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No stranger to primetime television with roles on hit shows such as Lost (2004), Weeds (2005) and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000), up and coming actress Holland Roden can be seen in her starring role as "Lydia Martin" in MTV Network's most successful scripted series, Teen Wolf (2011). As a lead role, Holland plays the role of the popular girl Lydia Martin, whom the actress says is a mix of Tracy Flick's IQ (Election (1999)) meets Violet Beauregarde's spunk (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)).

Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, Holland was drawn to the arts at an early age. Fascinated by the "Queen of England" at only six years old, Holland would put on one-woman plays for her family, emulating her favorite royal. Holland took her love of performing one step further and enrolled in theatre camps as well as acting classes to further her passion. However, it was Holland's second love, science that brought her out to Los Angeles and jump-started her career.

Holland enrolled at UCLA as a molecular biology major and after one year of school, realized she wanted to return to her passion in acting. Within two months of hiring an agent, Holland got her first big break, a recurring role on HBO's 12 Miles of Bad Road (2008). Holland learned the highs and lows of this business early on, experiencing how such a promising show could be cancelled before it premiered. However, she persevered and went on to book guest starring appearances on shows such as: The Event (2010), Cold Case (2003), Community (2009), and Criminal Minds (2005), as well as a lead in the cult classic franchise: Bring It on: Fight to the Finish (2009). During her hiatus from "Teen Wolf," Holland recently took time out to shoot a guest star episode on ABC's Grey's Anatomy (2005), and a leading role in an independent horror flick titled House of Dust (2013) currently in post-production.

Even though Holland has been fulfilling her dream as an actor, she still remained dedicated to her education as a full-time student. However, due to Holland's busy work schedule, she was forced to make the hard decision of switching majors, leaving her love for science behind and majoring in women studies; a field Holland found surprisingly fascinating and received her degree in from UCLA.

In contrast to her professional and academic life, Holland's free time consists of exploring the world of music. Whether it's coming across new indie artists or listening to her all time favorites including Ingrid Michaelson, Josh Rouse, Cat Stevens, Mumford & Sons, and Crash Kings, Holland is a music fan through and through.

Shawn Robert Ashmore was born one minute after his twin brother Aaron Ashmore in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, on October 7, 1979. He is the son of Linda, a homemaker, and Rick Ashmore, a manufacturing engineer. By the age of seven, when their mother became a part of the Multiple Births Association in Alberta, Canada, the Ashmore twins were already in front of cameras impressing their elders. But it was Shawn that at the age of 14, stole the hearts of many with his wonderful performance in Guitarman (1994) in which he played the main character and was nominated for a Gemini Award. Since then, his career has skyrocketed. He has done many made-for-television movies and series, and has guest starred on various television shows, but it was his brief appearance in X-Men (2000) that landed him a role in X2: X-Men United (2003) and got him on the road to stardom. As an added bonus, he even got his own personal action figure modeled after him.

After only three months after X2: X-Men United (2003) he easily earned the very minor role of his brother's double in My Brother's Keeper (2004) with a release date in spring of 2004. Apart from acting, Shawn enjoys spending time with his brother, listening to music, playing guitar and snowboarding. His special skill is that he's fluent in French. His mother Linda, who is a twin herself, is a homemaker, while his father Rick is a manufacturing manager. Shawn has one pet, Jessica, a golden retriever, that he got from his grandmother when he was nine.

Aaron was born one minute before his twin, Shawn Ashmore, in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. He is the son of homemaker Linda and manufacturing engineer Rick. When they were 10, their mother was a part of a club called the "Multiple Births Association," or as Aaron likes to call it, "The Multiple Rugrats." The support group, located in Alberta, Canada was where the twins were discovered by a talent agent. It didn't take long for the problem of rejection to arise. The twins started out in commercials, sometimes by themselves and sometimes together. When they were 12, Aaron got an offer to be in a commercial, but he fell ill on that day, and Shawn went in his brother's place. Ever since then, Shawn's career has always been 1 step in front of his brother's. Since high school, when they were routinely mixed up with one another, their talents have become a lot less identical. They have been offered different roles to play, and they are looking a lot less identical, now that they are growing older. Aaron is now more sturdily built, with a broader face and broad shoulders. He stands 6'0", which is an inch taller than Shawn, who is 5'11". To that, Shawn says, "It's shoes and hair". Aaron lives in Toronto, where he shares an apartment with Shawn.

Stevens was born in Los Angeles, California. She is the daughter of actor and radio announcer Shadoe Stevens, and former model Beverly Cunningham. She has a younger sister named Chyna Stevens (Chyna Rose Stevens). She is a graduate of Beverly Hills High School. Her father is Caucasian (of Norwegian, German, English, and Dutch descent) and her mother is African-American (and part-Comanche).

