Mike Castle was born on February 27, 1989 in Chicago, IL. Castle began his career in 2011, playing Randy in the short called The Ghosts. The following year, Castle was in the 2012 television movie Family Trap. He also was in an episode of the television show Harder Than It Looks, playing the delivery guy. In 2014, Castle was in an episode of the television series Sirens. Castle also appeared in the television mini-series Hope & Randy in 2014. Castle starred as A.J. Salerno in the TBS television series Clipped, alongside Ashley Tisdale and George Wendt, in 2015. Castle is also known for playing Adam in Netflix's Brews Brothers and played a videographer in season 11, episode 8 of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Oliver Cooper was born on December 2, 1989 in Toledo, Ohio. In 2009, at the age of 19, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career as an actor and quickly landed an internship at CONAN. While taking an acting class, a fellow classmate told him that Warner Brothers was looking for fresh young faces to star in the Todd Phillips produced Project X and that Cooper would be perfect. With no representation, Oliver enlisted his friend, a former child star, Shaun Weiss, to help him secure an audition. Judd Apatow, who had worked with Weiss on Heavyweights, put in a call to the casting office. With a head shot taken on a cell phone camera, and against-all-odds, Cooper landed one of the lead roles in his very first audition. His debut performance as Costa earned him two MTV Movie Award nominations for Best Comedic Performance and Best On-Screen Dirtbag.
Taylor Blackwell was born September 1st, 1998 in West Palm Beach, Florida. She grew up in a town called Jupiter in South Florida. Taylor is the oldest of four kids – brothers Owen and Charlie, and sister Drew. At age five, she began acting, appearing in commercials, short films, student projects, and local theater productions. Her first television series credit was an episode of “One Tree Hill.” Taylor briefly attended Dreyfoos School of the Arts, then switched to Florida Virtual School to accommodate her time on sets. Five days after her eighteenth birthday, she moved to Los Angeles. Since then, Taylor has worked on projects such as “Designated Survivor”, “NCIS”, “Grey’s Anatomy”, and has starred in several Lifetime Movie Network films including “My Daughter’s Psycho Friend.” She has appeared in 70+ commercials, and dozens of theater productions, films, and television shows, including most recently principal roles on Showtime's “American Gigolo” and SYFY's “Resident Alien”.
Danny Mondello was born and raised in Staten Island. He comes from an Italian-American family and is very proud of his roots. Although he didn’t grow up cooking and isn’t a formally trained chef, food is a big part of his culture. In addition to Staten Island, Danny has also lived in Manhattan. With just one post on TikTok, Danny Mondello went from being an average New Yorker to a social media sensation. Danny, who posts on TikTok and Instagram under the name meals_by_cug, became famous for his cooking and food review videos. His down-to-earth persona and sense of humor have allowed him to reach millions of people. Every time he steps in front of the camera, his followers know they will get great content. In the summer of 2022, Danny was approached by As We Know It director Josh Monkarsh about playing the role of Rory; a role that Josh believed was made for Danny. After reading the script, Danny agreed with Josh's assessment and the rest is indie film history.
Chris Parnell was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. Right after graduating high school, Chris attended North Carolina School of Arts in Winston-Salem, where he received his BFA in Drama. He later performed with the Berkshire Theatre in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas. Afterwards Chris moved back to Tennessee and taught acting, film, and video at his own Germantown High School. He became bored, however, with teaching and moved to Los Angeles. During that time, Chris began taking classes at The Groundlings Main Company, where many Saturday Night Live cast members are discovered. Fate would have it that talent scouts from Saturday Night Live saw him and asked him to fly to New York for an audition. Completely surprised by his chances, he took the offer. To his amazement soon after he joined Saturday Night Live and became a featured player in the 1998-99 season. After leaving SNL, he played the role of Dr. Leo Spaceman on NBC's sitcom 30 Rock from 2006 to 2013. In animation, he voices Cyril Figgis on the FX series Archer, Jerry Smith on Adult Swim's Rick and Morty, Doug on Fox's Family Guy, and the narrator on the PBS Kids series WordGirl (2007-2015). He also voices "The Progressive Box" in a series of advertisements by the Progressive Corporation. He spends most of his summers in L.A. where he owns his own car and apartment.
Pam Grier was born in Winston-Salem, NC, one of four children of Gwendolyn Sylvia (Samuels), a nurse, and Clarence Ransom Grier Jr., an Air Force mechanic. Pam has been a major African-American star from the early 1970s. Her career started in 1971, when Roger Corman of New World Pictures launched her with The Big Doll House, about a women's penitentiary, and The Big Bird Cage. Her strong role put her into a five-year contract with Samuel Z. Arkoff of American-International Pictures, and she became a leading lady in action films such as Jack Hill's Coffy and Foxy Brown, the comic strip character Friday Foster and William Girdler's 'Sheba, Baby'. Described by Quentin Tarantino as cinema's first female action star,[2] she achieved fame for her starring roles in a string of 1970s action, blaxploitation and women in prison films for American International Pictures and New World Pictures. Her accolades include nominations for an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Satellite Award and a Saturn Award. Grier came to prominence with her titular roles in the films Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974). She portrayed the title character in Tarantino's crime film Jackie Brown (1997), and also appeared in Escape from L.A. (1996), Mars Attacks! (1996), Jawbreaker (1999), Holy Smoke!, (1999), Bones (2001), Just Wright (2010), Larry Crowne (2011) and Poms (2019). On television, Grier gained attention portraying Eleanor Winthrop in the Showtime comedy-drama series Linc's (1998–2000) and Kate "Kit" Porter on the Showtime drama series The L Word (2004–2009).
