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Thor: The Dark World
2013
Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos… but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all.
Jonathan Howard
Cast · Known for Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Thor: The Dark World
Jonathan Howard is an English actor, known for his role on the British TV series Dream Team as Gavin Moody and as Ian Boothby in Thor: The Dark World.
Jaimie Alexander
Cast · Known for Blindspot, Thor: The Dark World, Thor: Love and Thunder
Jaimie Alexander (born March 12, 1984) is an American actress known for portraying Jessi on the TV series Kyle XY and Sif in the 2011 superhero film Thor, it's 2013 sequel, Thor: The Dark World, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. Since 2015 she stars in the NBC series Blindspot. Jaimie Alexander was born in Greenville, South Carolina, and moved to Grapevine, Texas when she was four years old. She is the only girl in a family of five children. Alexander first got into acting in grade school, where she took theater for fun. Alexander stated that she was actually kicked out of theater when she was in high school because she could not sing, so she instead went into sports. When she was 17, she substituted for a friend at a meeting with a scouting agency and she met her manager, Randy James, who sent her some scripts. After her graduation from Colleyville Heritage High School, a year and a half later, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her acting career. Licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Ray Chan
Production Design · Known for Deadpool & Wolverine, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Ray Chan was an art director and production designer. Chan often worked on Marvel Studios' productions. He first joined Marvel Studios on Thor: The Dark World as Supervising Art Director and went on to be Supervising Art Director on many other Marvel films, including Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Doctor Strange, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame. He was also an additional photography art director on Spider-Man: Far From Home, as well as a production designer on The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, additional photography production designer on Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and production designer on Deadpool & Wolverine.
Eric Hauserman Carroll
Executive Producer · Known for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Spider-Man: Far From Home
Eric Hauserman Carroll is a producer who previously served as a director of development at Marvel Studios. He also served as a creative executive on Thor (2011) and Thor: The Dark World (2014), a co-producer on Agent Carter (2015-2016) and Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), and an executive producer on Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022).
Charles Wood
Production Design · Known for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Guardians of the Galaxy, Project Hail Mary
Charles Wood is a British production designer known for extensive work on major blockbuster films, particularly within the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Beginning his career in the British film and television industry, he gained early experience in the art department before rising to become an art director and eventually a production designer. Wood is best known for his production design contributions to several high-profile Marvel Studios films, Thor: The Dark World (2013), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Doctor Strange (2016), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), and Black Widow (2021). Beyond the MCU, Wood has contributed to several other major productions. He worked as a supervising art director on The Italian Job (2003) and as an art director on The Da Vinci Code (2006). Wood was nominated for an Emmy® for the TV movie Geppetto (2000), a BAFTA for Doctor Strange (2016), and won two Art Directors Guild awards for Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and Avengers: Endgame (2019), and nominated for one for Doctor Strange (2016).
Kat Dennings
Cast · Known for 2 Broke Girls, Thor, Thor: The Dark World
Katherine Victoria Litwack (born June 13, 1986), known professionally as Kat Dennings, is an American actress. She is known for her starring roles as Max Black in the CBS sitcom 2 Broke Girls (2011–2017) and as Darcy Lewis in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero films Thor (2011), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Thor: Love and Thunder (2022), and the Disney+ miniseries WandaVision (2021). Since making her acting debut in 2000, Dennings has appeared in films including The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Big Momma's House 2 (2006), Charlie Bartlett (2007), The House Bunny (2008), Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008), Shorts (2009), Defendor (2009), and Suburban Gothic (2014). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kat Dennings, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Alan Taylor
Director · Known for Game of Thrones, Homicide: Life on the Street, Sex and the City
