Tom Waits is an internationally recognized singer-songwriter, performer, composer, film and theater actor, and poet.  In a career that spans decades, he has received, among other recognitions, an Academy Award nomination for best song score, a Golden Globe Award for best ensemble cast, a literary PEN Award, multiple Grammy Awards and nominations, and an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  Aside from his singular voice, Waits’ 20-plus albums are recognized for their unusual orchestrations and arrangements of popular European and American song forms that include everything from jazz folk and blues to cabaret, field hollers, and spoken word. Waits has appeared in over 20 films including Ironweed, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Down by Law, Short Cuts, The Book of Eli, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, and Seven Psychopaths, working with auteur directors like Jim Jarmusch, Terry Gilliam, Francis Ford Coppola, Hector Barbenco, Martin McDonaugh, Robert Altman, and the Coen brothers.

Adam Driver can recently be seen starring in Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis,’ and Michael Mann’s “Ferrari.” Driver garnered Academy Award® nominations for his roles in Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story” and Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman.” Some of his many film credits include Ridley Scott’s “The Last Duel,” Leos Carax’s “Annette,” Jim Jarmusch’s “Paterson,” and “The Dead Don’t Die,” Steven Soderbergh’s “Logan Lucky,” and Martin Scorsese’s “Silence” to name a few. He is widely known for his role as Kylo Ren in the Star Wars sequel trilogy.

Driver has received Emmy® nominations for his guest hosting role on “Saturday Night Live” and his performance on HBO’s “Girls.”

Driver recently starred in the off-Broadway production of Kenneth Lonergan’s “Hold Onto Me Darling,” directed by Neil Pepe. He earned a Tony® nomination for his role in “Burn This,” directed by Michael Mayer, and won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actor for “Look Back in Anger,” directed by Sam Gold.

Driver is a Juilliard graduate and former Marine.

Mayim Bialik is best known for her lead role as Blossom Russo in the early-1990s NBC television sitcom Blossom. She played the role of Amy Farrah Fowler on the critically acclaimed CBS comedy, The Big Bang Theory, a role for which she received 2 Critics’ Choice Award wins, 4 Emmy nominations and a SAG Award nomination. She served as host of Jeopardy! for 2 seasons, earning her fifth Emmy nomination for her contributions to the iconic show which won its first primetime Emmy the year she hosted. In 2021, Bialik wrote and directed the feature film As They Made Us, starring Dustin Hoffman, Candice Bergen, Dianna Agron and Simon Helberg. She hosts a popular mental health podcast, Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown with over 60 million downloads. Bialik holds a BS and PhD in Neuroscience from UCLA and she has authored  four books, two of which are on the New York Times Best-Sellers list (Girling Up: How to be Strong, Smart and Spectacular and Boying Up: How to be Brave, Bold and Brilliant).

Charlotte Rampling began her career in films in 1964 with Richard Lester in The Knack. In 1966 she appeared as Meredith in the film Georgy Girl and after this her acting career blossomed in both English, French and Italian cinema; notably in Luchino Visconti's The Damned (La Caduta degli dei) in 1969 and in Liliana Cavani’s 1974 film The Night Porter, playing alongside Dirk Bogarde.

She gained recognition from American audiences in a remake of Raymond Chandler's detective story Farewell, My Lovely (1975) and later with Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (1980) and particularly in The Verdict (1982), an acclaimed drama directed by Sidney Lumet that starred Paul Newman. Her long list of films also includes Alan Parker’s Angel Heart, Ian softly’s The Wings of the Dove, Michael Cacoyannis The Cherry Orchard, Julio Medem’s Caotica Ana, Domink Moll’s Lemming, Laurent Cantet's Heading South (Vers le Sud), Jonathan Nossiter's Signs and Nagisa Oshima's Max My Love. Charlotte has collaborated extensively with the director Francois Ozon appearing in the Under the Sand (2001), Swimming Pool (2003) Angel (2006) and most recently Jeune et Jolie (Young and Pretty).

Recent work includes The Little Stranger, Red Sparrow, Hannah, Assassins Creed, Euphoria,

Submergence, 45 Years, Waiting for the Miracle to Come, The Sense of an Ending, London Spy, the second series of Broadchurch, Dexter, Restless, Night Train to Lisbon, I, Anna, Melancholia, The Eye of the Storm, Clean Skin, Street dance 3D, Never Let Me Go, Babylon AD, Life During

Wartime, Boogie Woogie & The Duchess.

For 45 Years, Charlotte won several awards for Best Actress including Berlin International Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, London Film Critics' Circle, European Film Academy and she was nominated for an Oscar.

Cate Blanchett is an internationally acclaimed actor, producer, humanitarian and advocate for climate solutions.

