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Role in the
film:
Rose DaSilva
Brief biography:
Radha Mitchell
was most recently seen in the critically
acclaimed starring role of ‘Melinda’ in
Woody Allen’s film Melinda and Melinda,
opposite Will Ferrell.
Prior to
that she was seen in Finding Neverland, for
which she and her co-stars Johnny Depp, Kate
Winslet and Dustin Hoffman were nominated
for a Screen Actors Guild ensemble award.
The
film was directed by Marc Forster (Monster’s
Ball), with whom she worked in 2000 when she
starred and produced the Independent Spirit
Award-nominated film Everything Put
Together.
In 2004, Mitchell starred opposite Denzel
Washington in Man on Fire, playing the
mother of
a missing child who had been kidnapped. She
starred opposite Colin Farrell in Joel
Shumacher's Phone Booth and in the
box-office hit Pitch Black opposite Vin
Diesel. The actress gave a memorable
performance as Syd, the young editorial
assistant who falls in love with Ally
Sheedy's heroin-addicted photographer
character in Lisa Cholodenko's critically
acclaimed drama High Art. Her role in
Emma-Kate Croghan's romantic comedy Love and
Other Catastrophes was highly praised at
both the Cannes and Sundance film festivals.
Other recent film credits include When
Strangers Appear with Josh Lucas, the
independent feature Dead Heat opposite
Keifer Sutherland and Anthony LaPaglia,
Nobody’s Baby with Gary Oldman and Skeet
Ulrich, and Rodrigo Garcia's Ten Tiny Love
Stories. On television, she starred with
Hank Azaria and Donald Sutherland in NBC's
critically acclaimed mini-series Uprising
for director Jon Avnet Mitchell recently
finished shooting two starring roles for
release next year; PU 239 opposite Paddy
Considine and Rogue which is directed
by Wolf Creek’s Greg MacLean She will next
be seen in Mozart and the Whale, written by
Ron Bass (Rain Man), starring opposite Josh
Hartnett.
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Role in the film:
Christopher DaSilva
Brief biography:
Sean
Bean gained international
fame as Boromir in the Academy Award®-
winning Lord of the Rings trilogy. But while
that may be his best-known role, it is only
one in a career that includes more than 40
films, acclaimed stage performances and one
of the most
successful franchises in British television
history.
Originally from Sheffield, Bean worked as a
welder before turning to acting, and even
his most polished characters retain a hard
masculine edge. After graduating from the
Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, he
joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, and
then won two career-making film roles, the
first in 1990’s critically acclaimed The
Field opposite
Richard Harris, and the next in 1992’s
Patriot Games, starring opposite Harrison
Ford in a provocative
and complex portrayal of the tragic
antagonist.
Clearly
a romantic lead, he was cast as Richard
Sharpe, hero of the Napoleonic Wars,
in1993’s Sharpe’s Rifles. After 13 two-hour
sequels, Bean was one of the UK’s best-known
stars.
He also
dazzled audiences in films as varied as Tom
& Thomas, Essex Boys, Ronin and
Anna Karenina, and more
recently in Troy, with Brad Pitt; The Big
Empty with Jon Favreau, Equilibrium with
Christian Bale and Don’t Say a Word opposite
Michael Douglas.
On stage
in 2004, the classically trained Bean won
raves in an acclaimed West End production of
Macbeth, and recently starred in Henry VIII
for Granada opposite Ray Winstone and Helena
Bonham Carter.
In the
last 18 months he has starred in the
Bruckheimer/Disney blockbuster National
Treasure, Dreamworks’ The Island, Flightplan
with Jodie Foster and, in his first role as
an American, the acclaimed North Country
with Charlize Theron. He has just completed
the final chapter of Sharpe, Sharpe’s
Challenge, set in India and due out in 2006.
Voted by
readers of Empire Magazine “the second
sexiest man in England,” Bean escapes
madness by working non-stop in films around
the world, and rooting for Sheffield United
wherever satellite reception allows. |
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Role in the film:
Cybil Bennet
Brief biography:
Laurie
Holden's
acting career reads like a Cinderella story.
While performing on stage at the world
renowned Larry Moss Acting Studio, she was
discovered by Frank Darabont (The Shawshank
Redemption, The Green Mile) who thought she
was perfect for the lead in his capra-esque
drama, The Majestic. Holden’s captivating
feature film debut starring as Jim Carrey’s
long lost love in the film was met with
critical acclaim by the New York Times and
film critics around the world. This film
introduced audiences to her natural onscreen
presence, which Darabont called “fresh,
awesome – like an old Hollywood film star
with a lovely twist.” Indeed, keeping things
fresh is Holden’s passion and she’s created
an arsenal of memorable characters in film
and television since she began her career as
a child. She appeared in last summer’s
successful comic-action adventure, The
Fantastic Four starring opposite Michael
Chiklis’ portrayal of ‘The Thing.’ She
recently shot the indie family film,
Bailey’s Millions with Tim Curry, Jon
Lovitz, Jennifer Tilly and Dean Cain and is
attached to star in another indie opposite
Ben Kingsley, The Knights of Impossingworth
Park.
