Characters

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  DG

  Zooey Deschanel

  An intelligent and rebellious young woman, DG works as a waitress in the Hilltop Diner and restlessly speeds down back roads on her motorcycle. She lives with her parents Hank and Em in a rural farmhouse until a fateful twister carries her away to the Outer Zone (O.Z.)

   

  Zooey Deschanel made her acting debut at the age of 17 on the TV sitcom Veronica's Closet. Her first film role came shortly after, starring in Lawrence Kasdan's 1999 ensemble drama Mumford, prompting her to leave her studies at Northwestern University and pursue acting full-time. She soared to fame after her role in Cameron Crowe's 2000 biopic Almost Famous opposite Billy Crudup, Kate Hudson and Frances McDormand, and has since become one of Hollywood's most sought after young actresses.

   

  Deschanel's distinctive acting style found her critical acclaim in 2003 for her role in David Gordon Green's All the Real Girls, for which she received a Best Female Lead nomination at the Independent Spirit Awards. More praise came after her engaging performance and remarkable singing voice as "Jovie" in Elf that same year--the hit comedy with Will Ferrell, directed by Jon Favreau.

   

  She also stars in The Go-Getter with Lou Taylor-Pucci and The Good Life by writer/director Stephen Berra. Both films premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. In the same year, Deschanel reunites with Aaron Stanford (her co-star from the 2006 comedy Live Free or Die) for a part in indie film Flakes, by acclaimed director Michael Lehmann. She plays the lead in short film Raving, which was written and directed by fellow actress Julia Stiles.

   

  Deschanel's other recent feature film credits include Winter Passing, opposite Ed Harris and Will Ferrell; Failure to Launch with Matthew McConaughey and Sarah Jessica Parker; and a starring role in the box office hit The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, with Sam Rockwell, Mos Def and John Malkovich.

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  Glitch

  Alan Cumming

  Once a genius inventor and member of Lavender Eyes' inner circle, the good-natured but confused Glitch had half of his brain stolen while imprisoned in Azkadellia's torture chambers

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  Cumming returned to London's West End in Martin Sherman's Bent, which earned him a Best Actor nomination at the What's On Stage People's Choice Awards. Back in the United States, he won the Best First Feature at the 2007 Independent Spirit Awards for Sweet Land, which he produced and starred in. He also co-produced and appeared in Showbusiness: The Road to Broadway, which hit theaters this summer. His latest film as a director and star, Suffering Man's Charity, is causing a sensation on the festival circuit, with Cumming winning awards at the Phoenix, Birmingham and Provincetown film festivals. In August, he makes his return to the Scottish stage after 16 years playing Dionysus in The Bacchae for the National Theatre of Scotland at the Edinburgh International festival.

   

  Cumming is also no stranger to Broadway, recently starring as Mac the Knife opposite Cyndi Lauper The Threepenny Opera. Previously on the New York stage, he played the Pope in Jean Genet's Elle, which he also adapted. For the Roundabout, he has appeared in Noel Coward's Design for Living and Kander and Ebb's Cabaret, for which he won the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Theater World, New York Press, FANY and New York Public Advocate's Awards. In London: Hamlet at the Donmar Warehouse (for which he won the TMA Best Actor Award and a Shakespeare Globe nomination), Cabaret (Olivier award nomination), La Bete (Olivier nomination), Conquest of the South Pole (Olivier nomination) and seasons with the RSC and the Royal National Theatre, where he won an Olivier Award for his performance in Accidental Death of an Anarchist (which he also co-adapted).

   

  Other films include: X Men 2, the Spy Kids trilogy, Eyes Wide Shut, Emma, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, Urbania, Nicholas Nickleby, Titus, Goldeneye and Circle of Friends. Cumming's television work includes The L Word and Reefer Madness on Showtime, and Sex and the City on HBO. In Britain, he wrote and starred in the cult sitcom The High Life, as well as many other films for the BBC, including Bernard and the Genie, for which he won a British Comedy award.

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  Tin Man

  Neal McDonough

  This embittered ex-cop (aka "tin man") has spent years imprisoned in a rusted metal suit watching endless holographic replays of his wife and child's abduction by Azkadellia's soldiers. Smart and wary, he is eager for revenge.

