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Jennifer Love Hewitt was born in Waco, Texas, to Patricia Mae (Shipp), a speech-language pathologist, and Herbert Daniel Hewitt, a medical technician. She has English, Italian, French, Scottish, and German ancestry. She got her first name from her older brother Todd Daniel Hewitt (b. November 8, 1970), who picked the name after a little blonde girl on whom he'd had a crush. Her mother selected Jennifer's middle name, Love (which she goes by offstage), from her best college friend. Her parents separated when she was six months old and her mother raised her in Killeen, Texas.

Hewitt made her official performing debut at age 3 when she sang at a livestock show. At age 5, she was taking tap, jazz, and ballet lessons, which led to her joining the Texas Show Team, who toured the Soviet Union and Europe. When she was 10 her family moved to Los Angeles with encouragement from talent scouts, while Todd stayed behind to finish high school in Texas Jennifer quickly found commercial work and a role on Disney's Kids Incorporated (1984) in 1989. She went through a series of television flops before finally hitting it big on Party of Five (1994) in 1995.

Alexa Ellesse PenaVega was born Alexa Ellesse Vega on August 27, 1988 in Ocala, Florida and raised in Los Angeles, California to Gina Denise Rue, a former model & Baruch Jairo Vega, a photographer. She is known for her role as Carmen Cortez in the Spy Kids series and Shilo Wallace in the film Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008). In 2009, she starred as the title character Ruby Gallagher in the ABC Family series Ruby & The Rockits.

Michaela McManus is an American actress, known for her portrayals of Lindsey Strauss on One Tree Hill, A.D.A. Kim Greylek on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Grace Karn on the NBC drama Aquarius.

McManus, a Warwick, Rhode Island, native, daughter of James "Jim" and Patricia McManus of Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island, graduated from Fordham University, attended NYU's graduate acting program before leaving to pursue her career in Los Angeles.

In 2008, she joined the cast of season five of One Tree Hill playing Lindsey Strauss, the love interest of Lucas Scott (Chad Michael Murray). After completing her work on One Tree Hill, she booked a guest role on season five of CSI: NY. She was subsequently announced as joining the cast of season ten of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Assistant District Attorney Kim Greylek. She was abruptly written out of SVU in the middle of season ten in which ADA Alexandra Cabot (Stephanie March) returned. However, McManus continued to be credited in season ten's main titles, and it was later confirmed that McManus would not be returning to SVU.

Since then, she has had guest roles in prime time shows Castle, CSI: Miami, The Vampire Diaries, Hawaii Five-0, and other films and/or television shows. She also appeared in the music video 'Glad You Came' by The Wanted. She starred as Tara on the NBC series Awake in 2012, and as Grace Karn on Aquarius in 2015. In 2017, McManus had supporting roles in SEAL Team as Alana Hayes, and The Orville as the Krill Teleya. She appeared in the short lived NBC series The Village as Sarah Campbell in 2019.McManus married writer/producer Mike Daniels in July 2011. In December 2013, McManus announced that she was expecting their first child. The couple welcomed son Gabriel October Daniels on April 3, 2014. Their second child, Declan Griffith Daniels, was born in September 2016.

Madeline was born March 18, 1996 and raised in Los Angeles, California. She began modeling when she was 3 years old, soon after she was discovered by her Theatrical agent "Wendy" in a nail shop in Sherman Oaks and began her theatrical acting career. She has performed in around 60 principal role/national commercials. you may have seen Madeline in guest-starring performances on several TV shows and series. Madeline absolutely enjoys scary movies, and her favorite roles so far, White Queen, in Resident Evil 3: Extinction, and Molly from Swing Vote. Madeline also enjoys playing with her 3 brothers and has a dog named Spot. She is very active in giving to foundation "Zoe International" a non-profit Christian organization which rescues children from child prostitution.

