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Benedict Cumberbatch (Actor) .. Julian Assange

Born: July 19, 1976
Birthplace: London, England

Trivia: When British actor Benedict Cumberbatch signed for his first cinematic roles in the early 2000s, he immediately unveiled a proclivity -- and a gift -- for essaying a diverse array of characterizations. Cumberbatch began with BBC television productions, notably a supporting part in the lesbian-themed period drama Tipping the Velvet (2002) and the lead role of the brilliant, physically disabled scientist Stephen Hawking in the BBC telemovie Hawking (2004). Cumberbatch landed one of his first significant international crossover roles (and his first major big-screen assignment) as one of the leads in Michael Apted's arthouse hit Amazing Grace (2006) -- portraying William Pitt, an 18th century British prime minister who crusaded against slavery. While appearing on the British stage and in British television shows, Cumberbatch slowly built up an impressive résumé of supporting film roles. He had a small (but significant) part in Joe Wright's period drama Atonement (2007), and played William Carey, Mary Boleyn's husband in The Other Boleyn Girl (2008).In 2010, Cumberbatch took on his breakout role, playing Sherlock Holmes in a BBC series reboot. His career exploded after the show took off. He played The Necromancer/Smaug in The Hobbit trilogy, Khan in Star Trek Into Darkness, a plantation owner in 12 Years a Slave and nabbed his first true starring role playing Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate. In 2014 Cumberbatch portrayed the pioneering British mathematician Alan Turing in The Imitation Game, and his work earned him a Best Actor nomination from the Academy, the first nod of his career.

Carice Van Houten (Actor) .. Birgitta Jansdotir

Born: September 05, 1976
Birthplace: Leiderdorp, The Netherlands

Trivia: Born September 5, 1976, in the Netherlands, actress Carice van Houten worked steadily in her native country on both the small and big screens, garnering a number of nominations for her work. She first started to acquire international fame as the star of Paul Verhoeven's Black Book, portraying Rachel Stein, a Jewish woman who disguises herself and uses her allure and beauty in order to manipulate the Nazis in charge of the occupation of Holland. The exposure from her work in that film served as a springboard for van Houten, and she was soon appearing prominantly in high-profile Hollywood pictures, such as Bryan Singer's WWII drama Valkyrie, starring Tom Cruise; the sci-fi film Repossession Mambo, as the wife of Jude Law's character; and the biographical drama Vivaldi, starring Joseph Fiennes as the classical composer. In 2012, she joined Game of Thrones, playing Melisandre, though she still found time to return to the big screen, including The Fifth Estate in 2013 and the Jesse James biopic Race (2016), playing German film director/propagandist Leni Riefenstahl.

Daniel Brühl (Actor) .. Daniel Domscheit-Berg

Born: June 16, 1978
Birthplace: Barcelona, Spain

Trivia: Born in Spain to a Catalan mother and Brazilian-born German father, and was subsequently raised in Germany and spent summers in Spain. Got his start on the German soap opera Verbotene Liebe in 1995. Speaks several languages; in Joyeux Noël, he speaks German, French and English. Owns a Spanish tapas bar, Bar Raval, in Berlin.

