2012 Hot List: Actors and Actresses to Look Out For
A collection of some very promising hot actors and actresses to look out for in 2012.
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- Gabriella Wilde was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England. She is descended from the aristocratic Gough-Calthorpe family. Her mother, Vanessa Mary Teresa (Hubbard), is the former wife of socialite Sir Dai Llewellyn, 4th Baronet. Her father, businessman John Austen Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, is a former chairman of the Watermark Group, and the grandson of baronet Fitzroy Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe. Her ancestry includes English, as well as some Scottish and Irish.
Vanessa is a former model who sat for David Bailey and John Swannell. Wilde attended Heathfield St Mary's School, Ascot, and St Swithun's School, Winchester, before leaving to pursue a course in art while continuing with her modeling career. She studied fine art at the City and Guilds of London Art School but dropped out to pursue acting. - Actor
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Cosmo Wolski is known for Jane by Design (2012), Isn't (2011) and Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean (2012).- Kenzie Dalton was born on 7 March 1988 in Wilmington, North Carolina, USA. She is an actress, known for Swarm (2023), NCIS (2003) and New Girl (2011).
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Brett Leigh has played roles in the Academy Award Winning & Nominated films The Social Network and Gone Girl. He has appeared on Television and numerous independent films across the globe. Previous to film, he traveled the globe playing the notable roles of Riff and Action in the critically acclaimed Broadway musical West Side Story. Brett Leigh has created films debuting at the Guggenheim museum in New York City, Strassburg France, and Los Angeles. Brett Leigh comes from a background in Ballet and Theatre.- Actress
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After a failed run as a heteronormative woman in Indiana, Jeneta St. Clair now identifies as an LA-based queer she/they having it all, including years of therapy. As a professional comedian, Jeneta has performed at three SF Sketchfest, killed at the LA Laugh Factory, and "came out" to her parents during a tight ten in Long Beach. She's also a SAG-AFTRA actor, writer, producer, makeup artist, and boxing coach (making her a septuple threat!). While working for Laughter On Call and staying safe at home, Jeneta's produced and performed in a mere 350+ live-stream global comedy events for healthcare workers, small businesses, and Fortune 500 companies. She's worked in TV and film for 12 years, co-wrote the comedy web series Valley Drive, and hosted monthly events at the Downtown Women's Center. Jeneta is hosting and performing in an alcohol free, monthly stand up event "Dry Show, Wet Comics" with ticket sales going to different non-profits. Their journey is inspired, and the world needs to get punched by this essential talent.- Aaron Milo was born on September 28, 1984, just outside of Chicago in Rockford, IL. Milo caught the acting bug at the age of 8, when his mother was working in the costume shop of a local community theatre. He grew up doing regional theatre, and had his first New York City experience at the age of 14 and saw 10 Broadway shows in 6 days.
While Milo loved the stage, he decided that he wanted to try out film, and at 17 he attended summer film camp at UCLA. He fell in love with California and film production on that trip, and established that California would be his future home. After graduating high school, he switched career goals for college and got his Bachelor's degree from Columbia College Chicago in Marketing Communication. He spent 6 months interviewing for jobs in that realm of business, and found himself longing more than ever for a career in film.
Milo packed up, and headed for the California sun, where he spent 2 years working hard to support himself and to pursue his goals in film. After all the hard work he finally landed his debut role in the comedy Eating Out Drama Camp as the leading man Benji.
Milo is continuing to pursue his career and living in Los Angeles. - Actress
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Mariah Bonner was born on 18 January 1986 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for The Social Network (2010), Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012) and Rules of Engagement (2007).- Actor
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Actor Cedric Sanders can be seen in the incredible recurring role in Season 18 of the award-winning medical drama "Grey's Anatomy" playing Simon Clark. The series focuses on a group of young doctors at Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital who began their careers at the facility as interns. Simon is a patient struggling in a long-term battle with a serious illness and uses humor to distract himself from how serious his condition really is. He is a kind and devoted husband and father-to-be. Sanders' episodes aired in May of 2022.Episodes now available on Netflix and Hulu.
