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Christian Camargo
Christian Camargo, 2008
Born	Christian Minnick (1971-07-07) July 7, 1971 (age 40) New York City, New York
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1996–present
Spouse	Juliet Rylance

Christian Camargo (born July 7, 1971) is an American actor, perhaps best known for his role of Brian Moser in the Showtime drama Dexter.

Early life and education[link]

Camargo was born Christian Minnick in New York City, New York, the son of former soap opera actress Victoria Wyndham and grandson of actor Ralph Camargo. He is a 1992 graduate of Hobart College.^[1] He was the Program Director of WEOS, the college's public radio station.

Camargo is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Drama (Group 25:^[2] 1992-1996). He went on to perform in the 1996 Broadway production of David Hare's Skylight^[3] with Michael Gambon (Theater World Award). From there, Camargo went to England to join the inaugural company of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on the Southbank. He met his future wife, English actress Juliet Rylance, there.

Name change[link]

Camargo's grandfather, Ralph Camargo, was a Mexican-American actor who talked his daughters into changing their names to something Anglicized because he felt he had lost roles due to being Latino.^[4] Camargo decided to change his name back from Minnick because of pride in his Mexican-American heritage and wanting to bring back a name that he felt was connected to his profession.^[3]

Career[link]

Camargo's New York theater work includes the Public Theater's Kit Marlowe, Steve Martin's Underpants at Classic Stage Company, and the title role of Theater For A New Audience's Coriolanus. In 2008 Camargo played opposite Dianne Wiest, John Lithgow and Katie Holmes in Arthur Miller's All My Sons on Broadway.

In early 2009 Camargo played the title role in the Theatre for a New Audience's production of Hamlet and garnered good reviews.^[5] He won an Obie award and Drama League nomination for his performance. The show ran until April 12, 2009.

Camargo portrayed the role of Orlando in The Bridge Project's presentation of Shakespeare's As You Like It in Brooklyn, New York. Since February 2010, he is playing Ariel in the company's rendition of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Both plays directed by British director Sam Mendes.

As of September 30, 2010, he has been cast as Eleazar of the Denali Coven in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Parts 1 and 2.^[6]

Other work[link]

He has also been the face of Fast Ashley's, a custom car company that specialized in customizing vintage and muscle cars for celebrities, models and millionaires. The MTV reality show Fast Inc. follows the behind the scenes dealings of Fast Ashley's. His role in National Treasure: Book of Secrets was John Wilkes Booth.

Personal life[link]

In November 2008, Camargo married actress Juliet Rylance.^[7]

Filmography[link]

• The Guiding Light (1998)
• Story of a Bad Boy (1999)
• Harlem Aria (1999)
• Plunkett & Macleane (1999)
• Picture This (1999)
• Double Bang (2001)
• Lip Service (2001)
• For the people (2002)
• Presidio Med (2002)
• K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
• CSI (2003)
• Without a Trace (2003)
• Boomtown (2003)
• Karen Sisco (2004)
• Wanted (2005)
• Ghost Whisperer (2005)
• Welcome to California (2005)
• Henry May Long (2006)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (2006)
• The Cry (2006)
• Find Love (2006)
• Dexter (2006–2007, 2011)
• National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
• The Hurt Locker (2009)
• Happy Tears (2009)
• The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1 (2011)
• The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 2 (2012)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Christian Camargo at the Internet Movie Database

Paul Becker is a Canadian actor, director, producer, and choreographer.^[1]

Career[link]

Becker choreographed the first season of the CW series Hellcats^[2], Sucker Punch, This Means War, Diary of a Wimpy Kid (film series) and Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 1 & 2.

He has also served as a judge and choreographer on So You Think You Can Dance in Canada. Becker choreographed Michael Buble's music video “Just Haven't Met You Yet” and the Jonas Brothers in the Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds tour.^[3] Commercial work includes Southwest, Honda, Walmart, Fanta, Buick and Pepsi.^{[citation needed]}

Film and TV choreography credits[link]

