Black and Tan a Crime of Fashion Cast
Amazon Studios today announces 20 boosted cast members joining the ensemble cast of the Amazon Original serial based on the iconic The Lord of the Rings novels by J.R.R. Tolkien. The newly revealed cast members will join the previously appear global cast and coiffure, currently filming in New Zealand.
The new cast members include Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Proverb Baldry, Ian Blackburn, Kip Chapman, Anthony Crum, Maxine Cunliffe, Trystan Gravelle, Sir Lenny Henry, Thusitha Jayasundera, Fabian McCallum, Simon Merrells, Geoff Morrell, Peter Mullan, Lloyd Owen, Augustus Prew, Peter Tait, Alex Tarrant, Leon Wadham, Benjamin Walker and Sara Zwangobani.
Blackburn, Chapman, Crum, Cunliffe, Tait, Tarrant and Wadham all hail from New Zealand, with the remaining international ensemble bandage originating from Australia, Sri Lanka, the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, and the Usa.
Showrunners and executive producers J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay said: "The world that J.R.R. Tolkien created is epic, diverse, and filled with heart. These extraordinarily talented performers, hailing from beyond the earth, represent the culmination of a multi-twelvemonth search to detect vivid and unique artists to bring that earth to life anew. The international cast of Amazon's The Lord of the Rings series is more than than merely an ensemble. Information technology is a family unit. We are thrilled to welcome each of them to Middle-globe."
As previously appear, the series is led by showrunners and executive producers J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay; they are joined by filmmaker J.A. Bayona, who is directing the first two episodes and serving as executive producer, alongside his creative partner Belén Atienza; with executive producers Lindsey Weber, Bruce Richmond, Callum Greene, Gennifer Hutchison, Jason Cahill, Justin Doble and Sharon Tal Yguado.
The new cast members join Robert Aramayo, Owain Arthur, Nazanin Boniadi, Tom Budge, Morfydd Clark, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Ema Horvath, Markella Kavenagh, Joseph Mawle, Tyroe Muhafidin, Sophia Nomvete, Megan Richards, Dylan Smith, Charlie Vickers, and Daniel Weyman as announced earlier this twelvemonth.
Gear up in Eye-earth, the telly adaptation will explore new storylines preceding J.R.R. Tolkien'due south The Fellowship of the Ring. A globe-renowned literary work, and winner of the International Fantasy Laurels and Prometheus Hall of Fame Award, The Lord of the Rings was named Amazon customers' favorite book of the millennium in 1999 and United kingdom'south best-loved novel of all time in BBC's The Big Read in 2003. The Lord of the Rings has been translated into around 40 languages and has sold more than 150 million copies. Its theatrical adaptations from New Line Cinema and director Peter Jackson, earned a combined gross of nearly $half-dozen billion worldwide and garnered 17 Academy Awards®, including Best Moving-picture show.
CYNTHIA ADDAI-ROBINSON virtually recently was a series regular on the STARZ series Power. Cynthia previously co-starred aslope Ben Affleck, JK Simmons and Anna Kendrick on the big screen in Gavin O'Connor's The Auditor (Warner Bros) equally 'Marybeth Medina,' one of the pb roles. Cynthia also tin can be seen starring alongside Ryan Phillipe in the USA series Shooter. Known for her breakout role every bit 'Naevia' in Spartacus: State of war of the Damned, Cynthia has since had many notable roles including: the major recurring role of 'Dr. Vicki Drinking glass' in Chicago Med, 'Amanda Waller' in the CW hit show Arrow; the female lead of 'Dr. Emily West' in the History Aqueduct miniseries Texas Rising aslope Nib Paxton and Ray Liotta. Her guest star credits include Law & Order: CI; CSI: Miami; Numb3rs, Wink Forrad, and The Vampire Diaries, to name a few.
