Shakespeare. He made his film debut in Spawn (1997) and had his first starring role in Postal (2007). He is married to Jill Coppola; they have no children. His notable film credits include Spawn (1997) (John Leguizamo, Bridget Fonda), The Polar Express (2004) (Tom Hanks, Daryl Sabara), Postal (2007) (Dave Foley, Jackie Tohn), BloodRayne 2: Deliverance (2007) (Krista Allen, Michael Paré), Beowulf (2007) (Ray Winstone, Angelina Jolie), Far Cry (2008) (Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana), Friday the 13th (2009) (Derek Mears, Jared Padalecki), and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (2017) (Zachary Gordon, Robert Carradine). On television he has a recurring role as Melvin Redmond in Too Old to Die Young (2019), a guest spot in Barry (2022), and currently voices Enzo Ferino in the Netflix animated series Devil May Cry (2025–present).

Michael Jeter

Cast · Known for The Green Mile, The Polar Express

Robert Michael Jeter (August 26, 1952 – March 30, 2003) was an American character actor of film, stage, and television. His television roles included Herman Stiles on the sitcom Evening Shade from 1990 until 1994 and Mr. Noodle's brother, Mister Noodle on the Elmo's World segments of Sesame Street from 2000 until 2003. Jeter's film roles include Zelig, Tango & Cash, The Fisher King, Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, Waterworld, Air Bud, Patch Adams, The Green Mile, Jurassic Park III, Welcome to Collinwood, Open Range, and The Polar Express. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Jeter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Seán Donegan

Cast · Known for Soulm8te

Irish actor. TRAINING Guildhall, London. THEATRE includes The Constituent at The Old Vic; Dancing at Lughnasa at The National Theatre; The Enemy Within and The Winter's Tale at the An Grianan Theatre; The Polar Express at Wise Owl Theatre; A Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakesperience; Nutcase at the Derry Playhouse and Alice in Wonderland for Combarro. FILM includes Gardener's Planet and Soulm8te.

Alan Silvestri

Composer · Known for Captain America: The First Avenger, Cast Away, Practical Magic

Alan Anthony Silvestri (born March 26, 1950) is an American composer, conductor, orchestrator and music producer of film scores. He has received two Grammy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and nominations for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. He has been associated with director Robert Zemeckis since 1984, composing music for nearly all of his feature films, including the Back to the Future film series (1985–1990), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Death Becomes Her (1992), Forrest Gump (1994), Contact (1997), What Lies Beneath (2000), Cast Away (2000), The Polar Express (2004), Beowulf (2007), Flight (2012) and The Walk (2015).  Silvestri also scored many other popular movies, including Predator (1987), The Abyss (1989), Father of the Bride (1991), The Bodyguard (1992), Eraser (1996), The Parent Trap (1998), Stuart Little (1999), The Mummy Returns (2001), Lilo & Stitch (2002), Van Helsing (2004), Night at the Museum trilogy, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009), The A-Team (2010),  Ready Player One (2018), and several Marvel Cinematic Universe films, including the Avengers films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Silvestri, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Tinashe

Cast · Known for The Polar Express

Tinashe Jorgensen Kachingwe (born February 6, 1993), known mononymously as Tinashe, is an American singer, dancer, and actress. Born in Lexington, Kentucky, Tinashe moved to Pasadena as a child to pursue a career in entertainment. Her notable roles included as a motion-capture model in the animated film The Polar Express (2004), Robin Wheeler in the Cartoon Network television series Out of Jimmy's Head (2007–2008), and a recurring role in the CBS series Two and a Half Men (2008–2009).

Robert Zemeckis

Director · Producer · Executive Producer · Known for Back to the Future Part II, Cast Away, House of Wax

Robert Lee Zemeckis (born May 14, 1952) is an American filmmaker known for directing and producing a range of successful and influential movies. He often blends cutting-edge visual effects with storytelling. He has received several accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for five British Academy Film Awards and a Daytime Emmy Award. Zemeckis started his career directing the comedy films I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), Used Cars (1980), and Romancing the Stone (1984). He gained prominence directing the science-fiction comedy Back to the Future trilogy (1985–1990), the fantasy comedy Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), and the comedy-drama Forrest Gump (1994), the latter of which won Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director. He has also directed the satirical black comedy Death Becomes Her (1992), the science fiction film Contact (1997), and the drama films Cast Away (2000), Flight (2012), The Walk (2015), and Allied (2016). His exploration of motion capture techniques can be seen in the animated films The Polar Express (2004) and A Christmas Carol (2009), as well as the action fantasy drama Beowulf (2007) and the drama Welcome to Marwen (2018). He has collaborated with film composer Alan Silvestri since 1984 and directed Tom Hanks in five films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Zemeckis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Chris Van Allsburg

