Shailene Woodley is currently impressing fans and critics alike with ABC Family. LA Times critic Robert Lloyd said of her performance, "Woodley stands out and is appealing beguiling: an anti-Gossip Girl. Like a great silent film actress, she has a face that conveys shades of anguish and joy." The magazine later named her as a "Breakthrough of 2008," in their annual year-end issue alongside talent like Robert Pattinson and Kat Dennings. She also received two Teen Choice Nominations in 2009 and 2010, including one for Choice TV Drama Actress and she has been nominated again in 2011.
Woodley began her career at the age of 5 when an agent recognized her potential and signed her on the spot. She has been working ever since. She started in commercials and then got her first TV role in the 1999 movie of the week Replacing Dad, which starred two time Oscar nominee Mary McDonnell. More recently she played the title character in the popular Warner Bros. movie Felicity: An American Girl Adventure, which was produced by Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas and Julia Roberts. When she is not on set, Woodley spends as much time outdoors as possible, thinking of ways she can help keep the environment beautiful and healthy for future generations. She also puts time in working with various charities that benefit children including St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation.
Jessica Chastain has emerged as one of Hollywood's most sought after actors of her generation. Born and raised in Northern California, Chastain attended the Juilliard School in New York City. While there she starred in Romeo and Juliet and went on to receive glowing reviews for her performances in The Cherry Orchard opposite Michelle Williams at Williamstown; and Richard Nelson's Rodney's Wife opposite David Strathairn off-Broadway at Playwright's Horizons. Chastain has been seen recently starring opposite Brad Pitt and Sean Penn in the drama The Tree Of Life, written and directed by Terrence Malick, in Miramax's The Debt alongside Helen Mirren and Sam Worthington and in Dreamworks' adaptation of the best-selling Kathryn Stockett novel The Help playing Celia Foote. Viola Davis, Emma Stone, Bryce Dallas Howard and Octavia Spencer are among the cast.
Chastain will also be seen in Ami Mann's upcoming feature film, The Fields. This psychological thriller is based on true events that took place in a small Pennsylvania town in 1973. Jessica stars alongside Sam Worthington and Chloe Moretz. She will soon begin filming Wettest County in the World opposite Shia LaBeouf, Mia Wasikowska, Guy Pearce, Tom Hardy and Gary Oldman. The film will be directed by John Hillcoat and produced by Douglas Wick.
Chastain currently lives in California.
The versatile English actress Janet McTeer has prolific experience in film, theater, and television. Her notable film credits include Kenneth Branagh's As You Like It from BBC/HBO Films, the eerie Terry Gilliam's Tideland, and the Sundance favourite Tumbleweeds where McTeer won a Golden Globe for Best Actress and an Academy Award® nomination for Best Actress. McTeer's television credits include BBC's Sense and Sensibility, Simon Curtis' Amazing Mrs. Pritchard, Miss Julie, and Precious Bane which earned her a Best Actress nomination from the Royal Television Society. Her vast theater experience also spans very broadly to include The Grace of Mary directed by Danny Boyle for the Royal Court and Traverse that brought McTeer an Olivier Award Best Actress nomination.
Harmony Santana is a 20-year-old artist from the Lower East Side of Manhattan and a graduate of Elmwood Park Memorial High School in Elmwood Park, N.J. Gun Hill Road is Harmony's first film.
Anjelica Huston is an award-winning actress and director who continues her renowned family's legacy in film, which began with her grandfather Walter Huston and her father, John Huston. In the course of her career, Huston has received honors from the National Society of Film Critics, the National Board of Review, the Independent Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles, New York and Boston Film Critics. She has received multiple Oscar®, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Emmy nominations, as well as a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Huston won an Academy Award® for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Maerose Prizzi in Prizzi's Honor, making the Huston family the first to include three generations of Oscar® winners. Huston also won a Golden Globe Award for her role in HBO's original movie "Iron Jawed Angels."
Additional film credits include David Frankel's upcoming The Big Year, and memorable turns in Francis Ford Coppola's Gardens of Stone, Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery and Crimes and Misdemeanors, Paul Mazursky's Enemies: A Love Story, Nicholas Roeg's The Witches, Stephen Frears' The Grifters, Barry Sonnenfeld's The Addams Family and Addams Family Values, Sean Penn's The Crossing Guard, Vincent Gallo's Buffalo '66, Andy Tennant's EverAfter, Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Royal Tenenbaums, Mira Nair's The Perez Family and Clark Gregg's Choke. Huston also collaborated with her father on John Huston's final film, The Dead.
The actress made her directorial debut with an unflinching adaptation of Dorothy Allison's best-selling memoir Bastard out of Carolina, which garnered Huston critical acclaim. She received an Emmy nomination for her work on the controversial television drama as well as a Directors Guild nomination. Huston also directed, produced and starred in Agnes Browne, a feature presented at the Directors' Fortnight at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.
Huston currently serves on the board of directors at the National University of Ireland Galway's John Huston School of Film and Digital Media. She is a member of the Film Foundation's Artists Rights Council and the Save the Chimps Advisory Council. Recently, Huston has served as a spokesperson for PETA and the US Campaign for Burma.
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