About The Cast

HARRISON FORD returns to the role of Indiana Jones in his latest adventure after having embodied the iconic archaeologist adventurer in the legendary series that began with the blockbuster "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and continued through "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" and "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade."

In the Indiana Jones series and as cocky rebel starship pilot Han Solo in the original "Star Wars" trilogy, Ford came to embody the quintessential American hero for moviegoers around the world. His body of work encompasses over 40 feature films -- 11 of which have exceeded $100 million at the box office -- including such films as "The Fugitive," "Air Force One" and "Patriot Games."

An Oscar® and Golden Globe nominee for Best Actor for his performance in the acclaimed suspense thriller "Witness" (1985), Ford also earned Golden Globe nominations for his starring roles in "Sabrina" (1995), "The Fugitive" (1993), and "The Mosquito Coast" (1986). He was named Star of the Century by The National Association of Theatre Owners in 1994 and "Sexiest Man Alive" by People Magazine in 1998. He has won three People's Choice Awards and, in 2000, garnered the prestigious Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute. In 2002, the Golden Globes honored him with the Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Born in Chicago, Ford attended Ripon College in Wisconsin before moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. He began as a contract player with Columbia Pictures, making his film debut in the crime drama "Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round" (1966). After a small role in "Getting Straight" (1970), he resolved not to let his career choices be dictated by financial concerns, so he turned to carpentry while he waited for the right role.

In 1973, after a three-year hiatus from the screen, Ford was cast by George Lucas as drag racer Bob Falfa in the coming-of-age classic "American Graffiti." The next year, he landed a prominent supporting part in Francis Ford Coppola's "The Conversation," which was followed by an important role in Stanley Kramer's television production of "Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley."

Ford returned to features in 1977 when Lucas cast him again, this time as Han Solo, a renegade starship pilot who becomes a hero by default, in "Star Wars" -- and the rest is history. As the film shattered box office records around the world, Ford's performance came to define a new brand of scrappy hero for generations to come. He went on to star in the World War II era love story "Hanover Street" (1978) and "The Frisco Kid" (1979), and had cameo roles in "Apocalypse Now" (1979) and "More American Graffiti" (1979) before Steven Spielberg cast him as intrepid adventurer Indiana Jones in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981). The movie became another of the highest-grossing films of all time.

Between the "Star Wars" sequels "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) and "Return of the Jedi" (1983), and the Raiders sequels, Ford starred in a number of other memorable films. In "Blade Runner" (1982), he delivered a gritty performance as a cop in the nihilistic future of L.A. He earned critical acclaim and an Oscar® nomination for his role as a cop on the lam, hiding out in Amish country, in "Witness" (1985). Ford followed that with a daring portrayal of an eccentric idealistic inventor in "The Mosquito Coast" (1986). He went on to play a Hitchcockian protagonist in "Frantic" (1988) before showing his flair for romantic comedy in "Working Girl" (1988).

He played a lawyer accused of murder in "Presumed Innocent" (1990); an arrogant yuppie transformed by a mugger's bullet in "Regarding Henry" (1991); the heroic ex-CIA agent Jack Ryan in "Patriot Games" (1992) and "Clear and Present Danger" (1994); a doctor wrongly convicted of murdering his wife in "The Fugitive" (1993); a deeply committed New York City cop in "The Devil's Own" (1997); and President James Marshall in "Air Force One" (1997). He also starred in the remake of "Sabrina" (1995) in the role originated by Humphrey Bogart.

Ford's more recent credits include the high tech thriller "Firewall" (2006), the romantic action comedy "Six Days Seven Nights" (1998), the romantic drama "Random Hearts" (1999) and the thriller "What Lies Beneath" (2000). In 2002, he portrayed a Russian submarine captain opposite Liam Neeson in "K-19: The Widowmaker," a drama directed by Kathryn Bigelow. June of 2003 saw the release of "Hollywood Homicide," which was directed by Ron Shelton and starred Ford along with Josh Hartnett. He will next be seen starring in Wayne Kramer's "Crossing Over," with Sean Penn.

Strongly committed to environmental concerns, Ford is actively involved in a number of conservation groups. He serves on the Board of Directors of Conservation International. In Jackson, Wyoming he has donated 389 acres of his property for a conservation easement to the Jackson Hole Land Trust.

