English Movie Review Crimson Peak - Cast & Crew

Mia Wasikowska is an actress of Australian-Polish descent. She made her silver screen debut way back in 2004, appearing on the TV show All Saints. Her first big screen appearance was in the movie Suburban Mayhem in 2006. Mia was born on October 14, 1989, to photographers Marzena and John. While her mother has Polish roots, her father is Australian with British ancestors. She was the middle child among the three kids in the house. She was based in Canberra mainly though the whole family shifted to Poland for almost a year when she was eight. She wanted to pursue ballet dancing as a career, and she even took classes at the tender age of nine. But an injury became a major hindrance, and she finally quit at the age of fourteen. She got fascinated by cinema and dropped out of Canberra High School, which she was attending at the time, to prepare herself as an actor in a full-fledged manner. When she was just fifteen, she debuted with the movie Suburban Mayhem.

Jessica Chastain aka Jessica Michelle Chastain is an American actress. She was born in Sacramento, California. She was raised by her mother Jerri Renee and her stepfather Michael Leroy Hastey.

Guillermo Del Toro Gomez is a Mexican film director, producer, screenwriter and a novelist. He was born on 9th October 1964 in Mexico. From his teens, he developed an interest in filmmaking. He studied make-up and special effects for ten years and then formed his company, Necropia. He is also the co-founder of Guadalajara International Film Festival. He formed his production company in the name Tequila Gang.

Thomas William Hiddleston is an actor best known for his movies with the Marvel Studios. The English actor has played substantial roles in worldwide hit movies such as the Thor series and The Avengers. Tom was born to Diana Patricia, a stage manager and James Hiddleston, a chemist, in Westminster located in London. He has two sisters- Emma, the younger one and Sarah, the older one. The former is also an actor in London while the latter is working as a journalist in India. He belongs to a much-respected family of London. His great-grandfather is Mr. Reginald Servaes, a flag officer in Navy and his great-great-grandfather is Sir Edmund Vestey, who ran Vestey Brothers, a cluster of companies including a food production unit, which served the soldiers during the First World War and owned quite a few ships. Hiddleston grew up in Wimbledon and, later on, moved with his family to Oxford where he completed his schooling at Dragon preparatory school. At the age of thirteen, he moved to Berkshire, in England, and stayed in the hostel to study at Eton College. He went there primarily to cope with his parent’s divorce. When asked about their separation in an interview he said that the incident made him understand the nature and weakness of the human kind. After finishing his schooling he went to Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge, to earn his degree. He is studious by nature and obtained double first-class honors in Literature. During his college days, he produced the play ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’, based on the novel of the same name, written by Lorraine Hamilton. This proved as an eye opener for him as it made him realize his passion for acting. Tom then went on to join the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and graduated with a degree in acting in the year 2005. He began learning the nuances of acting through the television medium.

Charlie Hunnam is a hunk English actor and a notable screenwriter. He was born as Charles Matthew Hunnam on April 10, 1980 at Newcastle Upon Tyne in England, UK to William and Jane Hunnam. His parents got separated when he was only 2-years old. Charlie shifted at Melmerby, Cumbria at the age of 12 when his mother re-married. He studied at Heaton Manor School, Newcastle but after moving to Cumbria, he studied at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Penrith. On his secondary school, the actor got expelled and so he did his exams at home. He also went to Cumbria College of Art and Design to study Performing Arts.

At 17, Charlie was discovered while buying a shoe for his brother on Christmas Eve. He was approached by the production manager of the British series, Byker Grove and subsequently, he was cast in 3 episodes of the show as Jason. At the age of 18, he got his very first major role as Nathan Maloney in the British series, Queer as Folk in 1999 followed by his character as Daz in Peter Hewitt’s film, ‘Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?’. After this, the actor went o Los Angeles to pursue his acting career. His career was expanded after bagging the role of Gregor Ryder in the drama show, Young Americans; followed by Judd Apatow’s short-lived television series, Undeclared on Fox channel where he donned the role of the aggressive, Lloyd Haythe. After this, Charlie acted on the silver screen in the films, Abandon and Nicholas Nickleby in 2002; he was also seen in the epic war film, Cold Mountain in 2003.