Actor, producer, musician, and content creator Kira Kosarin is, as TeenVogue put it, "a real-life superhero." Kira is currently Executive Producing and starring in the new spin-off to her wildly popular 2013-2018 Nickelodeon show 'The Thundermans', after spearheading its reunion with the 2023 Paramount + film 'The Thundermans Return'. In August this year, Kira also premiered her role as Betsy Kelso on the hit Netflix series 'That '90s Show' to incredible excitement from audiences across the world.

When it comes to multi-camera comedy, Kira is in a league of her own, and with 40 million fans across social platforms avidly watching as she shares her experiences, educates, and entertains, she shows no signs of slowing down any time soon.

Lulu Wilson was born on 7 October 2005 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for The Wrath of Becky (2023), Modern Love (2019) and The Haunting of Hill House (2018).

Nicole Ari Parker Kodjoe is an American actress and model. She made her screen debut with a leading role in the critically acclaimed independent film The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995) and went on to appear in Boogie Nights (1997), directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Parker has starred in a number of movies, including Blue Streak (1999), Remember the Titans (2000), Brown Sugar (2002), Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008), Black Dynamite (2009), and Almost Christmas (2016). On television, Parker starred in the short-lived UPN romantic comedy Second Time Around (2004-05) and the ABC drama Time After Time (2017). In 2017, she joined the cast of Fox's prime-time soap opera Empire playing Giselle Barker. She appears as a recurring character in Chicago P.D. as Deputy Superintendent Samantha Miller and in And Just Like That... as Lisa Todd Wexley.

Dylan Baker was born on 7 October 1959 in Syracuse, New York, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Happiness (1998), Trick 'r Treat (2007) and Revolutionary Road (2008). He has been married to Becky Ann Baker since 6 September 1987. They have one child.

Yvonne Chapman was born on 7 October 1988 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She is an actress and producer, known for Avatar: The Last Airbender (2024), Kung Fu (2021) and Family Law (2021).

Judy Landers' pleasing personality and physical attributes have made this former Juilliard music student one of the popular character actresses in both action series like B.J. and the Bear (1978) and Vega$ (1978), as well as in a multitude of situation comedies during the 1980s. Although a student of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, her ability to play naive, innocent or sometimes even dimwitted characters, the blonde bombshell seems to have excelled more in comedies. She has appeared in series such as Night Court (1984) and The Love Boat (1977), and in films such as Stewardess School (1986) and Dr. Alien (1989). She is married to baseball player Tom Niedenfuer and they have two daughters, Lindsey and Kristy. Judy and her older sister Audrey Landers have appeared together in many projects, but one of the projects nearest and dearest to them seems to have been The Huggabug Club (1995), a children's series which they produced for Public Broadcasting. The duo not only starred in the series, they (along with their mother Ruth Landers) produced the series, and contributed most of the music to it, as well.

Jake McLaughlin was born on 7 October 1982 in Paradise, California, USA. He is an actor, known for In the Valley of Elah (2007), Savages (2012) and The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008). He has been married to Stephanie ... since 2004. They have four children.

Hattie Morahan was born in London. Her father, Christopher Morahan, was a television and stage director. Her mother, Anna Carteret, is an actress. Hattie was educated at the Frensham Heights School.

Hattie studied English Literature at New Hall, Cambridge between 1997 and 2000.

Hattie won an Ian Charleson award for her performance as Nina in The Seagull at the National Theatre in 2006.

She won Best Actress at the Shanghai TV festival 2008 for her role in Sense and Sensibility.

Hattie won both the Evening Standard Theatre Award and the Critics Circle Best Actress Award for her performance as Nora in A Doll's House at the Young Vic Theatre, and was nominated for an Olivier award, with the production later transferring to the West End and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

American leading lady whose sweet smile and sunny disposition made her the prototypical girl-next-door of American movies of the 1940s. Raised in semi-poverty in Bronx neighborhoods by her divorced mother, Allyson (nee Ella Geisman) was injured in a fall at age eight and spent four years confined within a steel brace. Swimming therapy slowly gave her mobility again, and she began to study dance as well. She entered dance contests after high school and earned roles in several musical short films. In 1938, she made her Broadway debut in the musical "Sing Out the News." After several roles in the chorus of various musicals, she was hired to understudy Betty Hutton in "Panama Hattie." Hutton's measles gave Allyson a shot at a performance and she impressed director George Abbott so much that he gave her a role in his next musical, "Best Foot Forward." She was subsequently hired by MGM to recreate her role in the screen version. The studio realized what it had in her and offered her a contract.

Her smoky voice and winning personality made her very popular and she made more than a score of films for MGM, most often in musicals and comedies. She became a box-office attraction, paired with many of the major stars of the day. In 1945, she married actor-director Dick Powell, with whom she occasionally co-starred. Following Powell's death from cancer in 1963, she retreated somewhat from film work, appearing only infrequently on screen and slightly more often in television films. Occasional nightclub appearances and commercials were her only other public performances since, and she died of pulmonary respiratory failure and acute bronchitis on July 8, 2006, after a long illness.

Nicole Maines was born on 7 October 1997 in Gloversville, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Yellowjackets (2021), Supergirl (2015) and Bit (2019).