His most recent awards are: Heart of the City Award from City Harvest for fighting hunger; NRDC -- Forces for Nature; the Lindbergh Foundation for balance between technology and the environment; the Distinguished Humanitarian Award from B'nai B'rith, also for his environmental work; the World Stunt Awards; the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Laguna Playhouse; and on May 30, 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

CATE BLANCHETT, who plays Irina Spalko, was nominated for two Oscars® this year, as Best Actress for "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" and as Best Supporting Actress for "I'm Not There," making her only the fifth performer in the Academy's 80-year history to be nominated in both acting categories in the same year. Additionally, for "The Golden Age" she received SAG and BAFTA nominations. For "I'm Not There" she also received SAG and BAFTA nominations and won an acting award at the Venice Film Festival, the Golden Globe as supporting actress and an Independent Spirit Award for her work.

Blanchett previously won an Academy Award® as Best Supporting Actress for her critically acclaimed portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's "The Aviator." She was also honored with BAFTA and SAG Awards and a Golden Globe nomination for the role. In 1999, Blanchett earned her first Oscar® nomination and first BAFTA and Golden Globe Awards for her portrayal of another famous figure, Queen Elizabeth I, in Shekhar Kapur's "Elizabeth." She subsequently received Academy Award®, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations for her performance in "Notes on a Scandal," opposite Dame Judi Dench.

Blanchett most recently starred in the films "The Good German," directed by Steven Soderbergh, opposite George Clooney and Tobey Maguire; and "Babel," opposite Brad Pitt. She will next be seen in David Fincher's drama "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," again opposite Pitt.

Blanchett has also earned Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress for the title role in Joel Schumacher's "Veronica Guerin" and her work in Barry Levinson's "Bandits." Among her other film credits are "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy; Wes Anderson's "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou"; Jim Jarmusch's "Coffee and Cigarettes," for which she earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination; Ron Howard's "The Missing," opposite Tommy Lee Jones; "Charlotte Gray," directed by Gillian Armstrong; Lasse Hallstrom's "The Shipping News" with Kevin Spacey; Rowan Woods' "Little Fish" with Sam Neill and Hugo Weaving; Mike Newell's "Pushing Tin" with John Cusack; Oliver Parker's "An Ideal Husband"; Anthony Minghella's "The Talented Mr. Ripley," for which she received a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress; Sam Raimi's "The Gift"; and Sally Potter's "The Man Who Cried," for which she was named Best Supporting Actress by the National Board of Review.

A graduate of Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), Blanchett includes among her earlier film credits Bruce Beresford's "Paradise Road"; "Thank God He Met Lizzie," for which she won both the Australian Film Institute (AFI) and the Sydney Film Critics Awards for Best Supporting Actress; and Gillian Armstrong's "Oscar and Lucinda" opposite Ralph Fiennes, for which she also earned an AFI nomination for Best Actress.

Blanchett's extensive theater work includes productions with Company B, an ensemble including Geoffrey Rush, Gillian Jones and Richard Roxburgh, based at Belvoir St., under the direction of Neil Armfield. Her roles included Miranda in "The Tempest," Ophelia in "Hamlet," for which she earned a Green Room Award nomination, Nina in "The Seagull" and Rose in "The Blind Giant is Dancing." For the Sydney Theatre Company, she appeared in Caryl Churchill's "Top Girls," David Mamet's "Oleanna" (winning the Sydney Theater Critics Award for Best Actress), Michael Gow's "Sweet Phoebe" and Timothy Daly's "Kafka Dances," for which she received the Critics Circle Award for Best Newcomer. For the Almeida Theatre in 1999, Blanchett played Susan Traheren in David Hare's "Plenty" in London's West End.

In 2004, Blanchett returned to the Sydney Theatre Company for the title role in Andrew Upton's adaptation of "Hedda Gabler." The play was a critical success, earning her the prestigious Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Play. The production moved on to a sold-out run at Brooklyn's Academy of Music in 2006, Blanchett's New York stage debut.

Blanchett made her directorial debut with the play "A Kind of Alaska" at the Sydney Theatre Company, which she followed with a production of "The Year of Magical Thinking."

She and her husband, Andrew Upton, were recently named co-directors of the Sydney Theatre Company. Their debut season begins in 2009.

KAREN ALLEN returns to the role of fiery adventurer Marion Ravenwood, which she originated in Steven Spielberg and George Lucas's phenomenal box office record-breaker "Raiders of the Lost Ark."