Sanders can also now be seen in a strong supporting role in Micheal Bay's highly anticipated film, Ambulance on Amazon Prime and Peacock. Needing money to cover his wife's medical bills, a decorated veteran (Jake Gyllenhaal) teams up with his adoptive brother (Vahya Abdul-Mateen II) to steal $32 million from a Los Angeles bank. However, when their getaway goes spectacularly wrong, the desperate thieves hijack an ambulance that's carrying a severely wounded cop and an EMT worker. Caught in a high-speed chase, the two siblings must figure out a way to outrun the law while keeping their hostages alive. Sanders plays Officer Mark Ranshaw, a patrol officer for the LAPD, who's partner is the injured cop in the ambulance that gets kidnapped by Gyllenhaal and Abdul-Mateen II. Throughout the film he is determined to save his partner, single handedly if he must, even if it means risking his life without backup. Ambulance premiered in theaters April 8th.
The talented young Sanders got his first break in the Sundance Film Festival hit The Ten starring Jessica Alba and Paul Rudd. His next roles came quickly afterwards when he landed a supporting role in American Gangster opposite Academy Award Winner Denzel Washington. A flurry of films rapidly ensued; including a lead role in the independent faith-based feature The Least Among You which also stared Oscar winner Louis Gossett Jr. Sanders received the Best Actor Award at the San Diego Film Festival for that performance. A supporting role in David Fincher's critically acclaimed Oscar nominated film The Social Network as well as the Indie car racer dramedy Rocksteady and All Things Fall Apart starring Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson. On the small screen Sanders has lent his talent to multiple hit television shows like "Law & Order," "Law & Order: SVU" with Emmy nominated actor Andre Braugher, "Life Support" with Queen Latifah, "NCIS," "Bones," "9-1-1" and a series regular role on the ABC drama "Mind Games" opposite Steve Zahn and Christian Slater.
No stranger to the stage, Sanders also won the NAACP Theater Award for Best Actor for his performance in the Play production Matter Of Honor. Other Theatre credits include the west- coast premiere of the Tony-Nominated musical The Scottsboro Boys at the Ahmanson Theatre, and Oo Bla Dee at the Two River Theatre, directed by Ruben Santiago Hudson. Born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska, Cedric Sanders graduated from Howard University with a BFA in Acting. He now resides in Texas with his wife and child. For more information contact Shannon Barr at Strategic Public Relations at sbarr@pr-strategic.com- Actor
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Noah Mills is an actor born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He then moved to the United States where he was raised in Baltimore, Maryland. Noah started his career has a model while transitioning into acting. In 2017 he starred on the NBC Drama 'The Brave' as 'Joseph 'McG' McGuire' and can next been seen on NBC's 'The Enemy Within' which will premiere in 2019.- Actor
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Jared Hillman was born in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and director, known for The Social Network (2010), iCarly (2007) and Tandem (2013). He has been married to Natalie Lander since 3 September 2017.- Aldo Quintino is an American actor and model, born in San Clemente, CA. He is best known for his roles as Emilio in the television series Happily Divorced, and as Jesse in the Nickelodeon series Victorious. He has also appeared in MTV's dark comedy show Death Valley, as well as ABC's Off The Map.
- Mark Buckland is known for The Vampire Diaries (2009), Ernie & Cerbie (2018) and The Inspectors (2015).
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Desmond Phillips is known for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015), Let's Be Cops (2014) and Ant-Man (2015).- Jeni Perillo is known for The Vampire Diaries (2009), Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014) and The Nightmare Collection Volume 2.
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Evan Gamble was born on 28 July 1981 in Houston, Texas, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Hap and Leonard (2016), Fear the Walking Dead (2015) and The Vampire Diaries (2009).- Make-Up Department
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Stephen Amell is a Canadian actor, known for portraying Oliver Queen / Green Arrow in the Arrowverse television franchise (based on the comic character of the same name) and Casey Jones in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016).
Stephen Adam Amell was born on May 8, 1981 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to Sandra (Bolté) and Thomas Amell. His cousin is actor Robbie Amell. He is of English, Scottish, German, and one sixteenth French-Canadian, descent. Stephen decided to pursue a career in acting when he was in his teens. He appeared in two episodes of the fourth season of Queer as Folk as the Liberty Ride spinning instructor in 2004. Amell played Adam in the first season of the television series Dante's Cove; he was replaced in the second season by Jon Fleming. In 2007, Amell won a Gemini Award for his guest-starring role on ReGenesis. The same year he was also nominated for a Gemini Award in the Best Ensemble Cast Category for Rent-a-Goalie. He had recurring roles in the TV series Da Kink in My Hair and Heartland. On December 3, 2010, Amell joined the cast of The Vampire Diaries as werewolf 'Brady' for season 2. Amell starred as Joran Van Der Sloot in the Lifetime film Justice for Natalee Holloway which originally aired in May 2011.
