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Alan Ritchson has carved a space for himself on both the large and small screens since he made the trek from a small town in Florida to Los Angeles.

Alan Michael Ritchson was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, to Vickie (Harrell), a high school teacher, and David Ritchson, a U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sergeant. He is of Czech, English, and German descent. Frequently relocating as the middle son of a military family, Alan learned to adapt and entertain in order to build friendships in new and unfamiliar environments. Certainly this has been a key ingredient in his success so far in the industry.

Alan's early credits include portraying Aquaman in the long running series Smallville. This marked the first portrayal of the superhero in an officially licensed live-action production.

Ritchson has also taken on grittier leading man roles in the independent film market with the modern-day western "Rex" and the dramatic love story of "Steam" alongside Ally Sheedy.

In contrast, he also made quite a comedic impression with his love-to-hate-him character of Thad Castle on the football comedy Blue Mountain State. He parlayed his comedic skills to work with Rebel Wilson in her CBS pilot Super Fun Night.

In addition to his acting repertoire, Alan also writes, produces and is a singer/songwriter.

Most recently Alan can be seen as the District 1 victor, Gloss, in Catching Fire; the second installment of the hugely successful Hunger Games franchise. He also portrayed the cool-but-crude Raphael in the Michael Bay produced reboot of TMNT.

American actor. In 2010, Noon began his career on the television show Boardwalk Empire, portraying Thomas Darmody. In 2019, he played Thor in the comedy film Good Boys, before voicing Greg Heffley in the 2021 animated Disney+ film Diary of a Wimpy Kid and its 2022 sequel, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules. In 2021, he played Evan Morrow in the Disney+ series The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, followed by an appearance in the 2022 comedy film Marry Me as George and in Netflix's Family Switch as Wyatt. In 2023, he was cast as Raphael in the film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. In September 2021, he was cast as Lucas Hollister for the upcoming western film Rust, but by April 2023 he was replaced by Patrick Scott McDermott, due to the production shutting down for over a year caused by the film's shooting incident.

Leann Hunley was born on 25 February 1955 in Forks, Washington, USA. She is an actress, known for Days of Our Lives (1965), Dynasty (1981) and NCIS (2003). She was previously married to Bill Sheridan.

Witney Carson was born on 17 October 1993 in American Fork, Utah, USA. She is an actress, known for Dancin': It's on! (2015), Dancing with the Stars (2005) and The Bachelor (2002). She has been married to Carson McAllister since 1 January 2016. They have one child.

Kam went to Concordia College in Minnesota where she graduated with a degree in Communications and Political Science. The day after graduation, she moved to Chicago and modeled for the next couple of months before moving to New York. Her first role came when directer John Woo selected her as the lead in his pilot "Blackjack". Kam now lives near UCLA in Los Angeles. ((Anonymous))

Edward Dmytryk grew up in San Francisco, the son of Ukrainian immigrants. After his mother died when he was 6, his strict disciplinarian father beat the boy frequently, and the child began running away while in his early teens. Eventually, juvenile authorities allowed him to live alone at the age of 15 and helped him find part-time work as a film studio messenger. Dmytryk was an outstanding student in physics and mathematics and gained a scholarship to the California Institute of Technology. However, he dropped out after one year to return to movies, eventually working his way up from film editor to director. By the late 1940s, he was considered one of Hollywood's rising young directing talents, but his career was interrupted by the activities of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), a congressional committee that employed ruthless tactics aimed at rooting out and destroying what it saw as Communist influence in Hollywood. A lifelong political leftist who had been a Communist Party member briefly during World War II, Dmytryk was one of the so-called "Hollywood Ten" who refused to cooperate with HUAC and had their careers disrupted or ruined as a result. The committee threw him in prison for refusing to cooperate, and after having spent several months behind bars, Dmytryk decided to cooperate after all, and testified again before the committee, this time giving the names of people he said were Communists. He claimed to believe he had done the right thing, but many in the Hollywood community--even those who came along long after the committee was finally disbanded--never forgave him, and that action overshadowed his career the rest of his life. In the 1970s, as his directing career ground to a halt, Dmytryk recalled some advice once given him by Garson Kanin, and returned to academic life, this time as a teacher. From 1976 to 1981 he was a professor of film theory and production at the University of Texas at Austin, and in 1981, was appointed to a chair in filmmaking at the University of Southern California, a position he held until about two years before his death. During his teaching career, he also authored several books on various aspects of filmmaking, as well as two volumes of memoirs.

