2010 graduates
Liam Aiken
January 7, 1990
Liam Padraic Aiken is an American actor who has starred in a number of films, such as Stepmom and Good Boy!. He more recently starred as Klaus Baudelaire in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, based on the series of books.
Liam Aiken was born in New York City, the only child of Bill Aiken, an MTV producer, and an Irish immigrant mother, Moya Aiken. He attended Dwight Englewood School. He made his professional acting debut in a Ford Motor Company Windstar commercial. Liam made his stage debut in the Broadway play A Doll's House at the age of seven and his film debut playing Parker Posey's son in Henry Fool in the same year. His mother encouraged him to begin acting, because of his need for a college fund after his father's death in 1992 from cancer. When Aiken found that he enjoyed acting, he decided to continue.
Aiken's first major film role was playing Susan Sarandon's young son in Stepmom in 1998, which also starred Julia Roberts and Jena Malone. He appeared as Tom Hanks' younger son in the 2002 film Road to Perdition. He starred in the family film about dogs from space, Good Boy! playing the lead, Owen Baker, in 2003. He turned down the role of Cole Sear in The Sixth Sense (1999) because his mother felt he was too young for the death-fixated role; the role went instead to Haley Joel Osment. Liam was also considered for the role of Harry Potter, as he had previously worked with director Chris Columbus on Stepmom. However, as he is not British, Daniel Radcliffe took the part. Liam then went on to play the intelligent, 12-year-old orphan, Klaus Baudelaire in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events in 2004. In March 2009, Liam was cast as Johnnie Pappas, in Michael Winterbottom's remake of The Killer Inside Me, starring Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson.
In the fall of 2008, Aiken entered New York University as an undergraduate studying film and television.
Jacob Smith
January 21, 1990
Jonathan Jacob Charles William Smith is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his role in the film Cheaper by the Dozen and its 2005 sequel.
Smith was born in Monrovia, California. He has a brother, Nathan, and a sister, Natasha. Smith listens to punk/rock music and was in a band called My September Story. Smith also enjoys skateboarding, and was in a sponsored skating team in his hometown. Smith was a student at Monrovia High School for two years and enjoyed moderate celebrity status at the school until the time of his graduation. He also went to First Avenue Middle School in Arcadia, California as a 6th grader.
In 1996, Smith began acting at age six, appearing on several television series, including Walker, Texas Ranger, Party of Five and Step by Step, as well as playing a supporting role in 1998's action-comedy, Small Soldiers. During this period, he also starred in the made-for-television films Evolution's Child and Phantom of the Megaplex.
Smith was cast as Hansel, opposite Taylor Momsen's Gretel, in the 2002 film version of Hansel and Gretel, which received a limited theatrical release in October 2002. He was subsequently cast as one of twelve children in the family comedy Cheaper by the Dozen, which was released in December 2003 and became a box office success, gaining Smith renown with pre-teen audiences. In 2004, he had a minor role in the film, Troy and appeared on the television series Without a Trace. He also reprised his role of Jake Baker in Cheaper by the Dozen 2, which was released in December 2005 and performed fairly well at the box office. It is unknown whether he will reprise his role in Cheaper by the Dozen 3.
Christopher Massey
January 26, 1990
Christopher Michael Massey is an actor and singer from Atlanta, Georgia. He is perhaps best known for starring as Michael Barret in Nickelodeon television series Zoey 101. Massey has received many awards and nomination including a Young Artist Award and Emmy Awards nominations.. He is also known for appearing in several commercials in the early 2000s. He is the older brother of Kyle Massey, star of Disney's Cory in the House and That's So Raven. He also starred in an episode of That's So Raven along with Cody Linley.
Massey began his acting career at a young age, appearing in commercials for Cap'n Crunch, Pop Tarts, and McDonalds, among others. He also has made a guest appearance on Punk'd. He won 2002's Outstanding Young Performer in Live Theatre award. Massey received an Emmy nomination in 2006 for Zoey 101. He stayed for the whole series and all 4 movies. Massey has appeared in several commercials with his brother for Burger King, Disney and Pepsi. Christopher is also a singer/rapper and song writer and music producer for several big names in the music industry.
Massey became an overnight sensation when he was cast in the Emmy-nominated Nickelodeon television show, Zoey 101. The show has been the networks highest rated and most viewed for 3 years.
Massey garnered his first starring role as Michael Barret in the Emmy-nominated Nickelodeon television show, Zoey 101. When the show debuted in January 2005, it drew a larger number of viewers aged 9–14 than any premiere on the network in the preceding eight years. Spears stars as one of the first girls to pass admissions for a formerly all-boy boarding school, called Pacific Coast Academy. Zoey 101 was nominated for a 2005 Emmy for Outstanding Children's Program.
Massey is the older brother of the jackson five, who stars in the Disney sitcom series That's So Raven and Cory in the House. He has guest starred alongside his brother on a That's So Raven episode called "Five Finger Discount". Both Massey and his brother have had small roles on the sitcom The Parkers. In 2006, he was named one of Teen People's "25 Hottest Stars Under 25", the list also included Zoey co-star Jamie Lynn Spears and her sister.
Massey is also a singer-songwriter and in his YouTube channel, "westfayettevilleroad", the videos on his YouTube channel show him recording songs with his brother Kyle and his friend Mario in their studio. They are currently working on an album, and their new single "Ridin Wit My Brother" was released on youtube with a music video on May 27, 2009.
Jake Thomas
January 30, 1990
Jake Thomas is an American actor and singer known for his roles in the television show Lizzie McGuire, in which he plays Lizzie's younger brother, Matt McGuire. He is also seen in Cory in the House, portraying the role of Jason Stickler.
