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Whitney Ann Cummings is an American stand-up comedian, actress, writer, director, producer and pod-caster. A native of Washington, D.C., Cummings pursued a comedy career in Los Angeles after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, where she had studied with the intention of becoming a journalist. After beginning stand-up in 2004, she secured regular appearances as a round-table guest on Chelsea Lately. She subsequently created, produced, and starred in NBC's Whitney, a sitcom in which she portrayed a semi-fictionalized version of herself. The series ran for two seasons before being canceled in 2013. Simultaneously, Cummings created the CBS sitcom 2 Broke Girls, which also began in 2011, and concluded in 2017.

Cummings released her first hour-long stand-up special, Money Shot, in 2010 on Comedy Central. She followed this with a second stand-up special for the network, entitled I Love You (2014). Her third special, I'm Your Girlfriend, was released on HBO in 2016, and later delivered as an audio streaming album in 2021. Beginning in 2018, Cummings served as a producer and writer for the ABC revival of Roseanne, but left the project prior to its cancellation. Cummings's fourth special, Can I Touch It?, premiered on Netflix in July 2019.

With a career spanning over a decade, Emmy-nominated Letitia Wright has cemented her position as one of the industry's most captivating young actresses. From her breakout role as ambitious Summerhouse resident Chantelle in Top Boy, to her critically acclaimed performance as Nish in Black Mirror, not forgetting her scene-stealing turn as Shuri - lead scientist and Princess of Wakanda in Black Panther, Wright has played an integral role in what are arguably the most culture defining projects of the last ten years and whose impact is still felt to this day.

In 2019, Wright won the BAFTA Rising Star Award and a SAG Award as part of Black Panther's 'Best Ensemble'. The film grossed over $1.3B at the global box office and was nominated for a 2019 Academy Award for 'Best Picture' - a first for a superhero film. In 2020, Wright had repeated success with a starring role in Steve McQueen's anthology series, Small Axe, where she played British Black Panther Party leader, Altheia Jones-LeCointe. Wright's episode, "Mangrove", was included in the Cannes 2020 official selection and the series was nominated for 2 Golden Globes, including Best Television Motion Picture. Wrights performance in Small Axe also gained her a leading actress nomination at the 2021 BAFTA Television Awards.

Led by a passion to create meaningful content within the industry, Wright's creative endeavors extended behind the scenes with the launch of her independent production company 3.16 Productions in 2020. The company joined forces with BRON Studios for their first forthcoming feature, Surrounded, starring Wright, Jamie Bell and the late Michael K. Williams. Wright also flexed her production muscles in the BAFTA-nominated, female-led anthology series I Am for Channel 4, developing the powerful story line for her episode "I Am Danielle" in creative partnership with director Dominic Savage.

2022 is set to be Wright's biggest year yet with upcoming projects including The Silent Twins, Ireland-set drama, Aisha, written and directed by Frank Berry also starring Josh O'Connor; as well as the long-awaited sequel to the Marvel/Disney blockbuster - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

The CCH stands for Carol Christine Hilaria, her birth name. Most of her characters are enriched with positive attributes -- strength, confidence, integrity, strong-mindedness -- and it is a testament to the abilities of this four-time Emmy nominated actress that she continues on such a high plane in a five-decade career.

Born on Christmas Day 1952 in Guyana, she was raised on a sugar cane plantation. Her parents, Betsy Enid Arnella (James) and Ronald Urlington Pounder, moved the family to the States while she was still a young girl, but she and her sister were subsequently sent to a convent boarding school in Britain where they were introduced to art and the classics. Following high school graduation, she arrived in New York and studied at Ithaca College, where her acting talents were strongly tapped into. Regional and classical repertory theater followed, earning roles in such productions as "The Mighty Gents" (1979) with Morgan Freeman at the New York Shakespeare Festival and "Open Admissions" (1984), her Broadway debut. Other stage work includes "Coriolanus," "Antony and Cleopatra," "The Frog," "The Lodger" and "Mumbo Jumbo."

