Two-time Academy Award®-winning actor DENZEL WASHINGTON portrays Army Major Ben Marco, a talented career soldier determined to discover the truth about his experiences in Kuwait during the Gulf War.

In such roles as the South African freedom fighter Steven Biko in “Cry Freedom,” Shakespeare’s tragic historical figure “Richard III,” the womanizing trumpet player Bleek Gilliam in Spike Lee’s “Mo’ Better Blues,” and his Academy Award®-winning portrayal of an embittered runaway slave in Ed Zwick’s “Glory,” Denzel Washington has amazed and entertained us with a rich and colorful array of characters distinctly his own.

Washington was awarded the Oscar® for Best Actor for one of his most critically acclaimed performances to date, as a grizzled LAPD veteran in “Training Day,” directed by Antoine Fuqua.

In 2002, Denzel Washington made his feature film directorial debut with “Antwone Fisher.” Based on a true-life story, the film follows Fisher, a troubled young sailor played by newcomer Derek Luke, as he comes to terms with his past. The film won critical praise, and was awarded the Stanley Kramer Award from the Producers Guild of America, as well as winning an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Motion Picture and Outstanding Supporting Actor for Washington.

Most recently, Washington starred in Tony Scott’s “Man on Fire,” in which he portrayed a former Marine who swears vengeance on people who have harmed the family he’s sworn to protect. In 2003, he starred in Carl Franklin’s “Out of Time,” in which he played a Florida police chief who must solve a double homicide before he falls under suspicion for the murders himself. He was also seen in “John Q,” a story about a down-on-his-luck father whose son is in need of a heart transplant, which garnered Washington a NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture.

In September of 2000, he starred in Jerry Bruckheimer’s box-office sensation ($115 million domestic gross) “Remember the Titans,” a fact-based film about the 1971 integration of a high school football team. In 1999, he starred in “The Hurricane,” for director Norman Jewison, and received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and an Academy Award® nomination (his fourth) for his portrayal of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, the world middleweight champion boxer who was wrongfully imprisoned twice for murder.

In November of 1999, he starred in “The Bone Collector,” the adaptation of Jeffery Deaver’s novel about the search for a serial killer, co-starring Angelina Jolie and directed by Phillip Noyce. In 1998, he starred in the crime thriller “Fallen,” for director Greg Hoblit, and in Spike Lee’s “He Got Game.” He also re-teamed with “Glory” director Ed Zwick for the terrorist thriller “The Siege,” co-starring Annette Bening and Bruce Willis.

In 1996, Washington starred in the critically acclaimed military drama “Courage Under Fire,” for director Ed Zwick, and also starred opposite Whitney Houston in Penny Marshall’s romantic comedy “The Preacher’s Wife.” In 1995, he starred opposite Gene Hackman in Tony Scott’s underwater action adventure “Crimson Tide”; as an ex-cop released from prison to track down a criminal in the futuristic thriller “Virtuosity”; and as World War II veteran Easy Rawlins in the 1940s romantic thriller “Devil in a Blue Dress” (which Washington’s Mundy Lane Entertainment produced with Jonathan Demme’s Clinica Estetico).

Washington also starred in the title role of the complex and controversial Black activist in director Spike Lee’s biographical epic, “Malcolm X,” for which the actor received, among many other accolades, an Academy Award® nomination for Best Actor.

A native of Mt. Vernon, New York, Washington studied acting under Robinson Stone at Fordham University and later attended San Francisco’s prestigious American Conservatory Theater.

Washington’s professional New York theater career began with Joseph Papp’s Shakespeare in the Park and was quickly followed by numerous off-Broadway productions, including “A Soldier’s Play,” for which he won an Obie Award. Washington’s stage appearances also include the Broadway production of “Checkmates” and the Shakespeare in the Park production of “Richard III.”

Washington first came to the attention of American audiences when he was cast as Dr. Phillip Chandler in NBC’s long-running, hit television series “St. Elsewhere.” In 1984, he re-created his role from “A Soldier’s Play” for Norman Jewison’s film version, “A Soldier’s Story,” and soon went on to star in Sidney Lumet’s “Power” and Richard Attenborough’s “Cry Freedom,” for which he received his first Oscar® nomination. Washington also starred in the action adventure film “Ricochet,” in Mira Nair’s bittersweet comedy “Mississippi Masala,” as well as in “For Queen and Country,” “The Mighty Quinn,” “Heart Condition” and Spike Lee’s “Mo’ Better Blues.”

