Trivia: Was a performer, as a child, long before starting his professional career, doing accents and putting on puppet shows for his aunt.Decided to become an actor at age 14 shortly after his family moved to Victorville, California.Attended the John Casablancas Modeling & Career Center in Los Angeles.First role was in the 2009 college thesis short film Short Term 12 and then debuted as a professional actor in the 2013 feature film version alongside Brie Larson and Rami Malek.Is in the rap duo MOORS, with Los Angeles-based producer HH, a.k.a. Hrishikesh Hirway.

Trivia: Born Jo-Issa Rae Diop, Senegalese-American writer, producer and actor Issa Rae adopted her stage name in 2008 after tiring of explaining that her surname is pronounced "Jope." She grew up in predominantly white suburban Maryland with her father, an African pediatrician, her mother, a teacher from Louisiana, and four siblings, but before she reached sixth grade the family moved to an affluent neighborhood of black families in Los Angeles, a transition that cemented her outsider status in both white and black communities.During her senior year at Stanford, this lifetime of fish-out-of-water experiences inspired a Web series called Dorm Diaries. But it also became the basis for the Internet sitcom The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, an overnight YouTube sensation in 2011 that garnered millions of hits and hundreds of thousands of subscribers but still left Rae broke. With nowhere else to turn, she and Tracy Oliver, a fellow 2007 Stanford graduate who was also a producer and costar on the series, launched a successful Kickstarter campaign that assured the show would go on. And go on it did, winning the award for Best Web Show at the 2012 Shorty Awards, which recognizes achievements in social media.Rae has been all over a number of influential up-and-comer lists, including two appearances on Forbes' "30 Under 30," but suffered a minor setback in 2013 when ABC passed on her sitcom with Shonda Rhimes called I Hate LA Dudes, which would have been the first foray into half-hour comedy from the Scandal producer's Shondaland. In February 2015, however, HBO ordered a pilot for Insecure, a project starring Rae that she began developing in 2013 with Larry Wilmore, host of Comedy Central's The Nightly Show, and in the same month, Simon & Schuster published a collection of Rae's essays under the same name as her Awkward Black Girl Web series.

Trivia: Is of Jewish and Italian heritage. Worked as an intern at the Village Voice. Has performed at such events as the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival, the HBO Aspen Comedy Festival and the Las Vegas Comedy Festival. Performs with the all-female comedy troupe Variety Shac. Starred in the web series Making Friends and All My Exes. In 2012, began hosting the weekly podcast Call Chelsea Peretti.

Trivia: Was a member of her school's cheerleading and dance teams during high school. Modeled and participated in pageants before deciding to pursue a career in acting. Made her Broadway debut in 2010 in a stage production of John Guare's A Free Man of Color starring Mos Def and Jeffrey Wright. Participated in a photo shoot for the Designers Against AIDS project in honor of World AIDS Day. Appeared in a national television commercial for McDonald's in 2012. Nominated for the NAACP Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture and won the Best Actress Award from the African-American Film Critics Association for her starring role as Lysistrata in Spike Lee's Chi-Raq in 2015. In 2016, participated in the American Black Film Festival's panel called Black Women in Hollywood: The Future Looks Bright.

Trivia: Was encouraged by his saxophonist father and vocalist mother to become a musician, but he didn't love it as much.Is a skilled musician, sings and plays piano and trumpet.Studied and recorded with the Marsalis, a famous family of jazz musicians.Before moving to L.A. to pursue acting, studied marketing and studio engineering.Initially declined to play the role of Steve Harmon in Monster (2018).

Trivia: Although he had been appearing in both film and television productions since the mid-'80s, it took nearly two decades for actor Courtney B. Vance to finally receive recognition. The Detroit native was bitten by the acting bug while a student at Harvard, and though he had originally intended to study history, he felt the lure of the stage and was soon appearing in productions at Harvard before eventually joining the Boston Shakespeare Company. After graduation, Vance continued his acting career at the Yale School of Drama, and it was there that he first gained notice for his role opposite James Earl Jones in the August Wilson drama Fences. In 1987, Vance made his film debut in the war drama Hamburger Hill, and though he remained true to his stage roots in the ensuing years, screen roles kept rolling in. The actor climbed the credits throughout the 1990s with a series of supporting roles in The Hunt for Red October (1990), Beyond the Law (1992), and The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993). 1995 proved something of a breakthrough year for the rising star, with roles in Panther, Dangerous Minds, and The Last Supper offering him more screen time than ever. In 1996, Vance held his own as a minister opposite Denzel Washington and Whitney Houston in The Preacher's Wife. Drawing from his own faith -- which had recently been reawakened by the suicide of his father -- for the role, Vance also had memorable performances in Cookie's Fortune in 1999 and Space Cowboys the following year. He portrayed Martin Luther King Jr. in the dramatic miniseries Parting the Waters (2000) and made another solid impression on television viewers the next year with a role in the popular series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.Vance would stick with the series for five years, concurrently appearing on the long-running medical drama ER. By the time he had finished his run on both programs, he was on to the science fictions series Flash Forward from 2009-2010, before signing on to appear alongside Michael Biehn in the post-apocalyptic horror flick The Divide in 2011.

Trivia: Decided that he wanted to become a comedian at the age of 11. Was not professionally trained and considers Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor his biggest influences. At the age of 19, began his stand-up career by self-promoting and performing at The Lion's Den in Chicago. Worked as the house emcee at Jokes and Notes comedy club in Chicago. Performed at the NBC Diversity Showcase in Los Angeles and Aspen Showcase in New York. Launched The Lil Rel Company in 2009. In 2012, was named by Variety magazine as one of the Top 10 Comics to Watch.

Trivia: Transferred from Morehouse College to NYU's theatre program following the advice of fellow Morehouse alum Spike Lee.Trained in clowning, movement, directing, Shakespeare, voice and self-scripting at the International Theatre Workshop in 2009.Made his feature film debut in the 2013 drama/ thriller House of Another.Landed the recurring role of Daniel King on the HBO series Insecure in 2016. After admitting to feeling somewhat insecure around women he likes, Y'lan prepared for his role of Daniel King by reading, watching videos and listening to podcasts by pick-up artists.