PATRICIA CLARKSON (Juliette) Academy Award nominated and Emmy winning actress, Patricia Clarkson has taken on roles as varied as the platform in which she plays them. Her comfort in taking on roles from motion pictures, television and the theatre has earned her great accolades and success, and has become one of today's most respected actresses in the entertainment industry.
Clarkson was most recently seen in Elegy opposite Sir Ben Kingsley, Penelope Cruz and Dennis Hopper. Directed by Isabel Coixet, the film is based on the novel by Philip Roth about a cultural critic, played by Kingsley, who's life is thrown into disarray after an encounter with a student. Additionally, Clarkson appeared in Vicky Cristina Barcelona written and directed by Woody Allen and starring Javier Barden, Penelope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson.
Also this year, Clarkson was seen in Sony Picture Classics, Ira Sachs directed Married Life along side Chris Cooper and Pierce Brosnan. Married Life is a romantic drama set in the 1940s about and adulterous man (Cooper) who plots his wife's (Clarkson) death instead of putting her through the humiliation of a divorce.
Patricia recently wrapped production on Woody Allen's latest film Whatever Works in which she stars alongside Larry David and Evan Rachel Wood.
Additional credits include: Lars and the Real Girl, Blind Date, Phoebe in Wonderland, All The King's Men, Goodnight, and, Good Luck, They Dying Gaul and The Woods, Far from Heaven, Pieces of April, The Station Agent, Miracle, High Art, Dogville, Welcome to Collinwood, The Pledge, The Green Mile, Everybody's All-American, The Dead Pool, Rocket Gibraltar, Tune in Tomorrow, Joe Gould's Secret, Wendigo and Brian De Palma's The Untouchables, her film debut.
In 2003, Clarkson's work in two independent films earned her unparalleled recognition. She was nominated for an Academy Award, Golden Globe, SAG Award, Broadcast Film Critics Award and an independent Spirit Award for her role in Pieces of April. In addition, the Sundance Film Festival awarded her the Jury Prize for Outstanding Performance in Pieces of April, The Station Agent and All the Real Girls. Her performance in The Station Agent earned her a SAG Award nomination for Best Actress and Best Ensemble Cast. The National Board of Review and the National Society of Film Critics named her Best Supporting Actress of the Year for her work in Pieces of April and The Station Agent.
She also won best-supporting-actress awards from the New York Film Critics Circle and National Society of Film Critics for her performance in Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven. That role also earned her a nomination from the Chicago Film Critics Her performance as Greta in Lisa Cholodenko's High Art earned her a nomination for an IFP Independent Spirit Award.
On television, Clarkson won an Emmy in 2002 and 2006 for her guest-starring role on HBO's acclaimed drama, "Six Feet Under".
Clarkson made her professional acting debut on the New York stage. Her theatre credits include Eastern Standard (on and off-Broadway), Maidens Prayer (for which she received Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Award Nominations), Raised in Captivity, Oliver Oliver, The House of Blue Leaves, and Three Days of Rain. Her regional credits include performances at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, South Coast Repertory, and Yale Repertory."
Born and raised in New Orleans, Clarkson began acting in school plays in her early teens. After studying speech at Louisiana State University for two years, she transferred to Fordham University in New York, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude with a degree in theatre arts. She earned her MFA at the prestigious Yale School of Drama, where she appeared in Electra, Pacific Overtures, Pericles, La Ronde, The Lower Depths, and The Misanthrope.
ALEXANDER SIDDIG (Tareq) is best known for his starring role as ‘Dr. Julian Bashir’ in the long-running series “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.” He made his feature film debut in Stephen Frears’ comedy Sammie and Rosie Get Laid. More recently, Siddig has been seen in Neil Marshall’s Doomsday, Stephen Gaghan’s political thriller, Syriana, starring George Clooney, Reign of Fire, Ridley Scott’s epic Kingdom of Heaven, the action-adventure Vertical Limit, and BBC’s provocative series, “Spooks.” In 2007, Siddig returned to the small screen in a recurring role on “24.”
