Harald Zwart
Born	(1965-07-01) July 1, 1965 (age 46) Netherlands
Nationality	Norwegian
Occupation	Film director

Harald Zwart (born July 1, 1965) is a Norwegian film director.^[1]

Although born in the Netherlands, Zwart was raised in Fredrikstad in Norway. As early as age eight, he started making short films. He attended the Dutch Film Academy in Amsterdam where he received great acclaim for his student film Gabriel's Surprise. The film was later televised.

In addition to several award-winning short films, music videos and commercials, he has directed the films Agent Cody Banks, One Night at McCool's, Hamilton and Lange Flate Ballær 2. He is also the co-director and producer of the first Long Flat Balls, a Norwegian film about soccer fans from the city of Fredrikstad, Norway. This movie, often described as "The Full Monty" with more laughs, became a huge hit in Norway. Zwart's largest grossing film to date is The Karate Kid starring Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan.

Harald Zwart has directed music videos for the Norwegian band a-ha, for the songs Velvet and Forever Not Yours.

He is attached as executive producer and possibly director to a Sony Pictures Animation's live-action/CG feature film based on the video game RollerCoaster Tycoon,^[2] and as a director to Universal Pictures' Bakugan, a feature film based on the strategic game and anime series Bakugan Battle Brawlers.^[3]

His trademark is that he always adds props and items that represent Fredrikstad and the football club Fredrikstad F.K. in his movies.

Filmography[link]

• Hamilton (1998)
• One Night at McCool's (2001)
• Agent Cody Banks (2003)
• Lange flate ballær (2006)
• Lange flate ballær 2 (2008)
• The Pink Panther 2 (2009)
• The Karate Kid (2010)
• The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (TBA)^[4]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Harald Zwart at the Internet Movie Database

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Cassandra Clare (born July 27, 1973) is an American author who has written the bestselling^[1] young adult saga The Mortal Instruments.^[1]

Personal life[link]

Cassandra Clare was born to American parents in Tehran (Iran). As a child Clare traveled frequently, spending time in Switzerland, England, and France. Clare returned to Los Angeles for high school (Windward School), and from then on split her time between California and New York, where she worked at various entertainment magazines and tabloids including The Hollywood Reporter.^[2]

She is also friends with author Holly Black, and their books occasionally overlap, Clare mentioning characters from Black's novels and vice versa, such as Val and Luis from Black's Valiant.^[3]

[edit] The Mortal Instruments series

In 2004, Clare started working on her first-published novel City of Bones, inspired by the urban landscape of Manhattan. City of Bones was released by Simon & Schuster in 2007.

City of Bones, a contemporary fantasy story revolving around characters Clary Fray, Jace Wayland, and Simon Lewis became a New York Times bestseller upon its release. City of Ashes and City of Glass completed the trilogy. In 2009, a fourth installment, City of Fallen Angels, was announced. It was recently published April 5, 2011.^[4]

Clare has stated that City of Fallen Angels is actually the start of a second Mortal Instruments cycle, which will include two other books named City of Lost Souls and City of Heavenly Fire. She said this new cycle is going to be centered on the same characters as in the first cycle, as well as a few new characters we will meet in the new books.^[5]

In 2009 Clare also announced a new series of prequels called The Infernal Devices set in the same universe as The Mortal Instruments, but in the Victorian era. This series is planned to consist of three books: The Clockwork Angel, published on August 31, 2010, The Clockwork Prince, published on December 6, 2011, and The Clockwork Princess, slated for release in November 2012.^[6]

The Mortal Instruments series has been optioned for film by Unique Features and Constantin Film.^[7] First-time writer Jessica Postigo has been hired to write the screenplay,^[8] based on the first book in the series.^[9] Also, Lily Collins has been cast as the lead role of Clary Fray, and Sweeney Todd actor Jamie Campbell Bower has been cast opposite her as Jace Wayland.

