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HUGH JACKMAN (Robert Angier) most recently reprised his role as Logan/Wolverine in “X-Men: The Last Stand,” the third installment of the “X-Men” franchise. He made his first major U.S. film appearance in the first “X-Men” movie—and this stellar debut led to leading roles in “Someone Like You,” “Swordfish” and “Kate and Leopold,” for which he received a 2002 Golden Globe® nomination. Jackman reprised his role as Logan/Wolverine in “X2” and went on to star in the blockbuster “Van Helsing.” In addition to THE PRESTIGE, he stars this year in Woody Allen’s “Scoop” and Darren Aronofsky’s “The Fountain.”

On stage, for his portrayal of the 1970s singer-songwriter Peter Allen in “The Boy From Oz,” Jackman received the 2004 Tony Award for Best Actor in a musical as well as Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World awards. His previous theater credits include: “Carousel” at Carnegie Hall, “Oklahoma!” at the National Theater in London (Olivier Award nomination), “Sunset Boulevard” (MO Award—Australia’s Tony Award) and Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” (MO Award nomination).

Jackman’s career began in Australia in the independent films “Paperback Hero” and “Erskineville Kings” (Australian Film Critics’ Circle Best Actor award and The Australian Film Institute Best Actor nomination). In 1999, he was named “Australian Star of the Year” at the Australian Movie Convention.

Born in Wales, CHRISTIAN BALE (Alfred Borden) grew up in England and the USA. He made his film debut in Steven Spielberg’s World War II epic “Empire of the Sun.” Bale’s work to date includes “Henry V,” “The Portrait of a Lady,” “The Secret Agent,” “Metroland,” “Velvet Goldmine,” “All the Little Animals,” “American Psycho,” “Shaft,” “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin,” “Reign of Fire,” “Laurel Canyon,” “The Machinist,” “Batman Begins” and “The New World.”

He will next star in the independent films “Harsh Times” for writer/director David Ayer and “Rescue Dawn” for director Werner Herzog. This fall, Bale will film “I’m Not There” and “3:10 to Yuma,” followed next year by “Dark Knight.”

MICHAEL CAINE (Cutter) has been in over 90 motion pictures and has been nominated for six Academy Awards® including “Alfie,” “Sleuth,” “Educating Rita” and “The Quiet American.” The highly lauded thespian won Best Supporting Actor Oscars® for his performances in “Hannah and Her Sisters” and “The Cider House Rules.” Caine’s other honors include the New York Critics’ Best Actor Award for “Alfie,” a Golden Globe® Best Actor Award and a BAFTA Award (the British equivalent of an Oscar®) for “Educating Rita,” a Golden Globe® for “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” and a Golden Globe® for “Little Voice.”

Caine was born in South London and had a childhood fascination with cinema. Leaving school at sixteen, he worked in numerous menial jobs until National Service with the Royal Fusiliers took him to Korea. Upon his discharge, his first job in the theater was as assistant stage manager in Horsham, Sussex. When he returned to London, he acted with Joan Littlewood’s Theater Workshop and played a minor role in the film “A Hill in Korea” while obtaining bit parts in other movies and walk-on roles in a couple of West End plays.

Eventually touring Britain with one repertory company after another, he developed a relaxed stage presence and perfected a vast range of accents. Starting out as an understudy in the role of Private Bamforth in the London stage hit “The Long and the Short and the Tall,” Caine ended up taking over the part when O’Toole dropped out and toured the provinces for six months. Following this stint, his television and film parts grew more substantial. The turning point in his film career came in 1963, when he landed the part of aristocratic Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead in “Zulu.” Passing forever out of the ranks of anonymity, he next played Harry Palmer in the espionage thriller “The Ipcress File,” which exceeded all expectations at the box office.

In 1966, “Alfie” catapulted Caine to superstardom. In the annual British film critics’ poll, it was voted Best Picture of the Year. It also gave him his first Academy Award® nomination. In the late sixties, he appeared in “Gambit,” “Funeral in Berlin,” “Billion Dollar Brain,” “Hurry Sundown,” “Woman Times Seven,” “Deadfall,” “The Italian Job,” “The Battle of Britain,” “Too Late the Hero” and “The Last Valley.” During the seventies, he starred in “X, Y and Zee,” “Pulp,” “Sleuth,” “The Wilby Conspiracy,” “The Romantic Englishwoman,” “The Man Who Would Be King,” “Harry & Walter Go to New York,” “California Suite” and “The Swarm.” In the eighties, Caine starred in “Dressed to Kill,” “Victory,” “The Hand,” “Death Trap,” “Educating Rita,” “Blame It on Rio,” “The Holcroft Covenant,” “Hannah and Her Sisters,” “Sweet Liberty” and “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.”