Thomas was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, the son of Simms Thomas, a television reporter, actress, and writer, and Bob Thomas, a radio personality, actor, and writer. He has a brother, Chad, and a sister, Brooke.
Thomas played Eric Miller in the Without a Trace episode "Wannabe" and a young Hugh Hefner in the television movie Hefner: Unauthorized. He made a guest appearance on 3rd Rock from the Sun and guest stars in Cory in the House as Jason Stickler.
Thomas travels between Los Angeles, California and Knoxville, Tennessee. He released a CD, Now and Then, which is marketed by Big Stick Music.
Liam Hemsworth
January 31, 1990
Liam Hemsworth (born 1990) is an Australian actor best known for his roles as Josh Taylor in the soap opera Neighbours and as "Marcus" on the children's television series The Elephant Princess. He will next appear in the upcoming American film The Last Song, to be released on April 2, 2010.
Hemsworth was born in 1990 in Melbourne, Australia as the youngest of Craig and Leonie Hemsworth's three boys. Hemsworth's elder brothers, Chris Hemsworth and Luke Hemsworth, also became actors and provided a path for Hemsworth to emulate. Hemsworth says that though there is competition for jobs between them, it is friendly: "We are brothers and we are always competitive, but it is a good thing, it pushes us both and we are always happy whenever someone books something."
When Hemsworth was in year 8, he and his family relocated to Phillip Island, a small beach town. Hemsworth says he spent much of his time there surfing with his brothers. According to Hemsworth's classmate Laura Griffin, "All the girls liked him. He was popular, a bit of a joker and made me laugh." Griffin claims she and Liam began dating the following year. In 2009, Hemsworth moved to the United States to pursue his career there. He and his brother Chris first stayed in the guest house of Chris Hemsworth's agent William Ward before renting their own Los Angeles apartment in which they currently reside.
Griffin claims Hemsworth returned to Australia to end their five year relationship during summer 2009, after filming The Last Song'. Griffin believes Hemsworth did so in order to date his co-star in The Last Song, actress Miley Cyrus. Neither Hemsworth nor Cyrus have confirmed their alleged relationship. In an interview for Seventeen magazine, Cyrus said, "We've decided that any type of relationship that we have, we will always just keep it very DL. First and foremost, we are best friends, so that's what I tell people all the time." In September 2009, Hemsworth appeared at a dinner event to promote Foxtel, an Australian pay television company.
Prior to becoming an actor, Hemsworth laid floors for six months. He began to seriously consider following his elder brothers' footsteps in high school, when he took on an agent. He attended his first audition at the age of sixteen and began his career in 2007 with guest spots on the shows Home and Away and McLeod's Daughters. The week of July 8, 2007, Hemsworth began filming episodes for Neighbours, an Australian soap opera his brothers had previously starred in. Hemsworth's character, Josh Taylor, was a recurring character from 2007 to 2008. In the show, Josh was an athletic parapalegic who supported and began a relationship with character Bridget Parker after she was paralyzed down one side of her body in a car crash. In 2008, Hemsworth began acting on the children's television show The Elephant Princess, playing "Marcus", the attractive lead guitarist of the protagonist's band. Hemsworth later had roles in the television series Satisfaction and starred in the British film Triangle. He also made a brief appearance as an MIT student in the film Knowing.
In 2009, Hemsworth was selected to act opposite Sylvester Stallone in Stallone's 2010 film, The Expendables, but his character was written out of the script. Hemsworth's brother, Chris, told Movieline that just a few hours after Hemsworth learned he would not appear in The Expendables, director Kenneth Branagh called to ask him to test for the lead role in the 2011 film Thor. Hemsworth moved to the States in April 2009 for screen tests. Though he eventually lost the part to Chris in May, Disney announced later the same week that Hemsworth had landed the part of Will Blakelee in the 2010 drama The Last Song, based on the Nicholas Sparks novel by the same name. Hemsworth plays the love interest of Miley Cyrus's character in the film. Nikki Finke reported that Hemsworth had been in Los Angeles for just three weeks and had not yet found an agent when he was cast. Hemsworth next appeared in the music video for Cyrus' "When I Look at You" which was recorded on August 16, 2009.
Camille Winbush
February 9, 1990
Camille Simoine Winbush (born February 9, 1990) is an American actress. Her work in television has earned her three Image Awards and a Young Artist Award.
Winbush was born in Culver City, California. Her credits include a role in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai and an appearance in Eraser. Additionally, she had a recurring role on 7th Heaven and roles on Criminal Minds, That's Life, The Norm Show, NYPD Blue and Any Day Now. She also guest starred in Disney's musical production of Geppetto.
She got her big break playing the role of Vanessa "Nessa" Thomkins on The Bernie Mac Show. During her run on the show Winbush earned numerous award nominations for her role, winning three NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Series (Comedy or Drama) - Leading Young Actress. In 2007, she appeared in an episode of Grey's Anatomy.
Currently, Winbush can be seen playing Lauren Treacy, a recurring character in The Secret Life of the American Teenager.
In 2002, she recorded "One Small Voice" featuring singers Myra & Taylor Momsen and "The Night Before Christmas Song" for the compilation album School's Out! Christmas. She also sang on the soundtrack of the Disney musical production of Geppetto.
Q'orianka Kilcher
February 11, 1990
Q'orianka Waira Qoiana Kilcher is an American actress and singer, of Indigenous Quechua and Swiss heritage. She is best known for her role as Pocahontas in the 2006 film The New World.