   

  In 2007, McDonough stared in Tri Star Pictures' I Know Who Killed Me, opposite Lindsay Lohan and Julia Ormond.  He was seen in The Hitcher with Sophia Bush, starred in Clint Eastwood's award-nominated Flags of Our Fathers, and played the protégé to Kevin Costner's character in The Guardian.

   

  It was McDonough's starring role in Steven Spielberg's Minority Report with Tom Cruise that first drew audience attention.  McDonough also starred in Timeline with Paul Walker, Walking Tall with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, and in Jeff Hare's A Perfect Little Man, which earned him a Best Actor Award at the 2000 Atlantic City Film Festival.

   

  In the Golden Globe and Emmy-winning HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, McDonough starred as Buck Compton - a rugged World War II hero whose all-American veneer is cracked by the horrors of war.

   

  McDonough's television credits include a starring role on NBC's Medical Investigation as Dr. Stephen Connor, the head of a highly skilled team of specialists who investigate mysterious illnesses.  McDonough is perhaps best known as Deputy District Attorney David McNorris in the acclaimed NBC drama series Boomtown, which earned him a nomination for Individual Achievement in Drama by the Television Critics Association.

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  Azkadellia

  Kathleen Robertson

  A young sorceress with a penchant for sucking the souls from her victims, Azkadellia has seized the reigns of power from Lavender Eyes, the rightful queen of the O.Z., and rules this alternate dimension with an iron fist.

   

  She starred alongside Academy Award-winners Ben Affleck and Adrien Brody in the dramatic thriller Hollywoodland, which investigates the mysterious death of George Reeves, TV's original Superman.  She also stars in the critically-acclaimed mockumentary comedy series The Business, for which she also serves double duty as executive producer. 

   

  Additionally, Robertson appeared in a succession of films including the dramatic thriller In the Dark, opposite Charlotte Rampling; Until the Night with Norman Reedus; director Tim Hunter's Control, alongside Willem Dafoe, Ray Liotta and Michelle Rodriguez; and Mall Cop, which marked director David Greenspan's first full-length feature after winning the Cannes Film Festival's coveted Palm D'or for his short film Beancake. 

   

  No stranger to the big screen, Robertson collaborated with writer/director Gregg Araki on the films Splendor, in which she starred as Veronica, a girl caught in the middle of a love triangle with Jonathan Schaech and Matt Keeslar, and Nowhere in which she portrayed the overbearing, purple-haired lesbian "Lucifer."  Additional film credits include Beautiful with Minnie Driver for director Sally Field, Bruce McCulloch's Dog Park, and Sundance favorite Psycho Beach Party.

  Robertson co-starred with Bill Murray in the comedy Speaking of Sex; played the lead role as notorious Canadian murderer Evelyn Dick in the grisly 1946 true story Torso, for which she garnered a Gemini Award nomination (Canadian Emmy); and had a coveted cameo opposite Sean Penn in New Line Cinema's I Am Sam.  In addition, she appeared in the Adam Goldberg-helmed I Love Your Work with Giovanni Ribisi and Franke Potente.

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  Raw

  Raoul Trujillo

  Half-human, half-wolverine, Raw is one of the psychics known in the O.Z. as "Viewers." Empathetic and compassionate towards others, he is battling his own shattered nerves while attempting to recover the gift of second sight that Azkadellia's alchemist stole from him.

   

  An accomplished actor, director, choreographer and dancer, Raoul Trujillo's career spans more than 20 years and five continents. Most recently, Trujillo starred in Mel Gibson's Apocalypto as the villainous "Zero Wolf." He was featured in Terrence Malick's epic by New World Cinema, The New World, and choreographed a series of native dances for the project. His work in the Dreamworks miniseries Into The West garnered much attention and praise. Other recent films include Bayou, The Blue Butterfly, Betrayed, The Adjuster (directed by Atom Egoyan), Denys Arcand's Montreal vu par, Black Robe (directed by Bruce Beresford), and Highlander III. Television work includes Largo Winch, La Femme Nikita and The Sentinal.

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  Lavender Eyes

  Anna Galvin

  Rightful queen of the O.Z. from the royal line of Glinda, Lavender Eyes lost her husband and throne when Azkadellia seized power.

