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Carly Brook Schroeder is an actress, animal rights activist, environmentalist, and nutritional advocate, known for Gracie (2007), the Disney Channel's Lizzie McGuire (2001), and General Hospital (1963).

Schroeder was born on October 18, 1990, in Valparaiso, Indiana. She began doing print work at the age of three and commercials at the age of six.

In 1997, Schroeder was cast as Serena Baldwin in Port Charles (1997), a spin-off of General Hospital. She performed in 480 episodes during a six-year period, being nominated twice in 1999 and 2000 for a Young Artist Award. In 1999, Schroeder was also nominated for a Young Star Award; Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Daytime TV Program.

Schroeder has also been featured in several television shows and television movies. In 2002, Schroder won the role of the manipulative, yet lovable Melina Bianco in The Disney Channel's Lizzie McGuire (2001). She also appeared in The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003).

Her first feature film, Mean Creek (2004), received wide critical acclaim, winning the Humanitas Prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, and also being awarded the 2005 Independent Spirit Festival Special Distinction Award for best ensemble cast. Schroeder also appeared in Firewall (2006), with 'Harrison Ford', and Eye of the Dolphin (2006),

An avid soccer player since the age of five, Schroeder finally had the chance to combine two of her passions in a single project called Gracie (2007). Knowing she had to fight for the part, she began an intense three-month workout that included training in advanced soccer skills with professional athletes and trainers. Her exposure to an athletic lifestyle influenced her later decision to choose a health-conscious lifestyle.

While Gracie was in theaters Schroeder's other movie, Eye of the Dolphin (2006) received two awards from the 2007 International Family Film Festival; a Best Child Actor win for Schroeder and a Drama Feature win for the movie. Her most recent projects include Prep School (2015), and One of Us (2017). Schroeder was awarded best actress for her role as Kyra in Prep School at the 2016 Studio City Film Festival.

Her earlier work for the Humane Society and Meals on Wheels in 2004 opened her eyes to her other passion, traveling. By the time she entered college, Schroeder had been to 20 states, 11 countries. As of 2018, Carly has 16 movie titles on her resume. Her appearances for 2018 include Ouija House (2018) and Deadly Shores. Carly has also received weapons training in small arms.

Schroeder graduated from California Lutheran University in 2013, then went on to further her education in nutrition and holistic care. In a move towards a more health-focused lifestyle, Schroeder has given up meat, dairy, gluten, and refined sugars in exchange for a plant-strong diet. Accompanied by her dog Jax, she has embraced her wanderlust by climbing, backpacking, running marathons, snowboarding, surfing, and many more outdoor activities.

In January 2019, Carly raised her right hand and chose to go to officer candidates school for her commission in the US Army.

Evelyn Ankers, a beautiful movie actress who was a staple of Universal's horror films in the 1940s, was born in Chile to English parents in 1918. Her parents repatriated the family back to England in the 1920s, and it was in Old Blighty that Ankers developed a desire to become an actress.

She began appearing in small roles in English movies in the mid 1930s while she was still in school. She appeared in Fire Over England (1937) with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh and in Bells of St. Mary's (1937). A beauty with talent, she soon won starring roles in the low-budget The Villiers Diamond (1938) and The Claydon Treasure Mystery (1938).

With war clouds darkening the skies over Europe, Ankers emigrated to the United States and was signed to a contract by Universal in 1940. She made her Universal debut in the Abbott and Costello comedy-horror picture Hold That Ghost (1941) before appearing in the horror film classic The Wolf Man (1941) opposite Lon Chaney Jr.. Ankers found herself cast into the horror picture ghetto, appearing in three more Chaney fright films, The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), Son of Dracula (1943) and The Frozen Ghost (1945), during a period in which she was cast ashore with a sarong-less Jon Hall in The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944). She also appeared in support of Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942) and The Pearl of Death (1944).

Ankers married B-movie hunk Richard Denning in 1942 and made a go articulating the anxieties of the home front while her husband was off to war. Horror flicks were popular during World War II, but after the cessation of hostilities in 1945, they went out of favor with audiences. Ankers' career, mated to the genre at Universal, suffered.

She quit Universal in 1945 and freelanced at Columbia and Poverty Row's Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) and Republic Pictures in dramas and mysteries. Evelyn co-starred with her returned husband, Richard, in the major release Black Beauty (1946) for 20th Century Fox. For PRC, she headlined Queen of Burlesque (1946) and later co-starred with Lex Barker in Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949).

