RUSSELL CROWE is an Academy Award® winner who is regarded as one of the finest actors of our time. Crowe’s many acting honors include three consecutive Best Actor Oscar® nominations for his work in the acclaimed 1999 drama The Insider; the 2000 Best Picture winner Gladiator, for which he took home the Oscar; and Best Picture winner A Beautiful Mind in 2001.

In addition to the Academy Award, Crowe’s performance as Maximus, the Roman general- turned- gladiator in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator earned him Best Actor honors from several critics’ organizations, including the Broadcast Film Critics and London Film Critics Circle. He also received Golden Globe, BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild nominations for his performance.

The year prior, Crowe obtained his first Oscar nomination for his portrayal of tobacco company whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand in Michael Mann’s The Insider. He was awarded Best Actor by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Broadcast Film Critics Association, National Society of Film Critics and the National Board of Review. He garnered Golden Globe, BAFTA, and SAG nominations the same year.

Crowe’s masterful portrayal of Nobel Prize winner John Forbes Nash, Jr. in Ron Howard’s A Beautiful Mind brought him his third Oscar nomination, as well as his third consecutive Critics’ Choice Award. He took home the Golden Globe, BAFTA and SAG Award, and several other critics groups Awards for Best Actor. In 2005, Crowe reunited with Howard in Cinderella Man, and his portrayal of Jim Braddock earned him both Golden Globe and SAG nominations and won him the Australian Film Institute (AFI) Award for Best Actor.

Crowe made his directorial debut in 2015 with the sweeping epic The Water Diviner, in which he also starred. The film won three Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards, including Best Picture. His second directorial film, Poker Face, a thriller in which he also stars, was recently released.

Crowe recently starred in the supernatural thriller The Pope’s Exorcist, directed by Julius Avery for Screen Gems, and opposite Zac Efron in Apple’s The Greatest Beer Run Ever, directed by Peter Farrelly. He will next be seen in slew of films: Sony/Marvels’ Kraven the Hunter; the action-thriller Land of Bad and the thriller Sleeping Dogs. He also played ‘Zeus’ in Taika Waititi’s Thor: Love and Thunder.

Additional film credits include Solstice’s psychological thriller Unhinged; Jed Kurzel’s The True History of the Kelly Gang with George MacKay; Universal’s The Mummy opposite Tom Cruise; Joel Edgerton’s Boy Erased with Nicole Kidman and Lucas Hedges; The Nice Guys with Ryan Gosling; Darren Aronofsky’s biblical drama Noah; Gabriele Muccino’s Fathers & Daughter’s; Akiva Goldsman’s Winter’s Tale; Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel; Tom Hooper’s acclaimed screen adaptation of the musical Les Miserables; and Allen Hughes’ Broken City. He has worked on several Ridley Scott-directed projects such as A Good Year, American Gangster, Body of Lies and Robin Hood. Among his other credits are Peter Weir’s Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, for which he earned a Golden Globe nomination; Taylor Hackford’s Proof of Life; 3:10 to Yuma, with Christian Bale; Kevin Macdonald’s State of Play, with Ben Affleck; Paul Haggis’ The Next Three Days; and in RZA’s The Man with the Iron Fists.

On the television side, Crowe received rave reviews for his performance as Roger Ailes in Showtime’s The Loudest Voice, starring opposite Naomi Watts and Sienna Miller. He won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture for TV and received SAG and Critics Choice award nominations.
Born in New Zealand, but raised Australia it was there Crowe gained international attention for his work on the big screen. He was recognized three consecutive years by the AFI, starting in 1990, when he was nominated for Best Actor for The Crossing; in 1991 when he won Best Supporting Actor for Proof and the following year winning the Best Actor Awards from both the AFI and the Australian Film Critics for his performance in Romper Stomper. The 1993 Seattle International Film Festival not only named him Best Actor for his work in Romper Stomper but in Hammers Over the Anvil too. Crowe’s American film debut was in Sam Raimi’s 1995 western, The Quick and the Dead and later went on to earn acclaim for his role in Curtis Hanson’s crime drama L.A. Confidential. His early film credits include Mystery, Alaska, Heaven’s Burning, Virtuosity, The Sum of Us, For the Moment, Love in Limbo, The Silver Brumby, The Efficiency Expert and Prisoners of the Sun. Crowe has since starred in a long and diverse list of film and television credits capturing audiences worldwide.

A talented actress, writer and director, Karen Gillan continues to expand her repertoire with dynamic projects alongside notable filmmakers and actors.

Upcoming, Gillan will be seen reprising her role as ‘Nebula’ in James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 opposite Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista and Bradley Cooper. The latest Marvel film, which could possibly lead to the end of the Guardians as we know them, will be released globally in theaters on May 5, 2023. She will also be seen starring in Late Bloomers which was written by Anna Greenfield and is loosely based on Greenfield’s experience living in Brooklyn in her 20s. The film will make its debut at the 2023 SXSW film festival.