Screen acting credits include roles in Tár, Nightmare Alley, Don’t Look Up, Ocean’s 8, Thor: Ragnorok, Carol, Blue Jasmine, I’m Not There, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Notes on a Scandal, The Life Aquatic, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of The Crystal Skull, The Lord of The Rings Trilogy, The Hobbit, The Good German, The Aviator, The Talented Mr Ripley and Elizabeth. Her most recent performances were in Disclaimer and Rumours, both of which she executive produced. Blanchett has won numerous awards including two Academy Awards, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes and three Screen Actors Guild awards.

She is the Co-Founder and Principal of film and television production company Dirty Films, (alongside partners Andrew Upton and Coco Francini), which recently launched Proof of Concept, a program offering financial support, mentorship, and exhibition opportunities to women, trans and non-binary filmmakers. For the company Blanchett produced and appeared in Warwick Thornton’s award-winning The New Boy. She also produced Christos Nikou’s Apple Original Films feature Fingernails, with Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed and Jeremy Allen White, and Noora Niasari’s award-winning debut feature Shayda, starring Zar Amir Ebrahimi. With Dirty Films, other producing credits include Todd Haynes’ Carol and Todd Field’s Tár, Christos Nikou’s Apples, the 10-time EMMY nominated Mrs America for FX and producing and co-creating the 13-time AACTA-winning series Stateless for Netflix. She created and produced the award-winning Audible Original podcast Climate of Change, and produced Evolver, a VR interactive experience which was selected for the first ever Immersive Competition at the Cannes Film Festival.

Blanchett served alongside Andrew Upton as co-Artistic Director and co-CEO of Sydney Theatre Company between 2008-2013, producing 16 shows a year across 4 stages, which toured extensively nationally and internationally. Productions for STC in which she also performed include Andrew Upton’s The Present directed by John Crowley for which she earned a Tony Award nomination on Broadway; Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire directed by Liv Ullman; Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya directed by Tamás Ascher; and Benedict Andrews’ productions of The War of The Roses, Genet’s The Maids and Botho Strauss’ Gross und Klein. Other notable productions included Steven Soderbergh’s Tot Mom, an adaptation of Kate Grenville’s The Secret River directed by Neil Armfield, Sam West’s True West directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, productions by director Kip Williams and David Harrower’s Blackbird and Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking, both of which Blanchett directed. Among numerous awards at STC, Blanchett and Upton received the Green Globe Award for having transformed the company into one of the world’s greenest arts organisations. Blanchett has previously appeared at the National Theatre in Martin Crimp’s When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other directed by Katie Mitchell.

Blanchett has presided over festival juries in Cannes, Venice and Poland’s Camerimage, and the Venice Film Festival has twice awarded her The Volpi Cup for Best Performance. She holds a BFI Fellowship from the BFI London Film Festival, has received the Stanley Kubrick Award for Excellence in Film and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Numerous other accolades include the Honorary Cesar, International Goya, Chaplin and Donostia Awards. She has been appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France, named a Companion of the Order of Australia, presented with a Centenary Medal for service to Australian Society, and has been awarded Honorary Doctorates by the University of New South Wales, the University of Sydney and Macquarie University.

Blanchett is a Global Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and is a member of the Earthshot Prize Council. She serves as a board member of the National Theatre (UK) and is the inaugural Ambassador for Wakehurst and the Millennium Seed Bank, is a lifetime member of the Australian Conservation Foundation, a strong supporter of the Actors Benevolent Fund, the SAG-AFTRA Foundation, the Australian Wildlife Conservancy, an AFI Ambassador and is Patron of the Sydney Film Festival and the NIDA Foundation, the drama school at which she trained.

Vicky can currently be seen in THE DEAD DON’T HURT, directed by and starring Viggo Mortensen. She most recently wrapped Jim Jarmusch's latest feature in January, opposite Cate Blanchett and Charlotte Rampling.

She will next be seen in HOT MILK, a film based on the bestselling novel by Deborah Levy and directed by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, and INGEBORG BACHMANN – JOURNEY INTO THE DESERT, directed by Margarethe von Trotta.

Vicky is best known for her breakout role in Paul Thomas Anderson’s PHANTOM THREAD opposite Daniel Day-Lewis. The film received a number of accolades including an Academy Award nomination in the category of Best Motion Picture.

She received rave reviews for her performance in Marie Kreutzer’s CORSAGE for which she stars in the leading role of ‘Empress Elisabeth of Austria.’ The film debuted at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival and Krieps performance won the Best Actress award in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section. The feature won Best Film Award at the London Film Festival 2022. Krieps also starred in Emily Atef’s MORE THAN EVER which made its world premiere at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section, and HOLD ME TIGHT which originally debuted at the 2021 Cannes Premiere Sidebar and was bought by Kino Distribution. The film received critical acclaim and for her performance Krieps received a Cesar Award Nomination in the category of ‘Best Actress’.

