Casting for novels Kushiel's Legacy
by Gabrielova_Fanynka | created - 22 Oct 2013 | updated - 24 Jun 2018 | PublicThese actors are playing these characters in the brilliant book series Kushiel's Legacy by Jacqueline Carey, a fantasy series.
1. Lacey Chabert
Actress | Mean Girls
Lacey Nicole Chabert was born in Purvis, Mississippi, to Julie (Johnson) and Tony Chabert, a representative for an oil company. She is of Cajun (French), Italian, English, and Scottish ancestry. Chabert started in drama and music performances in and around her hometown in Mississippi from an early ...
Phèdre nó Delaunay
2. Michaela Tomesová
Actress | Sestricky Modrý kód
Michaela Tomesová was born on May 17, 1991 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. She is an actress, known for Sestricky Modrý kód (2020), Maturita (2013) and Jak se mori revizori (2018). She has been married to Roman Tomes since June 1, 2016. They have two children.
Phèdre nó Delaunay
3. Lucia Siposová
Actress | 360
Lucia Siposová was born on May 21, 1980 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. She is an actress and writer, known for 360 (2011), Hlidac c.47 (2008) and Na vlastní nebezpecí (2008).
Melisande Shahrizai
4. Claudia Black
Actress | Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars
Claudia Lee Black was born and raised in Sydney, Australia. Her parents Jules and Judy Black are both Australian Medical Academics Doctors. She has lived in Australia, New Zealand, England and the US. Throughout her career Black has played in many Australian and New Zealand films and guested on ...
Melisande Shahrizai
5. Alexandra Adi
Actress | Jawbreaker
Alexandra Adi was born on April 13, 1971 in New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Jawbreaker (1999), American Pie (1999) and Cop Land (1997). She has been married to Jerry A. Greenberg since 2003.
Allegra Stregazza
6. Vladimir Kulich
Actor | The Equalizer
Vladimir Kulich is known for his work in The Equalizer, Vikings, 13th Warrior, Smoking' Aces, Ironclad,The X Files, and as the voice of Ulfric Stormcloak in one of the most successful video games of all time, Skyrim-The Elder Scrolls. He has given memorable performances opposite academy award ...
Waldemar Selig
7. Nikola Navrátil
Actor | Missing
Nikola Navrátil was born on December 5, 1984. He is an actor, known for Missing (2012), Flame & Citron (2008) and Kamenák (2003).
Joscelin Verreuil
8. Rupert Grint
Actor | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint was born in Harlow, Essex, England, the elder son of Joanne (Parsons) and Nigel Grint, who dealt in memorabilia. The first of 5 children, Rupert has one brother and three sisters.
Rupert grew up in Hertfordshire, the English county directly to the north of London, ...
Eamonn mac Connor
9. Gabriel Byrne
Actor | The Usual Suspects
Byrne was the eldest of six children born to a family in Dublin, Ireland. His father was a cooper and his mother a hospital worker. He was raised Catholic and educated by the Irish Christian Brothers. He spent five years of his childhood in a seminary training to be a Catholic priest. He later said...
Benedicte de la Courcel
10. Jean Reno
Actor | Léon
Jean Reno was born Juan Moreno y Herrera-Jiménez in Casablanca, Morocco, to Spanish parents (from Andalucía) who moved to North Africa to seek work. His father was a linotypist. Reno settled in France at 17. He began studying drama and has credits in French television and theater as well as films. ...
Quincel de Morhban
11. Karel Roden
Actor | RocknRolla
Karel Roden is an internationally known actor who was most recently seen in the United States in director Jaume Collet-Serra's "Orphan," starring Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard, and in Guy Ritchie's "RocknRolla," opposite Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson and Thandie Newton. His work can also be seen ...
Percy de Somerville, duke of Somerville
12. David Nykl
Actor | Stargate: Atlantis
Prague born, Vancouver raised, David Nykl arrived in Canada at age two when his family emigrated from Czechoslovakia after the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion of what was then Czechoslovakia.
David started early as an actor in Vancouver: community theater, small TV parts, and classes in dance and ...
Marc de Trevalion, a husband of Lyonette
13. Hayden Christensen
Actor | Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Hayden Christensen was born April 19, 1981 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. His parents, Alie and David Christensen, are in the communications business. He is of Danish (father) and Swedish and Italian (mother) descent. Hayden grew up in Markham, Ontario, with siblings Kaylen, Hejsa, and ...
Baudoin de Trevalion, a son of Lyonette and Marc
14. Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Actor | Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
Thomas Brodie-Sangster was born on May 16, 1990 in London, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015), The Maze Runner (2014) and Love Actually (2003).
Alcuin nó Delaunay
15. Pavel Visnovský
Actor | Immortalitas
Pavel Visnovský was born on May 8, 1960 in Leváre, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]. He is an actor, known for Immortalitas (2011), Druhý dych (2012) and Divoké kone (2015).