On October 2, 2011, season 3 of HBO's series Hung premiered with Amell starring as busboy-turned-prostitute Jason, a younger rival "ho" to Thomas Jane's Ray Drecker. He also appeared as Jim in the fourth season of 90210. Amell announced on October 28, 2011 that he had just finished filming the Christmas episode of New Girl with Zooey Deschanel and Max Greenfield. He touches on the experience of filming his first "network half hour comedy" in an interview with Daemon's TV. On November 9, 2011, Amell was announced for the recurring role of Scottie, a paramedic on ABC's Private Practice. He also plays the role of Travis in Blue Mountain State In January 2012, Amell was cast as the title character in The CW series Arrow, a re-imagining of the comic-book character Green Arrow. On March 31, 2015, Amell joined the film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows as vigilante Casey Jones, which will be released on June 3, 2016. As an avid professional wrestling fan, Amell had long campaigned for a guest appearance on WWE's weekly Raw program, when in late May 2015 it was reported that he was tentatively set to wrestle Stardust at WWE's SummerSlam pay-per-view on August 23, 2015. Amell made his first WWE appearance on the May 25 Raw, where he had a confrontation with Stardust. However, after the real-life death of Stardust's father Dusty Rhodes in June 2015, reports speculated that the match had been scrapped. Despite this, Amell stated at the 2015 Comic Con International in July 2015, "I'm probably gonna do some stuff with the WWE. I don't know if that means a wrestling match. We'll see."
Amell returned to Raw on August 10, continuing his story-line with Stardust when he stepped into the ring after being assaulted in the audience by Stardust, attacking the wrestler until being contained by security. Following a backstage segment with Triple H, it was announced that Neville would team with Amell to face Stardust and King Barrett at SummerSlam. At the event on August 23, Amell and Neville defeated Barrett and Stardust in a tag team match. Neville and Barrett started and after Neville used his speed to control the action, Barrett tagged in Stardust. Stardust insisted that Amell enter the ring, a challenge accepted in a way that both imitated and bettered Stardust's own athletic ring entrance. Stardust first pushed Amell to the canvas, Amell then responded with a kip-up and a stiff front thrust kick to Stardust's chest. For the next few minutes Amell was controlled by Stardust and Barrett, and absorbed punches, kicks, knees, slams, falls from ring to floor, and an attack on the floor by the non-legal man, Stardust. Upon returning to the ring, and hitting Stardust with an Enzuigiri, Amell made a hot tag to Neville, who dominated both opponents. The conclusion of the match came after Amell dove off the top corner ropes onto Stardust and Barrett who were standing on the floor below. The match ended after Neville hit his finisher, the Red Arrow, on Barrett and pinned him. Behind the scenes, wrestlers were said to have been impressed with Amell's performance. There were also talks of a potential singles match with Stardust. On December 21, Amell was awarded a Slammy for the "Celebrity Moment of the Year" for his dive onto Stardust.
Amell has hosted a number of successful fund-raising campaigns via the crowd funded merchandise platform Represent.com. In 2014, Amell partnered with the charity Fuck Cancer to raise almost a million dollars with the release of a T-shirt featuring his face on the front (with a Post-it note on his forehead, and featuring the organization's name). He ended up selling over 60,000 shirts from this campaign. In January 2015, Amell launched his second Represent.com campaign featuring a word he made up, Sinceriously, to benefit two mental health charities: Paws and Stripes, and Stand For The Silent. In August 2015, Amell used his guest appearance on WWE Raw with Stardust to raise funds via his third campaign for children's hospice Emily's House in Toronto. The campaign raised $300,000, and Amell and Stardust presented a check together at Emily's House.
Amell married actress and model 'Cassandra Jean' on December 25, 2012 in a private ceremony in the Caribbean, and for a second time in New Orleans on May 26, 2013. The couple have a daughter, Mavi, born in 2013. Growing up, Amell was a fan of various local sporting teams, such as the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Toronto Raptors and the Toronto Blue Jays. Amell is still very involved with the sports; he often jokes with fans telling them to skip Maple Leafs games and watch Arrow when the team faces a tough opponent, and recently, Amell campaigned to have Jays' third baseman Josh Donaldson elected to the 2015 all-star game.