A Most Violent Year

Oscar Isaac (Actor) .. Abel Morales

Born: January 05, 1980
Birthplace: Guatemala

Trivia: After his portrayal of Joseph, the father of Jesus, in New Line Cinema's holiday release The Nativity Story (2006), Guatemalan actor Oscar Isaac also appeared in Scott Z. Burns' made-for-HBO crime thriller The Half Life of Timofey Berezin (2007). His career would kick into high gear after taking a small role as an interpreter in Guerilla (2008), a biopic of Che Guevara. In 2009, Isaac's role as José Ramos-Horta in the drama Balibo earned in an award for Best Supporting Actor from the Australian Film Institute. He co-starred with Rachel Weisz in award-winning director Alejandro Amenábar's Agora (2009), a historical drama in which the actor played the student of a female mathematician in the late 4th century. Isaac portrayed King John in director Ridley Scott's 2010 retelling of Robin Hood, and went on to co-star with Albert Brooks and Ryan Gosling in the thriller Drive (2011).

Jessica Chastain (Actor) .. Anna Morales

Born: March 29, 1977
Birthplace: California

Trivia: Actress Jessica Chastain studied her craft at the Julliard School in New York, before launching into her professional career. After landing a few appearances on TV shows like Veronica Mars and ER, Chastain eventually landed the title role in the 2008 independent film Jolene, and soon found herself in other prominent roles, like a Mossaad agent in the 2009 mystery The Debt, though that film didn't reach American screens unti 2011, a year in which Chastain seemes to be in every movie. In addition to playing the loving mother in Terrence Malick's Tree of Life, and playing the struggling wife of a schizophrenic in the underrated Take Shelter, and being cast as the wife to Ralph Finnes' Coriolanus, and earning good reviews for the indie drama Texas Killing Fields, Chastain played a kooky, mentally unstable Southern woman in the box office smash The Help, and earned her first Oscar nomination for her supporting work in the film. She was back in the Oscar race the very next year, this time in the Best Actress field for her work as a determined CIA agent hunting Osama Bin Laden in Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty.

David Oyelowo (Actor) .. Lawrence

Born: April 01, 1976
Birthplace: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England

Trivia: As a child, lived for seven years in Nigeria, where his parents were born and his family descended from royalty. Was a member of London's National Youth Music Theatre, which is where he met his wife. Played King Henry VI in a 2001 Royal Shakespeare Company trilogy of the Bard's plays, and was the first black actor to portray an English king in an RSC production. For his role in the British spy drama Spooks, he met with British-intelligence officers. Co-wrote a 2006 romantic comedy-drama for the BBC called Graham and Alice, about two London loners who decide to rob a betting shop. Fulfilled a bucket-list wish by working with Steven Spielberg on 2012's Lincoln. As part of the training for his role as a WWII Tuskegee Airman in 2012's Red Tails, he got to fly in vintage P-51 Mustangs. Appointed an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2016 New Year Honours.