Alan Taylor (born January 13, 1959) is an American television director, film director, screenwriter, and television producer. He is best known for his work on television series such as The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Mad Men, and Game of Thrones. He also directed films such as Palookaville, Thor: The Dark World, Terminator Genisys, and The Many Saints of Newark. In 2007, Taylor won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for The Sopranos episode "Kennedy and Heidi." In 2008 and 2018, he was also nominated in the same category for the Mad Men episode "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and the Game of Thrones episode "Beyond the Wall," respectively. Taylor's father, James J. Taylor, was a private in the U.S. Army translating for Voice of America, stationed in Yokohama, who subsequently held numerous jobs before becoming a videographer in Washington, D.C. Taylor's mother, Mimi Cazort, was curator emerita for the National Gallery of Canada. His sister is the indie rock musician Anna Domino. He spent part of his life in Manor Park, Ottawa, Canada, and attended Manor Park Public School and Lisgar Collegiate Institute high school. As part of the Communications Club at Lisgar, he acted in its production of The Mouse That Roared. He went on to major in history at the University of Toronto and then at New York City's Columbia University before transferring to New York University in his late 20s to study film under instructors including director Martin Scorsese. Taylor has directed for numerous programs on both network television and premium cable, most often on HBO. Taylor's early work on television includes work on The Sopranos, Sex and the City, and The West Wing. Taylor joined the crew of the HBO western drama Deadwood as a director for the first season in 2004. Taylor directed the pilot episodes of Mad Men ("Smoke Gets in Your Eyes") and Bored to Death, as well as subsequent episodes of each. He joined the HBO series Game of Thrones, directing seven episodes, including the critically acclaimed season 1 episode "Baelor." He worked on a television adaptation of the Strugatsky brothers' 1971 science fiction novel Roadside Picnic for the WGN America network. Besides his television work, Taylor's early films include Palookaville, The Emperor's New Clothes, and Kill the Poor. In the 2010s, Taylor began working on large-budget blockbuster films. He was hired to direct Thor: The Dark World (2013), a superhero film and sequel to 2011's Thor. He was approached by Marvel producer Kevin Feige following director Patty Jenkins's exit from the project and hoped he would inject a darker tone into the project after seeing Taylor's work on Game of Thrones. Taylor's next film was Terminator Genisys, a film that Taylor hoped to fix following his reading of the script, citing his love of the first two Terminator films. After directing nine episodes for the HBO series The Sopranos, Taylor was approached by show creator David Chase to return to direct the 2021 prequel film The Many Saints of Newark. In August 2022, it was announced that Taylor was hired to direct multiple episodes of the second season of House of the Dragon. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Taylor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Don Payne
Writer · Known for Thor, Thor: The Dark World
William Donald Payne (May 5, 1964–March 26, 2013) was an American writer and producer. He wrote several episodes of The Simpsons after 2000, many of these with John Frink, whom he met while studying at the University of California, Los Angeles. The duo began their careers writing for the short-lived sitcom Hope and Gloria. Payne later moved into writing feature films, including My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006), and co-wrote Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), Thor (2011), and its sequel Thor: The Dark World (2013). Payne died from heart failure caused by bone cancer in March 2013. Description above from the Wikipedia article Don Payne (writer), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Christopher Markus
Writer · Known for Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War, Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Christopher Markus (born October 16, 1969) and Stephen McFeely (born February 24, 1970) are American screenwriters and producers. McFeely and Markus were the second and the third most successful screenwriters of all time in terms of U.S. box office receipts with a shared total gross of over $3.1 billion. However, in overall, they are the highest grossing screenwriters altogether in terms of worldwide box office with the total gross of $9.3 billion. They gained worldwide recognition for their works that include The Chronicles of Narnia film franchise and the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), having written the first three Captain America films (The First Avenger, The Winter Soldier and Civil War), in addition to Thor: The Dark World, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame, which is currently the second highest-grossing film of all time unadjusted for inflation. They also created ABC's Agent Carter TV series, set in the MCU.