James Harvey Kennedy was born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, on May 25, 1970. He became interested in acting at the age of 15, and appeared in a movie for the first time at age 19, as an extra in Dead Poets Society (1989). His first role in a movie was as Brad in the film Road to Flin Flon (2000), which was filmed in the early 1990s but was not released until spring 2000. He is most popular for playing the role of the movie buff, geeky Randy Meeks, in Scream (1996), Scream 2 (1997), and Scream 3 (2000). In 1998, he won a Blockbuster Award for Best Supporting Actor in a horror movie for his role as Randy Meeks in Scream 2 (1997).

Katie Lowes was born on 22 September 1982 in Queens, New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Wreck-It Ralph (2012), Zootopia (2016) and Scandal (2012). She has been married to Adam Shapiro since 23 June 2012. They have two children.

Derek Cecil was born on January 15, 1973 in Amarillo, Texas. He graduated from the University of Houston and the American Conservatory's Advanced Theater Training Program in San Francisco, California. He is a founding member of New York's Rude Mechanicals Theater Company and has acted and directed as a member of the company.

Cecil gained national exposure when he starred opposite Mark Ruffalo in UPN's short-lived TV series The Beat (2000). The series dealt with the lives of two uniform police officers in New York City and was from Homicide: Life on the Street (1993) executive producers Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana. Following a recurring role on the Fox series Pasadena (2001), Cecil took on another starring television role with ABC's experimental Push, Nevada (2002). Cecil played IRS agent Jim Prufrock on the show, which offered viewers a cash prize for solving its fictional mystery. Derek Cecil continues to divide his time between theater, television, and film.

Adam Shapiro was born in the USA. He is an actor and director, known for Steve Jobs (2015), Never Have I Ever (2020) and The Bear (2022). He has been married to Katie Lowes since 23 June 2012. They have two children.

Hubbel Palmer was born in Utah, USA. Hubbel is a writer and actor, known for A Minecraft Movie (2025), Ninety-Five Senses (2022) and Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (2016).

Daniel Eric Gold was born on 19 September 1975 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Definitely, Maybe (2008) and War of the Worlds (2005).

Joel Marsh Garland was born on 6 April 1975 in Rome, New York, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Orange Is the New Black (2013), Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) and The Bounty Hunter (2010).

Jessica Kelly is known for Euphoria (2019), Pieces of a Woman (2020) and Midsommar (2019).

Despite spending most of 2024 on Broadway ("Hills of California" Dir. Sam Mendes), Richard also starred in and produced the New Zealand feature "Mysterious Ways" about a homosexual vicar at war with the Anglican hierarchy, airing globally in 2025. Also recently seen in Joel Coen's "The Tragedy of Macbeth" (2021) alongside Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, as well as "Jack Ryan: Season 3" (2022) for Amazon and will be seen at festivals worldwide in the short film "The Night Passenger".

Globally, he is also starring in the original TV series Mary Kills People, now airing the third and final season. For his role as the very complex surgeon Des Bennett, Short was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award (for Best Lead Actor in a Drama series) in 2018.

Richard both wrote and produced a play on tour in the UK ("Two Of Us") for 2024-2025. Prior to that, he was seen as 'Richard Burton' in the hugely acclaimed World Premiere of "CLEO", a play directed by Bob Balaban and written by Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright, set during the filming of the 1963 movie Cleopatra.

In 2016, Short co-starred in HBO's Vinyl opposite Olivia Wilde. In 2015, he co-starred in Agent Carter, where he played Marvel's first ever gay comic book character, Pinky Pinkerton. Short's diverse range of television credits include appearances in Code Black, Time After Time, Training Day, American Horror Story, Blue Bloods, White Collar, Fringe, Bored to Death, Vera and Covert Affairs among others but it was in 2013 he really came to the attention of audiences worldwide as the villainous "Harlan Moore" in ABC's '666 Park Avenue'.

In film, Short recently took the title of role of King Arthur in "Arthur & Merlin", screening on Amazon, as well as the UK horror feature film 'The Dare' and can now be seen on Amazon in the indie film 'Crazy Famous', as well as in the short-film Abe, directed by Steve Brett. He also starred in the indie films 'Cockroaches' and 'Not Welcome' still awaiting release. He made his debut in the Sundance hit 'Delirious' for director Tom DiCillo. Additional credits include The Exhibitionists alongside Laverne Cox, A New York Love Story, The Guitar (Amy Redford), Public Enemies (Michael Mann), Choose (Rob Legato), The Butterflies of Bill Baker and Café.

