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Hasan Minhaj was born on 23 September 1985 in Davis, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Daily Show (1996), 2017 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (2017) and Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King (2017). He has been married to Beena Minhaj since 2 January 2015. They have one child.

Andy Weir was born on 16 June 1972 in Davis, California, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for The Martian (2015), Artemis and Untitled Andy Weir/Lord Miller Project.

Mauricio Mendoza was born in Davis, California to a Colombian mother from Pasto, and father from Bogota. After his birth, his parents returned to Bogotá, and to Cartagena for a few years. In 1982 at the age of 12, his family relocated to Davis, CA. Mauricio's mother always encouraged his brothers and him to perform. He was inspired by actor Raúl Juliá's ability to sing, dance, perform in film, and his great strength as a Shakespearean actor. He attributes his Masters in Classical Theater to the motivation felt from Juliá's career. He also found inspiration and motivation as an actor in Esai Morales after seeing his performance in La Bamba, and feeling he had finally seen an actor on screen that he could identify with.

Mauricio lived in San Diego where he got his Bachelors in Musical Theater from the United States International University, his masters from the University of San Diego and Old Globe Professional Actor Training Program in Classical Theater. His mentors, William Virchis, director/teacher and Richard M. Brunelle, his music teacher pushed him to become the best and to believe in himself by telling him that he had what it took to achieve his dream. Once he graduated, he decided to pursue everything from theater, to commercials, television, film, and voice overs. He moved to Los Angeles in 1994 where his versatility, and being fully bilingual allowed him to maintain constant work in all mediums.

Mauricio has been part of four groundbreaking Latino based television shows including being series regular in Sony Tristar's /Telemundo's Angeles for one season and Showtime's Resurrection Blvd., which lasted three years with best actor nominations. His most recent roles include work in La Quinceañera, East Los High, Hacienda Heights, Criminal Minds, The Last Man On Earth, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larceny with Dolph Lundren, Crave-The Fast Life, Blow and True Form Film's The Internationals, which he also produced. He looks forward to working with directors such as Alejandro G. Iñarritú, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, and Robert Rodríguez, and with actors Al Pacino, Denzel Washington, Antonio Banderas, Javier Bardem, Hugh Jackman, Robert De Niro and John Travolta.

In 2007 Mauricio became interested in working as producer. In an assertive move to change things in Hollywood and to be able to create his own opportunities he became the executive producer and producer of the Imagen Award winning 13 episode web series Encounters along with Miguel Torres and Armando Acevedo. Mauricio's production credits include films, music videos, shorts and web series including After School, Fighting Chance, SinVergüenzas, The Shifting and Intolerance; music videos The Power Of One and Recuperar starring his brother Andres Mendoza, and the shorts Mi Amor, It Can Only Be Used Once Directed by Michael DeLorenzo, From Now On directed by Ivonne Coll, Between the Lights, One directed by Carlos Carrasco, Him and Her, and The Real Faces of Dialysis. He is part owner of True Form Films, a production company he runs with wife Yeniffer Behrens and with DeWayne Cox. His goal is to build True Form Films to be a self-sufficient production company that is able to produce content all year around.

In addition to film, Mauricio has over 50 theater credits including a very successful run of Karen Zacarías' Destiny of Desire directed by José Luis Valenzuela. This stage production ran at the South Coast Repertory Theater last year for two months and then headed to Chicago at the Goodman Theater for two more. His most notable theater performances include playing Bernardo in West Side Story, El Gallo in the Fantasticks, Guido in Nine, Juan Julián in Anna In The Tropics, Kevin Rosario in In The Heights, Cinderella's Prince in Into The Woods, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Ernesto Del Río in Destiny of Desire, The New Mambo Kings conceived by him and his twin brother Actor/director Carlos A. Mendoza, and Magaldi in Evita. His charitable work includes fund raising and visits to Casa Hogar an orphanage in Tijuana, Mexico and organization he was introduced to by his friend and actor Nicholas Gonzalez. On his spare time, he works on producing material that will makes a difference in the world, on becoming a game changer, and being a great father and husband.

