The Beekeeper

Jason Statham (Actor) .. Adam Clay

Born: September 12, 1972 in Chesterfield

Best Known For: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

Early-life: Born September 12, 1972, in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, but later moved to Great Yarmouth. He played football at school, but a passion for swimming led to his success as a diver on the British National Diving Team. While training at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, he was spotted by a talent scout and became a model for the French Connection clothing company.

Career: While modelling, he met then-unknown film-maker Guy Ritchie, who cast him in his first film, 1998's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, which put them both on the showbiz map. Statham went on to star in Ritchie's follow-up movie Snatch, and then started forging a career in Hollywood. Although John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars was a flop, he soon proved to be one of Britain's most reliable action stars, thanks to hits such as The One, The Transporter and its sequel; The Italian Job; Cellular; Chaos; Crank; War, and The Bank Job. He was among the action star dream line-up in The Expendables and its sequels, and has several more films in production.

Quote: "I'm enthusiastic and ambitious, and I work hard."

Trivia: Statham wants stunt performers to be given their own category at the Oscars.

Jeremy Irons (Actor) .. Wallace Westwyld

Born: September 19, 1948 in Cowes, Isle of Wight

Best Known For: Brideshead Revisited.

Early-life: Born Jeremy John Irons in Cowes on the Isle of Wight on September 19, 1948. He has two older siblings. The young Jeremy was a natural performer, playing drums and the harmonica in a band at Sherborne School in Dorset. Determined to become a professional actor, he trained at the Bristol Old Vic and joined its repertory company. During his time there he portrayed an eclectic mix of roles and gained valuable experience, leading to his acclaimed West End debut in the hit musical Godspell in 1971.

Career: Irons made his TV debut in 1971 in the series The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes and landed several other roles throughout the decade, including in the children's series Play Away. But it was in the 1980s he became widely recognised, thanks to the movie The French Lieutenant's Woman and TV tour de force Brideshead Revisited. These made him a sought after leading man and he went on to appear in productions such as Dead Ringers, Damage, Lolita, Die Hard with a Vengeance and Reversal of Fortune, for which he won an Oscar. He also lent his voice to The Lion King and has trodden the boards on Broadway, starred with his son Samuel in Danny the Champion of the World, and had a major role in The Borgias.

Quote: "I'm never satisfied. I think were I ever satisfied with my work, I'd be in trouble."

Trivia: Irons owns Kilcoe Castle in Co Cork, Ireland. He claims to hate cooking, but is a good horseman and enjoys skiing.

Emmy Raver-Lampman (Actor) .. Agent Verona Parker

Bobby Naderi (Actor) .. Agent Matt Wiley

Josh Hutcherson (Actor) .. Derek Danforth

Born: October 12, 1992 in Union, Kentucky

Best Known For: The Hunger Games films.

Early-life: Joshua Ryan Hutcherson was born in Union, Kentucky, on October 12, 1992 to Michelle and Chris. He has a younger brother, Connor. In 2002, Josh began auditioning for TV pilots in Los Angeles. He starred in two pilots before appearing in an episode of ER. A year later, he played the lead role in the TV movie Miracle Dogs. As a child actor, he went on to appear in a number of Hollywood films.

Career: Hutcherson's first came to prominence in 2007 when he starred alongside AnnaSophia Robb in Walt Disney's hugely popular fantasy drama Bridge to Terabithia. Roles followed in Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008), The Kids Are All Right (2010) and Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012). His big break came in 2012 when he landed the role of Peeta Mellark in The Hunger Games (2012). The film went on to gross more than $690million worldwide. The sequel, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), proved even more popular, earning more than $864million. His other movie credits include The Forger (2012), Red Dawn (2012) and Escobar: Paradise Lost (2014).

Quote: "I have always believed in standing up for what I believe in and I believe that everyone deserves the right to love whoever they love no matter who they are."

Trivia: He provided the voice of Nod in animated movie Epic (2013).

David Witts (Actor) .. Mickey Garnett

Michael Epp (Actor) .. Pettis

Taylor James (Actor) .. Lazarus

Phylicia Rashad (Actor) .. Eloise Parker

Jemma Redgrave (Actor) .. President Danforth

Born: January 14, 1965 in London

Best Known For: Being a member of the Redgrave acting dynasty.