Kenny Yates is a half-Italian, half-Filipino actor, voice actor, feature film producer, and director based in Los Angeles. He's been working in the film industry since 2004. Kenny began his career in the entertainment industry as a child actor on the Daytime Emmy winning PBSkids show ZOOM. He appeared on 80 episodes over two seasons.

Kenny got his first behind-the-camera gig on the 20th Century Fox/Regency film Date Movie. He continued as directors Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer's assistant on Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans & Vampires Suck. He was promoted to Associate Producer on their film Disaster Movie, and then bumped again to Co-Producer/VFX Supervisor on their films The Starving Games & Superfast!

Kenny has continued his acting career with roles in each of Seltzer & Friedberg's movies. He recent appeared as Floyd in 'Reboot Camp', a mockumentary comedy with Eric Roberts, Ed Begley Jr. & David Koechner. He is also co-starring in the upcoming film 'Wolf Mountain' alongside scene partner Danny Trejo.

Kenny continues his studies in Meisner Technique at Playhouse West in North Hollywood. He was also a member of the sketch comedy group 'The Neighbors', directed by Sean Whalen [Twister] at the same repertory.

Kenny is also the Founder and President of KAYJ Entertainment.

Singer, songwriter and guitarist Bill Withers was born on July 4, 1938 in the small coal-mining town of Slab Fork, West Virginia and was raised in the nearby town of Beckley. He was the youngest of six children of Mattie (Galloway), a maid, and William Withers, a miner. His father died when Withers was thirteen. Bill worked a series of odd jobs to help his mother out. At age seventeen he joined the US Navy and first became interested in both singing and songwriting during his tour of duty in the armed forces. After being discharged from the Navy in 1965, Bill moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue a music career. Withers worked a full time job making toilet seats at the Boeing aircraft company and recorded demos on the side at night for several years prior to being signed to the Sussex Records label in 1970. In 1971 Bill released his debut album "Just As I Am." The song "Ain't No Sunshine" was a #3 R&B radio hit and won the Grammy Award for Best Rhythm & Blues Song. Withers scored a massive smash in 1972 with the marvelously inspirational "Lean on Me," which reached #1 on the Billboard pop charts on July 8. "Use Me" was likewise successful; it peaked at #2 on the Billboard pop charts. In the summer of 1974 Bill performed in concert along with James Brown, Etta James and BB King at the historic Ali/Frasier fight in Zaire (footage of Withers in concert can be seen in the acclaimed documentary "When We Were Kings"). After parting with Sussex Records, Withers hooked up with Columbia Records in 1975. "Lovely Day" was a Top 30 Billboard pop hit in 1978. "Just the Two of Us," Bill's terrific duet with Grover Washington, Jr., was a #2 Billboard pop hit in 1981 and won the Grammy Award for Best Rhythm & Blues Song. His songs have been covered by a diverse array of artists that include Michael Jackson, Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin, Tom Jones, Linda Ronstadt, Joe Cocker, Mick Jagger, Grace Jones, Diana Ross, Club Nouveau (their 1987 cover of "Lean on Me" won the Grammy Award for Best Rhythm & Blues Song in 1988), Morrisey, Paul McCartney, Michael Bolton, Fiona Apple, Sting, Kenny Rogers, and Johnny Mathis.

Withers was the recipient of the ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Heritage Award in 2006. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005 and the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame in 2007. Bill's songs have been featured on the soundtracks to such movies as "Hoot," "Roll Bounce," "Starsky & Hutch," "Bandits," "Exit Wounds," "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me," "American Beauty," "Notting Hill," "The Bodyguard," "American Me," "Lean on Me," and "Looking for Mr. Goodbar," plus episodes of the TV shows "Entourage," "LAX," "Cold Case," "Keen Eddie," "Six Feet Under," "The Wire," "CSI: Crime Scene Investigations," and "The Simpsons."

Leonora Pitts was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA. She is known for Like Holy Wine (2020), Boston Public (2000) and Rita Rocks (2008). She has been married to Scott Pitts since 3 October 2008. They have two children.

A West Point graduate and veteran of Desert Storm, Matt has been a professional actor since 1995 and is one of the most versatile performers in film and television.

A former colonel, he served in the Army for more than 27 years as a Military Police and Russia Eurasia Foreign Area Officer, and has extensive military, diplomatic, and intelligence experience and is fluent in the Russian language.

