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Blake Ellender Lively was born Blake Ellender Brown on August 25, 1987 in Los Angeles, California to Elaine Lively & Ernie Lively. Her brother is actor Eric Lively, and her half-siblings are actors Lori Lively, Robyn Lively and Jason Lively. She followed her parents' and siblings' steps. Her first role was Trixie, the Tooth Fairy in the musical movie Sandman (1998), directed by her father. Her big break came along a few years later, though. Blake was up to finish high school when she got the co-starring role of Bridget in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005).

Blake was so perfect for the role of Bridget that, with no big references or even auditioning, she landed the role. According to her, all she did was walk in and leave a photo of herself. It was clear that she was the Bridget needed. After the film, Blake went back to high school for her senior year to have the life of a regular teenager -- or a very busy regular teenager. She was class president, a cheerleader, and performed with the choir.

Tom Hollander was born the second child of educated parents, both teachers. He grew up in Oxford, (UK).

Hollander credits the happy atmosphere of the Dragon School with his childhood introduction to acting. There, encouraged by an influential teacher named Andrew Roberts, he won the title role in "Oliver". His studies continued at Abingdon, as did his pursuit of acting. At about this point, he won a place in the National Youth Theatre, a UK organization for young people in the field of musical theatre, based in London, and later at the Children's Music Theatre. It was during CMT's "The Leaving of Liverpool" (1981) that he came to the attention of BBC television, and subsequently found himself front and center as the young protagonist in a well-regarded John Diamond (1981), based on the popular Leon Garfield adventure novel. He was just fourteen years old.

Other early projects included two roles in Bertholt Brecht's "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" (1985) for the National Youth Theatre, and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" for Oxford University Dramatic Society.

Hollander attended Cambridge University at about the same time as his childhood friend Sam Mendes in a visually bold (and well-remembered) staging of "Cyrano de Bergerac" (1988). Other collaborations with Mendes have followed, including work at the West End production of "The Cherry Orchard" (1989, with Judi Dench), and the Chichester Festival Theatre (1989) as well as a Toronto staging of "Kean" (1991) with Derek Jacobi. He also appeared in the Cambridge Footlights Revue (1988).

Upon graduation, Hollander hoped to gain entry to drama school, but found himself disappointed. The oversight did nothing to discourage a successful career already well under way: he garnered an Ian Charleson Award for his turn as Witwould in "The Way of the World" (1992), was nominated again for a "splendidly sinister, manic" performance as "Tartuffe" (1996), and yet again as a finalist for his Khlestakov ("a performance of ideal vigour and impudence"), in Gogol's "The Government Inspector" (1997). Inevitably, Hollander was urged to try films, and appeared in two films as early as 1996. True Blue (1996) (aka "Miracle at Oxford") found him in a small but memorable role as the cox for Oxford's noted 1987 "mutiny crew" that went on to win the that year's boat race against Cambridge, and in a thankless role in Some Mother's Son (1996), a sober drama about an IRA gunman, playing a Thatcher representative.

Hollander's career has featured a number of memorable gay roles. His fans are especially fond of the larger-than-life Darren from Bedrooms and Hallways (1998), a romantic comedy with what one reviewer called the "funniest bedroom scene of the year" involving Hollander's character and Hugo Weaving. The over-the-top Darren was so convincing that some viewers assumed Hollander was gay. "Sometimes I call myself a professional homosexual impersonator," he told an interviewer at the time, quickly adding, "you could say that ...Sir Ian McKellen and Rock Hudson do straight actors." The following year, he would take on a very different kind of "gay" role, playing the notorious "Bosie" (Lord Alfred Douglas) against Liam Neeson's Oscar Wilde in "The Judas Kiss" (1998).

"Martha -- Meet Frank Daniel and Laurence" (aka The Very Thought of You (1998), with Joseph Fiennes and Rufus Sewell, brought accolades for his standout role as Daniel, a difficult music executive. Variety, impressed, noted him for "U.K. legit work" and called him the "undisputed hit of the pic".

2001 brought Gosford Park (2001), Robert Altman's masterfully stylized murder mystery, in which he played the quietly desperate Anthony Meredith against Michael Gambon's callously indifferent paterfamilias. Hollander's name figures in a half dozen or more "Best Ensemble" awards for this complex, multi-storied film.

Considered the character-actor-of-choice for roles with comedic qualities, Hollander has challenged assumptions about his capacity by taking on difficult, troubled characters such as the tightly-wound King George V in Stephen Poliakoff's The Lost Prince (2003) for BBC and the demented fascist dictator Maximillian II in Land of the Blind (2006). Hollander himself is particularly proud of the film Lawless Heart (2001), a slyly humorous, cleverly constructed comedy-drama told from three viewpoints. Hollander's character, the heart of the film, is a decent man, devastated by the death of his partner, and grieving privately as the stories of friends and family unfold around him. A study of desire, loyalty and courage, the film was very well reviewed and much respected.