Early-life: Born Jemima Rebecca Redgrave on January 14, 1965, in London. She is the daughter of actor Corin Redgrave and his first wife, former model Deirdre Hamilton-Hill. Her parents divorced when she was nine. She has a brother, Luke, who's a cameraman, and two half-brothers from her father's second marriage to actress Kika Markham. Redgrave claims her childhood home was always full of her mother's friends, some of whom she didn't like. The open house nature of her upbringing made her long for discipline and structure. At 18, she enrolled at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).

Career: Redgrave followed her father, grandparents Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, aunts Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave, and cousins Natasha and Joely Richardson into acting. She started in the theatre, eventually making her movie debut in Dream Demon, and her first TV appearance in Tales of the Unexpected, in 1988. Other early projects include Howards End, Diana: Her True Story, and The Buddha of Suburbia. She became a star thanks to TV series Bramwell, which ended in 1998. Since then she's appeared in such projects as I'll Be There, The Grid, Amnesia, Tom Brown's Schooldays, Frankie and Doctor Who (including the 50th anniversary episode). Redgrave also continues to work on stage.

Quote: "I think acting can be very self-absorbed, and I find that slightly embarrassing. Sometimes it seems such an uninquiring profession."

Trivia: One of Redgrave's hobbies is calligraphy, which she began as a teenager to help improve her poor handwriting.

Minnie Driver (Actor) .. Director Janet Harward

Born: January 31, 1971 in London

Best Known For: Good Will Hunting.

Early-life: Born Amelia Fiona Driver on January 31, 1971, in Finsbury Park, London. Amelia was dubbed Minnie when her sister, Kate, couldn't pronounce her name. Her father was a businessman, her mother an interior designer. Driver was raised in Barbados, but attended Bedales School and finishing schools in Paris and Grenoble, after which she enrolled at the Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts. She made ends meet by working as a singer and guitarist.

Career: Driver's TV debut was in 1990's God on the Rocks. She then appeared in The House of Eliott, and Mr Wroe's Virgins. Her big break came in 1995 when she starred in The Politician's Wife and Circle of Friends. Her most notable movies since include Sleepers, Good Will Hunting (for which she received an Oscar nomination), Grosse Pointe Blank, and Return to Me. In 2003 she appeared in the West End opposite Matthew Perry. She returned to the big screen in the movie version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, and released her debut album in 2004. More recently she's appeared in TV series The Riches and The Deep, and on the big screen in Barney's Version and I Give It A Year.

Quote: "I box as a sport, but I'd never box with a man. I'm not afraid of getting hurt. Quite the opposite: I'm afraid I'd get carried away and hurt the guy."

Trivia: She was inspired to act after being bowled over by Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice (1982).

Don Gilet (Actor) .. Deputy Director Prigg

Best Known For: Babyfather, EastEnders and 55 Degrees North.

Early-life: Born in Walsall in 1967, he was raised with two older sisters and always showed a love of drama. An early job was hosting a children's show called Playabout with Floella Benjamin. He also appeared in the video for Gabrielle's Out of Reach, before taking one-off roles in various TV dramas.

Career: Don's first TV acting job was on The Imaginitively Named Punt and Dennis Show, but his big break came in 2001 with Babyfather, a BBC TWO drama based on the books by Patrick Augustus. After getting his big break playing nice but daft Johnny Lindo, Don Gilet went on to front detective series 55 Degrees North. He joined the cast of EastEnders earlier this year and has admitted that he was considering giving up acting prior to landing the tole. His theatre credits include Orlando in As You Like It at the Royal National Theatre, and the lead role in a critically acclaimed production of Ben Johnson's The Alchemist at London's Riverside Studios. In 2014, he joined the cast of Holby City.

Quote: "The door has opened a little bit wider, but it hasn't been flung open. People haven't just gone and said, 'let's give loads of black people parts', but certainly people realise that we can do it."

Trivia: He has appeared in a number of pantomimes.

David Ayer (Director)

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