Favorite actors

Kodi Smit-McPhee started acting at the age of 9. He dropped out of high school in his first year to pursue acting and currently resides in Los Angeles as does his father Andy McPhee and sister Sianoa Smit-McPhee, who are also actors.

He made his feature film debut alongside Eric Bana in 2007's "Romulus, My Father," which earned him the Young Actor's Award by the Australian Film Institute.

2009's "The Road", alongside Viggo Mortensen, earned him nominations for AFI's Best Actor Award and Broadcast Film Critics Asssociation Awards' Best Young Actor Award.

Smit-McPhee then went on to star in 2010's "Let Me In", which earned him a Best Young Actor nomination by the Critics Choice Awards.

2014's "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" featured Smit-McPhee opposite Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, and Keri Russell. "Apes" reunited him with director Matt Reeves, who he previously worked with on "Let Me in" opposite Chloe Moretz. The film grossed over $700MM worldwide.

The 2014 film "Young Ones" (dir: Jake Paltrow) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and co-starred Michael Shannon, Nicholas Hoult and Elle Fanning.

Smit-McPhee premiered 2015's "Slow West" (dir. John MacLean) at the Sundance Film Festival, in which he stars opposite Michael Fassbender and Ben Mendelsohn. The film received the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize.

In 2016, Smit-McPhee portrayed the role of Nightcrawler in "X-Men: Apocalypse" and will reprise his role in "X-Men: Dark Phoenix" (2019).

Smit-McPhee next stars alongside Peter Sarsgaard in the CBS All Access series "Interrogation", which features non-linear true-crime storylines. He also will star in the Netflix film "Dolemite is My Name" out later this year.

An accomplished Television, Film, Stage, and Voice actor, Ramón was raised just outside of Washington, DC, in Virginia. He graduated with a BFA in Acting from the prestigious Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama, in Pittsburgh.

Ramón is best known for his Television work, especially for his recurring roles on Notorious, Guidance, 12 Monkeys, The West Wing, Medium, Killer Instinct, Sons of Anarchy, Dynasty, and MacGyver; As well as many memorable guest starring roles.

Ramón began his acting career in New York City theater. Since then he has played leading roles around the country and the world including such great houses as the Kennedy Center Opera House, the Public Theater (NY), Shakespeare in the Park, the Kirk Douglas, South Coast Rep, La Jolla, Yale Rep, Signature, Lincoln Center, Ma-Yi, the Bucharest Odeon, the Cultural Center of the Philippines, The Mall of the Emirates Theater in Dubai, and the Antaeus Theatre Company (where he is a proud member).

Recently he won an LA Stage Raw Award (Best Actor), an LA Scenies Award (Best Actor), and a Stage Bites LA Award (Best Actor) for his portrayal of Hamlet (at the Antaeus Theatre Co). He is the winner of a prestigious OBIE award for his performance in "The Romance of Magno Rubio" (Ma-Yi, NY); A Princess Grace Foundation Award; Two Stage Scene LA Awards: Best Supporting Actor, Mendoza, "the Malcontent"; and Dramatic Performance of the Year, Oedipus (Antaeus); And was nominated by Broadway.com for Best Leading Actor in a Play, "Oedipus", among many other awards and accolades.

Ramon is a very well known actor in the audiobook industry, having narrated more than 350 books (as of this writing), and recently being named a "Golden Voice Narrator", a lifetime achievement award. His titles include the best selling "This is Where I Leave You" by Jonathan Tropper; The Fantasy phenomenon "World of Warcraft"; Best seller and award winner "Red, White, and Royal Blue" (for which he was nominated for an Audie Award), and he is the voice of the more than a decade long best selling "Diary of A Wimpy Kid" middle school series. His audiobook work has garnered many awards including multiple Earphone Awards from Audiofile Magazine, including "Best Voice" two years in a row, and a prestigious Audie Award, the highest yearly honor in the industry (the audiobook equivalent of an Oscar.)

As a philanthropist, Ramón is a member of "Charitable Living", an organization that volunteers and raises money for multiple charities year round. He is also a teaching artist- specializing in teaching Shakespeare at juvenile detention centers.

Christian Michael Leonard Slater was born on August 18, 1969 in New York City, to Michael Hawkins, a well-known soap actor, and Mary Jo Slater (née Lawton), a casting agent. Christian started in show business early, appearing on the soap opera The Edge of Night (1956) in 1976 at the age of 7. He went on to star in many Broadway shows in the early-1980s. He rose to fame in Hollywood after landing the role of Binx Davey in The Legend of Billie Jean (1985). He moved to Los Angeles in 1987 to pursue a further acting career after dropping out of high school. After having a starring role in the cult classic Heathers (1988), he became somewhat known as the Hollywood bad-boy, having many run-ins with the law. He is also well-known for having dated stars such as Winona Ryder, Christina Applegate, Samantha Mathis and was at one time engaged to actress/model Nina Huang. In 2000, he married Ryan Haddon, the daughter of 1970s model Dayle Haddon. The couple have two children, Jaden Christopher (b. 1999) and Eliana Sophia (b. 2001). As of early 2005, they separated and later divorced, but remain dedicated to bring up their children.