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Scoot McNairy (Merril Brown)

• John Marcus McNairy born November 11, 1977, known professionally as Scoot McNairy, is an American actor and producer known for his roles in films including Monsters, Argo, Killing Them Softly, 12 Years a Slave, Frank, Gone Girl, and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

•  In television, he starred in the AMC period drama Halt and Catch Fire, True Detective and the Netflix western miniseries Godless.

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Garret Dillahunt (Armsby)

• Garret Lee Dillahunt born November 24, 1964 and he is an American actor.

•  He is best known for his work in television for the roles of Simon Escher on Burn Notice, Burt Chance on the Fox sitcom Raising Hope for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series in 2012, Ty Walker in the sixth season of Justified, Jack McCall and Francis Wolcott in Deadwood, Steve Curtis in ER, and John Dorie in Fear the Walking Dead.

•  He was Armsby in 12 Years a Slave.

•  He also starred in seasons one and two of the Amazon Studios drama Hand of God, and is currently appearing on The Guest Book.

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Adepero Oduye (Elisa)

• She`s an Nigerian-American actress, director, singer, and writer.

•  She is known for her leading role in Pariah (2011), as well as supporting roles in 12 Years a Slave (2013) and The Big Short (2015). All three films received widespread critical acclaim. 

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Brad Pitt (Samuel Bass)

• William Bradley Pitt born December 18, 1963. He is an American actor and film producer.

•  He has received multiple awards and nominations including an Academy Award as producer under his own company, Plan B Entertainment.

• Pitt first gained recognition as a cowboy hitchhiker in the road movie Thelma & Louise (1991). 

•  He gave critically acclaimed performances in the crime thriller Seven and the science fiction film 12 Monkeys (both 1995), the latter earning him a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and an Academy Award nomination.

•   Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)

•  Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019).

•  Pitt received his second and third Academy Award nominations for his leading performances in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and Moneyball (2011). 

• He produced The Departed (2006) and 12 Years a Slave (2013), both of which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and also The Tree of Life (2011), Moneyball, and The Big Short (2015), all of which garnered Best Picture nominations.

• As a public figure, Pitt has been cited as one of the most influential and powerful people in the American entertainment industry. 

• For a number of years he was cited as the world's most attractive man by various media outlets, and his personal life is the subject of wide publicity.

•  In 2000, he married actress Jennifer Aniston; they divorced in 2005.

•  In 2014, Pitt married actress Angelina Jolie. They have six children together, three of whom were adopted internationally.

•  In 2016, Jolie filed for a divorce from Pitt, which was finalized in 2019.

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Alfre Woodard(Mistress Harriet Shaw)

• Alfre Woodard born November 8, 1952. She is an American actress, producer, and political activist. 

• Woodard has been named one of the most versatile and accomplished actors of her generation.

•  She has been nominated once for an Academy Award and Grammy Award and 18 times for an Emmy Award (winning four) and has also won a Golden Globe Award and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.

•  She made her film debut in Remember My Name (1978). 

• In 1983, she won major critical praise and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Cross Creek. In the same year, Woodard won her first Primetime Emmy Award for her performance in the NBC drama series Hill Street Blues.

•  Later in the 1980s, Woodard had leading Emmy Award-nominated performances in a number of made for television movies, and another Emmy-winning role as a woman dying of leukemia in the pilot episode of L.A. Law. 

• She also starred as Dr. Roxanne Turner in the NBC medical drama St. Elsewhere, for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1986, and for Guest Actress in 1988.

•  Star Trek: First Contact (1996).

•  She also drew critical praise for her performances in the independent dramas Passion Fish (1992), for which she won an Independent Spirit Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, as well as Down in the Delta (1998).

•  For her lead role in the HBO film Miss Evers' Boys (1997), Woodard won Golden Globe, Emmy, Screen Actors Guild, and several other awards.

•  In later years she has appeared in several blockbusters, like K-PAX (2001), The Core (2003), and The Forgotten (2004), starred in independent films, and won her fourth Emmy Award for The Practice in 2003.

•  From 2005 to 2006, Woodard starred as Betty Applewhite in the ABC comedy-drama series Desperate Housewives, and later starred in several short-lived series. 

• She appeared in the films The Family That Preys (2008), 12 Years a Slave (2013), Annabelle (2014) and Juanita (2019), and has also worked as a political activist and producer. 

• In 2019, she received critical acclaim for her performance in the drama film Clemency.

• Woodard is a founder of Artists for a New South Africa, an organization devoted to advancing democracy and equality in that country. 

• She is a board member of AMPAS.

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Benedict Cumberbatch (William Ford)

• Born 19 July 1976 and he is an English actor who has performed in film, television, theatre and radio.

•  A graduate of the Victoria University of Manchester, he continued his training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, obtaining a Master of Arts in Classical Acting. 

