"Kushiel's Legacy" Fancast

1. Emma Mackey

Actress | Barbie

Born 4th January 1996 in Le Mans (France) to a British mother and a French father. She moved to the UK at the age of 17 to study English Language and Literature at the University of Leeds (2013-2016). After directing and appearing in various stage productions there, she started to pursue a career ...

Phèdre nó Delaunay - Option 1

2. Aisling Franciosi

Actress | The Nightingale

Aisling Franciosi is an Irish-Italian actress known for "The Fall" (2013), "Game of Thrones" (2011), and "The Nightingale" (2018). She was born in Dublin in 1993, moved with her family to Italy soon after, and returned to Ireland four years later with her mother. She attended acting classes as a ...

Phèdre nó Delaunay - Option 2

3. Anya Taylor-Joy

Actress | The Queen's Gambit

Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy (born 16 April 1996) is a British-American actress. She is best known for her roles as Beth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit (2020), Thomasin in the period horror film The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (2015), as Casey Cooke in the horror-thriller Split (2016), and as ...

Phèdre nó Delaunay - Option 3

4. George MacKay

Actor | 1917

George MacKay was born in 1992 in Hammersmith, London, England, to Kim Baker, a British costume designer, and Paul Christopher MacKay, an Australian stage/lighting manager, from Adelaide. One of his grandmothers is from Cork, Ireland.

At the age of ten, George was scouted to audition for a role in ...

Joscelin Verreuil - Option 1

5. Joe Alwyn

Actor | The Favourite

Joseph Matthew Alwyn is an English actor and songwriter. Born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, and raised in North London, Alwyn developed interest in acting during his teens and joined the National Youth Theatre in 2009. He began by acting in two student productions at Edinburgh Festival Fringe,...

Joscelin Verreuil - Option 2

6. Billy Howle

Actor | Outlaw King

Billy Howle was born in Stoke-on-Trent, England, to a schoolteacher mother and a father who teaches at Kent University, the second of four sons. His older brother, Sam, is a graphic designer. Despite his parents' academic backgrounds, Billy has said that he was not interested in further education, ...

Joscelin Verreuil - Option 3

7. Eva Green

Actress | Casino Royale

French actress and model Eva Gaëlle Green was born on July 6, 1980, in Paris, France. Her father, Walter Green, is a dentist who appeared in the 1966 film Au hasard Balthazar (1966). Her mother, Marlène Jobert, is an actress turned children's book writer. Eva's mother was born in Algeria, of French...

Melisande Shahrizai - Option 1

8. Katie McGrath

Actress | Jurassic World

Irish actress Katie McGrath did not intend to make a career for herself in the acting profession. Upon graduating from Trinity College in Dublin she became interested in fashion journalism and worked for lifestyle and fashion magazine, Image. She left after a while, as it was not her calling. After...

Melisande Shahrizai - Option 2

9. Janet Montgomery

Actress | Black Swan

A native of Bournemouth in the UK, Janet Montgomery moved to London when she received a scholarship at a dance school. One of her first acting jobs was a guest star role on the critically-acclaimed UK teen drama series, Skins (2007), as Nicholas Hoult's love interest.

Upon moving to Los Angeles, ...

Melisande Shahrizai - Option 3

10. Luke Pasqualino

Actor | Snowpiercer

Luke Pasqualino was born on February 19, 1990, in Peterborough, England, as Luca Giuseppe Pasqualino. His parents are both of Italian descent, from Sicily and Naples. He is an actor, known for Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome (2012), Snowpiercer (2013), and The Apparition (2012). He attended...

Hyacinthe - Option 1

11. Toby Sebastian

Actor | After the Dark

Toby Sebastian is an English actor best known for his role as Trystane Martell in the HBO series, Game of Thrones.

Raised in a creative household, Sebastian is one of four children, all of which have been heavily involved with the stage and screen. With a passion for music, Sebastian's first ...

