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- Matthew William Goode (born 3 April 1978) is an English actor. His films include Chasing Liberty (2004), Match Point (2005), Imagine Me and You (2006), Brideshead Revisited (2008), Watchmen (2009), A Single Man (2009), Leap Year (2010), Stoker (2013) and The Imitation Game (2014). Goode also starred in in the final season of Downton Abbey and in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife as Finley "Finn" Polmar from 2014 to 2015. Goode was born in Exeter, Devon. His father is a geologist and his mother, Jennifer, is a nurse and amateur theatre director. Goode is the youngest of five children with a brother, two half brothers, and a half sister, television presenter Sally Meen, from his mother's previous marriage. He grew up in the village of Clyst St. Mary, near Exeter.
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Harry John Newman Treadaway (born 10 September 1984) is an English actor known for his performance as Victor Frankenstein on the horror-drama series Penny Dreadful.
Born at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital in Exeter, Devon, Treadaway was brought up in Sandford, Devon. His father is an architect and his mother is a primary school teacher; he has two brothers, older brother Sam (an artist) and slightly older twin Luke. Treadaway and his twin brother Luke attended Queen Elizabeth's Community College in Crediton, Devon, where they played in the twice Devon Cup winning Rugby Union team.
Inspired by a love of Eddie Vedder and with support from their secondary school drama teacher Phil Gasson, the twins formed a band called Lizardsun with Matt Conyngham and Seth Campbell. They also both joined the National Youth Theatre.
His professional debut was Brothers of the Head, a feature film about conjoined twin brothers in a punk rock band. Harry played Tom Howe, the band's rhythm guitarist and songwriter, and his brother Luke played Barry Howe, the lead singer. During rehearsals and throughout the shoot, Harry and Luke were connected to each other for fifteen hours a day, wearing sewn-together wetsuits or a harness. They also slept in one bed to simulate the conjoined nature of their characters. The Treadaways performed all tracks featured in the film themselves live on stage, as well as recording nine tracks for the sound-track album.
Treadaway took time out from his course at LAMDA to work on Brothers of the Head, and graduated in 2006.
Treadaway took on other professional commitments while still at drama school including Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder for ITV television, and a reading of a new play, Myrna Molloy for Operating Theatre Company in 2006.
Since graduating, he has taken on work such as Recovery for Tiger Aspect (playing the son of characters played by David Tennant and Sarah Parish) and as Mark Brogan on the Channel 4 series Cape Wrath (known as Meadowlands in America). In Control Harry plays Joy Division drummer Stephen Morris. In 2008 he appears in the Channel 4 drama The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall and a short film by Sam Taylor-Wood.
He has acted in horror film The Disappeared, directed by Johnny Kevorkian, and science fiction-fantasy film City of Ember.
He made his stage debut in Over There, a new play by Mark Ravenhill alongside his twin brother Luke Treadaway at the Royal Court Theatre in 2009.
Treadaway is also credited as a songwriter, after writing the piece Sink or Swim which he and Luke performed both on film and on the soundtrack of Brothers of the Head. Also he performed his song "Raise This Up" in "Brothers of the Head" as a solo performance during the scene in which Tom Howe's girlfriend breaks his heart.
In 2011, he appeared in The Last Furlong, filmed in Ireland. He starts as the title character James Furlong.
He played Victor Frankenstein in the Showtime TV series Penny Dreadful, starting in May 2014.- Actor
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Ben Aldridge was born on 12 November 1985 in Exeter, Devon, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Knock at the Cabin (2023), Spoiler Alert (2022) and The Long Call (2021).- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Luke trained at LAMDA and the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain.
Film credits include: "A Street Cat Named Bob," winner of the Best British Film Award, National Film Awards, 2017 (Shooting Script Films); "Ethel and Ernest" (Lupus Films); "The Rack Pack" (BBC/Zeppotron); "Unbroken" (Universal Pictures); "The Rise" (Moli/Mischief Films); "Cheerful Weather for the Wedding" (Cheerful Weather Productions); "For the First Time" (I love 2, LLC); "You Instead" (Sigma Films); "Man in Fear" (Fractured Films); "Late Bloomers" (Late Bloomers Productions); "Attack the Block" (Big Talk Productions); "Alice" (Ruby Films); "Killing Bono" (Cinema Three); "The Whistleblower" (Barry Films); "Clash of the Titans" (Warner Bros); "Heartless" (Cross Day Productions); "Viko" (Viko Productions); "God's Wounds" (RSA Films); "Brothers of the Head" (FilmFour/Potboiler Productions).