Additional film credits include Kenneth Branagh’s film adaptation of “Much Ado About Nothing,” Jonathan Demme’s controversial “Philadelphia,” with Tom Hanks, and “The Pelican Brief,” based on the John Grisham novel.



MERYL STREEP plays Eleanor Prentiss Shaw, a powerful U.S. senator who has ambitious plans for her son, war hero and congressman, Raymond Shaw.

Regarded as one of the world’s finest actors, Meryl Streep has portrayed an astonishing array of characters in a career that has cut its own unique path from the theater through television and film. A two-time Academy Award® winner and a recipient of a record-breaking 13 Oscar® nominations, Streep recently was honored by the American Film Institute with a Lifetime Achievement Award. She also received the new Dramatists’ Lifetime Achievement Award as well as the Stanislavsky Award at the Moscow International Film Festival. In addition, Streep was awarded a Golden Globe and a SAG Award for her starring role alongside Al Pacino and Emma Thompson in the HBO epic “Angels in America,” directed by Mike Nichols, from Tony Kushner’s adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize-winning plays.

Streep made her acting debut at Vassar College starring in the title role in Strindberg’s “Miss Julie,” and later won a scholarship to the Yale School of Drama where she received an M.F.A. degree and the Carol Dye Acting Award, becoming the first woman in the school’s history to receive this honor.

After a summer with the O’Neill Playwrights conference in Connecticut, Streep moved to New York and made her debut in Joseph Papp’s Lincoln Center production of “Trelawney of the Wells.” At Phoenix Repertory, for her performances in rotating productions of the Civil War melodrama “Secret Service,” Arthur Miller’s “A Memory of Two Mondays” and Tennessee Williams’ “27 Wagons Full of Cotton,” Streep won the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Theater World Award and a Tony nomination. She performed in seven productions during her first season in New York, including the New York Shakespeare Festival productions of “Henry V” and “Measure for Measure,” opposite John Cazale and Sam Waterston. She starred on Broadway in the Brecht/Weill musical “Happy End,” and won an Obie for her performance in the all-sung, off-Broadway production of “Alice at the Palace.” During this period she also won the Emmy for Best Actress for her portrayal of a devastated German wife in the controversial eight-part miniseries “Holocaust.”

Meryl Streep began her feature film career as Jane Fonda’s society friend in “Julia,” directed by Fred Zinnemann. In her second screen role, Streep starred opposite Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken in “The Deer Hunter,” receiving her first Oscar® nomination. Her next film was the political drama “The Seduction of Joe Tynan,” with Alan Alda. She returned to the stage that summer to star opposite Raul Julia in the Shakespeare in the Park production of “The Taming of the Shrew,” and during the day alternated filming “Manhattan” for Woody Allen and “Kramer vs. Kramer” with Dustin Hoffman. Playing Hoffman’s troubled ex-wife in a custody battle, she garnered her first Academy Award® for Best Supporting Actress.

She won her third Oscar® nomination and the British Academy Award for her next film, “The French Lieutenant’s Woman,” directed by Karel Reisz, in which she played the dual roles of a sophisticated contemporary actress and a tragic 19th-century heroine. The following year, she won the Academy Award® for Best Actress for her extraordinary performance in the title role of “Sophie’s Choice,” directed by Alan J. Pakula from his adaptation of William Styron’s novel. She was nominated again the next year, for her portrayal of Karen Silkwood, the activist/heroine of Mike Nichols’ “Silkwood.” Reuniting with Robert De Niro in her next film, “Falling in Love,” she won the David Award, the Italian equivalent of the Oscar®.

Streep completed two films in 1985: Fred Schepisi’s screen adaptation of David Hare’s “Plenty” and Sydney Pollack’s sweeping romantic adventure “Out of Africa,” for which she received an Academy Award® nomination for Best Actress. She then filmed two projects co-starring Jack Nicholson: Mike Nichols’ “Heartburn” and “Ironweed,” directed by Hector Babenco, for which she received her seventh Oscar® nomination. She then traveled to Australia for Fred Schepisi’s “A Cry in the Dark,” in which she played the infamous, unfairly maligned Lindy Chamberlain, a role that won Streep the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival, The New York Film Critics Circle, the AFI Award and another Oscar® nomination.

