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Christopher William Rankin lived with his parents in his native New Zealand until age 6 when they moved back to England.
He found his love for acting at the age of 11, at Northgate High School in Norfolk, as a member of the Youth Theatre Company of Dereham Operatic Society. While in school, Chris appeared in numerous productions. He was ensemble in "Bugsy Malone" and "Little Shop of Horrors" (also on a European tour). Chris has also appeared as Bosun in "Return to the Forbidden Planet", Roger in "Grease", Ralph in "The Lord of the Flies", Joseph in "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" and in 2003 made a last-minute appearance, stepping in as Thenardier in "Les Miserables", when a cast member had taken ill. With the Youth Theatre, Chris has played Edmund in "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe"; chorus roles in "My Fair Lady", "Whistle Down the Wind" and "The King and I" and Harry / Young Ebenezer in "Scrooge".
In August 2000, he auditioned for and landed the role of Percy Weasley in the "Harry Potter: movie series, which was the beginning of his professional on-camera acting career. Chris made his professional stage debut in "Jack and the Beanstalk" at Norwich Theatre Royal. He has since been splitting his time between films, television and stage.
In January 2004, Chris formed Painted Horse Theatre Company with Director Jim Rymer. He played Eilert Loevborg in their premiere production of 'Hedda Gabler' by Ibsen and worked on their production of 'Salome', which toured East Anglia in 2005. He made his first television drama as Waring in "The Rotter's Club", a 3-part drama produced by Company Pictures for the BBC.- Born in 1972 Chile (the year before the dictatorship seized power), famed South American actor Gonzalo Vivanco is widely recognized for his versatility, which perhaps is directly connected to the fact that the Chilean-born television and film star has lived in eight different countries. In his first six years, his parents moved young Gonzalo and his even younger brother to Argentina, then to Ecuador, then to Venezuela, finally returning the boys to Santiago, Chile to live with their grandparents. At age 12, he returned to Venezuela to live with his mother, a painter, and his father, a commercial engineer. There he remained for two years, until age 14, when Gonzalo was awarded a scholarship to learn English, which moved him to Nebraska as a foreign exchange student for two years. It was during his time living in the United States that he fell in love with the performing arts. Returning yet again to his native Chile, Gonzalo enrolled in the Business Administration program at Santiago's esteemed Mariscal Sucre University. Feeling unfulfilled after three years, he left the program to pursue his dream of working as an actor.
Gonzalo moved to the Czech Republic to train with the legendary Jerzy Grotowsky. Finishing the program, he returned home to Chile for the 4th time, in order to continue his studies at the National TV Network Talent Academy. It was here that had the rare experience in being trained in mime by the legendary Marcel Marceau. In 1999, Gonzalo moved to Miami, Florida and almost immediately went to work in television on Spanish-language network series for Telemundo and Univision. Through the course of his illustrious career, he has appeared on-stage in over 25 theater productions, has built a stellar resume/curriculum as a big name in Spanish-language filmed entertainment, with a body of work including major film roles and numerous series leads in dozens of top-rated Spanish language television shows in both the U.S. and with U.S. affiliate networks in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela. As of 2012, with his sights set internationally, Gonzalo signed with an American manager in order to expand his body of work into English language projects. In addition to his career as a performer, Gonzalo is a published author, having written a book of poetry and verse and entitled "Entre Las Arepas y Las Carimañolas (The Things I Love)" (Colombia 2012). - Music Department
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Born in Brooklyn, NY, Kejuan "Havoc" Muchita, is a two-time Grammy Award nominated music producer (2011 and 2017), and multiplatinum recording artist of international acclaim. He began his creative journey while attending High School of Art and Design in Manhattan, with the intention of becoming an architect. Which he did. Just a different kind.
Havoc's production highlights include memorable hip-hop anthems and classics, plus an extensive discography of collaborations and production credits with fellow music luminaries the Notorious BIG, 50 Cent, Nas, Method Man, Kanye West, Mariah Carey, Eminem, Foxy Brown, Lil' Kim, Mary J. Blige, LL Cool J., Diddy, etc., etc.
His road to music originated in Queensbridge, NY, in his mid-teens with partner Prodigy (the two met attending high school). With their first record deal before they were voting age, the duo chose the moniker "Mobb Deep", and went on to achieve indisputably legendary status. In between were 8 album releases; with four of those ranking Top 10 on Billboard's Top 200; eight songs and a Top 10 single on the Hot 100 chart, plus 19 songs (including three Top 10s) on the Hot R&B/Hip Hop singles chart. In the UK, they had three albums and a Top 10 single.
Embedded with hyper-visual lyricism, dark soundscapes, gritty narratives, and hard-hitting drums, Havoc's signature production for Mobb Deep showcased the ominous sound he became known for. He was ranked as one of the Top Producers by Complex Magazine, and Rolling Stone bestowed "Shook Ones Pt. II" with the venerable status of 'One of the 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of All Time'." Mobb Deep is now noteworthy as pioneers of New York 90's hip-hop and are considered by peers, critics and fans alike, to be one of the most successful duos in hip hop history, having created a fan base that even after Prodigy's tragic passing in 2017, remains loyal to brand to this day.
Havoc is a playable character in the video game 'Def Jam: Fight for NY'.
Havoc's songs have been used in many popular and high profile films and TV series. Low-key and well-liked, over the years, the multi-hyphenate expanded his sound to include more commercial radio hits, such as "Famous", featuring Rihanna, "Have A Party" featuring 50 Cent, and original music for ESPN, Hamilton the Musical, and other more popularly accessible media projects and outlets.- Born in Manchester, UK, Jessica Yemi is a multi-disciplined performer. The English actress of Nigerian and German descent - also fluent in German - has performed professionally on-stage as a singer. Her adventurous spirit took her to live first in Barcelona, Spain, then to Belgrade, Serbia, where she landed the role of "Naomi Spencer" on all 12 episodes of the SyFy series "The Ark" (her first professional acting role). Prior to embarking on her acting career, Jessica trained in the Ivana Chubbuck, Uta Hagen and Lee Strasberg techniques.