As the 1950s dawned, a decade of conformity and family values, Ankers quit the movies for married life and motherhood after making The Texan Meets Calamity Jane (1950), in which she was first-billed. She was 32 years old. A decade later, Ankers came out of retirement to make one final screen appearance, in her hubby's No Greater Love (1960).

Evelyn Ankers died of ovarian cancer on August 29, 1985, twelve days after her 67th birthday.

Claudio Miranda was born in March 1965 in Valparaíso, Chile. He is a cinematographer and actor, known for Life of Pi (2012), Top Gun: Maverick (2022) and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). He has been married to Kelli Bean since February 2009.

Brendan Scannell (born June 20, 1990) is an American actor and comedian known for playing Pete Devon in the Netflix series Bonding (2019) and Heather Duke in the Paramount Network series Heathers (2018). Scannell grew up in Valparaiso, Indiana and studied theatre and English at Northwestern University. In 2019 he was a New Face at Just For Laughs in Montreal Canada

Actress and model Laurie spent her youth in Minneapolis/St.Paul performing musical theatre. With a love for film-making she's experimented in many different roles both behind and in front of the camera. Throughout her career, she's been seen in dozens of national commercial and print spots including Coca Cola, General Mills and Kodak.

Carolina Vera was born on 4 January 1973 in Valparaíso, Chile. She is an actress, known for My Zoe (2019), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) and Schutzlos (2009).

Catalina Saavedra was born on 9 January 1968 in Viña del Mar, Valparaíso, Chile. She is an actress, known for The Maid (2009), Rotting in the Sun (2023) and Casa de Angelis (2018).

Matías Novoa was born on 14 June 1980 in Valparaiso, Chile. He is an actor and writer, known for Cabo (2021), La Herencia (2022) and Quiéreme Tonto (2010). He has been married to Isabella Castillo since 11 October 2019. He was previously married to Daniela Castillo.

Born and raised in Valparaiso, Indiana,, Ron Podell remembers his first experience in a movie theater, watching a release of "Sleeping Beauty" with his Dad. The memory of the evil queen morphing into a giant dragon sticks with him to this day.

An award-winning professional journalist who has been telling stories since his high school newspaper days, Podell, to date. has written five feature screenplays and 15 short screenplays, three of which have been produced. His scripts have won more than 60 top awards at films festivals/screenwriting contests, along with too many nominations/script finalist statuses to count. His short script "All Tapped Out" was the recent grand prize winner of the American Gem Literary Festival and is expected to be produced sometime during 2019.

Podell is included in the book, titled "Top 50 Indie Writers in the World," that was released in early 2017 through Apple iTunes. He was named Writer of the Year at the 2016 Action on Film International Film Festival and was nominated for Writer of the Year at both the 2017 and 2018 Austin Revolution Film Festival. He won the first-ever James Christopher Scribe Award at the 2017 Bare Bones International Film and Music Festival. He has served as a screenwriter panelist at the Glendale International Film Festival, Sutter Creek Film Festival and the former Screenwriting Expo in Los Angeles.

He is a member of the WGAW Independent Writers Caucus and his feature script "Blood Trigger" is available in paperback and e-book on Amazon.

He received his bachelor's degree in journalism from Franklin College in Franklin, Ind., and has worked for newspapers in Indiana, Florida and Maryland, national newsletters in Washington, D.C., and at two institutions of higher education. He is a communications specialist at the University of Wyoming.

Other early childhood influences were the original "King Kong", "Casablanca", "The Wizard of Oz", Saturday night "Creature Features" and too many John Wayne and Humphrey Bogart movies to count.

As a young boy, he eventually graduated to such popcorn films as "Jaws", "Star Wars", and "Raiders of the Lost Ark." Podell counts the first two "Godfather" films, "Rocky" and "Goodfellas" among his all-time favorites. He appreciates today's special-effects technology that can bring comic book stories to breathtaking life while simultaneously admiring the storytelling of movies during the 1970s.

Favorite recent screenplays in the past decade include "The Departed", "Juno" and "No Country for Old Men."

"However, Billy Wilder remains the master," Podell said.

Podell's ultimate career ambition is to produce a healthy balance of spec screenplays and works for hire for studios and production companies of actors and directors he admires.

