Hercules

Ingrid Bolso Berdal (Actor) .. Atalanta

Born: March 02, 1980
Birthplace: Utoy, Norway

Trivia: While at the Oslo National Academy of Dramatic Arts, played the title roles in Antigone and Hedda Gabler. Joined the Norwegian Theatre in Oslo soon after graduating from theatre school; won a Hedda Award for Best Debut of the Year. Won the Amanda Award (Norway's highest film award) for her work in Fritt Vilt in 2007; she was again nominated two years later for the film's sequel.

Aksel Hennie (Actor) .. Tydeus

Reece Ritchie (Actor) .. Iolaus

Born: July 23, 1986

Tobias Santelmann (Actor) .. Rhesus

Peter Mullan (Actor) .. Sitacles

Born: November 02, 1959
Birthplace: Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Trivia: Best known for his award-winning portrayal of a recovering alcoholic in Ken Loach's My Name Is Joe (1998), Scottish actor Peter Mullan has been appearing in films since 1990. He first worked with director Loach in 1991's Riff Raff, and he has appeared in a number of popular Scottish films, including Danny Boyle's Shallow Grave (1994) and Trainspotting (1996), and Mel Gibson's Braveheart (1995). In 1998, the same year that he won the Cannes Film Festival's Best Actor prize for My Name Is Joe, Mullan made his feature directorial and screenwriting debut with Orphans. The story of four siblings gathered in Glasgow for their mother's funeral, it earned fairly positive reviews and comparisons to Gillies MacKinnon's Small Faces (1995). The following year, Mullan starred opposite Saffron Burrows in Miss Julie, Mike Figgis' adaptation of August Strindberg's tale about the disastrous affair between a wealthy young woman and her servant. He then went on to act in prominent roles for Ordinary Decent Criminal (1999), The Claim (2000), and Session 9 (2001). In 2002, he returned to directing and screenwriting with the controversial film The Magdalene Sisters, which managed to both win the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and be condemned by the Vatican.

Rebecca Ferguson (Actor) .. Ergenia

Born: October 19, 1983
Birthplace: Stockholm, Sweden

Trivia: Father is Swedish; mother is British. Went to the famed Alfred Fredrik's Music School in Stockholm as a child. Started acting at age 15, when she was cast in the prime-time Swedish soap opera Nya Tider. Nominated for a Rising Star Award at the Stockholm International Film Festival in 2011. There are claims that Ferguson may be a very distant relative of Sarah, Duchess of York. Rebecca's mother, Rosemary, is British and moved to Sweden when she was 25.

Isaac Andrews (Actor) .. Arius

Joe Anderson (Actor) .. Phineas

Born: March 26, 1982
Birthplace: England

Trivia: When British actor Joe Anderson debuted onscreen in the mid-2000s, he immediately evinced a predilection for seeking out supporting roles in the most conceptually interesting and dynamic material available to him. Anderson's chosen projects -- which spanned a wide variety of genres -- never felt less than arresting. These included the Agnieszka Holland Beethoven biopic Copying Beethoven (2006), Julie Taymor's much-anticipated Beatles drama Across the Universe (2007) and the critically praised biopic of post-punk singer Ian Curtis, Control (2007).

Stephen Peacocke (Actor) .. Stephanos

Born: October 30, 1981
Birthplace: Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia

Trivia: Spent three years unloading freight trucks as a teenager. At the age of 18, spent one year working as a farmhand on a cattle and sheep station, learning how to become a manager. While at university, took up rugby but gave it up later due to injuries and while recovering from one serious injury, auditioned for a play, which led to many performances for Newcastle University Conservatorium Theatre Productions. Won a City of Newcastle Drama Award for his performance in a university production of A Property of the Clan. Made his screen debut in 2006 feature Suburban Mayhem. Starred as Darryl "Brax" Braxton in Home and Away between 2011 and 2016. Won the 2012 Most Popular New Male Talent Logie Award for his role in Home and Away. In 2015, won a Logie Award for Best Actor in Home and Away. As of 2019, has starred as Detective Josh Levine in Australian drama Wanted since 2016.

