ANGELINA JOLIE (Mariane Pearl)

DAN FUTTERMAN (Danny Pearl)

ARCHIE PANJABI (Asra Nomani)

IRRFAN KHAN (Captain)

WILL PATTON (Randall Bennett)

DENIS O’HARE (John Bussey)

ADNAN SIDDIQUI (Dost Aliani)

GARY WILMES (Steve LeVine)

ABOUT THE CAST

ANGELINA JOLIE (Mariane Pearl)

Academy Award® and three-time Golden Globe winner Angelina Jolie was seen most recently in THE GOOD SHEPHERD, co-starring Matt Damon and directed by Robert DeNiro. She will next be heard in director Robert Zemeckis’ fantasy adventure, BEOWULF.

Jolie starred opposite Brad Pitt in the action-comedy-romance MR. AND MRS. SMITH for director Doug Liman in 2005. The previous year, she starred in Oliver Stone's epic ALEXANDER with Colin Farrell, Val Kilmer, and Anthony Hopkins, as well as the action/adventure SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW with Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow. She also lent her voice to the animated feature SHARK TALE, along with Will Smith, Robert DeNiro and Jack Black, and starred in the thriller, TAKING LIVES, with Ethan Hawke.

Jolie reprised the lead role in LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER – THE CRADLE OF LIFE in 2003, and in the drama BEYOND BORDERS that year. She starred in the romantic comedy, LIFE OR SOMETHING LIKE IT in 2002. Her work in 2001 included director Simon West's TOMB RAIDER, as well as ORIGINAL SIN opposite Antonio Banderas for GIA writer/director Michael Cristofer. In 2000, Jolie, Nicolas Cage and Robert Duvall starred in GONE IN 60 SECONDS for producer Jerry Bruckheimer.

Jolie's portrayal of a mental patient in GIRL, INTERRUPTED brought her an Academy Award®, her third Golden Globe Award, a Broadcast Film Critics Award and Best Supporting Actress Awards from ShoWest and the Screen Actors Guild.

Prior to that, Jolie played a rookie police officer opposite Denzel Washington's veteran detective in the thriller, THE BONE COLLECTOR, directed by Phillip Noyce. She also co-starred in Mike Newell's PUSHING TIN with Billy Bob Thornton and John Cusack. Jolie won the National Board of Review's award for Breakthrough Performance for PLAYING BY HEART, a characterdriven drama directed by Willard Carroll and starring Sean Connery, Gena Rowlands, and Ellen Burstyn.

With the HBO film GIA, Jolie won critical praise as well as a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Emmy nomination for her portrayal of the supermodel who died of AIDS. She was previously Emmy nominated for her work opposite Gary Sinise in director John Frankenheimer's GEORGE WALLACE, a period epic about the controversial Alabama governor. The film brought Jolie her first Golden Globe Award and a Cable Ace nomination for her portrayal of Wallace's second wife, Cornelia.

A member of the MET Theatre Ensemble Workshop, Jolie trained at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and has also studied with Jan Tarrant in New York and Silvana Gallardo in Los Angeles.

On August 27, 2001, Jolie was named Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), accepting the responsibility of meeting with and advocating for the protection of refugees on five continents.

DAN FUTTERMAN (Danny Pearl)

Dan Futterman wrote the screenplay for last year's CAPOTE, which he gave to childhood friends Philip Seymour Hoffman and Bennett Miller. The film surpassed all expectations, receiving multiple awards and six Academy Award® nominations, one of them for Futterman for "Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay."

As an actor Futterman has appeared in numerous New York stage productions, including “Angels in America,” “The Lights,” “A Fair County” and “Dealer’s Choice.” His film roles have included the part of Robin Williams' son "Val" in THE BIRDCAGE, "Joe" in ENOUGH and "Charlie" in URBANIA, for which he received Best Actor at the Seattle Film Festival. Dan appeared as a regular on the series JUDGING AMY and has played a recurring character on WILL AND GRACE and RELATED.

Dan married writer Anya Epstein in 2000. They make their home in Los Angeles with their daughters, Sylvie and Eve. They've co-written a romantic comedy, FINN AT THE BLUE LINE, which Lasse Hallstrom will direct, starring Sarah Jessica Parker.