Saying BALDRY starred every bit 'Viktor' in Russell T Davies' critically acclaimed BBC and HBO drama Years and Years. Maxim's involvement in acting developed from a very young age, taking function in several stage productions and existence part of the National Youth Theatre. His first breakthrough came from his role as 'Stepan' in Mr. Bean'due south Holiday, starring contrary Rowan Atkinson, which earned him a nomination at the Young Artists Awards for Best Operation in a Characteristic Film. His farther credits include Universal's Concluding Christmas; the latest installment of BBC's Doctor Who; a guest lead in the final serial of Sky One and Cinemax's activity-take a chance series Strike Back; Lake Placid: Legacy; Channel iv cult series Skins: Pure; BBC'southward Sadie J and HBO'due south Rome. Aside from acting, Proverb is heavily involved in music and photography and has written an experimental musical film which is now in evolution.
IAN BLACKBURN is an xviii year quondam actor, built-in and raised in Wellington, New Zealand. Whilst at school, Ian performed in multiple plays including Wellington High School'south almanac Shakespeare Society production of The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, and a 2020 production of The Tempest in which he played 'Prospero'. He appeared in the 2016 short motion picture Unbreakable Young man. He likewise participated in the Roxy 5 short film contest and took part in the remake of the winning film Shelter, in 2017. He also played a leading role in the 2018 short film Behold the Ghost, playing a boy who, along with his two siblings, battles with grief for his calumniating father.
KIP CHAPMAN is a recipient of New Zealand'southward highest Arts award, an Arts Foundation Laureate, receiving a New Generation Honour in 2013. Kip trained equally an actor at UNITEC'southward Schoolhouse of Performing and Screen Arts in Auckland, New Zealand graduating in 2002. He was a core bandage member of the Emmy Award winning drama Height of the Lake directed past Jane Campion and in the films half dozen Days and Fantail. He has performed at every major theatre company in New Zealand. In 2017, he was the Creative Manager of the World of Wearable Arts. He was the co-creator/writer/director of Hudson & Halls, which won Best Theatre Production at both the Auckland and Wellington Theatre Awards and Best Managing director in Wellington. He was the co-creator/writer/director of the interactive theatre show APOLLO 13: Mission Command, and the manager of the World Premiere production of That Bloody Woman.
ANTHONY CRUM hails from Whangarei, and is an histrion and standup comedian based in Auckland, New Zealand. Anthony starred as 'Griffin' in the short film Foam and as 'Rat-Tail' in the 2020 TV series The Wilds. On phase he's tread the boards every bit 'The Beauxhomme' in Once on this Island, 'The Bürgermeister' in The Visit, and 'Caliban' in Shakespeare'due south The Tempest. Anthony began acting when he was 15 playing The Third Witch in a comedic rewrite of Shakespeare'south Macbeth past Robert Pollock. He went on to train at The John Bolton Theatre School in 2014 where he developed skills in Clown and Melo-drama. In 2018, Anthony graduated Toi Whakaari New Zealand Drama Schoolhouse with a Bachelor of Performing Arts and in his terminal year starred as 'Isaac' in the short picture show Hush which featured in the 2019 Berlin Flick Festival.
MAXINE CUNLIFFE is a versatile London-born thespian and musician from a Sierra Leonean and Caribbean area heritage who has lived in New Zealand since the early 2000s. Maxine is best known on screen for Ability Rangers Megaforce (2013), and short films Divinity (2015) Reset (2016) and Fract (2016). In 2016, Maxine likewise appeared as a presenter in Idiot box ONE'south Neighbourhood. Her phase appearances include playing chorus and cello in a successful all- female person bandage performance of Henry V, and 'Hippolyata' in an AUSA Outdoor Summertime Theatre product of Midsummer Dark's Dream. She was also featured playing the cello in the TV series The Wilds.
TRYSTAN GRAVELLE's numerous Idiot box credits include a serial regular role in AMC's The Terror, National Treasure (BBC I) A Discovery of Witches (SKY 1), Baptiste (BBC I), Trying (Apple TV) and James Graham'south Quiz for ITV, amongst others. He recently featured alongside Jessie Buckley and Johnny Flynn in the BAFTA award winning feature flick Beast. Trystan'due south prolific theatre credits include Rex Lear (The Globe), The Changeling (The Globe), Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (The National) An Oak Tree (The National) The Norman Conquests (Chichester Festival Theatre).
