Tim Blake Nelson
as Charlie
Actor, writer, director, and producer Tim Blake Nelson has appeared in over eighty feature films, including Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, Ang Lee’s Billy Lynne’s Long Halftime Walk, Louis Letterier’s The Incredible Hulk, Jay Roach’s Meet the Fockers, Steven Gaghan’s Syriana, Miguel Arteta’s The Good Girl, Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report, Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line, Nacho Vigalondo’s Colossal, the Coen Brothers’ O Brother Where Art Thou?, and the Emmy-winning HBO movie Warm Springs, directed by Joe Sergeant. Nelson starred as the title character in Netflix’s The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, written and directed by the Coen Brothers. In the film, Nelson performs three songs, including When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings, which was nominated for Best Original Song. Nelson also won a Grammy Award for his performance of In the Jailhouse Now on the O Brother, Where Art Thou soundtrack album, which was awarded Album of the Year.
Nelson starred in Potsy Ponciroli’s feature Old Henry, which premiered at the 2021 Venice Film Festival. An independent, gritty Western, the film follows Nelson as Henry, a quiet farmer raising his teenage son, who decides to help an injured man who arrived with a satchel of cash. When a group of suspicious men arrive to take the man with them, Henry must decide who to trust, while his own mysterious past begins to unravel. The film and Nelson both went on to receive wide critical acclaim.
This past summer, Nelson completed production on Marvel’s Captain America: New World Order, reprising his role as Samuel Sterns from The Incredible Hulk. The upcoming feature, directed by Julius Onah, will star Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, and Harrison Ford. In 2022, Nelson produced and starred in his son Henry Nelson’s feature debut Asleep In My Palm, a story about a father and daughter living in a storage shed on the outskirts of a liberal arts college. The film examines the fraught relationship between liberal ideals and the realities of poverty. Nelson kept busy that spring and completed production on three more films, Renny Harlin’s The Bricklayer, Potsy Ponciroli’s Providence, and Dexter Fletcher’s Ghosted.
Nelson lent his voice to the all-star cast on Netflix’s animated series Lost Ollie as Zozo, an old clown doll with a wise soul who decides to help Ollie in his journey home. The heartwarming limited series was released in August 2022. Later that year, Nelson lead an episode of Guillermo Del Toro’s anthology series Cabinet of Curiosities on Netflix, which aired in October 2022. He also collaborated with Guillermo Del Toro on the animated Pinocchio adaptation that released in December 2022. Additionally, Nelson starred in an episode of Rian Johnson’s anthology series Poker Face alongside Natasha Lyonne.
In 2019, Nelson received great acclaim and a Critic’s Choice nomination for his role as Looking Glass in HBO’s Watchmen, created by Damon Lindelof, which is based on the iconic graphic novel by Alan Moore. Nelson also starred in Ric Roman Waugh’s Angel Has Fallen, the third film in the Olympus Has Fallen series as Vice President Kirby, who must protect himself and his country after a terrorist attempt to assassinate the President. Later that year, Nelson appeared in Amazon’s The Report, an independent film directed by Scott Z. Burns and produced by Vice Media, which depicts a group of CIA agents using extreme interrogation tactics on suspects in the aftermath of 9/11. That winter, Nelson played Ralph Myers in Destin Daniel Cretton’s Just Mercy, based on the successful memoir by civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson. The film stars Michael B. Jordan, Brie Larson, and Jamie Foxx. Other films released in 2019 which Nelson appeared in are All Rise, directed by Anthony Mandler, Don Quixote, in which he plays the title role, directed by Chris Poche, and Arara, directed by Sabrina McCormick and Soopum Sohn. In December 2021, Nelson also appeared in Ric Roman Waugh’s sports drama National Champions, and Guillermo Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley.