Stephen McFeely
Writer · Known for Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War, Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Stephen McFeely (born February 24, 1970) is an American screenwriter and producer who often works with his writing partner Christopher Markus. McFeely was the second and the third most successful screenwriter of all time in terms of U.S. box office receipts, with a shared total gross of over $3.1 billion. However, overall, they are the highest-grossing screenwriters in the worldwide box office, with a total gross of $9.3 billion. McFeely gained worldwide recognition with Markus for their works that include The Chronicles of Narnia film franchise and the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), having written the first three Captain America films (The First Avenger, The Winter Soldier and Civil War), in addition to Thor: The Dark World, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame, which is currently the second highest-grossing film of all time unadjusted for inflation. Both also created ABC's Agent Carter TV series, set in the MCU. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Zachary Levi
Cast · Known for Angel and the Badman, Shazam!, Tangled
Zachary Levi Pugh (/ˈzækəri ˈliːvaɪ/; born September 29, 1980) is an American actor, comedian, and singer. He received critical acclaim for starring as Chuck Bartowski in the series Chuck, and as the title character in Shazam! and its 2022 sequel, as a part of the DC Extended Universe. He voiced Eugene Fitzherbert in the 2010 animated film Tangled, where he performed "I See the Light" with Mandy Moore; the song won a Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media. He reprised the voice role in the 2012 short film Tangled Ever After and in 2017, Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure, a Disney Channel television series based on the film. He has appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Thor: The Dark World and Thor: Ragnarok as Fandral. Levi starred as Georg Nowack in the 2016 Broadway revival of She Loves Me opposite Laura Benanti, for which he received a Tony Award nomination. Description above from the Wikipedia article Zachary Levi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Kramer Morgenthau
Cinematographer · Known for Captain America: Brave New World, Terminator Genisys, Thor: The Dark World
Kramer Morgenthau, A.S.C. (born June 6, 1966), is an American cinematographer known for his expertise as a visual storyteller in both television and film. The six-time Emmy nominee was director of photography for television projects such as HBO's Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, and Fahrenheit 451. He is also widely known for his work in films such as Respect, The Many Saints of Newark, Creed II, and Thor: The Dark World. He is a member of both the Morgenthau family and the Lehman family. Morgenthau's early career began in New York as a documentary filmmaker, which led to shooting Oscar-winner Allan Miller's Academy Award-nominated film, Small Wonders, as well as the Sundance Festival feature film, Joe & Joe, which began his years as a festival fixture, shooting seven more features and documentaries that played there. Initially, he was artistically inspired by his family and unique childhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His father, Henry Morgenthau III, was a producer of documentaries for the flagship PBS station, WGBH-TV, in Boston, and his mother, Ruth, was a Polish Jewish refugee of WWII Vienna, an African politics professor, and a trusted advisor to three American presidents. It is through them that Morgenthau was first exposed to the importance and influence of film on culture, politics, art, and rural development with the family's extensive travel and various documentary location shoots around the globe. His great-great-grandfather was businessman Mayer Lehman. He has one brother, Henry "Ben" Morgenthau, and one sister, Sarah Elinor Morgenthau Wessel. His grandfather was Henry Morgenthau Jr., the U.S. Treasury secretary during the Roosevelt administration. His great-grandfather, Henry Morgenthau, was the ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during World War I; his uncle is Robert M. Morgenthau, Manhattan district attorney for 35 years. Morgenthau is an active member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the American Society of Cinematographers, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and the International Cinematographers Guild. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California, with his wife and twin children. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kramer Morgenthau, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Zack Duhame
Zack Duhame (born April 15, 1987) is a stunt performer and coordinator. Born in Los Angeles County, California, USA, growing up as the son of noted stuntman and coordinator Doc Duhame, he entered the world of acting and stunts from a very young age. His earliest recorded acting credits date back to when he was around seven, performing in shows and films such as The Martin Short Show (1994), The Little CHP (1995), Home for the Holidays (1995), The Wayans Bros. (1996), Multiplicity (1996), Chicago Hope (1996), Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (1997), and the family film Toothless (1997). Transitioning swiftly into stunt work, Duhame built a diverse portfolio throughout his career. He performed stunts in major motion pictures, including Man of Steel (2013) and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016). In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he served as a utility stunt performer in Thor (2011), and stunt performer in Iron Man 3 (2013), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), Captain Marvel (2019), Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022). He also appeared on television in the MCU series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Agent Carter. In addition to performing stunts, Duhame occasionally appears on screen. He portrayed Gerald Durand in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and appeared as a Beta Guard in Ant-Man (2015). He also worked as a stunt double, doubling Richard Madden in Eternals (2021) and Tahar Rahim in Madame Web. Beyond Marvel Studios, Duhame contributed to numerous other high-profile productions, including X-Men: First Class (2011) as a stunt performer, Fantastic Four (2015) as a stunt driver, and Star Trek (2009), where he doubled Simon Pegg's character Montgomery Scott and appeared as a burly Starfleet cadet during the bar fight scene. Zack has also taken on leadership roles in the stunt community. He served as assistant stunt coordinator in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023). His professional associations include being a member of the elite stunt group BrandX. His work has not gone unnoticed. Duhame has earned two Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards and was the recipient of the 2014 Taurus World Stunt Award. He has also garnered several SAG Award nominations: for Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture (Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood [2019], The Matrix Resurrections [2021]); in a Comedy or Drama Series (Westworld); and a Television Series (The Mandalorian).
