- Bryan Singer
Bryan Singer (born September 17 1965) is an American film director. Singer won critical acclaim for his work on "The Usual Suspects", and is especially popular among fans of the sci-fi and comic book genres, for his work on the first two "X-Men" films and "Superman Returns".
- Ben Browder
Robert Benedic Browder, better known as Ben Browder (born December 11, 1962) is an American film and television actor, who garnered minor feature film and television roles before accepting a lead role on the sci-fi TV series "Farscape" and later "Stargate SG-1".
- Paul W. S. Anderson
Paul William Scott Anderson (born March 4, 1965 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England) is a film director who regularly works in sci-fi movies and video game adaptations.
- Brian Cox
Dr Brian Cox (B. E. Cox) is an experimental physicist and Royal Society University Research Fellow. He is a member of the High Energy Physics group at the University of Manchester and also works at CERN. <P> Cox played keyboard for the rock band D:Ream while studying for his honours degree and doctorate. He left the band in 1997. He has also played keyboard for Dare.
- Anthony Michael Hall
Michael Anthony Thomas Charles Hall (born April 14, 1968), known professionally as Anthony Michael Hall, is an American actor, producer and director who achieved stardom in several successful teen-oriented films of the 1980s. Hall began his career in commercials and on stage as a child, and made his screen debut in 1980. His films with director-screenwriter John Hughes, beginning with the popular 1984 coming-of-age comedy "Sixteen Candles", …
- Morena Baccarin
Morena Baccarin (born June 2, 1979) is a Brazilian actress of Italian origins, best known for her role as Inara Serra in the short-lived sci-fi television series "Firefly" and the follow-up movie "Serenity". Morena was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her mother is Brazilian stage and TV actress Vera Setta. When she was 10, Baccarin moved with her family to Greenwich Village, New York, in the United States.
- Manny Coto
Manny Coto is a Cuban-American writer, director and producer of films and television programs. He was the executive producer and showrunner of "Star Trek: Enterprise" in its final season. He is the co-executive producer on the fifth and sixth seasons of "24". Coto graduated from the American Film Institute and has had much experience in sci-fi and fantasy genre.
- Rob Bowman
Rob S. Bowman (Born: May 15, 1960 in Wichita County, Texas, USA) is a prolific American filmmaker most notable for his work on sci-fi series such as "The X-Files" and "Star Trek: The Next Generation". He is also the son of filmmaker Chuck Bowman.
- Teryl Rothery
Teryl Rothery (born November 9, 1965 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian actress. She started her career when she played in the musical "Bye Bye Birdie" at the age of thirteen, and knew that she belonged in front of the camera when she played in the CBC Halloween special "Boo" at the age of eighteen. She is best known for her role as Dr.
- Lake Bell
Lake Bell (born March 24, 1979) is an American actress. Bell was born in New York City to Robin Bell and Harvey Siegel. She has an older brother named Luke Siegel who owns a sliding wall and door company called Raydoor in New York City. They were featured together in InStyle magazine in 2005. She also has two half-sisters, Courtney and Mackenzie. Lake attended Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York before transferring to Rose Bruford College in London, England.
- Roy Dotrice
Roy Dotrice (born May 26, 1925) is a British actor. Dotrice was born in Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands. He served in World War II, and was imprisoned in a German POW camp. He married Kay Newman in 1947, and they have three children: Michele, Yvette and Karen, all of whom are actresses. Dotrice is arguably best known to North American audiences for playing the role of "Father" in the 1980s hit TV series, "Beauty and the Beast", …
- Andrew Niccol
Andrew M. Niccol (born 1964) is a screenwriter, producer, and director. He wrote and directed "Gattaca", "S1m0ne", and "Lord of War". He also wrote and co-produced "The Truman Show", which earned him an Academy Award nomination for best original screenplay in 1999. Niccol was born in Paraparaumu, New Zealand and grew up in Auckland. He left New Zealand at age 21 and began directing commercials in London, England.
- Keith R. A. Decandido
Keith R. A. DeCandido (born April 18, 1969 in New York, United States) is an American sci-fi and fantasy writer. DeCandido was born in the Bronx in New York City, the son of Robert L. DeCandido and GraceAnne A. DeCandido. He claims to have been a "Star Trek" fan even before his birth, as his parents were fans of "Star Trek: The Original Series". While DeCandido is best known for his "Star Trek" fiction, …
- Joel Gretsch
Joel Gretsch is an American actor. His recent roles include Tom Baldwin on the USA Network series "The 4400" and Capt./Maj./Col. Owen Crawford in the Steven Spielberg produced 2002 sci-fi miniseries "Taken". Gretsch studied acting at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis before moving to Los Angeles in 1989. His stage work includes roles in Molière's "Tartuffe" and John Patrick Shanley's "Danny and the Deep Blue Sea".
