Matthew McConaughey
Matthew McConaughey was born in Uvalde, Texas in November of 1969. He has enjoyed critical success in dozens of feature films, beginning with his breakout role in Dazed and Confused (1993). In the 2000s, he was well-known for starring in romantic comedies, including The Wedding Planner (2001), How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003), Failure to Launch (2006), Fool's Gold (2008), and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009). Following a desire to switch to more dramatic roles, McConaughey's performance in Dallas Buyers Club (2013) earned him an Academy Award, Critics' Choice Movie Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award, all for Best Actor, among several other awards and nominations. In addition to his starring role as Cooper in Interstellar, McConaughey's 2014 also featured him in the role of Rust Cohle in the first season of the television show True Detective, for which he won the Critics' Choice Television Award and TCA Award, and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award. As of this writing, he is slated for several major film roles in the coming year, including opposite his Interstellar co-star in Anne Hathaway in the erotic thriller Serenity.
Anne Hathaway
Anne Hathaway was born in Brooklyn, New York in November of 1982. In 2015, she was one of the world's highest-paid actresses, having starred in films grossing a total of more than $6 billion worldwide. She made her film debut in the Disney comedy The Princess Diaries (2001), and was noted afterward for films like Brokeback Mountain (2005) and The Devil Wears Prada (2006). She would later enjoy critical success with films such as Bride Wars (2009), Valentine's Day (2010) and Love & Other Drugs (2010).
Interstellar was not Hathaway's first time working with director Christopher Nolan; she also appeared in The Dark Knight Rises (2012), the final installment in Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy, where she portrayed Selina Kyle, better known as Catwoman. As of this writing, Hathaway is set to star in the all-female Ocean's 8, scheduled for release in 2018.
Jessica Chastain
Jessica Chastain was born in Sacramento County, California in March of 1977. She studied acting at the Juilliard School, during which time she made her professional stage debut as the titular female character in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. After college, she enjoyed several television roles before making her film debut in the drama Jolene (2008). Her most acclaimed films have come in recent years, including Interstellar (2014), A Most Violent Year (2014), The Martian (2015), Miss Sloane (2016), and most recently, Molly's Game (2017), in which she played the titular role and for which she received critical acclaim.
Chastain is married to the fashion executive Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo. She is the founder of the production company Freckle Films, created to promote diversity in film. She is vocal about mental health issues, as well as gender and racial equality.
Michael Caine
Sir Michael Caine was born in London in March of 1933. He began his acting career in the 60s in such movies as Zulu (1964), The Ipcress File (1965), and Alfie (1966), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. Caine has, in fact, been nominated for an Academy Award for acting in every decade from the 1960s to the 2000s. As of this writing, he's appeared in over 115 films and is regarded as a British film icon. He's known more recently for films such as The Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception (2010), and Dunkirk (2017), all of which were also directed by Christopher Nolan. In 2000, Caine received a BAFTA Fellowship and was even knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of his contribution to cinema.
Casey Affleck
Casey Affleck was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts in August of 1975. He enjoyed success as a child actor, appearing in the PBS television film Lemon Sky (1988) and the ABC miniseries The Kennedys of Massachusetts (1990). His breakthrough came as an adult in 2007, however, when he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the Western drama The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, also acting in the crime drama Gone Baby Gone, directed by his brother Ben Affleck. In 2016, Affleck starred as the lead in the drama film Manchester by the Sea, a performance for which he won the Golden Globe, BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Actor, and a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination, in additions to dozens of other awards. He also recently garnered critical acclaim for his role as C in David Lowery's film A Ghost Story (2017).
John Lithgow
John Lithgow is an American actor, musician, poet, author, comedian, and singer, born in Rochester, New York in October of 1945. His family moved quite a bit as a child; he spent his younger years in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and as a teenager moved first to Akron, Ohio and then to Lakewood, Ohio. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1967 with a Bachelor's degree in History and Literature.
Lithgow has enjoyed a career on stage and in films and television for over 5 decades. He has won two Tony Awards, six Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and been nominated for 2 Academy Awards and 4 Grammy Awards. He is most noted for his television roles as Dick Solomon in 3rd Rock From the Sun (1996-2001), Arthur Mitchell in the drama Dexter (2009), and Sir Winston Churchill in the drama The Crown (2016), for all of which he won Emmy Awards. His notable films include Footloose (1984), Raising Cain (1992), Shrek (2001), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Interstellar (2014), and Daddy's Home 2 (2017).
Wes Bentley
Wesley Cook Bentley is an American actor born in Jonesboro, Arkansas in September of 1978. He attended the Juilliard School's Drama Division but dropped out after his first year to pursue acting full-time. He has appeared in popular films such as American Beauty (1999), in which his performance as Ricky Fitts earned him a nomination for a BAFTA Award for Supporting Actor, as well as The Hunger Games (2012) and Interstellar (2014). He also appeared in the 4th, 5th, and 6th seasons of FX's show American Horror Story (2011-present).
David Gyasi
David Gyasi was born in Hammersmith, London in January of 1980 to a family from Ghana. He is best known for his roles in Cloud Atlas (2012) and Interstellar (2014), as well as the lead role of Lex Carnahan in The CW miniseries Containment.
Matt Damon
Matt Damon was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in October of 1970. He attended Harvard University in his hometown, but left early to pursue acting full-time. He is well recognized as co-author of the screenplay for the film Good Will Hunting (1997), which he co-wrote with Ben Affleck and for which the two won the Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Matt Damon has since enjoyed widespread success as an actor and producer. His notable films include Saving Private Ryan (1998), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), The Departed (2006), the Bourne franchise (2002-2016), the Ocean's trilogy (2001-2007), Interstellar (2014), and The Martian (2015). Damon also produced Manchester by the Sea (2016), for which he was additionally nominated for an Academy Award. Damon is ranked among Forbes magazine's most bankable stars and is one of the highest-grossing actors of all time.
Ellen Burstyn
Ellen Burstyn was born in Detroit, Michigan in December of 1932. Since then, she has enjoyed an acting career spanning 7 decades, beginning with stage acting in 1958. She is one of the few performers to have won the Triple Crown of Acting, and in 2013, she was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. Her notable films include The Last Picture Show (1971), for which she garnered her first Academy Award nomination, The Exorcist (1973), and Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), for which she won an Academy Award. To date, she's earned seven additional Golden Globe Award nominations, five Emmy Award nominations (two wins), and a total of four Academy Award nominations.
Mackenzie Foy
Mackenzie Foy was born in Los Angeles in December of 2000. She began modeling as a young child, and by the age of 12 had her breakout acting role as Renesmee Cullen in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 2. Her role as young Murph in Interstellar earned her critical acclaim, a Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor, and several other awards nominations. At present, she is set to star in Disney's The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, to be released in 2018.
Timothee Chalamet
Timothée Chalamet was born in New York City in December of 1995. He first began acting at the age of 13 in various short films before appearing in the TV series Homeland. Shortly before his role as young Tom in Interstellar in 2014, Chalamet made his feature film debut in Jason Reitman's drama Men, Women & Children (2014). In 2017, Chalamet rose to considerably larger prominence for his supporting role as Kyle Scheible in Ladybird, and even more so for his critically acclaimed performance as Elio Perlman in Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name (2017), for which he was nominated for numerous awards, including a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama, as well as the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role.