Albert Brooks (Actor) .. Andrew Walsh

Born: July 22, 1947
Birthplace: Beverly Hills, California, United States

Trivia: Though it may sound like one of his cerebral comedy routines, Albert Brooks came into this world as Albert Einstein. The son of comedian Harry Einstein (better known to millions of radio fans as Parkyakarkus), Brooks briefly attended Carnegie Tech before launching a hills-and-valley career as a standup comic. Like such contemporaries as George Carlin and Robert Klein, Brooks delighted in finding humor in the inconsistencies of everyday life, and had a particular fondness for exploiting clichés that many people never realized were clichés. Two of his most fondly remembered routines involved a talking mime and a ritualistic recital of the ingredients in a carton of Cool-Whip. After appearing as a regular on the 1969-1970 season of The Dean Martin Show (as well as its 1971 spin-off The Golddiggers), Brooks gained instant pop-culture fame for his brilliant short-subject directorial debut, The Famous Comedian's School, which was highlighted on a 1971 installment of The Great American Dream Machine. Even today, comedy buffs can cite from memory the particulars of "The Danny Thomas/Sid Melton School of Coffee-Spitting." In 1975, Brooks won a Grammy for his album A Star Is Bought; that same year, he began filming short sketches for Saturday Night Live. Though often the highlights of that series' first season, Brooks' skits were dropped from SNL because they were considered "too inside." Brooks made his theatrical film debut in 1976, playing Cybill Shepherd's clueless co-worker in Taxi Driver. His subsequent film roles included the first husband of Goldie Hawn in Private Benjamin (1980), Dudley Moore's cuckolded manager in Unfaithfully Yours (1984), and, best of all, his Oscar-nominated turn as the acerbic, freely perspiring TV journalist Aaron Altman in Broadcast News (1987). Even more impressive have been Brooks' credits as writer/director, including the PBS-documentary lampoon Real Life (1979), the angst-driven Modern Romance (1981), the yuppie odyssey Lost in America (1985), and the "Heaven is a Strip Mall" fantasy Defending Your Life (1991). In 1994, Brooks both wrote and acted in the darkly humorous baseball film The Scout. In 1996, he directed, wrote, and starred opposite Debbie Reynolds (making her first screen appearance in over two decades) in Mother. After taking some time off from directing and scriptwriting to appear in such films as Out of Sight (1998), Brooks resumed his director-screenwriter-actor hyphenate with The Muse (1999), starring opposite Andie MacDowell and Sharon Stone as a struggling Hollywood scriptwriter in search of divine inspiration; Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World followed in 2005.Unarguably, Brooks's highest-profile performance came not in one of his directorial projects, but in the 2003 Pixar underwater adventure Finding Nemo. Lending his voice to the film's lead clown-fish, the critically-acclaimed picture went on to be one of the highest grossing movies of all time and also featured the talents of Ellen Degeneres and Willem Dafoe.He became part of the cast of the Showtime series Weeds as the main character's former father-in-law. 2011 turned out to be an excellent year for the revered performer. That year saw publication of his first novel, 2030, a comedy about the future of America. He also played the part of Bernie Rose, the bad guy in the hotly buzzed about action film Drive. Though he captured numerous year-end critics prizes, Brooks was denied an Oscar nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category.

Alessandro Nivola (Actor) .. Peter Forente

Born: June 28, 1972
Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Trivia: Often mistaken for British, Alessandro Nivola has established himself as one of the American actors most likely to assume a flawless English accent in his films. Nivola, whose combination of charismatic good looks, vowel-laden name, and work in a number of British films have both confused and delighted critics and viewers, is actually a product of the East Coast. The son of an Italian-born academic father and a Boston blue-blood mother, Nivola was born and raised in Boston. Taking an early interest in acting, he grew up attending drama camp in the summer and got an internship at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in Waterford, Connecticut, where he began acting on the stage. His love of acting continued while he was a student at the Tony Philips Exeter Academy and Yale University; by the time he was a sophomore at Yale, he had landed an agent and was making regular trips to New York City for auditions.Nivola got his first professional jobs with the Yale Repertory Theatre and a Seattle-based company. He broke into films in 1997 with a small role in Inventing the Abbotts and the more substantial part of Nicolas Cage's psychotic genius brother in John Woo's Face/Off. He then crossed the ocean, and the accent barrier, to star in the British noir drama I Want You (1998), which cast him as an enigmatic man with a dark past, and in Patricia Rozema's saucy adaptation of Mansfield Park (1998). It was the latter film that gave Nivola his first significant dose of recognition and respect, with critics and viewers alike marveling at his portrayal of the dashing and morally dubious Henry Crawford, not to mention his seamless English accent. Nivola again worked with a largely British cast and crew the following year to make Kenneth Branagh's musical version of Love's Labour's Lost (2000), in which he played a king whose vow to forsake love for intellectual enlightenment becomes severely jeopardized by the arrival of a comely French princess (Alicia Silverstone) and her ladies in waiting. That same year, he returned to the other side of the Atlantic to portray a Backstreet Boys-type singer in Mike Figgis' Time Code 2000, an experimental feature filmed entirely in one take. In the years to come, Nivola would remain a consistent presence on screen, appearing in movies like Junebug, Grace is Gone, and The Eye, as well as on the TV series The Company.

