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Cast & Crew for 2006 Test Shoot

 

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 Cast

If you wish to contact any of the cast please send an email to the Actors at Work TEAM and your message will be forwarded to the right person. Thank you



Arathorn 

Father of Aragorn, King Elessar. Arathorn, son of Arador, was born in 2873. Arathorn became the fifteenth Chieftain of the Dúnedain.

 

Christopher Dane

Chris has worked extensively in independent short and feature films as well as professional theatre productions such as Mary Stuart in London's West End.

Chris shares the same Scandinavian roots as Viggo Mortensen and is both proud and thrilled to be playing Arathorn in this ambitious project.

 

www.christopherdane.co.uk

 

Gilraen

Mother of Aragorn, King Elessar. Gilraen was born in 2907. Her father was Dirhael and her mother was Ivorwen. She was known as Gilraen the Fair. Gilraen married Arathorn son of Arador in 2929.

 

Beth Aynsley

 

Aragorn - Luke Johnston


Dirhael

Dirhael is Gilraen's father.

 

Andrew McDonald

Trained at LAMDA His work in Theatre includes The Royal Hunt of the Sun and Tartuffe at the National Theatre; The Alchemist, Julius Caesar and Columbus and the Discovery of Japan at the RSC; Don Carlos at the Crucible Sheffield and the Gielgud; Seasons at Richmond Orange Tree, Chichester Festival Theatre and Nuffield Southampton; the London productions of  Heroes, The Goat, The Simple Truth, Abigail’s Party, Golden Boy, Art and Medea and productions of Outliving the Hamster, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Charleys Aunt, Walking Out, Macbeth and Travels with My Aunt. His work for TV includes Eastenders and The Bill. His work in Radio includes Don Carlos.

 

 

Ivorwen

Ivorwen is Gilraen's mother.  She possesses foresight.

 

Philippa Hammond

Philippa began her acting career with such roles as third field-mouse in "Toad of Toad Hall". Numerous ladies in waiting followed until her first lead role as the Witch in "The Lion the Witch and The Wardrobe", at the age of ten.

Rather more recently Philippa gained critical acclaim in Edinburgh for her one woman show "Glimpse", and for the title role in the infamous midnight production of "Fanny Hill".

She appeared in "Anamnesis" which previewed at BAFTA

and worked on a series of recreations of saucy silent films.

Later in 2006 she begun work on "Undone", a short film by the award-winning writer Judy Upton.

Elgarain 

Elgarain, having lost her mother when she was very young, asked to take her father's place when he was killed.  Arathorn alone supported her decision and taught her the skills she'd need.    

Elgarain is a new character not created by Tolkien but inspired by his work.  

 

Kate Madison

It was during her Zoology degree that Kate finally realised the Arts were her main love, boosted by the fact that during an internship in Florida she played Sally Brown in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.   Since then she has been involved in a number of film & theatre productions including, Crystal in Little Shop of Horrors (Arts Theatre, Cambridge), Jennifer Gabriel in The Witches of Eastwick (ADC Theatre, Cambridge), The Pirates of Penzance (Minack Open Air Theatre, Cornwall), & Feste in Twelfth Night (Bridewell Theatre, London).  Kate has also done some modelling work and can currently be seen in the uSwitch commercials on TV. 

 

Dirhaborn 

Dirhaborn is a skilled, vigorous young Dúnedain Ranger.  He grew up with Elgarain and has always cared for her.

 

Dirhaborn is a new character not created by Tolkien but inspired by his work. 

Danny George

Arador 

Grandfather of Aragorn, King Elessar. Arador was born in 2820. He became the fourteenth Chieftain of the Dúnedain in 2912 after the death of his father Argonui.

 

Frank Jakeman

Halbaron

Halbaron is the father of Halbarad and is a close friend of Arathorn.

Halbaron is a new character not created by Tolkien but inspired by his work. 

Howard Corlett

Since leaving his corporate life in travel 3 years ago Howard has worked principally in independent short and feature films, Rick Blaine in the BBC Film Club’s adaptation of Casa Blanca and Chris Donald, supporting lead in The Secret Philosophy set for release in April 2008 amongst his credits. Theatre credits include Bill Calhoun in Kiss Me Kate at the Minack Theatre and various London fringe productions. He has presented series for Life TV and Thomson TV on Sky and featured in the finals of BBC’s Strictly Dance Fever. 