Matt served with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe; was the Army Attaché in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and the Office of Defense Cooperation Chief in Armenia and Moldova; served as the military advisor to the OSCE in Austria and Moldova, and In Vienna he monitored Russian activities in the Joint Consultative Group and the Forum for Security Cooperation.

In Chisinau, Moldova, he traveled daily to the breakaway republic of Prinistrovia to report on political, economic and military developments to help facilitate future reconciliation and merger with Moldova.

He served as the Russian Airborne Brigade liaison for the Stabilization Forces Commander in Bosnia and worked with peace-keeping forces from all over Europe.

He also has immense experience in nuclear and conventional arms control, having served as an inspector/monitor for the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty and Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty in Russia, and is very familiar with the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty, the Dayton Accords and the Vienna Document. At the Joint Staff J2, Matt reported on nuclear weapons developments and proliferation directly to the G2, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Secretary of Defense.

Matt is well versed in inter-agency policy, intelligence reporting, analysis, and collection, as well as political-military analysis, security cooperation, counter-proliferation, and international affairs.

Matt has four children - Ashley, Gregory, Camryn, and Kirsten.

Mark Cartier was born on 12 November 1979 in Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for The Core (2003), The Legend of Zorro (2005) and Dirty Pretty Things (2002).

Lynn Rene Anderson was a multi-award-winning American country music singer known for a string of hits throughout the 1970s and 1980s, most notably her country-pop, worldwide mega-hit "(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden". She charted 12 No. 1, 18 Top-10, and more than 50 Top-40 hits. Anderson's crossover appeal and regular exposure on national television helped her become one of the most popular and successful country singers of the 1970s. In addition to being named "Top Female Vocalist" by the Academy of Country Music (ACM) twice and "Female Vocalist of the Year" by the Country Music Association (CMA), she had won a Grammy Award, People's Choice Award and an American Music Award (AMA). She was named Record World Magazine's and Billboard Magazine's Female Artist of the Decade (1970-1980). Because of her mainstream success, Anderson was the first female country artist to be invited as a guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) in late 1971 (the first of several appearances she would make with Carson at the helm). Anderson was also the first female country artist to win the American Music Award in 1974, as well as the first to headline and sellout Madison Square Garden that same year.

David Nett was born on 1 July 1973 in Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Gold (2008), Night of the Zombie King (2010) and Starter Kit (2017). He was previously married to Shannon Nelson.

Charles Stanley was born on 25 September 1932 in Dry Fork, Virginia, USA. He was a writer, known for In Touch with Dr. Charles Stanley (1990), Ask Dr. Stanley (2013) and 19 Kids and Counting (2008). He was married to Anna Johnson. He died on 18 April 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Stephanie is best known for voicing the role of Jean Gunnhildr in Genshin Impact, is a voice in the AAA title God of War, Polly Pocket in Polly & Friends, Locket World Adventures, Theme Park Adventures, and others. Other notable roles are Madame Blueberry and Callie Flower in the The VeggieTales Show series, Natasha Zima and Glitch in Rainbow High, and many others. In addition to her voiceover skills, Stephanie is also seasoned in many other aspects of performing including acting, dance, and vocal performance: mix/belt, musical theater classical (legit), classical, and pop. Stephanie earned her BFA in Music Dance Theatre at Brigham Young University.

Sam Peeples began his writing career with Western novels but later became a television script writer and series creator. His western novels include The Hanging Hills 1953); Johnny Sundance 1953); Desert Showdown (1954); The Marshal Of Medicine Bend (1954); The Lobo Horseman (1955); The Call of the Gun (1955); The Man from Andersonville (1956); Terror At Tres Alamos (1956); and Doc Colt (1957). He later wrote The Man Who Died Twice (1976). In science fiction circles, he is best remembered as the originator of the now famous "Star Trek" phrase, 'Where No Man Has Gone Before' as the title of the series' second pilot.

Nicole Linkletter was born on 18 April 1985 in Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA. She is an actress, known for Life or Debt (2016), Ai for Ai (2010) and Got Game (2014). She has been married to Adam Nathanson since 15 November 2013. They have two children.

Veronica Wayne is a proud veteran and vocal advocate for the military veteran community. Veronica is originally from Grand Forks, North Dakota and grew up in military family.