SIR LENNY HENRY is one of Britain's all-time known comedians, equally well as a writer, philanthropist and award winning actor. Sir Lenny starred in The One-act of Errors at The National, Fences at the Duchess Theatre, The Resistible Rising of Arturo Ui at The Donmar and most recently August Wilson's Rex Hedley II at Theatre Royal Stratford East in 2019. Sir Lenny'south Television credits include Broadchurch, The Syndicate, The Long Song and his biographic Danny and The Homo Zoo. Sir Lenny's Product Company, Douglas Road, has accomplished success in partnership with Burning Bright on the recently acclaimed The Commonwealth Kid documentary. Sir Lenny is a co-founder of Comic Relief and recently released his memoir Who Am I Again? in October 2019. He has been a Trustee of the National Theatre since February 2016.
THUSITHA JAYASUNDERA'due south theater credits include Donmar, Our Boondocks (Regent's Park Theatre), Stories, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Law-breaking and Punishment, War Horse, The Caucasian Chalk Circle (National Theatre), The Divide (Old Vic/King's Theatre Edinburgh), My Optics Went Nighttime (Finborough/Traverse), The Vertical Hour (Park Theatre), The Ix O'Clock Slot (iceandfire), Tiger State (Hampstead Theatre), Much Ado Well-nigh Nothing (Chester Performs), Marine Parade (The Old Market place Theatre, Brighton), A Twenty-four hour period at the Racists (Finborough), Dreams of Violence (Out of Joint/Soho Theatre & Tour), Much Ado Most Nothing (Actors for the London Stage), International Writers Festival Summer 2006 (Regal Court), Grimm Tales
(International Bout), Twelfth Night, As I Lay Dying (Young Vic), The Comedy of Errors, Cain, Peer Gynt, Pentecost (RSC). Her TV and picture credits include: Midsomer Murders, Doctor Foster, Humans, The Foreigner, Broadchurch, The C Word, Lewis, Diana, Doctors, Silent Witness, Young Dracula, The Jury, Above Suspicion, The Bill, Goodnight Sweetheart, Signal to Noise, Holby City, House Across the Street, The Storm.
FABIAN MCCALLUM made his international screen debut alongside Megan Mullally, Rob Lowe and Jenna Fischer in British series You lot, Me & The Apocalypse. Prior to that, he guest starred in High german/Australian co-production In Your Dreams and in short films including Meryl Tankard'due south Moth alongside Sophie Lowe. A graduate of NIDA, Fabian has likewise studied with the National Youth Theatre in London.
SIMON MERRELLS recently played Templar Knight 'Tancrede' on History'south drama series Knightfall. He began his career in theatre, performing in works from The Purple National Theatre and The Royal Shakespeare Company. He garnered attention for his work with Steven Berkoff, namely the title office in Oedipus and as done upward boxer 'Terry Malloy' in On the Waterfront both for which he received a nomination for Acting Excellence from the Stage Awards. Recently, he won Best Actor for his role in Stephen King's I Am the Doorway from the Las Vegas Movie Awards. He also worked in films such as The
Wolfman with Benicio del Toro, IndeX Nix, Take Downwardly, 'Lorenzo di Medici' in Florence and the Uffizi Gallery for Sky Arts 3D, and recently played a recurring role in Neil Gaiman's Good Omens. His other television set roles include guesting on Syfy'southward 12 Monkeys, DC's Legends of Tomorrow, BBC's The Musketeers, equally well as recurring roles on SyFy'southward Rule, The CW's Tomorrow People, and most notably, playing 'Marcus Crassus' on Starz' Spartacus.
