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Charlie Carver was born in San Francisco, California.
At a young age, Charlie moved up to a small town in the Napa Valley. It was there in school that Charlie had his first exposure to acting. He went on to study at the Interlochen Arts Academy, ACT San Francisco, and the University of Southern California, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Art History.
Carver's acting debut came in 2008 when he won the role of Porter Scavo in ABC's Desperate Housewives. Other roles followed in Teen Wolf and The Leftovers.Ramiro Cruz- Actor
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Max and his twin brother, Charlie, were first discovered by a talent agent while shopping together in Los Angeles. Within weeks of being spotted, the two made their professional acting debuts as series regulars on the hit ABC series Desperate Housewives. Max has since appeared in multiple series and films including The Leftovers, Teen Wolf and The Office.Tommy Cruz- Olivier Martinez comes from a working-class family, raised in the Paris suburbs. He left school at an early age, holding various pick-up jobs such as salesman for jeans. Friends urged him to try acting, and at age 23 he enrolled in the International Conservatory of Paris. After several television shows, he reached the international market with The Horseman on the Roof (1995), billed in his American promotional tour for that movie as "the French Brad Pitt".Papa Muerte
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Victor began his acting career at the National Youth Theatre of Venezuela (TNJ) where he was given a very multifaceted training and later on became a member of their company. He studied filmmaking at the Barcelona Film School (ECIB) in Spain while leading a young troupe of actors. A graduate of the New York Stella Adler Studio of Acting Conservatory, he now resides in Los Angeles where he continues to pursue his passion as a storyteller while also diving into Motion Capture and Fight Choreography. Screen and stage credits include The Last Ship (TNT) and Jane, The Virgin (The CW) and theatre productions such as Richard III by William Shakespeare (Independent Shakespeare Company) and Jesus Hopped the "A" Train by Stephen Adly Guirgis (The Sixty-Six Theater).Commander Trust- Writer
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Dominic Colón - Dominic is an award winning actor, writer, producer and filmmaker from the Bronx, New York. As an actor Dominic is most recognized for his work as Manny Spamboni on the Emmy Award Winning Children's Show, The Electric Company. Over the past 15 years, Dominic has appeared in over 60 movies and television shows including: Power, Orange is the New Black, Mr. Robot, and most recently in a recurring role opposite Benicio Del Toro, Paul Dano, and Patricia Arquette in the Golden Globe nominated Showtime limited series Escape at Dannemora.
Dominic's screenplay for his short film CRUSH won the HBO/New York International Film Festival Short Film Script Competition. Dominic received $15,000 and 19 days to produce, shoot, and complete the film. CRUSH played on HBO for over a year and screened at over 25 national and international film festivals including FRAMELINE, OUTFEST: FUSION, OUT IN AFRICA, and OUT IN RUSSIA. In 2014, Dominic began a weight loss journey that lead to a weight loss of over 180 lbs. This journey served as inspiration for Dominic's second short film SKIN. SKIN, a comedy about a young man who, after extreme weight loss, is afraid to have sex with his boyfriend without a shirt. His screenplay for SKIN won the 2016 BRIO Award for Screenwriting. Both SKIN and CRUSH were licensed and are currently airing on HereTV. Dominic is a two time National Association of Latino Independent Producer's Latino Media Market Fellow for the screenplays of his feature film: WERQ IT! and his short form series, Papi.
In addition to being a professional actor and writer, Dominic has also taught acting and play writing at Riker's Island, and at various schools, hospitals, and Juvenile Justice facilities throughout New York City.
Marco the Rat- Actor
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Guillermo Diaz was born in 1975 in New Jersey, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Scandal (2012), Law & Order: Organized Crime (2021) and Weeds (2005).Cesar Morales- Actress
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Elodie Yung was born in Paris, France, of Cambodian and French descent. She grew up in Seine-saint-Denis, in Le Bourget, where she practiced karate and obtained her black belt. She graduated from University of La Sorbonne in Paris and has a law degree. She then decided to study acting at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in London.Angel- Actor
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Daytime Emmy Award winning Actor Maurice Benard joined the cast of General Hospital in the role of Sonny Corinthos in August 1993. He briefly left the show for a year-long hiatus in December 1998. For his portrayal, Mr. Benard received the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in 2003. He was also nominated in 1996, 1997, 2004, 2006 and 2011.