Executive Producer · Known for Jumanji: The Next Level, The Polar Express

Chris Van Allsburg (born June 18, 1949) is an American writer and illustrator of children's books. He has won two Caldecott Medals for U.S. picture book illustration, for Jumanji (1981) and The Polar Express (1985), both of which he also wrote and were later adapted as successful motion pictures. He was also a Caldecott runner-up in 1980 for The Garden of Abdul Gasazi. For his contribution as a children's illustrator, he was a 1986 U.S. nominee for the biennial International Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international recognition for creators of children's books. He received the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Michigan in April 2012. Description above from the Wikipedia article Chris Van Allsburg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Rakul Preet Singh

Cast · Known for Ramayana: Rise of a Legend

Rakul Preet Singh is an Indian actress who works predominantly in Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, and Kannada cinema. She made her acting debut in the Kannada film *Gilli* (2009), followed by her Telugu debut in *Keratam* (2011) and Tamil debut in *Thadaiyara Thaakka* (2012). Her breakthrough in Telugu cinema came with Merlapaka Gandhi's *Venkatadri Express* (2013), for which she received a Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu nomination. She made her Hindi starring debut in Divya Khosla Kumar's *Yaariyan* (2014). Her subsequent Telugu films included *Loukyam* (2014), *Current Theega* (2014), *Pandaga Chesko* (2015), *Kick 2* (2015), *Bruce Lee: The Fighter* (2015), Sukumar's *Nannaku Prematho* (2016), Boyapati Srinu's *Sarrainodu* (2016), Surender Reddy's *Dhruva* (2016), *Rarandoi Veduka Chudham* (2017), *Jaya Janaki Nayaka* (2017), and A. R. Murugadoss's bilingual thriller *Spyder* (2017). She also appeared in H. Vinoth's Tamil action thriller *Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru* (2017). Her Hindi film roles included the romantic comedy *De De Pyaar De* (2019), *Marjaavaan* (2019), *Attack* (2022), *Runway 34* (2022), *Doctor G* (2022), *Thank God* (2022), and the social comedy-drama *Chhatriwali* (2023). Her later South Indian films included Krish Jagarlamudi's *Konda Polam* (2021), R. Ravikumar's Tamil science-fiction film *Ayalaan* (2024), and S. Shankar's vigilante action sequel *Indian 2* (2024). Her other credits include Mudassar Aziz's comedy *Mere Husband Ki Biwi* (2025), the romantic comedy sequel *De De Pyaar De 2* (2025), *Pati Patni Aur Woh Do* (2026), and Nitesh Tiwari's mythological film *Ramayana: Part 1* (2026), in which she portrays Surpanakha.

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

2009

From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. JOE team uses the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to fight the corrupt arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organization to prevent them from plunging the world into chaos.

Ian Davis

Dr Ian Davis is a Cotswold-based GP. He has been the doctor responsible for polar medical safety on two trips to the magnetic North Pole for the BBC (once with Dr Michael Stroud and once for the BBC programme Top Gear). He has also been the polar advisor to Discovery Channel presenter Bear Grylls. Dr Davis is one of the contributing authors to the Polar Medicine chapter in “Wilderness Medicine” regarded by many as the definitive textbook for practising medicine in extreme environments, and he also edited the Polar Medicine chapter in the “Oxford Handbook of Wilderness Medicine”.

Stef Dawson

Stef Dawson is an Australian actress. She portrayed Annie Cresta in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and Part 2. She also made a cameo appearance in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Dawson was born in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory and attended the Canberra Girls' Grammar School, Radford College, and Screenwise Film & TV School. She also studied theatre and opera at the University of Wollongong. Dawson performed in many plays at Short and Sweet in Sydney from 2007 to 2009. She made her first short film role as the lead in Chocolates. Later, she landed the lead role as the title character in the short film Ophelia and also, received a role in The Consulate as Sarah Rael. She landed a role in All Saints as Tully McIntyre; where she made her television debut in the episode, "The Blink of an Eye". Dawson made another television appearance in Out of Blue as a guest role, and in Swift and Shift Couriers as Kylie Brown in the episode "The Polar Bear Suit". Dawson then landed her first lead in an Australian feature film playing Leah Thompson, in Wrath. Dawson made a film appearance in Foxfur as Pearlwing. Dawson portrayed Annie Cresta in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2. She also made a brief appearance in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Dawson next appeared in the microbudget film Creedmoria, which premiered at the 2016 Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, California.