More recent film work has brought him to the attention of mainstream movie audiences, who now know him as the magnificently petty tyrant Lord Cutler Beckett in the second and third installments of Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007). This role brought another kind of achievement: Hollander could now say that he'd been commemorated in collectible action-figure form.

He's worked three times with director Joe Wright, beginning with the prissy, yet strangely likeable Mr. Collins in Pride & Prejudice (2005), as a clueless classical cellist in an unfortunately truncated role in The Soloist (2009), and as Issacs, the German henchman in Hanna (2011).

With In the Loop (2009), Hollander brought a perfectly unbearable, delicate tension to the role of Simon Foster, the earnestly clueless "British Secretary of State for International Development" who says the wrong thing at exactly the wrong moment. The film acted as a kind of companion piece to the critically-acclaimed The Thick of It (2005) on BBC2, Armando Iannucci's furious political satire on the machinations of war and media. Hollander's contribution to the expanded story was apparently so well-received he was "brought back" (but in a different role, entirely) from film to television for a series-ending surprise-appearance in series 3, delighting fans of the show.

Recent work in television has brought him the opportunity to expand on his special capacity for conveying nuanced and contradictory characters. He earned an award for Best Actor at the FIPA International Television Festival for his portrayal of Guy Burgess in Cambridge Spies (2003), and earned praise for the monstrously rude yet oddly endearing Leon in the satire Freezing (2008), with Hugh Bonneville and Elizabeth McGovern) for BBC. He was unforgettable in an elegantly brief but very moving portrayal of King George III for HBO's John Adams (2008).

2010 brought Hollander to widespread attention with Rev. (2010), which he co-created with James Wood. The show, initially described in what was assumed to be familiar terms ("vicar", "comedy") became something entirely new: "...an exploration of British hypocrisy and a warmly played character piece", wrote Giles Fraser, Canon Chancellor at St Paul's Cathedral in a piece for The Sunday Telegraph. Rev. was much more than it appeared: reviews called it intelligent, realistic and very funny, with a stellar cast headed by Hollander as the sympathetic and very human vicar, Adam Smallbone. The show would garner a BAFTA in 2011 for Best Situation Comedy, among other awards and recognition.

Hollander supports a variety of charitable causes in innovative ways. In 2006 he ran his first race for the Childline Crisis hotline, and in 2007 ran for the Teenage Cancer Trust. He is a long-time supporter of the Helen and Douglas House in Oxford, which provides Hospice care for children, and continues to support charitable organizations by contributing readings and other appearances throughout the year. Hollander is a patron of BIFA, the British Independent Film Awards, and has supported the efforts of the Old Vic's "24 Hour Plays New Voices" Gala, which forwards the cause of young writers for the British stage.

Hollander continues to diversify with voicework roles in radio, reading audiobooks, doing voiceover work and onstage. He appeared in the Old Vic's production of Georges Feydeau's "A Flea in Her Ear" (2010), playing a demanding dual role: the upstanding Victor Emmanuel Chandebise and the lame-brained Poche. Reviews called it "insanity", and his performance "a breathtaking combination of lightning physical precision and shockingly true confusion".

Hollander is in production for series 2 of the winning comedy Rev. (2010).

Born in Quebec and raised on Vancouver Island, Tim Campbell is an award winning Canadian actor. He studied theatre at Bishop's University, and shortly thereafter became a member of the acting company of the prestigious Stratford Festival of Canada, where he has appeared in more than thirty productions over the last two decades. He has starred in plays at major theaters all over North America, and appeared in dozens of films and television programs.

Irene was born one morning in September, in Naples. Her facial features and her character are the perfect synthesis between the Neapolitan origins of the paternal grandfather and the French ones of the maternal grandmother. She loves driving, the winter sea and listen music from high distances.

Irene works in TV, cinema and theater. Latest works: 1994 The sky series in the role of Alessandra Mussolini, Gomorrah 2 the series, I Bastardi di Pizzo Falcone and Il Commissario Ricciardi for Rai Uno. In the theater it is staged in various productions, and after a collaboration with an Italian-French company in Paris, more recently she played in Venice at the Biennale Teatro, for the debut of the show Elia Kazan American Confession, direction by P. Solari, finalist text at the Hystrio Prize. She is currently working on the set of two cinema films : The girls don't cry by A. Zuliani and The Sunday tales by G. Virgilio.