The Brooklyn-born actor Jamie Hector may be best known for his role as Marlo Stanfield on the critically acclaimed HBO series "The Wire". He now plays Detective Jerry Edgar on the Amazon hit series "BOSCH". Jamie studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute. He is also the founder of Moving Mountains Inc., a non-profit organization that gives inner-city youth the opportunity to study the arts.

Aria Shahghasemi was born in Minneapolis, MN on October 7, 1996 to parents that had migrated to the USA from Iran.

He attended the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City where he acquired an acting apprenticeship in 2015. While in school there, he also worked as a bartender in a number of restaurants in New York City. He also worked as a production assistant for the short TV-movie, Wackademia.

He made his debut as Davis Bennett in the 2015 series, Unforgettable. In 2016, Aria was featured as Omar in the drama series, Law & Order. He came to some fame when he starred as Vet Tech in the 2018 TV series, Instinct, and as Elias Santoro in the high-ranked 2018 movie, No Alternative. In 2018, he became quite popular in his role as Landon Kirby in the TV show, The Originals, and very popular as Landon Kirby in the supernatural TV show, Legacies.

Allison Munn was born and raised in South Carolina. After graduating from the College of Charleston, Munn knew she wanted to pursue acting full-time and moved to New York to study. She soon joined the cast of the famous off-Broadway production of "The Fantasticks" at New York's Sullivan Street Theatre. After starring in over 500 performances of "The Fantasticks", Munn made the move to the West Coast. Soon after arriving in Los Angeles, she landed the recurring role of "(Crazy) Caroline" on Fox's That '70s Show (1998), and then joined the cast of the WB's What I Like About You (2002) as "Tina Haven". After her time at the WB, Allison jumped over to ABC as "Cindy" in Carpoolers (2007), and then proceeded to make her way over to the CW, where she joined the cast of One Tree Hill (2003), as "Lauren". She currently plays "Anne Harper" on Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn (2014).

Allison resides in Los Angeles with her husband Scott Holroyd, son Nathan and daughter Nora.

Mary Badham was born on 7 October 1952 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. She is an actress, known for To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Let's Kill Uncle (1966) and The Twilight Zone (1959). She has been married to Richard Wilt since 1975. They have two children.

Emma Fielding is an English actress.

The daughter of a British Army soldier, she studied acting at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

After graduation she worked for the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, coming to the attention of critics in 1993's RNT production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, in which she created the role of Thomasina. She made her Broadway theatre debut in 2002 in Noël Coward's Private Lives for which she won a Theatre World Award. She has twice been nominated for an Olivier Award. She is an Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Omar Benson Miller was born on 7 October 1978 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Ballers (2015), 8 Mile (2002) and Miracle at St. Anna (2008).

Brandon Quinn plays "Ronnie Sullivan" on the hit Netflix series SWEET MAGNOLIAS and can be seen opposite Kevin Hart in the Roku series DIE HART.A native of Aurora, Colorado, Brandon found his passion for acting in high school theater after a serious car accident in his junior year that kept him from playing sports. He recently wrapped production on the LightWorkers media feature film ON A WING AND A PRAYER with Dennis Quaid and Heather Graham and the STX feature film GREENLAND starring Gerard Butler. Previously, Brandon led the John Singleton series REBEL on BET and recurred on the ABC comedy KEVIN (PROBABLY) SAVES THE WORLD, as well as the Freeform series THE FOSTERS. Brandon got his start as the lead of Fox Family's long-running cult classic series BIG WOLF ON CAMPUS shortly after moving to Los Angeles. Additional television credits include AGAINST THE WALL, GRIMM, ENTOURAGE, CHARMED, THE O.C., and THE VAMPIRE DIARIES. In 2015, Brandon spent two years studying at an acting conservatory, The Miesner Center, working to deepen his understanding of the craft. Brandon is married to his wife of 20 years, Rachel, with whom he has three kids.

Tang Wei was born on 7 October 1979 in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China. She is an actress, known for Lust, Caution (2007), Decision to Leave (2022) and Blackhat (2015). She has been married to Kim Tae-yong since 12 July 2014. They have one child.

Simon Cowell was born in Lambeth, London and brought up in Elstree, Hertfordshire. He is the son of Julie Cowell (née Josie Dalglish), a ballet dancer, and Eric Selig Phillip Cowell, a music industry executive. Simon started his career in the music industry working in the mailroom at EMI Music Publishing. He worked as a record producer, talent scout and consultant within the music industry before becoming a judge on the hit British TV show Pop Idol (2001) and its U.S. counterpart, American Idol (2002). Cowell's scathing comments were famous during his 10 seasons as a judge on American Idol.

Andrew Dominik was born on 7 October 1967 in Wellington, New Zealand. He is a director and writer, known for Chopper (2000), Blonde (2022) and Killing Them Softly (2012).

Jacqueline Antaramian was born in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSR. She is an actress, known for American Gods (2017), Homeland (2011) and Succession (2018).