Mr. Benard's multi-cultural upbringing began in San Francisco, where he was born to parents from Nicaragua and San Salvador. Uninspired by the traditional education route, he gleaned an education in the open job market after high school. He began modeling in his early twenties. Following that, Mr. Benard took up acting in numerous theatrical productions in the Bay area.
After auditioning for a role on the ABC drama All My Children, Mr. Benard was cast as Nico Kelly. Two years later, he struck out to find new challenges and moved to Los Angeles, where he was cast as the lead in the much-publicized TV movie, Lucy and Desi: Before the Laughter. He later added a pivotal role in the feature film Ruby to several other prominent film and television credits.
Mr. Benard has been a popular voice in the battle against bipolar disorder. He has been very open about his personal battle with the illness, appearing on television programs such as The View, Entertainment Tonight, and Oprah. He has been featured in People and LA Life Magazines. He also began working with the National Mental Health Association (NMHA) on the "Bipolar Disorder: Do You Know It?" campaign to help educate Americans about the importance of recognizing the signs and symptoms of bipolar disorder.Special Agent Johnson- Writer
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Is the son of a Spanish mother and a Chilean father. His family moved back to Spain when he was 1 year old, and he grew up and studied in Madrid. He wrote, produced and directed his first short film La cabeza at the age of 19, and he was 23 when he directed his feature debut Thesis (1996). His film Open Your Eyes (1997) was a huge success in Spain and was distributed worldwide. It was remade in Hollywood by Cameron Crowe as Vanilla Sky (2001), starring Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz (also the star of the original version) and Cameron Diaz. The Others (2001) is Amenábar's first English language film.Special Agent Piersson- Actor
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Jesse Garcia
Garcia has been widely recognized for his role in the highly acclaimed "Quinceañera," winner of the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, and Official Selection for the 2006 Berlin Film Festival. For his performance as Carlos, Garcia was nominated and won the prestigious ALMA Award (American Latino Media Arts) as Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture in 2007.
Garcia, can most recently be seen in Joss Whedon's "The Avengers." Number one opening weekend film of all time, with $200.7 and over $1billion worldwide, to date. Other credits include, "A Beautiful Life," opposite Angela Sarafyan, "Periphery," opposite Steven Grayhm, Tessa Thompson, and Jess Weixler, and "Days of Wrath," opposite Wilmer Valderrama, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Ana Claudia Talancon and Laurence Fishburne, where he plays Mario, the Kingpin of the Triple Sevens, in a story about the intertwining lives of a teacher, TV news crew and rival gang members. Also, in Hue Rhodes', "Saint John of Las Vegas,", opposite Steve Buscemi and Romany Malco. As well as, Youssef Delaras', "Bedrooms," with Julie Benz and Xander Berkeley, Mun Chee Yong's, "Where the Road Meets the Sun," Joshua Homnick's, "Los Foley Guys," with Rainn Wilson and Al Madrigal, the highly anticipated zombie flick "Re-Kill," the Broadway debut of the stage production of "The Pee-wee Herman Show."
Garcia also appears in The Sundance 2007 film, "La Misma Luna," also known as "Under the Same Moon," alongside Kate del Castillo and America Ferrera. In addition, Garcia starred in Twentieth Century Fox's, "The Comebacks," where he plays a tough "rich-street kid" football player with an attitude.
Born in Rawlins, Wyoming, Garcia spent most of his childhood in Hanna, WY, a town with a population of just over seven hundred people. His acting debut came in 1987 when he was cast in the challenging role of Brown Bear. With a winter coat turned inside out (to look like brown fur) and construction paper ears pinned to his hood, Garcia recalls that he presented a striking likeness to a real brown bear. With his lines memorized, blocking mastered and adrenaline surging, Garcia (6) was well prepared. He heard his cue line and crawled out of his cave, violently thrashing his head from side to side. With teeth bared and tonsils flaring, he reared up on his hindquarters pawing the air; then he growled with all his might - "RRRAAAWWWRRR!" The first graders (sitting on the floor of their small classroom) giggled. It was not exactly the reaction Garcia was aiming for, but from the mouth of that cardboard cave, an actor was born.
