Jeremy Theobald is a British actor best known for his portrayal of Bill (credited as "The Young Man"), the main character in Christopher Nolan's major picture debut, Following (1998). Following, for which Theobald was also a producer, was filmed around their day jobs. Jonathan Romney, writing in the New Statesman, noted that "Nolan and his cast are terrific finds: I wouldn't normally say this to struggling artists, but they might want to give up their day jobs." Theobald also appeared in Larceny, a short film shot by Nolan while in the UCLU Film Society, and Doodlebug, another short film by Nolan. Nolan went on to direct Memento, the Hollywood version of Insomnia, Academy Award Nominee for Best Picture Inception, and Batman Begins, in which Theobald had a walk-on part as the "Younger Gotham Water Board Technician". As with many British actors, he has also had a part in an episode of ITV's The Bill.

Theobald has a degree in Physiology from UCL, and was a Managing Editor of the Journal of Pathology with the publisher Wiley. He is now Executive Editor of the Forum for Global Health Protection, a not-for-profit company sponsored by the Health Protection Agency. He has an interest in publication ethics, and he is currently the Treasurer of the Committee on Publication Ethics, a London-based organisation of biomedical journals.

Christopher Jonathan James Nolan (/ˈnoʊlən/; born 30 July 1970), also known as Chris Nolan is a British/Americanfilm director, screenwriter and producer.

He received serious notice after his second feature Memento (2000), which he wrote and directed based on a story idea by his brother, Jonathan Nolan. Jonathan went to co-write later scripts with him, including the Batman series and The Prestige. He also first collaborated with Wally Pfister, who would photograph all his subsequent films. After directing Insomnia (2002), Nolan pitched an idea for a reboot of the Batman film franchise to Warner Bros., eventually making a successful trilogy consisting of Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012).

Inception (2010) was an original screenplay by Nolan, a heist film set in the world of "shared dreaming." Nolan co-founded Syncopy Films with his wife, Emma Thomas, and they have produced all his films since The Prestige (2006).

Nolan has also worked with screenwriter David S. Goyer, film editor Lee Smith, composers David Julyan and Hans Zimmer, special effects coordinator Chris Corbould, and actors Christian Bale, Cillian Murphy, Jeremy Theobald, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe, and Michael Caine.

Devendra Obi Banhart (born May 30, 1981) is a singer-songwriter and visual artist. Banhart was born in Houston, Texas and was raised by his mother in Venezuela, until he moved to California as a teenager. He began to study at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1998, but dropped out to perform music in Europe, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Banhart released his debut album in 2002, continuing to record his material on the Young God and XL labels, as well as other work on compilations and collaborations.

Banhart was born May 30, 1981 in Houston, Texas to a Venezuelan mother and an American father. His given name is a synonym for Indra, the Hindu god of rain and thunder, which was suggested by Prem Rawat, an Indian religious leader whom Banhart's parents followed. Banhart's middle name Obi was modeled after the Star Wars character. Banhart's parents divorced two years after his birth and he moved with his mother to Caracas, Venezuela. His mother later remarried and Banhart's stepfather moved the family to Los Angeles, California, when Banhart was 14 years old.

Travis Fulton (born May 29, 1977) is an American mixed martial artist and a professional boxer in the heavyweight division. He has notched up over 300 vale tudo and mixed martial arts fights since 1996 and over 30 boxing matches since 1999.

Fulton attended Cedar Falls High School, where he was an Iowa State wrestling competitor. He was also a Golden Gloves boxer and a second-degree black belt in American Kenpo. At the age of 18, Fulton took up submission fighting, making his MMA debut a year later against Dave Strasser. He later trained with Miletich Fighting Systems.

Fulton is a busy fighter, racking up over 300 fights in just over 15 years. He debuted on July 26, 1996 against Dave Strasser, losing by submission via a rear naked choke. Within just over two years of his debut, he had fought 50 Vale Tudo fights including five fights across two tournaments in one month in September 1997, compiling a record of 37-11-2 in that span (although his official record-chart posted below does not reflect this statistic). He won the World Vale Tudo Championship for heavyweights at a tournament in Brazil in 1998.