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Jordan Bridges

ActingLos Angeles County, California, USASon of actor Beau Bridges and Julie Bridges. As a child actor, he acted in two television films: The Kid from Nowhere (1982) (TV) directed by his father, and "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color: The Thanksgiving Promise (#31.8)" (1986) starring the entire Bridges family. However, he chose not to continue working as a child actor, so he could be just a regular kid.He attended the progressive Oakwood school with a strong emphasis on the arts, which got him interested in acting. He followed it up as a theater major and literature minor at New York's Bard College.Before earning his bachelor's degree, Bridges spent his junior year in England studying at the prestigious London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, staying at a tiny basement flat in Chelsea, eating lots of chicken noodles and attending West End theater productions on free passes.Classically trained, he became a "cater waiter" in New York and Los Angeles for a couple of years each, before he started getting roles in television and film.
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Matthew J. McCarthy

ActingProvidence, Rhode IslandMatt McCarthy (born November 9, 1979) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and improviser living in Los Angeles. He is best known for his appearances on Conan and CollegeHumor.com and for hosting the We Watch Wrestling Podcast. McCarthy co-stars as Carl on the  CBS show How We Roll.Matthew McCarthy, the youngest of three, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, at the old Women & Infants Hospital on Maude Street. He grew up in an Irish-Catholic home in Rumford, Rhode Island. He attended St. Margaret's School and La Salle Academy.The New York Times described him as a "John Belushi-like madman, " McCarthy began performing stand-up comedy after graduating from Fordham University, where he was the mascot of The Ram from 1999 to 2001. He then studied improvisation at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York. Before becoming a performer, he appeared as a contestant on a Cash Cab episode aired on June 26, 2006.In 2008, he starred in a Guinness commercial for St. Patrick's Day. The following year, he portrayed The Cable Guy in  Verizon Fios commercials.McCarthy co-founded the sketch video group Front Page Films with fellow comedians and creators, including frequent collaborator Pete Holmes. FPF made sketches, commercials and viral videos for Doritos, Crunch Fitness, CollegeHumor, and Comedy Central. McCarthy also starred in many shorts for CollegeHumor. Numerous Front Page Film videos were featured on Atom.com and Comedy Central's Tosh.In 2010, McCarthy hosted Action Pack on AMC with Nick Stevens.McCarthy was an avid pro wrestling fan who was a creative writer for WWE from 2011 to 2012 and 2016-2018. In 2013, McCarthy began recording episodes of the We Watch Wrestling Podcast with fellow stand-up comedians Vince Averill, Tom Sibley, and producer Rob Sibley.From October 2013 through June 2014, McCarthy was a series regular and writer on The Pete Holmes Show on TBS following Conan.McCarthy began performing comedy in New York City in 2003 at various open mics, barker, and bringer shows. Quickly found a home in the East Village at the now-defunct Comedy Social, a weekly comedy showcase at Sin Bar. Soon after, he hosted a stand-up at Mo Pitkin's House of Satisfaction. McCarthy had a month-long run of his solo show "McCarthyism" at the infamous Rififi Cinema Classics. McCarthy also ran "The Matt McCarthy Stand-Up Comedy Show" at Comix NY for several months.In 2011, McCarthy ran a monthly comedy extravaganza called MARKING OUT in Manhattan.His stand-up comedy television performances include Season 3 of Live at Gotham, John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show on Comedy Central.McCarthy has performed at such festivals as Just for Laughs in Montreal, All Tomorrow's Parties, Sasquatch! Music Festival, Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival and Bonnaroo.Named one of LA Weekly's Comics to Watch in 2014.Description above from the Wikipedia article about Matt McCarthy (comedian), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Osgood Perkins

DirectingNew York City, New York, USAOsgood Robert "Oz" Perkins II (born February 2, 1974) is an American filmmaker and actor. He began his career as a child actor, portraying the young version of his father, Anthony Perkins' character Norman Bates in Psycho II (1983), and later appeared in films such as Six Degrees of Separation (1993), Legally Blonde (2001), Not Another Teen Movie (2001), Star Trek (2009), and Nope (2022). He made his directorial debut with the horror film The Blackcoat's Daughter (2015) and has since become known for directing horror films such as I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016), Gretel & Hansel (2020), Longlegs (2024), and The Monkey (2025). He co-founded the production company Phobos with producer Chris Ferguson.
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MyAnna Buring

ActingSundsvall, Västernorrlands län, SwedenMyAnna Buring, born Anna Margaretha My Rantapää, was born on 22 September 1979 in Sundsvall, Sweden and is a Swedish actress, mainly active in the UK.She was born in Sweden, but moved, with her parents, to Oman and Kuwait, where her father, Klas, worked as an orthopedic consultant and surgeon while her mother sold furs and Christmas trees. MyAnna studied at the American British Academy in Muscat (ABA) – Now known as “The ABA Oman International School”.At the age of 16, she moved to the UK herself where she completed her Bachelor’s degree. (International Baccalaureate) at a boarding school in Oxford. She also studied drama and Spanish, which she later dropped out of, at the University of Bristol and later continued to study and graduate from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) in 2004.
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Josef Altin

ActingLondon, England, UKJosef Altin (born in London) is a British TV series and movie actor. Altin had small roles in various TV shows and movies including The Bill, Peep Show and Babyfather. He starred in DC Moore's hit play The Empire at the Royal Court Theatre in London.Altin was born in London, to a Turkish family. His first appearance in a television series was his role as Garry in the drama series Psychos. His first appearance on a major British television series came in 2004 when he played a machine strimmer in Blackpool. Over the years, Altin has appeared on The Bill several times in different roles; from 2006 to 2007 he played Jay Henderson, and in 2009 he played Peter Balmaine. After his appearance on The Bill he became a somewhat sought after actor and received many more roles over the coming years, performing in both television series and films multiple times a year.In 2007, Altin appeared in two films, the first of which being Boy A, where he played Bully, and what is perhaps the biggest budget film he has starred in, Eastern Promises, where he played Ekrem.He has also appeared in other big television series including Peep Show, Doctors, Robin Hood, Casualty, Little Miss Jocelyn, New Tricks, Being Human, Misfits and Law & Order: UK. Top boyAltin also played the role of Pypar, commonly called Pyp, in the HBO fantasy TV series Game of Thrones.2015 saw Altin starring in two films Narcopolis and Child 44. In 2016, Altin starred in the short film, 'I Dream of Zombies'.On television, in 2017 Altin appeared in the E4 sitcom Chewing Gum as Ryan, and portrayed Prince Rasselas, a young molly boy who plies his trade on the streets of Covent Garden, in the Hulu Original Harlots. In 2018, Altin played Willem Van Burgen, a disturbed paedophile suffering from syphilis, who comes from a wealthy family, suspected of being the serial killer of boys in the TNT period drama, The Alienist.
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