GEOFF MORRELL has been nominated five times in the leading actor category at the AACTA awards for the series' Changi, Marking Time, Fallen Angels and twice for Grassroots, for which he won in 2001. He has also been nominated for four Silver Logies. Virtually recently, he has appeared in Acme Of The Lake: China Girl (Foxtel), Rake (ABCTV), Cloudstreet (Foxtel), Please Like Me (ABCTV), Harrow (ABCTV), The Lawmaking
(ABCTV). Other credits include Blue Murder (ABCTV), Murder Telephone call (CH nine), Blue Heelers (CH 7), 8MMM Aboriginal Radio (ABCTV), Habitation and Away (CH 7), The Bill (Thames Television set), Monocled Mutineer (BBC), Lady Windermere'southward Fan (BBC), and Farscape. Film roles include Oranges and Sunshine, The Mule, Ned Kelly, Oscar and Lucinda, ten Empty, Rogue, No Worries and View From Greenhaven Drive. Geoff was well-nigh recently seen in the national tour of Nakhia Lui's award winning hit Black Is The New White for the Sydney Theatre Company.
PETER MULLAN is a veteran Scottish actor and filmmaker. He won All-time Actor at the Cannes Film Festival for My Proper noun is Joe. The Sundance Film Festival awarded Peter a World Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Breakout Performances for his role in Paddy Considine's Tyrannosaur. His feature picture work includes roles in Riff-Raff, Braveheart, Trainspotting, Miss Julie, Young Adam, Children of Men, The Scarlet Riding Trilogy, War Horse, the Harry Potter film series and The Vanishing. Also a manager, he received a Gold Lion at Venice International Film Festival for The Magdalene Sisters. His feature flick Neds won Best Moving picture at the San Sebastian Film Festival and All-time Manager and Best Writer at the BAFTA Awards. He has recently appeared in Netflix's Ozark, HBO's Westworld, Netflix's Cursed, ITV's The Logroller, and BBC's Mum, for which he was nominated for a BAFTA. He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Honour for his portrayal of 'Matt Micham' in Gerard Lee and Jane Campion's acclaimed miniseries Acme of the Lake.
LLOYD OWEN trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and later joined the Purple Shakespeare Company. Notable performances include the title roles in The York Realist at the Majestic Court/Strand Theatre, Blood & Gifts at The Lyttelton, The Bodyguard at The Adelphi, and with Dame Diana Rigg and David Suchet in the award-winning product of Who's Agape of Virginia Woolf? He starred aslope Mathew Perry in The End of Longing at The Playhouse, and with Imelda Staunton in the critically acclaimed Good People at the Noel Coward. His extensive film credits include the recent Bollywood blockbuster Thugs of Hindostan, Miss Potter, and Wonderwell, as well every bit playing the leading role in Apollo 18 for Dimension Films. On television, he is best known for the UK series Monarch of the Glen, and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, the lead in Viva Laughlin for CBS likewise as the NBC/Sky production You, Me and the Apocalypse. He recently completed a sold-out run of Noises Off at The Garrick theatre.
AUGUSTUS PREW can next be seen as the pb role of 'Cameron' in the Blumhouse Hulu Anthology series Into The Nighttime: Midnight Osculation and Mike Doyle'southward film, Sell By. He tin currently be seen on Netflix's Special and Apple's Morn Show with Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, and Steve Carell. Augustus' television credits include the serial pb in CBS'southward Pure Genius, the recurring guest star part of 'Whip' in FOX's Prison Interruption, the title role in Mike White's HBO airplane pilot Mamma Dallas, and The Borgiasfor Showtime. Most recently, he appeared in the office of 'Miles' in the Netflix motion picture Ibiza. Previously, Augustus was the lead in The Wallis production of The Pride in the primary role of 'Oliver'. Additional credits include the contained moving-picture show High-Rise opposite Tom Hiddleston and Sienna Miller, Klondike with Richard Madden, Kicking-Ass 2 opposite Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Charlie St. Cloud opposite Zac Efron.