Other stage credits on Broadway include Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem alongside Mark Rylance. Prior to that, he created the role of Eric Saunders in Roberto Aguirre Sacasa's King of Shadows. Additional highlights include An Evening with Simon Gray at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Centre, a hugely acclaimed performance in Mary Rose for the Vineyard Theatre and as John Eastman in the National Theatre of London transfer of The Night Season, directed by Lonny Price. He made his theater debut in 1996 in the UK production of Grease.

An avid writer, Short has published books, articles and screenplays across the worlds of sports and travel. He divides his time between Los Angeles, Santa Fe and London with his wife and has a production company with the aim of producing challenging and artistic film projects by using some of the incredible, diverse talent with which he's shared a career.

Ari Robbins was first introduced to Steadicam at the age of eighteen after returning home from high-school. Knowing his future lay within the cinematic industry, he was immediately entranced by the notion of operator and equipment working together so intimately. It was a culmination of all things he was looking for: a career, a hobby, a profession, but most importantly, a passion.

Ari moved to Los Angeles and immediately began working in the lighting departments. In the fall of 2004 he signed up for a Steadicam Operators Association workshop. After graduating, he searched and found his ideal rig, and on his twenty-first birthday, purchased his Steadicam. That same day, he rolled his first shot on set as a Steadicam operator and owner.

Ari operates with the same enthusiasm he had the first moment he strapped on his vest, with passion first and the camera second.

Common As Light And Love Are Red Valleys of Blood is the new release by Mark Kozelek's Sun Kil Moon. Released February 24, 2017 on Caldo Verde Records/Rough Trade, the double album was recorded in 2016 with drummer Steve Shelley. Sun Kil Moon will support the album this year with tours in Australia, New Zealand, Europe and The USA.

On May 27, 2016, Mark Kozelek Sings Favorites was released through Caldo Verde Records. The album features guest singers Mimi Parker, Minnie Driver, Mike Patton, Will Oldham, and Rachel Goswell. The album includes favorite songs of Mark's friends and loved ones. On January 2016, Mark's collaboration with Justin Broadrick entitled Jesu/Sun Kil Moon was released via Caldo Verde/Rough Trade Records, to positive reviews. The band promoted the album with live shows in Europe, USA and Japan throughout 2016.

Universal Themes was the 7th full length Sun Kil Moon Album, released in 2015. The album received some of Kozelek's best reviews including a 9 out of 10 in Uncut Magazine and an A- at Consequence Of Sound. In 2015 Mark also released a free EP entitled Down In The Willow Garden as well as a spoken word album entitled Dreams Of Childhood with Argentine actor Nicolas Pauls. Kozelek's music is also featured extensively in the latest Paulo Sorrentino film Youth.

In late 2015 Caldo Verde Records released Mark Kozelek Sings Christmas Carols.

Benji was the sixth full length record by Mark Kozelek's Sun Kil Moon. The album was released February 11, 2014 and features guest musicians Steve Shelley, Will Oldham and Owen Ashworth. On August 20 of 2013, Mark Kozelek's Caldo Verde Records released Mark Kozelek & Desertshore, the third record from Mark Kozelek and Phil Carney's side project, Desertshore. 2013 also saw the release of Mark Kozelek, Like Rats, featuring an eclectic mix of covers ranging from Sonny and Cher to Bad Brains. At the same time Mark also released 2 live albums and the Mark Kozelek and Jimmy Lavalle collaboration, Perils From The Sea. Both Mark Kozelek & Desertshore and Perils From The Sea made Uncut's top 100 best albums of the year. In 2012, Mark Kozelek released an 18 track album under his Sun Kil Moon moniker, entitled Among The Leaves. Mark toured solo in support of the album and made his debit TV appearance on Fallon performing with The Roots.