Gillan recently wrapped production on the crime-thriller Sleeping Dogs starring alongside Academy Award winner Russell Crowe. The film is an adaptation of E.O. Chirovici’s critically acclaimed novel, ‘The Book of Mirrors’.

Prior, Gillan was seen as ‘Nebula’ in Joe and Anthony Russo’s Avengers: Endgame, alongside Robert Downey Jr, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson. The blockbuster, which was released on April 26, 2019, opened to rave reviews and has become the highest grossing film of all time. Gillan originated the role on screen in James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy, later appearing in Guardians of the Galaxy 2, and Avengers: Infinity War. Gillan also seen in Taika Waititi’s box office hit, Thor: Love and Thunder, which was released in July 2022.

In 2022, Gillan led the cast of Riley Stearns’ sci-fi thriller Dual alongside Aaron Paul, which follows a terminally ill woman (Gillan) who opts for a cloning procedure to ease her loss on her friends and family. The film opened at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim and was acquired by RLJE in a bidding war, who subsequently released the film on April 15, 2022. Prior, Gillan was seen in Judd Apatow’s The Bubble opposite Leslie Mann, Pedro Pascal, Fred Armisen, Maria Bakalova and Keegan-Michael Key. The meta-comedy centered on a group of actors and a film crew stuck inside of a “pandemic bubble” while filming the fictional project Cliff Beasts 6. The film was released on Netflix on April 1, 2022.

Gillan also starred in Navot Papushado’s action thriller, Gunpowder Milshake, about female assassin (Gillan) who, when a job goes wrong, must choose between serving the ruthless crime syndicate she works for and saving the life of an 8-year-old girl. Co-starring Angela Bassett, Lena Headey and Michelle Yeoh, the film was released in the US on Netflix on July 14, 2021, and quickly became the streamer’s #1 movie. StudioCanal released the film in the UK on September 17, 2021.

In 2019, Gillan reprised her starring role as ‘Ruby Roundhouse’ in Jake Kasdan’s, Jumanji: The Next Level, opposite Kevin Hart, Dwayne Johnson, and Jack Black. The sequel to Junmanji: Welcome to the Jungle, which was Sony’s worldwide highest grossing film of all time, earned nearly $1B worldwide.

In 2018, Gillan made her directorial debut with The Party’s Just Beginning, which she also wrote, produced, and starred in. The film premiered to rave reviews at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and was released by The Orchard on December 7, 2019. The film was released in the UK on December 1, 2019.

Other film credits include Nick Bruno and Troy Quane’s Spies in Disguise alongside Will Smith and Tom Holland ,Twentieth Century Fox’s Call of the Wild opposite Bradley Whitford and Harrison Ford, Michael Dowse’s Stuber, James Ponsoldt’s The Circle with Tom Hanks and Emma Watson, Ti West’s In A Valley of Violence alongside Ethan Hawke and John Travolta, John McKay’s Not Another Happy Ending, Adam McKay’s Best Picture nominated The Big Short, alongside Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, Christian Bale, and Steve Carell, Collin Schiffli’s All Creatures Below, opposite David Dastmalchian, Harris Goldberg’s Alex & The List alongside Jennifer Morrison and Patrick Fugit, and the horror/thriller box office hit Oculus.

On television, Gillan was featured in three seasons of the BBC’s critically acclaimed series Doctor Who. Gillan starred as ‘Amy Pond,’ a companion of the series protagonist the Doctor, in his eleventh incarnation, played by Matt Smith. Gillan appeared as a series regular from the fifth season to midway through the seventh season.

Prior television credits include ABC’s Selfie, HBO’S 7 Days in Hell and BBC’s We’ll Take Manhattan.

Off screen, Gillan is an avid supporter of the charity Mikey’s Line, a mobile suicide prevention text service and hotline based in her hometown of Inverness, Scotland.

An established actor with a prestigious career in cinema having worked with the likes of Ridley Scott, Peter Jackson, Darren Aronofsky, Jim Sheridan, and John Madden. Highlights include Asylum (David McKenzie) with Natasha Richardson and Ian McKellen, Lord of the Rings alongside Cate Blanchett, The Debt with Jessica Chastain, The Equalizer with Denzel Washington, and presently Stephen Williams in Chevalier and Tilman Singer’s Cuckoo. He has worked on Broadway in Parisian Woman with Uma Thurman and Off Broadway with Ivan Van Hove in Little Foxes. He is the recipient of various awards including a Jeffrey Jefferson for Astrov in Uncle Vanya at the Goodman Theatre Chicago (Bob Falls) and an Australian Film Institute award.