Sting

Cast · Known for Bee Movie, Dune

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English singer-songwriter, musician, activist, and actor. He was the frontman, principal songwriter and bassist for new wave band the Police from 1977 until their breakup in 1986. He launched a solo career in 1985 and has included elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new-age, and worldbeat in his music. Sting has sold a combined total of more than 100 million records as a solo artist and as a member of the Police. He has received three Brit Awards, including Best British Male Artist in 1994 and Outstanding Contribution to Music in 2002; a Golden Globe; an Emmy; and four Academy Award nominations. As a solo musician and as a member of the Police, Sting has received 17 Grammy Awards. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Police in 2003. Sting has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors; a CBE from Queen Elizabeth II for services to music; Kennedy Center Honors; and the Polar Music Prize. In May 2023, he was made an Ivor Novello Fellow. Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner was born at Sir G B Hunter Memorial Hospital in Wallsend, Northumberland, England, on 2 October 1951, the eldest of four children of Audrey (née Cowell), a hairdresser, and Ernest Matthew Sumner, a milkman and former fitter at an engineering works. He grew up near Wallsend's shipyards, which made an impression on him. As a child, he was inspired by the Queen Mother waving at him from a Rolls-Royce to divert from the shipyard prospect towards a more glamorous life. He helped his father deliver milk and by ten was "obsessed" with an old Spanish guitar left by an emigrating friend of his father. Sting attended St Cuthbert's Grammar School in Newcastle upon Tyne. He visited nightclubs such as Club A'Gogo to see Cream and Manfred Mann, who influenced his music. He learned to sing and play simultaneously by listening to records at 78 rpm. After leaving school in 1969, he enrolled at the University of Warwick in Coventry, but left after a term. After working as a bus conductor, building labourer, and tax officer, he attended the Northern Counties College of Education (now Northumbria University) from 1971 to 1974 and qualified as a teacher.[20] He taught at St Paul's First School in Cramlington for two years. Sting performed jazz in the evenings, at weekends, and during breaks from college and teaching, playing with the Phoenix Jazzmen, Newcastle Big Band and Last Exit. He gained his nickname after his habit of wearing a black and yellow jumper with hooped stripes with the Phoenix Jazzmen. Bandleader Gordon Solomon thought he looked like a bee (or according to Sting himself, "they thought I looked like a wasp"), which prompted the name "Sting". In the 1985 documentary Bring On the Night a journalist called him Gordon, to which he replied, "My children call me Sting, my mother calls me Sting, who is this Gordon character?" In 2011, he told Time "I was never called Gordon. You could shout 'Gordon' in the street and I would just move out of your way". Despite this, he chose not to legally change his name to "Sting". ... Source: Article "Sting (musician)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Yo-Yo Ma

Cast · Known for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955) is an American cellist. Born to Chinese parents in Paris, he was regarded as a child prodigy, and began to study the cello with his father at age four. At the age of seven, Ma moved with his family to Boston and later to New York City, where he continued his cello studies at the Juilliard School before pursuing a liberal arts education at Harvard University. He has performed as a soloist with orchestras around the world, recorded more than 92 albums, and received 19 Grammy Awards. In addition to recordings of the standard classical repertoire, Ma has recorded a wide variety of folk music, such as American bluegrass music, traditional Chinese melodies, the tangos of Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla, and Brazilian music. He has also collaborated with artists from a diverse range of genres, including Bobby McFerrin, Carlos Santana, Chris Botti, Diana Krall, James Taylor, Miley Cyrus, Zakir Hussain, and Sting. Ma has been a United Nations Messenger of Peace since 2006. He has received numerous awards, including the Avery Fisher Prize in 1978, The Glenn Gould Prize in 1999, the National Medal of Arts in 2001, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011, Kennedy Center Honors in 2011, the Polar Music Prize in 2012, and the Birgit Nilsson Prize in 2022. He was named as one of Time's 100 Most Influential People of 2020. Ma's primary performance instrument is the Davidov cello, made in 1712 by Antonio Stradivari. Ma's mother, Marina Lu, was a singer, and his father, Hiao-Tsiun Ma, was a violinist, composer and professor of music at Nanjing National Central University (now relocated in Taoyuan, Taiwan; predecessor of the present-day Nanjing University and Southeast University). They both migrated from the Republic of China to France during the Chinese Civil War. Ma's sister, Yeou-Cheng, played the violin and piano professionally before obtaining a medical degree from Harvard Medical School and becoming a pediatrician. The family moved to Boston when Ma was seven. ... Source: Article "Yo-Yo Ma" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Kristin Scott Thomas