• Twilight Breaking Dawn pt 1
• This Means War 2012
• Sucker Punch (2011)
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2 (2011)
• Hellcats (2010)
• Cabin In the Woods (2010)
• Sorority Wars (2010)
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010)
• A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa (2009)
• Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins (2009)
• Reaper(2008)
• The L Word (2008)
• Case 39 (2009)
• 25/8 (2009)
• So You Think You Can Dance Canada (2008)
• Vancouver Auditions (Judge)
• Caprica (TV series) (2008)
• Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert -The Jonas Brothers choreographer
• The Goods, Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009)
• Aliens in America (2008)
• College Road Trip (2008)) -Associate Choreographer
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2008)
• American Music Awards(2007) -The Jonas Brothers choreographer
• Hot Rod (film)(2007)
• Are We Done Yet? (2007)
• Talk to Me (2007 film)
• Code Name: The Cleaner (2007)
• Eragon (film) (2006)
• Don Omar "King of Kings Concert (2006)
• Deck the Halls (2006)
• Totally Awesome (2006)
• The Wicker Man (2006 film)
• The Obsession (2006)
• RV (film) (2006)
• Are We There Yet?(2005
• Tru Calling (2005)

Acting appearances[link]

• Muppets "Letters To Santa" (2009)
• Caprica (2008)
• Aliens in America (2008)
• Totally Awesome (2006)
• The Music Man (2003)
• Dark Angel (2002)

Notable dance credits[link]

• Once Upon A Mattress (2005 film)
• The Music Man (2003 film)
• Chicago (2002 film)
• Josie and the Pussycats (film)(2001)
• Life or Something Like It(2001)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Paul Becker at the Internet Movie Database
• Hollywood.com

Sharlto Copley
Copley at the July 2009 San Diego Comic-Con International
Born	(1973-11-27) 27 November 1973 (age 38) South Africa
Occupation	Actor, producer, director
Years active	2005–present

Sharlto Copley (born 27 November 1973) is a South African producer, actor, and director who has produced and co-directed short films which have appeared at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as commercials and music videos. He is perhaps best known for playing the roles of Wikus van der Merwe in the Oscar-nominated science fiction film District 9^[1] and Howling Mad Murdock in the 2010 adaptation of The A-Team.

Personal life[link]

Copley was born in Pretoria and educated at St. Andrew's Preparatory School in Grahamstown and Redhill School in Morningside, Johannesburg.^[2] His brother Donovan is a the lead singer/songwriter of the South African band Hotwater, and his sister Marisa is a fashion designer. He resides alternately in Cape Town and Los Angeles.^[3]

Acting, producing, and directing career[link]

A year after leaving high school, Copley first met director Neill Blomkamp; Copley was 22 and Blomkamp was 16, and Copley provided Blomkamp with use of computers at his production company to assist the company with pitches for various projects and allow Blomkamp to further pursue his passion and talent for 3D animation and design.^[4]

Copley starred in Peter Jackson and Neill Blomkamp's District 9 where he plays the leading role of Wikus van der Merwe,^[5] an Afrikaner bureaucrat assigned to relocate a race of extraterrestrial creatures unexpectedly stranded on Earth, referred to as "prawns", from District 9, a military-guarded slum in Johannesburg, South Africa, to an internment camp outside the city. He improvised all of his dialogue in the film.^[6]

In 2009, Copley won the Favorite Hero award at the IGN Summer Movie awards^[7] and Best Performance of 2009^[8] for his role in District 9.

In 2010, Copley produced, wrote and directed an insert for the South African Music Awards called "Wikus and Charlize", featuring fellow South African star Charlize Theron. The clip features Copley as Wikus attempting to track down Charlize in Hollywood to help him present the Award for Best Afrikaans Pop album.^[9]

Copley then starred alongside Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper and Quinton "Rampage" Jackson in the feature film adaptation of The A-Team,^[10] which was produced by Ridley Scott and Tony Scott. Copley starred as H. M. Murdock (originally played by Dwight Schultz in the TV series) and adopted a Southern American accent for the role. He also imitated other accents, including Scottish, English, Australian, and his native South African. Schultz praised Copley's performance and stated that Copley was the only actor true to his character.^[11]

Copley guest co-hosted WWE Raw on 7 June 2010, along with his A-Team co-stars Bradley Cooper and Quinton Jackson.

Copley will star in Elysium,^[12] along with Matt Damon and Jodie Foster an upcoming science-fiction film written and directed by Neill Blomkamp. Despite similarities with District 9, Blomkamp has confirmed it will not be a sequel.^[13] Copley was cast in Men in Black 3 as "a fast-talking Yoda type alien".^[14] He later left the project.

His next film is The Europa Report - the story of a crew of international astronauts who are sent on a private mission to Jupiter's fourth moon.