Hyacinthe - Option 2

12. Robert Sheehan

Actor | The Umbrella Academy

Irish actor Robert Sheehan was born in Portlaoise, County Laois, the son of Joseph and Maria Sheehan. His father was a member of the Garda Síochána, the police force of the Republic of Ireland. As a child, Sheehan was interested in performing music. He learned how to play the banjo, the bodhrán, ...

Hyacinthe - Option 3

13. James D'Arcy

Actor | Cloud Atlas

James D'Arcy was born Simon Richard D'Arcy in London, England, to Caroline (O'Connor) and Richard D'Arcy. He was raised by his mother, a nurse. He trained at LAMDA and graduated in July 1995. During his three-year course, he gained acting experience by appearing in the plays "Heracles", "As You ...

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14. Hugh Dancy

Actor | Hannibal

Talented British actor Hugh Dancy is one of the UK's most noted young talents.

Hugh Michael Horace Dancy was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, to Sarah Ann (Birley), who works in academic publishing, and Jonathan Peter Dancy, a philosophy professor and writer. He has a brother, Jack (b...

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15. Andrew Scott

Actor | All of Us Strangers

Andrew Scott is an Irish actor who started his career at a very young age. He made his first appearance on television in an advertisement for a brand of porridge at the age of 6.

He was born into an Irish family where his father, Jim, worked in a recruitment agency and his mother, Nora, taught art. ...

Anafiel Delaunay - Option 3

16. Lucy Boynton

Actress | Sing Street

Lucy Boynton (born 17 January 1994) is an American-English actress. She made her film debut with a leading role in Miss Potter (2006). Boynton's credits include Copperhead (2013), Sing Street (2016), Murder on the Orient Express (2017) and Bohemian Rhapsody (2018).

Boynton was born in New York City ...

Ysandre de la Courcel - Option 1

17. Nell Tiger Free

Actress | Game of Thrones

Nell Tiger Free was born in October 1999. She lives in Britain with her parents and older sister. She is a singer/actress. She has been in Mr Stink (2012) and has recently filmed Endeavour, an ITV television series.

Ysandre de la Courcel - Option 2

18. Ellie Bamber

Actress | Les Misérables

Born Eleanor Elizabeth Bamber in the South of England, UK, Bamber has a younger brother, Lucas. She acted on stage from an early age - becoming the youngest ever member of The London Player's Theatre, before playing Young Jenny in Sir Trevor Nunn's "Aspects of Love" at The Menier Chocolate Factory,...

Ysandre de la Courcel - Option 3

19. Tom Glynn-Carney

Actor | Dunkirk

Tom Glynn-Carney was born on February 7, 1995 in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Dunkirk (2017), The King (2019) and Tolkien (2019).

Alcuin nó Delaunay

20. Rhys Ifans

Actor | The Amazing Spider-Man

Rhys Ifans was born and raised in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales, the son of teacher parents, Beti Wyn (Davies) and Eirwyn Evans. He was educated in two Welsh language schools - Ysgol Pentrecelyn, where his mother taught, and Ysgol Maes Garmon. During his childhood, Ifans showed an interest in...

Barquiel l'Envers

21. Brendan Gleeson

Actor | Calvary

Brendan Gleeson was born in Dublin, Ireland, to Pat and Frank Gleeson. From a very young age, he loved to learn, especially reading classical text in and outside the classroom. He took great attention to Irish play writers such as Samuel Beckett, which eventually led to him performing in his high ...

Quintilius Rousse - Option 1

22. Jared Harris

Actor | Chernobyl

Jared Francis Harris was born in London, England. He is the son of Irish actor Richard Harris and Welsh actress Elizabeth Harris (Elizabeth Rees), and brother of Damian Harris and Jamie Harris. Despite his lineage, Jared showed little interest in becoming an actor, until he was cast in a college ...

Quintilius Rousse - Option 2

23. Paul Bettany

Actor | WandaVision

Paul Bettany is an English actor. He first came to the attention of mainstream audiences when he appeared in the British film Gangster No. 1 (2000), and director Brian Helgeland's film A Knight's Tale (2001). He has gone on to appear in a wide variety of films, including A Beautiful Mind (2001), ...