Laura Linney (Actor) .. Sarah Shaw

Born: February 05, 1964
Birthplace: New York, New York

Trivia: The daughter of respected off-Broadway playwright Romulus Linney, Laura Linney was born in New York City on February 5, 1964. Her parents divorced when she was six months old. Thanks to her father's job, Linney grew up working in the theater, both behind the scenes and, in her late teens, on the stage. Following prep school in Massachusetts, she attended both Brown University and Juilliard, and she was soon appearing in a number of Broadway productions. She garnered notice for her roles in plays like The Seagull and Six Degrees of Separation, and won particular acclaim for her performance in Hedda Gabler.Linney made her onscreen debut in 1992 with a small role as a teacher in Lorenzo's Oil. The following year, she had a brief but pivotal role as Kevin Kline's presidential mistress in Dave, appeared in Searching for Bobby Fischer, and landed a lead as one of the protagonists of Armistead Maupin's acclaimed Tales of the City, which aired on PBS. Linney later reprised her role as Mary Ann Singleton for More Tales of the City in 1998. Following leads in two box-office failures, A Simple Twist of Fate (1994) and Congo (1995), Linney had a supporting role as Richard Gere's lawyer/ex in Primal Fear (1996). Based on the strength of her performance, Clint Eastwood chose her to play his daughter -- another lawyer -- in Absolute Power the following year. In 1998, Linney sent up her wholesome, fresh-scrubbed appearance to great effect as Truman Burbank's wife in Peter Weir's highly acclaimed The Truman Show.The actress finally came into her own in 2000, thanks to two very different parts in two highly acclaimed independent features. Writer/director Kenneth Lonergan's You Can Count on Me featured Linney as Sammy, a small-town single mother whose placid life takes some interesting turns when she's visited by her errant brother Terry (Mark Ruffalo). Aided by Lonergan's precise script and her own copious note-taking, Linney turned in her most nuanced, accomplished performance to date. Critics paid attention: after its much-heralded debut at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival, the film went on to garner a slew of recognition for its lead actress, including Best Actress of the Year awards from the National Society of Film Critics and the New York Film Critics Circle, and an eventual Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Linney further polished her reputation with a supporting turn as the icy Bertha Dorset in director Terence Davies' adaptation of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, released in late 2000.She continued working steadily and garnered great critical respect throughout the next decade. In addition to returning for Further Tales of the City, she was one of the many talented actors who appeared in the controversial The Laramie Project. She had a few big-budget films that missed their mark in The Mothman Prophecies and The Life of David Gale, but those came around the same time as her superb turn as Sean Penn's wife in Mystic River, and as one of the few Americans in the very British romantic comedy Love Actually. She continued to earn strong reviews as the headstrong wife to Liam Neeson's Kinsey, and in 2005 offered a subtle but penetrating portrayal of a selfish mother and divorcee opposite Jeff Daniels in The Squid and the Whale. The next year she acted opposite Robin Williams in Barry Levinson's political and social satire Man of the Year.In 2007 Linney offered a spot-on portrayal of a dissatisfied Manhattan wife and mother in The Nanny Diaries, and earned a wealth of strong reviews for her work in Tamara Jenkins' The Savages. Playing a neurotic woman opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman as her brother, Linney scored her third Academy Award nomination.2008 brought Linney her fourth Golden Globe nomination, and first win, for the portrayl of first lady Abigail Adams in the acclaimed HBO miniseries John Adams. In the following years, Linney would continue to appear in several projects, including movies like Morning and The Details, and the acclaimed Showtime series The C Word.

Anthony Mackie (Actor) .. Sam Coulson

Born: September 23, 1979
Birthplace: New Orleans, Louisana, United States

Trivia: A Big Easy-born actor who honed his skills at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts before completing his education at Juilliard, Anthony Mackie portrayed ill-fated rapper Tupac Shakur in a stage production of Up Against the Wind before taunting Detroit-based rapper Eminem as a member of the rival rhyming crew in the box-office hit 8 Mile. Subsequently appearing onscreen alongside some of the biggest names in the business, Mackie took the lead as a sperm-donating former biotech executive opposite Ellen Barkin and Ossie Davis in Spike Lee's She Hate Me, and proved that he could even hold his own against such screen legends as Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman with a substantial role in the boxing drama Million Dollar Baby. While it may be on the silver screen that Mackie has courted the majority of fame, the ascending star also appeared on the Broadway stage in high-profile productions of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Drowning Crow.Few actors could dream of a career that advanced as quickly as Mackie's did, and the same year he played leading man in She Hate Me, the then-twenty-five-year-old would earn an Independent Spirit Award nomination for his memorable portrayal of a homeless shelter employee struggling with his cultural and sexual identity in Brother to Brother. Just when it seemed as if Mackie's rigorous work schedule couldn't get any more demanding, the actor would appear in no less than six movies in 2006 including the racially charged kidnapping drama Freedomland, the underground street-ball drama Crossover, and opposite Matthew McConaughey and Matthew Fox in the fact-based football film We Are Marshall.Firmly established, he played a supporting role in the Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker in 2008, and reprised his role of Tupac Shakur in the Notorious B.I.G. biopic, Notorious (2009). Mackie played a former Black Panther in Night Catches Us (2010) and played a supporting role in The Adjustment Bureau (2011). In 2012, he played the historical figure William H. Johnson, Abraham Lincoln's valet, in the fictionalized (obviously) historical action film, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Mackie joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2014, playing Sam Wilson/Falcon in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and reprised the role in later MCU movies.