In 1992, he and American producer Martin Bregman formed M & M Productions to make films in Britain for Caine to star in or direct. Their first production was “Blue Ice,” costarring Sean Young and directed by Russell Mulcahy. Caine is also an author. He wrote an autobiography, What’s It All About?, as well as Acting on Film, a book based on a highly successful series of lectures he gave on BBC Television.

Caine most recently appeared in “Batman Begins,” “Bewitched” and Gore Verbinski’s “The Weather Man” with Nicolas Cage. In 2000, Queen Elizabeth II honored Michael Caine with knighthood. Born Maurice Micklewhite, he is now officially known as Sir Michael Caine.

With more than a decade of work under her belt, four-time Golden Globe® nominee and BAFTA winner SCARLETT JOHANSSON (Olivia) has proven to be one of Hollywood’s most talented young actresses. Johansson received rave reviews and a Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival for her starring role opposite Bill Murray in “Lost in Translation,” the critically acclaimed second film by director Sofia Coppola. Johansson also portrayed the title character in the much-admired “Girl With a Pearl Earring,” a film adapted from the novel of the same name about the painter Johannes Vermeer (Colin Firth).

Earlier this year, Johansson was seen in Woody Allen’s “Scoop,” opposite Hugh Jackman, and the Brian DePalma film “The Black Dahlia.” She also recently finished shooting the lead role in “The Nanny Diaries,” based on the highly successful book of the same name.

At the age of 14, Johansson attained worldwide recognition for her performance as Grace Maclean, the teen traumatized by a riding accident in Robert Redford’s “The Horse Whisperer.” She went on to star in Terry Zwigoff’s “Ghost World,” garnering a Best Supporting Actress award from the Toronto Film Critics Circle. Johansson was also featured in the Coen Brothers’ dark drama “The Man Who Wasn’t There,” opposite Billy Bob Thornton and Frances McDormand. Her other film credits include the critically acclaimed Weitz brothers’ film “In Good Company” as well as “A Love Song for Bobby Long,” opposite John Travolta, which garnered her a Golden Globe® nomination (her third in two years). Recently she was seen in Woody Allen’s “Match Point,” which garnered her a fourth consecutive Golden Globe® nomination in three years, and in “The Island” opposite Ewan McGregor for director Michael Bay.

Her additional credits include Rob Reiner’s comedy “North”; the thriller “Just Cause,” with Sean Connery and Laurence Fishburne; and a breakthrough role in the critically praised “Manny & Lo,” which earned her an Independent Spirit Award nomination. A New York native, Johansson made her professional acting debut at the age of eight in the off-Broadway production of “Sophistry,” with Ethan Hawke, at New York’s Playwright’s Horizons.

PIPER PERABO (Julia McCullough) has been working nonstop since her big-screen splash in Jerry Bruckheimer’s “Coyote Ugly.” She was recently seen in Adam Shankman’s “Cheaper by the Dozen 2,” in which she reprised her role as the eldest daughter to Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt’s characters; in the romantic comedy “Imagine Me & You” with Lena Heady and Matthew Goode; and in the crime drama “10th & Wolf” with an ensemble cast that includes James Marsden and Dennis Hopper.

She next stars in “Because I Said So” with Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore and Lauren Graham. Also in the wings is “First Snow,” a film directed by Mark Fergus, costarring Guy Pearce and Adam Scott. Perabo is currently filming an untitled Pastor Brothers project for Paramount Vantage in New Mexico. She will play the female lead opposite Chris Pine and Lou Taylor Pucci in the post-apocalyptic thriller about four friends trying to escape a viral pandemic. The film is set to release in 2007.

Perabo’s feature film debut was in the comedy “White Boyz,” written by Danny Hoch. She also starred in the comedy caper “The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle” opposite Robert De Niro and Renee Russo, “George and the Dragon” with Michael Clarke Duncan and James Purefoy, the cult favorite “Lost and Delirious” directed by Lea Pool, and the sci-fi thriller “The Cave” opposite Cole Hauser, Morris Chestnut and Lena Headey.

REBECCA HALL (Sarah Borden) comes to the big screen after making her feature film debut earlier this year in Tom Vaughn’s “Starter for Ten.”

Last year, Hall received wide acclaim for her performance as Rosalind, Shakespeare’s love-conflicted heroine in Peter Hall’s production of “As You Like It,” which began at The Theatre Royal Bath in 2003 and was followed by an international tour. It was revived in 2005 at the Rose Theatre in Kingston and subsequently ran at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Los Angeles’ Ahmanson Theater and the Curran Theater in San Francisco. In summer 2004, she starred in three productions at the Theatre Royal Bath: in the title role in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s “Galileo’s Daughter,” (directed by Peter Hall), Elvira in Simon Nye’s version of the Moliere comedy “Don Juan” (directed by Thea Sharrock) and as Ann Whitfield in Shaw’s epic “Man and Superman” (directed by Peter Hall). In summer 2003, she starred as Barbara in D.H. Lawrence’s “Fight for Barbara” (directed by Thea Sharrock) at the Theatre Royal Bath. For her West End debut as Vivie, the tough-minded daughter in “Mrs. Warren’s Profession” (Strand Theatre, premiered October 2002), Hall garnered the Ian Charleson Award. In 2003, she was again nominated for the Ian Charleson Award for “As You Like It.”