In 2021, Krieps’ starred in several high-profile film projects, including her role in Ferdinando Cito’s BECKETT opposite John David Washington and Alicia Vikander. Produced by Luca Guadagnino, the film follows a couple on holiday who fall victim to a violent conspiracy. Krieps was then seen starring in Mia Hansen-Love's anticipated drama BERGMAN ISLAND, opposite Tim Roth. BERGMAN ISLAND debuted at Toronto International Film Festival. Additionally, Krieps was seen in Barry Levinson’s THE SURVIVOR which also received its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival. The film was released on HBO in April 2022. Krieps was also seen in M. Night Shyamalan’s OLD alongside Gael Garcia Bernal, Thomasin Mackenzie and Alex Wolff.

Sarah Greene will appear in the Sky Original adaptation of Nick Cave’s darkly comic novel THE DEATH OF BUNNY MUNROE, alongside Matt Smith. The six-part series is written by BAFTA winner Pete Jackson and directed by Isabella Eklöf with Nick Cave serving as Executive Producer. In addition, Sarah will be seen in Oscar-nominated director Terrence Malick’s upcoming feature THE WAY OF THE WIND, an epic biblical drama which is highly anticipated as it filmed in 2019 and has undergone an extensive editing period. 

Most recently, Sarah reprised her role as Bibi Garvey in Sharon Horgan’s multi award-winning BAD SISTERS for its second season; following a successful first season which won a BAFTA TV and IFTA award for Best Drama series in 2023. Sarah was also an IFTA supporting actor nominated for her portrayal of Bibi. BAD SISTERS follows the five Garvey sisters who live in present-day Dublin. After Grace’s abusive, controlling husband, John Paul, dies unexpectedly, the sisters find themselves at the centre of a life insurance investigation. The second season has been announced as a 2025 IFTA nominee for Best Drama series. 

Last year, Sarah was seen in SEXY BEAST for Paramount+, a prequel TV series to the critically acclaimed crime film from 2000. The show follows Gal and Don as best friends and small-time thieves living the good life in ‘90s East London. Sarahleads as DeeDee, the tough but captivating adult film star who has the potential to turn Gal’s life upside down. 

Sarah can also be seen in IN THE LAND OF SAINTS AND SINNERS, a thriller set in a remote Irish village, where a former assassin must choose between protecting his secret identity and defending his friends and neighbours from terrorists. 

In 2021, Sarah was seen in the comedy series FRANK OF IRELAND opposite Brian Gleeson for Amazon Studios and Merman Productions. She also starred in David Hare's TV mini-series ROADKILL (2020) as Charmian Pepper, opposite Hugh Laurie and Helen McCrory on BBC One and PBS Masterpiece. 

In 2020, Sarah played the role of Connell’s mother, Lorraine, in the hit adaptation of the Sally Roone novel NORMAL PEOPLE, directed by Lenny Abrahamson. Sarahwas awarded an IFTA for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance.

In 2018, Sarah won the Ros Hubbard Award for Acting at the Irish Film London Awards for her starring role in ROSIE. The film premiered at Toronto International Film Festival, followed by a wider UK release in October 2018. ROSIE tells the story of a mother trying to protect her family after their landlord sells their rented home and they become homeless. Also in 2018, Sarah appeared in the brilliant drama BLACK 47 alongside an all-star cast including Hugo Weaving, Jim Broadbent and Freddie Fox. The film premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2018 and became the highest-grossing Irish film in Ireland for 2018.  

In 2019, Sarah starred as Cassie Maddox in the eight-part psychological crime thriller DUBLIN MURDERS alongside Killian Scott, based on Tana French’s internationally bestselling Dublin Murder Squad novels. Sarah also won an IFTA for her recurring role as ‘Hecate Poole’ in the Showtime/Sky Atlantic series PENNY DREADFUL, a psychological thriller which explored the origin stories of classic literary characters like Dr. Frankenstein and Dorian Gray.

Sarah was also seen as ‘May’ in the drama REBELLION, for which she was nominated as Best Actress in a Lead Role at the 2017 IFTA Awards. Sarah has had many prominent film roles, including a supporting role in BURNT (2015), co-starring Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller and Emma Thompson. 

Also in 2015, Sarah earnt an IFTA for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her portrayal of Christina Noble in the film NOBLE. In 2011, she played Sinead Mulligan in the BAFTA-nominated ‘raucous comedy’ (Entertainment Weekly) THE GUARD, which also starred Donald Gleeson, Don Cheadle and Mark Strong. 

Sarah’s other television credits include:  RANSOM (2017); PSYCH WARD ; THE ASSETS; and BACHELORS WALK CHRISTMAS SPECIAL.

