A former teacher, Dublin-born Brendan Gleeson left the profession to pursue a career in his first love – acting. He joined the Irish theater company Passion Machine and has since starred on the stage, in films and on television, winning fans and awards worldwide.

Following small roles in such movies as Jim Sheridan’s The Field, Mike Newell’s Into the West, Jonathan Lewis’ telefilm The Treaty, and Ron Howard’s Far and Away, he landed his breakout role in Mel Gibson’s Braveheart, which won five Academy Awards including Best Picture. His portrayal of real-life criminal Martin Cahill in John Boorman’s The General, tandemed with his performance in Paddy Breathnach’s I Went Down, brought Mr. Gleeson Best Actor honors from the Boston Society of Film Critics. The General also earned him the Irish Film & Television Award (IFTA) and the London Critics’ Circle Film Award for Best Actor.

He starred for writer/director Martin McDonagh in Six Shooter, which won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. Reteaming with the filmmaker for Focus Features’ In Bruges, Mr. Gleeson earned Golden Globe, British Independent Film, Satellite, IFTA, and BAFTA Award nominations for his memorable performance opposite Colin Farrell.

His distinctive voice has been heard as narrator of the Irish-language documentary series 1916 Seachtar na Cásca, as well as in roles in three Academy Award-nominated animated features: The Secret of Kells, directed by Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, directed by Peter Lord and Jeff Newitt, and Mr. Moore’s Song of the Sea.

Moviegoers also know him from three Harry Potter movies, directed by Mike Newell and David Yates, respectively; Mr. Boorman’s The Tailor of Panama, In My Country, and The Tiger’s Tail; Neil Jordan’s Michael Collins, The Butcher Boy, and Breakfast on Pluto; John Woo’s Mission: Impossible II; Steven Spielberg’s AI; Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later…; Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York; Wolfgang Petersen’s Troy; Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven; Robert Zemeckis’ Beowulf; Paul Greengrass’ Green Zone; Rodrigo García’s Albert Nobbs; Daniel Espinosa’s Safe House; Robert Redford’s The Company You Keep; Doug Liman’s Edge of Tomorrow; and John Michael McDonagh’s The Guard, for which he was again a Golden Globe, IFTA, and British Independent Film Award (BIFA) nominee, and Cavalry, for which he was named Best Actor by both IFTA and BIFA.

Mr. Gleeson starred as Winston Churchill in Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s telefilm Into the Storm, and was nominated for Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards in addition to winning an IFTA as well as Satellite and Emmy Awards.

Mr. Gleeson will next appear  in The Coen Brothers The Ballad of Buster Scruggs   for Netflix.     Most recent films include:  Hampstead, opposite Diane Keaton; Paddington 2 also starring Hugh Grant, Sally Hawkins and Julie Walters; Trespass Against Us opposite Michael Fassbender; Vincent Perez’s Alone in Berlin opposite Emma Thompson; Assassin's Creed once again with Michael Fassbender; the WB Ben Affleck starrer Live By Night; and Ron Howard’s In the Heart of the Sea and Suffragette opposite Carey Mulligan and Meryl Streep, once again winning the BIFA Award for Best Supporting Actor.

English-born actor Harry Treadaway may be best known for starring as “Dr. Frankenstein” on Showtime’s popular series Penny Dreadful from 2014-2016. His next films include the Amazon Studios currently untitled Nash Edgerton Project alongside Charlize Theron and Amanda Seyfried, as well as Halo of Stars with Lily Collins and Holliday Grainger. Additional credits include award-winning features including Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank, Joy division bio-pic Control, and British cult film Brothers of the Head opposite his real-life twin brother Luke. Harry played the lead role in the BAFTA-nominated short film Love You More by Patrick Marber, directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson. Harry's theatre credits include Ibsen's Ghosts at the West End, and Tribes at The Royal Court.

Kelly Lynch received early praise (and the first of two Independent Spirit Award nominations) as "Dianne", Matt Dillon’s strung-out girlfriend in Gus Van Sant’s brilliant Drugstore Cowboy. Lynch’s range is dazzling—from the sleek villainess in the first Charlie’s Angels to Thora Birch’s doomed, schizophrenic mother in the Emmy-nominated television movie Homeless to Harvard, to Mickey Rourke’s corrupt lover in Michael Cimino’s Desperate Hours. Perhaps her most remarkable transformation was as "Ivan Aycock", the gender-bending, courtly drag king in the groundbreaking hit Showtime series The L Word.