Following this performance, Garcia took a 15-year hiatus from the show business industry to concentrate on his schoolwork. He received grants and scholarships for Co-Ed Cheerleading at Eastern Wyoming College and the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
In the middle of his first year at U of N, a classmate of Garcia's, Jennifer Jerosik, told him that she was moving to Atlanta, GA to study acting with Judson Vaughn, a filmmaker/actor/teacher who she'd heard speaking at a convention in Chicago. Instantly Garcia's Inner-Bear growled again and he decided he wanted to join her.
After a 45-minute telephone interview, Garcia was accepted to study at WHAT Films, the film development/production company and training facility headed by Vaughn. A week later, Garcia dropped out of school, and he and Jennifer packed everything they owned into his 1993, burgundy Mercury Cougar and drove 1,580 miles southeast to Atlanta - not the quickest route to Hollywood, but his years in Atlanta prepared him well for what would become his profession. At WHAT Films he learned to act, write and to direct, and he got sound career advice from Vaughn and from writer/director Ben Taylor (Abgeschminkt!). Others at WHAT who were particularly helpful to Garcia included Roxzane Mims, Lavon Lacey, Chet Dixon and Ralph Price, to name a few.
While in Atlanta, Garcia honed his comedic skills performing in "Sketchworks," Bob Harter, Della Cole and Jen Kelly's sketch comedy group. Garcia's first feature film role came when fellow WHAT Films actor Chet Dixon (Cold Mountain, Days of Wrath) prompted director Stacey Childers to cast him her film "Delivery Boy Chronicles."
In Dec, 2003, he moved to Los Angeles in hopes of advancing his career. In 2005, he was featured in nine national commercials, including such major brands as McDonalds, Toyota, Avis, MGD, Bud Light, State Farm and others. His television and independent films included such projects as HBO's "Walkout," directed by Edward James Olmos, guest spots on FX's Sons of Anarchy, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, ER, The Shield, TNT's The Closer, Law and Order: CI, NCIS, Nickelodeon's Unfabulous, Jerry Bruckheimer's FOX series Justice and FX's Sons of Anarchy.
As well as keeping busy with his acting career, Garcia has taken on the challenge of directing and producing. Producer and lead actor in a short feature titled, "American Identity," directed by Stephen Rollins, he was honored with opening the Short Film Competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Also, he produced and was a lead actor in John Irwin's short film, "Sold," with an all-star cast and crew, a film about the reality of human trafficking. "Sold" premiered at the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival in 2011 and has made the festival circuit around the world. The DBAC, PSA campaign with fellow filmmakers, Doug Spain, Jeremy Valdez, and Walter Perez.
Garcia recently wrapped principal photography on his directorial debut, short film, "The Price We Pay." A film about a scarred and depressed soldier coming home from war to find his relationship with his neighborhood, best friend and wife, not how he left it. Shot in a less than conventional manner, with subtle science fiction elements, the film is already stirring up attention in the film making and military communities.
As of 2013, Garcia is in post-production for his short, "The Price We Pay." He is also writing and has several projects in development as a producer, director and actor. He is also in development for his feature film directorial debut and is in search of projects to direct in the near future.General Montanez- Anthony Mendez is best known as the Latin Lover Narrator on the CW's Jane the Virgin for which he earned two Emmy nominations (in 2015 and 2016) in the category of Outstanding Narrator. A third Outstanding Narrator nomination (in 2019) came as a result of his work on PBS's three-part documentary series, Wonders of Mexico. Anthony can also be heard on movie trailers for major studios.
Born in the Bronx and raised in Washington Heights, he brings a certain edge and passion to his narration. He's often called on for a Hispanic-accented "Latin-lover" voice-over or a more edgy, hard-hitting narrator for sports, like HBO Sports Minute and boxing promos Showtime, respectively.
Anthony grew up around the family business of headstones and mausoleums, which he says he draws upon for darker horror narratives. He attended college to study architecture. Unfortunately, he never got to design a home, but he did design a six-crypt mausoleum that still stands in St. Raymond's Cemetery in the Bronx.
Anthony lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three children, and works mostly from his own studio.Elvez Gonzales