OCEAN’S 8 (2018) Cast & Crew

Director Gary Ross and cast Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, and Anne Hathaway.

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GARY ROSS (Director / Writer), a four-time Academy Award-nominated writer, director and producer, creates original stories that explore humanity through equal parts drama and humor. From his original screenplays for "Big" and "Dave," and his adaptations and direction of "Seabiscuit" and "The Hunger Games," to his original screenplays and direction of "Pleasantville" and "Ocean's 8," Ross's work as a filmmaker has been distinguished by a fascination with that which influences the best and worst in human behavior.

Previously, Ross developed, co-wrote and directed the record-setting box office hit "The Hunger Games," which spawned a hugely successful four-part franchise based on Suzanne Collins' dystopian trilogy. His last film, "The Free State of Jones," was the product of years of research, including a two-year fellowship at Harvard University, where he studied the Civil War era and Reconstruction.

Ross launched his career as co-writer of the hit film "Big," starring Tom Hanks, which earned him his first Academy Award nomination. Next, he drew on his experience in and love of the American political process for his screenplay for the Capra-esque comedy hit "Dave," for which he received his second Academy Award nomination and won the esteemed Writer's Guild of America (WGA) Paul Selvin Award.

In 1998, Ross marked his directorial debut with the ambitious and critically acclaimed "Pleasantville," which he also wrote and produced. In 2003, he wrote, directed and produced the much-celebrated epic feature "Seabiscuit," starring Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, and Chris Cooper. The film received seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Screenplay for Ross. He also received Directors Guild of America (DGA), Producers Guild of America (PGA) and WGA Award nominations, the USC Scripter Award, and several other critical award recognitions. Ross also developed, wrote and produced the animated adventure "The Tale of Despereaux," based on Kate DiCamillo's best-selling children's novel.

Ross's first book, Bartholomew Biddle and the Very Big Wind, was published in fall 2013 by Candlewick Press. A children's fantasy, the illustrated book is written completely in verse. Ross is active in civic and charitable work. During his tenure as President of the Los Angeles Library, he established mentoring programs for inner city youth and expanded teenage and youth-at-risk services throughout the Los Angeles library system. He has served on numerous boards and charitable organizations, including his current service on the L.A. River Revitalization Corps, which is working with Architect Frank Gehry to transform the LA River into one of the largest urban parks in the nation.

SANDRA BULLOCK (Debbie Ocean) is one of Hollywood's most sought after leading ladies. In 2014, she received her second Academy Award nomination, for Best Actress, for her performance as Dr. Ryan Stone in the critically acclaimed sci-fi thriller "Gravity," directed by Alfonso Cuaron. Her portrayal also garnered her nominations for the Critics' Choice, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards, as well as her first BAFTA Award nomination. Earning $723 million worldwide, "Gravity" is Bullock's highest-grossing film and her most critically acknowledged, winning seven Academy Awards. Most recently, Bullock completed production on Netflix's post-apocalyptic thriller "Bird Box," directed by Susanne Bier.

In 2010, Bullock won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in "The Blind Side," in which she portrays Leigh Anne Tuohy, the matriarch of a conservative suburban household. Based on the true story of Michael Oher, "The Blind Side" was released in 2009 and earned $309 million at the global box office. Bullock also won a Critics' Choice Award, a Golden Globe, and a SAG Award for her role. In the same year, Bullock starred in the enormously successful "The Proposal," which earned over $317 million worldwide and brought her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy. In 2013, Bullock starred alongside Melissa McCarthy in the buddy cop comedy "The Heat," which was the second-highest-grossing comedy of the year.

Following acclaimed roles in several motion pictures, Bullock's breakthrough came in the 1994 runaway hit "Speed." Her next two features, "While You Were Sleeping," for which she earned her first Golden Globe nomination, and "The Net," were both critical and popular successes. Her early credits also include starring roles in "The Vanishing," "The Thing Called Love," "Demolition Man," "Wrestling Ernest Hemingway," "Two If by Sea," "A Time to Kill," "In Love and War," "Practical Magic," "Divine Secrets of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood," and the psychological thriller "Murder by Numbers," which she also executive produced. She also produced and starred in the hit comedy "Miss Congeniality," as well as the sequel, "Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous."

She went on to receive critical acclaim for her role as Harper Lee in "Infamous," which chronicles Truman Capote's life from 1959 through 1965. Her other films include the Oscar-winning Best Picture "Crash"; "The Lake House," opposite Keanu Reeves; the psychological thriller "Premonition"; the drama "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close"; and the political drama "Our Brand is Crisis."

In addition to her Oscar, Golden Globe, and SAG Awards, Bullock has received numerous awards and nominations for her acting, including four MTV Movie Awards, nine Teen Choice Awards, ten People's Choice Awards, and three Critics' Choice Awards.