A Bronx native, actor Jharrel Jerome made his feature film debut in Barry Jenkins' Academy Award®-winning film Moonlight, for which he and his cast mates have earned countless accolades including the Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award, a SAG Awards nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Film and an MTV Movie Award. Other film credits include Monster, based on Walter Dean Myers’ Michael L. Printz award-winning novel of the same name, opposite Jennifer Hudson, Jeffrey Wright, Tim Blake Nelson, and Nas; and First Match, currently streaming on Netflix. He can next be seen in the indie short Robu.

Jharrel also starred in an episode of BET’s own hip-hop anthology series Tales, starring opposite Bre-Z.

In addition to acting, Jharrel writes and records his own music. Music from his first EP The Moonwalk and his upcoming album have been featured in episodes of Mr. Mercedes.

Jharrel is represented by Kipperman Management and Sloane, Offer, Weber and Dern, LLP.

Mary-Louise Parker is an American actress and author. In addition to her many films, Parker enjoyed great popularity for her lead role on Showtime's television series Weeds portraying Nancy Botwin, for which she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in 2006. Parker has appeared in films and series including RED, RED 2, Fried Green Tomatoes, Boys on the Side, The West Wing, and Angels in America, for which she received a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Parker is also the recipient of the 2001 Tony Award for Best Actress for her performance in the Broadway play Proof. She also starred in When We Rise.

The New Yorker has called Holland Taylor “the first vaudeville Gentile we ever saw.” Her New York stage performances include “Bess” in Breakfast with Les and Bess, the original productions of Butley, opposite Alan Bates, and A.R. Gurney’s The Cocktail Hour. In Los Angeles, she has performed in Kindertransport, and played opposite Christopher Lloyd in Yasmina Reza’s The Unexpected Man at the Geffen. She has worked extensively in film and television, appearing in Romancing the Stone, Jewel of the Nile, To Die For, Next Stop Wonderland, One Fine Day, George of the Jungle, The Truman Show, Happy Accidents, Spy Kids (2 & 3), Keeping the Faith, Legally Blonde, and Baby Mama, with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.

On television, Holland has been nominated for an EMMY® seven times, winning Best Supporting Actress in a Drama for the sexually popular “Judge Roberta Kittleson” on The Practice. Among her numerous series starring roles: The Powers that Be, Norman Lear’s short-lived but highly acclaimed political satire, Bosom Buddies, with Tom Hanks, Two and a Half Men, with Jon Cryer and Ashton Kutcher, and most currently in Norman Lear’s NBC Pilot Guess Who Died. She has performed narrations for the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Essa- Pekka Salonen and John Adams, and narrated the Harry Potter Suite, for John Williams at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Holland was a dedicated student of Stella Adler, and has given talks about the work and cultural contribution of this great teacher. Proud to be a Philadelphia native, she went to Westtown Friends School in that area, and took a B.A. at Bennington College.

In 2005 she became a student again, earning an M.A. from the University of Santa Monica and in ’06, began work on the play. Holland prepared for the Broadway run of her play, Ann, which she wrote and performed the role of the legendary Governor of Texas, “Ann Richards.” Performances began at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater in February of 2013 and opened that March. Holland will always be grateful to Maureen Patton, Director of the Galveston Grand Opera, who believed in the play, and took an enormous ‘Ann Richards-sized’ risk in launching its first run.

Nurturing an impressive body of work encompassing film and television, Breeda Wool’s career continues to evolve with diverse and challenging projects.

Breeda quickly became the breakout star of Lifetime’s critically acclaimed drama series Unreal playing “Faith,” a young woman from Mississippi who competes on a nationally televised dating show called Everlasting.  Her character was so popular with the critics and fans, Lifetime created a digital spin off focusing on her character titled The Faith Diaries marking the network’s first-ever scripted digital short series. The Faith Diaries follows “Faith” and “Amy” as they travel to Los Angeles to pursue their Hollywood dreams and learn about their relationship along way. 

Her other television credits include a starring role on Amazon’s web series Betas and guest starring roles on some of primetimes biggest series including Vice-Principals (HBO), The Affair (Showtime), Famous in Love (Freeform) and Midnight, Texas (NBC).