Sleeping Dogs reunites Tommy Flanagan with Crowe following their work together on Ridley Scott’s Oscar-winning classic, Gladiator. Flanagan is perhaps best known for his role as Filip ‘Chibs’ Telford in FX’s Emmy-nominated biker gang drama Sons of Anarchy, which ran for seven seasons, Flanagan currently stars opposite Joseph Sikora in Starz’s Power Book IV: Force — a spin-off of the premium cabler’s hugely popular crime drama Power, which has been picked up for a second season. He recently appeared on HBO’s Westworld opposite Evan Rachel Wood and Vincent Cassel and has also been seen on series like Peaky Blinders and Netflix’s Wu Assassins, among others.

Recent film credits for Flanagan include the James Gunn directed Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2; the action-thriller Boon opposite Neil McDonough; the crime actioned Killers Anonymous opposite Gary Oldman and Jessica Alba; A24’s acclaimed Western The Ballad of Lefty Brown opposite Bill Pullman, Jim Caviezel and Peter Fonda; Bleecker Street’s Papillon remake, which reunited him with Sons of Anarchy‘s Charlie Hunnam; Netflix’s Iraq War pic Sand Castle opposite Henry Cavill and Nicholas Hoult; and Heidi Greensmith’s indie drama Winter opposite Tom Payne.

Harry Greenwood is an accomplished Australian performer across stage and screen. For Sydney Theatre Company, Harry has appeared in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Three Sisters, Cloud Nine, A Flea in Her Ear, Love and Information (also Malthouse Theatre) and Fury. Other stage credits include Belvoir Street Theatre’s Back at the Dojo, The Glass Menagerie, and Once in Royal David’s City.

Harry’s film credits include Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale, Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge, Kokoda, The Dust Walker, True History of the Kelly Gang, Carnifex, and Leah Purcell’s feature The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson. His numerous short film credits include Jane Campion’s The Water Diary and Peter Carstairs’ Pacific. Harry’s TV credits include Pieces of Her, Total Control, Wakefield, Operation Buffalo, The Commons, Nine’s Bad Mothers and Gallipoli, as well as ABC’s Old School and the recently third season of Bump on Stan. The drama series The Clearing for Disney+, and Class of ’07 for Amazon Prime.

Thomas Wright is the director, producer and co-writer of the award-winning feature, Acute Misfortune, based on journalist Erik Jensen’s biography of Australian artist Adam Cullen. The film, Wright's debut, was named the best Australian film of 2019 and one of the ten best Australian films of the decade by The Guardian, who called it, in their five-star review, 'an enthralling, complex triumph’. The film was the winner of The Age Critics’ Prize at Melbourne International Film Festival and Screen Daily named it in their best films of the year. The Hollywood Reporter hailed it 'one of the year's most striking and accomplished directorial debuts.’

The Stranger, Wright’s second feature film as writer/director, premiered at the 2022 Festival de Cannes in Un Certain Regard. The film stars BAFTA winner Sean Harris and Joel Edgerton, who also produces with Anonymous Content and See-Saw Films. Released theatrically in Australia to rave reviews- ‘Unconventional... Eerie... Understated... Entrancing... “The Stranger” confirms that Wright has arrived’ – the film was released by Netflix globally October 19, 2022, was the #2 most viewed film in its first week and remained in the top 10 for several weeks. Nominated in nearly every category of the 2022 AACTA Awards, it won for Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor (Sean Harris) along with the Australian Directors Guild Award for Best Direction in a Narrative Feature Film and the Film Critics Circle Awards for Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Actor (Joel Egerton) and Best Supporting Actor (Sean Harris). It was nominated for Australian Writers Guild and NSW Premier’s Literary Awards in 2023.

As an actor, Wright came to international attention in Jane Campion’s Top of The Lake (Sundance Channel / BBC), for which he received a US Critics’ Choice Award nomination; in Everest (Working Title / Universal); in Cedric Jimenez’s The Man with the Iron Heart; and in the award- winning features Van Dieman’s Land, Balibo and Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country.

Wright was most recently seen in the series Barkskins, based on the bestselling novel by Pulitzer Prize-winner Annie Proulx and produced by Scott Rudin Productions. Other lead roles in US series include Outsiders (WGN America / Sony) and the 2014 Peabody Award-Winning series The Bridge (FX).

Wright founded the theatre company Black Lung in 2006, at the age of twenty-two. Black Lung was named one of the most influential theatre companies of the decade by The Australian, receiving numerous awards and widespread critical acclaim.

In his nearly twenty-five-year career as a screenwriter, Adam Cooper has written more than forty movies and television shows for various studios, streamers, and platforms – among them, EXODUS: GODS & KINGS, directed by Ridley Scott; Allegiant, directed by Robert Schwentke; Assassin’s Creed directed by Justin Kurzel; Transporter: Refueled for Luc Besson; and the television series Of Kings and Prophets for ABC.

Upcoming credits include an adaptation of the critically acclaimed novel The Destroyers for director Anne Sewitsky at Prime Video starring Nick Robinson; and the crime drama Little Red Dog for director John Gilroy, based on the book “Strip” by author Thomas Perry. Sleeping Dogs marks Adam’s directorial debut.