Siddig was born in the Sudan and raised there until political turmoil forced his British mother to flee to the U.K. where she sent for him a short time later. His English schooling was financed by his uncle, Malcolm McDowell. Siddig attended university to study geography and anthropology, thinking the future ability to help his native country might lie in the sciences, not on the stage. But during school, he became interested in acting and directing and left university to begin studies at the prestigious London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.
Being one of the few trained dramatic actors of Arabic descent in London at the time, he was soon cast as a young Palestinian in the television miniseries, “The Big Battalions,” which led to his winning role as ‘Feisal’ in “A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia.” That movie was subsequently broadcast on American television and his performance caught the attention of Star Trek producer, Rick Berman. On stage, most recently Siddig co-starred in the London West End production of Whose Life Is It Anyway? with Kim Cattrall.
TOM MCCAMUS (Mark) One of Canada’s most unique and sought-after actors, Tom McCamus has been a long-standing member of the acting ensembles of both the Shaw and Stratford Festivals. Over a period of more than twenty years he has played such roles as ‘Peter Pan,’ ‘Richard the Third,’ ‘Mack the Knife,’ ‘King Arthur,’ ‘Vladimir,’ ‘Edmund Tyrone’ and ‘Hamlet’ to name a few.
Most recently Tom starred in Misery (Canadian Stage), An Ideal Husband and The Comedy of Errors (Stratford Festival) The Unanswered Question (NAC), Thom Paine: Based on Nothing (Tarragon Theatre), and Mathilde (Nightwood Theatre) for which he was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award. Other recent favourites include ‘Darryl Plate’ in The Innocent Eye Test (Mirvish Productions) and ‘Lovborg’ in Hedda Gabler (Volcano). McCamus received the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Actor for his performance in Theatre Plus’ production of Abundance. He returns to Stratford in 2009 in The Three Sisters, Phedre and Bartholomew’s Fair.
In the world of feature film McCamus won the Genie Award for Best Actor for his work in David Wellington’s feature film I Love A Man in Uniform and received a Best Actor nomination for Wellington’s Long Day’s Journey into Night, in which he reprised his role as Edmund Tyrone from the Stratford Festival’s critically-acclaimed production. A role in Atom Egoyan’s feature film, The Sweet Hereafter, earned Mr. McCamus a Best Supporting Actor Genie nomination.
Recent film credits include Shake Hands With the Devil (Barna Alper), Killshot (MGM), Heyday! (Pope Productions), Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (Disney Pictures), Ginger Snaps: The Prequel (40th Parallel), Perfect Pie (Rhombus), Possible Worlds (In Extremis Images), Century Hotel (Victorious Films), and Beautiful Dreamers.
On the small screen, his performance in “Waking Up Wally” (Accent Entertainment) garnered him a Gemini award for Best Actor. He is featured in the Gary Burns’ series “Northern Town” (CBC) and played a leading role in the series “Mutant X” (Fireworks Entertainment). Recent guest appearances include “Aaron Stone’ and “The Murdoch Mysteries” (Shaftsbury Films) and “Clean” (Showcase).
ELENA ANAYA (Kathryn) was born in Palencia, Spain in 1975. As long as she can remember, she dreamt of being an actress. When she was 18 she decided to make her dream come true and started taking acting classes. Shortly after being accepted at Madrid Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RESAD) she auditioned for and won the title role in Africa, obtaining critical and popular acclaim.
Africa was followed by Fernando Leon´s Familia. Since then, Elena has made some 35 movies, with some of Spain´s most esteemed directors, including Pedro Almodovar, Julio Medem, Agustin Diaz Yanes, etc. With Medem, Elena made Sex and Lucia, which won her a Spanish Academy Award nomination and the Spanish Screen Actors´ Guild Best Actress award. Elena´s credits include Talk to Her, No News From God, Alatriste, Dead Fish, Van Helsing, In The Land of Women and, more recently Hierro by Gabe Ibañez. She is presently preparing another movie with Julio Medem, Room In Rome.
Elena has twice taken roles in the theater, at the National Theater in Homebody Kabul by Tony Kushner and in an international tour of Together.