Isidore d'Aiglemort

24. Claes Bang

Actor | The Square

Claes Kasper Bang is a Danish actor and musician. He is best known for playing the leading role of Christian in Ruben Östlund's 2017 film The Square. For that role he won the European Film Award for Best Actor, being the first Dane to do so. He played the role of Sasha Mann in the final series of ...

Childric d'Essoms

25. Dominic Cooper

Actor | The Devil's Double

Dominic Edward Cooper was born and raised in Greenwich, London, England. His mother, Julie (Heron), is a nursery school teacher and a keen theater-goer. His father, Brian Cooper, is an auctioneer. They divorced when Dominic was age 5. His maternal great-grandfather was film enthusiast E.T. Heron, ...

Baudoin de Trevalion

26. Sian Brooke

Actress | Sherlock

Sian Brooke is a British actress, known for portraying Laura in All About George, Lori in Cape Wrath, and Eurus Holmes in Sherlock. Sian Elizabeth Phillips was born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England and is the youngest of three siblings. She took on a stage name to avoid confusion with fellow ...

Thelesis de Mornay

27. Vincent Cassel

Actor | Black Swan

Blue-eyed Vincent Cassel was born in Paris to a leading actor father, Jean-Pierre Cassel, and a journalist mother, Sabine Litique. Often labeled as a tough guy because of his roles, eclectic choices and talent have made of him a star of European cinema. First in La haine (1995), the young actor, ...

Quincel de Mohrban

28. Charlie Rowe

Actor | Rocketman

Charlie Rowe was born on April 23, 1996 in Islington, London, England, UK. He is an actor and director, known for Rocketman (2019), Angelyne (2022) and Vanity Fair (2018).

Remy

29. Josh O'Connor

Actor | God's Own Country

Josh O'Connor is a British actor, originally from Cheltenham, England. He trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He has become known to a wide audience for portraying Prince Charles in the Netflix series The Crown, for which he was nominated for a BAFTA.

He is also known from ...

Fortun

30. Joey Batey

Actor | The White Queen

Joey Batey is a British actor, originally from Newcastle upon Tyne. He read Modern and Medieval Languages at the University of Cambridge, before featuring in the Royal Shakespeare Company's Olivier and Tony award winning productions Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies on the West End and Broadway. ...

Ti-Philippe

31. Hugh Bonneville

Actor | Downton Abbey

Hugh Bonneville is a British actor, known for his stage work at the National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company as well as the West End. His extensive film and television work includes Twenty Twelve, W1A, Downton Abbey, Paddington, The Gold and I Came By. See his website hughbonneville.uk for ...

Percy de Somerville

32. Brian Gleeson

Actor | Snow White and the Huntsman

Brian Gleeson was born on November 14, 1987 in Dublin, Ireland. He is an actor and writer, known for Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), Logan Lucky (2017) and Assassin's Creed (2016).

Ghislain de Somerville

33. Erin Kellyman

Actress | The Green Knight

Erin Mae Kellyman (born 17 October 1998) is a British actress. Kellyman appears as Enfys Nest, leader of the rebel Cloud Riders, in Solo: A Star Wars Story and Eponine Thénardier in the 2019 BBC adaptation of the Victor Hugo novel Les Miserables.

Originally from Tamworth, Staffordshire, Kellyman was...

Favrielle nó Eglantine

34. Samantha Bond

Actress | GoldenEye

Samantha's early theatre work includes repertory seasons at Coventry, Edinburgh, Derby, and Bristol and 'Never in My Life 'at the Soho Poly in London. After appearing in Kenneth Branagh's production of 'Romeo and Juliet' she went on to West End productions of 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses', 'Man of the...

Cecile Laveau-Perrin

35. Carolina Bang

Actress | Balada triste de trompeta

Carolina Bang was born on September 21, 1985 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. She is an actress and producer, known for The Last Circus (2010), Witching and Bitching (2013) and The Bar (2017). She has been married to Álex de la Iglesia since June 28, 2014. ...

