LEAN ON PETE (2018)  Cast and Crew

Director Andrew Haigh, with cast Charlie Plummer, Chloë Sevigny, and Steve Buscemi.

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ANDREW HAIGH (Writer, Director) has directed four features, including Lean On Pete. His previous film, 45 Years, premiered at Berlinale 2015 where it won Silver Bears for the lead performances of Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay. It went on to win a number of international awards and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for Charlotte Rampling. His second feature Weekend premiered at SXSW in 2011, where it won the Emerging Visions Audience Award. He was also the Executive Producer and lead writer/director on the HBO show "Looking" including the finale television movie broadcast in 2015.

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CHARLIE PLUMMER (Charley Thompson) recently starred in Ridley Scott's kidnapping thriller All the Money in the World, playing John Paul Getty III alongside Christopher Plummer, Michelle Williams, and Mark Wahlberg, shooting in Rome, Jordan, and London. Also forthcoming are the features Behold My Heart, with Marisa Tomei and Timothy Olyphant, and Clovehitch with Dylan McDermott. Following the production of All the Money in the World, Charlie began shooting Gully, the debut feature from acclaimed filmmaker Nabil Elderkin (Kendrick Lamar's "DNA" and videos for Kanye West, John Legend, Nicki Minaj, among many others).

Charlie played the titular role in King Jack, which won the Audience Award at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival and was released theatrically in 2016. He was most recently seen in the 2017 indie thriller The Dinner, opposite Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan, Chloe Sevigny, and Rebecca Hall, written and directed by Oren Moverman. Charlie began his professional career in "The Sopranos" creator David Chase's feature film Not Fade Away, and the same year was cast in a recurring role in HBO's award-winning "Boardwalk Empire."

He was also a series regular on the Netflix Cold War drama "Granite Flats," starring with Christopher Lloyd and Parker Posey.

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CHLOE SEVIGNY (Bonnie) is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning actress who was recently seen Oren Moverman's The Dinner, costarring opposite Richard Gere and Steve Coogan, and Miguel Arteta's Beatriz at Dinner, with Salma Hayek and John Lithgow.

The critically acclaimed series "Bloodline," in which Sevigny stars with Sissy Spacek and Kyle Chandler, is currently airing its third and final season on Netflix. Other recent work includes Tomas Alfredson's The Snowman with Michael Fassbender, and Golden Exits, directed by Alex Ross Perry, with Jason Schwartzman and Mary Louise Parker. Sevigny made her directorial debut last year with the short film Kitty, which premiered at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. She made her second foray into directing with the short film Carmen. Sevigny made her film debut in the lead role of Jennie in the controversial Kids, directed by Larry Clark and written by Harmony Korine. For her performance as Lana Tisdel in Kimberly Peirce's Boys Don't Cry, Sevigny received nominations for the Academy Award, the Golden Globe, and the Screen Actors Guild Award, and won an Independent Spirit Award, the Los Angeles Film Critics Award, the Boston Film Critics Award, Chicago Film Critics and the National Society of Film Critics and a Golden Satellite Award. She makes her home in New York.

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STEVE BUSCEMI (Del Montgomery) has built a career portraying some of the most unique and unforgettable characters in recent cinema. Buscemi, a multiple award-winning actor, starred in the HBO hit drama, "Boardwalk Empire," which garnered him a Golden Globe Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Emmy nominations. Buscemi has also won an Independent Spirit Award and a New York Film Critics Award, and was nominated for a Golden Globe for his role in MGM's Ghost World. He was nominated for an Emmy for his role as Tony Blundetto in "The Sopranos," and received additional Emmy nominations for his appearances on NBC's "30 Rock" and IFC's "Portlandia." He was nominated for a Lola, from the German Film Academy Awards, for his work in John Rabe, which was directed by Academy Award-winning director Florian Gallenberger and stars an international cast.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Buscemi began to show an interest in drama while in his last year of high school. Soon after, he moved to Manhattan to study acting with John Strasberg. There he and a fellow actor/writer Mark Boone Junior began writing and performing their own theatre pieces in performance spaces and downtown theatres. This soon led to Steve being cast in his first lead role in Bill Sherwood's Parting Glances as a musician with AIDS.

Buscemi is the actor of choice for some of the most respected film directors in the business, including Martin Scorsese (New York Stories), Jim Jarmusch (Coffee and Cigarettes; Mystery Train), the Coen brothers (Miller's Crossing; Barton Fink, Fargo ; The Hudsucker Proxy; The Big Lebowski), Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, for which he won an Independent Spirit Award as Best Supporting Male), Robert Altman (Kansas City), Tim Burton (Big Fish), Tom DiCillo (Living In Oblivion), Alexandre Rockwell (In the Soup ; Somebody to Love), Oren Moverman (The Messenger ; Rampart; Time Out of Mind), Terry Zwigoff (Art School Confidential), Robert Rodriguez (Desperado), and Miguel Arteta (Youth In Revolt).

In addition to his talents as an accomplished actor, Buscemi has proven to be a respected writer and director. He marked his feature film directorial debut with Trees Lounge, which he also wrote and starred in. Buscemi's second feature film as a director, Animal Factory, told the story of a young man sent to prison for an unjustly harsh sentence who eventually becomes a product of his environment. The film, based on a book by Edward Bunker, starred Willem Dafoe and Edward Furlong and premiered at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.

Buscemi also has many TV directing credits, including "Homicide: Life On the Street" (DGA Award nomination); "The Sopranos" (Emmy and DGA Awards for Season 3's "Pine Barrens" episode); "30 Rock," "Nurse Jackie," and "Portlandia."

In 2008, Buscemi started Olive Productions with Stanley Tucci and Wren Arthur, a New York-based company that produces his Emmy-winning AOL series "Park Bench With Steve Buscemi" and various other projects including the documentary "A Good Job: Stories of the FDNY" for HBO.

Buscemi most recently appears in Armando Iannucci's political satire The Death of Stalin, and opposite Richard Gere in Norman from director Joseph Cedar. His voice can be heard in the DreamWorks Animation film The Boss Baby opposite Alec Baldwin. He next appears in Channel 4 (UK) and Amazon Prime's upcoming anthology series "Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams."

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