She also works in many others italian TV series

Director John Singleton "discovered" American Actor DeJuan Guy in Los Angeles, CA, at Marla Gibb's Crossroads Theater Academy. Singleton was so impressed with DeJuan's performance in a scene from "A Raisin in the Sun" that he asked the young actor to audition for "Boyz N the Hood" which was in pre-production at the time. After taping a scene with Laurence Fishburne , DeJuan became Singleton's first choice for the lead role of "little Tre" . But, much to John Singleton's dismay; the studio felt that the 8 year old was too young for the role. DeJuan was ultimately cast in a lesser role, which was subsequently "Cut" out of the film. However, DeJuan would be cast by Singleton again much later. This sequence of events launched a very busy acting career for DeJuan with lead roles in major motion pictures , television programs and commercials. DeJuan's first major role in a feature film was his portrayal of "Jake" in Clive Barkers' Horror Classic, "Candyman" in which DeJuan played opposite Virginia Madsen. The actors other films include "Little Giants", "The Cherokee Kid" with "Sinbad" and the late "Gregory Hines", " One Man's Justice" with ,former football great, Brian Bosworth and DeJuan Guy reunited with John Singleton in the memorable role of "Looney Toon" in Singleton's coming of age film, "Baby Boy". DeJuan says he had the most fun playing the starring role of "Jelani" in the short film "Sweet Potato Ride"; written and directed by Camille Tucker and Kim Greene with Bill Duke as Executive producer. DeJuan Guy worked on numerous TV shows beginning with several episodes of "In Living Color", co-staring in scenes with Jim Carey, Jamie Fox and David Alan Grier. DeJuan landed a 'Series Regular' role on the short lived sitcom "Rewind" co-starring Scott Baio and Mystro Clark. The actor has also been cast in several 'Pilots' including the late Aaron Spelling's "Finally Home" co-starring Melissa Gilbert. DeJuan's many TV guest appearances include, "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air", "Beverly Hills 90210", "Murder One", "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and "Chicago Hope". He appeared in multiple episodes of "Boy Meets World", "Baywatch" and "Sister, Sister" with a recurring role on "Boston Public" playing Tamyra Gray's (American Idol) love interest. While DeJuan Guy was born in Dayton, OH, he relocated to Los Angeles where he attended The West Angeles Christian Academy and was graduated from the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. DeJuan is also a SAE Institute (Audio Engineering) Alumnus. DeJuan's greatest joy has been singing in the Choir at First A.M.E. Church where he was an active leader in the youth department. DeJuan's church participation led to his meeting and having a dialogue with Nelson Mandela, which he considers a highlight of his life. DeJuan continues to live by his Church's motto "First to Serve" by participating in community service activities with his "Masonic" Brothers.

Henry Griffin is a writer-director-actor based in New Orleans, LA. His first film as writer-director, the half-hour short Mutiny, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 1999 and won awards at many festivals, including South-by-Southwest, the Seattle International Film Festival, the Chicago International Film Festival, and The Message-to-Man Film Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia. His second film, Tortured by Joy, was distributed exclusively in a DVD in The Believer Magazine, and has been called one of the greatest short films ever made by SXSW founder Louis Black. He sold his first script to Fox in 1996, and worked as a script doctor for several studios, including rewriting several films with Gore Verbinski. He has also directed numerous other films, documentaries and music videos. As an actor, he appeared in The Way of the Gun (2000), and as a recurring character in the HBO series Treme. His recent work includes a consultant position on Richard Linklater's New Orleans-based film Hitman, and screenwriter of Gore Verbinski's upcoming animated film for Netflix, Cattywumpus. He holds a tenured position in the School of the Arts at the University of New Orleans, where he has taught since 2007.