Nelson has worked extensively in New York theatre. In April of 2019, Nelson’s newest play, Socrates, premiered to much acclaim at The Public Theater in New York City. The drama about the rise and fall of the celebrated philosopher was directed by Doug Hughes and starred Michael Stuhlbarg in the title role. Nelson appeared in A Midsummer Nights Dream at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park with Martha Plimpton and Jay O. Sanders under the direction of Dan Sullivan. Before that he played William Shakespeare in the critically acclaimed play Beard of Avon directed by Doug Hughes at the New York Theatre Workshop. Nelson’s other credits include Oedipus, with Frances McDormand and Billy Crudup, Troilus and Cressida, Les Bourgeois Avant-Garde, Mac Wellman’s Dracula, The Amazon’s Voice, An Imaginary Life, The Baltimore Waltz, Mad Forest, The Innocents Crusade, Richard III and Twelfth Night. As a playwright, his produced plays include the award-winning The Grey Zone, Eye of God and Anadarko.
In 1997, Nelson wrote and directed the film, Eye of God, which appeared in competition at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival, and won the Tokyo Bronze Prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival before being released theatrically in 1998. Since then, Nelson directed O, released in 2001 by Lionsgate, a contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello, for which he won the award for Best Director at the 2001 Seattle Film Festival. He also wrote and directed The Grey Zone, based on his award winning play, which was released by Lionsgate in 2003, and Leaves of Grass, a dark comedy starring Edward Norton, Keri Russell, Susan Sarandon, Richard Dreyfus, and Nelson himself, released by Millenium in 2009. In 2016, Nelson wrote, directed, and produced the IFC-released Anesthesia, a drama based in New York City with Sam Waterston, Glenn Close, Kristen Stewart, Gretchen Mol and himself. That same year Nelson also directed the pilot episode for the Amazon Series Z, starring Christina Ricci about the life of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, which streamed on Amazon in fall of 2016.
Nelson was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is a graduate of Brown University, where he was Senior Orator for his class of 1986, and the recipient of the John Rowe Workman Award for Excellence in Classical Studies. After Brown he attended and the Julliard Theater Center’s four year actor training program. In 2011 he was admitted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Nelson, who is currently working on his first novel, resides in New York City with his wife and three sons.
Bruce Greenwood
as Carl
Bruce Greenwood will next be seen in the contemporary horror series Fall Of The House Of Usher for Netflix. This marks his third collaboration with writer/director Mike Flanagan. Greenwood plays Roderick Usher in the modern retelling of the Edgar Allen Poe story. The series will premiere October 12th.
He recently wrapped the fantasy, comedy/drama The Invisibles opposite Tim Blake Nelson, directed by Andrew Currie about a man facing a midlife crisis who starts to disappear – literally. He was last seen starring in the Fox medical drama The Resident portraying Chief of surgery Dr. Randolph Bell. The show ran for 6 seasons.
In 2019 he starred in the horror thriller Dr. Sleep based on Stephen King’s New York Times best-selling novel, and sequel to the hit 1977 film The Shining. Previously Greenwood was in the critically acclaimed HBO series I Know This Much Is True directed by Derek Cianfrance and starring Mark Ruffalo.
In 2017 Greenwood was seen in The Post for director Steven Spielberg, opposite Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks playing Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. The film garnered an Oscar nomination for Best Motion Picture among many others. He was also featured in Kodachrome for Director Mark Raso, starring Jason Sudeikis, Elizabeth Olson and Ed Harris.
That same year Greenwood starred opposite Carla Gugino in the critically acclaimed Netflix movie Gerald’s Game, an adaptation of the Stephen King 1992 bestselling novel directed by Mike Flanagan from a script he wrote with Jeff Howard. The same month he was seen opposite Liam Neeson in Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White House as Time Magazine reporter Sandy Smith.
In 2016 Greenwood starred in Ryan Murphy’s mega-hit series American Crime Story: The People Vs OJ Simpson as District Attorney Gil Garcetti opposite an all-star cast including John Travolta, Sarah Paulson, David Schwimmer and Cuba Gooding Jr. The show garnered twenty-two Emmy nominations and nine wins as well as five Golden Globe nominations and two wins.
The same year he appeared in Gold, opposite Matthew McConaughey for director Stephen Gaghan. Earlier, he portrayed CBS News President Andrew Heyward in Truth, Jamie Vanderbilt’s newsroom drama starring Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford, about the controversy surrounding the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes investigation of then-President George W. Bush’s military service in the Texas Air National Guard. TRUTH premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.