Segueing effortlessly between the big and small screen, Breeda starred alongside Lola Kirke in the film Awol which premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. Originally an award-winning short (which she also starred in), Awol is an arresting love story between two people whose relationship is influenced as much by their environmental circumstances as it is by their sexuality. Her other film credits include the all-female horror-anthology XX: Don’t Fail which premiered to rave reviews at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, Automatic at Sea and Erasing Eden.

A native of Urbana, Illinois, she went on to perform in several productions throughout elementary and high school, landing her a musical theater scholarship to Wagner College. After graduating with a degree in psychology, philosophy and theater, Breeda moved to New York City where she performed theater, Shakespeare, sketch comedy and avant-garde movement dance.  She also traveled the world as a commissioned street performer.

When not working on location, Breeda resides in Los Angeles and attends a weekly class at the Imagined Life Theater. In her spare time, she enjoys researching psychology, sociology and anthropology, Bikram yoga, playing volleyball and taking piano lessons.

A Juilliard grad, Justine started her career in Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha, opposite Greta Gerwig and Adam Driver and in David Chase’s Not Fade Away, opposite James Gandolfini and Jack Huston. She then went on to star in the Philip Seymour Hoffman-directed family drama A Family for All Occasions at the Bank Street Theater. 

Recent work includes John Singleton's FX drama series, Snowfall as well as guest leads on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Sneaky Pete. Up next, she can be seen on HBO's Succession. Justine was also seen opposite Sutton Foster in the second season of Darren Star’s Younger and as a series regular on the critically acclaimed ABC comedy, Cristela. She has done series regular roles for creatives such as Barry Sonnenfeld, David E. Kelley and Michael Fresco and has guest starred in shows such as The Good Wife, Shameless, Southland and Hulu’s Deadbeat.

Scott Lawrence was born in Los Angeles California, graduated from USC with a BFA in Theatre Arts and has been working in Hollywood for over 25 years now. Scott is probably best known for his role as Cmmdr Sturgis Turner on the long running CBS series, JAG. He has guest starred on other TV shows such as Fear the Walking Dead, Legion, Rectify, Suits, ER, Bones, The West Wing, Sons of Anarchy and many more. Scott has also performed in many Los Angeles, New York and regional theatre productions as well as feature films including Avatar, Star Trek Into Darkness, The Social Network, The Host and most recently Danny Collins with Al Pacino. He is the proud father of two sons.

Robert Stanton received his MFA from NYU's Graduate Acting Program in 1985. Public Theater founder Joseph Papp gave him his start that summer in "Measure for Measure" in Central Park, and Robert has been a steady presence on stage and screen ever since. He appeared in a range of films from A League of Their Own to Jason Bourne. His two-dozen Off-Broadway credits include an Obie Award for his performance in David Ives's All in the Timing. Recent audiences saw him in Ionesco's absurdist epic The Killer opposite Michael Shannon; as Lars Thorwald in a stage adaptation of Rear Window opposite Kevin Bacon; in Molière's The School for Wives opposite Phillipa Soo; and in leading roles in the plays of O'Neill, Sheridan, and Stoppard.

Jack has distinguished himself as one of our industry’s finest young actors in film, television and theatre. He recently wrapped shooting The Irishman for Martin Scorsese opposite Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, as well as the Amazon anthology series The Romanoffs for Matthew Weiner opposite Aaron Eckhart, Christina Hendricks and Isabelle Huppert. In summer 2018, he will shoot the Netflix feature, The Earthquake Bird for Wash Westmoreland opposite Alicia Vikander and Riley Keough.

Huston will next be seen in the independent film The Yellow Birds based on the novel by Iraqi War veteran Kevin Powers. Directed by Alexandre Moors, the film centers on two young soldiers who navigate the terrors of war under the command of the older, troubled “Sergeant Sterling” (Huston). Huston stars alongside Tye Sheridan, Alden Ehrenreich and Jennifer Aniston. In addition, Jack also recently wrapped the comedy feature, An Actor Prepares opposite Jeremy Irons with Steve Clark directing and Above Suspicion opposite Emilia Clarke and directed by Phillip Noyce.

Huston starred in the title role of “Judah Ben-Hur” in Paramount’s retelling of the classic Ben-Hur. The historical epic centers on the years prior to those portrayed in the 1959 film, focusing on a childhood friendship scorned and the betrayal of a Jerusalem family. Directed by Timur Bekmambetov and written by Oscar® winner John Ridley, Ben-Hur also stars Oscar® winner Morgan Freeman.