Kilcher was born in Schweigmatt, Germany; she speaks English, some German and some words of the extinct Powhatan language, an Algonquian language (which she learned for her part in The New World). Her name means "Golden Eagle" in Quechua. Her father is a Peruvian artist of Quechua/Huachipaeri descent. Her mother, Saskia Kilcher, a human-rights activist of Swiss descent, was born in Alaska and raised in Switzerland. Kilcher's maternal grandfather was Ray 'Pirate' Genet, a famous Alaskan mountaineer. She is a cousin of singer Jewel Kilcher.
When she was two, her parents moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, where her brother, Kainoa, was born. Her father, from whom she is now estranged, was absent for much of her early life. Kilcher was inspired by the local Hawaiian dancers and trained in West African and Hawaiian dance, performing in over 250 dance contests by the age of nine, earning money to support her family. She subsequently moved with her family to California, where she busked on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica.
In 2002, she appeared on Star Search singing "Adagio", but came in second place, with one of the judges, Naomi Judd, commenting that she needed vocal lessons. Although she has had little acting training, she was cast in the leading role of Pocahontas in 2005's Academy Award-nominated motion picture, The New World. The film was released in December 2005 to mixed reviews. The film was a critical success, garnering several positive reviews and award nominations, but was shown in only 811 theatres worldwide and yielded a relatively low box office gross.
The film's love scenes between Colin Farrell and the then 14-year-old Kilcher caused some controversy, resulting in the film studio deleting several scenes with Farrell to avoid child pornography accusations.
Kilcher has several projects planned, including charity work, a line of buckskin clothing, and a CD of songs inspired by The New World.
In summer of 2006, Q'orianka began filming the independent film "The Power of Few" which she is also producing through her own production company, Entertainment On-Q.
In the past, Kilcher has campaigned on behalf of Amnesty International, in particular the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and petroleum industry contamination of the Amazon River Basin. Kilcher is a teen celebrity spokesperson for Thursday's Child, a charity for at-risk children, where she has taken it upon herself to address issues concerning children and such topics as anorexia, bulimia, teen suicide, cutting, runaways, teen pregnancy and missing and exploited children.
In addition to public activism, Kilcher is a silent advocate for the environment, driving a Honda FCX Clarity, a hydrogen fuel cell zero-emissions vehicle. Kilcher stated that she had never pumped a single gallon of gasoline. On June 11, 2009 she visited Lima to support a march in defense of the rights of indigenous peoples by the current problems in the Amazon city of Bagua, Peru.
Harry Eden
March 1, 1990
Harry Eden (born 1 March 1990) is an English actor who won a British Independent Film Award in 2003 for Most Promising Newcomer for his role in Pure.
Eden was born in Old Harlow, Essex. He attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School. He played Nibs in the 2003 movie Peter Pan, and the Artful Dodger in Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist. He was inspired by Lionel Bart's Oliver! and the role of the Artful Dodger. He said that he prefers acting in a challenging role and that he would not like to be Harry Potter, even though he loves the films.
As well as acting, Eden is also a keen golfer with a handicap of just 1. In a BBC Radio 5 interview he expressed an interest in playing golf professionally. He partnered Oliver Fisher at the 2008 Dunhill Links Championship, the European Tour's annual celebrity pro-am.
Princess Eugenie of York
March 23, 1990
Princess Eugenie of York (Eugenie Victoria Helena; born 23 March 1990) is the younger daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and Sarah, Duchess of York. As such she is sixth, and the second female, in the line of succession to the thrones of sixteen independent Commonwealth realm states.
Her first royal engagement was opening a cancer ward for teenagers in Leeds on 23 October 2008. She also makes appearances with the Royal Family at events, such as when she and her sister, Princess Beatrice, represented their father at a service of thanksgiving for her late aunt Diana, Princess of Wales, in 2007.
Princess Eugenie was born at the Portland Hospital on 23 March 1990, the second child of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and Sarah, Duchess of York, and sixth grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Baptised at the church of St. Mary Magdalene, Sandringham, by the Bishop of Norwich, on 23 December 1990, she was the first royal baby to have a public christening, and her godparents were James Ogilvy; Captain Alastair Ross; Mrs Ronald Ferguson, her step-grandmother; Mrs Julia Dodd-Noble; and Louise Blacker. She, and her sister, are the only granddaughters of the Queen to hold the title of princess and the style Her Royal Highness: although their cousin, Lady Louise Windsor, is legally a princess, in accordance with Letters Patent issued by King George V, she is not styled as such at the request of the Queen and her parents; their other female first cousin, Zara Phillips, is the Queen's granddaughter through the female-line, therefore allowing her only the title and style of her father, who has none.
Eugenie is also the first Princess since her grandmother's aunt, Princess Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary (known as Princess Mary), to bear the name Victoria; Queen Victoria had requested that her female descendants bear the name Victoria somewhere in their name, however, neither Queen Elizabeth II, the late Princess Margaret, Princess Alexandra, Princess Anne, nor Princess Beatrice hold the name Victoria.
Princess Eugenie's parents divorced when she was 6 years old. However, when she was not at school, her time was spent with her family, as the divorce had been amicable and the Duke and Duchess of York had agreed to joint custody of the girls. Eugenie and her sister regularly travel abroad with one or both of their parents. In the April 2008 issue of Tatler, Eugenie described her grandmother as "one of the most amazing women ever," and her parents, as "the best divorced couple" she knew.
In October 2002, Eugenie, then aged twelve, underwent back surgery at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in London, to correct scoliosis. She still has the two titanium rods in her back that were put in place in 2002. She made a full recovery and is not expected to undergo any further surgery for that condition. The Queen, who was in Canada at the time of the operation, was kept well informed of her granddaughter's operation and complete recovery.