Elyes Gabel (Actor) .. Julian

Born: May 08, 1983
Birthplace: London, England

Trivia: Studied acting in England at Strode's College, as well as at the Oldham Theatre Workshop and the Northern Kids Theatre Company. Got his first break playing a 3232-year-old pharaoh on a Canadian-produced family sitcom called I Love Mummy. Nominated for Best Newcomer at 2005's National Television Awards in the U.K. for his role on the BBC medical drama Casualty. Likes to play sports, including tennis and English football. Is a singer-songwriter who has recorded several songs.

Catalina Sandino Moreno (Actor) .. Luisa

Born: April 19, 1981
Birthplace: Bogotá, Colombia

Trivia: Arriving from virtually nowhere to stun viewers with her powerful performance as a poverty-stricken Colombian rose plantation employee looking to make a better life for herself and her unborn child in director Joshua Marston's Maria Full of Grace, first-time actress Catalina Sandino Moreno seemed to elicit near unanimous praise from critics and film lovers worldwide. A native of Bogotá, Colombia, raven-haired beauty Moreno developed an interest in becoming an actor which prompted the young hopeful to enroll in the Ruben Di Pietro theater academy while she was still in high school. It was during this time that she essayed a number of stage performances in such productions as Griselda Gambaro's Acuerdo Para Cambiar de Casa, Tennessee Williams' The Dark Room, and Christopher Durang's Laughing Wild. Later studying advertising and theater at a Bogotá college, Moreno caught the eye of director Marston during an audition for Maria Full of Grace, and it didn't take long to convince the director that -- despite her relative lack of experience -- she was the perfect candidate for the complex and demanding role. Indeed, Moreno brought undeniable depth and onscreen charisma to her thoughtful portrayal of a smart but desperate mother-to-be, earning the emerging starlet numerous critical accolades in addition to a Best Actress nomination for the 77th Annual Academy Awards. Packing her bags for New York City shortly thereafter, Moreno enrolled at the famed Lee Strasberg Institute while preparing for her New York stage debut in a production of Shakespeare's King John at the Frog and Peach Theater Company.Her career officially on track in the U.S., Moreno would enjoy a consistent presence on screen over the coming years, in films like Fast Food Nation, Che, and A Stranger in Paradise.

Peter Gerety (Actor) .. Bill O'Leary

Born: May 17, 1940
Birthplace: Providence, Rhode Island

Trivia: A burly, thickset, and occasionally scruffy character actor with a domineering and imposing presence, Peter Gerety often accepted roles as ordinary working-class stiffs, judges, or inner-city law officers. A performer with equal footing in film and on the stage, Gerety took his premier onscreen bow during the early '80s but first began drawing substantial attention over a decade later. Gerety remains best known for his multi-season portrayal (1996-1999) of Detective Stuart Gharty on the cop drama Homicide: Life on the Street. He also played the recurring role of Judge Daniel Phelan on another Baltimore-set crime series, The Wire (2002-2008). Big-screen projects include Sleepers (1996), K-PAX (2001), Syriana (2005), Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Leatherheads (2008), and Public Enemies (2009).

Christopher Abbott (Actor) .. Louis Servidio

Born: February 01, 1986
Birthplace: Greenwich, Connecticut, United States

Trivia: After moving to New York to attend school, took odd jobs, including carpentry, before getting into acting. While attending community college, took a theater class and was inspired to pursue it as a career. First acting jobs were in two Off-Broadway plays: Good Boys and True, and Mouth to Mouth. Made Broadway debut in The House of Blue Leaves, acting alongside Ben Stiller and Edie Falco.

Glenn Fleshler (Actor) .. Arnold Klein

Born: May 09, 1968
Birthplace: New York, United States

Trivia: Is of Jewish descent.Started his acting career in theaters.Made his debut on television and film in 1993.Used to read novels out loud to his wife when their child was a toddler.In 2019, he supported the Riley's Way Foundation, aimed to provide teen lead projects to inspire them kindness.Is skilled at tennis.