In August of 2011, the film Mark Kozelek: On Tour was released via Caldo Verde Records. The film follows Mark on two different tours in support of the Sun Kil Moon release, Admiral Fell Promises, released in 2010. The album was played entirely by Mark Kozelek on nylon string guitar and includes 10 original songs. A limited EP entitled I'll Be There coincided with the release. The 4 song EP includes 1 out-take and 3 covers, including the Jackson's 'I'll Be There.' On November 22, 2011, Desertshore's second album was released. Mark Kozelek contributed vocals to 6 of the album's 10 tracks.

In May of 2009 Caldo Verde released Mark Kozelek: Lost Verses - Live. The album was recorded in intimate, seated venues throughout the US and Europe in 2007 and 2008. This 14 song 'best of' collection features Red House Painters classic 'Katy Song' as well as several picks from the Sun Kil Moon catalog including 'Carry Me Ohio', 'Lucky Man,' and 'Lost Verses.'

A 13 song live CD entitled Mark Kozelek: Live in Spain was released simultaneously as a free bonus CD.

Mark Kozelek's third album with Sun Kil Moon: April, was released through Caldo Verde on April 1, 2008.

A hardback edition of Nights of Passed Over, a collection of Mark's lyrics originally published in a limited edition in Portugal in 2002, was also released in 2008. The book includes a preface by Mark and a 12-song rarities CD entitled Nights LP. The book is out of print.

In December of 2008, Mark released The Finally LP, a rarities collection featuring covers of Husker Du, Stephen Sondheim, Kath Bloom, Low, and others.

Mark's music has been licensed to numerous television shows including The O.C., The Big C, Revenge, Brothers and Sisters, Friday Night Lights, Sons of Anarchy, and Roadies, as well as several films including Tarnation, Against The Current, The Elephant In The Living room,, Excess Baggage, Vanilla Sky, and The Fault In Our Stars. Mark scored original music for the films Farewell Bender, Last Ball, and Lorena Ochoa: El Camino a la Cima.

In 2005, Mark started his own label, Caldo Verde Records. Releases other than his own include Alan Sparhawk of Low's self-titled Retribution Gospel Choir debut album, for which Mark worked as producer. Caldo Verde has also released albums by Jesu, Kath Bloom, and Advance Base.

Between 1992 and 1999 Mark released six full length studio albums with Red House Painters.

Little Drummer Boy - Live, released on November 28, 2006, contains live recordings from various shows in Europe and North America. The double CD covers a broad range of Mark Kozelek material, including Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon and personalized covers of Modest Mouse, The Cars and AC/DC.

In 2007, Drummer Boy was released on vinyl as White Christmas & Little Drummer Boy Live as a 4 LP set. The album was coupled with Mark's 2001 release White Christmas Live, recorded in Scandinavia.

On January 23, 2007, Caldo Verde Records re-released the first Sun Kil Moon album Ghosts of the Great Highway with reworked packaging and a six song bonus CD featuring two versions of Leonard Bernstein's 'Somewhere', alternate versions of 'Carry Me Ohio' and 'Salvador Sanchez', a radio performance of 'Gentle Moon' recorded in Portugal and the previously unreleased instrumental, 'Arrival', recorded for the movie The Girl Next Door. Originally released on November 3, 2003, Ghosts of the Great Highway received superlative reviews, moved quickly to the #1 on college radio and has become one of singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek's most loved and best-selling albums of his 14 year career. Ghosts tracks 'Carry Me Ohio' and 'Lily and Parrots' were featured in the Steve Martin film Shopgirl, in which Mark plays the role of a lead singer in a fictitious rock band. Mark also contributed several tracks to several compilations. His version of Will Oldham's 'New Partner' is included on a CD entitled I Am A Cold Rock, I Am Dull Grass. Sun Kil Moon's version of Neil Diamond's 'Kentucky Woman' is featured on Songs from the Brown Hotel which also features Elvis Presley and Nancy Wilson, the original composition 'Leo and Luna' appears on a Canadian Compilation from Paperbag Records, and an exclusive, live version of 'Have You Forgotten' appears on the soundtrack to the HBO documentary film The Trials of Darryl Hunt.