She next won Golden Globe nominations for her work in Susan Seidelman’s “She-Devil” and “Postcards From the Edge” (with Nichols again), starring opposite Shirley MacLaine. This adaptation by Carrie Fisher from her own novel won Streep praise for her singing and yet another Oscar® nomination. She continued to find comedic work; with Albert Brooks in his delicious contemplation of a neurotic’s trial in purgatory in “Defending Your Life,” and in Robert Zemeckis’ satirical look at aging in L.A., “Death Becomes Her,” co-starring Goldie Hawn. After returning to the States from Europe – where she had filmed Bille August’s “The House of the Spirits,” from Isabel Allende’s acclaimed novel – she tackled the physical challenges of an action movie, in “The River Wild,” directed by Curtis Hanson, co-starring Kevin Bacon.

Her next film, Clint Eastwood’s “The Bridges of Madison County,” won her overwhelming acclaim and Screen Actor’s Guild, Golden Globe and Oscar® nominations for her complex portrayal of a lonely Iowa farm wife who opens her heart to a stranger. The following year she was seen opposite Liam Neeson in Barbet Schroeder’s “Before and After,” and opposite Diane Keaton and Leonardo DiCaprio in “Marvin’s Room,” for which she received another Golden Globe nomination.

She next returned to television, co-producing with director Jim Abrahams the real-life drama “First Do No Harm” and earning an Emmy nomination for her work as the mother of an epileptic child who pursues alternative therapies.

In 1998, Streep teamed with Renee Zellweger in “One True Thing,” based on Anna Quindlen’s prize-winning novel, winning SAG, Golden Globe and Oscar® nominations for her performance. That same year, Streep appeared in the critically lauded “Dancing at Lughnasa,” based on Brian Friel’s play, directed by Pat O’Connor. In 1999, Streep earned her 12th Academy Award® nomination for Wes Craven’s “Music of the Heart,” the real life story of a teacher and single mother who brings the violin to inner city kids.

In 2001, she returned to Central Park’s Delacorte Theatre in Mike Nichols’ production of “The Seagull,” for the Public Theater’s New York Shakespeare Festival, co-starring Kevin Kline, Christopher Walken, Marcia Gay Harden, Natalie Portman, John Goodman and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

More recently, her work in Paramount’s “The Hours” won Streep the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival, along with her co-stars Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore, as well as SAG and Golden Globe nominations. In the same year, her eccentric portrayal of Susan Orlean in Spike Jonze’s “Adaptation” was recognized with a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and BAFTA and Oscar® nominations. She was recently seen in the comedy “Stuck on You” with Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear and Cher. Streep will next star in Paramount’s “Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events,” an adaptation of the beloved children’s books, with Jim Carrey and Jude Law.

Last year she was given an Honorary César for Career Achievement in Paris, where she also was accorded a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the highest civilian honor given by the French government.



Widely regarded as one of the finest actors of his generation, LIEV SCHREIBER stars as Raymond Shaw, son of the powerful Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw and a decorated Gulf War hero, who becomes a candidate for vice president of the United States.

Schreiber is currently directing his adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s best-selling novel, Everything Is Illuminated, for Warner Independent Pictures, in Prague. This film marks his feature directorial debut. A blend of high comedy and great tragedy, Everything Is Illuminated tells the story of a young, American Jewish man’s (Elijah Wood) quest to find the woman who saved his grandfather – in a small Ukrainian town that was wiped off the map by the Nazi invasion. Prior to publication of the novel, Schreiber read an excerpt in The New Yorker, secured the rights himself, wrote the screenplay and subsequently brought the project to Warner Independent Pictures.

Schreiber’s distinguished list of acting credits includes “The Sum of All Fears” with Morgan Freeman and Ben Affleck, “Kate & Leopold” with Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman, Michael Almereyda’s “Hamlet,” “The Hurricane” opposite Denzel Washington, Tony Goldwyn’s “A Walk on the Moon,” Robert Benton’s “Twilight” with Paul Newman, Barry Levinson’s sci-fi epic “Sphere,” the box-office hits “Scream,” “Scream 2,” “Scream 3” and “Ransom.” Schreiber is also known for his work in such acclaimed independent features as Stanley Tucci’s “Big Night,” “Party Girl,” “The Daytrippers” with Hope Davis, Nicole Holofcener’s “Walking and Talking” with Catherine Keener, Nora Ephron’s “Mixed Nuts,” Antonia Bird’s “Mad Love,” Hal Salwen’s “Denise Calls Up” and Tom Gilroy’s “Spring Forward” with Ned Beatty, for which he also served as a producer.

