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Sir John Vincent Hurt (January 22, 1940 – January 25, 2017) was an English actor whose career spanned over five decades. He came to prominence for his role as Richard Rich in the film A Man for All Seasons (1966) and gained BAFTA Award nominations for his portrayals of Timothy Evans in 10 Rillington Place (1971) and Quentin Crisp in television film The Naked Civil Servant (1975) – winning his first BAFTA for the latter. He played Caligula in the BBC TV series I, Claudius (1976). Hurt's performance in the prison drama Midnight Express (1978) brought him international renown and earned Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards, along with an Academy Award nomination. His BAFTA-nominated portrayal of astronaut Kane, in the science-fiction horror film Alien (1979), notably included a scene where an alien creature burst out of his chest, named by several publications as one of the most memorable moments in cinema history. Hurt earned his third competitive BAFTA, along with his second Oscar and Golden Globe nominations, as Joseph Merrick in David Lynch's biopic The Elephant Man (1980). Other significant roles during the 1980s included Bob Champion in biopic Champions (1984), Mr. Braddock in the Stephen Frears drama The Hit (1984), Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) and Stephen Ward in the drama depicting the Profumo affair, Scandal (1989). Hurt was again BAFTA-nominated for his work in Irish drama The Field (1990) and played the primary villain, James Graham, in the epic adventure Rob Roy (1995). His later films include the Harry Potter film series (2001–11), the Hellboy films (2004 and 2008), supernatural thriller The Skeleton Key (2005), western The Proposition (2005), political thriller V for Vendetta (2005), action adventure Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), sci-fi action Outlander (2008) and the Cold War espionage film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011). Hurt reprised his role as Quentin Crisp in An Englishman in New York (2009), which brought his seventh BAFTA nomination. He portrayed the War Doctor in the BBC TV series Doctor Who's 50th anniversary special, "The Day of the Doctor", in 2013. Hurt was regarded as one of Britain's finest actors; director David Lynch described him as "simply the greatest actor in the world". He possessed what was described as the "most distinctive voice in Britain", likened by The Observer to "nicotine sieved through dirty, moonlit gravel". His voice acting career encompassed films such as Watership Down (1978), The Lord of the Rings (1978), The Plague Dogs (1982), The Black Cauldron (1985), Dogville (2003) and Planet Dinosaur (2011) as well as BBC TV series Merlin (2008–2012). In 2012, he was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement BAFTA Award, in recognition of his "outstanding contribution to cinema". He was knighted in 2015 for his services to drama.

Hugh Michael Horace Dancy (born 19 June 1975) is an English actor who rose to prominence for his role as the title character in the television film adaptation of David Copperfield (2000) as well as for roles in feature films as Kurt Schmid in Black Hawk Down (2001) and Prince Charmont in Ella Enchanted (2004). Other film roles include Joe Conner in Shooting Dogs (2005), Grigg Harris in The Jane Austen Book Club (2007), Luke Brandon in Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009), Adam Raki in Adam (2009) and Ted in Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011). On television, he portrayed criminal profiler Will Graham in the NBC television series Hannibal (2013–2015), Cal Roberts in the Hulu original series The Path (2016–2018) and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, in the Channel 4 miniseries Elizabeth I (2005); the latter role earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Dancy currently portrays Senior Assistant District Attorney Nolan Price on NBC's revival of the original Law & Order (2022–present). Description above from the Wikipedia article Hugh Dancy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Dominique Horwitz, wird am 23 April 1957 in Paris geboren. 1971 zieht die Familie nach Berlin, wo er das Deutsch – Französische Gymnasium besucht. Mit 19 Jahren steht Dominique Horwitz das erste mal vor einer Fernsehkamera, bereits ein Jahr später, 1978, ist er im Kino zu sehen mit Peter Lilienthals „David“. 1978 gibt Horwitz für ein Jahr ein kabarettistisches Zwischenspiel im Berliner CaDeWe (Cabaret des Westens), ab 1979 folgten vorwiegend Theaterengagements; zunächst in Tübingen, dann München und Hamburg. 1989: Dieter Wedel bringt ihn wieder ins Fernsehen mit „Der große Bellheim“. Und spätestens 1992 mit Josef Vilsmaiers „Stalingrad“, in dem Horwitz  die Hauptrolle spielt, ist er einem internationalen Kinopublikum bekannt. Seine Vielseitigkeit beweist Dominique Horwitz als Sänger, der ebenso die „Dreigroschenoper“ nach Brecht und Weill wie Chansons des unvergessenen Jacques Brel interpretiert. Zum privaten Dominique Horwitz sei zu sagen, daß er aus erster Ehe zwei große Kinder hat, Miriam und Laszlo. Bei Dreharbeiten zum Film „Blindgänger“ lernt er seine Frau Anna kennen. Mit ihr und den Kindern Mick und Marlene lebt er seit 2003 in der Nähe von Weimar.

Nicola Walker (born 15 May 1970) is an English actress, known for her starring roles in various British television programmes from the 1990s onwards, including that of Ruth Evershed in the spy drama Spooks from 2003 to 2011. She has also worked in theatre, radio and film.

A British actor. He is best known for his roles in Cloud Atlas (2012) and Interstellar (2014), as well as the lead role of Lex Carnahan in The CW miniseries Containment.

UK actor Steve Toussaint first appeared on the big screen in the mid-'90s with supporting roles in movies such as Judge Dredd and Circus. He worked all the way through the new millennium appearing in films such as Dog Eat Dog and The Order.  He also earned major accolades for his roles on TV shows like The Knock, The Bill, Doctors, and Broken News, before making an impact playing Seso in 2010's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.

Clare-Hope Ashitey (born February 12, 1987) is an English actress. She attended the Centre Stage School of Performing Arts, Southgate while being educated at The Latymer School, located in the Edmonton area of London, for seven years. She took a gap year between school and university to work on the film Children of Men (2006). In 2018, she starred in the Netflix Original crime drama series Seven Seconds. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia