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Hugo Weaving (Actor) .. Thaddeus Valentine

Born: April 04, 1960
Birthplace: Ibadan, Nigeria

Trivia: A graduate of Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art, blond, idiosyncratic leading man Hugo Weaving made his feature film debut in the socially conscious low-budget drama The City's Edge (1983), purportedly one of the first Australian films to sympathetically portray the adverse conditions suffered by aborigines. In 1991, Weaving received Best Actor kudos from the Australian Film Institute for his portrayal of a blind photographer in Jocelyn Moorhouse's Proof. In 1994, the actor earned international acclaim playing Tick, a drag queen with a secret, in the cult favorite The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994). The following year, Weaving was involved in another audience pleaser when he lent his voice to play the sheep dog Rex in Babe. Weaving occasionally appears in U.S. television productions, notably the CBS miniseries Dadah Is Death, in which he played opposite Julie Christie and Sarah Jessica Parker. He also continues to work steadily in Australia, in addition to appearing in big-budget Hollywood affairs such as The Matrix, in which he starred as an evil agent opposite Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne. Following his turn in The Matrix with a few low-key romantic comedies (Strange Planet [also 1999] and Russian Doll [2001]), Weaving made a return to big-budgeted special effects extravaganzas with his involvement in director Peter Jackson's enormous adaptation of author J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. For the sequels to The Matrix, Weaving would return with a vengeance; with hundreds of Agent Smith clones sent to stop Neo (Keanu Reeves) from leading the revolution against the machines. An affiliation with another hit sci-fi series emerged when Weaving provided the voice of Megatron in Michael Bay's Transformers (as well as its two sequels), though it was the actor's affecting performance in 2009's Last Ride that earned him a nomination for Best Lead Actor at that year's Australian Film Institute awards. Cast as a dangerous Australian fugitive who flees from the law with his young son in tow, Weaving gave viewers a glimpse of the talent that was often overshadowed in his many larger-than-life roles, though it was his scenery-chewing performance as Johann Schmidt/Red Skull in Captain America: The First Avenger that got him back on the big screen in the U.S. following the disappointment of The Wolfman. Meanwhile, the busy screen veteran prepared for roles in Cloud Atlas (a sprawling sci-fi epic from Tom Tykwer and Andy and Lana Wachowski), and Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy.

Hera Hilmar (Actor) .. Hester Shaw

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.

Robert Sheehan (Actor) .. Tom Natsworthy

Born: January 07, 1988
Birthplace: Portlaoise, County Laois, Ireland

Trivia: Became interested in acting during primary school when he played the lead in his school's production of Oliver With a Twist. Did not undergo any formal training to be an actor. Made his film debut in Song for a Raggy Boy (2003) at age 14. Won a BAFTA Television Award in 2010 along with his fellow cast mates of the British sci-fi drama Misfits.

Jihae (Actor) .. Anna Fang

Ronan Raftery (Actor) .. Bevis Pod

Leila George (Actor) .. Katherine Valentine

Patrick Malahide (Actor) .. Magnus Crome

Born: March 24, 1945
Birthplace: Reading, Berkshire, England

Trivia: Born Patrick G. Duggan on March 24, 1945, Patrick Malahide grew up in the Thames Valley west of London in the village of Pangbourne, where Kenneth Grahame wrote about Mole, Toad, and Rat in the 1908 children's classic The Wind in the Willows. Malahide's Irish immigrant parents each held down two jobs to send Patrick and their other two children to the best schools. Patrick attended St. Anne's Primary and then the Douai School of the Benedictine Abbey at Upper Woolhampton, Berkshire. At both schools, Patrick received an excellent education and learned to mix with upper-class children and mimic the articulation and cadence of their speech. Thus, he was unwittingly preparing himself for film roles requiring an understanding of class-conscious societies and a mastery of accents. Such roles included his portrayal of Sir John Conroy in the 2001 TV miniseries Victoria and Albert, Captain Claude Howlett in the 1999 TV miniseries All the King's Men, and the Rev. Casaubon in the 1994 TV miniseries Middlemarch. After attending Edinburgh University, where he studied literature and psychology and performed with a dramatic society, he taught English at a boys' school in Wokingham. Soon, however, he abandoned the classroom for the stage, managing and directing at a small theater and acting in the plays of Henrik Ibsen, Noel Coward, Anton Chekhov, and Arthur Miller. After performing in London, he signed on with the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh, playing roles in the dramas of Shakespeare and other classic authors, accepted television roles, and earned critical acclaim in 1981 in a tour de force one-man show, Judgement [writer's note: the British spelling of the word "judgment" is correct here], in which he tells the audience why he resorted to cannibalism to survive as a Russian officer in a Nazi prison. Then came worldwide recognition from productions such as The Killing Fields (1984), the TV miniseries The Singing Detective (1985), A Month in the Country (1987), the TV docudrama Investigation: Inside a Terrorist Bombing (1990), A Man of No Importance (1994), U.S. Marshals (1998), and Billy Elliot (2000).