David Thewlis (Actor) .. Nick Davies

Born: March 20, 1963
Birthplace: Blackpool, Lancashire, England

Trivia: The second of three children, David Thewlis grew up in an apartment above his family's combination toy store and wallpaper shop. He received his training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. A veteran of the London stage and English television (Prime Suspect 3), Thewlis found his particular cinematic niche as the antihero of director Mike Leigh's Naked (1993). From the moment that Thewlis, playing an indigent from Manchester, showed up unannounced at the doorstep of his old girlfriend and immediately proceeded to verbally trash everyone in sight, the audience knew it wasn't in for a Noël Coward revival. The result of Thewlis's antisocial screen behavior was the unqualified praise of discriminating moviegoers, not to mention awards from the Cannes jury, the New York Film Critics, and the National Society of Film Critics. He went on to demonstrate his versatility in a number of diverse roles, including Paul Verlaine in 1995's Total Eclipse, an animated earthworm in James and the Giant Peach (1996), a mountaineer in Seven Years in Tibet (1997, a role for which the actor was subsequently banned from entering China), and an expatriate British composer living in Rome in Bernardo Bertolucci's Besieged in 1998. Also that year, Thewlis could be seen doing a brief but hilarious turn as a giggling conceptual artist in The Big Lebowski. As rare as it is for an actor to possess the versatility needed to alternate between such adult-oriented fare as director Mike Leigh's Naked and such innocent fun as James and the Giant Peach, Thewlis could be as effective in the former as he was endearing in the latter. Following a chilling performance as the leader of a London gang in the 2002 crime drama Gangster No. 1, Thewlis switched gears somewhat to portray the villain in the made-for-television family adventure Dinotopia shortly thereafter. In 2003, Thewlis expanded his resumé by making his feature directorial debut with Cheeky, a comedy drama concerning a mournful widower (Thewlis) whose life takes a change for the better after appearing in a popular game show of questionable taste. His profile steadily increasing thanks to roles in such high-profile releases as Timeline and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (as Professor Remus Lupin), the actor began to make as big a name for himself in large-scale Hollywood blockbusters as he previously had in intimate independent dramas. Of course, that's not to say that Thewlis had lost his taste for smaller-scale films, just that his skills were now in increased demand stateside as a direct result of his powerful early-career performances. After a busy year in 2005 with roles in the historical dramas Kingdom of Heaven and The New World, Thewlis drifted back into modern times to play a small but pivotal role in an American-shot segment of the international short anthology All the Invisible Children -- a powerful meditation on the modern mistreatment of youth by the increasingly jaded adult population. A brief turn as the Scotland Yard homicide detective trailing Sharon Stone in the belated and ill-fated sequel Basic Instinct 2 may have gone unseen by many fans after the film received considerably negative word of mouth, though a fun turn as the paranoid, bubblegum-chomping reporter hot on the trail of the young Antichrist in the 2006 remake of The Omen gave audiences much more to chew on and offered Thewlis the opportunity to have a bit of fun, to the delight of fans everywhere. The following year, Thewlis reprised his role of Prof. Lupin in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and appeared in the title role in The Inner Life of Martin Frost. He could next be seen in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, a film adaptation of the John Boyne Holocaust novel, which focuses on the friendship that develops between the child of a Nazi commander at a concentration camp and a young Jewish prisoner. Thewlis enjoyed a high-profile 2011 when the last of the Harry Potter films hit screens, as did other films he was cast in including the Shakespearean drama Anonymous, and Steven Spielberg's Oscar nominated War Horse.