Theatre credits include: "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (Harold Pinter Theatre); "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," winner of the Best Actor Award, Olivier Awards, 2013. Nominated for the Best Actor in a Play Award, Whatsonstage.com Awards, 2013 (National Theatre/West End/Frantic Assembly); "Over There" (Royal Court Theatre); "Cradle Me" (Finborough Theatre); "Piranha Heights" (Soho Theatre); "War Horse" (National Theatre); "Saint Joan" (National Theatre).
Television credits include: "The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells: 'The Late Mr. Elvesham" (Clerkenwell Films/Sky Playhouse); "Vicious" Series 2 (ITV); "The Hollow Crown" Series 2 (BBC/NBC/Neal Street Productions); "Fortitude" Series 1 & 2 (Sky Atlantic/Starz); "13 Steps Down" (ITV); "Clapham Junction" (Darlow Smithson/Channel 4); "The Innocence Project" (Tightrope Productions/BBC); "Mist: Sheepdog Tales (Spring Pictures/Five).- Actor
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Matty Cardarople has always wanted to be an entertainer. Born and raised in Exeter, New Hampshire, Cardarople fueled his creative passion by entertaining friends and family with his comedic skills. After moving to Los Angeles he studied acting at The Beverly Hills Playhouse and has been perfecting his craft studying with Lesly Kahn. Ultimately Cardarople was discovered by Luke and Owen Wilson who gave him his career start with roles in the feature films Blonde Ambition and Drillbit Taylor.
Cardarople went on to appear in the blockbuster hit Jurassic World and Dumb and Dumber To, where he worked with his childhood idol Jim Carrey whom he cites as his career inspiration. Cardarople quickly continued to add to his credits with roles in the indie comedy The 4th, the critically-acclaimed Amazon rom-com The Big Sick and the Steven Soderbergh directed film Logan Lucky.
Cardarople got another big break with a starring role in the hit Netflix show A Series of Unfortunate Events, as Orlando, the "Hench Person of Indeterminate Gender" in the Troupe of Count Olaf played by Neil Patrick-Harris. The series is streaming now and is a favorite of audiences and critics alike. And as his impressive success continues, Cardarople can be seen in the highly-talked about second and third season of the Netflix instant classic Stranger Things.
He also stars as Noodle in the Netflix comedy film Wheels of Fortune alongside actors Matt Jones (Breaking Bad), Jeff Fahey, Noureen DeWulf, and John Ducey. The film follows a down-on-his-luck mechanic and his best friend as they head to competitions to win a big inheritance.
Recently Cardarople can be heard as the voice of Preston in Archibald's Next Big Thing streamable on Netflix. Cardarople continues to keep busy with roles such as Roger in Lazy Susan, Roy Meyer in I Am Woman, and Frank White in the Hulu anthology series Monsterland. He has also been cast as Ansel in the Taika Waititi project Reservation Dogs, Remy in "Made for Love", and the upcoming Netflix animated series "We Lost Our Human" alongside Ben Schwartz.
Things aren't slowing down for Cardarople, he can be seen in the blockbuster hit Free Guy alongside Ryan Reynolds. The film is "Certified Fresh" on Rotten Tomatoes. Coming up next, he will also play Clay Elliot, a young inattentive father in the romance thriller American Cherry from writer/director Marcella Cytrynowicz.
Cardarople has been seen on notable television shows such as New Girl, Angie Tribeca, Scrubs, Ray Donovan, You're The Worst, Comedy Bang! Bang! Selfie and Chasing Life.
Cardarople is accomplished in other arenas as well. He spends time drawing and writing poetry; his first self-published book of poems is titled Space Cadet and he just released his second titled Happy Birthday Everyday which both are available for purchase online. When not on set, Cardarople devotes his efforts to a number of worthy causes such as the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation, and local animal shelters.
Cardarople currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife, cats and a rescue pomeranian named Azoun.- Music Artist
- Actor
- Composer
One of the UK's most distinctive and popular singers and songwriters, Chris Martin was educated at the prestigious Sherborne School in Dorset. As a child he was musically inspired by artists such as a-ha, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Smiths, U2 and Peter Gabriel, who achieved commercial success in the 1980s by melding intelligent songwriting with musical sophistication. Martin then went to University College, London, to study Ancient World Studies, where he also met his future Coldplay bandmates.