Initially interested in playwriting, Schreiber went on to spend a year studying acting with the faculty from England’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. In 1992, he graduated with a M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama. His impressive stage credits include his critically acclaimed turn as Henry V in last summer’s Shakespeare in the Park production at the Delacorte Theatre, along with “The Mercy Seat,” opposite Sigourney Weaver and directed by Neil LaBute, Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal,” co-starring Juliette Binoche, and “Moonlight,” with Blythe Danner and Jason Robards. Schreiber’s enduring relationship with the Public Theatre’s New York Shakespeare Festival has produced several critically acclaimed performances including the title role in “Hamlet,” Iago in “Othello,” “Macbeth,” “The Tempest” and “Cymbeline,” for which he won an Obie award. Other productions include “All for One,” “In the Summer House,” “Escape From Happiness,” “The Real Thing,” “Richard III,” “Underground” and the Moscow Art Theatre’s production of “Ivanov.”

For television, Schreiber starred as Orson Welles in “RKO 281” (Emmy and Golden Globe nominations) and will also appear in the forthcoming “Lackawanna Blues” with Halle Berry, Jeffrey Wright and Rosie Perez. His television credits include “Spinning Borris,” “Buffalo Girls,” “People V” and “The Sunshine Boys,” with Woody Allen and Peter Falk. As a voice-over artist, Schreiber has narrated numerous documentaries, including the popular PBS miniseries “Rock & Roll.”



JON VOIGHT plays Thomas Jordan, a respected U.S. senator who stands in the way of Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw’s ambitious plans. Voight is still remembered for the classic “Midnight Cowboy,” which brought his first Academy Award® nomination, as well as for his Oscar®-winning turn as Luke Martin in “Coming Home.” Since then, Voight has forged a career in which he successfully transitioned from leading man to one of America’s most versatile character actors.

Voight recently played Mr. Sir in the popular and critically acclaimed Andy Davis feature film “Holes,” based on the Newberry Award-winning book of the same name, and was also recently nominated for an Academy Award® for his role as Howard Cosell in “Ali.”

He was featured in “Pearl Harbor” and “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider” (starring his daughter, Angelina Jolie) and starred in “Mission: Impossible,” “Varsity Blues,” “Enemy of the State” and “Anaconda.” Other feature film credits include Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Rainmaker” (Golden Globe nominee), “The General,” “Deliverance,” “Runaway Train” (which earned him an Academy Award® nomination and a Golden Globe), “The Odessa File” and “The Champ” (Golden Globe nominee).

Voight made his Broadway debut in “The Sound of Music.” In 1966, he starred opposite Robert Duvall in the acclaimed revival of Arthur Miller’s “A View From the Bridge.” He later starred at L.A.’s Ahmanson Theatre in “A Streetcar Named Desire.”

On television, Voight recently starred in the powerful, critically acclaimed film, “Jasper, Texas,” Based on actual events, “Jasper, Texas” tells the disturbing story of a heinous racial crime in which a black man was dragged to his death in a small Texas town. Voight also co-starred in “Uprising,” the true story of the Warsaw ghetto, for NBC, and in “Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story,” a miniseries for CBS. He starred in “Chernobyl: The Final Warning,” “The Last of His Tribe,” which earned him a CableACE Award, and the miniseries “Return to Lonesome Dove.” He made his directorial debut with the Showtime cable movie “Tin Soldier,” which won several awards, including Best Children’s Film at the Berlin Film Festival.



KIMBERLY ELISE, who portrays Rosie, the kind woman who Marco meets on the train, has been on the rise ever since her star-making role in Oprah Winfrey’s “Beloved,” for which she won the Chicago Film Critics Best Newcomer Award, playing Denver, the grown daughter of Winfrey’s Sethe.

Elise will next star in the independent film “Woman Thou Art Loosed,” playing an embittered woman in the throngs of resurrecting her life after a lifetime of childhood abuse. Her performance has earned mass critical acclaim and the film recently won top honors, including the American Spirit Award for Best American Film, at this year’s Santa Barbara Film Festival. It is scheduled to open nationwide in October.

Most recently, she starred in the New Line Cinema drama “John Q,” with Robert Duvall and Denzel Washington. Other feature film credits include “Set It Off,” F. Gary Gray’s drama in which Elise co-starred with Queen Latifah as part of a group of women who turn to robbing banks, and Antoine Fuqua’s comedy “Bait,” with Jamie Foxx.

Television credits include co-starring with Gregory Hines in Showtime’s “Bojangles” and the title role in “The Loretta Claiborne Story” for ABC. Elise also won a CableACE Award for her performance in the Family Channel’s “The Ditchdigger’s Daughters.”