David Margulies (Actor) .. Saul Lefkowitz

Born: February 19, 1937
Died: January 11, 2016

Trivia: Fresh out of CCNY, David Margulies made his off-Broadway bow in Golden 6 (1958). Margulies made his first film, A New Leaf, in 1971, and two years later first appeared on Broadway in The Iceman Cometh. Shuttling between plays, movies and TV in the 1980s and 1990s, Margulies was most often cast as doctors, lawyers and rabbis. In Ghostbusters II (1989), David Margulies has several good scenes as the Mayor of New York. He originated the role of Roy Cohn in Angels in America on Broadway; one of his final roles was as Elie Weisel in the miniseries Madoff. Margulies died in 2016, at age 78.

Jerry Adler (Actor) .. Josef

Born: February 04, 1929
Died: March 13, 2010
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York

Annie Funke (Actor) .. Lorraine Lefkowitz

Birthplace: Edmond, Oklahoma, United States

Trivia: First professional job was at age 16, as Jan in Grease at the Lyric Theatre in Oklahoma City. Was the standby for Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray on Broadway in 2008. Played Madame Morrible in the San Francisco production of Wicked. Took a 10-week program at the School at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago in 2011. Played a 15-year-old girl who strips down to take a bath onstage in the 2012 off-Broadway production of If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet, opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Brian F. O'Byrne.

Matthew Maher (Actor) .. John Dominczyk

Pico Alexander (Actor) .. Elias Morales

Nick Bailey (Actor)

Frank Bal (Actor) .. Armored Guard

Susan Blackwell (Actor) .. Radio Reporter

David Boston (Actor) .. Competitor

Patrick Breen (Actor) .. Instructor

Born: October 26, 1960
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Trivia: As a respected American supporting player in film, television, and theater who occasionally moonlights as a screenwriter, Patrick Breen first culled recognition in the American press in 1991. That spring, the then-30-year-old delivered a bravura performance as an emotionally damaged son in Jon Robin Baitz's disappointing play The Substance of Fire. Breen hit his zenith as a film actor during the mid-'90s, with turns in several memorable (if uneven) Hollywood movies. These included For Love or Money (1993), Barry Sonnenfeld's Get Shorty (1995) and Men in Black (1997), and Carl Franklin's One True Thing (1998). Breen's generally nondescript, albeit pleasant, appearance enabled him to fill practically any role, from a doctor (in the Sonnenfeld picture) to Mr. Tweedy (in the Franklin film).Breen first branched off into screenwriting just after the turn of the new millennium, with back-to-back indie features which he both acted in and scripted. The 2000 picture East of A constitutes a slice-of-life drama about a trio of New York City roommates over the course of ten years. Unfortunately, East of A received extremely limited distribution and was reviewed by very few mainstream critics. Its follow-up, the 2002 ensemble comedy Just a Kiss (directed by the character actor and comic Fisher Stevens and starring Ron Eldard, Kyra Sedgwick, and Marisa Tomei) provides a surrealistic exploration of the romantic vicissitudes among a group of swinging singles. That film fared better in terms of pedigree, but demonstrated an extremely unstable overtone, meandering between lighthearted romantic comedy and darker, more cynical black comedy; perhaps as a result, it premiered in 2002 to almost unanimously devastating reviews, opening and closing practically overnight, and effectively turning Breen away from produced screenwriting work for quite some time. In 2004, he returned to A-list acting as a character player in the holiday comedy Christmas with the Kranks, starring Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis. He was away from movie screens for five years, returning next in 2009's Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant and had the leading role two years later in the horror film The Bleeding House.

Myrna Cabello (Actor) .. Maria

Chris Cardona (Actor) .. Driver 1

Teddy Cañez (Actor) .. Contractor

Suzanne Cerreta (Actor) .. Kathy

Robert Clohessy (Actor) .. Mr. Rose

Born: June 10, 1958
Birthplace: Bronx, New York, United States

Trivia: Played on the varsity football team in high school. Competed in a Golden Gloves amateur boxing competition at Madison Square Garden at the age of 17, but was soon after diagnosed with elbow tendinitis, ending his boxing career. Made his stage debut in his high school's production of Kismet. In 1999, played the role of Mitch in the Hartford Stage's production of A Streetcar Named Desire. Performed on Broadway as Mike in the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Pal Joey in 2009.