Charlie returned to UK and played the main lead role as Peter Dunham in the independent drama film, Green Street in 2005, but the way he delivers his Cockney accent received negative responses by the critics, and pertains it to be the ‘worst accent’ in the entire film history. In 2006, he played the role of Patric in the science fiction film, Children of Men. The actor stated that his role as a member of the group, The Fishes will be the last time that he will do a mad man role.

From 2008 up to the present, Charlie acted as Jackson ‘Jax’ Teller in the crime drama television series, Sons of Anarchy. This is a story about a famous motorcycle club in California and he played the main lead role. He was cast by the creator of the series, Kurt Sutter after he saw Charlie in Green Street. He got nominated at the Critics Choice Television Award, Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series at the EWwy Award and Best Cast in a Drama Series at the PAAFTJ Award for his performance as Jackson Teller. Prior to his appearance in this series, Charlie has sold Vlad screenplay to Summit Entertainment, where Brad Pitt is the co-producer of Plan B Studios. The film was directed by American film and music video director, Anthony Mandler and will converge on the life story of Vlad, The Impaler. Charlie got the story from the locals in Romania while doing the film, Cold Mountain. Charlie stated that he was forced to sell his script since he did not work for the whole 18-months and got broke and that if he did not sell it, he would have to sell his house and go back to Britain with his mother.

In year 2011, he also played as Gavin Nichols in the drama-thriller film, The Ledge. Later, he essayed the role of Frankie in the 2012 Indie film, ‘3,2,1…Frankie Go Boom’ along with his co-star in Sons of Anarchy, Ron Perlman. Charlie stated that doing the scenes with Perlman was the best and funniest filming day he ever encountered in his career. From the same year, Charlie acted as Jay, an ex boxer who just came out from the prison in the crime drama film, Deadfall. He was also starred in the box-office hit film, Pacific Rim, under the direction of Guillermo del Toro. The film has a grossed $411-Million internationally. Charlie received the Best Global Emerging Actor award at the Huading Award for his character as Raleigh because of the success of the film in the Asian markets.

Charlie was married to Katharine Towne from which he met in 1999 during the audition for Dawson’s Creek. They dated for four weeks and got married in Las Vegas. In 2002, the couple had a divorce. Charlie is currently in a relationship with Morgana McNelis, a jewelry designer.

Originally from Laramie, Wyoming, the United States, born on August 12, 1950, James Norman "Jim" Beaver, Jr. has made his mark as not only an actor but as a screenwriter as well. He was born to Dorothy Adell and James Norman Beaver, Sr. Jim along with his sisters went to Irving High School but transferred and graduated from Fort Worth Christian Academy in 1968. During his school days, other than performing in a few school plays Beaver didn’t exhibit any interest at all in the field of acting. He rather had a great zeal in the art of writing and had published some stories for school anthologies. In his college days, in a tiny role in ‘The Miracle Worker’, he made his theatrical debut. Beaver also started writing, and when got over with his premier book, John Garfield, he was still studying. Beaver also pursued Oral Communications, and in 1975 graduated with flying colors.

Burn Hugh Winchester Gorman, popularly known as Burn Gorman was born on 1st September 1974. He was born in a British family thus the actor holds dual citizenship, British and American. The actor’s father was a linguistic teacher, and this made the actor stay in London since the age of 7. The actor has three elder sisters. The passion in his acting evoked him to join and get trained at Manchester Metropolitan University's School of Theatre. Burn is an actor as well as a musician. Gorman got married to Sarah Beard on 17 July 2004. The actor has two children, a son named Max and a daughter named Nell. The actor started his career working on television. He worked with BBC in different project such as ‘Torchwood’, portraying the character of Owen Harper; ‘Charles Dickens' Bleak House’, where he was seen as William Guppy; ‘Funland’, project by BB; ‘Bonekickers’, another BBC project; He appeared to portray ‘Ray Galton’ in a BBC television play named ‘The Curse of Steptoe’. He also appeared in Thriller series of Channel 4 called ‘Low Winter Sun.’ Apart from these, the actor was seen in popular series namely Dalziel and Pascoe (2006), Casualty (2000), Merseybeat (2001), and The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2005).