Copley will star as villain, Adrian Pryce, in Spike Lee's remake of 2003 South Korean film Oldboy^[15]

Filmography[link]

Film[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Sharlto Copley at the Internet Movie Database

Michael Nyqvist
Nyqvist in Stockholm, November 2009
Born	(1960-11-08) 8 November 1960 (age 51) Stockholm, Sweden
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1987–present
Spouse	Catharina Ehrnrooth

Rolf Åke Michael Nyqvist (born 8 November 1960) is a Swedish actor. Educated at the School of Drama in Malmö, he became well known from his role as police officer Banck in the first series of Beck movies made in 1997. He is recently most recognized for his role in the internationally acclaimed Millennium series as Mikael Blomkvist.

Early life[link]

Nyqvist was born in Stockholm, to a Swedish mother and an Italian father (from Florence).^[1][2] As a baby, he was adopted from an orphanage. At seventeen, he spent a year as an exchange student in the United States in Omaha, Nebraska. He took his first acting classes there, as a senior in high school playing, amongst other things, a small part in the drama Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. When he returned to Sweden, he was accepted at ballet school, but after one year gave it up. An ex-girlfriend suggested he try theatre instead and at 24 he was accepted to the Malmö Theatre Academy. After graduating, Nyqvist worked mainly in theatre but also landed smaller parts in several different film productions.

Career[link]

Nyqvist's first big breakthrough came in 2000 with the film Together directed by Lukas Moodysson. The movie was set in the 1970s and followed the antics of life in a suburban commune in Stockholm. The movie reached great international success and earned Nyqvist his first Guldbagge Best Actor nomination for his role as a misguided husband with anger issues. He later played the leading man in the Swedish romantic comedy, The Guy in the Grave Next Door directed by Kjell Sundvall. The film is based on the novel of the same name written by Katarina Mazetti. The film explored the difficulties that arise between a farmer living in the country and a city girl librarian highlighting working class and upper-middle class differences. Nyqvist won a Guldbagge Best Actor award for his role as the farmer, Benny.

In 2004, he played the lead role as Daniel Daréus, a conductor and musician, in the Academy Award nominated Best Foreign Film As It Is in Heaven, directed by Kay Pollak. As It Is in Heaven is one of the most watched Swedish films and the role highlighted Nyqvist's ability to display tenderness and vulnerability at the same time as rage and angst. In 2006, he starred in Suddenly directed by Johan Brisinger. In Suddenly, Nyqvist plays Lasse – a man who must come to terms with the sudden loss of his wife and son. In 2007, Nyqvist portrayed Swedish ambassador Harald Edelstam, in The Black Pimpernel, a hero who saved several lives from execution in Chile during and after the military coupe in September 1973.

He has garnered recent international attention starring as Mikael Blomkvist in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish title: Män som hatar kvinnor), The Girl Who Played With Fire (Swedish title: Flickan som lekte med elden) and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (Swedish title: Luftslottet som sprängdes) of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy. Although Nyqvist always was high on the list of potential actors to portray Blomkvist, it was his charisma that got him the role. Director of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Niels Arden Oplev found what he was looking for in Nyqvist – someone with the right looks, charm and likeability.

He starred in Abduction (2011), directed by John Singleton,^[3][4] He is also part of the permanent ensemble at the Royal Dramatic Theatre. Nyqvist appeared in the 2011 action thriller Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, the fourth film of the series, and directed by Brad Bird.^[5] In the film, Nyqvist portrayed a madman code-named 'Cobalt', who wants to instigate a global war between Russia and the United States that he believes will restore ecological balance to the planet.^[6]

Personal life[link]

Nyqvist has described his childhood and quest to find his biological parents, subsequently in his adult life, in his autobiographical novel, Just After Dreaming (Swedish title: När barnet lagt sig). He is married and has two children.^{[citation needed]}

Awards[link]

• Best Male Actor at the Guldbagge, the Swedish Oscar 2002
• Filmstar of the year 2002 and 2004 by Aftonbladet, a Swedish newspaper
• Best Male Actor 2003 by Nöjesguiden
• Price winner The Golden Sun, 2004
• Best Actor in the International Film Festival in Gijon 2003
• As It Is in Heaven was nominated as Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards in 2004
• Best Male Actor in the International Film Festival in Minsk 2006
• Won the Audience Price at the Gulbagge Gala 2006

Filmography[link]