As a small child, Eugenie attended Winkfield Montessori from 1992 to 1993, and then Upton House School in Windsor until 1995. She moved to Coworth Park School from 1995 to 2001, and then St George's School, near Windsor Castle until 2003. For the next five years, Eugenie boarded at Marlborough College in Wiltshire, and graduated from there with A-Level grades of A in art and English literature and B in history of art. It was reported that the Princess had been spotted dancing naked with friends around the Malborough College campus to celebrate the end of exams. She planned to take a gap year before continuing her education in the autumn of 2009, although these plans were cancelled because of her security. Eugenie had been present at the Taj Hotel in Mumbai just before the 2008 attacks and her father did not consider it to be safe for her to travel. Her plans included a trip to Mexico, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. It was later reported that Eugenie's plans had been changed and that she was going to take a year out in Los Angeles and Sydney (where her aunt Jane Luedecke lives).
She began studying Combined Studies BA at Newcastle University in September 2009, combining Art History, English Literature and Politics.
Princess Eugenie has been present at a number of official royal occasions, such as Trooping the Colour in London, and the Queen's 80th birthday. She and her sister were also guests at the Concert for Diana, in memory of their late aunt, and organized by their cousins, Princes William and Harry of Wales, and both attended the service of thanksgiving for Diana on 31 August 2007, representing their father, who was on an official visit to Malaysia.
Princess Eugenie was on a visit to Cambodia with two girlfriends when a man approached the group while they were walking back to their hotel at night in Phnom Penh. After striking up conversation with the group he suddenly snatched one of the girl's handbags and made off. Princess Eugenie's Royal Protection Officers gave chase catching up to one and then tackling him to the ground.
Keisha Castle-Hughes
March 24, 1990
Keisha Castle-Hughes (born 24 March 1990) is a New Zealand film actress who rose to prominence playing Paikea "Pai" Apirana, in the 2002 film Whale Rider. She was cast as Pai at the age of eleven. Whale Rider was nominated for many awards, including an Academy Award for Best Actress of which she was the youngest female nominated in the Best Actress category and an award at the Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards for Best Actress, which she won in 2004.
Since she made her film debut, Castle-Hughes has appeared in various films including Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger (2008), New Zealand tele-movie Piece of my Heart (2009) and a small role in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005). She also played the main role of the Virgin Mary, in the film The Nativity Story in (2006).
In 2003, Castle-Hughes made her debut in the film Whale Rider, in which she played the main role of Paikea Apirana (Pai). She had not had any previous acting experience, and the 11-year-old actress went directly from her Auckland school classroom to the film set when the shoot began in New Zealand, in late 2001. Castle-Hughes received widespread critical acclaim for her performance and the film turned her into an international celebrity. In 2004 she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress at the 76th Academy Awards. Although she did not win the Best Actress award, she became the youngest person nominated in this category and becoming the first Polynesian to ever become nominated.
She soon followed the role by appearing in Prince's controversial music video for his song "Cinnamon Girl" and with a shoot in Vanity Fair magazine. In 2004, Castle-Hughes was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
In 2005 Castle-Hughes' had a small part as Queen Apailana in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. In 2006 she portrayed the starring role as the Virgin Mary in The Nativity Story. New York Times critic A. O. Scott said that she "seemed entirely unfazed by the demands of playing Mary. She had the poise and intelligence to play the character not as an icon of maternity, but rather as a headstrong, thoughtful adolescent transformed by an unimaginable responsibility." The Christian-themed film earned only $8 million during its opening week, but its box office surged during the week of Christmas. Overall, it made approximately $44.3 million USD. One critic later speculated: "It may have been harmed by the fact that its leading lady, Keisha Castle-Hughes, was found to be unwed and pregnant just as the movie's publicity campaign began."
In 2007 Castle-Hughes appeared in Australian comedy-drama film Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger, which was filmed in late 2006. She reunited with New Zealand director Niki Caro for the film adaption of The Vintner's Luck, which had its international premiere in September 2009. She will also have a starring role in Mona's Dream, the story of Mona Mahmudnizhad.
Castle-Hughes was born on 24 March 1990 in Donnybrook, Western Australia to Desrae Hughes, a Maori mother, and Tim Castle, an English-Australian father. Her parents, who never married, later separated. She was 18 months old when her family moved to New Zealand; she became a New Zealand citizen in 2001.
She has three younger brothers and a younger sister. Her siblings include Rhys, Liam, Maddisyn, and Qayde. She is currently living in Papakura, Auckland and was once a student of Waiuku Primary School, Bailey Road School, Penrose High School, and Rosehill College, all in Auckland. On 25 April 2007, she gave birth to a daughter, Felicity-Amore, at age seventeen. The baby's father is Hughes' boyfriend of four years, Bradley Hull.
Castle-Hughes is currently campaigning for Greenpeace as part of the SignOn.org.nz climate campaign. New Zealand Prime Minister John Key initially admonished her to "stick to acting", but offered a week later to discuss the issues with her over a cup of tea after she maintained she knew more about them than he gave her credit for.
Kristen Stewart
April 9, 1990
Kristen Jaymes Stewart (April 9, 1990) is an American actress working in television and movies. She is known for roles in the films Catch That Kid, Panic Room, Zathura, In the Land of Women, Adventureland, Into the Wild, The Messengers,Twilight and The Twilight Saga: New Moon.
Kristen was born in Los Angeles, California on April 9, 1990. Her father, John Stewart works as a stage manager and television producer. Kristen's mother, Jules Mann-Stewart, is a script superviser and was born in Australia. Kristen has an older brother, Cameron Stewart.