Cast · Known for Slow Horses, Mission: Impossible

Dame Kristin Ann Scott Thomas (born 24 May 1960) is a British actress. A five-time BAFTA Award and Olivier Award nominee, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and the Olivier Award for Best Actress in 2008 for the Royal Court revival of The Seagull. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in The English Patient (1996). Scott Thomas made her film debut in Under the Cherry Moon (1986), and won the Evening Standard Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer for A Handful of Dust (1988). Her work includes Bitter Moon (1992), Mission: Impossible (1996), The Horse Whisperer (1998), Gosford Park (2001), The Valet (2006), and Tell No One (2007). She won the European Film Award for Best Actress for Philippe Claudel's I've Loved You So Long (2008). Her other films include Leaving (2009), Love Crime (2010), Sarah's Key (2010), Nowhere Boy (2010), The Woman in the Fifth (2011), Only God Forgives (2013), Darkest Hour (2017), and Tomb Raider (2018). On television, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for her guest appearance in the second season of the comedy series Fleabag (2019), and has starred in the Apple TV+ spy series Slow Horses since 2022. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2003 Birthday Honours and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to drama. She was named a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by the French government in 2005. Scott Thomas was born in Redruth, Cornwall. Her mother, Deborah (née Hurlbatt), was brought up in Hong Kong and Africa, and studied drama before marrying Kristin's father, Lieutenant Commander Simon Scott Thomas, a pilot in the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm 893 Squadron, who died in a flying accident on a de Havilland Sea Vixen when Kristin was aged five. She has three siblings, including Serena Scott Thomas. She is the niece of Admiral Sir Richard Thomas (a former Black Rod), the granddaughter of William Scott Thomas (who commanded HMS Impulsive during World War II) and the great-great-niece of the polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott. The childhood home of Scott Thomas was in Trent, near Sherborne, Dorset, England. Her mother remarried another Royal Navy pilot, Lieutenant Commander Simon Idiens (of Simon's Sircus aerobatic team flying Sea Vixens), who also died in a flying accident whilst flying a Phantom FG1 from RNAS Yeovilton off the North coast of Cornwall in January 1972. Scott Thomas was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and St Antony's Leweston in Sherborne, Dorset. On leaving school in 1978, she moved to Hampstead, London, and worked in a department store. She began training to become a drama teacher at the Central School of Speech and Drama, enrolling on a BEd in Speech and Drama. During her time at the school, she requested to switch degree courses to acting but was refused. After a year at Central, speaking French fluently, she decided to move to Paris to work as an au pair,[2] and studied acting at the École Nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre (ENSATT). When she was 25, she was cast as Mary Sharon in the film Under the Cherry Moon (1986).

Andrew Whipp

Cast · Known for Subservience

Andrew Whipp is a British actor. He is best known for his roles in Not Going Out as Dr Jenkins and Emmerdale as Callum Rennie and Eastenders as DI Savage. Whipp has received critical acclaim for many of his stage performances; most recently playing Gordon in F*ck the Polar Bears at the Bush Theatre.

Daws Butler

Cast · Known for The Bullwinkle Show, The Flintstones

Charles Dawson "Daws" Butler (November 16, 1916 – May 18, 1988) was an American voice actor. He worked mostly for the Hanna-Barbera animation production company and the Walter Lantz cartoon studio. He originated the voices of many familiar Hanna-Barbera characters, including: Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, Quick Draw McGraw and Baba Looey, Augie Doggie, Loopy De Loop, Wally Gator, Snooper and Blabber, Dixie and Mr. Jinks, Hokey Wolf, Lippy the Lion, Elroy Jetson, Lambsy, Peter Potamus, The Funky Phantom and Hair Bear. While at Walter Lantz, he did the voices of: Chilly Willy, Smedley, Maxie the Polar Bear, Gooney and Sam in the Maggie and Sam series. From Wikipedia.