Other highlights include producing Take Me Home: A Tribute to John Denver; Retrospective, a two-CD collection featuring various rarities and live tracks alongside favorite RHP material; and appearing as an actor in Cameron Crowe's critically acclaimed Almost Famous and Vanilla Sky as well as appearing as himself in Paolo Sorrentino's Youth.

Sean Covel was born on 4 March 1976 in Newcastle, Wyoming, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Napoleon Dynamite (2004), Matt Epic and Think Tank (2006). He was previously married to Alexa PenaVega.

Cecelia Ann Birt is known for Ocean's Eleven (2001), Law Abiding Citizen (2009) and Do No Harm (2013).

Chris Wyatt was born on 5 October 1975 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Napoleon Dynamite (2004), Ninjago: Dragons Rising (2023) and Stretch Armstrong & the Flex Fighters (2017). He has been married to Laura Anne Von Arx since 3 December 2005. They have three children. He was previously married to Elizabeth James.

Clayton Prince was born on 17 February 1965 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Dark Justice (1991), Hairspray (1988) and The Cosby Show (1984).

Thomas Walton is a Writer, Director, Producer and an Actor. Walton got started in the late 90's as an Actor, and has appeared in numerous TV shows and films. Walton then shifted and focused his energy into making films, and had since two scripts over at the prestigious ICM Partners with the late Jack Gilardi.

Walton's next two features were (Camp Pleasant Lake) starring - Jonathan Lipnicki, Bonnie Aarons, Michael Pare, Robert Lasardo and Andrew Divoff. And (RSVP) starring Robert Ri'chard and Natasha Marc.

Walton is also co-owner and Executive partner at Lux Angeles Studios.

Khan Baykal was born in Teaneck, New Jersey. He studied with Suzanne Esper at the William Esper Acting Studio for several years. Just two months after completing his training, he was cast in the Merchant Ivory Productions film Heights (2005). A couple of years later, he would go on to sign a talent holding deal with ABC. Khan is known for Duplicity (2009), The Drop (2014), and The Happy House (2013).

Stacy Rowe is known for Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), Life (2017) and Shutter Island (2010).

Ed Mendez has been in the Visual Effects industry for more than 15 years. Ed began his career as a Compositor at Kleiser-Walczak after earning his MFA at Savannah College of Art and Design. Ed's career quickly took off working at ESC and Café FX while taking part in such high profile projects as X-Men, Spider-Man 3, The Martrix Revolutions, Sin City and winning an Emmy Award for his work on the mini-series John Adams for HBO. Ed then became Sr. VFX Supervisor at DIVE where he Supervised such projects as SPLIT for M. Night Shyamalan, Silver Linings Playbook, The Leftovers for HBO, Power for STARZ, Public Morals for TNT and Outcast for Cinemax. Ed is the creative lead at PowerHouse. PowerHouse VFX projects include GLASS for M. Night Shyamalan, The Purge TV for Blumhouse/USA, Deception for Warner Bros./ABC

Raymond Charles Jack LaMontagne is an American singer-songwriter and musician. LaMontagne has released eight studio albums: Trouble, Till the Sun Turns Black, Gossip in the Grain, God Willin' & the Creek Don't Rise, Supernova, Ouroboros, Part of the Light, and Monovision. He was born in New Hampshire and was inspired to create music after hearing an album by Stephen Stills. Critics have compared LaMontagne's music to that of Otis Redding, Ryan Adams, Beck, Pink Floyd, The Band, Van Morrison, Nick Drake and Tim Buckley.

Joe Barlam is best known for his multiple episodes on TV's Investigative Discovery ID Channel. Also in feature films such as: Bloodrunners and Scream Bloody Murder. As well as the Brat Productions web series: A Girl Named Jo. He is a former troupe member at Theatre 68 in North Hollywood, CA. He also performed stunts in: The Dark Knight Rises, Noah and White Dove: The Origin. Joe is a member of SAGAFTRA and is a Writer, an independent Producer as well as a Producer for PhilaDreams Films. He also has a variety of other Crew credits.