After bit/featured roles in All That Jazz (1979), I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982) and Prizzi's Honor (1985), CCH earned cult status in the art-house film Bagdad Cafe (1987) (aka "Bagdad Café" in the US) as the offbeat owner of a roadside café. She continued to impress with support roles in Postcards from the Edge (1990), The Importance of Being Earnest (1992), an all-black version: as Miss Prism), Benny & Joon (1993), RoboCop 3 (1993), Sliver (1993), Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995),Face/Off (1997), Funny Valentines (1999), The Devil in Miss Jones 6 (1999), Baby of the Family (2002), Rain (2008), Orphan (2009), Avatar (2009) (as the voice of Mo'at, and its sequels), My Girlfriend's Back (2010). Home Again (2012) (as a Jamaican) and The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013).

Pounder's prominence came, however, with television. Often cast as succinct, professional types (doctors, policewoman, judges) or characters with a variety of accents, she is known for her understated intensity and earned an Emmy nomination for her stint on the hospital drama ER (1994). She has also performed in a number of highly acclaimed topical mini-movie dramas, including Go Tell It on the Mountain (1985), Common Ground (1990), Murder in Mississippi (1990), Little Girl Fly Away (1998), A Touch of Hope (1999), Boycott (2001), Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story (2004) (as Winnie Mandela) for which a number of kudos have come her way.

Millennium TV output includes regular/recurring roles on the series The Shield (2002) in which she earned an NAACP Award and Emmy nomination as Detective Claudette Wym; the social drama Ciencias del espacio (2008) as matriarch Mrs. Trainor, and NCIS: New Orleans (2014) as medical examiner Loretta Wade. She later found voice work in animated projects and video games.

Spenser Granese was born in Georgetown, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and director, known for La cocina (2024), Barry (2018) and Better Call Saul (2015).

Dan Jackson was born in 1925 in South America, Guyana. He was an actor, known for Mysterious Island (1961), playing Cpl. Neb Nugent. The film was set during the Civil War where a group of Union soldiers and two Confederates end up on a strange Pacific island. Dan is also known for A High Wind in Jamaica, directed by Alexander Mackendrick where he played a pirate.

Other credits include: Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965) and The Mind of Mr. Soames (1970).

Marc Gomes was born on 19 June 1960 in Georgetown, Guyana. He is an actor, known for The Crow: Stairway to Heaven (1998), Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye (2002) and Divas (1995).

Danny Daniels was born on 1 November 1927 in Georgetown, British Guiana. He was an actor, known for Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994), Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995) and The Saint (1962). He was married to Berenice Grant. He died on 4 December 2010 in Inglewood, California, USA.

Bill McAdams, Jr. brings over 25 years of acting, directing, writing, and producing experience to the Entertainment Industry.

He graduated from The Catholic University of America in 1994 with a double major in Theater Arts and Philosophy. Bill took a train up to Camden Yards in Baltimore with his senior baseball picture and handed it to the casting director of the film Major League 2. The next month he was a utility baseball player earning his first film credit.

His career began as a stand-in for Matt Damon on The Rainmaker.

Bill continued working with Matt Damon as his personal photo double for such films as the Academy Award winning, Good Will Hunting, Rounders and Dogma.

Bill was able to gain "hands on" experience by working with Academy Award wining actors, writers, directors and cinematographers which earned him jobs working along side of Steven Spielberg on Amistad and David Lynch on The Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive. He wrote his first feature film, Gallows Road, while working on set of Good Will Hunting. 16 years later after losing his younger brother in a motorcycle accident he made Gallows Road, Starring Kevin Sorbo and Ernie Hudson for John.

Bill has directed many award-winning PSA's and feature films, enjoying his creative path of storytelling.

Anthony Chinn was born in 1930 in Georgetown, Guyana. He was an actor, known for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), A View to a Kill (1985) and The Fifth Element (1997). He died on 22 October 2000 in Georgetown, Guyana.

Greg Denny is a Producer in the Motion Picture Industry.

Select credits of his work over the years include 'The Apprentice', 'Shazam!', 'Ready or Not: Here I Come', 'Suicide Squad', 'Thanksgiving', 'Slumberland', 'You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah', 'Xmen: Dark Phoenix', 'xXx: Return of Xander Cage', 'Pixels', 'Robocop', and 'Total Recall'.

Greg has been working within the Entertainment Industry for over 20 years.