Kristen's started acting when she was eight years old, after an agent saw her perform at her school's Christmas event. Her first minor roles were in programs such as The Thirteenth Year and The Safety Of Objects and her first major role was in a movie called Panic Room. Since then, Kristen has appeared in films such as Cold Creek Manor, Catch That Kid, Undertow and Speak.
Alex Pettyfer
April 10, 1990
Alexander Richard "Alex" Pettyfer (born 10 April 1990) is an English actor and model. He appeared in school plays and on television before being cast as Alex Rider, the main character in the 2006 film version of Stormbreaker. Pettyfer was nominated for a Young Artist Award and an Empire Award for his role. He appeared in the 2008 film Wild Child. He has been seen as a model in several advertising campaigns for Burberry. In May 2009 he appeared in the film Tormented alongside April Pearson.
Pettyfer began his career as a child fashion model at the age of seven,Gap, after meeting Ralph Lauren in a toy store in New York City. He also did advertisements for some yogurt brands. His first commercial was at age six. He attended The Mall School, a small private school in Twickenham and as a schoolboy performed in plays, including in the role of Willy Wonka in a production Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He then went on to attend Lambrook Haileybury school in Berkshire.
In 2005, Pettyfer, after ending his modeling career, made his professional acting début in the British television production of Tom Brown's Schooldays, playing the lead character, Tom Brown; he received positive reviews for the role. There are reports, however, which cite that he was tormented by the Rugby School pupils with whom he was on set with, especially during the scenes in which rugby was being played. In June 2005, he was cast in his most prominent role so far, that of teenage MI6 spy Alex Rider in the film Stormbreaker, based on the novel by Anthony Horowitz. He was one of 500 who auditioned for the role. Pettyfer chose to appear in the film over a role in the film Eragon, noting that he preferred Stormbreaker because it would be filmed in Britain, in the Isle of Man, while Eragon would film in the Czech Republic; Pettyfer is afraid of flying, and he liked the looks of the cast for Stormbreaker. Stormbreaker was released on 21 July 2006 in the United Kingdom, on 6 October 2006 in the United States and on 21 September 2006 in Australia.
One review of Pettyfer's performance described him as playing the role with an "earnest intensity", although another noted that he "isn't quite at ease as an actor". Media reports specified that the film was expected to make Pettyfer a "teen idol". Pettyfer will not reprise the role if there is another Alex Rider film because he is too old.
He next appeared in Wild Child, a movie set in California and Yorkshire. He played school boy Freddie Kingsley and he co-starred with Emma Roberts. He will star in the film Beastly, based on the novel by Alex Flinn, alongside Mary-Kate Olsen, Vanessa Hudgens and Neil Patrick Harris to be released in 2010. He finished filming on 13 August 2009, according to the film's Twitter account.
Pettyfer returned to modelling in 2007. His recent modelling jobs include ad campaigns for Burberry in 2008 and 2009.
Emma Watson
April 15, 1990
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson (born 15 April 1990) is a British actress and model who rose to prominence playing Hermione Granger, one of three starring roles in the Harry Potter film series. Watson was cast as Hermione at the age of nine, having previously acted only in school plays. From 2001 to 2009, she starred in six Harry Potter films alongside Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint; she will return for the final two installments: the two parts of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Watson's work on the Harry Potter series has earned her several awards and more than £10 million. She made her modelling debut for Burberry's Autumn/Winter campaign in 2009.
In 2007, Watson announced her involvement in two non-Harry Potter productions: the television adaptation of the novel Ballet Shoes and an animated film, The Tale of Despereaux. Ballet Shoes was broadcast on 26 December 2007 to an audience of 5.2 million, and The Tale of Despereaux, based on the novel by Kate DiCamillo, was released in 2008 and grossed over US $70 million in worldwide sales.
Kay Panabaker
May 2, 1990
Stephanie Kay Panabaker (born May 2, 1990), better known as Kay Panabaker, is an American film and television actress. She is the younger sister of actress Danielle Panabaker.
Panabaker was born in Orange, Texas to Donna Panabaker and Harold Panabaker. She started acting at various community theatres in Chicago, Illinois; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Atlanta, Georgia. In Naperville, Illinois, Kay attended Crone Middle School for sixth grade, and moved to Los Angeles, California at the start of seventh grade.
In between projects, Kay focuses on her academics. She graduated from high school as valedictorian when she was 13 years old and received her Associate's Degree at age 15. Kay received two academic scholarships from Glendale Community College which she attended, studying acting, and where she was on the Dean's list, graduating with honors. She was accepted to UCLA as a junior history major when she was 15 and completed her BA in History from UCLA before she turned 18.
Kay was inspired by an elementary school teacher who made learning exciting, and she wants to do the same for others, hoping to teach 4th or 5th grade once she finishes her teaching degree.
Panabaker has guest-starred in several television dramas and soap operas. She portrayed "Alice Brand" in 7th Heaven; "Melissa Rue" in ER; "Sara" in Port Charles; "Carrie Bauer" in The Brothers García; "Ellisha" in Medium; "Lindsey Willows" in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation; to name a few. In film, she appeared in Dead Heat as "Sam LaRoche"; and did some voice work in the Disney/Pixar film, Monsters, Inc.. Panabaker's breakout role came when she starred in The WB's Summerland as "Nikki Westerly", in the 2004-2005 season. She also appeared as "George" in the 2007 Nancy Drew: The Mystery in Hollywood Hills alongside Emma Roberts and Amy Bruckner.
