Tessa Thompson
ActingLos Angeles, California, USATessa Lynne Thompson (born October 3, 1983) is an American actress. Known for her roles in both blockbusters and independent dramas, her accolades include nominations for two BAFTA Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award.Thompson began her professional acting career with the Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company while studying at Santa Monica College, acting in productions of The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet. She made her film debut in the horror film When a Stranger Calls (2006), followed by leading roles in the independent drama Mississippi Damned (2009) and Tyler Perry's For Colored Girls (2010). Thompson received favourable notices for roles in the comedy-drama Dear White People (2014) and as civil rights activist Diane Nash in Ava DuVernay's historical drama Selma (2014). She gained mainstream attention for her roles in franchise films, playing Bianca Taylor in the sports dramas Creed (2015), Creed II (2018) and Creed III (2023), and as Valkyrie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including the movies Thor: Ragnarok (2017) and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022), as well as her leading role in Men in Black: International (2019). She starred in the independent films Sorry to Bother You (2018), Little Woods (2018), and Annihilation (2018). For her role as a black woman living during the Harlem Renaissance in Passing (2021), she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She portrayed the title role in Hedda (2025), which she also executive produced.On stage, she acted in the off-Broadway production of the Lydia R. Diamond play Smart People (2016). On television, she took recurring roles in shows such as the teen mystery series Veronica Mars (2005–2006), the historical drama series Copper (2012–2013), and the science fiction series Westworld (2016–2022). She starred in the romantic drama film Sylvie's Love (2020) on Amazon Prime Video. Also, she served as an executive producer, for which she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie.Description above from the Wikipedia article Tessa Thompson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Taika Waititi
DirectingWellington, New ZealandTaika David Cohen ONZM (born 16 August 1975), known professionally as Taika Waititi (/ˈtaɪkə ˈwaɪtiti/ TY-kə WY-tee-tee), is a New Zealand filmmaker, writer, actor, and comedian. He has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and a Grammy Award, as well as nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and six Emmy Awards. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2022.His feature films Boy (2010) and Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) have each been the top-grossing film entirely funded and produced within New Zealand. Waititi's 2003 short film Two Cars, One Night earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film. He co-wrote, co-directed and starred in the horror comedy film What We Do in the Shadows (2014) with Jemaine Clement, which was adapted into a television series of the same name in 2019. The series has been nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series.His directing credits include the superhero films Thor: Ragnarok (2017) and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022), as well as the black comedy film Jojo Rabbit (2019), the last of which he also wrote and starred in as an imaginary version of Adolf Hitler. Jojo Rabbit received six Academy Award nominations and won Best Adapted Screenplay. Waititi also earned a Grammy Award for producing the film's soundtrack.In television, Waititi co-created and produced the comedy drama series Reservation Dogs, and directed, produced, and starred in the comedy Our Flag Means Death. In addition to directing an episode of the series The Mandalorian, he voiced the character IG-11, for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance.Description above from the Wikipedia article Taika Waititi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Elizabeth Yu
ActingMystic Island,New Jersey, United StatesElizabeth Yu is an up and coming actress from New Jersey, New York. She started acting in elementary school and later continued her passion throughout high school.Yu has been acting professionally for the past two years and has already racked up a couple of acting credits to her name like Netflix's Avatar : The Last Airbender Live Action adaptation .
Vanessa Rubio
ActingNew Jersey, USAVanessa Rubio (born December 6, 1983) is an American actress known for her role as Carmen Diaz in the Netflix comedy-drama television series Cobra Kai.
Nicole Elizabeth Berger
ActingNew York City, New York, USANicole Elizabeth Berger, (born November 27, 2003) is an American actress, musician and model. Shortly after starting to work in the modeling industry, Nicole began her acting career; performing in local theater where she starred in productions as Miss Honey in Matilda, Maria in West Side Story and in renditions of The Nutcracker.Nicole had her first film debut in the 2011 film Goldberg- P.I. and within the next three years, she was cast as Young Beatrice in the 2014 comedy-drama The Longest Week, which earned the Breakthrough Award at the Georgia Film Critics Association Festival. Berger then landed the lead role of Grace Clarke in the 2016 drama All at Once which premiered at that year’s Napa Valley Film Festival and then screened at the Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival. The actress then appeared in the fantasy-reality film The Place of No Words in 2019, where Nicole is featured as the enchanted-fairy Esmeralda. The film debuted in 2019 at the Tribeca Film Festival and then again at the Philadelphia Film Festival. Nicole next starred in the short-film, Ali’s Realm, as Ali; a role for which Nicole won both Best Actress at the 2020 Seattle International Film Festival, and the Lead Actress Award at the 2020 Best Shorts Competition. During that same year, Nicole appeared in the short-film Five Teenagers Walk into a Bar, as well as the 2020 comedic crime-drama Clover; a role for which Nicole was nominated for Best Teen Actress in a Streaming Film Role by the 42nd Young Artist Academy Awards.Nicole stars also alongside the late Cameron Boyce in the 2020 award-winning indie-thriller Runt as Cecily. The film premiered at the 2020 Mammoth Film Festival where it received Best Director and the Audience Award for Best Film. Most recently, Nicole finished filming Black Spines, an upcoming horror-thriller film currently in post-production for 2023. Nicole is currently a Theater, Dance and Media concentrator at Harvard University and will be graduating in 2027. In addition, she has recently joined The Harvard Callbacks (a university a cappella group). Keep up with the latest about Nicole on Instagram (@OfficialNicoleBerger), Facebook (Nicole Elizabeth Berger), LinkedIn (Nicole Elizabeth Berger) and Twitter (@NicoleEBerger).