- Chase Masterson
Chase Masterson (born Christianne Carafano on 26 February 1963 in Colorado Springs, Colorado) is an American actress, best known for portraying the Bajoran Leeta, originally a Dabo girl and later First Lady of Ferenginar, on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", and Ivy Lief on "General Hospital". Other notable appearances include guest starring roles on "Sliders" (as Kelly, the sister of Wade Welles) and "ER".
- Ellen Hopkins
Ellen Hopkins (born 1955) is an American novelist currently residing in the State of Nevada. Educated in California, Hopkins wrote her first poem when she was 9. When she finished her education, she started working for various newspapers and magazines where she wrote articles on Sci-Fi. Since she became a novelist, she has published a number of different books.
- Craig Charles
Craig Charles (born 11 July, 1964 in Liverpool, England) is an English actor, stand up comedian, author, poet, and radio and television presenter, best known for playing Dave Lister in the British cult-favourite sci-fi sitcom "Red Dwarf".
- Octavia E. Butler
Octavia Estelle Butler was an American science fiction writer, one of very few African-American women in the field. She won both Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant.
- Jonathan Harris
Jonathan Harris (November 6, 1914 - November 3, 2002), was an American stage and character actor. In the six decades of his established career in television, two of his best-known roles were villainous characters. In the early 1960s, his first role was that of Michael Rennie's bad guy partner, Bradford Webster on "The Third Man", and as the villainous agent, Dr. Zachary Smith, in the popular 1960s sci-fi series, …
- Sabrina Lloyd
Sabrina Lloyd (born November 20, 1970 in Fairfax, Virginia) is an American film and television actress. She was raised in Eustis, Florida. She is perhaps best known for roles as Wade Welles in science fiction series "Sliders" and as Natalie Hurley in the ABC sitcom "Sports Night"
- John Musker
John Musker (born November 8 1953 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) is an American animation director. Musker is one half of America's leading contemporary animation team with Ron Clements. He first met Clements during the production of "The Fox and the Hound" (1981), where he worked as a character animator under Clements. Musker later worked with Clements again on the ambitious animated flop "The Black Cauldron" (1985).
- Brinke Stevens
Brinke Stevens is an American actress, model and writer. She was born on September 20 1954 in San Diego, California. Her birth name was Charlene Elizabeth Brinkman. As of 2006, Stevens has appeared in over 100 movies, primarily in low budget horror, sci-fi and fantasy film genre. From her long list of acting credits she has gained notoriety as a scream queen. In addition to acting she has co-written a number of screenplays, co-produced two documentaries, …
- Bert I. Gordon
Bert I. Gordon (born Bert Ira Gordon, September 24, 1922 in Kenosha, WI) is an American film director most famous for such sci-fi and horror B-movies as "The Amazing Colossal Man" and "Village of the Giants". Most of Gordon's work is in the idiom of giant monster films, for which he used rear-projection to create the special effects.
- Angela Cartwright
Angela Margaret Cartwright (born September 9, 1952 in Altrincham, Cheshire, England) is an English-born American actress, primarily known for her roles in movies and television. She is best known as a child actress for her roles in the film "The Sound of Music", as Danny Thomas's daughter, Linda Williams, in the 1950s TV series, …
- Julian Richings
Julian Richings (born September 8, 1955 in Oxford, England) is a Canadian actor. He has become a familiar figure to Canadian cinema and television audiences, appearing in over 50 films and 20 separate television series. After training in drama at the University of Exeter and touring North America with a British stage production, Richings moved to Toronto, Canada in 1984.
- Marjean Holden
Marjean Holden is an American actress, known for such television roles as Dr. Sarah Chambers in the short-lived sci-fi series "Crusade" and Arina in the adventure series "BeastMaster". She also appeared as Sheeva in the film "Mortal Kombat: Annihilation". Holden made her professional acting debut in 1987 in the feature film "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure". She has guest-starred in "JAG", "Tales from the Crypt", …
- Steve Barron
Steve Barron (born May 4, 1956) is a director and producer, best known for directing the films "Coneheads" (1993), "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" (1990) and the innovative music video for a-ha's "Take on Me". He was born in Dublin, Ireland, the son of filmmaker Zelda Barron. He attended St Marylebone Grammar School, was in forms 1s, 2s and 3s, he supported Manchester United, he appeared in the film if very briefly.