Born in Vina Del Mar, Chile and raised in Salt Lake City, UT, Dominique began acting at a young age when she was enrolled by her parents in Theatre School for Youth at the University of Utah.

Dominique graduated from high school with a 3.8 in an all Honors/AP/IB curriculum. She went on to attend the University of Utah, and graduated on the Dean's List with her BFA in Actor Training.

In May 2009, Dominique teamed up with SLC casting director Jeff Johnson, local directors Jason Painter, David Forester and award-winning musicians Michael McClean and Jeffrey Gold to win the Audience Choice award at the Utah 48 Hour Film Festival with their short film "Given". Dominique was the lead in the film.

Tom Araya was born on 6 June 1961 in Valparaiso, Chile. He is an actor and producer, known for Law Abiding Citizen (2009), Dracula 2000 (2000) and Punisher: War Zone (2008). He has been married to Sandra Araya since 6 September 1995. They have two children.

There is nothing mysterious about Karla, she functions best when caffeinated.

Her love for coffee inspired her to trek to Guatemala for a month in 2006 to participate in an intensive Spanish immersion program.

Karla's passion for traveling has led her to swim in the Dead Sea (you really do float!), hike bamboo forests and swim waterfalls in Hawaii, barter her way through the open markets of Carthage and eat every last gyro on the island of Crete. If you've been to Crete since her stay, she sends her apologies.

And if you really want to be her friend for life, or at least the next 15 minutes, show up with any concoction from Cold Stone Creamery as long as it contains peanut butter.

Zach Holmes was born on 11 September 1991 in Valparaiso, Indiana, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Jackass Forever (2022), Blockheads in Britain (2022) and Hollywood Uncensored (2021).

Jaime Vadell was born on 6 October 1935 in Valparaíso, Región de Valparaíso, Chile. He is an actor, known for No (2012), The Club (2015) and Padre Nuestro (2005).

Florence Saunders was born on 24 June 1890 in Valparaiso, Chile. She was an actress, known for The Wandering Jew (1923). She was married to John Laurie. She died on 24 January 1926 in London, England, UK.

John M. Stephens was born on 17 November 1932 in Valparaiso, Indiana, USA. He was a cinematographer and assistant director, known for Conspiracy Theory (1997), Midnight Run (1988) and Sorcerer (1977). He was married to Barbara Stephens. He died on 18 June 2015 in Huntington Beach, California, USA.

George Howe was born on 19 April 1900 in Valparaiso, Chile. He was an actor, known for Nicholas Nickleby (1957), Armchair Theatre (1956) and The History of Mr. Polly (1959). He died in July 1986 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK.

Heather Kuzmich was born on 19 April 1986 in Valparaiso, Indiana, USA.

Sara Guasch was born on 21 November 1909 in Valparaiso, Chile. She was an actress, known for El mártir del Calvario (1952), La sombra vengadora (1956) and Asesinos, S.A. (1957). She died on 1 June 2005 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico.

Chilean writer-director and editor who studied philosophy and filmmaking at the University of Chile in the 1960s. Based in Paris since 1974, her documentaries and feature films tend to address Latin American gender politics but she is probably best known as the regular editor and collaborator of her late husband Raúl Ruiz (1941-2011) with whom she shared the Chilean Art Critics Circle's Bicentennial Award for cinema in 2010. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1988 and is often cited alongside Angelina Vázquez and Marilú Mallet as a key woman filmmaker of Chilean exile. A retrospective of her work as director was held at Stanford University in May 2008.

Marlen Olivari was born on 14 September 1975 in Viña del Mar, Valparaíso, V Region, Chile. She is an actress, known for Buen partido (2002), Viva el teatro (2005) and Infieles (2005). She was previously married to Roberto Dueñas.