Jack first gained recognition for his portrayal of “Richard Harrow” in HBO’s Academy Award®-winning series, Boardwalk Empire, for which he earned a SAG Award® for best ensemble cast. Huston’s additional credits include the award-winning David O. Russell film, American Hustle, opposite Jennifer Lawrence, which earned him another SAG Award® for best ensemble, Screen Gem’s film Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Kill Your Darlings for Killer Films, David Chase’s Not Fade Away for Paramount Pictures opposite James Gandolfini, Bille August’s Night Train to Lisbon with Jeremy Irons, and the Nicholas Sparks film, The Longest Ride for FOX.

In theatre, Jack starred in Hitchcock’s classic, Strangers on a Train produced by Barbara Broccoli for London’s West End.

Born in London, Huston attended the drama institute Hurtwood House.

Tessa will soon start production on Hulu's Catch 22 produced by George Clooney and Grant Heslov. She was a series regular on Grey’s Anatomy, appeared in Insidious: The Last Key and heavily recurred on both FXX’S You’re The Worst and CBS’s Extant. She was the lead of the Tracy Scott Wilson play Buzzer at the Public Theater.

Maximiliano Hernandez was born in Brooklyn, NY. He began acting at Bishop Ford High School originally as a means of getting out of detention. He continued acting in college where he auditioned and was accepted into the BFA program at the Leonard Davis Center for the Performing Arts in Harlem. After performing in countless New York theatres, Maximiliano landed his first major television role in 1997 in multiple Law & Order series. It wasn’t much later until he was recurring on hit shows such as Southland, 24, and eventually a regular on FXs critically acclaimed series The Americans.

In 2011, he landed the Marvel Comics character of “Agent Jasper Sitwell” in the feature film, Thor with which he holds a record for most live action appearances in a comic book series. His character transcends through Marvels shorts, The Avengers series, ABCs Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and most recently in Avengers: Infinity Wars. Max has worked with directors Joss Whedon, Mira Nair, Gavin O'Connor, Kenneth Branagh and many others. He can be seen in Michael Bay’s TNT series, The Last Ship, Amazon’s Hand of God with Ron Perlman, as well as the feature film, Sicario.

Maximiliano currently resides in Los Angeles, CA.

Premiering in 2018 on Netflix, Nancy Travis stars opposite Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin in the new Chuck Lorre comedy series, The Kominsky Method, as “Lisa,” a fifty-something recent divorcee who joins an acting class taught by famed acting coach, “Sandy Kominsky” (Douglas), and not only discovers her hidden talent, but starts a connection that takes them both by surprise.

Returning to television this fall on its new network home, FOX, Travis also stars opposite Tim Allen in the hit comedy, Last Man Standing, as Allen’s wife, Vanessa, who puts up with her opinionated, curmudgeon of a husband and their three opinionated girls.

Travis recently starred in the independent film, Bernard & Huey, opposite Jim Rash and David Koechner, written by Jules Feiffer, and directed by Dan Mirvish.  Other recent films include The Submarine Kid, opposite Finn Wittrock, Emilie de Ravin, and Jack Coleman; and Married Young starring Gary Cole, Lucas Neff, David Fynn, and Vanessa Lengies.

Travis was born in New York and grew up in both Baltimore and Boston. She returned to New York to study drama at New York University. Soon after, she joined the national touring company of Neil Simon's hit play, Brighton Beach Memoirs. Her additional theatre credits include Broadway's, I'm Not Rappaport and Athol Fugard's, My Children, My Africa, which the author directed at the La Jolla Playhouse. She is a founding member of the off-Broadway theatre company, Naked Angels.

Travis starred on TBS’ hit comedy The Bill Engvall Show for three seasons and in Hallmark Channel’s television movie, Safe Harbor, along with Lifetime’s original television movie, Pregnancy Pact.

Travis made her feature film debut in the blockbuster comedy Three Men and A Baby. Her additional film credits include The Jane Austin Book Club, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Internal Affairs, Air America, Three Men and a Little Lady, So I Married an Axe Murderer, The Vanishing Greedy, Fluke, and Destiny Turns on the Radio and Bogie. On the small screen, she starred in Becker with Ted Danson and Almost Perfect for CBS, and in the television movies My Last Love and Fallen Angels.

Travis resides in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.