Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie was born in Los Angeles on June 4, 1975, to prominent actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. A two-time Academy Award winner, Jolie's most successful projects include Girl, Interrupted (1999), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Wanted (2008), Salt (2010), and Maleficent (2014). She has been named Hollywood's highest-paid actress multiple times.
In addition to her acting, Jolie uses her massive public platform to advocate for humanitarian projects. After filming in postwar Cambodia in 2001, Jolie joined the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), for which she currently serves as ambassador. She also worked in community development and conservation, advocating for children's rights, particularly vulnerable child immigrants. Jolie wrote about her decade of travels to warzones in her book, Notes from My Travels.
Elle Fanning
Elle Fanning was born in Georgia, USA, on April 9, 1998. The younger sister of child actress Dakota Fanning, Elle began her career in 2001 playing a younger version of Dakota Fanning's character in I am Sam. Over the following years, Fanning performed in several notable films, such as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and Super8 (2011), for which she won a Spotlight Award. She also collaborated on several independent films by notable directors, such as Sofia Coppola and Woody Allen. In 2019, Fanning became the youngest person ever to serve as a Cannes Film Festival jury member. She currently stars as Catherine the Great in the Hulu series The Great (2020).
Sharlto Copley
Sharlto Copley was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 27, 1973. His notable performances include roles in The A-Team (2010), Elysium (2013), and starring in the Academy Award-nominated film District 9 (2009)
Lesley Manville
Lesley Manville was born in Brighton, England, on March 12, 1956. She is a film and stage actress and former dancer who frequently collaborates with English director and screenwriter Mike Leigh. She began her career on the stage before transitioning to film and television and has starred in several National Theatre productions.
She was nominated for two British Academy Film Awards for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in Another Year (2010) and Phantom Thread (2017), earning her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2015, her "services to drama and charity" earned her an appointment as Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).
Imelda Staunton
Imelda Staunton was born in London in 1956. She is a Royal Academy of Arts-trained actress who began her career in theater, starring in many plays and musicals, winning four Laurence Olivier Awards for theater. She gained wide recognition for her film roles after playing Professor Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007). Staunton also starred in several television series, including as Queen Elizabeth II in the final two seasons of The Crown, a role for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.
Juno Temple
Born on July 21, 1989, Juno Temple is an English actress known for her performances in films such as Atonement (2007), The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), and Black Mass (2015). In 2013, Temple received the BAFTA Rising Star Award. She was nominated for three Screen Actors Guild awards for her performance as Keeley Jones in the comedy-drama Ted Lasso.
Sam Riley
Sam Riley is an English actor, singer, and model known for his role in the 2007 biopic Control about Ian Curtis of Joy Division, a role for which he received a British Independent Film Award for "Most Promising Newcomer" and a BAFTA "Rising Star" nomination. He was born on January 8, 1980, in West Yorkshire, England.
Brenton Thwaites
Australian actor Brenton Thwaites was born on August 10, 1989. He starred in the soap opera Home and Away before starring in major films such as The Giver (2014) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017).
Kenneth Cranham
Scottish film, radio, and stage actor Kenneth Cranham was born in 1944. During his early career, he starred in several popular television comedies, such as Shine on Harvey Moon, and in many West End theater productions, such as The Father, for which he won Laurence Olivier Award. He has appeared in dozens of films, plays, and radio shows since the 1960s.