- Ksenia Lavrentieva is a British actress, voice-over artist and TV personality of Eurasian descent. Known for her numerous appearances on British/US television, as well as having played Nadia Dansky on HBO's Strike Back. Born in the former communist state of Georgia, Tbilisi, to a renowned dissident Georgian artist and one of Russia's revered actresses. Her first years were spent in Taganrog Bay a port city in Rostov on the shores of the Azov Sea - southern Russia. The separation of her parents prompted a move to Moscow with her mother, followed by an unsettlingly candid immersion in the confused, though highly creative atmosphere that pervaded in the Russian capital at the time. A few years later, the newly re-composed Lavrentieva family moved to London. When asked about this period in her life, Ksenia only refers to it as a time where "we pretty much existed upon the fringes, moving regularly and rarely settling in one place". However, she does admit that whilst it was a time of constant upheaval, it perhaps also represents, in many ways, a time from which she now draws a great deal of inspiration. Ksenia has worked and traveled on both sides of the Atlantic in film, television and commercials, working with creatives as diverse as David Cronenberg to Dr. Dre.
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This German-born, Platinum certified record producer, film composer and international dj of Turkish descent's discography reads like a "Who's Who" of the music scene. His songs "Horny" and "Sex Bomb" exploded onto the charts, being officially proclaimed hits around the World.
Mousse T.'s production work for Michael Jackson, Ziggy Marley, Mezzoforte and Randy Crawford, etc. resulted in both a Grammy nomination for "Best Remixer" and for the prestigious Ivor Novello award.
After two albums ("Gourmet De Funk" and "All Nite Madness") with numerous hits, his love for film then moved him seamlessly into creating film music, beginning this facet of his career with the film score for "Pornorama" (Germany).
A further highlight in his career was presenting his songs with a full orchestra. True to the title "Re- Orchestrated", he performed his biggest hits live together with the Filmorchestra Babelsberg at the Nikolaisaal Potsdam, just outside of Berlin. The recording remained Top 10 in the iTunes album charts for several weeks.
When he's not producing, Mousse T. can be found all around the globe, making music in this recording studio in that city, making wine and olive oil at his Tuscan villa, walking fashion week red carpets and/or spinning records in the hottest and most prestigious dance and private clubs. His love of music can also be found in his monthly podcasts and radio DJ shows for prestigious German radio programs 1LIVE and N-JOY.
In 2012, Mousse T. sourced and scored the film "The Girl With The 9 Wigs (Heute bin ich blond)", the biopic of Dutch model Sophie van der Stap. He also completed his third album, collaborating with several international music stars.- Born to native Italian parents (mother from Naples and father, Sardinian), the fluently multilingual stage and screen actress Sylvia De Fanti was raised between Panama, Hong Kong and Rome. De Fanti arrived into this world as a global citizen. Her father Pino (a civil engineer) was on assignment in Montreal (Canada) when his wife Paola gave birth to their only daughter. At age 2, her family moved with his next job - to Panama - and by her sixth birthday, they were living in Hong Kong. It was in China, that De Fanti attended a British school, until her parents decided to return to live in Italy with 11 yr. old Sylvia and her 13 yr. old brother Roberto (CEO/Founder of Premiere League football agency, RDF Football).
De Fanti first attended The Sapienza University, but it was her Drama classes at The Sorbonne that put her on stage for the first time. There in Paris, she also enrolled in a Human Sciences curriculum (Cinema, Postmodernism and Women & Gender Studies).
De Fanti went on to graduate Cum Laude with Masters Degrees in Communication and Cultural Anthropology. She wrote her thesis on Chaos Theory and Complex Identity, and also continued her intense training as both a comedic and dramatic actress.
In 2004, De Fanti co-founded Angelo Mai, now a globally recognized, independent artist's space and cultural production center set in an iconic and important historical location in Rome. Frequented by renowned international performers and creatives from the Music, Literature, Art, Film & TV worlds, it is considered a "must-visit" for the hip and cultured. De Fanti's theater company Bluemotion, is widely credited with the launch of new wave of modern English dramaturgy in Italy. A respected stage actress, she also actively participates in theater productions, sometimes in roles that also highlight her talents for singing and bass guitar. Bluemotion was invited to perform it's critically-acclaimed "Sogno Creatore" at La Biennalle di Venezia in July, 2023.
De Fanti was also a co-founder of Teatro Valle Occupato (theatre, built 1727) - a seminal cog in the wheel of the global OCCUPY movement. Lauded by The New York Times and The Guardian as a maverick institution, established to empower Italy's workers in the fields of art, entertainment and culture. The association received several humanitarian and cultural awards, including the European Cultural Foundation's prestigious Princess Margriet Award. De Fanti accepted the prize at the ceremony, on behalf of her colleagues.
Having worked with revered European film directors, including Carlos Saura, Giuseppe Tornatore and Daniele Lucchetti, De Fanti's first major television role was as a series regular on Italy's longest-running and hugely popular "Incantesimo" (RAI). Subsequent series roles on ABC' & Touchstone's epic Empire and on Medici (Netflix), paved the way for her first English-language series regular role as the magnificent and formidable 'Mother Superion' on Warrior Nun (Netflix). To this, People Magazine (U.S.) called De Fanti "One To Watch". An LGBTQ+ ally and human rights advocate, De Fanti dedicates much of her time to these causes, including producing theater events for young members of the LGBTQ+ community.
She lives with her partner Dario, and their son, Valentino.