A dual
citizen of Canada and the U.S., Holden's
career got off to the kind of start most
actors can only dream of. Upon graduating
from UCLA with honors, Holden received the
"Natalie Wood Acting Award" for Best
Actress. She went on to study the classics
on the London stage at the Webber Douglas
Academy of Dramatic Art. She co-starred in
the TNT mini-series Young Catherine with
Vanessa Redgrave, and gained notoriety
playing ‘Marita Covarubbias,’ the UN
Informant to Fox Mulder, on the long-running
hit The X-Files. Her episodic work includes
a comedic turn in the critically acclaimed
Due South, for which she was nominated for a
Gemini Award (Canada's Emmy). Holden also
starred as the only female lead opposite
Michael Biehn in the remake of the MGM
classic The Magnificent Seven for CBS.
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Role in the film:
Dahlia Gillespie
Brief biography:
Deborah
Kara Unger was most recently
seen starring opposite Michael Keaton in
White Noise, Thomas Jane in Bronwen Hughes’
Stander, John Travolta and Scarlett
Johansson in A Love Song for Bobby Long, and
Sir Ian McKellen in Carl Bessai’s Emile (for
which she received the 2004 Geraldine Page
Best Actress Award at the American Method
Festival).
In 2003
she received a Best Actress Canadian Academy
Award nomination starring opposite screen
legend Sophia Loren in Edoardo Ponti’s
Between Strangers, with Mira Sorvino and
Gerard Depardieu, and completed three
feature films including 1.0 which screened
in official competition at 2004’s Sundance
Film Festival.
Since
graduating from the prestigious National
Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia (as
the first Canadian to
be accepted), she has co-starred in such
films as: Norman Jewison’s Hurricane with
Denzel Washington, Payback with Mel Gibson,
David Fincher’s The Game with Michael
Douglas and Sean Penn, David Cronenberg’s
Crash with Holly Hunter and James Spader
(Special Jury Prize in Official Competition
in Cannes), and Istvan Szabo’s award-winning
epic Sunshine with Ralph Fiennes and William
Hurt, which garnered her a 2000 Genie
nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
Other
feature film credits include: Thirteen with
Holly Hunter, The Salton Sea with Val
Kilmer, Signs and Wonders with Stellan
Skarsgard and Charlotte Rampling, Leo with
Joseph Fiennes and Dennis Hopper, Fear X
with John Turturro , No Way Home, with Tim
Roth, Bette Gordon’s critically acclaimed
Luminous Motion, and The Weekend with Gena
Rowlands, which received the 1999 Best
Ensemble Acting Award at the Seattle Film
Festival.
Upcoming
releases include Alibi with Rebecca Romijn
and Steve Coogan, and Things That Hang from
Trees with Ray McKinnon and Laila Robbins.
Ms. Unger made her feature film debut in the
awardwinning WWII drama Prisoners of the Sun
with Russell Crowe. On television, Ms. Unger
appeared as Ava Gardner in HBO’s 1998 drama,
The Rat Pack, and in the award-winning
mini-series Bangkok Hilton with Nicole
Kidman. In September 2004, Deborah Kara
Unger received the Award of Excellence from
Russia’s Vladivostok
International Film Festival and in April
2004, she received the Imagery Award at
Cinema Epicuria. In May 2003, Ms. Unger was
honored as the recipient of the Libertae
Award at the Dubrovnik International Film
Festival for her ongoing work in and
commitment to the spirit of
independence in film. |
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Role in the film:
Officer Gucci
Brief biography:
Canadian
born actor Kim Coates has the distinction of successfully entering the
film and television industry in Canada, and also crossing the border and
expanding his ever growing repertoire into noted feature
films which have been given international acclaim and great critical
reviews.
With over 40 films to his credit,
including The Island directed by Michael Bay, Hostage with Bruce Willis,
Assault on Precinct 13, opposite Ethan Hawke and directed by John
Carpenter, Open Range starring and directed by Kevin Costner with Robert
Duvall and Annette Bening, Hollywood North with
Matthew Modine and Alan Bates, Academy Award® winners Black Hawk Down
directed by Ridley Scott, and Pearl Harbor directed by Michael Bay, this
actor has managed to transcend the barriers between stage, television
and film. His talents have been utilized on Broadway in his portrayal of
Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire; and in the title role of
Macbeth at the legendary Stratford Theatre. He has had roles in more
than 20 made for television movies, such as the NBC mini-series
Hercules, Friend of the Family, Disney’s Scream Team with Eric Idle,
Thoughtcrimes with Joe Flannigan, and the award winning series Fallen
Angels with Bill Pullman. These dramatic turns on television have
garnered him Gemini nominations for Best Actor in a Featured Supporting
Role for Dead Silence and Best Performance in a Guest Role Dramatic
Series for The Outer Limits.
In addition to Silent Hill, Coates
has 4 major films opening in 2006 including Grilled, Skinwalkers and
King of Sorrow.