Martin achieved fame in 2000 when the band's album, "Parachutes", became a major hit and spawned the popular single "Yellow". Many critics saw Coldplay as the natural heirs to Radiohead but with a more radio-friendly sound. Since the success of "Parachutes", Coldplay have remained one of the biggest bands in the world, a constant presence on radio and one of the few British stadium bands of the 21st century.
In 2003, Martin's celebrity status increased with his marriage to the American actress and Hollywood movie star Gwyneth Paltrow. Martin has become renowned for his political activism and he is a an avowed supporter of the human rights organisation Amnesty International. In 2014, he paid tribute to one of his biggest musical influences when he inducted Peter Gabriel into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.- Born to an English mother and Italian father Bruni was raised in the UK but spent part of her childhood living in Italy. She is bilingual. Bruni trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Her passions include food, dance and travel. Bruni has worked extensively in theatre, TV and film playing leading roles across all genres. Bruni's most recent projects include Slow Horses for Apple, the one woman play Psychodrama - for which she was nominated for an Off West End award; and Martin Campbell's film Dirty Angels in which she plays the sniper, Shooter. The film of Psychodrama is currently in development.
- Paulina Singer (born September 5, 1991) is an American actress, known for her roles as Grace Bledsoe on WE TV's horror drama series South of Hell and Jessie Tyler on Freeform's teen drama series Dead of Summer.
Singer was born and raised in Exeter, New Hampshire. Her father is African American and her mother is of Ukrainian descent. She studied for a year at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts in New York City before dropping out to pursue an acting career. At 19, Singer joined the Upright Citizens Brigade to study improvisational theatre.
In 2015, Singer was cast in a main role in the WE TV horror drama series South of Hell, executive produced by Eli Roth and Jason Blum. She portrayed Grace Bledsoe, alongside Mena Suvari and Bill Irwin. The following year, she joined the regular cast of Freeform's teen drama-thriller series Dead of Summer, portraying summer camp counselor Jessie Tyler. In 2017, she portrayed the lead role of Kelley Winters in the Lifetime television film High School Lover, alongside James Franco, Lana Condor and Julia Jones. - Ben Lamb was born in Exeter, Devon, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Divergent (2014), Now You See Me 2 (2016) and A Christmas Prince (2017).
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- Soundtrack
Alistair Brammer was born on 12 November 1988 in Exeter, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Les Misérables (2012), The Watchers (2024) and Les Misérables in Concert: The 25th Anniversary (2010).- Writer
- Producer
- Actor
Dan Brown was born on 22 June 1964 in Exeter, New Hampshire, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Inferno (2016), The Da Vinci Code (2006) and Angels & Demons (2009). He was previously married to Blythe Newlon.- Luke Newberry is a British actor originally from Exeter, England. He trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Luke is best known for playing Kieren Walker in the BBC TV Series 'In The Flesh', for which he was nominated for a BAFTA in the Best Leading Actor category.
Theatre credits include: Rodolpho in A View From The Bridge (Headlong) Charlie in When Winston Went To War With The Wireless (Donmar Warehouse) Alastor in Living Newspaper (Royal Court) Malcolm in Macbeth, Fenton in The Merry Wives of Windsor (RSC/Barbican - Ian Charleson Award Winner 2019) Eli Wolcott in The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide To Capitalism and Socialism With A Key To The Scriptures (Hampstead Theatre) Gabe in Teddy Ferrara (Donmar Warehouse) Haemon in Antigone (National Theatre). - Michael Whitehall was born on 12 April 1940 in Exeter, Devon, England, UK. He is a producer, known for The Good Guys (1992), Noah's Ark (1997) and A Perfect Hero (1991). He has been married to Hilary Whitehall since 1986. They have three children. He was previously married to Jane McIntosh.
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Nick Nevern is a British actor and Director. Nick spent some time in Russia, returning years later to London, where he started his acting career.
He first appeared on our TV screens in 2002 in the 'made-for-tv' film Out Of Control, a depiction of the lives of three boys sent to a young offenders institute. His next appearance would be in the TV football drama Dream Team, where he played Pavel Kovac for 2 episodes in 2006. In 2007 he appeared in Bonkers, Hotel Babylon and played the role of Viktor in 4 episodes of The English Class, as well as appearing in the film I Want Candy.