Stephen Lang (Actor) .. Shrike

Born: July 11, 1952
Birthplace: Queens, New York, United States

Trivia: Upon graduating from Swarthmore College, Stephen Lang worked at the Folger Theatre in Washington, then made his off-Broadway debut in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Thereafter he virtually specialized in Shakespearean roles -- a direct contrast to his All-American demeanor and naval-ensign facial features. Lang was praised for his appearance as Happy in Dustin Hoffman's 1984 revival of Death of a Salesman, reprising the role for the subsequent TV-movie version. The next season, Lang costarred in the original Broadway production of A Few Good Men. From 1986 through 1988, the actor played prosecutor David Abrams on the weekly TV series Crime Story. Stephen Lang has appeared in such films as Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989) and Gettysburg (1993), and in 1991 won the title role in the made-for-TV Babe Ruth. He was cast as the one-armed man in the 2000 remake of The Fugitive TV show. In 2003 he portrayed the legendary historical figure General Stonewall Jackson in the civil war drama Gods and Generals. He continued to work steadily with a particularly busy year coming in 2009 where he could be seen in the box-office smash Avatar, the comedy The Men Who Stare At Goats, and the gangster film Public Enemies. In 2011 he starred as Khalar Zym in the remake of Conan the Barbarian.

Frankie Adams (Actor)

Born: January 03, 1994
Birthplace: Island of Savai'i, Western Samoa

Trivia: Is of Aboriginal Australian descent.Is the eldest of three daughters.Moved from Samoa to Auckland, New Zealand, when she was 4-years-old.Before getting her first acting role in television, she had only performed in a theater class.Participated in the KFC Fight for Life boxing tournament in December 2014.

Caren Pistorius (Actor)

Born: September 30, 1990
Birthplace: Rustenberg, South Africa

Trivia: Made her professional screen debut in a 2009 episode of American adventure series Legend of the Seeker. In 2014, was nominated for the Most Popular New Talent Logie Award for her role in Offspring. Is perhaps best known for her role as Rose Ross in the 2015 Western Slow West. In 2017, was nominated for the Best Actress New Zealand Film Award for her performance in Slow West. In 2020, starred as Rachel in Unhinged, the first film to get a wide release during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.

Colin Salmon (Actor)

Born: December 06, 1962
Birthplace: Bethnal Green, London, England

Trivia: Sited by Pierce Brosnan himself as a shining candidate to portray the first black James Bond, British actor Colin Salmon has made a name for himself across the pond with appearances in such Bond flicks as Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World is Not Enough (1999), and Die Another Day (2002); however, the handsome and silky-voiced actor admits to feeling a little too close to his punkish roots to take on such a worldly character this early in his career. Born in London, England, in 1965, Salmon found early fame as authoritative Sgt. Robert Oswald in the acclaimed television miniseries Prime Suspect 2 (1992). Even opposite such formidable talent as Helen Mirren, Salmon commanded the screen with his bold posturing and dense screen presence. Though the following decade brought frequent television work for Salmon in the U.K., it was through his turn as M's right-hand man in Tomorrow Never Dies that international audiences got a true sampling of his talent. As Salmon's overseas exposure began to gain the actor a wider fan base, his ability to alternate between relatively low-key British television and flashy Hollywood blockbusters proved a testament to Salmon's remarkable abilities as an actor. A role in British director Paul Anderson's Resident Evil (2002) proved a physically grueling start to a busy year, and with subsequent work in that same year's Dinotopia and Die Another Day, Salmon's career as a recognized actor truly began to flourish. In addition to his film work, Colin Salmon often lends his richly reverberating vocal chords to voice-over work, and he can frequently be found on the London stage.