ARCHIE PANJABI (Asra Nomani)

Archie made her film debut in the smash hit Film Four/Miramax comedy EAST IS EAST in 1999. The film received a standing ovation in Cannes and was the years biggest homegrown hit. The film won The Evening Standard Best Film Award and the prestigious Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film in 2000. Best known for her starring role her starring role opposite Keira Knightley in the hugely successfully British film BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM, Archie won a BBC Mega Mela award for her performance, while the film was nominated for a BAFTA for Best British film in 2003. She later worked alongside David Morrissey in THIS LITTLE LIFE, a powerful BBC film directed by Sarah Gavron. The drama won two BAFTA Awards in 2004.

She went on to star in the critically acclaimed film YASMIN, written by Simon Beaufoy, the Oscar® nominated writer of THE FULL MONTY. She was awarded the Best Actress award at The Reims Festival for her performance. In the same year Archie was also awarded The Shooting Star Award at the International Berlin Film Festival. The award is given to actors who are seen as “the most exciting and emerging actors from across Europe” (European Film Promotion). Previous winners include Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig.

Most recently Archie appeared in Fernando Meirelles’s Oscar® winning film THE CONSTANT GARDENER. She followed that role in Ridley Scott’s romantic comedy A GOOD YEAR opposite Russell Crowe.

Archie has also worked on a number high profile television projects. In 2002 she worked on WHITE TEETH, a four-part Channel 4 adaptation of Zadie Smith’s award-winning novel and followed up that role with the BAFTA winning BBC drama SEA OF SOULS. Archie’s next project was the BBC drama GREASE MONKEYS, which earned her a Best Actress nomination from the Royal Television Awards, followed by the BAFTA and Emmy nominated satire A VERY SOCIAL SECRETARY for Channel 4. Archie also provides voices for several characters in the hugely popular animated series POSTMAN PAT.

She previously worked with director Michael Winterbottom on the CODE 46, opposite Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton.

IRRFAN KHAN (Captain)

A graduate of the National School of Drama in New Delhi, India, Irrfan Khan gave his first screen performance in a short but searing scene in Mira Nair’s 1988 debut feature film, SALAAM BOMBAY! He became a household name in India with his role in the popular Hindi sitcom BANEGI APNI BAAT.

Khan’s unconventional looks helped him secure the coveted title role in the 2003 film MAQBOOL, a Hindi interpretation of “Macbeth” set in the Bombay underworld. He gave another award-winning performance that year in HASSIL, playing a manipulative student leader in this critically acclaimed love story.

Khan’s most challenging role to date came in British director Asif Kapadia's THE WARRIOR, the Hindi-language drama that won the BAFTA award for Best British Film in 2003. In the title role, Khan portrays a man who is transformed from predator to prey after renouncing his violent life in the service of a cruel feudal lord.

Khan most recently starred in Mira Nair’s THE NAMESAKE. Khan also recently filmed THE DARJEELING LIMITED, for director Wes Anderson.

WILL PATTON (Randall Bennett)

Will Patton has worked extensively in American film and television, and has twice won the Obie Award for Best Actor for his work in the theater. He has had memorable roles in such films as THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES and REMEMBER THE TITANS, and he also starred with John Travolta and Thomas Jane in THE PUNISHER, and with Cederic The Entertainer in THE CLEANER. His feature credits include ARMAGEDDON, GONE IN 60 SECONDS, ENTRAPMENT and THE POSTMAN as well as TRIXIE, BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS, JESUS’S SON and ROAD HOUSE II.

Patton was directed by Martin Scorsese in AFTER HOURS and Nicholas Roeg IN COLD HEAVEN. He has starred in several independent films that have enjoyed success at the major film festivals, including THE RAPTURE, IN THE SOUP, THE PAINT JOB, TOLL BOOTH and THE SPITFIRE GRILL, which won the Audience Award at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival. In 1998, Patton won the Best Actor award at the Newport International Film Festival for OK GARAGE (aka ALL REVVED UP). He has blended appearances in these smaller pictures with major studio films such as INVENTING THE ABBOTTS, THE CLIENT, FLED, COPYCAT, DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN, A SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM, EVERYBODY WINS and NO WAY OUT. He starred for two seasons in the highly acclaimed television series, THE AGENCY, and was also seen in STEVEN SPEILBERG’S INTO THE WEST on TNT.