In 2015 Bruce Greenwood had a recurring role on the critically acclaimed TV drama Mad Men playing the love interest of Joan Harris (Christina Hendricks) in the show’s final season.
In 2014 Bruce Greenwood starred in Andrew Niccol’s military drama-thriller Good Kill opposite Ethan Hawke. The same year he starred in Elephant Song as a psychiatric hospital director alongside Xavier Dolan and Catherine Keener. The film, which premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, garnered him a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role.
The same year he starred in Endless Love, Universal’s remake of the 1981 drama of the same name. Additionally, he reprised his role as Captain Christopher Pike in the Paramount Pictures blockbuster Star Trek Into Darkness opposite Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Zoe Saldana for director J.J. Abrams.
Bruce Greenwood has acted in five films for acclaimed Canadian director Atom Egoyan, including Queen Of The Night, Devil’s Knot, Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter, which earned the Jury Grand Prize at Cannes and swept the Genie Awards including Best Motion Picture and earned him a Genie Award nomination for Best Actor, and Ararat.
In 2012 he starred in the Oscar nominated drama Flight opposite Denzel Washington for Paramount Pictures, directed by Robert Zemeckis. He was also seen in 2012 in A Place Beyond The Pines, written and directed by Derek Cianfrance and starred Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper.
Among Greenwood’s more recent films are DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS, MAO’S LAST DANCER, and National Treasure: Book Of Secrets. In 2007, his dual role in the unconventional biopic of legendary singer/ songwriter Bob Dylan I’m Not There opposite Cate Blanchett and Richard Gere, for writer/director Todd Haynes, earned the Independent Spirit Awards inaugural Robert Altman Award.
He is well known for his outstanding portrayal of President John F. Kennedy negotiating the Cuban Missile Crisis and its fallout in the riveting drama Thirteen Days, which earned Greenwood a Golden Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor.
In 2006 he appeared in the thriller Deja Vu for director Tony Scott; in 2005 he starred opposite Philip Seymour as Truman Capote’s partner, writer Jack Dunphy, in Capote. That performance earned him a Screen Actors Guild Nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
Among Greenwood’s earlier films are I, Robot, Being Julia, Double Jeopardy, Meeks Cutoff, Barney’s Version, Donovan’s Echo, Firehouse Dog, Hollywood Homicide, The World’s Fastest Indian, Eight Below, Rules Of Engagement, Racing Stripes, Here On Earth, The Lost Son, Thick As Thieves, Disturbing Behavior, Passenger 57, and Wild Orchid.
Greenwood also enjoys a diverse and successful career in television, including the Sci-fi Thriller Spectral, Dirty Dancing, ABC’s three-hour musical television event as Dr. Jake Houseman. ABC Horror/ Drama series The River, the Hallmark Hall of Fame holiday movie A Dog Named Christmas, and the David Milch HBO series John From Cincinnati. Other television credits include a regular role on St. Elsewhere, The Larry Sanders Show, and The Magnificent Ambersons.
Gretchen Mol
as Hanna
A talented actress on stage and screen, Gretchen Mol is widely known for her role as Gillian Darmody in HBO's Martin Scorsese-produced award-winning series, Boardwalk Empire. Mol and her castmates received the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Drama Series in 2011 and 2012. They were subsequently nominated in the same category in 2013, 2014, and 2015.
Mol starred as the female lead opposite Jon Bernthal in Showtime's American Gigolo. Written and directed by David Hollander, the series is a present-day reimagining of the iconic 1980 film noir classic of the same name. She also starred in the drama, Palm Trees and Power Lines, directed by Jamie Dack.
Mol appeared in False Positive, alongside Ilana Glazer, Justin Theroux, Pierce Brosnan, and Sophia Bush. The film premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival and was subsequently released on Hulu.
She also appeared in the HBO's American period drama series, Perry Mason, and also in Season 2 of The Twilight Zone anthology series executive produced by Jordan Peele.
Mol made her film debut in Spike Lee's Girl 6 as Girl 12. Her additional previous film credits include: Manchester by the Sea (Best Picture Academy Award Nominee; Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Nominee), A Family Man, Anesthesia, True Story, Laggies, 3:10 to Yuma (Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Nominee), The Notorious Bettie Page, Rounders, The Shape of Things, Music From Another Room, Abel Ferrara's The Funeral The Last Time I Committed Suicide, The Thirteenth Floor, Celebrity, Forever Mine, The Ten, Trainwreck: My Life as an Idiot, Puccini for Beginners, Just Looking and An American Affair.