Bullock has donated millions of dollars to support the work of the American Red Cross, including donations in response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunamis, and relief efforts following the earthquakes in Haiti and Japan, and Hurricane Harvey in 2017. In addition, she continually supports New Orleans' Warren Easton Charter School, the oldest public high school in the state of Louisiana, which was damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. In 2013, she was presented with the first ever People's Choice Award for Favorite Humanitarian.

CATE BLANCHETT (Lou) served as the co-artistic director and co-CEO of Sydney Theatre Company, alongside Andrew Upton from 2008-2013. She is a graduate of the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art and holds Honorary Doctorates of Letters from the University of New South Wales, the University of Sydney and Macquarie University.

This year, Blanchett served as Jury President of the 71st Cannes Film Festival in France. In 2014, Blanchett starred as Jasmine in Woody Allen's "Blue Jasmine," for which she won her second Academy Award, for Best Actress. Her performance also earned her Screen Actors Guild (SAG), Golden Globe, BAFTA and Independent Spirit Awards, as well as numerous critics' group awards, all for Best Actress.

The following year, Blanchett starred alongside Rooney Mara in "Carol," directed by Todd Haynes and based on the Patricia Highsmith novel The Price of Salt. She received Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe, Independent Spirit and SAG Award nominations for her work in the film's title role. Blanchett also served as an executive producer on the project, produced in association with Dirty Films, the company she founded with Andrew Upton. Also in 2015, Blanchett appeared in "Cinderella," and starred opposite Robert Redford in "Truth," portraying Mary Mapes, whose memoir, Truth and Duty: The Press, The President and The Privilege of Power, was adapted for the film. Dirty Films also received a producing credit on "Truth."

In 2017, Blanchett was seen in "Thor: Ragnarok," the third installment of the Marvel franchise, as well as Julian Rosefeldt's "Manifesto." This year, she will star in "Where'd You Go Bernadette," the film adaptation of Maria Semple's The New York Times best-selling novel; "Mowgli"; and "The House with a Clock in Its Walls," based on John Bellairs' 1973 novel.

In 2004, Blanchett won her first Academy Award, for Best Supporting Actress, for her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's Howard Hughes biopic "The Aviator," for which she also won BAFTA and SAG Awards and received a Golden Globe nomination. In 2008, Blanchett was nominated for two Oscars: for Best Actress for "Elizabeth: The Golden Age," and for Best Supporting Actress for "I'm Not There," making her only the fifth actor in Academy history to be nominated in both acting categories in the same year. Additionally, she received dual SAG and BAFTA Award nominations, for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress respectively, for "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" and "I'm Not There." For the latter, she also won a Golden Globe Award, an Independent Spirit Award, several critics groups' awards and the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 2007 Venice Film Festival.

She earned her first Oscar nomination, and won BAFTA, Golden Globe and London Film Critics Circle Awards, for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth I in Shekhar Kapur's "Elizabeth." She later received Oscar, Golden Globe and SAG Award nominations for her performance in "Notes on a Scandal." Additionally, Blanchett has garnered Golden Globe nominations, for Best Actress, for the title role in Joel Schumacher's "Veronica Guerin" and her work in Barry Levinson's "Bandits." She previously received another BAFTA Award nomination for her performance in Anthony Minghella's "The Talented Mr. Ripley," and an Independent Spirit Award nomination for her work in Jim Jarmusch's "Coffee and Cigarettes."

Blanchett originated the role of Galadriel in Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" Trilogy and reprised her role in Jackson's "The Hobbit" Trilogy. Her film credits include George Clooney's "The Monuments Men"; Joe Wright's "Hanna"; Ridley Scott's "Robin Hood"; David Fincher's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"; Steven Spielberg's "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"; Steven Soderbergh's "The Good German"; Alejandro G. Iñárritu's "Babel"; and Wes Anderson's "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou."

Among her earlier film credits are Ron Howard's "The Missing"; Gillian Armstrong's "Charlotte Gray"; Lasse Hallstrom's "The Shipping News"; Rowan Woods' "Little Fish"; Mike Newell's "Pushing Tin"; Oliver Parker's "An Ideal Husband"; Sam Raimi's "The Gift"; Sally Potter's "The Man Who Cried"; Bruce Beresford's "Paradise Road"; "Thank God He Met Lizzie," for which she won the Australian Film Institute (AFI), Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) and the Sydney Film Critics Awards for Best Supporting Actress; and Gillian Armstrong's "Oscar and Lucinda," for which she earned an AFI nomination for Best Actress.