Jimmy Shaw is an American actor of film, television and theatre. He was born in Los Angeles and raised in Northern coastal Massachusetts. He went to New York on a journalism scholarship to The School of Visual Arts. It was there that a classmate asked him if he'd be interested in being his scene partner for an audition for Uta Hagen's class at HB Studios. The scene was Lyle Kessler's "Orphans" and Jimmy had no lines. When the call came from Ms. Hagen's class that Jimmy was accepted he was sure there had been a mistake as he had only been helping a friend but was later assured that indeed he had been accepted on his ability to listen and be present. From that very first class he knew he was in his element and there was no looking back. He then went on to study under the aegis of Warren Robertson, Wynn Handman, Stephen Strimpell, Michael Shurtleff and Alan Miller, among others. Mr. Shaw's legitimate New York theatrical debut was in Charles Busch's hit Off Broadway comedy "The Lady In Question" as Karel, the brainwashed Hitler youth at The Orpheum Theatre. In television he appeared in smaller roles in such series as "Major Dad", "Beverly Hills 90210", "Sisters" and "Will and Grace", In 2001 he went to Spain to study Spanish for three months and was offered a job as an English teacher and stayed. He leaped to international popularity within the Spanish speaking world as Matthew on Spain's prime time hit comedy series "La Que Se Avecina" where he had a recurring role for three seasons, He was Peter Fox in the internationally acclaimed Spanish miniseries "El Tiempo Entre Costuras" (Netflix) and turned his reputation in Spain as a standout comedy performer on its head with a nuanced dramatic performance. He has gone on to work in numerous Spanish prime time series and films and balances a career between Madrid and Los Angeles. He recently returned for his second season to the hit prime time dramatic series "El Ministerio del Tiempo" (Netflix) in a recurring role as Paul Walcott and will appear in Goya winner Alberto Rodriguez's next feature "El Hombre de las Mil Caras" alongside Eduard Fernandez and Jose Coronado, as well as in Doug Spearman's "From Zero To I Love You" and Miguel Angel Jimenez's "The Night Watchman". In 2008 Jimmy received rave reviews for his solo performance as Christopher in James Carrol Pickett's one character play "Dream Man" at The Skylight Theatre in Los Angeles directed by Michael Kearns. He also starred in the Dublin, Edinburgh and Madrid productions of the same play.

Irene Taylor is an Oscar-nominated, multiple-Emmy, duPont and Peabody-winning director and producer.

Her most recent feature documentary I AM: Celine Dion premiered in June 2024 at Lincoln Center, entered a nationwide theatrical release, and soon became Amazon Prime's most popular documentary of all time, worldwide.

Irene explored our human obsession with the arboreal world in her film Trees and Other Entanglements, released by HBO in 2023. In 2022, she won a Columbia-DuPont Award for her tragic investigation into one of the most trusted institutions in America, Leave No Trace: A Hidden History of The Boy Scouts (ABC News Studios, Hulu).

Premiering at Sundance 2019 and later nominated for Special Merit in Documentary Filmmaking at the 2020 Primetime Emmy Awards, Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements tells Irene's very personal story about her deaf son, her deaf father and Ludwig Van Beethoven, as he went deaf while composing his famous sonata.

Irene began her documentary career in photojournalism. Her first feature, Hear and Now, a documentary memoir about her deaf parents, won the Sundance Audience Award in 2007, a Peabody and top awards at festivals around the world. It was also nominated by the Producers Guild of America in 2008 for Documentary of the Year.

Her HBO true-crime documentary about two adolescent girls obsessed with an internet bogeyman, Beware the Slenderman, received several nominations for an Emmy in 2017 and two Critics' Choice Awards, for Best Director and Best Documentary.

Irene's additional credits include several theatrically-released short films, all with HBO. The Final Inch, about the global effort to eradicate polio, was nominated for an Academy award, multiple Emmys, and won the IDA's Pare Lorentz Award. After the 2010 Mexican Gulf oil spill, she followed the life of a single bird found coated in oil, and made Saving Pelican 895, which won an Emmy for its affecting music. Irene directed One Last Hug: Three Days at Grief Camp, which won the 2014 Prime Time Emmy for Best Children's Programming and in 2016 she released Open Your Eyes, about an aging couple living in the Himalayas determined to regain their sight. Irene's short opinion film on the impact of hearing technology and the human experience, Between Sound and Silence, was released by The New York Times Op-Docs.

Irene's early career began in Kathmandu, Nepal, working as a Himalayan Mountain guide and author. Her book of photographic essays, Buddhas in Disguise, became the basis for her first documentary film, made in 1993 with UNICEF. She is a graduate of New York University and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and was a producer for CBS Sunday Morning in 1998-2001. Irene founded Vermilion Films in 2006 and is a member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and The Television Academy. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Irene DeBari is an Argentine-American film, television and stage actor born in Argentina but working in the US since her teens. She has appeared in numerous films and television shows, as well as on stage in Los Angeles, on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Repertory theaters across the country. She is also an accomplished painter and portraitist, painting for her own pleasure and on commission. She is married to Douglas Sinclair-Winnie.

DeBari has worked all over the world and that has awakened a deep passion for travel. On her very extensive bucket list, she's missing only seven countries, those are the ones currently at war or unsafe, but she might bite the bullet and go anyway. She sponsors many favorite charities, chief among them are Doctors Without Borders and Operation Smile. Several of her fans have started contributing to them also.