Peter Capaldi (Actor) .. Alan Rusbridger

Born: April 14, 1958
Birthplace: Glasgow, Scotland

Trivia: Father's family comes from Picinisco, Italy; mother's family was Irish. Wrote to the BBC in 1974, regarding Doctor Who (played by Jon Pertwee at the time) and received back several Doctor Who scripts. Was in a punk rock band, called Dreamboys, with Craig Ferguson in college. Was cast in Local Hero (1983) when his landlady, who worked as a costume designer, introduced him to director Bill Forsyth. Shortly before he was announced as the Twelfth Doctor Who, he played a W.H.O. Doctor in World War Z (2013). Patron of Aberlour, a children's charity.

Dan Stevens (Actor) .. Ian Katz

Born: October 10, 1982
Birthplace: Croydon, Surrey, England

Trivia: Adopted at birth by middle-class teachers. Knew he wanted to become an actor while in primary school. Honed his acting chops with Britain's National Youth Theatre. Pursued stand-up comedy for a time during his college years. Joined the amateur theatrical Footlights Dramatic Club while at Cambridge. Discovered by British theatrical-film director Peter Hall, who spotted him in a Footlights production of Macbeth opposite Hall's daughter Rebecca. Editor-at-large for the Junket, an online quarterly magazine. Writes a column for the Sunday Telegraph (a British newspaper).

Alicia Vikander (Actor) .. Anka Domscheit

Born: October 03, 1988
Birthplace: Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden

Trivia: Inspired to become a dancer after seeing a Nutcracker performance at age five. Appeared in the Swedish musical Kristina From Duvemala, written by former ABBA member Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, for three years during the show's original run when she was seven years old. Shared an apartment with longtime friend Caroline Hjelt of the Swedish electro duo Icona Pop after graduating from ballet school and relocating to London. Enrolled in law school after being rejected from the Royal Academy of Stockholm acting academy twice. She won her first leading role in the Swedish film Pure just before her first semester began. Pressured to wear sunblock early in her career to appear more Scandinavian because, despite her Swedish-Finnish ancestry, she has brown eyes and hair and golden skin. With the Gothenburg Opera, appeared in The Sound of Music and Les Misérables. Won the Rising Star Award at the 2010 Stockholm Film Festival. Won the role of Danish Queen Caroline Mathilde in A Royal Affair (2012) without knowing any Danish. Used her ballet training to inform her performance as a gynoid in Ex Machina, giving the robot Ava a slightly imperfect gait to represent her desire to be human. Signed as the new face of Louis Vuitton in 2015.