Awards[link]

City of Bones[link]

• 2010 Georgia Peach Book Awards for Teen Readers ^[10]
• Finalist for the Locus Award for Best First Novel of 2007
• An American Library Association Teens Top Ten Award winner, 2008^[11]
• 2010 Georgia Peach Book Awards for Teen Readers ^[10]
• Winner of The 2010 Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award^[12]
• Winner of the 2010 Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader’s Choice Award^[13]
• A Texas TAYSHAS title 2010^[14]
• Shortlisted for the 2010 Evergreen Young Adult Book Award^[15]
• Shortlisted for The 2010 Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award^[16]
• Shortlisted for The North Carolina School Library Media Association Young Adult Book Award^[17]
• Grand Canyon Reader Award Nominee (Teen) 2010^[18]
• Iowa High School Book Award Nominee 2009-2010^[19]
• North Carolina YA Book Award Nominee 2009-2010^[20]
• New Hampshire Flume Teen Reader’s Choice Award Nominee, 2010^[21]
• Nevada Young Readers’ Award Nominee 2010^[22]
• Ohio Buckeye Teen Book Award Nominee, 2009^[23]
• Oregon Young Adult Network Book Rave Reading List Title 2008^[24]
• South Carolina Young Adult Book Award Nominee 2009-2010^[25]
• Shortlisted for the Coventry Inspiration Book Awards^[26]

City of Ashes[link]

• A 2009 ALA Teens Top Ten Title^[27]

Bibliography[link]

The Mortal Instruments Series[link]

• City of Bones (2007)
• City of Ashes (2008)
• City of Glass (2009)
• City of Fallen Angels (2011)
• City of Lost Souls (released 8 May, 2012)^[28]
• City of Heavenly Fire (scheduled March, 2014)^[28]

City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls and City of Heavenly Fire were originally a sequel trilogy of The Mortal Instruments.

The Infernal Devices Trilogy[link]

• Clockwork Angel (August 31, 2010)
• Clockwork Prince (December 6, 2011)
• Clockwork Princess (scheduled March 19 2013)

The Dark Artifices Trilogy[link]

• Lady Midnight (2015)
• Untitled second book (unknown)
• Untitled third book (unknown)

Short fiction[link]

• "The Girl's Guide to Defeating the Dark Lord", Turn the Other Chick, ed. Esther Friesner, Baen Books (2005)
• "Charming", So Fey, ed. Steve Berman, Haworth Press (2007)
• "Graffiti", Magic in the Mirrorstone, ed. Steve Berman, Mirrorstone Books (2008)
• "Other Boys", The Eternal Kiss, ed. Trisha Telep, Running Press (2009)
• "The Mirror House", Vacations from Hell, ed. Farrin Jacobs, HarperCollins (2009)
• "I Never", Geektastic, ed. Holly Black and Cecil Castelucci, Little, Brown (2009)
• "Cold Hands", ZVU: Zombies Versus Unicorns, ed. Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier, Simon and Schuster (2010)

Fan fiction[link]

• The Draco Trilogy (Harry Potter)^[29]
• The Very Secret Diaries (The Lord of the Rings)^[30]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Author's website
• Author's livejournal
• Interview with Cassandra Clare

• Cassandra Clare at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Lily Jane Collins (born 18 March 1989)^[1] is a British and American actress, model, and television personality.

Early life[link]

Collins was born in Guildford, Surrey, England, and is the daughter of English musician Phil Collins and his second wife Jill Tavelman. Her mother is American, and is the president of the Beverly Hills' Women's Club.^[3] Collins is the half-sister of actress Joely Collins and musician Simon Collins (from her father's first marriage), and also has two half-brothers from her father's third marriage, Nicholas and Matthew Collins. Her maternal grandfather was a Canadian Jewish immigrant who owned a famous clothing store in Los Angeles.^[4][5]

Collins moved from England to Los Angeles when she was five years old, and her parents divorced. She graduated from Harvard-Westlake School and is currently a student at the University of Southern California with a major in broadcast journalism.^[6]

Career[link]

Collins started acting at the age of two in the BBC series Growing Pains.^[7]

As a teenager, Collins wrote a column (titled NY Confidential) for the British magazine Elle Girl.^[8] She has also written for Seventeen,^[9] Teen Vogue,^[10] and the Los Angeles Times magazines.^[11]

She was chosen by Chanel to wear one of its gowns at the 2007 Bal des Débutantes (a charity ball) at the Hôtel de Crillon in Paris, which was featured on season 3 of the reality TV show The Hills.^[8][12] She was picked by Spain's Glamour magazine in 2008 as their "International model of the year"^[13] and appeared on the magazine's cover in August 2009.