Raised in Albion, Illinois, daughter of Angela Bouvier and Marvin Miller, Christina grew up in Southern Illinois and Indiana. She began studying journalism and entered into radio broadcasting while attending Wabash Valley College, receiving her FCC 3rd Class License in Chicago, she was the first disc-jockey to go live from a 10 watt station to 50,000 watts at WVJC-FM in Mt. Carmel, IL. Christina worked for WYER-FM radio in Mt. Carmel, IL before heading to Virginia, where she was hired at WUEZ-AM radio in Salem as the Morning News Lady and WROV-FM in Roanoke to cover elections. Christina accepted her first television broadcasting job in Abilene, Texas as the Weekend Weathergirl at KTXS-TV [ABC] and was voted top feature reporter interviewing such celebrities as Steve Martin, Roy Rogers, Maureen Reagan and Mae West. She later went to work for KMID-TV [NBC] in Midland, TX as the stations Weekend Weathergirl and Co-Anchor for the 10:00 p.m. newscast. Christina was an investigative and lead reporter covering breaking stories along with producing the nightly broadcast. She furthered her career to Los Angeles in 1985 by receiving her first acting break on Young and Restless [CBS]. In 1987, Christina was cast as Evelyn, a news reporter on General Hospital [ABC] and continues to work the show. She has acted in many music videos along with student films including two time award winning USC short, The Roommate in 1998. Christina was cast to voice-over commercials, cartoons and has worked in all capacities of the entertainment field including EMI Music Publishing, A&R/Soundtrack for Arista Records, ICM Talent/Literary Agency and many major feature film studios executive assisting Academy Award winning producers.

Irene Dhar Malik has edited feature films like Berlin, Maali, I Am, Chauranga and Sorry Bhai! She's also edited several documentaries including From the Shadows (best editing award, MIFF 2024), An American in Madras (IDPA award for best editing) and Celluloid Man (National Award for best editing). She has also worked on several series including Breakpoint, Powder and India's first English daily soap A Mouthful of Sky.

As his writing partner, Winston Hibler, once put it, "Perhaps Ted's greatest talent was his own unique brand of humor. It was warm, gentle humor; there was never a barb in it. And his was the key, to Ted's whole personality. He was the kindest man I ever knew. He lived with laughter and without malice. He was generous in all things. His talents could be had for the asking. No job was too small, none too big. And this all adds up to the fact that through his talents and his personal virtues. Ted was able to achieve two of the goals he set for himself in life: he made good pictures and he made good friends." Ted Sears was a man of multiple talents. Born in 1900, he spent most of his childhood in New York. As a teenager he attended a trade school in Manhattan where he learned a variety of lettering techniques - since he planned on becoming a sign painter. Even though art and drawing were his first loves, his most lasting interests, early on he convinced himself he would never be an exceptional artist, and he also knew he had to help support his parents and four sisters. However, trying out various jobs was not a problem; he was good at almost everything, and so he lettered title cards for silent movies, worked with trick photography, drew ads

• and even made props for early two-reel comedies, joining silent comic

Charlie Bowers's company, putting together many of the objects Charlie and the other actors used. While on the set, he came up with plot ideas and gags for Charlie's unscripted movies, since he had an innate sense of story that developed quickly. He was young, so were the movies - and he soon turned to an even younger field: the world of film cartoons. Ted had never stopped drawing, discovering that cartoons with their loose, zany characters came naturally to him. This led to work as an animator in various studios - eventually he joined the Max Fleischer organization where he contributed story ideas as well as animation to Betty Boop and many other characters. (In fact, "character" was his favorite word.)

In 1931, Walt Disney hired Ted on a long term contract not as an animator but as a senior writer, (the Disney company's first) and in the twenty-seven years that followed no one ever challenged his position. He had found a niche that suited him, surrounded by the most talented and colorful personalities in animation, writing dialogue and story lines for virtually every important production the Disney Studio made: "Snow White," "Pinocchio," "Bambi," "Dumbo," "Fantasia," "Saludos Amigos," "Cinderella," "Alice in Wonderland," "Peter Pan" (for which he wrote song lyrics), "Lady and the Tramp," and "Sleeping beauty." As part of the Disney's company's original story department he is one of the men attributed in the creation of storyboarding now an industry standard for not just animated film but also live action. He also co-wrote narration for many of the Disney nature films with Winston Hibler, and later did a number of the Disney TV shows. He had writing credits on perhaps a dozen Oscar and Emmy winning productions.

To amuse himself, Ted still drew for his friends and made props for the plays his daughter appeared in - he also produced his family's Christmas cards which employed his old love for trick photography an special effects - these holiday cards took months to prepare and were awaited with great anticipation by over three hundred recipients. (he lettered the envelopes individually, turning each name into calligraphy.)

When Ted died in the summer of 1958, he left his mark on the Disney films, their quality in part springing from his belief in what he did, his many gifts, and the satisfaction that came from working with the finest talents in the animation business.