PETER TAIT has been working in the manufacture since the early 1980s, creating his own piece of work as well as appearing in NZ projects and international TV and film. As evident in his own work, Peter has a penchant for offbeat comedy, however roles in Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, The Lord of the Rings: The Render of the King, and Desperate Remedies take given him the power to prove another side to his talents on the big screen. Peter has most recently been making his mark in NZ television, with roles in many local shows including Super City, Terry Teo, Underbelly NZ, and ii seasons of The Brokenwood Mysteries and Westside. He's also had the run a risk to show how multi-talented he really is, singing and playing guitar in award winning musical Once.
ALEX TARRANT hails from Auckland, New Zealand and is of Māori, Samoan and Niuean descent. He is a 2012 graduate of New Zealand'southward prestigious drama school Te Kura Toi Whakaari o Aoteraroa. Following study, he played leading roles in the WW1 miniseries When Nosotros Go To State of war, the BBC co-production Tatau, and 3 seasons of the Australian hit 800 Words. He so joined the core bandage of the accolade-winning racy drama Filthy Rich, which streamed on Hulu. In 2019, Alex again joined the cadre bandage of the much predictable sequel to the Australian cult series Seachange. 2019 also marked his international feature moving-picture show debut, with the release of The Other Side of Sky 2: Fire of Faith. His 2nd feature, sci-fi thriller Night Riders was shot recently in Canada, and he returned to NZ screens in the comedy Mean Mums.
LEON WADHAM is a graduate of Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School. He was a series lead in TV2'southward Go Girls and has appeared in numerous New Zealand television projects including Bad Seed, Brokenwood Series v, When We Get To War, Terry Teo and Pirates of the Airwaves. His film projects include Under The Mountain, Shopping and Pork Pie. His international screen credits include Ability Rangers Fauna Morphers, and Roman Empire (Season 2). Leon co-wrote the play Live At Half-dozen, co-created Tom Keeper Passes for Long Cloud Youth Theatre as well equally both Outsider's Guide and Milky Bits for comedy outfit The Baker. He was a staff writer on the TV3sitcom Sunny Skies, and he co-wrote and directed the brusk films School Night and Moving. Leon has likewise directed New Zealand idiot box series including Golden Boy Series i and 2, The Male person Gayz, Citizen's Handbook and Bad News (Serial i and 2), the latter of which Leon co-created and has received Nominations at both the 2019 and 2020 NZ TV Awards.
BENJAMIN WALKER is an established American motion-picture show, tv, and award-nominated theatre actor. He was most recently nominated for a Tony Accolade for his standout performance of 'Chris Keller' in Arthur Miller's Broadway play All My Sons. Ben only wrapped a lead role reverse Liam Neeson and Laurence Fishburne in the independent characteristic The Water ice Route. Benjamin'southward other motion picture work includes In the Heart of the Sea, Flags Of Our Fathers, Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight, and The Choice. Ben besides starred in the concluding season of Netflix'due south Jessica Jones. His theater credits include the atomic number 82 office of 'Andrew Jackson' in the Broadway production Encarmine Bloody Andrew Jackson, and the part of 'Brick' opposite Scarlett Johansson in the Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
SARA ZWANGOBANI graduated from the prestigious Victorian College of the Arts with a BA in Interim. Her characteristic film credits include Disgrace (produced by Emile Sherman) and Merchant of Fairness. She has appeared in many pop Australian television shows such every bit Doctor Doctor, All Saints, Packed to the Rafters, Dear My Way, Home and Away, 2 Twisted, likewise as The Starter Wife (3 Arts Entertainment) and Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen Rex (Coote Hayes). On stage Sara has performed in Sydney Theatre Company'southward In The Next Room (Or the Vibrator Play), A Streetcar Named Want, The Crucible, Summer of the Aliens and Antony and Cleopatra, Girl in Tan Boots for the Griffin Theatre Company, Lyrebird for the Old Fitzroy, Dirty Butterfly, Imago, and Women In Shorts at Downstairs Belvoir, The Tempest at Bondi Pavilion, and Deject Nine at the Darlinghurst Theatre. Sara toured Australia playing 'Mark Antony' in the Bell Shakespeare Theatre Company'south basis-breaking production of Julius Caesar.
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