Celine Song was born in 1988 in South Korea. She is a writer and director, known for Past Lives (2023), The Wheel of Time (2021) and Working in the Theatre (1976).

Born in 1941 in Tokyo, Japan, Miyazaki co-founded Studio Ghibli in 1985 with Isao Takahata. Among his eleven animated features, Spirited Away (2001) broke every box office record in Japan, and won the Golden Bear at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival and the 2002 Academy Award® for Best Animated Feature Film. Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) received the Osella Award at the 2004 Venice International Film Festival. Miyazaki was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2005 Venice International Film Festival. The Wind Rises (2013) was nominated for the 2013 Academy Award® for Best Animated Feature. In 2014, the Board of Governors for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented him with an Honorary Oscar® for Lifetime Achievement. In 2024, he received the Academy Award® for Best Animated Feature for his latest feature, The Boy and the Heron.

Tran Anh Hung was born on December 23, 1962 in Danan, Vietnam. He is a director and writer, known for The Scent of Green Papaya (1993), Norwegian Wood (2010) and The Taste of Things (2023).

Greta Lee was born on March 7, 1983 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Past Lives (2023), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and St. Vincent (2014). She has been married to Russ Armstrong since September 7, 2014. They have two children.

Tony and Grammy Award nominated actress Ashley Park continues to captivate audiences on the stage and screen.

Park currently stars as “Mindy” in the hit Netflix series EMILY IN PARIS. For season one, she received a Critics Choice nomination for her performance becoming the first Asian American Actress to be nominated for the award’s “Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.”

Park’s other television credits include Tina Fey’s Peacock hit series GIRLS5EVA, Netflix’s TALES OF THE CITY, Apple TV+’s HELPSTERS. This summer, she will star in the Untitled Lionsgate/Point Grey comedy and in Universal/Untitled Entertainment’s MR. MALCOLM’S LIST.

On the Broadway stage, Park originated the role of “Gretchen Wieners” in the Broadway production of Fey’s MEAN GIRLS, which garnered her nominations for a Tony Award, Drama League, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Chita Rivera Award. That same year, Park received critical acclaim for starring as “Mwe” in KPOP, for which she won the esteemed Lucille Lortel Award for Lead Actress in a Musical and was nominated for her second Drama League and Drama Desk Awards of the season. Other Broadway credits include ‘Tuptim’ in the Tony-Award-winning revival of THE KING AND I, Stephen Sondheim’s SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, Bess Wohl’s Tony-nominated GRAND HORIZONS, MAMMA MIA!.

Park is an alum and advocate of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

Keanu Reeves is a Canadian actor, musician, and comic book writer. Regarded as one of the most influential and acclaimed actors in modern history, he is known for his versatile performances in numerous genres throughout his career.

Born in Beirut and raised in Toronto, he made his acting debut in the Canadian television series Hangin’ In (1984), before making his feature film debut in Youngblood (1986). Reeves had his breakthrough role in the science fiction comedy Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989), and he reprised his role in its sequels. He gained praise for playing a hustler in the independent drama My Own Private Idaho (1991) and established himself as an action hero with leading roles in Point Break (1991) and Speed (1994).

His performance in the horror film The Devil’s Advocate (1997) was well received, and greater stardom came for playing Neo in The Matrix (1999). He played John Constantine in Constantine (2005) and starred in the romantic drama The Lake House (2006), the science fiction thriller The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), and the crime thriller Street Kings (2008).

In 2014, Reeves starred as the titular assassin in the film John Wick (2014). Reprising his role in subsequent installments, the series has been considered to have revitalized the action film genre and has been regarded as one of the greatest action film franchises of all time. TIME named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2022.

In addition to acting, Reeves has directed the film Man of Tai Chi (2013). He plays bass guitar for the band Dogstar and pursued other endeavors such as developing the BRZRKR franchise and has participated in philanthropic causes.