   

  Born in Australia, Anna Galvin trained at the Oxford School of Drama in England. She commenced her career as an actor in the theater before moving into television and film. She has played leads in series for the BBC, ABC, FOX, Warner Bros., and UPN.  Galvin recently returned to the theater with a critically-acclaimed one-woman show called Lorilei, which premiered at La Mama in Melbourne, Australia. Lorilei toured to London where it received glowing reviews, was Critics' Choice in publications such as Time Out, The Guardian, The Times and The Spectator, and went on to play at The Edinburgh Festival.

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  Mystic Man

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Once a powerful, trusted and influential figure, the Mystic Man has become addicted to bliss-inducing vapors and been reduced to a caricature of himself known laughingly as "The Blunderful Mystic of O.Z."

   

  In a career spanning four decades, Richard Dreyfuss' intelligence, energy and incredible talent have made him one of the leading actors of the American cinema. At the same time, he has remained socially and politically active, working with organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union and the Council on Foreign Relations.

   

  Born in Brooklyn, New York, Dreyfuss discovered acting after moving with his parents to Los Angeles. He made his acting debut at age nine at the Westside Jewish Community Center. He made his professional debut in the late 1

  960s, working both coasts and doing Broadway, off-Broadway, repertory, improvisational comedy, and making numerous guess appearances on television.

   

  His film career began modestly with bit parts in Valley of the Dolls and The Graduate, but he soared to national attention with his portrayal of an ambivalent college-bound teen in the cult classic American Graffiti.  In the 1970s, he delivered a string of stellar performances in such films as The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Goodbye Girl, the last of these earning him both an Academy Award for Best Actor and a Golden Globe.

   

  He has continued to deliver outstanding performances on film, stage and television since. The '80s and '90s saw a string of acclaimed movies, including Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Tin Men, Stakeout and What About Bob, and in 1996, he earned an Academy Award and a Golden Globe nomination for his performance in Mr. Holland's Opus. More recently, he appeared in John Sayles's Silver City and Wolfgang Petersen's Poseidon.

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  Zero

  Callum Keith Rennie

  As the ruthless chief officer of the Longcoats, Azkadellia's personal army, Zero will stop at nothing in his efforts to capture DG.

   

  Born in England and raised in Canada, Callum Keith Rennie worked his way to the renowned Shaw Festival before moving to Vancouver, where he quickly caught the eye of producers and directors.

   

  Rennie landed his first independent feature film role in director Mina Shum's Double Happiness, for which he garnered a Best Supporting Actor Genie Nomination. He continued to star in many Canadian films, including Curtis's Charm, Men With Guns and Bruce MacDonald's critically-acclaimed Hard Core Logo. Concurrently, he starred on several television series including My Life as a Dog (winning a Best Actor Gemini Award), Twitch City and Due South.

   

  Rennie went on to star in many other feature films, including Christopher Nolan's Memento, David Cronenberg's eXistenZ, Lynne Stopkewich's Suspicious River, his second feature film with filmmaker Bruce McDonald Picture Claire, and Last Night directed by Don McKellar, which earned him a Best Supporting Actor Genie Award.

   

  Films released in 2003 included the critically-acclaimed Flower & Garnet and Falling Angels, starring opposite Miranda Richardson. Both films attended the Toronto International Film Festival, as has virtually every Canadian feature film he has starred in throughout his career.

   

  Rennie was seen in Daniel MacIvor's Wilby Wonderful, Stephen King's miniseries Kingdom Hospital and Blade Trinity. He also appeared opposite Jon Voight in the miniseries The Five People You Meet in Heaven. He worked in South Africa on Harry Hook's Whiskey Echo opposite Ving Rhames and Freddie Prinze Jr., on Keoni Waxman's Shooting Gallery, shot in New Orleans, and opposite Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman and Carrie-Anne Moss in Snow Cake.

   

  Rennie's television credits continue to grow with recent additions including Men in Trees, The L Word, Supernatural and Smallville, along with the recurring role as the infamous Cylon "Leobon" on SCI FI's Peabody Award-winning series Battlestar Galactica. 

   

  Rennie appeared in five feature films released in 2007, including The Cleaner opposite Cedric The Entertainer, Lucy Liu and Nicollette Sheridan; David Goyer's The Invisible, opposite Marcia Gay Harden; Silk, starring Keira Knightley; Butterfly on a Wheel with Pierce Brosnan; and the thriller Case 39, starring Renee Zellweger.