Christina Chong
ActingEnfield, London, England, UKChristina Chong is a British actress, dancer and musician born in Enfield, London, to a Chinese father and an English mother. She began dancing at the age of four and attended the Sutcliffe School of Dance in Longridge. At 14, she gained a place at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London, graduating five years later. After graduation, she moved to Berlin to star in the European premier of the musical Aida, written by Elton John and Tim Rice.After sustaining an injury, Chong returned to London in 2005 where she turned to acting. In 2011 she played Lorna Bucket in season 6 of Doctor Who, Sarah Witney in season 2 of Monroe, Lizzie Pepper in two episodes of Whitechapel in 2012 and recurring roles as DI Nicola Rogerson in Line of Duty, season 2 (2014) and Dominion season 2 (2015) as Zoe Holloway. She is best known for her role as La'an Noonien-Singh in the Paramount+ original series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022–present).Chong's film credits include Johnny English reborn (2011), and Tom & Jerry (2021). She has also appeared in several short films and music videos.Her EP "Twin Flames" was released to multiple streaming platforms in 2023.
Celia Rose Gooding
ActingNew York, New York, USACelia Rose Gooding (born February 22, 2000) is an American actress and singer.
Melissa Navia
ActingNew York, New York, USAMelissa Navia is an American actress known for playing helmsman Erica Ortegas in the television series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Navia was born in New York City on August 24, 1984. She attended the Professional Performing Arts School in New York City, where she studied acting, singing, and dancing. After graduating from high school, she attended the New York University Tisch School of the Arts, where she earned a BFA in drama.Navia began her acting career in the theater, appearing in productions of The Crucible, The Taming of the Shrew, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. She also appeared in several short films and television commercials.Navia's breakthrough role came in 2013, when she was cast as Dawn in the sci-fi movie The Paragon Cortex. The film won several awards at the Wild Rose Independent Film Festival, including Best Actress for Navia.In 2022, Navia was cast as helmsman Erica Ortegas in the television series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The series is a prequel to the original Star Trek series and follows the adventures of the USS Enterprise under the command of Captain Christopher Pike. Navia's performance as Ortegas has been praised by critics and fans alike.In addition to her work on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Navia has also appeared in several other television series, including Bull, New Amsterdam, Billions, and Dietland. She has also appeared in the films The Perfect Match and The Girl Who Invented Kissing.Navia is a writer and stand-up comedian. She is also a trained martial artist and sword fighter.
Michelle Hurd
ActingNew York City, New York, USAMichelle Hurd (born December 21, 1966) is an American stage, film, and television actress. She is married to actor Garret Dillahunt.Michelle Hurd is the daughter of actor Hugh L. Hurd. She graduated from Saint Ann's School in 1984 and Boston University in 1988, and studied with the Alvin Ailey School. After her graduation from college, she studied at Great Britain's National Theatre .Her Broadway credits include the 1996 Stephen Sondheim-George Furth flop Getting Away with Murder. Other theater credits include Othello, A.M.L., Hamlet, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Looking for the Pony at Manhattan Theater Source with her sister Adrienne Hurd. She met her husband, Garret Dillahunt, in 900 Oneonta at Circle Repertory Theater Company. She has won several awards, including the Robbie Award and the California Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama for the premiere of Richard Greenberg's The Violet Hour.She has also appeared in several movies, including Random Hearts, Personals and as the comic book superhero B.B. DaCosta/Fire in the unshown TV-pilot Justice League of America (1997). After working in television roles such as The Cosby Mysteries, New York Undercover and The Practice, she appeared in a 1997 episode of Law & Order. Her performance as a corrupt FBI informant caught the attention of L&O producer Dick Wolf, who two years later cast her in the spin-off Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Det. Monique Jeffries. She co-starred with Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay for the first season before leaving the series in 2000, but she did appear in the first, seventh and sixteenth episodes of season two, her final appearance being in March 2001. In 2001, she appeared in the Showtime original series Leap Years, where her character was the on and off love interest of a bisexual character played by her real-life husband.Television roles include parts in Charmed, The O.C., According to Jim, Shark, Bones and Gossip Girl. In 2006 - 2007, she had a recurring role on ER as television news producer Courtney Brown, who became close to Dr. Kerry Weaver.She played Diana, the leading rôle, in the Washington Shakespeare Theatre Company's 10 February–29 March 2009 production of Lope de Vega's Dog in the Manger.She won a Robbie Award as "best actress" for her work in the world premiere of The Violet Hour at South Coast Repertory. She played in Hamlet at the North Shore Theater.In 2010, Hurd began a starring role on the A&E Network drama The Glades, playing Colleen Manus.
Ed Speleers
ActingChichester, West Sussex, EnglandEdward John Speleers (born 7 April 1988) is an English actor. He is best known for playing the title role in the 2006 film Eragon, antagonist Stephen Bonnet in the TV series Outlander, and Jimmy Kent in the TV series Downton Abbey. He has also appeared as Rhys Montrose in the fourth season of You (2023) and Jack Crusher in the third season of Star Trek: Picard (2023).Description above from the Wikipedia article Ed Speleers, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.