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Sophie Okonedo (Sandra Laing)
Sam Neill (Abraham Laing)
Over the past thirty years, three-time Golden Globe nominee Sam Neill has appeared in over sixty feature films and more than thirty television dramas. 
Alice Krige (Sannie Laing)
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Sophie Okonedo is perhaps best known for her Oscar®-nominated
role opposite Don Cheadle in the 2005 release, Hotel Rwanda.
Having enjoyed a successful career on stage (she trained at
RADA and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company) as
well as on British television, her feature film breakthrough
came playing a prostitute in Stephen Frears’ Dirty Pretty
Things (2002).
Since the runaway success of Hotel Rwanda, Sophie has starred in several feature films, including Aeon Flux (opposite Charlize Theron), Martian Child with John Cusak, Scenes of a Sexual Nature co-starring Ewan McGregor, Gina McKee, Eileen Atkins and Hugh Bonneville, Stormbreaker starring Mickey Rourke, Bill Nighy, Ewan McGregor and Damien Lewis and most recently, The Secret Life of Bees opposite Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson, Dakota Fanning, Paul Bettany and Alicia Keys.
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Highlights include Gillian
Armstrong’s My Brilliant Career, Philip Noyce’s Dead Calm,
Fred Schepisi’s Plenty and A Cry in the Dark, Rob Sitch’s
The Dish, Mike Hoffman’s Restoration, John Duigan’s Sirens,
John McTiernan’s The Hunt for Red October, Jane Campion’s,
The Piano and Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park.
More recent films include brave turns in Rowan Woods’ Little Fish, Sally Potter’s Yes and Francois Ozon’s Angel. He has recently enjoyed success as Cardinal Wolsey in the television series, The Tudors. Sam Neill was born in New Zealand and divides his time between his vineyard on the South Island, Sydney and London.
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Alice Krige was born in Upington, South Africa. She made her
feature film debut as “Sybil Gordon” in the Oscar®-winning
Chariots of Fire and has since starred in nearly 30 films
and over 45 television programmes.
Her feature film roles include Bathsheba in Bruce Beresford’s King David, Barbet Schroeder’s Barfly, Ivan Passer’s Haunted Summer, Alan J. Pakula’s See You in the Morning and the Quay brothers’ Institute Benjamenta. Her work in television included critically acclaimed mini-series, such as Ellis Island and Wallenberg: A Hero’s Story and the BBC adaptation, The Line of Beauty. She is perhaps best known to international audiences as the Borg Queen in Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek Voyager: “End Game”.
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