Panabaker had a recurring role in Phil of the Future as straight-laced Debbie Berwick, a friend of, and foil to, Pim Diffy (played by Amy Bruckner). She starred in Life Is Ruff as "Emily Watson" alongside Kyle Massey and Mitchel Musso. In July 2006 she starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie Read It and Weep (based on the book How My Private Personal Journal Became a Bestseller), in which her sister Danielle Panabaker also stars. In 2006 Panabaker was in the first ever Disney Channel Games, on the Red Team, with Zac Efron, Anneliese van der Pol, Moises Arias, Dylan Sprouse, and Shin Koyamada as part of the Disney Channel's So Hot Summer!. Her last movie was the Lifetime Television movie Custody which aired in September 2007. She is also starring in Happy Campers, an ABC Family pilot. Her other recent movies include Moondance Alexander and The Prince and the Pauper with Dylan and Cole Sprouse. Panabaker starred in the remake of Fame as Jenny, an actress; the film was released in theaters on September 25, 2009. The pilot No Ordinary Family picked up Kay as the daughter of Super-Human parents. Filming began in March 2010.
Levi Johnston
May 3, 1990
Levi Keith Johnston (born May 3, 1990) is the former fiancé of Bristol Palin. He first received media attention in August 2008 upon Sarah Palin's announcement that Bristol was five months pregnant and that Johnston was the father. Plans for a wedding were canceled after the couple broke off their engagement in March 2009.
Johnston has since pursued a career in the entertainment industry as an aspiring actor and model, and has engaged in several public feuds with the Palin family.
Thomas Sangster
May 16, 1990
Thomas Brodie Sangster (born 16 May 1990) is an English film and television actor, best known for his roles in Love Actually, Nanny McPhee, The Last Legion, and voice of Ferb in Phineas and Ferb.
Sangster's first acting job was in a BBC television film, Station Jim. He subsequently appeared in a few more television films, including the lead roles in Bobbie's Girl, The Miracle of the Cards (based on the story of Craig Shergold) and Stig of the Dump. He won the "Golden Nymph" award at the 43rd Annual Monte Carlo Television Festival for his role in the miniseries Entrusted. Love Actually, in which he played Liam Neeson's stepson, was Sangster's first major theatrical film. He was nominated for a "Golden Satellite Award" and a "Young Artist Award" for his role in the film.
Sangster next appeared in a television adaptation of the novel Feather Boy and played a younger version of James Franco's role in the film version of Tristan and Isolde, which was filmed in the Czech Republic. Among other things, Sangster takes part in a (child's) swordfight in the film. Sangster next starred in the commercially successful film Nanny McPhee, as the eldest of seven children.
In 2007 he appeared in a two-part story (Human Nature and The Family of Blood) in the third series of Doctor Who as schoolboy Timothy 'Tim' Latimer, and guest-starred in the Doctor Who audio dramas The Mind's Eye and The Bride of Peladon. His voice lowered during filming of the Doctor Who episodes. That same year he voiced the character of Ferb Fletcher in the Disney Channel animated series Phineas and Ferb. He also starred alongside Love Actually and Nanny McPhee co-star Colin Firth in the film adaptation of Valerio Massimo Manfredi's historical novel The Last Legion, released in 2007. As of December 2007, he was also working on the filming of a television series of the story of Pinocchio, filmed in Italy.
In March 2008 it was announced that Sangster will star in Steven Spielberg's CGI motion capture film Tintin as the title character of Hergé's comic books. Sangster left the project after scheduling difficulties when filming was delayed in October 2008 and the role was given to Jamie Bell. At the end of March 2008, he begins working with Oscar-winning director Jane Campion on her film Bright Star, a love story with Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish portraying John Keats and his lover Fanny Brawne.
In March 2009 Sangster joined Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas and Anne-Marie Duff in Nowhere Boy, a film directed by award-winning artist Sam Taylor-Wood, about the teenage years of John Lennon and the two women who shaped his early life: his mother Julia (Duff) and his aunt Mimi (Scott Thomas).
Sangster will appear in the 2010 film Dogs Don't Bite, due to be released during 2010, playing the role of Casey. The story involves a boy who wants to keep his family together. Casey (Sangster) takes his baby brother out of care, and with the help of his older brother, goes in search of their father.
Sangster established Brodie Films in 2006 with his mother Tasha Bertram "to create opportunities in the film industry for new British talent; innovative writers, actors and directors."
Sangster plays bass guitar, and in January 2010 joined the band Winnet, where his mother, Tasha Sangster, takes the Vocals.
Jacob Kraemer
May 19, 1990
Jacob Kraemer is a Canadian actor. He became known to young audiences after his role in The Elizabeth Smart Story and as Ben on Disney and Family's Naturally, Sadie.
In 2003, Kraemer played Andrew Smart in the CBS made for TV movie, The Elizabeth Smart Story. In 2005, he began to appear in a guest role on the Canadian-produced comedy television program Naturally, Sadie. Jacob appeared in two episodes of Naturally Sadie in the first season and most episodes in the second and third season.
He was nominated for a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV series (Comedy or Drama) - Recurring Young Actor for Naturally Sadie in 2007. He was also nominated for Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Movie, Miniseries or Special — Supporting Young Actor for the Elizabeth Smart Story in 2004. He is now a main character on Overruled.
Scotty Leavenworth
May 21, 1990
Scott Alexander "Scotty" Leavenworth (born May 21, 1990) is an American actor. He began acting in commercials at the age of four, and has since appeared in a variety of films and television programs. Notable appearances include The Green Mile, Baby Geniuses, Babe: Pig in the City, The Soul Collector, Life as a House, and Erin Brockovich.
He is known for playing Peter Petrowski, the boyfriend of Ruthie Camden (Mackenzie Rosman), on The WB hit-series 7th Heaven. He is also a hearthrober.