Nick Moss (Actor) .. Demetrius

Robert Whitelock (Actor) .. Nicolaus

Irina Shayk (Actor) .. Megara

Born: January 06, 1986

Ian Whyte (Actor) .. Bessi Leader

Born: September 17, 1971

Karolina Szymczak (Actor) .. Alcmene

Barbara Palvin (Actor) .. Antimache

Born: October 08, 1993

Tonia Sotiropoulou (Actor) .. Vixen

Caroline Boulton (Actor) .. Vixen

Robert Maillet (Actor) .. Executioner

Born: October 26, 1969
Birthplace: Ste-Marie-de-Kent, New Brunswick, Canada

Trivia: Started his career as a professional wrestler and worked in Mexico and Japan before joining the WWE. Is seven feet tall. Has an adopted daughter from Ethiopia. His first movie role was in 2007's 300 as Über-Immortal.

Oliver Doherty (Actor) .. Hercules' Child

Tom Doherty (Actor) .. Hercules' Child

Panka Kovacs (Actor) .. Hercules' Child

John Cross (Actor) .. Lt. Marcos

Peter Ivanyi (Actor) .. Wolf Handler

Erika Marozsán (Actor) .. Ergenia's Maiden

Born: August 03, 1972

Nora Horich (Actor) .. Ergenia's Maiden

Athina Papadimitriu (Actor) .. Midwife

Born: July 19, 1954

Anna Trokan (Actor) .. Midwife

Judit Viktor (Actor) .. Tavern Madame

Csilla Baksa (Actor) .. Tavern Vixen

Elena V. Holovcsak (Actor) .. Tavern Vixen

Petra Piringer (Actor) .. Tavern Vixen

Erika Lajos (Actor) .. Tavern Vixen

Dora Kanizsa (Actor) .. Tavern Vixen

Sydney van den Bosch (Actor) .. Tavern Vixen

Lilla Bozoki (Actor) .. Tavern Vixen

Dalma Lorincz (Actor) .. Tavern Vixen

Patricia Hegedus (Actor) .. Feasting Hall Server

Timea Palacsik (Actor) .. Feasting Hall Guest

Erik Orgovan (Actor) .. Feasting Hall Guest

Shay Sabag (Actor) .. Athenian Citizen

Anna Zsiros (Actor) .. Athenian Citizen

Anna Skidanova (Actor) .. Athenian Lady

Kristina Starostina (Actor) .. Dancer

Dorottya Podmaniczky (Actor) .. Dancer

Lilla Babos (Actor) .. Dancer

Aden G. Wright (Actor) .. Child Hercules

Alejandro Amenábar (Actor)

Born: March 31, 1972
Birthplace: Santiago, Chile

Trivia: Alejandro Amenábar was already a Spanish cinema sensation and garnering comparisons to Alfred Hitchcock before he notched his first English language hit with the slyly old-fashioned thriller The Others (2001).Raised in Spain after his Chile-based parents fled the country shortly before the 1973 right-wing coup d'état, Amenábar decided to be a filmmaker early on, heading to Madrid's Complutense University to study cinema. Undeterred after his professors flunked him, Amenábar learned the craft firsthand on low-budget productions. Backed by a producer and star he met during his "apprenticeship," Amenábar burst onto the Spanish film scene at the ripe old age of 23 as writer/director and composer with his first feature, Tesis (1996). A moody mystery involving a cinema graduate student and snuff films, Tesis was shown at the Berlin Film Festival and earned several Spanish Academy Awards. Amenábar then scored an even bigger hit with his next film, Open Your Eyes (1997). A complex psychological thriller about a womanizing egotist who is disfigured in an accident, Open Your Eyes became a blockbuster in Spain, bringing Amenábar his first international distribution and a Sundance Film Festival berth. Though Open Your Eyes didn't become a U.S. hit, it did attract an influential fan in Tom Cruise, who subsequently co-starred with Open Your Eyes femme Penelope Cruz in Cameron Crowe's Hollywood remake of the film, Vanilla Sky (2001).After composing the scores for the Spanish drama The Butterfly (1999) and his Open Your Eyes collaborator Mateo Gil's thriller Nobody Knows Anybody (1999), Amenábar made his first foray into Hollywood with The Others. Executively produced by Cruise and starring his then-wife Nicole Kidman as a 1940s British mother who may or may not be crazy, The Others introduced American audiences to Amenábar's skill at evoking spine-tingling chills without resorting to gory shock techniques. Introducing an isolated mansion swathed in pea soup fog, inhabited by a tightly wound Kidman and her two light-allergic children, and plagued by things that go bump in the night, Amenábar then proceeds to turn the haunted house cliché on its cinematic ear. Earning kudos for Kidman's performance and Amenábar's restrained yet assured style and plot-twisting script, The Others became a late-summer sleeper success.On the heels of the success of The Others - and given Amenábar's remarkable ability to elicit chills from an audience as so masterfully displayed in Abre Los Ojos - it would have been all to easy to have written the multi-talented filmmaker off as little more than a style minded Hitchcock wannabe. Where many fright-minded filmmakers would be sharpening their knives in hopes of topping their previous efforts, Amenábar instead opted to truly challenge both himself and his audience with The Sea Inside. An affectingly humanistic tale of life and the right to die, The Sea Inside starred Spanish mainstay Javier Bardem in the role of real-life euthanasia activist Ramon Sampedro. While it may not have been the kind of film that audiences expected from Amenábar - The Sea Inside proved such a moving cinematic experience that it was bestowed with the "Best Foreign Language Film" award at the 77th Annual Academy Awards in February of 2005.