Irene is a seasoned stand-up comedian, writer, actress, and radio personality who headlines clubs/venues nationwide. She was also a contributing writer for Rachel Dratch's 'Late Night Snack' on truTV and was featured in a sketch for The Shorty Awards, starring Alec Baldwin & Taylor Swift.

Irene co-hosted alongside John Fugelsang on his SXM show 'Tell Me Everything,' which featured A-list actors, politicians, comedians, and authors. She hosted a popular podcast '#suckittt' with actress Jennifer Esposito (Samantha Who? Summer Of Sam, Blue Bloods, Crash), Irene also co-hosted a podcast with comedian/writer, Frank Conniff (MST3K) called 'Mother May I Podcast with Frank & Irene,' featuring well-known comics, actors, authors, and politicians. She is currently co-hosting The Woo Woo with Rachel Dratch (SNL alumni) dropping on October 31.

Irene can be found co-starring in comedies 'Black Magic For White Boys' on Amazon, Hulu, Tubi, and other streaming platforms and in Onur Tukel's new comedy, 'Poundcake,' set to premiere on Amazon Prime and other streaming platforms in the fall of 2023.

Her comedy series 'PLAN B' (featuring Yamaneika Saunders, Rick Younger, and Rachel Feinstein) was featured at the LES film festival in 2023 and is currently being work shopped for production.

Irene's hilarious album 'Unladylike' is available on over 300 platforms and is currently spinning regularly on Sirius XM.

Her comedy special 'SWEETIE,' Presented/Produced by Rachel Dratch and Directed by filmmaker Onur Tukel (Cat Fight-Netflix, Summer Of Blood) is dropping this fall.

Her stand up is a compilation of her crazy Greek family, living on Staten Island: being married to a retired firefighter and all his nitwit friends, and being fed-up with EVERYTHING.

Irene Poole was born in Labrador, Canada and studied acting at Dalhousie University. She has appeared in numerous films and TV episodes, and has played leading roles at major Canadian theaters, including several seasons with the renowned Stratford Festival of Canada. She is the recipient of 5 Dora Award nominations and 3 awards for Best Performance.

Irene Park is a proverbial unicorn in the Entertainment industry: a Native Angeleno (born & raised in East Los Angeles) in a sea of transplants! Ever since her first stint as the Virgin Mary in a production of the Nativity at age five, she has been taking every opportunity to take the limelight. Learning and practicing the art of acting and directing as well as voice throughout middle and high school at an all-girl school with the likes of now celebrity, Sophia Bush, Irene took on a bevy of distinct and challenging roles both female and male. At the University of Pennsylvania, she co-starred as a host on Infocus, a well-known university television show covering on-campus, national and international affairs. She continued to work on stage as well as dabble in student film productions, music videos, and other short films in New York City. She studied at the T. Schreiber Studio in NYC then at the Tim Phillips Studio when she moved back to Los Angeles to continue to pursue the craft of acting on stage, television, and film. Her acting home now and has been at the prestigious Warner Loughlin Studios, where she has studied acting, voice and movement, and audition technique. She has had the privilege of being the teacher's assistant at Warner Loughlin Studios for her scene study class, invitation only Master Class, and Audition Technique class. Currently she's represented theatrically by Linda McAlister Talent. Previously represented by Venture, Daniel Hoff, and House of Representatives commercially, She is now commercially represented by Luxe Talent Agency.

Konstantinos Siradakis was born in Athens Greece. As a child he has lived in Athens, Belgium, Xanthi, and Komotini following his father's transfers who was a military officer. He graduated from the University from the University of Athens section of Physics . He enrolled at the Veaki school of acting , and eventually joined ' The acting Laboratory workshop ' school of Akis Davis in Athens, which he attended for four years. His first roles in the theater were 'Victor or the children in power' written R.Vitrac, the 'Idiot ' by F. Dostoyevski and 'The birthday party' by H.Pinter. His latest work at the theater was 'The Father' a play by Florian Zeller . He is known for his participation in some of the most iconic Greek films, productions like the "Hostage" directed by C. Giannaris in 2005, "Soul kicking " 2006 , directed by Y. Economides, Strella ( a woman's story ) directed by Panos.H. Koutras in 2009, 'Stading aside watching' directed by G. Servetas, among others. Lately he participated in the international production Born to be murdered' ( Netflix ) , starring J.D.Washinghton directed by Ferdinando Cito Filomarino and the Greek film ' Pack of sheep ' directed by D.Kanellopoulos. As a writer he contributed at the film PARI ( Berlinale 2020), directed by S. Etemadi. In 2024 he was cast by Romain Gavras' ' Sacrifice', and in 'Tholos Vythos' by Eleni Alexandraki .