Mary Jean McAdams (AKA: Mary Jean Bentley) "MJ" was born on April 5, 1972 at Georgetown Hospital in Washington, DC. She was the second child born to Dr. William W. McAdams and Grace McAdams. Her Father was a professional baseball and football player, a high school teacher, coach and Athletic Director, a college coach, and University Professor. Her Mother was a local actress, singer, writer and later became a screenwriter. MJ was raised along with her three brothers in various states including, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and Ohio. At the very early age of 6, she began singing in church with her mother and later sang in school choir landing solo parts for Dorothy in "The Wizard of OZ," Maria in "West Side Story" and Liesl in "The Sound of Music."

MJ and her brothers would always perform for their parents on Friday Nights which was later coined "Friday Night Fun Night."

At Seventeen, MJ signed with a Modeling Agency in Washington DC. Given her compassion for people and her father's illness which led to a liver transplant, she decided to go to college and study nursing. She graduated from George Mason University with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Upon graduation, she commissioned into the United States Navy Nurse Corps to fulfill her passion to serve her country. She was stationed in Virginia Beach and was able to continue pursuing acting and signed with a local agent and shortly landed roles in a few Television Series, Ghost Stories and The New Detectives along with numerous regional and national commercials.

After her active duty commitment was fulfilled, she moved to Nashville to continue her acting/ singing-songwriting career. There she landed roles in several major motion pictures: The Last Castle, starring Robert Redford and James Gandolfini; We Were Soldiers, starring Mel Gibson; Sweet Home Alabama starring Reese Witherspoon; and the Grand Jury Winner of 2005 Sundance Film Festival, Forty Shades of Blue, starring Rip Torn.

She is Founder/ CEO of Little Faith Pictures, a Family and Faith film production company in Fort Worth, Texas.

Leon Herbert was born in Georgetown, Guyana. Leon is an actor and writer, known for Dune: Part Two (2024), Inside No. 9 (2014) and Death in Paradise (2011).

Thomas Baptiste was born on 17 March 1929 in Georgetown, British Guiana. He was an actor, known for The Wild Geese (1978), Amin: The Rise and Fall (1981) and The Ipcress File (1965). He died on 6 December 2018 in Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, England, UK.

Cast in a number of racially-motivated British films during the 1950s and 1960s, actor Harry Baird was born in Georgetown, Guyana (then called British Guiana) on May 12, 1931 and received his education both in Canada and England.

Famed director Carol Reed gave Harry his film break in 1954 at age 23 when he cast the actor in the smallish role of a black boxer named Jamaica in A Kid for Two Farthings (1955), a tale that dealt with the tense ethnic struggles of London's East End. A year later Harry made a minor stage bow in the musical "Kismet" at the Stoll theatre in London. Although he continued sporadically before live audiences, including a role in Jean Genet's "The Blacks" in 1961, his stronger focus would be in the cinema and on TV where he often took to stunt work just to keep himself in front of the lens.

His first lead on TV was as Rhodes Reason's bearer, Atimbu, in the low-budget White Hunter (1957) adventure series. Moviegoers first took notice of Harry, however, with his stirring portrayal of a young black brutalized by the police in the film Sapphire (1959), a role that helped him continue into the next decade. Extremely good-looking and physically fit, he rarely managed to attain leads, primarily due to the lack of parts at the time for men of his race. He did find regular supporting roles on TV, however, including the series Secret Agent (1964) and the science-fiction program UFO (1970).

As jobs grew scarce into the 60s Harry traveled to other parts of Europe, especially Italy and France, to find work. Some were even leads or co-leads. He played well-muscled action heroes in a handful of Italian spectacles and "spaghetti" westerns and scored a personal triumph in France with first-time director Melvin Van Peebles' landmark low-budget film The Story of a Three Day Pass (1967), in which he starred as a black American GI who falls in love with a white French girl (played by the late Nicole Berger) while on leave in Paris. Sadly, Ms. Berger was killed in a car accident shortly after filming the movie.

Other films around this time included Bryan Forbes' classic The Whisperers (1967) starring Edith Evans, The Touchables (1968), in which the athletic actor played a gay wrestler named "Lillywhite," the Edgar Allan Poe adaptation The Oblong Box (1969) with Vincent Price, and friend Michael Caine's picture The Italian Job (1969). In the 1970s Harry was diagnosed with glaucoma.