Yakusho Koji is an acclaimed and famed Japanese actors who has appeared in many notable films, including Tampopo, Unagi and Babel, but may be best known internationally for his role in Shall We Dance, which at the time of its release was Asia’s biggest film export. He was born in the southern city of Nagasaki as Koji Hashimoto, but moved to Tokyo and began working in the city’s municipality from which he borrowed his alias. Yakusho means ‘government office.’

While at acting school he met actress Saeko Kawatsu whom he soon married in 1982. He picked up stage roles, moved to a TV serial on Japan’s national broadcaster NHK in 1983 and had his first major break playing a mostly silent role in the avant-garde food drama Tampopo. Koji has collaborated with director Kurosawa Kiyoshi several times, won the Best Actor Award at the Japanese Academy Awards more than once and been nominated for it and other awards even more often. He directed Gaman No Abura in 2009.

With parents in the show business perhaps it is not surprising that Ando Sakura would become an actress and, moreover, also end up marrying an actor. She was born to actor/director Okuda Eiji and celebrity Kazu Ando on 18.02.1986. Her great grandfather was prime minister Tsuyoshi. Her older sister is director Ando Momoko. She saw her father on stage at age five and decided to become an actress while in second grade. She was often ill as a child. Her disease made her dizzy, lose her balance and more throughout her childhood. Her brain would shut down. She would opt for her mother’s maiden surname for her professional career. Sono Sion picked her for his film Love Exposure and gave her a major start on the big screen.

She won an award as the Best Supporting Actress for her work in it at the 31st Yokohama Film Festival. Earlier her father cast her in his film Kaze No Sotogawa (‘Outside The Wind’) alongside her mother and sister. She has since appeared in multiple movies and serials and won several more awards. She married actor Emoto Tasuku in 2012. She had met him on a train in 2008 and had obtained her father’s permission to date and marry. She was a boxer in 100 Yen Love, which was fortunate since she had practiced boxing when she was fourteen-years-old. She gave birth to her first child, a girl, in 2017. She won the award for Best Actress at the 42nd Japan Academy Prize for her work on 2018’s Shoplifters. By then she was considered one of several top young actresses in Japan next to Yu Aoi, Miyazaki Aoi and perhaps Aso Kumiko. Interestingly, she had earlier decided to retire and focus on raising her child. She is a graduate of Gakushuin Women’s College.

Teo Yoo was born and raised in Cologne, Germany. He began acting when studying at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute, NY at the age of 20. He later continued his studies in an intensive course at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London. After having acted in various independent films and theater productions in New York and Berlin he moved to Seoul in 2009.Yoo’s hobbies include Basketball, Hiphop dance, Tango and cooking.

Charles Melton is one of Hollywood’s most versatile actors who continues to captivate audiences with his charismatic performances on film and television.

Melton recently starred in May December directed by Todd Haynes and starring opposite Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman. The film centers on a married couple whose lives begin to buckle under pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a movie about their past – including the couple’s notorious May-December tabloid romance that once gripped the nation.

His past feature credits include the Paramount+ comedy Secret Headquarters opposite Owen Wilson and Sony’s Bad Boys for Life, in the highly successful third installment of the Bad Boys franchise. In 2019, he played the lead role of ‘Daniel Bae,’ in the Warner Bros.’ feature, The Sun Is Also a Star, opposite Yara Shahidi. Directed by Ry Russo-Young and based on the New York Times best-seller by Nicola Yoon, the film chronicles the whirlwind romance between ‘Daniel,’ the son of Korean immigrants, and ‘Natasha,’ played by Shahidi.

On television, Melton is currently shooting The CW’s series, Riverdale. In its seventh and final season, the series is a modern-day reimagining of the Archie Comics. He can be seen in the Peacock mystery-drama series Poker Face opposite Natasha Lyonne.

In 2021, he was announced as a Special Olympics Global Ambassador.