Wendy Partridge
Costume Design · Known for Thor: The Dark World
Wendy Partridge (born September 20, 1954) is a British–Canadian costume designer in film and television. Partridge was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special for her work on the 2006 two-part AMC series Broken Trail. She won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Costume Design for the 2014 film Pompeii and Genie Awards for Best Costume Design for Passchendaele (2008) and Loyalties (1986). She was nominated three times in one year at the 2013 Canadian Screen Awards for Resident Evil: Retribution, Silent Hill: Revelation, and Hannah's Law. Marvel Cinematic Universe film Thor: The Dark World and Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy have earned her Saturn Award nominations. Partridge got her first dressmaking job at 14 years old whilst still in England. She moved to Edmonton in the 1970s and to Calgary in 1986. She designed the costumes for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1988 Winter Olympics. She also designed the World War I-style uniforms that were worn at the first inauguration of Barack Obama in 2009 as well as the costume of Abraham Lincoln. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wendy Partridge, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Wyatt Smith
Editor · Known for Doctor Strange, Narnia: The Magician's Nephew, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Wyatt Smith (born November 12, 1974) is an American editor. Born in New York City, Smith's early career began in the music world. In the early 1990s, he began working at Sony Music Studios in New York. Coming from a musical background — his father was a roadie — he gained early exposure to entertainment production. Over time, he built a reputation cutting live concerts, music videos, and music‑related documentaries for high‑profile artists. In 2006, he edited the television special Tony Bennett: An American Classic — directed by Rob Marshall — for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Picture Editing for a Special (Single or Multi‑Camera). That collaboration with Marshall would prove pivotal for Smith's transition into feature films. Smith's first major feature‑film credit came in 2009 with the musical film Nine, co‑edited with Claire Simpson. That same film earned him a nomination for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Editing. Over the following years, Smith became known for editing a broad range of high-profile films. His credits include Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), Thor: The Dark World (2013), 300: Rise of an Empire (2014), and Doctor Strange (2016). In 2014, he edited the musical-fantasy film Into the Woods, directed by Rob Marshall. For his work on that film, he was nominated for the ACE Eddie Awards (Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical) by the American Cinema Editors. He also edited Harriet (2019), a biographical drama about Harriet Tubman. Throughout his career, Smith has spoken about how his background in music and his work on concerts and music videos helped shape his editing style — especially when working on musicals. He has described how, on a project like Into the Woods, he needed to balance song, dialogue, character, and pacing in a way that felt natural and emotionally honest.
Tim Miller
Director · Executive Producer · Known for Deadpool, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Timothy Miller (born October 10, 1964) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, animator, and visual effects artist. He is best known for directing the films Deadpool (2016) and Terminator: Dark Fate (2019). He is also the creator of the animated anthology series Love, Death & Robots (2019–present), for which he has won three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Short Form Animated Program. Miller is the co-founder of the visual effects company Blur Studio. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film as co-story writer and executive producer of the short animated film Gopher Broke (2004). He also designed the title sequences of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) and Thor: The Dark World (2013). Description above from the Wikipedia article Tim Miller, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Anthony Hopkins
Cast · Known for Thor, Thor: The Dark World, Thor: Ragnarok
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE (born December 31, 1937) is a Welsh actor, film director, and film producer. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards and a British Academy Television Award. He has also received an honorary Golden Globe Award and the BAFTA Fellowship from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In 1993, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the arts, and in 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his achievements in the motion picture industry. After graduating from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 1957, Hopkins trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and was then spotted by Laurence Olivier who invited him to join the Royal National Theatre in 1965. Productions at the National included King Lear, his favourite Shakespeare play. His last stage play was a West End production of M. Butterfly in 1989. In 1968, Hopkins achieved recognition in film, playing Richard the Lionheart in The Lion in Winter. In the mid-1970s, Richard Attenborough, who