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DANIEL KALUUYA
British actor Daniel Kaluuya (Chris) will next star opposite Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Forest Whitaker and Lupita Nyong’o in Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War spinoff, Black Panther.
In 2015, he appeared in Denis Villeneuve’s drug-war thriller Sicario for Lionsgate, which also starred Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin.
Kaluuya came to prominence when portraying wannabe gangster Posh Kenneth on the British teen drama Skins, the BAFTA Award-winning show for which he was also a member of the writing team.
Other film credits include Kick-Ass 2, Eran Creevy’s Welcome to the Punch and Working Title’s Johnny English Reborn opposite Rowan Atkinson.
He is a celebrated stage actor having won the 2010 Evening Standard Theatre Editor’s Award for Shooting Star and the 2010 Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer for his performance as a boxer in the play Sucker Punch at the Royal Court Theatre in London. Kaluuya’s theater credits include Trelawny of the Wells at the Donmar Warehouse and A Season in the Congo opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor at the Young Vic.
On television, he will next be seen starring in Danny Boyle’s satirical police miniseries Babylon for Channel 4. Other notable television credits include Black Mirror also for Channel 4 and Jack Thorne’s The Fades and Psychoville for the BBC.
He was born in London, England, and was cited as one of BAFTA’s 2011 Brits to Watch.
CATHERINE KEENER
Two-time Academy Award nominee (Capote, Being John Malkovich) Catherine Keener (Missy) continues to be a dominant force on screen appearing next in Sony Pictures’ highly anticipated crime-drama November Criminals, directed by Sacha Gervasi opposite Chloë Grace Moretz and Ansel Elgort. 2017 will mark Keener’s directorial debut with Friend of Bill for Gloria Sanchez Productions which stars Lizzy Caplan. She will also be seen opposite Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro in Black Label Media’s Sicario sequel Soldado, written by Taylor Sheridan and directed by Stefano Sollima.
In 2015, Keener was seen in Paul Haggis’ six-part HBO miniseries Show Me a Hero, which also starred Oscar Isaac and was written by David Simon. In 2013, she was seen in longtime collaborator and acclaimed director Nicole Holofcener’s Enough Said, alongside Julia Louis-Dreyfus and the late James Gandolfini. That same year, Keener voiced the role of Ugga in the animated hit The Croods for DreamWorks Animation (with a sequel set for release in 2018), and in John Carney’s Begin Again, which also starred Mark Ruffalo and Keira Knightley.