He was forced to retire as the impairment worsened and he eventually went completely blind. He remained upbeat and positive in later years as he adapted to his handicap and took classes on film history among other interests. He was married and divorced and survived by a stepdaughter when he died of cancer at age 73 in London on February 13, 2005.

Paul Michael Slayton (born March 11, 1981), better known by his stage name Paul Wall, is an American rapper and DJ. He has spent much of his career affiliated with Swishahouse Records, and has released several albums under the label and collaborated with numerous other rappers signed to the label. He began his career performing alongside fellow Houston artist Chamillionaire, with whom he released several albums, including 2002's independently released Get Ya Mind Correct. In 2005, he was signed to Atlantic Records and became successful with his major label debut The Peoples Champ, which was followed up by Get Money, Stay True followed in 2007. He has been nominated for one Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance as a Duo or Group for the song "Grillz", his collaboration with rapper Nelly.

William Austin was born on 12 June 1884 in Georgetown, British Guiana [now Guyana]. He was an actor, known for It (1927), The Marriage Playground (1929) and In Love with Love (1924). He died on 15 June 1975 in Newport Beach, California, USA.

Norman Beaton was born on 31 October 1934 in Georgetown, British Guiana [now Guyana]. He was an actor, known for The Mighty Quinn (1989), Desmond's (1989) and Real Life (1984). He died on 13 December 1994 in Georgetown, Guyana.

Started as a jockey and steeple-chase rider, then worked on "Lucky" Baldwin's ranch in Arcadia, California. Joined Ringling Bros. Circus and then with Burgess Pawnee Indian Show. Played in Vaudeville before being with Universal Film Company for six years, beginning in 1912. Was in Fox westerns with William Farnum for one year, with William S. Hart for three years and worked for Leo Maloney circa 1925 through 1929.

Yolanda Halley was born on 22 April 1973 in Georgetown, Guyana. Yolanda was a producer and writer, known for Legacy (2023), Imani (2023) and Angel (2023). Yolanda died on 19 January 2025.

Tom Costain was born on 24 August 1971 in Georgetown, Ontario, Canada. He is an editor and actor, known for Hustle (2022), The Matrix (1999) and Johnny Mnemonic (1995).

Extremely prolific actor/director of the silent screen, on Broadway from 1905. Hoyt joined the acting fraternity through the recommendations of an uncle, who worked as dramatic editor for a Cleveland tabloid. Signed by theatrical producer George C. Tyler (1868-1946), he began on stage (earning $10 per week), playing up to ten different parts. He made his Hollywood debut in 1916 with Universal. Short, balding and usually bespectacled, he managed to forge a 30-year career by playing a succession of 'little men', be they mild-mannered professors, henpecked husbands or easily intimidated minor officials. Looking perpetually befuddled was Hoyt's stock-in-trade. He was particularly effective as Professor Summerlee in The Lost World (1925) (directed by his younger brother Harry O. Hoyt), as the confused motel owner of It Happened One Night (1934) and as Mayor Tillinghast in The Great McGinty (1940). The better part of Hoyt's screen career, however, consisted of uncredited bits. For his last seven years in the business (1940-47), he was regularly employed as a member of Preston Sturges personal entourage of stock players at Paramount.

Veronica Peters was better known as Veronica Diemen, an adult entertainer and model from the 1970s. She appeared on the cover of the vinyl album "The Best of Disco Demands (A Special Collection of Rare 1970s Dance Music)" released in 2012. She also appeared in many men's magazines in the 1970s.

R.B. Greaves was born on 28 November 1943 in Georgetown, British Guiana [now Guyana]. He was married to Maura Dhu Studi, Sandra Golden and Claire Francis. He died on 27 September 2012 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Ramsay Hill was born on 30 November 1889 in Georgetown, Guyana. He was an actor, known for One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), The Ten Commandments (1956) and Everybody's Old Man (1936). He died on 3 February 1976 in Van Nuys, California, USA.

Donovan M. Boden was born on 16 September 1976 in Georgetown, Ontario, Canada. He is a producer and executive, known for Daughters (2024), Darkest Miriam (2024) and The Maiden (2022). He has been married to Rachael Ann Boden since 9 April 2010.