directed five Hopkins films, called him "the greatest actor of his generation." In 1991, he portrayed Hannibal Lecter in the psychological horror film The Silence of the Lambs, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor. He reprised the role in its sequel Hannibal and the prequel Red Dragon. Other notable films include The Elephant Man (1980), 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), Howards End (1992), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Shadowlands (1993), Legends of the Fall (1994), Meet Joe Black (1998), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Thor (2011), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), and Thor: Ragnarok (2017). He received four more Academy Award nominations for The Remains of the Day (1993), Nixon (1995), Amistad (1997) and The Two Popes (2019) before winning a fourth BAFTA Award and a second Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of an elderly man diagnosed with dementia in The Father (2020), becoming the oldest Best Actor Oscar winner to date. Since making his television debut with the BBC in 1967, Hopkins has continued to appear on television. In 1973 he received a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performance in War and Peace. In 2015, he starred in the BBC film The Dresser alongside Ian McKellen. In 2018, he starred in King Lear opposite Emma Thompson. In 2016 and 2018, he starred in the HBO television series Westworld, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
Monty L. Simons
Monty L. Simons is a stunt coordinator, stuntman, assistant director, and sometimes actor. His work on TV includes The Walking Dead, Claws, Criminal Minds, Scorpion, Grimm, Sons of Anarchy, Arrested Development, Eagleheart, Medium, CSI: NY, Heroes, E-Ring, The Agency, The Invisible Man, City of Angels, Angel, Brimstone, Seven Days, Ultraman: The Ultimate Hero, Diagnosis Murder, The Commish, Tour of Duty, and more. His work on films includes Geostorm, Thank You for Your Service, Get Hard, The Maze Runner, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Ride Along, Thor: The Dark World, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Hangover Part 3, Thor, Date Night, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, The Golden Compass, Rush Hour 2 & 3, Collateral, Hellboy, Spider-Man 2 & 3, Freddy vs. Jason, God's and Generals, The Scorpion King, Blade 2, Swordfish, Virus, Beverly Hills Ninja, Jingle All the Way, Independence Day, Eraser, Heat, Powder, The Quick and the Dead, True Lies, Last Action Hero, Army of Darkness, Stand By Me, The Beastmaster (1982), and more. He has also worked on TV movies including The Gambler 2 & 3, Desperado, Desperado: The Outlaw Wars, Desperado: Badlands Justice, Knight Rider 2000, The Keys, Unlikely Angel, Hard Time, Hard Time: The Premonition, Follow the Stars Home, and more.
Natalie Portman
Cast · Known for No Strings Attached, V for Vendetta, Léon: The Professional
Natalie Hershlag (born June 9, 1981), known professionally as Natalie Portman, is an Israeli actress, film producer and director. She has had a prolific screen career from her teenage years and has starred in various blockbusters and independent films, receiving multiple accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and two Golden Globe Awards. Portman was born in Jerusalem and moved to the United States when she was three, where she began her acting career at twelve, starring as the young protégée of a hitman in Léon: The Professional (1994). While still in high school, she made her Broadway debut in The Diary of Anne Frank (1997) and gained international recognition for her role as Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999). From 1999 to 2003, Portman attended Harvard University, earning a bachelor's degree in psychology. During this time, she took fewer acting roles but continued to appear in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (2002 and 2005) and performed in a 2001 revival of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull at The Public Theater. Her career gained further momentum in 2004 when she won a Golden Globe and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Closer. She then played Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta (2005), Anne Boleyn in The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), and a troubled ballerina in Black Swan (2010), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. In the following years, Portman starred in the romantic comedy No Strings Attached (2011) and portrayed Jacqueline Kennedy in Jackie (2016), which earned her a third Academy Award nomination. She also became a prominent figure in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, playing Jane Foster in Thor (2011), Thor: The Dark World (2013), and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022), which established her as one of the world's highest-paid actresses. Portman has also directed the short film Eve (2008) and the biographical drama A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015), in which she also starred. In 2021, she co-founded the production company MountainA, under which she produced and starred in the film May December (2023) and the miniseries Lady in the Lake (2024). Portman is an advocate for various causes, including women's rights, environmental issues, and animal welfare, supporting organizations like the Human Rights Foundation and the Jane Goodall Institute.