Sarah has multiple theatre credits, including a starring role as ‘Caitlin Carney’ in Jez Butterworth and Sam Mendes’ smash-hit play THE FERRYMAN at the Gielgud Theatre, which was dubbed “Play of the Year” (Time Out) and “An instant classic” (Independent). Her additional stage credits include ALICE IN FUNDERLAND in 2012 and THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN, for which she was nominated for a Tony and Olivier Award in 2014 and won the 2014 World Theater Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut. 2017 also saw Sarah star alongside John Boyega in Jack Thorne’s adaptation of WOYZECK for The Old Vic.

Indya Moore is an American actor, model, and activist whose journey from the New York foster care system to groundbreaking entertainment figure exemplifies resilience and purpose. Rising to prominence through their role as Angel Evangelista in FX's Pose, they've broken barriers in fashion as the first transgender person to cover Elle USA and appeared in campaigns for leading fashion houses including Yves Saint Laurent and Louis Vuitton. Born and raised in New York City, Indya's personal experiences inform their intersectional advocacy for LGBTQ+ youth, racial justice, and interfaith dialogue. Named to TIME's 100 Most Influential People and Forbes 30 Under 30, they integrate their evolving spiritual faith with creative work that bridges understanding across communities while promoting transformative change.

Luka Sabbat is an actor, artist and model. As an ascending talent, his movie films roles include: The Dead Don’t Die (2019), Sharp Stick (2022), The Trainer (2022) and Father, Mother, Sister, Brother (2025). Television roles: Grownish (2018).

Françoise Lebrun's first ambition was to become a film director. To this end, she enrolled at Sciences Po and wrote freelance articles for the magazines Image et son. 

Then Communication, directed by the famous sociologist Roland Barthes. 

It was through this activity that, at the Evian Film Festival in 1964, she met a certain Jean Eustache, who had come to present his short film Les Mauvaises fréquentations. She became his companion and assistant, until they separated in the early 1970s.

The director (who ended his life in 1981) offered her her first major role in 1973 in La Maman et la Putain. In this critically acclaimed drama (it won the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, and is still considered a cult film today), she plays Veronika, the mistress of the hero Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Léaud), whom he meets on the street. Seemingly discreet, she in fact conceals a great freedom of morals...

Françoise Lebrun went on to work with prestigious directors such as André Téchiné (Souvenirs d'en France), Michèle Rosier (Mon cœur est rouge), Charlotte Dubreuil (Ma chérie) and above all Paul Vecchiali (En haut des marches, Trous de mémoire, À vot' bon cœur, ... Et tremble d'être heureux). At the same time, the actress pursued a career on the stage (Le Défi by Jean-Claude Perrin, Remagen by Jacques Lassalle, La Fuite en Egypte by Bruno Bayen, etc.).

During the 1990s, Françoise Lebrun kept a low profile in the film world, although she did appear in the comedies Pullman paradis by Michèle Rosier, Pour rire ! by Lucas Belvaux and On a très peu d'amis by Sylvain Monod. 

She worked at the TNS for 7 years, and also published three books with Lafont (livre de noël, livre de pates and le livre de l'anniversaire) and launched the “les enfants dans l'histoire” collection for Casterman, for which she produced 4 volumes. 

She was more active in the 2000s, appearing more or less furtively in films as varied as Malraux, tu m'étonnes!, Inguelezi, Fragments sur la grâce, Il sera une fois, Le Scaphandre et le Papillon, La Clef, Séraphine, Demain dès l'aube and Quelque chose à te dire.

Françoise Lebrun's film career continued to expand in 2010. After the TV film Comme une mère, she reunited with Guillaume Nicloux in La Clé pour Holiday, L'Affaire Gordji, histoire d'une cohabitation, La Religieuse, L'Enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq and Thalasso. She also appeared in (mainly on the drama side) Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse, Fever, A 14 ans, Le Cancre, Ma vie avec James Dean, Le Semeur, L'Amour Debout and La Part du soupçon. She also appears in the Mytho series.

In 2022, Françoise Lebrun played the main character in Gaspar Noé's Vortex, a dying person suffering from Alzheimer's disease. It was because he was a fan of La Maman et la Putain that the director of Irreversible offered her the role: “He more or less told me the story, but I had a kind of confidence in our relationship. I told myself that this man had seen what I'm capable of doing, and that he liked what was at the origin of my entire cinematic history. So I trusted him.

In 2013, Françoise Lebrun was made an Officier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Françoise Lebrun's other documentaries include Crazy Quilt (2011), dedicated to the gardens of England, as well as L'Homme qui montait son chapiteau and Romanes cirque tzigane, co-directed and focusing on the world of the circus.