Veronica's entrance into the entertainment business was unconventional as her military skills were used on shows like Invasion, Jericho and NCIS working with military consulting groups. At 19, she joined the United States Navy and was shipped off to boot camp in Great Lakes, Illinois. She spent four years in the Navy and was stationed at NAS Ocean with VF-32 Swordsman and later, was transferred to Personnel Support Detachment Pearl Harbor. While in the military, she worked as an aircraft mechanic, in disbursing, aviation fuels and computers. Veronica was a member of the Ford Island Honor Guard as a special duty assignment while stationed at Pearl Harbor. During her tour on the Truman, with VF-32 she deployed in support of Operation Southern watch as the relieving battle group for the USS Cole. Veronica joined the Air Force Reserve working in aviation bulk fuels and attended the C-School for Laboratory Fuels. Veronica deployed again as a fuels lab technician in support of Operation Enduring freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Veronica also deployed to Afghanistan in 2009 as part of a combat communications squadron working as a computer specialist. Veronica separated honorably from the service as a Staff Sargent after serving thirteen years and earning the following awards: Meritorious Unit Award, Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation, Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, Global War on Terror Service Medal, NATO Medal (among others).

Following her service, Veronica graduated Suma Cum Laude from Arizona State University with a 4.0 in Interdisciplinary Studies and holds an associate degree from Hawaii Pacific University in Supervisory Leadership as well as an associate degree from Community College of the Air Force in Logistics.

Veronica is a proud member Alpha Delta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion. She volunteers in her community by mentoring veterans looking to enter film and television, assisting veterans with filing disability claims and through raising funds for the award winning and Congressionally recognized non-profit Pin-Ups for Vets, to donate much needed rehab equipment for our nation's veterans. Veronica believes in the power of volunteerism and giving back to the community. Veronica also participates in the PGA Hope program and is actively involved in charity golf tournaments to help raise funds for the program.

Lily Kate was born on May 9, 2006, in Grand Forks, North Dakota. She is an American actress and artist who is known for winning episode 4, "Hoops Don't Lie," of the NBC primetime show 'Dancing With Myself.' Lily Kate was also part of the dance team in the popular Brat TV series "Chicken Girls."

Timothy Shew was born on 7 February 1959 in Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA. He is an actor, known for The Producers (2005), Chicago (2002) and FBI: Most Wanted (2020).

Almost everyone who has spent time with Joni Adahl, professionally and personally, comments about her charismatic personality and her ability to make a person feel at ease. Joni grew up surrounded by golden wheat fields on a farm in North Dakota. Enjoying the adrenaline rush of sports Joni values the lessons she learned from team comradery in school athletics. Adahl earned her Master's Degree in Architecture and Bachelor of Science Degree in Environmental Design.

Joni Adahl has worked on both sides of the camera, receiving film credits as Writer and Director on the short, "Charismata." The short has been in 11 International Festivals, receiving "Director's Choice" at the San Diego Christian Film Festival and other Nominations for Best Short Drama, Best Score, Best Sound, and Best Actress for this inspirational story.

As an actress Adahl received awards and nominations for in Permafrost from 701 Productions, NM, for Best Supporting Actress, Silver Award, Independent Shorts Awards, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Best Supporting Actress, February Award, IndieX Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Best Supporting Actress, Award of Merit, Depth of Field International Film Festival Competition, USA, Nominated Best Supporting Actress, Indie Short Film Fest, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Her goal is to be an asset to the entertainment industry as a positive role model, bringing to life characters in film that resonate within the souls of an audience.

Leroy VanDyke was born on 4 October 1929 in Spring Fork, Missouri, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for What Am I Bid? (1967), Opry Video Classics: Songs That Topped the Charts (2007) and Michal Tucný: Prodavac (1975).

North Dakota native, former boxer, political candidate, Congressional Aide, Elementary school teacher. Chicago Golden Gloves Boxing Champion. Spent several years in the vibrant Chicago theatre scene. Favorite roles include: Bent (Max), Terra Nova (Scott), Julius Caesar (Cassius), Reservoir Dogs (Mr. White), Red Dragon (Jack Crawford), The Crucible (John Proctor). Appeared in "Edward II" with Ammar Daraiseh, "Just Say No" with Greg Lougainis. Recurring role on CBS's "The Guardian" as Gene Everton, City Attorney.

Charles Lynn Frost was born on 11 May 1954 in Spanish Fork, Utah, USA. He was an actor, known for Con Air (1997), Encyclopedia Brown (1989) and Face of Evil (1996). He died on 19 May 2021 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

Debbie Silverman Krolik was born on 30 September 1942 in Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA. Debbie is known for Chicago Overcoat (2009) and Cellar Door (2016). Debbie was married to Dr. Paul "Pay-she" Krolik. Debbie died on 3 April 2023 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.