- Alexandra Holden
Alexandra Holden (born April 30, 1977 in Northfield, Minnesota, USA), is an American actress who has starred in a number of small roles. Holden played film roles in "Drop Dead Gorgeous" as Mary Johanson and in "Sugar & Spice" as Fern Rogers. She also starred in the low budget slasher film Wishcraft alongside fellow actor Michael Weston, whom she is seen often out and about with. Alexandra Holden has also had roles in TV and music videos.
- Carla Speed McNeil
Carla Speed McNeil is a sci-fi writer, cartoonist, and illustrator of comics. Her chief work is the ongoing science fiction comic series "Finder", which she has published since 1996, making her one of the few widely distributed self-published comic artists working today. She has also written and illustrated comics for anthologies including "Dignifying Science" and "Smut Peddler", and worked as an illustrator on the Oni Press series Queen and Country.
- John Henderson
John Henderson is a British film and television director (b. England 1949) His first directing job was for "Spitting Image" on ITV, which won him a BAFTA. Henderson's other television credits include the multi award winning series "The Borrowers", the comedy "How Do You Want Me?" starring Dylan Moran and BBC's Sci-fi comedy series "Hyperdrive". He has also directed several feature films including "Loch Ness", …
- Kathy Hilton
Kathy Hilton (born Kathleen Elizabeth Avanzino on) is an American socialite and sometime actress. She is also the mother of socialites Paris and Nicky Hilton.
- Rod Cameron
Born Nathan Roderick Cox (b. in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on December 7, 1910 - d. in Gainesville, Georgia on December 21, 1983), Rod Cameron was a movie actor whose movie career stretched from the 1930s to the 1970s. Though made several horror, war, action and sci-fi movies, the lanky Canadian is best remembered for western movies. Cameron started out as a stuntman and bit player for Paramount Pictures.
- Mara Corday
Mara Corday (born Marilyn Joan Watts on January 3, 1930 in Santa Monica, California) is a showgirl, model, actress, "Playboy" Playmate and a 1950s cult figure. Wanting a career in films, Mara Corday came to Hollywood while still in her teens and found work as a showgirl at the Earl Carroll Theatre on Sunset Boulevard.
- Robert Leeshock
Robert Michael Leeshock (born December 13, 1967 in Clifton, NJ) is an American actor. Before devoting himself to a full-time acting career, Leeshock completed an engineering degree at New York's Cornell University in 1989. He is best known in television for portraying the role of Liam Kincaid on the sci-fi drama series "Earth: Final Conflict" from 1998 to 2001.
- Mala Powers
Mary Ellen "Mala" Powers (December 20 1931 - June 11 2007) was an American film actress. She was born in San Francisco, California. In 1940 her family moved to Los Angeles. Her father was an executive with United Press. In the summer of her relocation, Powers attended the Max Reinhardt Junior Workshop where she enjoyed her first role in a play before a live audience.
- Tom Scioli
Thomas Scioli is an American comic book artist and writer best known for working in a style similar to Jack Kirby. His epic sci-fi/fantasy series "The Myth of 8-Opus" won a 1999 Xeric Grant and attracted mild industry attention, …
- Jean Rabe
Jean Rabe is a fantasy and sci-fi author and editor who has worked on the Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, and BattleTech series, as well as many others. Early in her career she worked for the Quincy Herald-Whig in Quincy, Illinois, and then for the Evansville Courier & Press in Evansville, Indiana. Then she went on to work for TSR, Inc., for the RPGA, writing magazine articles, writing and editing Dungeons & Dragons and Gamma World gaming modules and eventually novels.
- Graham Crowden
Graham Crowden (born 30 November 1922 in Edinburgh), is a Scottish actor. Crowden is best known for his roles in BBC comedy-dramas, including Dr. Jock McCannon in "A Very Peculiar Practice" and Tom Ballard in "Waiting for God". He has also had a long and distinguished theatrical career, and originated the role of The Player King in "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead", the play by Tom Stoppard.
- Eddie Byrne
Eddie Byrne (born January 31, 1911 in Birmingham, England; died August 21, 1981 in Dublin, Ireland) was a British actor. He is probably best known for his minor role as General Vanden Willard in "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope", but fans of cult sci-fi might also remember him as the skeptical Inspector Mulrooney in "The Mummy" and as the kindly Dr. Reginald Landers in "Island of Terror".
- Adrian Hodges
Adrian Hodges is a British television and film writer. His debut was the 1991 television drama "Tell Me That You Love Me", followed by screenplays for "The Bridge" (1992) and "Tom & Viv" (1994). After his film adaptation of Julian Barnes's "Metroland" (1997) Hodges concentrated on writing for television, including "Amongst Woman" (1998), "The Lost World" (2001) and "Charles II: The Power and The Passion" (2003).