Jodhi May (born May 1975) is an English actress. Born in Camden Town, London, England, she first acted at the age of 12 in 1988's " A World Apart". The role earned her a best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival, shared with her co-stars Barbara Hershey and Linda Mvusi. She remains the youngest recipient of the award. Other than a brief lull while studying English at Wadham College, Oxford, she has had near constant work in the subsequent two decades, …

Shawn Slovo is a screenwriter, best known for the film "A World Apart", based on her childhood in South Africa under apartheid. She is the daughter of the late South African Communist Party leader Joe Slovo, and Ruth First. She also wrote the screenplay for the 2006 film Catch a Fire, which is also a historical film about apartheid. In the late 1970's she served as Robert De Niro's personal assistant while he made the films The King of Comedy and Raging Bull.

Sarah Radclyffe (born November 14, 1950), sometimes credited as Sarah Radcliffe is a British film producer. She began working as Associative producer in the late 1970s on movies like The Tempest by Derek Jarman. In 1984 she worked on the series The Comic Strip Presents and in the same year she founded the production company Working Title Films together with her partner Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner.

Gustaw Herling-Grudziński was one of the greatest Polish essayists and thinkers. He is best known for writing a personal account of life in the Soviet gulag - "A World Apart". He was born in Kielce into a Jewish family. His studies of Polish literature at Warsaw University were interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War. During the Fall of 1939 he co-founded an underground resistance organization "Polska Ludowa Akcja Niepodległościowa, PLAN".

Irna Phillips was an American writer who created and scripted many of the first American soap operas. She is considered by many to be the "mother" of the genre. Phillips is best known for creating radio and TV soap operas. She created or co-created the following series: * "Another World" (1964-1999) * "As the World Turns" (1956-present) * "The Brighter Day" (1948-1956 on radio and 1954-1962 on television) * "Guiding Light" (1937-1956 on radio, …

Susan Michaelin Sullivan (born November 18, 1942 in New York, New York) is an American actress, most known for her roles in movies, soap operas and television, as Robert Foxworth's later David Selby's wife and Jane Wyman's long-suffering niece and daughter-in-law, Maggie Gioberti Channing, on the 1980s night-time soap opera, "Falcon Crest" (a role she played from 1981 to 1989), and as Thomas Gibson's snobbish country-club mother and owner, …

William Prince (born January 26, 1913, Nichols, New York; died October 8, 1996, Tarrytown, New York) was an American character actor who appeared in numerous soap operas and made dozens of guest appearances on primetime series. After a mostly undistinguished movie career in the late 1940s, Prince moved to television in the 1950s and began making numerous appearances on anthology drama series such as "Studio One", "Philco Television Playhouse", …

James Noble (born March 5, 1922 in Dallas, Texas) is an American actor best known for his portrayal of the slightly daffy Governor Eugene Gatling on the popular 1980s sitcom "Benson". He began his career in Soap Operas, most notably, "The Brighter Day"; "As the World Turns" and "A World Apart". In 1985 he appeared as King Rupert in the "Faerie Tale Theatre" production of "Cinderella".

Clifton Davis (born October 4, 1945 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor who has appeared on television shows such as "A World Apart" (playing Matt Hampton) and "That's My Mama" (on which he had the lead role) in the 1970s, and on "Amen" from 1986 to 1991. Davis has also acted on Broadway, and he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in 1972 for his performance in a musical version of "Two Gentlemen of Verona".

Augusta Dabney (b. October 23 1918, Berkeley, California) is an American actress best known for her role as Isabelle Alden on the daytime series "Loving". She played the role from 1983-87, 1988-91, and again from 1994-95. In the early days of live television, she appeared in numerous episodes of such anthology drama series as "Studio One", "Kraft Television Theatre", and "Robert Montgomery Presents".

David Birney is an American actor. He was born in Washington, D.C..

Dorothy Lyman (born April 18, 1947 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) is an accomplished television actress, director and producer. She is most commonly known for her work on the syndicated television series "Mama's Family", as Naomi Harper. Lyman first appeared on her first soap opera "A World Apart" as Julie Stark in 1971. A couple of years later, Dorothy appeared as the evil Elly Jo Jamison on "The Edge of Night".