Eduardo Paxeco is a chilean actor of Universidad de Chile. He has participated in various theater productions, films and television. In films the highlights are: "Mirage D'amour¨, directed by Hubert Toint, "Olvidados", by Carlos Bolado, "Caleuche", directed by Jorge Olguin, "3:34 Terremoto en Chile" directed by Juan Pablo Ternicier, "Optical Illusions" by Cristian Jimenez (by this work Eduardo Paxeco received the Pedro Sienna award for Best Male Actor of 2010) "The good life" by Andres Wood (the film won the Goya Award for Best Iberoamerican Film of 2009), "Drama" directed by Matias Lira, and the Swedish film "The Black Pimpernel". He also starred, from Caracas to Buenos Aires, the Venezuelan film "Suramericano". On television he has worked in several series and programs, such as Paz, Heroes, Gen Mishima, Litoral, Infieles, Cartas de mujer, Mea culpa, Teatro en CHV, Bienvenida realidad, Tiempo final, among others. Also, he has been part of the dramatic areas of several television channels, as ¨Las Dos Carolinas¨, ¨La Sexóloga¨, "Mujeres de Lujo" e "Infiltradas" on Chilevisión. "Primera Dama" and ¨Soltera Otra Vez 2¨ of Canal 13. "Maldita" on Mega¨. ¨La Chúcara¨ and "Aquí Mando Yo" of TVN. In theater he has been part of important theatre productions directed by national directors. From 2002 until 2013 he joined the company named MINIMALE, together they accomplished multiple mounts released in the Salón Blanco of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes.

Mark Blane is a bi-coastal actor, director and writer originally from Indiana. They are known for directing, writing, producing and starring in the 16mm feature film CUBBY which premiered In Competition at Torino LGBTQI. CUBBY played a limited theatrical run in NY/LA after playing 30+ festivals including Inside Out Toronto (Innovation Award Nominee), Frameline (Best First Feature Nomination), OutFest and NewFest (NY Centerpiece). Grant support includes Kodak, Leslie Lohman Museum for Lesbian and Gay Art, Gotham Narrative Film Lab, Formfunction and Brooklyn Arts Council. Mark wrote and directed GHOST BIKE (LA Pan African Film Festival Premiere) acting alongside Tamara Tunie. His Portuguese iPhone-shot pilot ASSASSINO AMERICANO AMNÉSICO premieres in competition in Italy in 2023. He plays "Zack" in 6 episodes of the JJ Abrams produced AppleTV+ show LITTLE VOICE, directed by Jessie Nelson (I AM SAM) and Chris Storer (THE BEAR). Mark's also the lead in the Daniel Lewinstein's THE APOLOGY. His performances on screen have been alongside talents such as Patricia Richardson, Becky Ann Baker, and Brittany O'Grady.

Blane has been lauded by the LA Times, IndieWire, The Advocate, and more. Fresh Tomato reviews remarked "Mark's performance is kaleidoscopic and engrossing" and "Think Zach Galifianakis meets James Bidgood with a dash of 1990s Gus Van Sant." Mark's play, THE ROCK & THE RIPE, was commissioned by Hetrick-Martin Institute and Rosie O'Donnell's Theater Kids. He's taught filmmaking to seniors through the SU-CASA program across Brooklyn, and he's also been a visiting artist at Syracuse University, Virginia Tech, and Northwestern University.

He is repped as an actor theatrically and commercially by Tyler Kahl at Allegory and Nelson Paredez and Garrett Lindsay at The ESI Network.

SELECT REVIEWS:

"Everything hinges on Blane's performance. Open and emotional and in-your-face."- Eye on Film, Fresh Tomato Review, "He may be a dork, but his pure intentions make even his most transgressive behaviour seem innocent...It's also disarmingly entertaining to follow Mark on this odyssey." - Rich Cline, Fresh Tomato Review. "Blane is unquestionably fascinating and so completely absorbed in his character" - Roger Dack, Edge Media, "Fresh" - LA Times, "Similar to Tim Robinson or Will Ferrell...Joyous anarchy!" - Fresh Tomato, Queer Essential

"Mark Blane is not only the director and screenwriter of the film, but also the actor playing the protagonist alter-ego, as did Xavier Dolan in his earliest and most intimate works that consecrated him a very successful queer author and celebrity. Cubby, therefore, could anticipate the birth of a new personality in the future of American queer cinema or, at least, a new name worth watching in its ranks." - Cinefilia Ritrovata, Bologna, Italy

Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (25 November 1915 - 10 December 2006) was a Chilean general who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, first as the leader of the Military Junta of Chile from 1973 to 1981, being declared President of the Republic by the junta in 1974 and becoming the DE Facto dictator of Chile, and from 1981 to 1990 as DE Jure President after a new Constitution, which confirmed him in the office, was approved by a referendum in 1980.

Duncan Lamberson was born on 3 February 1988 in Valparaiso, Indiana, USA. Duncan is known for Sabotage (2014), Furious 7 (2015) and Contagion (2011).