Gaia Weiss (Actor)

Born: August 30, 1991

Scott Adkins (Actor)

Born: June 17, 1976
Birthplace: Sutton Coldfield, England

Trivia: Began Tae Kwon Do training at age 14. Is a kickboxing instructor for the Professional Karate Association. One of his earliest acting roles was in the British soap Doctors, which filmed in his hometown of Birmingham. Frequently collaborates with director Isaac Florentine, beginning with 2003's Special Forces. Tore his ACL six weeks before filming began on Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012), but filmed that movie and his next three with it torn so he wouldn't have to back out of any commitments.

Roxanne McKee (Actor)

Born: August 10, 1980

Trivia: Grew up in London, England.Worked as a waitress and a recruitment consultant.In 2005, won the talent hunt Hollyoaks on the Pull and was cast as Louise Summers in Hollyoaks.Appeared in Taio Cruz's 2008 music video "She's Like a Star."Has previously worked as a fashion model.

Liam Garrigan (Actor)

Born: October 17, 1981

Liam McIntyre (Actor)

Born: February 08, 1982
Birthplace: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Trivia: Suffered from asthma as a child. Studied business in Ireland as an exchange student. Took over the title role on the Starz series Spartacus after the original lead, Andy Whitfield, was diagnosed with cancer. Was working for a theater chain in Melbourne, Australia, as a movie booker at the time he was cast in Spartacus. Lost a significant amount of weight for a film role prior to joining the cast of Spartacus, and was put on a vigorous workout regimen to regain the lost pounds and muscle definition.

Johnathon Schaech (Actor)

Born: September 10, 1969
Birthplace: Edgewood, Maryland, United States

Trivia: Tall, dark, and very handsome, Johnathon Schaech has all of the physical attributes one would expect of a leading man. Despite his appearance, however, Schaech has eluded true stardom, appearing in films that allow him to showcase his talent without providing the opportunity for the actor to make a solid splash in the mainstream.Born in Edgewood, MD, in 1969, Schaech was a model before being cast in his first role, in a 1993 film called The Webbers. Co-starring David Arquette and Jennifer Tilly, the film was mired in obscurity, much like Schaech's next effort, Franco Zefferelli's Storia Di Una Capinera or Sparrows (1993). It was director Gregg Araki who gave Schaech his first real break, when he cast him as a dangerous, perpetually aroused drifter in his 1995 film The Doom Generation. Ecstatically bad-mannered and filled with an abundance of sex, violence, and severed heads, the film became something of a cult classic and gave Schaech a limited dose of fame. The scope of his fame was widened a little bit with his next significant picture, How to Make an American Quilt (1995). As one of the token Y-chromosome bearers in a virtually all-female cast, Schaech made a favorable impression with many filmgoers in his role as Winona Ryder's lifeguard suitor. His notices were favorable enough to get him a leading part in Tom Hanks' 1996 film That Thing You Do! and the title role of the made-for-cable Houdini (1998). Along with these relative successes came the requisite flops, among them 1997's Welcome to Woop Woop, which featured a memorably bizarre title and little else, and Hush (1998), in which Schaech played the son of a completely crackers Jessica Lange. In 1999, Schaech had another shot at cult stardom when he again collaborated with Araki on Splendor, which had its debut at the Sundance Film Festival. The same year, he was also cast in the Jennifer Love Hewitt series, Fox's The Time of Your Life.

