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Noah Schnapp is recognised for his versatile talent and wide-ranging work on screen and beyond. He most recently starred as Will Byers in Netflix’s global phenomenon Stranger Things, opposite Winona Ryder and Millie Bobby Brown. Since its debut in 2016, the series has become a cultural landmark, earning over 50 Primetime Emmy Award nominations, a Peabody Award, multiple MTV Movie & TV Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Ensemble. The fifth and final season broke major streaming records for Netflix, becoming its biggest English-language debut ever with 59.6 million views in its first five days and reaching 105.7 million total views to become the #9 most-watched English series of all-time within weeks of its finale. For his work, Schnapp has received a 2022 People’s Choice Award for ‘Male TV Star,’ as well as the ‘Most Frightened Performance’ award at the 2018 MTV Movie & TV Awards and ‘Choice Summer TV Star: Male’ at the 2019 Teen Choice Awards. He is also an honoree of Variety’s Youth Impact Award and was recognised as one of their 2023 Power of Young Hollywood recipients. 

Outside of Stranger Things, Schnapp previously starred in The Tutor alongside Garrett Hedlund and Victoria Justice. His additional film credits include Waiting for Anya with Anjelica Huston, the indie drama Abe which premiered at Sundance, Adam Sandler’s Netflix comedy Hubie Halloween, Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning Bridge of Spies, and the animated feature The Peanuts Movie, in which he voiced the iconic Charlie Brown. Schnapp recently graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where he pursued cinema and media studies.

Janette Manrara was born to a Cuban family in Miami, Florida. She is best known to audiences in the UK and around the world for Strictly Come Dancing and So You Think You Can Dance?  Following extensive training in theatre and dance throughout her youth and notable appearances on Univision TV, Janette auditioned for the fifth season of Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance?, where she was selected as one of the Top 20 dancers and toured with the show across the USA. Janette moved from Miami to Los Angeles, where she performed with Jennifer Lopez, danced at the Academy Awards, and was cast as a principal dancer on Glee. She then returned to Season 8 of So You Think You Can Dance? as an “All Star,” and shortly after was featured in Dancing with the Stars Live in Las Vegas! Janette subsequently joined the Broadway, West End, and international touring show, Burn the Floor, where she performed across the globe for four years. 

Following this performance, she was cast as a professional dancer on Season 11 of the BBC 1 hit TV series Strictly Come Dancing, where she first partnered with fashion designer Julien Macdonald. Since then, Janette has been partnered with Jake Wood, Peter Andre, Melvin Odoom, Aston Merrygold, Dr Ranj, Will Bailey MBE, and, most recently, HRVY, reaching the final. Janette has won the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special twice. In 2021, Janette took on a new challenge as one of the hosts of It Takes Two. She continued to co-host It Takes Two until 2025, alongside co-hosting the Strictly Live tour across the UK. Janette made her musical theatre debut last year as Roxie Hart in Chicago, touring over 20 venues across the UK and Ireland. In 2024, Janette released her debut book, Tiny Dancer, Big World. Other television credits include: co-hosting on BBC Morning Live, appearances on Mary Berry’s Fantastic Feasts (BBC), Celebrity Mastermind (BBC), Jeremy Vine (Channel 5), Big Week at the Zoo (Channel 5), Inside The Ritz (ITV), CelebAbility (ITV2), Blue Peter (BBC) and Glee. Other theatre credits include: Let’s Face The Music and Dance, A Night To Remember, Dancing in a Winter Wonderland, A Christmas to Remember, Remembering Fred, Remembering the Movies, and a streamed version of Remembering the Oscars.

Juliet Cowan’s theatre appearances include: Broken Glass (Young Vic); Sons of the Prophet (Hampstead); The Memory of Water (Nottingham Playhouse); and The Play About My Dad (Jermyn Street). On television she has appeared in Am I Being Unreasonable?; Dirty Business; Big Boys; Brassic; Culprits; Flatshare; I Hate Suzie; Back to Life; Cuckoo; Kiss Me First; Killed by My Debt; The End of the F**ing World; The Trials; Marley’s Ghosts; Hank Zipzer; Utopia; Fresh Meat; Drifters; Pramface; Misfits; EastEnders; Silent Witness; Skins; Pulling and Shameless. Juliet’s film appearances include Lady; Jay Kelly; Members Club; Falling Into Place; Brakes; Magicians; Lady; and Back to Black. 

Wallis Currie-Wood is an actor and musician who was born in Texas and now lives in London. Her stage credits include: Our American Queen (The American Vicarious/Bridewell Theatre) and Elektra (West End). Screen credits include: Clayface (DC Studios), series regular Stevie McCord on Madam Secretary (CBS), The Intern (Warner Bros), and Une Saison a la Juilliard School (ARTE). She attended the Juilliard School in New York.

Rupert Young’s theatre appearances include: Flyby (Southwark Playhouse); Dear Evan Hansen (Noel Coward Theatre, Olivier Award nomination); Twelfth Night (Young Vic); While The Sun Shines (Theatre Royal, Bath); High Society (Old Vic); Company (Southwark Playhouse); Much Ado About Nothing (The Globe) and Afterlife (National Theatre).  On television, Rupert has appeared in Buried; Bridgerton; The New Look; The Bisexual; Will; People Just Do Nothing; The White Queen; Shameless; Merlin; Foyles War and Doc Martin. His film appearances include By The Throat; The Secret Garden; Writers Retreat and Dirty Filthy Love.

Donald Sage Mackay recently finished filming on the Apple Studios thriller series Pandora, and will next be seen in Gareth Evans’s highly anticipated A Colt Is My Passport opposite Tim Roth, Jack Reynor and Noah Taylor, and in Stephen Moffat’s new series Number 10 opposite Rafe Spall.

His theatre credits include Tom Stoppard’s Indian Ink opposite Felicity Kendal and Ruby Ashbourne Serkis; Girl From The North Country (Gielgud Theatre); and True West alongside Kit Harrington and Johnny Flynn (Vaudeville Theatre).

His television credits include Going Dutch for FOX; a series regular in Eric for Netflix starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Gaby Hoffmann; The Regime alongside Kate Winslet; Rematch (HBO); The Following Events Are Based On A Pack Of Lies (BBC); Wreck (BBC); CELL 8; Treadstone opposite Jeremy Irvine; Deep State opposite Mark Strong; Elementary; Modern Family; Mad Men; House; and The Looming Tower.

Donald has recently wrapped Peter Atencio's Animal Friends starring Ryan Reynolds, Jason Momoa, Vince Vaughn and Aubrey Plaza; and recently shot James Vanderbilt’s feature film Nuremberg which will star Russell Crowe and Rami Malek.