While reading English at Cambridge, she played Miranda in “The Tempest” and Martha in Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?” and directed productions of “Cuckoo” by Guiseppe Manfredi and Tom Stoppard’s “The Real Inspector Hound.” Hall’s television credits include Brendan Maher’s forthcoming “Wide Sargasso Sea” for BBC 4, Peter Hall’s acclaimed adaptation of Mary Wesley’s novel “The Camomile Lawn” for Channel 4 and “Don’t Leave Me This Way,” directed by Stuart Orme.

DAVID BOWIE (Tesla) was born in 1947. Between the late ’60s and the mid-’70s, he experimented with multimedia, also recording the albums “The Man Who Sold the World,” “Space Oddity,” “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust,” “Aladdin Sane,” “Diamond Dogs,” “Station to Station” and “Young Americans.” The track “Fame” taken from this album was to be his first U.S. No. 1.

In 1976, he relocated to Berlin, recording “Low” and “Heroes” with Eno and Tony Visconti. In 1979, he made his Broadway debut in “The Elephant Man” and released the Visconti co-production “Scary Monsters and Super Creeps,” followed by the Nile Rogers-produced “Let’s Dance.” Between the mid-’80s and the present, he has worked with his band Tin Machine, collaborated with the dance company La La La Human Steps, and written music for Hanif Kureishi’s “Buddha of Suburbia.” The year 1992 brought one of rock’s first CD-ROMs, “Jump.”

In 1994, reunited once again with Eno, he produced the experimental “Outside” album, followed in 1997 with “Earthling” and, in 1999, “hours…,” his twenty-third studio album. In 1999, he became a Commandeur dans L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. And in 2000, Bowie was voted the #1 Most Influential Artist of All Time by the U.K.’s tastemaking tome, the NME. Bowie’s next project, in 2002, was a further recorded collaboration with Tony Visconti, entitled “Heathen.” The accompanying live dates in Europe and America saw full performances of both “Heathen” and the seminal “Low.” A year later, the “Reality” album was launched with the world’s largest interactive, live-bysatellite event and was followed by the rapturously received and critically acclaimed “A Reality Tour” of the world.

The year 2006 has seen Bowie return to acting, with THE PRESTIGE adding to such cinematic highlights as Nic Roeg’s “The Man Who Fell to Earth,” Martin Scorcese’s “The Last Temptation of Christ,” Tony Scott’s “The Hunger” and Nagisa Oshima’s “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence.” In spring of 2007, Bowie will be the inaugural curator of the “Highline” arts and music festival in New York.

ANDY SERKIS’ (Alley) most memorable and critically acclaimed roles were as Gollum in all three of “The Lord of the Rings” films and in the Peter Jackson epic “King Kong” playing two roles, King Kong and a cook. He will next be in the HBO film “Longford,” in the animated DreamWorks film “Flushed Away” and in the family actionadventure “Stormbreaker.”

Recently, he also played opposite Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo in “13 Going on 30,” directed by Gary Winick. Other film credits include Quinn in the World War I horror feature “Deathwatch,” the Factory Records producer Martin Hannett in “24 Hour Party People,” the eccentric choreographer in “Topsy Turvy” and the coked-up yuppie in “Career Girls.” He played leading roles in “Shiner” with Michael Caine, “Mojo,” “Among Giants,” “Loop,” “Sweety Barrett,” “The Jolly Boys Last Stand,” as well as “Stella Does Tricks,” “Five Seconds to Spare,” “The Near Room” and “Pandemonium.” He also wrote and directed a short film called “Snake,” starring his wife, Lorraine Ashbourne, and Rupert Grave.

His extensive television works include a highly acclaimed performance in a recent adaptation of “Oliver Twist” and lead roles in “The Jump” and the series “Finney,” along with many guest appearances including “Shooting the Past” and “Touching Evil.” Notably, his voice was heard on the Fox television show “The Simpsons.”

Serkis has played a huge range of parts in theater in London and across the United Kingdom. His recent critically acclaimed roles include Iago in “Othello” (Royal Exchange Theatre), Potts in the original cast of “Mojo” by Jez Butterworth, “King Lear” and “Hush” all for the Royal Court Theatre, “Hurlyburly” at the Old Vic and Queen Theatres, “Decadence” at the Bolton Octagon, and “Cabaret” at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield. In 2003, he made his directorial debut with the play “The Double Bass” at the Southwark Playhouse in London.