Onstage, Patton played the lead in Sam Shepard’s “A Lie Of The Mind.” He won Obie Awards for his performances in Richard Foreman’s “What Did He See” and in Shepard’s “Fool For Love.” He starred in the world premiere of Don DeLillo’s play “Valparaiso” at the ART in Boston and headed an ensemble cast in Denis Johnson’s “Shoppers Carried By Escalators Into The Flames” at the Vineyard Theatre in New York.

Patton has recorded more than 40 audio books, the latest being Charles Frazier’s Thirteen Moons and Al Gore’s The Assault on Reason. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, he is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts.

DENIS O’HARE (John Bussey)

Tony Award winner Denis O’Hare, whose stage career has blossomed over the past two decades, has done intriguing work on screen in recent years with roles in such eclectic films as HALF NELSON, SWEET AND LOWDOWN, THE ANNIVERSARY PARTY, GARDEN STATE, and 21 GRAMS. He is featured in the upcoming STEPHANIE DALEY with Tilda Swinton and Timothy Hutton; MICHAEL CLAYTON opposite George Clooney; and in CHARLIE WILSON’S WAR for director Mike Nichols.

The Kansas City, Missouri native spent 12 years as a stage actor in Chicago before moving to New York. His portrayal of ‘Mason Marzac’ in the baseball-themed “Take Me Out” brought him the Tony Award for Best Actor, in 2003. He also received the Clarence Derwent Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Lucille Lortel Award and the Broadway.com Audience Award for “Take Me Out.” He later performed the role on London’s West End.

O’Hare received a 2004 Tony nomination as Best Actor for his performance in the musical “Assassins.” As ‘Oscar’ in the Broadway production of “Sweet Charity,” he was honored with the 2005 Drama Desk Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical, and was nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award and two Broadway.com Audience Awards.

O’Hare portrayed ‘Herr Ludwig’ opposite Alan Cumming and Natasha Richardson in the

Broadway production of “Cabaret” directed by Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall in 1998. He made his Broadway debut in “Racing Demon” in 1995. He is a graduate of Northwestern University.

ADNAN SIDDIQUI (Dost Aliani)

Pakistani actor Adnan Siddiqui has worked primarily in television, the dominant medium in his country. He was nominated for Pakistan’s Lux Style Award in 2002 in the Best Actor category for the dramatic serial ZAIB-UN-NISA, and again in 2004 for the serial MENDHI. The third time was the charm for Siddiqui when, in 2005, he was named Best Actor for his work in the dramatic serial AMER BAIL at the TV One Awards.

Siddiqui got his first break as an actor in 1992 with a role in the dramatic serial UROOSA. He has also hosted televised award shows, late night shows and travelogues, and received the best host/anchor award for the game show JADU KA CHIRAGH (ALADDIN’S MAGIC LAMP) in 2003. He began his career as a model.

With an MBA degree in marketing, Siddiqui owns an outdoor advertising agency in Karachi as well as a men’s salon. He lives in Karachi with his wife and daughter.

GARY WILMES (Steve LeVine)

Gary Wilmes won an Obie Award in 2006 for his performance in “Red Light Winter,” a three-character drama produced by Scott Rudin. “Red Light Winter” premiered at Steppenwolfe’s Garage Theatre and moved to New York after an extended, sold-out run in Chicago. Wilmes’ New York acting credits include “Brace Up!” with The Wooster Group; “Bad Boy Nietzsche” and “Paradise Hotel” with Richard Foreman; “Henry IV,” “Part 1,” “Boxing 2000” and “House” with Richard Maxwell; “More Lies About Jerzy” at the Vineyard Theatre; and “Shoppers Carried by Escalators into the Flames” written by Denis Johnson.

Wilmes began his acting career in Chicago. His credits there include “Laughter on the 23rd Floor” with Fox Theatricals; “The Chicago Conspiracy Trial” with Remains Theatre and “The Persecution of Arnold Petch” with A Red Orchid Theatre. He is a founding member of The Cook County Theatre Department. He has been a regular on LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O'BRIEN and a guest star on LAW AND ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT. His film credits include Hal Hartley’s THE GIRL FROM MONDAY and Adam Rapp’s BLACKBIRD.