2008 saw him appear in the films West 10 LDN (2008) and Adulthood (2008), Eastenders, TV mini series Matroesjka's 2 and Spooks. In 2009 he played the role of Rogowski in Shameless, Lenny in Jonathan Creek and Elliot Johns in The Bill. Nick appeared in the film Mission London and also played the role of Ely in the TV mini series The Deep in 2010. In 2011, Nick Nevern appeared in the films 7lives and The Tapes. He also played the roles of Andrew in the film Turnout, Roger in Demon Never Dies and Marky in Victim. This was also the year of the release of Nick Nevern's most noted roles in the film Terry which Nick wrote, directed and played the role of Terry Jones, a documentary style film following his life of petty crime, drugs and extreme violence.
2012 sees the biggest year in Nicks career as he stars in some of the biggest British films of the year including The Sweeney (2012) and The Rise & Fall of a White Collar Hooligan (2012) and Riot (2017) (formally Riot).- Producer
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- Actor
James Harris was born on 1 August 1982 in Exeter, Devon, England, UK. He is a producer and production manager, known for I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016), The Informer (2019) and Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021).- Writer
- Actor
John Irving was born on 2 March 1942 in Exeter, New Hampshire, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for The Cider House Rules (1999), The Door in the Floor (2004) and The World According to Garp (1982). He has been married to Janet Turnbull since 1987. They have one child. He was previously married to Shyla Leary.- Adam Hightower is an American Actor, Born January 29, 1986, and raised in Exeter, California. He is the only boy with 3 older sisters.
Adam fell in love with the creative industry as a younger child, which led him into Filmmaking and Acting. He went on to get a Degree in Digital Filmmaking and Video Production and is an Award Winning Actor, and Director. Adam owns a Film Production business, HIGH TOWER FILMS. Luckily, being able to have a business that is closely tied to acting, he is able to thrive as an actor, his true passion. Adam has been trained by the best acting coaches, directors, and screen writers in the industry to help him develop his talents. - Actor
- Sound Department
Alex Palmer was born in January 1973 in Exeter, Devon, England, UK. He is an actor, known for 28 Days Later (2002), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005). He has been married to Catherine Cusack since 2005.- Harrison Metcalf was born on 1 October 2011 in Exeter, Devon, UK. He is an actor, known for The Wasp (2024), Poison and Flying (2024).
- George Woodbridge was born on 16 February 1907 in Exeter, Devon, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Horror of Dracula (1958), Murder in the Cathedral (1951) and The Son of Robin Hood (1958). He was married to Mary Jowitt. He died on 31 March 1973 in Barnet, London, England, UK.
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- Actress
Joyce Maynard was born on 5 November 1953 in Exeter, New Hampshire, USA. She is a writer and actress, known for Labor Day (2013), To Die For (1995) and Brooklyn Bridge (1991). She was previously married to Jim Barringer and Steve Bethel.- Producer
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Maura Anderson has worked in independent film production since 2006. She production managed academy award nominated Winter's Bone, Sundance darling On the Ice, and Ceremony among others. She has since produced countless features and series working with the likes of Rodrigo Garcia, Julia Stiles and Jon Avnet. She made her directorial debut with Heartland, starring Laura Spencer & Beth Grant, which won the audience award at its 2016 Cinequest premiere and went on to play at over 20 festivals around the world eventually landing on Hulu. She produced The Innocent Man, a 6 part Netflix documentary series, with Clay Tweel and Campfire TV and The Most Dangerous Animal of All, a 4 part FX documentary series with Kief Davidson and Campfire; She recently co-executive produced Menudo: Forever Young, a 4 part series directed by Angel Manuel Soto and Kristofer Rios for HBO and Muck Media as well as Sins of Our Mother directed by Skye Borgman with Lightbox coming soon to Netflix; along with several projects for Obama and Netflix's Higher Ground. She recently co-directed a feature documentary on FIFA corruption entitled Kickback with Clay Tweel, produced by Campfire, Studio 101 and Raindog Films. She is currently in production and development on several feature documentaries as a director and producer.- Actor
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Andy Robb was born on 14 March 1970 in Exeter, Devon, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The Da Vinci Code (2006), The Woman in Black (2012) and Far from the Madding Crowd (1998).- Paul Lee Stine was born on 18 December 1939 in Exeter, California, USA. He was married to Claudia S. Stine. He died on 11 October 1969 in San Francisco, California, USA.
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- Producer
Fred Karno was born on 26 March 1866 in Exeter, England, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for Mother, Don't Rush Me (1936), The Bad Companions (1932) and My Old Duchess (1934). He was married to Marie T. L. Moore and Edith Cuthbert. He died on 18 September 1941 in Dorset, England, UK.