Teddy Coluca (Actor) .. Driver 3

Nat Dewolf (Actor)

John Dinello (Actor) .. Driver 2

Kathleen Doyle (Actor) .. Lefkowitz Secretary

Born: November 07, 1947

Giselle Eisenberg (Actor) .. Catherine Morales

William Hill (Actor) .. Eddie

Trivia: From the time of his screen debut in the late '80s, the slightly stocky character actor William Hill specialized in everyman portrayals, often with a professional edge, such as psychiatrists, guards, and police detectives. He struck a fairly equal balance between television (with a series of appearances as different characters on Law & Order over the years) and features that fell into a wide variety of genres. These included Striptease (1996), Anything Else (2003), and Gran Torino (2006).

Chester Jones III (Actor) .. Beat Cop

Russell Jones (Actor)

Linda Larson (Actor) .. Debbie

Elizabeth Marvel (Actor) .. Mrs. Rose

Born: November 27, 1969
Birthplace: Shillington, Pennsylvania, United States

Trivia: Is a practicing Quaker. Her first professional role was as Isabella in Measure for Measure at the Stratford Festival in Ontario. Made her Broadway debut as an understudy in The SeagulI in 1992. Performed as Katherine in the New York Shakespeare Festival stage production of Henry V. Played Brooke Wyeth in the off-Broadway premiere of Other Desert Cities in 2011; when the show transfered to Broadway, she was replaced by Rachel Griffith, but later joined the show as a replacement.

Quinn Meyers (Actor)

Jimmy Palumbo (Actor) .. Jimmy O.

Born: May 26, 1965

Patrick Pitu (Actor) .. Vinny

Lorna Pruce (Actor) .. Toll Booth Clerk Powell

Jason Ralph (Actor) .. Ian Thompson

Born: April 07, 1986
Birthplace: McKinney, Texas, United States

Trivia: Became interested in acting during elementary school when he performed in a skit based on The Boy Who Cried Wolf. While studying at Collin College, played the role of Sebastian in Twelfth Night and Bertram in All's Well That Ends Well. Performed the roles of Valentine in Two Gentleman of Verona, Lord Darlington in Lady Windermere's Fan and James in Book of Days during his time at SUNY. Is the voice actor for the character Harry Dobbing in the 2010 video game Red Dead Redemption. Starred in the off-Broadway revival of Peter and the Starcatcher in 2012. Participated in the Hunger Project's Live Below the Line challenge in order to raise funds to fight extreme poverty in 2015. Serves as artistic director for the theater company he founded with fellow SUNY graduates called Strangemen & Co., which produced the acclaimed off-Broadway stage production The Woodsman.

Steven Reich (Actor)

Taylor Richardson (Actor) .. Elizabeth Morales

Jenilyn Rodriguez (Actor) .. New Salewoman

Ben Rosenfield (Actor) .. Alex

Born: August 01, 1992

Zariah Singletary (Actor) .. Soccer Player

Amiyah Steed (Actor) .. Soccer Girl

Daisy Tahan (Actor) .. Annie Morales

John Douglas Thompson (Actor) .. Radio Reporter

Robert Levi (Actor)

J.C. Chandor (Actor)

Born: November 24, 1973

Alex Ebert (Actor)

Glen Basner (Actor)

Joshua Blum (Actor)

Neal Dodson (Actor)

Born: May 17, 1978

Anna Gerb (Actor)

Jeff Skoll (Actor)

Ashley Williams (Actor) .. Deputy Lange

Born: November 12, 1978
Birthplace: Westchester County, New York, United States

Trivia: Made her movie debut in 1993's Indian Summer, alongside her sister, Kimberly. Studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art after graduating college. Studied Shakespeare at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Is a birthing coach, in addition to acting. Made her Broadway debut in A Time to Kill in 2013.

Tanner (Actor) .. Muffin

Phillip Ching (Actor) .. Burglar

Linda Marie Larson (Actor) .. Abel's Secretary Debbie

John Procaccino (Actor) .. Arnold Lewis

Stephen Reich (Actor) .. Waiter

Russell G. Jones (Actor)

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