Luke Newberry (Actor)

Born: February 19, 1990
Birthplace: Exeter, Devon, England

Trivia: Signed with an agent at the age of seven and appeared in the film The Heart of Me with Helena Bonham Carter at the age of 11. Played the lead role in his college production of Hamlet at Exeter College. Performed on stage at The Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre in London in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Oliver and The Secret Garden. Played Teddy Lupin in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2, but his scenes were cut from the film. Was one of Screen International's Stars of Tomorrow in 2013. Was nominated in 2014 for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor for his part in the first series of the BBC Three supernatural drama In the Flesh. Was also nominated for Best Actor at the RTS Awards the same year. Supports the HeForShe feminism campaign.

Ian Somerhalder (Actor)

Born: December 08, 1978
Birthplace: Covington, Louisiana, United States

Trivia: At once pixie-ish and masculine with a pair of piercing blue eyes that seem to glow even while under the bright spotlights of Hollywood, former top-list model-turned-actor Ian Somerhalder has the unique looks to make it in both worlds. Add to that an introspective philosophy toward acting, which he claims is a unique opportunity to explore his true inner motivations and feelings, and you have all the ingredients necessary to create one of the most sought-after young actors of the new millennium. A native of Covington, LA, who spent much of his childhood enjoying such outdoor activities as training horses, Somerhalder would soon join up with the school's drama club and make many stage appearances with the local theater group. Encouraged by his mother to pursue a career in modeling, Somerhalder's career was soon ablaze with many summers spent in New York City. Though he would shy away from modeling in junior high school to focus more on academics and athletics, an opportunity to travel Europe while modeling was too much to resist and the worldly youngster was soon posing for the likes of Guess?, Versace, Calvin Klein, and Dolce and Gabanna. Settling in New York at age 17 to devote himself to acting under the tutelage of William Esper proved a fateful move that found the developing thespian eschewing his modeling career entirely. Though his feature debut as an extra in Black and White (1998) would eventually end up on the cutting-room floor, his presence caught the attention of a visiting talent agent who immediately signed Somerhalder for representation. After gaining exposure on the television series The Young Americans (2000), the up-and-comer would appear in the made-for-MTV drama Anatomy of a Hate Crime (also 2000) before returning to features, role fully intact, in 2001's Life as a House. Reluctant to discuss his modeling career lest he be considered just another pretty face, Somerhalder turned up in Changing Hearts (2002) before accepting a prominent role in director Roger Avery's edgy teen drama The Rules of Attraction. But it wasn't until he got Lost on an island in 2004 that Somerhalder found stardom, as he played a plane-crash survivor secretly in love with his spoiled brat of a step-sister. Although his character was killed off in the first season, the time-bending nature of the show didn't rule out appearances in future seasons. Film work followed, as well as a racy (and undressed) role on HBO's Tell Me You Love Me. In 2009, Somerhalder once again landed steady series work, playing a not-so-nice vampire on the CW's hit Vampire Diaries. Off-screen, he is an animal lover and has even filmed PSAs for Louisiana's Humane Society.

Nicholas Moss (Actor)

Máté Haumann (Actor) .. Cotys Guard #2

Born: September 30, 1980

Scott Alexander Young (Actor) .. Innkeeper

Cathy Sandrich (Actor)

Lucinda Syson (Actor)

Zsolt Csutak (Actor)

Amanda Mackey-Johnson (Actor)

Jean Pigozzi (Actor) .. Athenian Lord

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