Riz Ahmed is a 2021 Oscar, Golden Globe, SAG, and BAFTA Award nominee for his performance in Amazon Prime Video’s SOUND OF METAL, directed by Darius Marder. Ahmed won the NBR and IFP Gotham Awards for Best Actor, more than fourteen 2021 critics groups, and was named British/Irish Actor of the Year (2020 London Critics’ Circle Awards), since the film’s premiere at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival.

Left Handed Film, Ahmed’s production company, recently signed a first-look TV deal with Amazon Studios. The company has two films nominated for 2022 Academy Awards, including THE LONG GOODBYE which is nominated for Best Short Film and Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s FLEE, which made history as the first movie to earn Oscar nominations for Best Animated Feature, Documentary Feature and International Feature. Left Handed Films’ most recent film, MOGUL MOWGLI, won the Fipresci International Critics’ Prize at the Berlin Film Festival, was nominated for ‘Best British Film’ at the BAFTA Awards, and received six BIFA nominations, with the film taking home ‘Best Debut Screenwriter’ for Ahmed and ‘Best Music’. In the works are EXIT WEST (Netflix), in partnership with the Obamas, Higher Ground Productions and Russo, AGBO, a modern take on Hamlet, and the comedy series THE SON OF GOOD FORTUNE (Amazon).

Ahmed’s musical journey spans two decades across rap, techno, residencies, a successful American band Swet Shop Boys, and most recently, critically acclaimed “The Long Goodbye,” accompanied by a short film of the same name.

As a vocal advocate for inclusion, Ahmed published an award-winning piece in the Nikesh Shukla, described as “essential reading.” In 2017, he spoke at the British Parliament’s House of Commons about diversity and representation and graced TIME’s 100 Most Influential People cover.

Sabrina Wu was born on September 13, 1997 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. Sabrina is a writer and actor, known for Joy Ride (2023), Doogie Kamealoha, M.D. (2021) and Untitled Lauren Ludwig/FX project.

Comedian, actress, and writer are all ways multi-hyphenate talent Sherry Cola could be described as she has emerged over the last year as one to watch in the entertainment industry. Named a “Fresh Face” at the world-renowned Laugh Factory, Cola has proved that from drama to comedy in the scripted world, to hilarious, original stand up sets on stage, she can do it all.

In 2019 Cola can be seen starring on Freeform’s brand new series “Good Trouble,” slated to debut on January 8. The series, a spinoff from the smash hit show “The Fosters,” follows Callie (Maia Mitchell) and Mariana (Cierra Ramirez) as they embark on the next phase of their young adult lives in Los Angeles. Cola shines as Alice, a first-generation Asian-American who manages the apartment complex the ladies are living in. On the film front Cola recently wrapped production on the Untitled Drake Doremus Project opposite Shailene Woodley, Jamie Dornan, and Sebastian Stan. The film is set in present-day Los Angeles and follows Daphne (Woodley), a thirty-something woman navigating love and heartbreak over the course of one year.

Born in Shanghai China, Cola and her family moved to the United States when she was four years old, planting their roots in the San Gabriel Valley just east of Los Angeles. She attended California State University Fullerton where she majored in Entertainment and Tourism Studies, and worked for the campus radio station Titan Radio. Cola’s innate ability to make people laugh and bring stories to life was indisputable, and students tuned in daily to listen to her funny commentary on celebrity news, fresh music picks, and more. Upon graduation Cola joined AMP Radio 97.1FM, spearheading promotions, social media, board operations, and even hit the street with a microphone talking to passerby’s and music fans. Television host and radio personality Carson Daly took Cola under his wing at the station, helping her further hone her craft as she launched her own Sunday night show. Cola went on to interview top artists including: Noah Cyrus, Fifth Harmony, and Khalid. While Cola got her foot in the door in radio, she also had her hands in improv, writing and creating characters with friends around Los Angeles. When two friends launched a web series called “Luber,” a parody of Lift/Uber drivers, one of Cola’s most notable characters to date was born: Lil’ Tasty. The Lakers loving, jersey wearing, Timberland rocking-rapper was an instant hit online, receiving over 20 million views on Facebook.

