Rizwan Ahmed (born 1 December 1982 in Wembley, London), also known as Riz Ahmed, the Rizmeister General, the Rizmadizzle, or Riz MC, is a British MC, musician and actor. He is noted for his lead performances in The Road to Guantanamo, Shifty, Britz, and Four Lions.

Ahmed is a British Pakistani. Ahmed's parents belonged to Karachi in Sindh, Pakistan, before emigrating to the United Kingdom.

Ahmed attended Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood through a scholarship programme. He graduated from Christ Church, Oxford with a degree in PPE and studied acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Ahmed's film career began in the Michael Winterbottom film The Road to Guantanamo in which he played the part of Shafiq Rasul, a member of the Tipton Three. Coincidentally, he and another actor involved in the film as well as two of the Tipton Three were detained at Luton Airport upon their return from the Berlin Film Festival where the film won a Silver Bear Award. Across his years as an actor he has also featured in various TV roles. He has played Sohail Waheed in the 2007 Channel 4 drama, Britz. 2008 saw him perform as both Riq in the five-part horror thriller for E4, Dead Set and Manesh Kunzru in ITV1's finance fraud drama Wired. In July 2009 in appeared in Freefall alongside Sarah Harding. Most notably, he featured in the title role of the 2009 independent film Shifty by Eran Creevy. Ahmed plays the charismatic young drug dealer in the film which sees a life in the day of this character. He was nominated for Best Actor at the 2008 British Independent Film Awards for this role, alongside Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson.

Mishal Husain (Urdu: مشعل حسین) (sometimes spelt Mishal Hussein) (born 1973 in Northampton, England) is a British television news presenter for the BBC's international news channel, BBC World News, presenting Impact between 1400 and 1600 GMT every Monday to Thursday as well as presenting the Sunday evening editions of the BBC Weekend News on BBC One. She was previously a presenter on the BBC News talk show HARDtalk Extra and on BBC Breakfast. She is also a relief presenter on the BBC News at Six and the BBC News at Ten, and occasionally presents Newsnight.

Mishal Husain is of Pakistani origin. Her grandfather, Syed Shahid Hamid, was an army officer serving in the Indian Army prior to the 1947 Partition, as a private Military Secretary of Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck. In the wake of India’s independence, led by Mohandas Gandhi, Husain’s grandfather and family “didn’t feel that he (Gandhi) represented them.” Husain herself has explained the matter in the following way:

S. Shahid Hamid wrote a book called Disastrous Twilight about early days of independent India:

Kate Garry Hudson (born April 19, 1979) is an American actress. She came to prominence in 2001 after winning a Golden Globe and receiving several nominations, including a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, for her role in Almost Famous. She then starred in the hit film How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) which gained her wider fame. She has since established herself in Hollywood after starring in several productions including Raising Helen (2004), The Skeleton Key (2005), You, Me and Dupree (2006), Fool's Gold (2008) and Bride Wars (2009).

Hudson was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Academy Award-winning actress Goldie Hawn and Bill Hudson, an actor, comedian, and musician. Her parents divorced eighteen months after her birth; she and her brother, actor Oliver Hudson, were raised in Colorado by her mother and her mother's long-time boyfriend, actor Kurt Russell.

Hudson has stated that her biological father "doesn't know me from a hole in the wall", and that she considers Russell to be her father. Her biological father has indicated that he has made several efforts to connect with Kate and Oliver, but neither has reciprocated. Hudson has described her mother as "the woman that I've learned the most from, and who I look up to, who has conducted her life in a way that I can look up to". She has four half-siblings: Emily and Zachary Hudson, from her biological father's subsequent marriage to actress Cindy Williams; Lalania Hudson, from his relationship with another woman; and Wyatt, from her mother's relationship with Russell.

Georgina Leonidas (born February 28, 1990) is a British actress known for playing Miss Molly in The Basil Brush Show and Katie Bell in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. She returned as Katie Bell in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2.

In her earlier years, Georgina attended Preston Park Primary School in Wembley, London. Later on she attended St. Gregory's Catholic Science College in Kenton^{[citation needed]}

Her brother Shane (who is now known as Dimitri) and older sister Stephanie are also actors; she has another sister called Helen who works as a teacher.^{[citation needed]}

She appears in every episode of The Basil Brush Show series 1-4, then appears at different times from series 5 onwards. In 1999, she was on stage in London as Little Cosette in Les Misérables. She also guest starred on BBC TV series Holby City in early 2007, as Ali Jarvis in the episode "Stargazer" and in the episode "New Tricks" on 30 July 2009.^{[citation needed]}

On December 19, 2007 she was cast for the film Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, as Katie Bell, Harry's fellow Gryffindor Quidditch player. She starred in the leading role of Maya in the short film Baghdad Express in 2008, and appeared alongside fellow Harry Potter star Isabella Laughland in the short film Driftwood in 2009.

Mira Nair (born October 15, 1957) is an Indian film director and producer based in New York. Her production company is Mirabai Films.

She was educated at Delhi University and Harvard University. Her debut feature film, Salaam Bombay! (1988), won the Golden Camera award at the Cannes Film Festival and also earned the nomination for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. She used the proceeds of the film, to establish an organization for street children, called the Salaam Baalak Trust in India. She often works with longtime creative collaborator, screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala, whom she met at Harvard.

She has won a number of awards, including a National Film Award and various international film festival awards, and was a nominee at the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, BAFTA Awards and Filmfare Awards. She was also awarded the India Abroad Person of the Year-2007, which was presented by Indra Nooyi, Chairperson and CEO, PepsiCo, Inc, and India Abroad Person of the Year-2006. In 2012 she was awarded India's third highest civilian award the Padma Bhushan by President of India, Pratibha Patil.