Allen started her acting career when she joined the Washington Theatre Laboratory Company in Washington, D.C. in 1974. Two years later, she made her film debut in the award-winning short film "The Whidjitmaker." The following year, Allen moved back to New York to study at the Lee Strasberg Institute and, over the years, has appeared on and off-Broadway in such productions as "Extremities," "The Country Girl," "The Miracle Worker," "Speaking in Tongues" and "Miss Julie."

Her studies paid off in 1978 when she made her major film debut as Katy in "National Lampoon's Animal House," which became one of the biggest hits of that year. She followed this with roles in Philip Kaufman's "The Wanderers" (1979), "Cruising" (1980) and Woody Allen's "Manhattan" (1979) before her performance in Rob Cohen's 1980 drama "A Small Circle of Friends" caught the attention of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, who cast her as feisty bar owner Marion Ravenwood in "Raiders of the Lost Ark." She followed that with her 1982 Broadway debut in "The Monday After the Miracle," for which she won the Theatre World Award for Best New Actress. In 1984, Allen starred in "Until September" and John Carpenter's "Starman," opposite Jeff Bridges.

Allen won the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films' Saturn Award for Best Actress in 1982 for "Raiders" and was nominated again in 1985 for "Starman." In 1988, she was nominated for Best Supporting Female at the Independent Spirit Awards and for Best Foreign Actress at Spain's Sant Jordi Awards in Barcelona for her performance in Paul Newman's screen adaptation of "The Glass Menagerie."

Allen's more recent credits include "The Basket" (1999) and Wolfgang Petersen's "The Perfect Storm" (2000), in which she co-starred with George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg and Diane Lane. She also appeared in "Shaka Zulu: The Citadel" (2001) for television and in Todd Field's acclaimed drama "In the Bedroom."

Her most recent film, "Poster Boy," was featured at the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival.

Allen, who has a son, Nick - born in 1990, teaches and directs theater at Simon's Rock College of Bard. She also founded Berkshire Mountain Yoga, started a knitwear design studio in 2003 called Karen Allen -- Fiber Arts Studio and, in 2005, opened a knitwear design shop in Great Barrington, MA, Karen Allen Fiber Arts.

RAY WINSTONE, who plays "Mac" George Michale, was born in Hackney in the East End of London. He started boxing at the age of 12, was three times London Schoolboy champion and fought twice for England. He studied acting at the Corona School before being cast by director Alan Clarke as Carlin ("the Daddy") in "Scum." This BBC Play production made Winstone's name and since then he has appeared in numerous TV series and movies. After playing a starring role in Franc Roddam's "Quadrophenia" and being cast by Ken Loach in "Ladybird, Ladybird," he was cast by Gary Oldman in the lead role in the gritty biographical drama "Nil by Mouth," for which he won a British Independent Film Award for Best Actor and earned a BAFTA Award nomination. His mesmerizing performance led to a succession of challenging roles, including Dave in the gangster movie "Face" and Dad in Tim Roth's disturbing drama "The War Zone." He also played in the comedy drama "The Mammy" and "Fanny & Elvis" before delivering one of the finest performances of his career opposite Ben Kingsley in "Sexy Beast."

Winstone's television credits include "Our Boy" (for which he was awarded an RST award for Best Actor) and "Births, Marriages and Deaths" -- both by writer Tony Grounds. His credits for Granada/ITV are "Tough Love," its sequel "Lenny Blue" and the title role in "Henry VIII" (which went on to win Best Miniseries/TV Movie at the International Emmy Awards. In 2006, Winstone won an International Emmy Award for Best Actor for his eponymous role in "Vincent" (Granada/ITV).

His film credits include "There's Only One Jimmy Grimble," "Last Orders," "Ripley's Game," "Cold Mountain," "King Arthur," "The Proposition," the Oscar®-winning "The Departed," directed by Martin Scorcese, Anthony Minghella's "Breaking and Entering," the title role in Robert Zemeckis's "Beowulf" and Warner Bros.' "Fool's Gold."

In December 2007, Winstone received the Richard Harris Award for outstanding contribution at the British Independent Film Awards.

Winstone recently completed filming on "The Changeling," a coproduction with ITV and the third film for television from his company, Size 9 Productions.