Coates currently resides in Los
Angeles with his wife and their two children. |
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Role in the film:
Anna
Brief biography:
Tanya Allen is
perhaps best known as the sardonic intern in
Ken Finkleman’s awardwinning series, The
Newsroom (for which she won the Gemini Award
for best performance in a Comedy). After
attending the prestigious American Academy
of Dramatic Arts in
New York, she launched her professional
acting career in her late teens, starting
with appearances on such series as The
Adventures of Shirley Holmes and Kung Fu:
The Legend Continues. Allen received a
Gemini nomination (the Canadian Emmys) for
her role in 1994 TV movie Lives of Girls &
Women. It was her performance in the title
role in the Canadian TV movie Lyddie, a
historical drama about a teenage girl who
leaves her poverty-stricken family to work
in a cotton mill; followed by a lead in CBS
comedy The Newsroom that moved Allen into
the public eye. She then played the lead
role of ‘Sarah’ in the World War II drama
Regeneration, opposite from Jonathan Pryce
and Jonny Lee Miller. The following year she
moved to New York, and starred in Bruce
McDonald’s Platinum (which earned her a
Gemini nomination for Best Actress), Clutch
opposite Tom Green, Liberty Stands Still
opposite Wesley Snipes and Linda Fiorentino
and White Lies with Sarah Polley. Allen’s
role as the emotionally stunted but
brilliant 'space waif' Percy on Starhunter
made her a favorite with sci-fi fans all
over the world. She reprised the role of
Percy on Starhunter 2300: and then took to
the ice in Kari Skogland’s hockey
comedy/drama Chicks with Sticks. |
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Role in the film:
Christabella
Brief biography:
Alice
Kriege was born in Upington, South Africa. After four
years at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, she went on to
study acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Her
first professional performance was in 1979’s Play for Today for the BBC.
In 1980, Krige made her feature film debut as ‘Sybil Gordon’ in the
Academy Award® winning film, Chariots of Fire. Krige then appeared in
the 1980 television adaptation of Charles
Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, which was followed by her memorable, dual
role as the avenging spirit in 1981's Ghost Story. Also in 1981, Alice
debuted in a West End theatre production of George Bernard Shaw's Arms
and the Man, for which she received the honors of both a Plays and
Players Award and a Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer.
Krige decided to focus on working
with the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company where she performed in
King Lear, The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew and Cyrano de Bergerac.
She then appeared in a diverse range of films, including King David,
Barfly, Haunted Summer, Code Name: Chaos and See You in the Morning. Her
work in television includes the critically acclaimed mini-series, Ellis
Island and Wallenberg: A Hero's Story.
In addition to numerous roles in
television, including appearances on Beverly Hills, 90201 and Becker,
Krige also appeared in the films Sleepwalkers, Institute Benjamenta,
Amanda, Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, Habitat, The Commissioner and
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien. One notable standout, however, was
the film Star Trek: First Contact, for which Ms. Krige won a 1997 Saturn
Award for her portrayal of the ‘Borg Queen’.
The new millennium finds Krige with
several projects to her credit, which include such works as The Little
Vampire, Star Trek Voyager: End Game, Attila, Dinotopia, Reign of Fire
and Children of Dune. Recent projects include Shadow of Fear, a Natalie
Wood bio-film, the Borg Invasion 4D theme park attraction, a film about
the 1980’s television series Dynasty and a recurring role on the HBO
series Deadwood. Upcoming projects include Lonely Hearts, The Contract,
starring John Cusack and Morgan Freeman and The Line of Beauty, for the
BBC. Krige was recently awarded an honorary doctorate in literature from
Rhodes University and is producing her first feature film. |
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Role in the film:
Sharon Da Silva
Brief biography:
In the last
decade, Jodelle Micah Ferland has built up
an impressive resume filled with roles in
film, television, radio, voice work, and
commercials. Born in October, 1994 in
Nanaimo, British Columbia, she got her
television start in an episode of CTV's Cold
Squad (1998). It wasn't long before she
landed a lead role in her first film,
Mermaid (1999), at the age of four. Her
portrayal of the heartbroken "Desi" earned
her a Daytime Emmy® Award nomination, making
her the youngest nominee in history. That
performance also earned her a Young Artist
Award of Hollywood. Since then, she has
appeared in almost 30 more films and
television series, including: Dean Koontz's
Sole Survivor (1999), Special Delivery
(2000), Deadly Little Secrets (2000),
Trapped (2001), Miracle of The Cards (2001),
The Christmas Child (2002), Mob Princess
(2002), They (2002), and Carrie (2002), and
has made guest appearances on Dark Angel
(2000), Smallville (2001), and The Collector
(2004). Ferland can also be seen starring in
Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital (2004),
playing a tortured young girl who haunts the
hospital's halls. In 2004, she landed the
lead role of Jeliza-Rose in Terry Gilliam's
Tideland, co-starring Jeff Bridges, a film
about a disturbed young girl who finds
solace in her own imagination after the
death of her mother. When not performing,
Ferland spends her time with family and
loves to hang out with her friends.
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