Nicola l'Envers y Aragon

36. Jeremy Irons

Actor | Dead Ringers

British actor Jeremy Irons was born in Cowes, Isle of Wight, a small island off the south coast of England. He is the son of Barbara Anne Brereton (Sharpe) and Paul Dugan Irons, an accountant. Young Jeremy didn't prove very fond of figures. He visited mainland England only once a year. He wound up ...

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37. Gabriel Byrne

Actor | The Usual Suspects

Byrne was the eldest of six children born to a family in Dublin, Ireland. His father was a cooper and his mother a hospital worker. He was raised Catholic and educated by the Irish Christian Brothers. He spent five years of his childhood in a seminary training to be a Catholic priest. He later said...

Benedicte de la Courcel

38. Harriet Walter

Actress | Sense and Sensibility

Dame Harriet Mary Walter DBE is a British actress. She has received a Laurence Olivier Award as well as numerous nominations including for a Tony Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2011, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) ...

Lyonette de Trevalion

39. Tom Wilkinson

Actor | Michael Clayton

Popular British character actor Tom Wilkinson was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, and came from a long line of urban farmers. He was the son of Marjorie (Percival) and Thomas Wilkinson. Economic hardships forced his family to move to Canada for a few years when Wilkinson was a child; then, ...

Marc de Trevalion

40. John Hawkes

Actor | The Sessions

John Hawkes is an award-winning actor known for crafting memorable performances across a wide range of styles and genres. He will next be seen in the upcoming fourth season of HBO's "True Detective" with Jodie Foster. Previous projects include the indie film "Roving Woman," "The Peanut Butter ...

Gaspar de Trevalion

41. Gaspard Ulliel

Actor | Un long dimanche de fiançailles

Gaspard Ulliel's dream had always been to direct a movie, and after completing his studies at the lycée (French high school), he majored in cinema at the University of Saint-Denis, and began his acting career.

He was born in Paris, to Christine, a stylist and runway show producer, and Serge Ulliel, ...

Marmion Shahrizai

42. Jack O'Connell

Actor | Unbroken

Jack O'Connell was born in Alvaston, Derby, England, to Alison J. (Gutteridge) and John Patrick O'Connell. His mother is English, and worked at British Midland, and his father was Irish (from County Kerry), and worked on the railways for Bombardier. Jack went to Saint Benedict Catholic School, and ...

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43. Kaya Scodelario

Actress | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Kaya Rose Scodelario was born in Haywards Heath, Sussex, England, to Katia (Scodelario) and Roger Humphrey. Her father was English and her mother is Brazilian, of Italian and Portuguese descent. Her surname comes from her mother's Italian grandfather. Thanks to her mother, Kaya grew up fluent in ...

Sibeal mab Necthana

44. Ellie Rowsell

Soundtrack | The Darkest Minds

Ellie Rowsell is known for The Darkest Minds (2018), T2 Trainspotting (2017) and The In Between (2022).

Moiread mab Necthana

45. Domhnall Gleeson

Actor | Ex Machina

Domhnall Gleeson is an Irish actor and writer. He is best known for his portrayal of Bill Weasley in the Harry Potter film franchise (2010-2011), About Time (2013), Ex Machina (2015) and The Revenant (2015).

He is the son of actor Brendan Gleeson, alongside whom he has appeared in several films and ...

Eamonn mac Conor

46. Andrea Riseborough

Actress | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Andrea Louise Riseborough is an English actress and producer. She made her film debut with a small part in Venus (2006), and has since appeared in more prominent roles in Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), Never Let Me Go, Brighton Rock, Made in Dagenham (all 2010), W.E. (2011), Shadow Dancer, Disconnect (both...

Grainne mac Conor

47. Lorenzo Richelmy

Actor | Marco Polo

Lorenzo Richelmy was born on March 25, 1990 in La Spezia, Liguria, Italy. He is an actor, known for Marco Polo (2014), Rainbow: A Private Affair (2017) and The Girl in the Fog (2017).