Playing Professor Oxley is JOHN HURT, who was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire and lived until the age of 12 in the industrial countryside of the Midlands, in a small village named Woodville. The son of a Church of England clergyman, he first went to Grimsby Art School and St. Martin's School of Art in London before winning a scholarship to RADA.

Hurt made both his professional stage debut (as Knocker White in "Infanticide in the House of Fred Ginger" and his film debut ("The Wild and The Willing") in 1962, going on to take the Critics' Award for Most Promising Actor in Harold Pinter's "The Dwarfs" the following year. It was his work in a 1966 London production of "Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs" that secured his role as Richard Rich in the Academy Award®-winning film version of Robert Bolt's "A Man for All Seasons" the same year.

Hurt's stage appearances include Pinter's" The Caretaker," Sean O'Casey's "Shadow of a Gunman," Tom Stoppard's "Travesties" (for the RSC in which he originated the role of Tristan Tzara) and Turgenev's "A Month in The Country." The year 2000 saw his greatly acclaimed performance in Samuel Beckett's "Krapp's Last Tape" in London's West End. Later that year, Atom Egoyan made a film adaptation of this "definitive" stage performance, and he reprised the role as part of the 2006 Becket Festival at The Barbican.

His impressive body of television work commenced in 1961 and has included such notable roles as Caligula in "I, Claudius," Raskolnikov in "Crime and Punishment," the title role in Jim Henson's "The Storyteller" and, most memorably, Quentin Crisp in the autobiographical "The Naked Civil Servant," for which he received a Best Actor Emmy and a BAFTA Best Television Actor Award.

It was his defining film roles as Max in "Midnight Express" (1978) and as John Merrick in "The Elephant Man" (1980) that thrust Hurt into the international spotlight with BAFTA awards and Oscar® nominations for Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor respectively. His other film work includes a trio of roles in 1984 for which he received the Evening Standard Award for Best Actor for that year -- "1984," "The Hit" and "Champions." His many other films include "10 Rillington Place," "Alien," Sam Peckinpah's last film, "The Ostermann Weekend," "Scandal," "The Field," "Rob Roy," John Boorman's "Two Nudes Bathing," for which he received a Cable Ace Award in 1995, and an acclaimed performance in Richard Kwietniowski's "Love and Death on Long Island." He was also seen as Dr. Iannis in "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" directed by John Madden, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" directed by Chris Columbus and "Owning Mahowny" directed by Richard Kwietniowski.

Hurt has always been well-known for his very individual voice which has been used to great effect in documentaries, animated films (such as Ralph Bakshi's "Lord of The Rings," "The Tigger Movie," "Watership Down" and "Valiant"), radio (including Tom Stoppard's "Albert's Bridge," which won The Italia Prize, "The French Lieutenant's Woman" and "Madame Bovary"), and in the hugely acclaimed public awareness campaign for AIDS. In 2002, he recorded the narration for Lars von Trier's "Dogville" and, in 2004, his "Manderlay." In 2006, he was the narrator for the long-awaited screen version of "Perfume" directed by Ton Tykwer.

In 2003, Hurt won the Variety Club Award for Outstanding Performance in a Stage Play, along with his co-star Penelope Wilton for Brian Friel's "Afterplay." This was followed by the film "Hellboy" directed by Guillermo del Toro for Revolution Studios, and "The Alan Clark Diaries" for the BBC. The same year, he was awarded the inaugural Richard Harris Award at the British Independent Film Awards.

The year 2004 saw Hurt film "The Skeleton Key" for Universal, "Shooting Dogs," directed by Michael Caton-Jones for BBC Films, and "The Proposition" directed by John Hillcoat. He was also awarded a C.B.E.

In 2005, he filmed "V for Vendetta" for Warner Bros., appeared in Tom Stoppard's adaptation of "Heroes" by Gerald Sibleyras, at Wyndham's Theatre. The play was directed by Thea Sharrock and won the 2006 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. That year, he filmed "Boxes," written and directed by Jane Birkin, and "Outlander."

In 2007, Hurt filmed "Oxford Murders" directed by Alex de la Iglesia, "Lecture 21" directed by Alessandro Baricco, "Recount" directed by Jay Roach, in which he played Secretary of State, Warren Christopher, and "Hellboy II - The Golden Army" for Guillermo del Toro.

Hurt recently completed a new project with director Jim Jarmusch and is currently in preparation for "44 Inch Chest" written by Louis Mellis and David Scinto ("Sexy Best"), to be directed by Malcolm Venville.

