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Theo James (born Theo Taptiklis.; 16 December 1984) is an English actor, known for portraying Jed Harper in Bedlam and Kemal Pamuk in Downton Abbey. In 2012 he recently appeared with Kate Beckinsale in the fourth installment of Underworld: Awakening.
James was born in Oxford. He has a degree in philosophy from the University of Nottingham, and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Outside his acting career, James is a singer and guitarist with the London-based band Shere Khan.
James made his television debut in A Passionate Woman, starring opposite Billie Piper. He played Turkish diplomat Kemal Pamuk in one episode of Downton Abbey. James starred in Bedlam, playing the lead role of Jed Harper. He will appear in the forthcoming adaptation of John Braine's Room at the Top, playing Jack Wales.
His film credits include You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Red Tails and The Domino Effect. James was cast in You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger and Red Tails while still in his final year at drama school. His most notable role is of James, an obnoxious night club rep in The Inbetweeners Movie.
Divergent is the debut novel of Chicago, United States (US)-based author, Veronica Roth, and is the first installment in a trilogy that Roth commenced while studying at college. Set within a fictional dystopian world, the novel has received comparisons with the The Hunger Games trilogy in media articles, with both works featured in the "Young Adult (YA)" fiction category. Since the publication of the novel, Roth has explained that its premise was originally conceived while driving her car to Minnesota, US, as a first-year college student.
As of May 2012, film production company Summit Entertainment is in the process of producing the movie adaptation of Divergent and the second novel in the trilogy, Insurgent, was released in May 2012.
In a dystopian Chicago, 16-year-old Beatrice "Tris" Prior has always felt different from the rest of her family. She was raised in the Abnegation faction, where she was trained to be selfless. There are five different factions in the city:
1. Candor (the honest) 2. Erudite (the intelligent) 3. Amity (the peaceful) 4. Dauntless (the brave) 5. Abnegation (the selfless)
Shailene Diann Woodley (born November 15, 1991) is an American actress. Woodley is known for portraying Amy Juergens in the ABC Family series The Secret Life of the American Teenager and for co-starring alongside George Clooney in the critically acclaimed 2011 film The Descendants. For her performance in The Descendants she won an Independent Spirit Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe.
Woodley was born in Simi Valley, California. Her mother, Lori (née Victor), is a middle school counselor, and her father, Lonnie Woodley, is a school principal. She has a younger brother, Tanner. When she was 15 and a freshman, her parents divorced and she was also diagnosed with scoliosis. She was put in a chest-to-hips plastic brace to straighten her spine.
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