JEFFREY WRIGHT
(Al Melvin) was honored with an AFI Award for best actor for his portrayal of Martin Luther King, Jr. in HBO’s “Boycott.” His films include “Ali,” “Shaft,” “Ride with the Devil,” “Cement,” “Critical Care,” and “Basquiat,” which earned him an Independent Spirit Award nomination for his debut performance in the title role.

In 1994, Wright won a Tony Award for his portrayal of Belize in “Angels in America: Perestroika,” a role he reprised in the 2003 HBO miniseries, which won him a Golden Globe Award and a SAG nomination.
In 2002, Wright enjoyed a critically acclaimed run on Broadway in the Pulitzer Prize-winning show “Topdog/Underdog,” for which he received a Tony nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actor.

Most recently, Wright just wrapped “Lackawanna Blues,” an HBO film co-starring Rosie Perez and Liev Schreiber.



TED LEVINE
, who portrays Colonel Howard, the psychiatrist working with Marco, has steadily distinguished himself as an actor for many years on the big screen, in television and on stage. This year alone, he will appear in two other new feature films, in addition to “The Manchurian Candidate.” He is starring in “Birth,” with Nicole Kidman and Lauren Bacall, and has a role in “The L.A. Riot Spectacular,” directed by Marc Klasfeld. Last year, he starred opposite Val Kilmer and Lisa Kudrow in “Wonderland.”

After graduating with an M.F.A. from the University of Chicago, Levine appeared in many TV films in the 1980s, and then began making his mark in feature films in the 1990s. His breakthrough role came in 1991 for director Jonathan Demme, when he starred with Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster in “The Silence of the Lambs,” as the other ominous villain in this blockbuster hit. Levine followed with “Georgia,” starring as the complicated spouse of Jennifer Jason Leigh. Counting his role in “The Truth About Charlie,” Levine has worked for director Jonathan Demme a total of three times.

Levine has appeared in 24 feature films, including roles in “Heat,” with Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, “Wild Wild West,” starring Will Smith and Kevin Kline, and “Switchback,” with Dennis Quaid and Danny Glover.

Most recently, Levine has become a familiar face on television in the USA hit detective/comedy series “Monk,” playing the wry foil (Capt. Leland Stottlemeyer) for Tony Shalhoub’s title character. In addition, Levine is a series regular on Peter Berg’s “Wonderland” for ABC/Imagine. His prolific television work also includes roles in Showtime/MOW’s “Harlan County War,” for director Tony Bill, and in the HBO miniseries “From the Earth to the Moon,” for director Tom Hanks, as well as roles in “Moby Dick,” “Ellen Foster,” “Crime Story” and “Wiseguy.”

Before appearing on the screen, Levine had already emerged among the most respected of stage actors from his work at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater, and he continues his stage career, most recently playing Tilden on Broadway in “Buried Child,” directed by Gary Sinise.



BRUNO GANZ
portrays Richard Delp, a rogue scientist who Marco turns to for help in retrieving his memories of the Gulf War. Born in Switzerland and living in Zurich, Ganz is fluent in German, French and English, giving him versatility in his entertainment career.

Ganz is the winner of numerous awards, including the Berlin Film Award Winner of numerous awards, including the the Swiss Film Award for Best Actor in 2000 for his work in Silvio Soldini’s “Pane e Tulipani.” Ganz has appeared in over a dozen films internationally, including Werner Herzog’s “Nosferatu,” Gillian Armstrong’s “The Last Days of Chez Nous,” Eric Rohmer’s “The Marquise of O,” Volker Schlöndorff’s “Circle of Deceit” and Wim Wenders’ “Wings of Desire.” In addition, Ganz worked as a director with Otto Sander on the film “Gedächtnis,” a highly personal documentary-style double portrait of actors Curt Bois and Bernhard Minetti. Ganz is also an accomplished theater actor, appearing in numerous Shakespearean plays abroad, including title roles in “Hamlet” and “Macbeth.”



SIMON MCBURNEY
portrays Dr. Atticus Noyle, a scientist whose experiments into the workings of the human brain have entered unchartered territory. McBurney is artistic director of the Theatre de Complicité, which he co-founded and for which he has devised, directed and acted in more than 24 productions, toured all over the world and won numerous major international awards.