Ashley Miller
Writer · Known for Andromeda, Thor
Ashley Edward Miller (born March 16, 1971) is an American screenwriter and producer best known for his work on the television series Andromeda, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and Fringe. He also worked on the films Thor and X-Men: First Class. Born in Windber, Pennsylvania, Miller's family relocated, and he grew up in Gainesville, Virginia. He was a member of the first graduating class at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. His first job out of college was as a middle school English teacher. He then went on to work for the United States Navy as an independent defence contractor. Miller eventually moved to California, starting his career as a writer on the television series Andromeda after meeting one of the series' producers. He is married and has one son. Miller was first hired to work on Andromeda in 2000 as a writer. In 2001, he was given the additional duties of being a consultant on the series, working both positions until the series' cancellation in 2005. It was while working on the show that he first met former journalist and future writing partner Zack Stentz. Together with two other writers, Stentz and Miller co-wrote the screenplay for the 2003 film Agent Cody Banks. The duo continued their writing partnership, working on The Twilight Zone revival. Upon the end of the television series Andromeda, they were put to work on the Fox Television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, co-writing six episodes and co-producing twenty-two episodes together over the series run. When Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles was not renewed for a third season, Miller and Stentz moved onto another Fox project, Fringe. Over the two seasons that Miller and Stentz worked on the series, they co-produced twenty-two episodes along with co-writing a total of four episodes. In 2006, Disney purchased an original spec script written by Miller & Stentz entitled The Feynman Chronicles. Miller has stated the film was basically a "bar bet" between himself and Stentz. In December 2009, Miller and Stentz were hired to write the screenplay adaptation for the Dark Horse Comics horror comic book miniseries Damn Nation. During an interview with I09, Miller stated, "We're still in the middle of working on Damn Nation. We turned our first draft into Dark Horse and Paramount Pictures, and everyone seems to love it. We were very pleased with how it came out." After leaving Fringe in 2010, Miller and Stentz were hired to write the screenplay for the summer tentpole live-action version of Thor. Following their work on Thor, Miller and Stentz attended a meeting with Fox executives, who offered them the chance to work with producer Bryan Singer and director Matthew Vaughn by penning a draft of the screenplay for the film X-Men: First Class. After finishing the script and beginning production, both Miller and Stentz expressed their happiness with the tone of the film, complimenting the vision and scenes that Singer had conceived in an interview. On November 8, 2012, Miller and Stentz released their first novel, Colin Fischer, a young adult story about a student with Asperger's Syndrome entering high school. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ashley Miller (screenwriter), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Christopher Heyerdahl
Cast · Known for Hell on Wheels, Stargate Atlantis, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
Christopher Heyerdahl (born September 18, 1963) is a Canadian actor who portrayed Alastair in Supernatural, the Wraith Todd in Stargate Atlantis, Sam in Van Helsing, "Swede" in Hell on Wheels, and Marcus in The Twilight Saga. Heyerdahl was born in British Columbia, and is of Norwegian and Scottish descent. His father emigrated from Norway to Canada in the 1950s. Thor Heyerdahl was his father's cousin. Heyerdahl also speaks Norwegian and studied at the University of Oslo. Heyerdahl is primarily known for his recurring role as the enigmatic and sinister "Swede" in AMC's Hell on Wheels. This post-American Civil War drama debuted as the second highest rated original series in AMC history. He is also known for his role as Leonid in the Are You Afraid of the Dark? episode "The Thirteenth Floor" and as Nosferatu in the episode "Midnight Madness". He played the characters Halling and Wraith commander Todd in Stargate Atlantis, and Pallan in the Stargate SG-1 episode "Revisions".He played H. P. Lovecraft in the film Out of Mind: The Stories of H. P. Lovecraft (1998) and a punk, new at drug dealing, in Cadavres (2009). He played the part of the demon Alastair in three episodes of Supernatural. He also played the part of Zor-El in the television series Smallville, as well as playing John Druitt and Bigfoot in the series Sanctuary. He played the part of Dieter Braun on True Blood during the show's 5th season. His most notable film role was in the feature film New Moon, an adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's second book in her Twilight Saga. In this film, he played a vampire, Marcus, who is part of a powerful Italian family called the Volturi. He reprised that role in both parts of Breaking Dawn, the two-part adaptation of the fourth book in the Twilight Saga. He has also performed on stage and was a member of the Young Company at the Stratford Festival in 1989 and 1990.