 

 

Evonyn

She is Halbaron's wife and the mother of Halbarad.

 

Evonyn is a new character not created by Tolkien but inspired by his work.  

 

Amani Johara

Amani trained at Mountview Academy of Dramatic Arts and Central School of Speech & Drama. She has since been involved in numerous film and television productions. Notable credits include the short film, 'Voices Inside', directed by Bernard Walton and premiered at Cannes; the acclaimed Channel 4 docudrama, 'Saddam's Tribe'; and the UK Film Council funded short film, 'Beyond', which premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival, 2007.

Mallor 

One of Arathorn's loyal men, Mallor is a stalwart Dúnedain ranger. 

 

Mallor is a new character not created by Tolkien but inspired by his work. 

Raphael Edwards

Halbarad

Teenage son of Halbaron but already highly skilled in weapons and woodlore. 

 

Halbarad later went on to lead the grey company to Aragorn's aid during the war of the ring and carried Aragorn's standard onto Pelennor Fields where he was killed.

 

Not yet cast

Dorlad 

Dorlad is Gilraen's brother, lost to orcs at a young age. 

 

Dorlad is a new character not created by Tolkien but inspired by his work.

 

Not yet cast

 

 

Elladan & Elrohir 

The warrior sons of Elrond with a deep hatred of orcs since they rescued their mother from torture by them.

"...two tall men, neither young nor old. So much alike were they, the sons of Elrond, that few could tell them apart; dark-haired, grey-eyed, and their faces elven-fair, clad alike in bright mail beneath cloaks of silver-grey." (The Passing of the Grey Company, ROTK).  

 

Not yet cast

 

please contact me if you know identical twins who would be appropriate for these roles.  UK based ideally.

 

Filmmakers

If you wish to contact any of the crew please send an email to the Actors at Work TEAM and your message will be forwarded to the right person. Thank you

Kate Madison (Director/Producer/Asst. Writer) UK

Kate made her directorial debut in July 2005 with a project called 'Into the Darkness' and has been involved in a number of other projects since then mostly with the Cambridge Filmmakers Network, filling a variety of roles including production managing, set dressing, costumer, boom operating, camera operating and production assistant. In 2006 Kate directed the trailer shoot for Born of Hope and in 2007 the short film The Horsemen.  Kate is also an actor, so when not behind the camera she can often be found in front of it.

Alex K Aldridge (Writer) USA

Nidhi Gupta (Co Producer) UK
Uppal Sonawane (Co Producer) UK
Alexandra Medeville (Assistant Production Coordinator) UK

Nina Jagersbacher (Production Assistant) UK

Helen Walters (Wardrobe coordinator) UK

Luke McNally (designer/sculptor, creatures/prosthetics) UK

John Parnham (designer/sculptor, creatures/prosthetics) UK

Emmanuel Martin (Concept Artist) UK

http://web.mac.com/emmanuel1971/Site/Welcome.html

Henning Janssen (Concept Artist) NETHERLANDS

http://www.henj.nl

Catherine Karina Chmiel (Concept Artist) POLAND

http://tolkien.com.pl/kasiopea/ang/tolkien.htm

Carlos Avina (Graphic Artist/Designer) USA

Roman Rausch (Sindarin translator/dialect coach) GERMANY

Anushka (Sindarin translator) 

Florian Bunz (Graphic Artist and Web designer of new page) GERMANY

Florian is a Tolkien addict since his 12th Birthday. He is the official Web designer of the Ring*Con Page since 2006. He‘s also responsible for the German subtitles in these films.

SPECIAL THANKS TO

Peter "TheHutt" Klassen in GERMANY   For allowing us to use the Ringbearer font he designed.

Hutchings & Harding Ltd   For donating chamois leather scraps

Eastern Counties Leather Plc   For donating sheepskin off cuts

 

Special thank you to the following for their donations to the project:

Langford Jordon

Evenstar Jensen

Joanne Utkus

 

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