Severio Stregazza

48. Fortunato Cerlino

Actor | Inferno

Fortunato Cerlino was born on June 17, 1971 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He is an actor, known for Inferno (2016), Gomorrah (2008) and Medici (2016). He has been married to Antonella Sava since July 21, 2018. They have one child.

Marco Stregazza

49. Pierfrancesco Favino

Actor | World War Z

Pierfrancesco Favino was born on August 24, 1969 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor and producer, known for World War Z (2013), Rush (2013) and Angels & Demons (2009).

Ricciardo Stregazza

50. Anna Foglietta

Actress | Perfetti sconosciuti

Throughout her career, Anna Foglietta has worked successfully in various fields, including film, theatre, television and advertising. One of her most significant achievements was in 2015 when she starred in the multi-award-winning film "Perfect Strangers" by Paolo Genovese. For her role, Anna ...

Allegra Stregazza

51. Cécile de France

Actress | L'auberge espagnole

Cecile de France was born in Namur in Belgium in 1975 and discovered her vocation at the early age of six. As soon as she was seventeen, she was off to Paris with the ambition of beginning a career on the stage. She studied drama with Jean-Paul Denizon, actor and assistant to Peter Brook, before ...

Marie-Celeste de la Courcel Stregazza

52. Rune Temte

Actor | A Boy Called Christmas

Rune has made a strong impression by playing complex charismatic heavies, often with a twinkle in the eye. He is a classically trained actor from DSL in London. He is known for his work in Netflix's successful series "The Last Kingdom" (2015), were he plays "Ubba" a performance that earned him ...

Waldemar Selig

53. Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson

Actor | Vikings: Valhalla

Jóhannes was born and raised in Iceland, and partly in the Faroe Islands. He fluently speaks Icelandic, Faroese, Danish and English. A Bachelor of Fine Arts graduate from the Iceland Academy of the Arts, class of 2005.

Married to economist Rósa Björk Sveinsdóttir since 2011. Together they have three...

Gunther Arnlaugson

54. Goran Visnjic

Actor | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Goran Visnjic is a Croatian American actor and producer, born in Sibenik, Croatia. He is married to Eva Visnjic (formerly Ivana Vrdoljak) with whom has three children. From an early age Visnjic started appearing in various theater plays. At the age of 16, he had his screen debut in the film Braca ...

Kazan Atrabiades

55. Salim Kechiouche

Actor | La vie d'Adèle

Actor Salim Kechiouche was born in Lyon, France to Algerian parents. At first a kickboxing champion in France (1998), his film carreer started when actor/director Gaël Morel discovered Salim and so he made his first appearance in the movie À Toute Vitesse. From then on he appeared in more films, ...

Mahrkagir

56. Juno Temple

Actress | Atonement

Juno Violet Temple was born in London, England, into a showbiz family, the daughter of producer Amanda Temple and film director Julien Temple. She was named 'Juno' after her parents took a visit to the Grand Canyon during pregnancy and found they were standing on a butte of Cape Final known as Juno...

Valère de l'Envers

57. Florence Kasumba

Actress | Captain America: Civil War

Born in Kampala, Uganda Florence Kasumba is a German actress living in Berlin. She is best known for her work in the Marvel Cinematic Universe productions Captain America: Civil War (2016), Black Panther (2018), Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021). She has ...

Kaneka

58. Vanessa Taylor

Writer | The Shape of Water

Vanessa Taylor is known for The Shape of Water (2017), Game of Thrones (2011) and Divergent (2014).

Showrunner

59. Neil Jordan

Writer | The Crying Game

Neil Jordan was born on February 25, 1950 in Sligo, Ireland. He is a writer and producer, known for The Crying Game (1992), Greta (2018) and Breakfast on Pluto (2005). He has been married to Brenda Rawn since June 30, 2004. They have two children. He was previously married to Vivienne Shields.

Director