Christian Bale
Cast · Known for Batman Begins, The Dark Knight Rises, The Big Short
Christian Charles Philip Bale (born 30 January 1974) is an English actor. Known for his versatility and physical transformations for his roles, he has been a leading man in films of several genres. He has received various accolades, including an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. Forbes magazine ranked him as one of the highest-paid actors in 2014. Born in Wales to English parents, Bale had his breakthrough role at age 13 in Steven Spielberg's 1987 war film Empire of the Sun. After more than a decade of performing in leading and supporting roles in films, he gained wider recognition for his portrayals of serial killer Patrick Bateman in the black comedy American Psycho (2000) and the titular role in the psychological thriller The Machinist (2004). In 2005, he played superhero Batman in Batman Begins and again in The Dark Knight (2008) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012), garnering acclaim for his performance in the trilogy, which is one of the highest-grossing film franchises. Bale continued in starring roles in a range of films outside his work as Batman, including the period drama The Prestige (2006), the action film Terminator Salvation (2009), the crime drama Public Enemies (2009), the epic film Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) and the superhero film Thor: Love and Thunder (2022). For his portrayal of boxer Dicky Eklund in the 2010 biographical film The Fighter, he won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. Further Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations came for his work in the black comedy American Hustle (2013) and the biographical dramedies The Big Short (2015) and Vice (2018). His performances as politician Dick Cheney in Vice and race car driver Ken Miles in the sports drama Ford v Ferrari (2019) earned him a second win and a fifth nomination respectively at the Golden Globe Awards.
Scott Irwin
Scott K. Irwin was an American professional wrestler. He was best known for his tag team with his brother Barney "Bill" Irwin. After training under Verne Gagne in 1975, Irwin debuted for the AWA on March 13, 1976 in Davenport, Iowa, going to a time limit draw with another rookie, Dick Blood (in one of his first matches), later to become famous as Ricky Steamboat. He mainly wrestled preliminary matches until June 1976 when he left for Georgia Championship Wrestling where he stayed until the spring of 1977. From there he went on to Jim Crockett's Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling. After wrestling in Mid-Atlantic throughout the rest of 1977 and in early 1978, Irwin debuted in WWE on March 14, 1978 as one half of The Yukon Lumberjacks, where he was given the ring name "Lumberjack Eric" and his tag team partner, Zarinoff Lebeouf, was given the ring name "Lumberjack Pierre". Soon after debuting, The Lumberjacks wrestled against Dino Bravo and Dominic DeNucci for the WWE Tag Team Championship on June 2, but the match ended in a double disqualification. The Lumberjacks continued their feud with Bravo and DeNucci, and after several unsuccessful title rematches, the Lumberjacks finally defeated them for the title on June 26. The Lumberjacks continued their success by retaining their title in several matches over the next several months against the likes of Bravo and DeNucci, Gorilla Monsoon and S.D. Jones and Haystacks Calhoun and Tony Garea. On November 21, The Lumberjacks lost their title Garea and Larry Zbyszko. After the title loss, Pierre retired from wrestling and Eric left WWE. After leaving the WWE, Irwin debuted in Championship Wrestling from Florida in December 1978 as "Thor the Viking", with Oliver Humperdink as his manager. While in FCW, Irwin found championship success and wrestled his final match as Thor on October 14, 1979, with a victory over Steve Keirn. The following month, Irwin returned to the CWF as the masked "Super Destroyer", and went on to win a tag team match with Stan Lane against Keirn and Mike Graham. Irwin continued to use the Super Destroyer character in the CWF throughout the rest of 1979 before debuting in Mid-South Wrestling on November 27, 1980, in a losing effort to Ted DiBiase. Irwin, as the Super Destroyer, returned to Mid-South on April 18, 1981, and won the tag team championship with the Grappler after defeating Dick Murdoch and the Junkyard Dog in the finals of a tournament to claim the vacant title. However, the Destroyer and the Grappler lost the tag team title days later to Murdoch and JYD, on April 27. Soon after the title loss, Destroyer rebounded by winning the Louisiana Heavyweight Championship on May 1. He held the title for over two months before losing it to Bob Roop on July 22. Irwin continued to perform as the Super Destroyer upon joining the Continental Wrestling Association, and soon formed a successful tag team with the Masked Superstar.