Stanley Tucci (Actor) .. James Boswell

Born: November 11, 1960
Birthplace: Peekskill, New York, United States

Trivia: Like many another contemporary movie and TV favorite, Stanley Tucci is a graduate of the drama department at SUNY-Purchase. Tucci made his film bow in 1985's Prizzi's Honor, after which he specialized in playing lowlifes and scuzzbags, despite his offscreen credentials as a loyal friend and loving family man. Some of his more memorable appearances were as Rick Pinzolo in TV's Wiseguy (1987-1989), a minor-league thug named Vernon in Beethoven (1992), and a Middle-Eastern assassin in The Pelican Brief (1993). Tucci acquired a fan following of sorts for his slimy year-long role of Richard Cross on the weekly TV series Murder One (1995).In 1996, Tucci broke loose from his established screen persona by playing an ambitious Italian-American restaurateur in Big Night, the most delightfully "gastronomic" film since Like Water for Chocolate. The art-house favorite was a sheer labor of love for Tucci, who served as its producer, co-wrote its script with his cousin Joe Tropiano, and shared directorial duties with his friend Campbell Scott. Tucci again directed two years later with The Impostors, a farcical comedy that cast him and longtime friend Oliver Platt as two stowaways on an ocean liner. Unlike Big Night, however, the film did not do well with audiences or critics. After starring in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1998) as Puck and In Too Deep (1999) as a police supervisor, Tucci again stepped behind the camera, this time to direct Joe Gould's Secret (2000). A historical drama about an eccentric man (Ian Holm) living on the streets of Greenwich Village, it received a very enthusiastic reception at the 2000 Sundance Festival, where it premiered. The early 2000s seemed to be a winning period for the versatile actor, with Tucci also taking home the Best Supporting Actor in a television movie award for his role in Conspiracy (2001). That same year he appeared in America's Sweethearts as an intense movie mogul. He continued doing solid work even when the finished films were sometimes lacking. He played in the Jennifer Lopez hit Maid in Manhattan, Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition, the American remake of Shall We Dance?, and landed his largest role in a major Hollywood production when Steven Spielberg cast him as the ambitious, officious manager of The Terminal. Tucci lent his voice to the animated film Robots in 2005, and the next year earned solid notices for his work as a fashion magazine editor loyal to the diva editor in chief Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada.The highly-respected character actor continued to work steadily in a variety of projects, but a pair of high-profile supporting roles in 2009 earned him strong reviews and awards consideration. As the husband to Julia Child in Julie & Julia, Tucci got to work opposite Meryl Streep yet again in another box-office hit, but it was his creepy turn as a child killer in the big screen adaptation of The Lovely Bones that earned him Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globe, and Academy Award nominations.In 2010 he appeared opposite Cher in Burlesque, and was a loving father in the sleeper hit Easy A. In 2012, Tucci was cast as the announcer and emcee Caesar Flickman in the hit adaptation of the smash novel The Hunger Games. Tucci continued to be a work horse, appearing in seven films in 2014, including Transformers: Age of Extinction and a cameo in Muppets Most Wanted.

Anatole Taubman (Actor)

Born: December 23, 1970

Alexander Beyer (Actor)

Born: June 24, 1973

Philip Bretherton (Actor)

Born: May 30, 1955
Birthplace: Preston, Lancashire

Jamie Blackley (Actor)

Born: July 08, 1991
Birthplace: Douglas, Isle of Man, Crown dependency

Ludger Pistor (Actor)

Michael Kranz (Actor)

Christin Nichols (Actor)

Christoph Franken (Actor)

Born: March 03, 1978

Ben Rook (Actor)

Lucinda Raikes (Actor)

Born: April 14, 1971

Marleen Lohse (Actor)

Silvie Rorer (Actor)

Michael Culkin (Actor)

Axel Milberg (Actor)

Joseph Kintua Muriuki (Actor)

Peter King Nzioki (Actor)

Lukas Piloty (Actor)

Thomas Ancora (Actor)

Phil Haiser (Actor)

Moritz Bleibtreu (Actor)

Jeany Spark (Actor)

Born: November 07, 1982

John Schwab (Actor)

Born: September 15, 1972
Birthplace: Pensacola, Florida, United States

Lisa Kreuzer (Actor)

Born: December 02, 1945

Trivia: Lead actress, onscreen from the '70s.