Andrew Lees (Actor)

Born: June 10, 1985

Sarah Munn (Actor)

Joel Tobeck (Actor)

Born: June 02, 1971

Trivia: Character actor Joel Tobeck specialized in ominous portrayals, particularly those in fantasy adventure sagas. From project to project, Tobeck's extremely unique and unconventional look set him apart from the pack, often (though not always) inclining him to creepy villainous roles. Tobeck's credits officially date back to the mid-'80s, but he first achieved a high profile during the following decade with guest work on the small-screen series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. On that program, Tobeck played a string of characters including the bellicose war god Strife and the malevolently prankish deity Deimos, both of whom caused extreme trouble for Hercules over the course of multiple episodes. Next, Tobeck joined a cast of thousands and worked under the aegis of Peter Jackson on the fantasy opus The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), where he played an Orc lieutenant. If this assignment seemed a dramatic step up from what had preceded it, however, the best was still yet to come. The actor reached something of a career high in 2007, with a sequence of back-to-back roles in theatrical releases. That year, he tackled the offbeat part of Damien in the aggressively eccentric and offbeat character comedy Eagle vs. Shark, landed a supporting turn in the the vampire horror film 30 Days of Night, and also appeared in the mythical children's fantasy The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep.

Stephen Ure (Actor)

Born: March 28, 1958

Menik Gooneratne (Actor)

Will Reeve (Actor)

Born: June 07, 1992

Nathaniel Lees (Actor)

Birthplace: New Zealand

Calum Gittins (Actor)

Born: July 16, 1986

Yoson An (Actor)

Mark Hadlow (Actor)

Mark Mitchinson (Actor)

Born: July 06, 1966

Sophie Cox (Actor)

Sarah Peirse (Actor)

Leifur Sigurdarson (Actor)

Kee Chan (Actor)

Joseph Mika (Actor)

Poppy MacLeod (Actor)

Taylor Hall (Actor)

Terry Norris (Actor)

Born: June 09, 1930

Beatrice Brophy (Actor)

Aaron Jackson (Actor)

Born: June 26, 1973

Philip Cristian Claassen (Actor)

Megan Edwards (Actor)

Lee Tuson (Actor)

Richard Mills (Actor)

Nick Blake (Actor)

Peter Rowley (Actor)

Kahn West (Actor)

Maria Walker (Actor)

Amand Weaver (Actor)

Kevin Noble (Actor)

Madeline Adams (Actor)

Martin Kwok (Actor)

Khamza Heh (Actor)

Royden Davys (Actor)

Sophie Fulton (Actor)

Stephen Lee Wright (Actor)

Liz Merton (Actor)

Rodney Cooke (Actor)

Winham Hammond (Actor)

Dianne Smith (Actor)

Jace Lee (Actor)

Ron Kerkmeester (Actor)

Taynen Keen (Actor)

Carter Nixon (Actor)

Werner Kaffl (Actor)

Simbarashe Matshe (Actor)

Christopher Winchester (Actor)

Trevor Cooper (Actor)

Born: May 21, 1953

Lucy Beeler (Actor)

Mike Hunter (Actor)

Carlton McRae (Actor)

Sue Boyde (Actor)

Claire Farrelly (Actor)

Tessa Buchanan (Actor)

Kathryn Briggs Hobbs (Actor)

Kaio Afoa (Actor)

Ruth Daye (Actor)

Dorian McRae (Actor)

Beth Reille (Actor)

Teresa Julian (Actor)

Margaret Austin (Actor)

Samantha Beca (Actor)

Mel Buchanan (Actor)

Lee Barrett (Actor)

Liv Burrell (Actor)

Tamati Kawha (Actor)

Faran Gillbanks (Actor)

Karl Dickson (Actor)

Josh Allen (Actor)

Grace Burnett (Actor)

Jackson Herman (Actor)

Paul Craze (Actor)

Natalia Adams (Actor)

Jared Brown (Actor)

Dee Jamieson (Actor)

Connor Buchanan (Actor)

Reagan Morris (Actor)

Hamish Burn (Actor)

Elisha Day (Actor)

Roger Awhimate (Actor)

Jimmy James Nielsen (Actor)

Ayden Crewther (Actor)

Nellica Adaway (Actor)

Hannah Burton (Actor)

Regé-Jean Page (Actor)

Born: June 12, 1905
Birthplace: London, England, United Kingdom

Trivia: Is of Zimbabwean and English descent.Was raised in Zimbabwe.At the age of 14, he moved along with his family to Great Britain.Trained in the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain.Along with his brother, he founded the musical duo TUNYA.Is a book fan.Is a fan of Tracy Chapman.

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