Collins covered the 2008 US Presidential campaign as a host on the Nickelodeon show Kids Pick the President.^[11][14] She won a 2008 Young Hollywood Award for "Newest Red Carpet Correspondent".^[15] She has appeared in two episodes of the television show 90210, including the 2008–2009 season finale. Collins was one of twenty women named by Maxim magazine as one of "The Hottest Daughters of Rock Stars" in 2009.^[16]

Collins was in the 2009 film The Blind Side as Collins Tuohy, the daughter of Sandra Bullock's character Leigh Anne Tuohy. She played the warrior priest's daughter Lucy in the thriller Priest, opposite Paul Bettany.^[17][18]

MTV Networks' NextMovie.com named her one of the "Breakout Stars to Watch for in 2011".^[19] She co-starred in the 2011 action film Abduction with Taylor Lautner. Collins played Snow White in Mirror Mirror, an adaptation of the Snow White fairytale, co-starring Julia Roberts.^[20] Robbie Collin from British newspaper The Telegraph wrote, "She has an adorable, sensational, almost perfect face for cinema; think Audrey Hepburn with the eyebrows of Liam Gallagher. Her smile is the Platonic ideal of cheeky."^[21] She made her singing debut in the film, performing an English re-written cover of "I Believe in Love".

Collins was reportedly to be the lead in a remake of The Evil Dead with a release date of April 2013, but dropped out due to a scheduling issue.^[22][23] In March 2012 it was announced that Collins would take the role of Samantha in Writers, starring alongside Jennifer Connelly, Logan Lerman, and Greg Kinnear.^[24] Collins is set to star in the first film adaptation of the New York Times bestselling "The Mortal Instruments" novels by Cassandra Clare, playing Clary Fray.^[25]

Filmography[link]

Awards and nominations[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Lily Collins at the Internet Movie Database

Jamie Campbell Bower
Bower at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con International
Born	James Campbell M. Bower[1] (1988-11-22) 22 November 1988 (age 23) London, England
Occupation	Actor, singer, model
Years active	2007–present
Partner	Bonnie Wright (2010–present)[2]

James "Jamie" Campbell M. Bower (born 22 November 1988) is an English actor, singer and former model. Bower is best known for his role as Anthony Hope in Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, his role as Caius in The Twilight Saga: New Moon, his role as King Arthur in the Starz original series Camelot and as the young Gellert Grindelwald in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1.

Early life[link]

Bower was born in London, England.^[3] His mother, Anne Elizabeth (née Roseberry), is a music manager, and his father, David Bower, works for the Gibson Guitar Corporation.^[4] His maternal 4th great-grandfather was Sir John Campbell, of Airds, Lieutenant Governor of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.^[5] He attended Bedales, and is a former member of the National Youth Music Theatre^[3] and the National Youth Theatre. He began his professional career when friend Laura Michelle Kelly, who also appears in Sweeney Todd, recommended him to her agent. In addition to acting, he is also the lead singer in the band The Darling Buds.^[6] Bower was a part-time model with Select Model Management in London.^[3]

Career[link]

He played Rocker in the film RocknRolla and Jack in Winter in Wartime (Oorlogswinter).^[6]

Campbell Bower starred in the 2009 remake of the series The Prisoner as Number 11-12.^[7] Also in 2009, he played Volturi member Caius in the film New Moon and both Twilight: Breaking Dawn films, alongside Michael Sheen.^[8] He appeared as the younger Gellert Grindelwald, the dark wizard defeated by Albus Dumbledore, in the 2010 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1.

He played King Arthur in the 2011 television series of Camelot.^[9]

In 2012 he appeared in the music video of Never Let Me Go (Florence and the Machine song) by Florence + The Machine.

He is set to play Jace Wayland in City of Bones, the film adaption of The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare. ^[10]

Personal life[link]

In February 2010, Bower was confirmed to be dating fellow Harry Potter actress Bonnie Wright. In April 2011, they confirmed their engagement.^[11]

Filmography[link]

Awards and nominations[link]