As an actor, McBurney has performed extensively for radio, television and in feature films, including Steven Soderbergh’s “Kafka” with Jeremy Irons, “Tom & Viv” with Willem Dafoe and Miranda Richardson, Bill Forsyth’s “Being Human” with Robin Williams, “Mesmer,” written by Dennis Potter and starring Alan Rickman, Volker Schlöndorff’s “The Ogre” with John Malkovich, “Cousin Bette,” starring Jessica Lange, and “Onegin” with Ralph Fiennes and Liv Tyler. McBurney also starred in the title role of the film pioneer in “Eisenstein,” for director Renny Bartlett. He will soon be seen in the upcoming dramas, “The Reckoning,” with Willem Dafoe and Paul Bettany, Paul Cox’s “The Human Touch” and Stephen Fry’s “Bright Young Things.”

Recently, McBurney directed Al Pacino in Bertolt Brecht’s “The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui” at the National Actors Theatre in New York, in association with Complicité. He also directed the critically acclaimed, hit stage production of “Mnemonic” in New York and London. Other New York productions include “The Chairs” (Tony nomination – Director of a Play), “The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol,” “Street of Crocodiles” and “The Noise of Time.”

McBurney’s acclaimed production of “The Elephant Vanishes” (Evening Standard Award nomination – Director of a Play) will transfer from The Barbican to New York in the summer. McBurney’s production of Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure,” is currently running at London’s National Theatre.



VERA FARMIGA
plays Jocelyn Jordan, daughter of Senator Thomas Jordan and Raymond Shaw’s former love. Farmiga is currently in production in Vancouver on “Touching Evil,” a television series produced by Bruce Willis and Arnold Rifkin (“Die Hard IV,” “Hart’s War”) and directed by Allen Hughes (“Dead Presidents,” “Menace II Society”) for the USA Network. The crime-drama series, about two hard-nosed detectives who specialize in solving shocking, high profile crimes for the FBI’s new Organized and Serial Crime Unit, co-stars Jeff Donovan. Based on the hit series by British Granada Television, “Touching Evil” premiered in March.

At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Farmiga won a Special Jury Prize for her performance in the independent film “Down to the Bone,” a revelatory drama about a weary, working-class mother trapped in drug addiction. The film, which was in the Dramatic competition, also garnered a Director’s Award for Debra Granik.

Farmiga recently appeared in the HBO miniseries “Iron Jawed Angels,” about a group of fierce young women fighting for women’s suffrage. The series co-starred Hilary Swank, Anjelica Huston, Frances O’Connor and Molly Parker.

Farmiga’s film credits include the independent drama “Love in the Time of Money,” co-starring Michael Imperioli and Adrian Grenier, Gregory Pritikin’s romantic comedy “Dummy,” co-starring Adrien Brody, and “15 Minutes,” directed by John Herzfeld and co-starring Robert De Niro and Edward Burns, as well as “Autumn in New York” and “The Opportunists.”

Farmiga’s television and stage credits include the NBC action series “UC: Undercover” for Danny DeVito’s Jersey Television, ABC’s “Snow White” and a recent appearance in “Under the Blue Sky” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, opposite Annabella Sciorra and Marsha Mason.

ROBYN HITCHCOCK plays Laurent Tokar, a guide to the American soldiers in Kuwait. Making his feature film acting debut, Hitchcock is one of England’s most enduring contemporary singer/songwriters and live performers. He started his recording career with the Soft Boys, a punk-era band specializing in melodic pop merged with comedic lyrics. Hitchcock’s solo debut, 1981’s “Black Snake Diamond Role,” was followed by the psychedelia of “Groovy Decay” in 1982 and the all-acoustic “I Often Dream of Trains” in 1984. By 1985, his penchant for zaniness in songwriting coalesced with the album “Fegmania!,” which he recorded with The Egyptians.

Three years later, Hitchcock landed his first major U.S. label contract with A&M Records and released “Element of Light,” “Globe of Frogs,” “Queen Elvis” and “Perspex Island,” all of which topped the Rolling Stone Alternative chart. In 1996, he released “Moss Elixir,” an acclaimed album in which Hitchcock embraced his folk roots.

In 1998, Hitchcock starred in the concert film “Storefront Hitchcock,” shot on West 14th Street in New York and directed by Academy Award®-winner Jonathan Demme.

In 1999, Hitchcock released “Jewels for Sophia,” and a year later, a companion disc entitled “A Star for Bram.” He made his acting debut in 2002, a cameo appearance in a television adaptation of Tony Parsons’ book Man and Boy.