Blanchett made her Broadway debut in early 2017 in the Sydney Theatre Company and Stuart Thompson production of "The Present," based on Andrew Shakhov's "Platonov," earning both Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations for her performance. She first starred in the production, which was written by Andrew Upton and directed by John Crowley, when it premiered in Sydney in August 2015. Blanchett's other roles on stage include "Hedda Gabler" for which she won the Ibsen Centennial Award, Helpmann Award and the MO Award for Best Actress; Richard II in the celebrated STC production of "The War of the Roses"; Blanche Du Bois in Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire," which traveled from Sydney to Washington and New York and for which she received the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Actress in a non-resident production; Yelena in Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya," in a new adaptation by Andrew Upton, which toured to Washington in 2011 and New York in 2012 and for which she received the Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Play and the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Actress in a non-resident production; and Lotte in Botho Strauss' "Gross und Klein," which toured extensively throughout Europe in 2012 and was part of the London Cultural Olympiad, and for which she received the Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Play. Blanchett performed opposite Isabelle Huppert in STC's production of Jean Genet's "The Maids," directed by Benedict Andrews and co-adapted by Andrew Upton and Andrews.

In 2017, Blanchett was awarded the Companion of the Order of Australia in the General Division for her eminent service to the performing arts as an international stage and screen actor, through seminal contributions as director of artistic organizations, as a role model for women and young performers, and as a supporter of humanitarian and environmental causes. She has been awarded the Centenary Medal for Service to Australian Society through Acting and, in 2007, was named one of TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People. In 2012, she was awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister for Culture, in recognition of her significant contributions to the arts. She has also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

In 2008, Blanchett co-chaired the creative stream of the Prime Minister of Australia's National 2020 Summit. She is a patron of the Sydney Film Festival and an ambassador for the Australian Conservation Foundation and the Australian Film Institute. Blanchett is also a supporter of the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency and was named the UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador in May 2016. She has undertaken fact-finding missions to Lebanon and Jordan to meet refugees and stateless people who have been displaced by the Syrian conflict. She is committed to raising awareness on issues of forced displacement, and, in particular, on the scourge of statelessness which affects millions people worldwide, denying them basic rights, including access to education and healthcare and the ability to work and travel.

ANNE HATHAWAY (Daphne Kluger) is an Academy Award-winning actress known for her versatility as an actor. She is also gaining success as a producer.

Hathaway was most recently seen in Nacho Vigalondo's "Colossal," with Jason Sudeikis and Dan Stevens. She will soon be seen in "The Hustle," opposite Rebel Wilson, and "Serenity," opposite Matthew McConaughey and Diane Lane. Both films are set to be released in 2018.

In 2012, Hathaway starred as Fantine in Tom Hoopers' screen adaptation of the musical phenomenon "Les Miserables," for which she garnered Academy, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild (SAG), and BAFTA Awards for Best Supporting Actress. She was also honored by a number of critics groups, including the National Board of Review and London Film Critics Circle.

In 2008, she was nominated for an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and SAG Award, for Best Actress, for her performance in Jonathan Demme's critically acclaimed film "Rachel Getting Married." The National Board of Review, Chicago Film Critics' Association, and the Broadcast Film Critics' Association all named Hathaway Best Actress for this role.

Her additional film credits include "Alice Through the Looking Glass," "The Intern," "Interstellar," "Don Peyote," "Song One," "Don Jon," "The Dark Knight Rises," "One Day," "Rio," "Alice In Wonderland," "Valentine's Day," "Bride Wars," "Passengers," "Get Smart," "Becoming Jane," "The Devil Wears Prada," "Brokeback Mountain," "Havoc," "Ella Enchanted," "The Cat Returns," "Nicholas Nickleby," "The Other Side of Heaven," "The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement," and "The Princess Diaries."

Hathaway first gained Hollywood's attention for her turn in the television series "Get Real." She has also had an equal measure of success with television voiceovers, including "Family Guy" and "The Simpsons," for which she received an Emmy Award.

A veteran of the theatre, Hathaway appeared in the Lincoln Center Encore series presentation of "Carnival," for which she won the prestigious 57th Annual Clarence Derwent Award. Her additional theatre credits include "Grounded" (The Public Theatre), "Twelfth Night" (Shakespeare in the Park), and "Woman in White" (an Andrew Lloyd Webber workshop).

As an actress, Hathaway studied at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey, Barrow Group in New York City, and at NYU's Collaborative Arts Project's "Cap 21," where she focused on her musical theater training. In April 2005, Barrow Group honored Hathaway for her achievements on behalf of the organization as the first and only teen ever admitted to their intensive acting program.

Hathaway was appointed as UN Women's Global Ambassador in 2016, where she works with the UN Women to foster more positive mindsets and practical arrangements around workplaces that build and support equality for women. She also serves on the advisory board for Lollipop Theater Network, which is an organization that screens movies in hospitals for pediatric patients suffering from chronic or life-threatening illness. Additionally, she recently began working at The Nike Foundation's "Girl Effect.

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