A hip-hop convert since first hearing Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five's "The Message" at the age of 10, DJ Shadow, born Josh Davis, has gone on to become a distinctive voice in the realm of hip-hop. He gained notoriety with a series of mixes in the early 1990s before recording his 17-minute epic "Entropy" in 1991. He signed to James Lavelle's Britain-based Mo Wax Records shortly afterwards and recorded the classic single "In/Flux" in 1993, followed by the epic 4-part EP "What Does Your Soul Look Like" in 1995. It was 1997's "Endtroducing..." that gave Shadow considerable exposure. The album, a series of sample-driven melodic compositions, illustrated hip-hop sampling at its finest, a style that is at odds with such performers as 'Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs' and M.C. Hammer. The album was a critical favorite, making several end-of-the-year best-of lists. Shortly thereafter, the "Preemptive Strike" album was released, which featured "In/Flux" and "What Does Your Soul Look Like?" which had been previously unavailable in the states, as well as two new singles. He also produced the ambitious "Psyence Fiction" album, a project devised by Lavelle and recorded under the moniker Unkle, which was released in September 1998. Currently, Shadow is overseeing projects for Quannum Projects, his Northern California-based legion of producers and MCs, which features Blackilicious, Latryx, and Shadow himself.

Nyjah Huston was born on 30 November 1994 in Davis, California, USA. He is an actor, known for xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017), Ballers (2015) and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 (2020).

Chi Cheng was born on 15 July 1970 in Davis, California, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Law Abiding Citizen (2009), Valentine (2001) and House of Wax (2005). He died on 13 April 2013 in Sacramento, California, USA.

Born in Davis, CA, Rafael has appeared in film and television spots since childhood. A child of two immigrants, he is a native Spanish and English speaker, and he studied acting at New York University, and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London before working on Off-Broadway theater and network TV shows and commercials in NY and LA.

Gary Gero was born on 17 February 1946 in Davis, California, USA. He is known for The Last Starfighter (1984), Casino Royale (2006) and The Final Countdown (1980).

Kai Chapman was born on 9 June 1986 in Davis, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Excuse Me for Living (2012), Generation Um... (2012) and Togetherness (2015).

Segel was born in Marseilles in 1963, France and grow up in Davis, California and Tucson, Arizona. Jonathan went to college at the University of California, Santa Cruz where he studied under Peter Elsea and experimental music pioneer Gordon Mumma. In Santa Cruz he hooked up with Camper Van Beethoven, apparently for life. He moved to San Francisco in 1989, where he worked with many bands including his own Hieronymus Firebrain and Jack & Jill, moved to Los Angeles in 1997 to work for Dane Davis at Danetracks, a film sound post production facility, then back to Oakland, California in 2001, where received a master's degree in music composition at Mills College, studying with Fred Frith, Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Curran and Joelle Leandre. He is the son of Irwin H. Segel, a Professor of Biochemistry at University of California, Davis and author of Biochemical Calculations. Jonathan Segel has taught music theory and electronic music at the College of Marin and Ohlone College in the San Francisco Bay Area. Today he performs improvising acoustic/digital solo (or with others as Chaos Butterfly), in a revived Camper Van Beethoven and as a rock and roll band leader in his eponymous band. Segel has been an occasional contributor to music from the Big City Orchestra over the past few decades. Segel currently resides in Stockholm, Sweden.

Jason Fisk was born on 4 September 1972 in Davis, California, USA.

Tony Cline was born on 24 November 1971 in Davis, California, USA.

Colin Stack-Troost was born on 19 December 1987 in Davis, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Here Comes Helen! (2016).

Charlotte Russell was born on 7 October 1912 in Davis, California, USA. She was an actress. She was married to Richard Collins Ham. She died on 2 June 2002 in Davis, California, USA.