Irene Lusztig is a filmmaker, visual artist, archival researcher, and amateur seamstress. Her film and video work mines old images and technologies for new meanings in order to reframe, recuperate, and reanimate forgotten and neglected histories. Often beginning with rigorous research in archives, her work brings historical materials into conversation with the present day, inviting viewers to explore historical spaces as a way to contemplate larger questions of politics, ideology, and the production of personal, collective, and national memories. Much of her current work is centered on public feminism, language, and histories of women and women's bodies, including the feature length archival film essay The Motherhood Archives (2013). Her work has been screened around the world, including at MoMA, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Anthology Film Archives, Pacific Film Archive, Flaherty NYC, IDFA Amsterdam, RIDM Montréal, Ambulante, and on television in the US, Europe, and Taiwan.

Spanish film director, fiction writer, screenwriter, music composer, producer and actress who lives in the US. Writer and producer of the movie Raqa (Raqqa), writer, producer and director of La cinta de Alex (Alex's Strip), Uniformadas (Uniformed), Jaisalmer, Buen viaje (Have a Nice Trip), Tarde de homenaje (A Tribute's Evening), Migraciones de Gloria Gervitz and Reber's Backstage. She has directed all the music videos of Reber and dozens of commercials.

Founder of Storylines Projects (Multimedia Production Company). Director of the Spansk Film festival, Stockholm (Sweden).

She holds a Masters degree and a PhD from Columbia University (New York).

Shem Walker is an American Actress born May 12, 1970 in Detroit, MI. She is the middle child of six children. Her mother, a Pentecostal Home-Engineer, succumbed to lung cancer in 2007. Her father is a former U.S. Veteran, Singer, Writer, and retired Engineer for the City of Detroit.

Shem was born in a family of talented and creative intellectuals. Her first love was acting, followed by basketball. She starred in her first play, during a Detroit Lion's Fundraiser at 7yrs old. Her first acting lessons were at Wayne State University during that same summer. Her first paid acting job was at 14 years old during the summer high school break for her role in "The Day Of Absence a Play she performed in at the Masonic Temple. She also worked at her God-Father's party store and played basketball/sports throughout her high school career.

After graduating from high school, she received a basketball scholarship at Santa Ana College in California, then Casper College in Wyoming and finished her undergrad degree from Wayne State University, earning a B.A. in Radio/Television/Film. Her dream after college was to have a career in Sport's Broadcasting, because of her passion was sports and acting.

But soon after graduation, she was hired to work for La Quita Film Work's, a Detroit film company. The film "Young Boy's, Inc", was produced and directed by Derrick Carr and associate producer was Terry Crews. Simultaneously she became an ESRP-Teacher at DSA (Modern Day "FAME"). Shem performed in plays and acquired Ron Milner as her acting coach who was the first to produced the play "Fences" starring, Denzel Washington. She attend the Second City Conservatory and took classes and performed at the Detroit Repertory Theater.

During that time she was also preparing for WNBA tryouts. One week before the tryouts, she torn a ligament (ACL) in her right knee. Because she had torn the left ACL with reconstructive surgery for both, she decided to retire from basketball and pursued an acting career. She also retired from the Detroit Public Schools in 2001 and moved to Studio City, California.

She had a great 5 year, then landed a role on Boston Legal, which would have catapulted her career. Her precious mother, passed 2007-2013. Shem's creative energy went on hiatus for 7yrs. She became CEO of Kobelin by Shem, earned a MBA,Alcohol & Drug Counseling and Mental Health certificate's to better understand the process that has literally destroyed her family and worked in homeless shelter's.

January 2014 was the Resurrection of her creative energy. Shem is preparing to shoot a documentary and movie this summer. She is making her mark in the film industry. Her focus and inspiration is to plant seeds of greatness with her ability to motivate, educate, inspire, and elevate while imitating life in film and Television.

Volunteerism-Shelters, Cancer, Domestic Violence, Sober-living, Mental Health, Inner City Schools,Promotion of Education and Empowerment, and Healthy Living.

She is living on purpose.

Shem reside's has established residency in both California and Michigan

Larissa Jewel is an American born actress who lives in Southern California. She began her acting career at age 6, driven by her love of acting and the magic of make believe. She has always had a passion for entertaining others with song, dance, music, and acting. Larissa has a natural gift of reading script, memorizing, and executing her lines. She has amazed many Casting Directors, Film Directors, and Producers with her ability to perform at such an early age. Larissa has amassed a lengthy resume working on projects for CBS Television, 20th Century Fox Studios, Disney Interactive, Kohls, Investigation Discovery Channel, TBS, Amazon Prime, Atlantic Records, and many others. Larissa has studied the art of acting at studios and schools throughout southern California and continues to perfect her craft with continued training. She is learning techniques and methods of acting with the assistance of award-winning actress Susan Duerden. Larissa's heart is filled with the desire to entertain, and she will use all forms of media to achieve her goals, through movies, live performances, radio, television, voice over, or music. She will win your heart and mind through the magic of entertainment.