Cola got her break in television in 2017, landing a seven-episode arc on Amazon’s “I Love Dick” opposite Kevin Bacon and Kathryn Hahn. She was a scene stealer as jewelry maker Natalie, one of Dick’s (Bacon) students at the art institute in Marfa, Texas. Cola went on to work with MTV on the comedy series “Safeword,” showcasing her comedic skills alongside Kevin Hart, Ludacris, and LaLa Anthony. In 2018 Cola booked a recurring role on the hit TNT series “Claws” opposite Niecy Nash, Carrie Preston, and Judy Reyes. Joining the cast in season two, the series follows five diverse and treacherous manicurists, who are good women caught in bad places with even worse men. Cola instantly became a fan favorite as FBI Special Agent Lucy Chun, and is slated to return to the series in 2019 for season three.

On the comedy front Cola is constantly working on new material as a stand up comedian, and performs regularly at The Laugh Factory, The Improv and The Comedy Store. She also recently filmed an episode of “Funny Dance Show” for E! (2019) alongside Jackie Tohn, Solomon Georgio, and London Brown, and has worked with Kevin Hart’s LOL Network and Funny or Die over the years.

Simu is a Chinese-Canadian actor who won a Game Changer Award and People’s Choice Award for his role as Shang-Chi in the Marvel movie Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021). Before his leading role in a Marvel movie, he played Jung Kim on the CBC sitcom Kim’s Convenience (2016). He is also a writer and producer.

Immigrating from China at the age of 5, Simu was raised in Mississauga, Ontario. After graduating from the Richard Ivey School of Business and working at a top accounting firm for nearly a year, Liu was laid off. Deciding to pursue work in film and television instead, he quickly landed roles on series such as Heroes Reborn (2015), Nikita (2010), Warehouse 13 (2009) and Air Crash Investigation (2003).

He has since starred on Blood and Water (2015) and Taken (2017), and guest starred on shows such as The Expanse (2015), Bad Blood (2017), and Fresh Off the Boat (2015).

Liu has written and produced for television as well as in film. His short film Meeting Mommy was selected as a semi-finalist for the NBC Universal Shorts Festival. He was also a writer on the second season of Blood and Water, contributing as a story editor for the season and as the main writer for one episode.

Simu trains extensively in martial arts and stunt work in addition to television and theatrical performance.

Stephanie Hsu can be seen in the A24 Oscar winning and BAFTA nominated film “Everything Everywhere All At Once” from the directing team Daniels (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert). Stephanie stars in the dual role “Joy/Jobu.” The story follows the mother/daughter relationship through a multiverse with infinite versions of their lives also starring Michelle Yeoh, Key Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis. The film debuted at SXSW and released in theaters April 2022 to rave reviews. The film has reached box office records for an indie arthouse film crossing the $100 million mark in global ticket sales, the first A24 film to hit that benchmark. Stephanie earned individual Oscar and SAG Award nominations in the category of Best Supporting Actress. She won the Best Breakthrough Performance at the 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards and has been honored at the Hamptons Film Festival as their Breakthrough Artist honoree, the Middleburg Film Festival as their Rising Star honoree, the Newport Film Festival as one of Variety’s 10 Actors to Watch, the San Francisco Film Festival with The George Gund III Award for Breakthrough Performance and at the Santa Barbara Film Festival as one of their Virtuosos honorees. The film won a Gotham Award and Critics’ Choice Award for Best Feature, a SAG Award for Cast in a Motion Picture and has been recognized as AFI’s Movie of the Year. The film was nominated for 10 Academy Awards winning Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing and was also nominated for 10 BAFTA Awards.

Lindsay Watson was born in Kula, Hawaii. She is an actress, known for The Wind & the Reckoning (2022), Finding ‘Ohana (2021) and One Million Dolla.