Mol's telefilm credits include Lifetime's Emmy-nominated The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Picnic, The Magnificent Ambersons, Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn, The Valley of Light and Dead Man's Walk.
Her television credits include: Nightflyers, Yellowstone, Seven Seconds, Chance, Mozart in the Jungle, Spin City, and Life on Mars.
Additionally, her theater credits include: Disgraced, Chicago, and Off-Broadway's The Shape of Things.
Mol currently resides with her family in Massachusetts.
Nathan Alexis
as Nick
Nathan Alexis is an actor/filmmaker from Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation, born and raised on Pahashna Road.
His father, Robin Alexis, pursued his dream and started his own production company in through his father, Nathan was introduced to filmmaking, editing, animation and music, at the young age of 8. It ignited his passion for creating.
His mother, Yvette Alexis, also encouraged his path to filmmaking by enrolling Nathan in various film programs. It connected him with the we needed to enhance his knowledge of the arts of filmmaking.
Nathan’s foray to acting started at the age of sixteen, and shortly after he landed his first feature film role as Angus in late Jeff Barnaby’s, Rhymes for Young Ghouls. The role inspired him to pursue his passion for acting, and he has had incredible opportunities because of it.
Since then, Nathan has been fortunate enough to be mentored by skillful, hard-working artists within the industry who have taught him invaluable lessons and expanded his knowledge of the film industry. His goal is to continue to build strong connections with the talented individuals in the industry, and to circle back to filmmaking/writing in the hopes of one day producing his own films.
Simon Webster
as Oskar
In a few short years, Simon Webster has firmly established his place in the entertainment industry.
He started by booking several commercials in quick succession, but it was not long before he landed roles on Most Dangerous Game, Strays, and the recurring role of Fred on Hallmark’s beloved series When Hope Calls.
He also is well known as the title voice of Lucas in the animated series Lucas the Spider, as well as the recurring guest voice of Pickles in the Disney series Superkitties.
Simon has gone on to appear in Syfy’s Chucky, and CBC’s Murdoch Mysteries. He currently portrays Ethan Matthews, part of the main cast of the MGM+ television series From, and will soon be seen as Oskar in the Quadrant Motion Pictures production The Invisibles.
Simon Webster is represented by Vanderwerff Talent and Thruline Entertainment.
Charlotte the dog
as Rufus the dog
Charlotte is a nine-year-old golden retriever with a love for adventure and a serious passion for chasing balls. She made her film debut in The Invisibles, instantly winning over the cast and crew with her friendly nature. Known for her love of people and boundless enthusiasm, Charlotte steals the spotlight both on set and at home, where everyone who meets her falls in love with her.
THE CAST
(in order of appearance)
|
ROLE |
ACTOR |
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Charlie Fisher |
Tim Blake Nelson |
|
Hanna Fisher |
Gretchen Mol |
|
Rufus the dog |
Charlotte the dog |
|
Leonard |
Vinson Tran |
|
Arwin |
Tal Gottfried |
|
Carol Sings |
Eileen Li |
|
Blaine |
Philip Van Martin |
|
Franny |
Juno Rinaldi |
|
Setsu |
Elina Miyake Jackson |
|
Mark |
Jean-Michel Le Gal |
|
Nick Cheechoo |
Nathan Alexis |
|
Eli |
Roger Dunn |
|
Grace |
Rachael Dolan |
|
Arthur |
Courtney Stevens |
|
Petra |
Golden Madison |
|
Denise |
Raven Dauda |
|
Carl Green |
Bruce Greenwood |
|
Jimmy |
Rob Ramsay |
|
Amy |
Laura De Carteret |
|
Wrestling Ref |
Mike Boccalon |
|
Jimmy's Mom |
Shannon McDonough |
|
Angela |
Tennille Read |
|
Oskar Fisher |
Simon Webster |
|
Kara |
Rachel Wilson |
|
Su |
Alison J. Palmer |
|
Man |
Nick Atef |