Born in Nagpur from a family of classical musicians, Mangesh Dhakde probably learned to sing before even being able to talk. Notes were to become his natural means of expression. He thus started composing along with his father at a very young age.

In 2002, he joined the Film and Television Institute of India where he spent four years studying thoroughly sound engineering and cinema at a global level. These precious years of total immersion within the visual arts opened a whole new dimension to his approach and use of music for the cinema.

He moved to Mumbai in 2006 and was soon requested to compose for various feature films, some of which became popular and were praised for their witty and soulful background scores.

Enriched with the multicultural musical influences he was exposed to as a child such as jazz, Western classical and Brazilian music through the encounter of various foreign musicians attending his father's school, and strong with a solid knowledge of Indian classical music (Patiala Gharana), Mangesh Dhakde has been in constant search for new sounds and styles, exploring uncommon combinations of genres and instruments, resulting in the atypical and powerful compositions we hear now on the screen.

Irene Lopez, born in 1980 in San Salvador, El Salvador, is a Swedish fiction director, documentary filmmaker, scriptwriter and animator. She has lived most of her life in Lund and Stockholm. She studied theatre at Stockholm University in 2001-02 and graduated with a BA in animation at the School of Arts and Crafts (konstfack) 2003-05. She graduated in 2013 from SKH (UNIARTS), with a BA in documentary film and 2023 with a MA in fiction direction at SKH (UNIARTS). Her research was about the ethics and truth in narrative when converting a documentary piece into a fiction film.

Lopez worked part time at SVT news ( Swedish television) as a graphic designer and as a moderator for youth programs such as Anaconda at UR ( Swedish television station). After working 3 years at tech company Scrive as media content manager and filmmaker she decided to go back to freelance.

Alesandra Álvarez is an actress known for her work in Recuerdo Dormido (2025), Laura (2024), and Karmadame (2020). With a strong foundation in her craft, she brings authenticity and emotional depth to her performances, portraying complex characters with nuance, vulnerability, and presence.

Recognized for her natural and organic approach to acting, Alesandra delivers performances that feel genuine and deeply human. Throughout her career, she has worked across various genres, showcasing her versatility. Her dedication to storytelling and immersive character work continues to solidify her as a compelling and resonant voice in the industry.

Irene Gutiérrez is a Tribeca and Sundance Fellow graduated in Documentary Film Production from the International Film School of San Antonio de los Baños (Cuba) and PhD fellow at the department of Journalism and Media Studies in Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (Spain). She has directed the films "Border Diaries" (2012), "Hotel Nueva Isla" (2014) and the web-doc series "Connected Walls" (2015). Her last film, "To Those Who Fight" is in stage of post-production. Her current project focus on digital self-images with particular attention to issues of surveillance and migration. Her films and research link the intimate portrait and the historical dimensions of her characters with the landscape as an expression of the political tensions between individuals and nations.

Rose Leiman Goldemberg's internationally acclaimed play Letters Home about the life of Sylvia Plath, has been translated into numerous languages and been honored all over the world. Her plays and musicals include: Gandhiji, which garnered a Robby Award, was chosen for the O'Neill Conference and honored in Burns Mantle's Best Plays of 1982-1983; the award-winning Apples in Eden, The Rabinowitz Gambit, Rites of Passage, Sophie, and The Merry War. Television credits include The Burning Bed, for which she received the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Adaptation, an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing, an American Women in Radio and TV Award, a Humanitas Award nomination and was honored by The American Film Institute, as part of the permanent collection; Dark Holiday; Stone Pillow, starring Lucille Ball, for which she received a Humanitas Award nomination; Florence Nightingale; Born Beautiful; Land of Hope; Death at Dinner; The Pencil Box War; The Jonas Salk Story; and Mother and Daughter, The Loving War, for which when received a Writers Guild nomination and a Humanitas Award nomination. Ms. Goldemberg's radio drama Voices in My Head received several awards including the Armstrong Award for Best Radio Drama. Her feature films include Points East, Doubles and Bad Dreams. She is a published author of such books as Adios, Hollywood and Antique Jewelry: A Practical & Passionate Guide. She is also an award-winning poet and author of short stories. Her recent musical, Picon Pie was the best-rated Zagat show in New York. In early 2016 Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts archived her works, including early drafts, notes and final scripts to be of help to new writers to see her creative process.

She was born and grew up in Staten Island, married twice, had two children, and has taught English & Theater at various colleges and universities.