•   He first performed at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park in Shakespearean productions and made his West End debut in Richard Eyre's revival of Hedda Gabler in 2005. Since then he has starred in the Royal National Theatre productions After the Dance (2010) and Frankenstein (2011). In 2015, he played William Shakespeare's Hamlet at the Barbican Theatre.

•   He has starred as Sherlock Holmes in the series Sherlock since 2010. 

•   Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) as Khan

•   12 Years a Slave (2013) as William Prince Ford

•   From 2012 to 2014, through voice and motion capture, he played the characters of Smaug and the Necromancer in The Hobbit film series. 

•   In superhero films set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he has played Dr. Stephen Strange in Doctor Strange (2016), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019).

•   Cumberbatch has received numerous accolades, including the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for Frankenstein and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for Sherlock. His performance in The Imitation Game earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. 

•   In 2014 Time magazine included him in its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2015 he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

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Paul Dano (John Tibeats)

• Paul Franklin Dano  born June 19, 1984, is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer and musician.

• Dano started his career on Broadway before making his film debut in The Newcomers (2000). He won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance for his role in L.I.E. (2002) and received accolades for his role as Dwayne Hoover in Little Miss Sunshine (2006). 

• For his dual roles as Paul and Eli Sunday in There Will Be Blood (2007), he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor.

• Dano has also received accolades for roles such as John Tibeats in 12 Years a Slave (2013) and Alex Jones in Prisoners (2013).

•  His acting portrayal of musician Brian Wilson in Love & Mercy (2015), earned him a Golden Globe nomination in the category of Best Supporting Actor.

• Dano made his directorial debut with the 2018 drama film Wildlife, based on the novel by Richard Ford and starring Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal. He co-wrote the screenplay with his partner Zoe Kazan.

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Sarah Catharine Paulson (Mary Epps)

• She`s an American actress. She has received numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.

• In 2017, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

• From 2006 to 2007, she starred as Harriet Hayes in the NBC comedy-drama series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, for which she received her first Golden Globe Award nomination.

• She  starred in the independent drama film Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011), and received Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for her portrayal of Nicolle Wallace in the HBO film Game Change (2012).

•  She has featured as Mary Epps in the 2013 historical drama film 12 Years a Slave.

• In 2011, Paulson began starring in the FX anthology series American Horror Story, playing different characters in each of the show's eight seasons. For her work, she has been nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards and won two Critics' Choice Television Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Movie/Miniseries. 

• In 2016, Paulson portrayed real life prosecutor Marcia Clark in the first season of the anthology series American Crime Story, subtitled The People v. O. J. Simpson, for which she earned critical praise and numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.

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Lupita Nyong'o (Patsey)

• She was born in March 1, 1983) is a Kenyan-Mexican actress. The daughter of Kenyan politician Peter Anyang' Nyong'o, 

• Also in 2009, she wrote, produced and directed the documentary In My Genes.

•  She then pursued a master's degree in acting from the Yale School of Drama. Soon after her graduation, she had her first feature film role as Patsey in Steve McQueen's historical drama 12 Years a Slave (2013), for which she received critical acclaim and won several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She became the first Kenyan and Mexican actress to win an Academy Awards.

Nyong'o made her Broadway debut as a teenage orphan in the play Eclipsed (2015), for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. 

• She went on to perform a motion capture role as Maz Kanata in the Star Wars sequel trilogy (2015–2019).

•  Nyong'o's career progressed with her role as Nakia in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Black Panther (2018) and her starring role in Jordan Peele's critically acclaimed horror film Us (2019).

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Michael Fassbender (Edwin Epps)

• He was born in 2 April 1977, he`s an Irish-German actor. His feature film debut was in the fantasy war epic 300 (2007) as a Spartan warrior;

• He first came to prominence for his role as IRA activist Bobby Sands in Hunger (2008), for which he won a British Independent Film Award. 

• In 2011, Fassbender debuted as the Marvel Comics supervillain Magneto in X-Men: First Class, and went on to share the role with Ian McKellen in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), before reprising it again in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) and Dark Phoenix (2019).

•  Also in 2011, Fassbender's performance as a sex addict in Shame earned him the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards. In 2013, his role as slave owner Edwin Epps in the slavery epic 12 Years a Slave was similarly praised, earning him his first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

• He received Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe and SAG nominations. In 2015, he produced the western Slow West, in which he also starred.

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Chiwetel Ejiofor (Solomon Northup / Platt)

After enrolling at the National Youth Theatre in 1995 and attending the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, at age 19 and three months into his course, Ejiofor was cast by Steven Spielberg to play a supporting role in the film Amistad (1997) as James Covey.

•  Solomon Northup in 12 Years a Slave (2013);  •  Karl Mordo in Doctor Strange (2016); 

•  He voiced Scar in the 2019 remake of The Lion King, and will be featured in the upcoming fantasy film, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil;

• For 12 Years a Slave, he received Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations, along with the BAFTA Award for Best Actor. He was nominated for a 2014 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for his performance on Dancing on the Edge.

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