Oscar® winner JIM BROADBENT joins the "Indiana Jones" cast as Dean Charles Stanforth.

A quintessential British character actor, Broadbent starred in a trio of films in 2001 that launched him onto the global stage. First, he starred as Bridget Jones's father in "Bridget Jones's Diary." He also won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Harold Zidler in the Oscar®-nominated musical sensation "Moulin Rouge." The third film was the biographical drama "Iris," about the British novelist Iris Murdoch (played by Dame Judi Dench) who suffered from Alzheimer's disease. Broadbent won an Oscar® and a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his part as Murdoch's devoted husband John Bayley.

Broadbent's most recent films include Edgar Wright's action comedy "Hot Fuzz" (2007), opposite Simon Pegg and Bill Nighy. He has also starred as W.S. Gilbert in Mike Leigh's "Topsy-Turvy" (1999). Before that, he lit up the screen with performances in Richard Loncraine's "Richard III" (1995), Woody Allen's "Bullets Over Broadway" (1994), Mike Newell's "Enchanted April" (1992), and Neil Jordan's "The Crying Game" (1992).

Broadbent began studying art before pursuing his career as an actor and applying to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He performed on stage with the Royal National Theatre and The Royal Shakespeare Company. He worked steadily on stage and in television and made his film debut in 1978 in Jerzy Skolimowski's "The Shout."

Broadbent will next be seen opposite Colin Firth in "And When Did You Last See Your Father?" He will also make his debut in the Harry Potter series as Horace Slughorn in "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," and appear in Iain Softley's fantasy adventure "Inkheart."

SHIA LaBEOUF stars for the first time in an "Indiana Jones" film as Mutt Williams.

LaBeouf recently took international audiences by storm when he starred in D.J. Caruso's popular thriller "Disturbia" and again as Sam Witwicky in Michael Bay's blockbuster "TRANSFORMERS" executive-produced by Steven Spielberg. He also lent his voice to the character of a young penguin, Cody Maverick, in the Oscar® nominated animated film "Surf's Up" alongside Jeff Bridges, James Woods and Zooey Deschanel.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, LaBeouf began acting as a way to entertain his mother and father at the tender age of three. He later attended the Magnet School of Performing Arts at USC before beginning his career as an actor by hiring an agent at the age of 11.

LaBeouf made his debut in the TV film "Breakfast with Einstein" (1998) before being cast in the award-winning Disney series "Even Stevens." Over the next four years, LaBeouf's performance in the popular series earned him a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Performer in a Daytime TV Series (2003) and a nomination for the Young Artist Awards Leading Young Actor in a Comedy TV Series three years running (2000-2002).

In 2003, LaBeouf made his feature film debut opposite Sigourney Weaver and Jon Voight in the comedy "Holes," based on the best-selling book by Louis Sacher. For this performance, LaBeouf was nominated for the Young Artists Award in 2004 for Leading Young Actor in a Feature Film and the Breakthrough Male Performance at the MTV Movie Awards. That same year, he was cast as Bosley's protégé in "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" and starred in HBO's "Project Greenlight" feature "The Battle of Shaker Heights" produced by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.

Since his early work as a young actor, he has begun to take on more challenging roles, like that of the young Robert Downey Jr., in "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints" (2006), which won Best Ensemble Cast at the Sundance Film Festival, and as part of the ensemble in Emilio Estevez's acclaimed drama "Bobby" (2006).

In 2005, LaBeouf played amateur golfer Francis Ouimet in "The Greatest Game Ever Played" (2005) directed by Bill Paxton and based on Mark Frost's best-selling book. He starred alongside Will Smith in "I, Robot" in 2004, followed by a supporting role the same year in "Constantine," the sci-fi thriller based on the comic book Hellblazer, opposite Keanu Reeves.

On the heels of his performances in "Disturbia" and "TRANSFORMERS," LaBeouf was given the 2007 ShoWest Award for Male Star of Tomorrow and nominated for four Teen Choice Awards for "TRANSFORMERS," winning the Breakout Male Award. He also won the Teen Choice Award for Movie Actor in a Horror/Thriller for his performance in "Disturbia," and also won a Scream Award.

LaBeouf will again team up with his "Disturbia" director D.J. Caruso for his next role in the DreamWorks action thriller "Eagle Eye."

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