Lena Headey was born October 3, 1973 in Bermuda. Her family returned to Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, when she was eight years old. She got her first taste of acting as a pupil at Shelley College and got her big break at the age of 17 when she was spotted performing in a school production at the Royal National Theatre and was picked for a role opposite Jeremy Irons in the 1992 film Waterland. She is best known for playing Sarah Connor on FOX's Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, as well as appearing in such films as The Remains of the Day, The Brothers Grimm and 300. She also had roles in James Ivory's Academy Award-nominated The Remains of the Day (alongside Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson), Stephen Sommers' The Jungle Book, Mrs Dalloway, Gossip, Aberdeen, The Parole Officer, Possession and Ripley's Game. Headey co-starred with Matt Damon and Heath Ledger in Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm, and played Queen Gorgo in Zack Snyder's 300, based on Frank Miller's graphic novel. She also appeared in two films with close friend Piper Perabo: The Cave and Imagine Me & You.

Thomas Alexander Dekker was born 28 December 1987, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Starting his acting career at age six, Thomas was first seen in the soap The Young and the Restless. His first movie job was starring in Village Of The Damned playing David, one of the possessed children. Later in 1997 Thomas became a regular on the Disney Channel original show Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show based on the movie of the same name. He played Nick Szalinski on the show for three years. He went on to appear in many popular television shows including Run of the House, Fillmore!, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, House, Boston Public, Reba and 7th Heaven. In 2006 Thomas landed a recurring role on NBC's hit show Heroes playing the character of Zach. Allegedly the character was intended to be gay, but was changed at the behest of Dekker or his manager. He played the character for 11 episodes before leaving the show when he won the lead role of John Connor in FOX's new show The Sarah Connor Chronicles. His film credits include Campus Confidential, An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster and The Land Before Time, for which he has won three Young Artist Awards. His first studio album, Psyanotic, is expected to be released later this year. Thomas is a vegan and owns two pet pugs named Captain and Noggin and a rabbit named Bella.

Summer Glau was born July 24, 1981 in San Antonio, Texas. She is of Scots-Irish and German descent. She was classically trained as a ballerina and also studied tango and flamenco. A professional dancer since age 12, she appeared in a few television commercials. Having relocated to Los Angeles in 2002, Glau's first television credit was a guest role as a ballerina in 2002 on the television series Angel. There she caught the eye of producer Joss Whedon, who later cast her in Firefly as River Tam. She had a small role in the film Sleepover, in which she played a high school senior named Shelly. Summer has appeared on CSI, The Unit and The 4400 in which Glau plays Tess Doerner, a paranoid schizophrenic returnee in the second and third season. Glau stars in the science fiction film Mammoth, which was filmed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S., and Bucharest, Romania. Glau was voted Best Actress of 2005 by readers of SFX magazine for her portrayal of River Tam in Serenity. Glau also won a 2005 Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress in Serenity and was runner up for Best Actress/Movie in the SyFy Genre Awards for 2006. Glau was cast in a TV movie on ABC Family called The Initiation of Sarah. In The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Glau plays the role of Cameron Phillips, a Terminator infiltration unit sent back to protect John Connor and Sarah Connor from Skynet.

Richard Timothy Jones was born January 16, 1972 in Kobe, Japan and raised in Carson, California. He is the son of Lorene, a computer analyst, and Clarence Jones, a professional baseball player and the hitting instructor for the Cleveland Indians. His parents later divorced. Jones graduated from Bishop Montgomery High School in Torrance, California. As of the mid-2000s, he is married to Nancy Jones and has three children: Aubrey, Sydney, and Elijah. His film credits include Why Did I Get Married?, Oranges, Cutting Room, Time Bomb, The Package, Collateral, Soul Plane, Full-Court Miracle, Phone Booth and Kiss the Girls.

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