He currently works in the Multimedia Ministry at Reliance Church in Temecula, CA.
Dean Collins
May 30, 1990
Dean Richard Collins (born May 30, 1990) is an American actor, best known for playing the character Mike Gold in the Fox television sitcom The War at Home. The series ran from September 2005 to April 2007. Previously, he had recurring roles in MADtv's "Reading Caboose" skit as Ernie, and as Warren Feide in Jack & Bobby.
He also appeared as Harry Beardsley in the November 2005 film Yours, Mine and Ours, and as Garrett in the 2006 film Hoot. He is currently working on the 2008 film The Least of These, now in post-production.
Collins was born in Los Angeles, California. He lives with his parents, two older brothers, and younger sister. One of his brothers, Blake Collins, is a professional singer-songwriter.
Dean became good friends with fellow actor Logan Lerman, while playing his best friend in Jack & Bobby, and they remain close despite the series' cancellation. They worked together again on Hoot, where Dean had a supporting role. In their spare time, the two collaborate on creating short comedic films, which they upload to YouTube under their joint account name of "monkeynuts1069".
Collins and Lerman have also formed a band, along with musician Daniel Pashman. Collins sings lead vocals, Lerman plays keyboard, and Pashman plays guitar and drums. Originally, the band was named Indigo, but was recently renamed Puzzles, apparently for legal reasons.
Brittany Curran
June 2, 1990
Brittany Curran (born Brittany Elizabeth Curran on June 2, 1990) is an American teen actress and singer. She is known for her role as Pamela in Go Figure and for her role as Chelsea on The Suite Life On Deck snd The Suite Life of Zack & Cody.
Brittany guest-starred on television shows including Drake & Josh and The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. She had minor roles in feature films including 13 Going on 30, Akeelah and the Bee and The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It, and was in the Disney Channel Original Movie Go Figure. Curran appeared in an anti-drug Above the Influence commercial. Curran's song "Quiver" leaked online in 2009.
Jasmine Richards
June 28, 1990
Jasmine Denise Richards, born on June 28, 1990 in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada is a Canadian actress and singer. She is the best known for portraying Margaret "Peggy" Dupree in Camp Rock, Margaret Browning-Levesque in the Family Channel sitcom Naturally Sadie and Judge Tara in the Family Channel and Disney Channel show Overruled!.
Richards made her debut as Shakira in the television series Timeblazers. Her first major role was as Alice Hope, the protagonist, of the 2005 film Devotion. Richards then played Margaret Browning-Levesque in the Canadian television series Naturally, Sadie, from 2005 to 2007. Richards has appeared in many Disney Channel Express Yourself commercials.
In 2007, Richards made an appearance in the television series Da Kink in My Hair. In 2008, she appeared in the film Princess. However, she is best known for the role of Margaret "Peggy" Dupree in Camp Rock. In the song, however, her voice was dubbed with the voice of Renee Sands.
In 2010, Jasmine played Margaret "Peggy" Dupree in Camp Rock 2, sequel of Camp Rock along with Demi Lovato, Jonas Brothers and many others.
Krizia Vega
July 1, 1990
Krizia Vega was born July 1, 1990 in Miami, Florida. She lived in Florida until she was two years old, when she moved with her family to California.
Vega currently lives in Los Angeles with her mother Gina Rue, stepfather Eric James, brother, and three sisters, including Spy Kids star Alexa Vega and Makenzie Vega, who had a leading role in the 2004 blockbuster Saw. She often has roles as an extra in her sister Alexa's movies.
Brie Gabrielle
July 4, 1990
Brie began her acting career at age 11 when she came to Los Angeles from Aspen, Colorado for a summer in 2001. During this time she booked her first lead in an independent film called, "Finding Virtue". When she returned to Los Angeles for good in 2003 she appeared in a Barbie Mattel commercial as well a lead role in the heart warming film "Wings of Legacy". Wanting to hone her skills she appeared as the lead in 2 student films as well as studying with top acting coaches around Los Angeles.
Brie has since then worked alongside actors such as Sally Kellerman in "Dancing on The Edge", Amy Poehler and Rachel Dratch in Spring Breakdown, Nikki Reed and Aaron Ashmore in "Privileged", Matthew McConaughey in "Surfer, Dude", Tom Berenger, Michael Biehn and William Forsythe in "Stiletto" as well as Carly Schroeder and Cody Linley in "Forget Me Not". She has also appeared as guest starts and co-stars on Nickelodeon's "Drake and Josh", Disney's "Hannah Montana", "Cold Case" and "The Riches". Brie is also a singer who plays the guitar and writes her own music. She will soon be recording a country album in Nashville, Tennessee.
Not only is Brie an actress and a singer but a dancer as well. This has been her passion ever since a toddler and will find her at the top dance studios around Los Angeles. Brie is also always at the beach, as she loves to surf as well as just being out doors.
Kelsey Sanders
July 11, 1990
Kelsey Sanders is an American actress and singer. She is best known for starring the film Gingerdead Man 2: Passion of the Crust, as Heather, and she also had a supporting role in the short film Color Me Olsen, playing Mary Kate Olsen. Her television work includes playing Wannabe #2, a recurring character in Wizards of Waverly Place, and Michelle, on iCarly in the episode "iTake on Dingo". She was in the group The Stunners, but quit to focus on her acting career.
Kyle Kaplan
July 16, 1990
Kyle Joseph Kaplan is an American actor who was born in Los Angeles, California.