Philipp Langenegger (Actor)

Cornelia Ivancan (Actor)

Martin Glade (Actor)

Franziska Walser (Actor)

Born: March 23, 1952

Edgar Selge (Actor)

Alexander Siddig (Actor)

Born: November 21, 1965
Birthplace: Sudan

Trivia: Born to an English mother and Sudanese father. Uncle Sadiq Al Mahdi was a two-time Prime Minister of Sudan (in the 1960s and '80s). Was bitten by the acting bug as a teenager, when he played Puck in a high-school production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Initially aspired to be a director, and has directed plays as well as two episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Interests include wine collecting, role-playing games, gardening and home projects.

Michael Jibson (Actor)

Born: December 16, 1980
Birthplace: Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

Trivia: Trained with the National Youth Music Theatre as a child. Made his West End debut at the age of 14 in Sam Mendes' production of Oliver at the London Palladium. Played Puck in the stage production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare's Globe in 2008. Appeared in Roots at the Donmar Warehouse in 2013; the following year, he reprised his performance for BBC Radio 3 production of the show.

Lydia Leonard (Actor)

Born: December 05, 1981
Birthplace: Paris, France

Trivia: Born to an Irish mother and Anglo-French father. Lived in France until the age of five. Had a supportive drama teacher at school, who encouraged her to make a career of acting. Made her television debut in a 2004 episode of Foyle's War. Starred as Angela in the 2005 ITV miniseries Jericho. In 2010, played the role of Jackie Onassis in the West End play Onassis. Performed as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Wolf Hall, transferring to Broadway in 2015. Nominated for the 2015 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role in Wolf Hall: Parts One and Two. Was told by a former agent that she lacked the 'right bone structure' for films.

William French (Actor)

Darren Evans (Actor)

Kyle Soller (Actor)

Born: January 01, 1983
Birthplace: Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States

Trivia: Was three years into an art history degree at the College of William & Mary in Virginia when he took a summer course at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art; at the end of the course, they offered him a permanent spot, and he stayed in London. Met his wife, Phoebe Fox, while they were both studying at RADA. Played Jim in The Glass Menagerie at the Young Vic Theatre in 2010. He and Fox were both nominated for an Evening Standard Award for Outstanding Newcomer in 2011; Soller won. Appeared in the 2012 West End revival production of Long Day's Journey Into Night, opposite Laurie Metcalfe and David Suchet.

Nigel Whitmey (Actor)

Born: February 23, 1963

Sonya Cassidy (Actor)

Trivia: Made her film debut in 2013 in The Fifth Estate. Between 2012 and 2013, starred as Clara in BBC period drama The Paradise. Between 2012 and 2014, appeared as Celine Ashworth in crime drama series Vera. In 2018, appeared as Hester in sci-fi drama Humans. As of 2019, has starred as Liz Dudley in comedy-drama series Lodge 49 since its 2018 debut.

Chris Mckinney (Actor)

Born: January 18, 1967

John Moraitis (Actor)

Christian Contreras (Actor)

Camilla Rutherford (Actor)

Born: September 20, 1976

Milena Karas (Actor)

Birger Frehse (Actor)

Eben Young (Actor)

Avye Leventis (Actor)

Rachel Handshaw (Actor)

Guy Paul (Actor)

Born: September 12, 1949

Simon Connolly (Actor)

Amr El-bayoumi (Actor)

Amir Boutrous (Actor)

Mimi Ferrer (Actor)

Fares Ahmed Alahmadi (Actor)

Wilfred Maina (Actor)

Mounir Margoum (Actor)

Gudmundur Thorvaldsson (Actor)

Hera Hilmar (Actor)

Born: November 30, 1988
Birthplace: Iceland

Trivia: Father is a director and mother is an actress. Won a Richard Carne scholarship and the Lilian Baylis Award while completing a three-year program at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Played Maggie in a student production of Dancing at Lughnasa. Spent one night studying Polish accents on the Internet to prepare for her audition for Leaving.

CinSyla Key (Actor)

David Akinloye (Actor)

Pascaline Crêvecoeur (Actor)

Born: April 30, 1982

Sylvia Rohrer (Actor) .. Zilke's Assistant