CHLOE SEVIGNY - "Clara"
Chloe is one of her generation's most admired actors. Her roles in acclaimed independent movies such as "Kids", and "Gummo", garnered her acclaim, and for her work in "Boys Don't Cry" she was rewarded with Oscar and Golden Globe nominations, and a slew of awards including the Boston Society of Film Critics Award, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, the Chicago Film Critics Association Award, Seattle's Golden Satellite Award, an Independent Spirit Award, the Las Vegas Film Critics Association Award, the National Society of Film Critics Award, and the MTV Award for her screen kiss with Hilary Swank. Current roles include Lars von Trier's "Dogville" with Nicole Kidman." She is now shooting a series for HBO and the sequel to "Dogvillle." |
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SHAWN ASHMORE - "Denys"
Shawn is best known for his role as The Ice Man in the popular "X-Men" and "X-Men United" franchise, with the third installment announced for 2005, for which he was named the MTV Breakthrough Star of the Year in 2004. His upcoming roles include "The Underclassman " for Miramax. |
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LUCY LIU - "Jin Ping"
Lucy Liu burst to popular fame with her Emmy nominated role on tv's "Ally MacBeal." She parlayed that hit into an enormously successful feature film career, beginning with the #1 box office phenomenon "Charlie's Angels" and "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle", through such hit action films as "Shanghai Noon" and "Payback" and the Oscar-winning blockbuster "Chicago" for which she shared the SAG Ensemble Cast Award. Lucy has been honored with a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award, an MTV Award, and a Blockbuster Award. She recently starred in Quentin Tarantino's sensation "Kill Bill" project. |
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STOCKARD CHANNING - "Olive Cowie"
Stockard won the People's Choice Award for her breakthrough roles in "Grease" in 1977 and has enjoyed a successful career ever since, including an Oscar nomination for "Six Degrees of Separation" and Emmy Awards for her roles on "The West Wing" and the "Matthew Shepard Story". She was named the American Institute's Actor of the Year last year for her starring role in "The Business Strangers". |
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OLYMPIA DUKAKIS - "Sister Hilde Francis"
Olympia is known to movie audiences for her roles in films like "Steel Magnolias" and "Moonstruck", and to television audiences for her Emmy nominated performances in the " Tales of the City" series and "Joan of Arc." For her film work, she has won the Oscar, the Golden Globe, the British Academy Award (BAFTA), the American Comedy Award, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, and the National Board of Review Award. She has also appeared in the hit films "Jeffrey", Woody Allen's "Mighty Aphrodite", "Working Girl" and "Mr. Holland's Opus." Olympia is also widely considered to be one of America's greatest stage actors. |
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SANDRA OH - "Mary"
Born and raised in Ottawa, Canada, Sandra Oh started ballet lessons at the age of four and appeared in her first play The Canada Goose at the age of ten. She started working professionally at age sixteen in television, theatre and commercials. After three years at the prestigious National Theatre School of Canada, she beat out more than 1000 other hopefuls and landed the coveted title role in the CBC telefilm "The Diary of Evelyn Lau" based on the true story of a tortured poet who ran away from home and ended up a drug addict and prostitute on the streets of Vancouver. |
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SOOK YIN LEE - "Tong Xiu"
Known to a generation of Canadians for her seven-year stint as Video Jockey on Much Music, as a musician and frontperson of the band BobÕs Your Uncle, and now as host of CBC's "Definitely Not The Opera." Sook Yin has starred in "The Art of Woo", had a cameo in John Cameron Mitchell's "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and will star in Mitchell's 2004 "The Bus." |
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TANABADEE CHOKPIKULTONG - "Farmer Sam"
Tanabadee Chokpikultong an entrepreneur living in Bangkok. The part of the rice farmer Sam in '3Needles' is his first starring role. |
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