At the age of 13, Kaplan toured with Jim Henson's Bear and the Big Blue House Live! across the U.S. and United Kingdom for ten months. He also performed at the Los Angeles Stage Ovation Awards in 2004. He is a member of a comedy improvisation troupe in Los Angeles. Early in his career, he was the subject of a German filmmaker's documentary called "Hollywood Kids."
Kaplan's current focus is on television and film. He played Greg Grunberg's nephew in NBC's Grand Union sitcom pilot in 2005 and has appeared in several national commercials, including Wendy's restaurants, Yahoo!, Cingular Wireless, Simon Malls, Dairy Queen, and most recently, Honda. He can be seen in a recurring role as Chad the Chomper in Disney's Hannah Montana. In 2006, he also appeared in The Bernie Mac Show, CSI: Miami, and Zoey 101. In April 2006, he completed filming on Chris Elliott's semi-autobiographical sitcom pilot for CBS called "You've Reached the Elliotts" playing the star's son. He filmed his 3rd pilot (in less than a year) in September, 2006, as the son of actor/comedian/writer Tim Stack in the "Tim Stack's Family Vacation", a hybrid comedy (part scripted, part improv) produced for Nick at Nite. Kaplan was cast as Brian in The Oaks, a high concept family drama series for the Fox network set for production in 2008, but was not picked up to series.
Kaplan was a recurring character on the Fox sitcom The War at Home, and made guest appearances on the Fox sitcom The Winner, The Riches for the FX network. He appeared in the Owen Wilson comedy Drillbit Taylor, and was cast in a leading role in Just Peck, a feature film which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009, in which he plays the best friend of the title character, played by Keir Gilchrist.
Kaplan appears as Michael in the ABC Family sitcom 10 Things I Hate About You, based loosely on the 1999 film of the same name, which premiered July 7, 2009.
Steven Anthony Lawrence
July 19, 1990
Steven Anthony Lawrence (born July 19, 1990) is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his recurring role as chinless nerd and female kryptonite Bernard "Beans" Aranguren in the hit Disney Channel Original Series Even Stevens. His other television credits include That's So Raven, Married with Children, ER, Frasier, The Amanda Show and among others. He has also appeared in the feature films Cheaper by the Dozen, Kicking & Screaming, Rebound and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
Daveigh Chase
July 24, 1990
Daveigh Elizabeth Chase (born Daveigh Elizabeth Schwallier; July 24, 1990) is an Annie Award-winning American actress, singer, and voice over artist best known for playing Rhonda Volmer in the HBO series Big Love, Samara Morgan in The Ring and Lilo Pelekai in Lilo & Stitch.
Chase's big break came later in 2002 when she won the lead role as the voice of a Hawaiian girl, Lilo Pelekai, in the Disney animated feature, Lilo & Stitch. The film concerns how Lilo befriends a strange and destructive blue alien whom she calls "Stitch" and how she tries to teach him how to behave using Elvis Presley music as exemplars. For her performance, Chase would go on to win an Annie Award for it in 2003 and star in the follow up TV series, Lilo & Stitch: The Series.
In 2001, Chase won the role as the voice of the lead character, Chihiro Ogino, a 10 year old Japanese girl, in the American dub of the animated Japanese feature, Spirited Away. Her other animated film work from that year, Lilo & Stitch, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature that year.
In 2002, Chase starred in the role of Samara Morgan in the feature film, The Ring. Chase was awarded the 2003 Best Villain award at the MTV Movie Awards for her performance, beating out Mike Myers, Colin Farrell, Willem Dafoe and Daniel Day-Lewis. In the sequel to The Ring, The Ring Two (2005), Chase was credited for her role as Samara Morgan because of the use of archive footage from the first Ring, but Kelly Stables performed all of the new footage.
Chase's main other major film and TV credits between 2000 and 2005 were the cult film Donnie Darko (2001) as Donnie's younger sister, Samantha, and Oliver Beene (2003–2004), as Oliver's quirky girlfriend Joyce. Other credits include The Rats (2002), Carolina (2003), R.L. Stine's Haunted Lighthouse (2003) in which she played a flying ghost called Annabel, and Beethoven's 5th (2003). She also made guest appearances in Touched By An Angel, Charmed, ER, Family Law, and The Practice.
In 2006, Chase was given the role of Rhonda Volmer in the HBO drama series Big Love which centres on a polygamist, Bill Henrickson, played by Bill Paxton. The show focuses upon Henrickson's relationship with his three wives. Chase's character is the child bride of a prophet, Roman Grant, played by Harry Dean Stanton.
Leroy & Stitch, a follow up to Lilo & Stitch, was released in 2006. Chase then appeared in the second season of Big Love, which aired in 2007. She also plays Betsy in the new PBS Kids show called Betsy's Kindergarten Adventures the same year. She reprised her role as Donnie Darko's younger sister, Samantha, in the film S. Darko. The story picks up seven years after the first film when Samantha Darko and her best friend Corey are now 18 and on a road trip to Los Angeles when they are plagued by bizarre visions.
In 2010, Daveigh will star as Jenna in the psychological thriller Prettyface. In addition to that, Daveigh has been cast as Audrey in the remake of the movie Jack's Back which will start filming in August.
Anthony Ghannam
July 29, 1990
Anthony lives in California. He started acting when he was 9 years old. He booked the first audition he went on for Virginia Energy Company. Soon after, he was working on many voice over commercials and television commercials in San Francisco. He went on to follow his dream of being an actor in Los Angeles. He worked on an episode of Fox's Oliver Beene, did a few commercials and landed his face on the cover of Playstation's Eye Toy Play 2. Most recently, you can hear him as the voice of Ronno is Walt Disney's "Bambi II" and Huayna in Disney's "Kronk's New Groove."
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