Quintilius Rousse
16. Marion Cotillard
Actress | La Môme
Academy Award-winning actress Marion Cotillard was born on September 30, 1975 in Paris. Cotillard is the daughter of Jean-Claude Cotillard, an actor, playwright and director, and Niseema Theillaud, an actress and drama teacher. Her father's family is from Brittany.
Raised in Orléans, France, she ...
Ysandra de la Courcel, queen of Terre D'Ange
17. Tchéky Karyo
Actor | Nikita
Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Tcheky Karyo grew up in Paris. He studied drama at the Cyrano Theatre and became a member of the Daniel Sorano Company, where he played numerous classical roles. He next joined the National Theatre of Strasbourg, where he starred in contemporary theatre as well as in such ...
Barquiel L'Envers, Isabel's brother
18. Javier Bardem
Actor | Skyfall
Javier Bardem belongs to a family of actors that have been working on films since the early days of Spanish cinema.
He was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, to actress Pilar Bardem (María del Pilar Bardem Muñoz) and businessman José Carlos Encinas Doussinague. His maternal grandparents were...
Maestro Gonzago de Escabares
19. Staci Keanan
Actress | Step by Step
Staci Keanan was born Anastasia Sagorsky on June 6, 1975 in Devon, Pennsylvania. She began her career at age four with fashion-show assignments and magazine work. At age eight, she moved to New York City with her mother and sister and balanced a modeling career with a budding theater career, in ...
Thelesis de Mornay
20. Brano Holicek
Actor | Der Rote Baron
Born in 1985, Kosice. As a child, Brano performed in several productions in 'Kosice City Theater' and also, 'Kosice State Theater'.Graduated from the drama department of 'Prague Conservatory' in 2006. As an actor, he took part in several TV productions, series and films (for example "Kral sokolu", ...
Remy
21. Saoirse Ronan
Actress | Hanna
Saoirse Una Ronan was born in The Bronx, New York City, New York, United States, to Irish parents, Monica Ronan (née Brennan) and Paul Ronan, an actor. When Saoirse was three, the family moved back to Dublin, Ireland. Saoirse grew up in Dublin and briefly in Co. Carlow before moving back to Dublin ...
Grainne mac Connor
22. Róbert Jakab
Actor | Panelák
Róbert Jakab was born on July 23, 1976 in Nitra, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]. He is an actor, known for Panelák (2008), Filthy (2017) and Milenky (2018).
Marco Stregazza
23. Kevin Costner
Actor | The Postman
Kevin Michael Costner was born on January 18, 1955 in Lynwood, California, the third child of Bill Costner, a ditch digger and ultimately an electric line servicer for Southern California Edison, and Sharon Costner (née Tedrick), a welfare worker. His older brother, Dan, was born in 1950. A middle ...
Anafiel Delaunay de Montrève
24. Eric Szmanda
Self | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 15: All Dolled Up
Eric Szmanda is an American actor best known for his role of forensic investigator "Greg Sanders" on "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation". Eric was born and raised in Wisconsin where he was active in school plays and community theatre. He moved to LA at the age of 19 to study acting at the American ...
Ghislain de Somerville, son of Percy
25. Alexander Skarsgård
Actor | The Legend of Tarzan
Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgård was born in Stockholm, Sweden and is the eldest son of famed actor Stellan Skarsgård. Among his siblings are actors Gustaf Skarsgård, Bill Skarsgård, and Valter Skarsgård. For most of his formative years, his father was an acclaimed actor in Europe but had not yet ...
Gunther
26. Troian Bellisario
Actress | Pretty Little Liars
Troian Bellisario, daughter of producers Donald P. Bellisario and Deborah Pratt, made her film debut at the age of 3 in Last Rites (1988). She made several TV and movie appearances in her teens (most of the TV appearances were in shows produced by her father) before attending the University of ...
Pásifáe, priestess of Temen Temple in the island Kriti
27. Robert Sheehan
Actor | The Umbrella Academy
Irish actor Robert Sheehan was born in Portlaoise, County Laois, the son of Joseph and Maria Sheehan. His father was a member of the Garda Síochána, the police force of the Republic of Ireland. As a child, Sheehan was interested in performing music. He learned how to play the banjo, the bodhrán, ...
Drustan mab Necthana
28. Caterina Scorsone
Actress | The November Man
Caterina Scorsone has been a professional actress since the age of eight, when she was a regular on the daytime children's program Mr. Dressup (1967) for Canada's CBC. A veteran of series television, her other series credits include Shock Treatment (2004), Once a Thief (1996) and Power Play (1998),...
Bernardette de Trevalion
29. Karel Dobrý
Actor | Mission: Impossible
Karel Dobry, born 1969, is an award winning Czech film and stage actor. He has been critically acclaimed for his portrayals of complex characters. Karel was awarded the Czech Lion in 2019 for best leading actor. He was raised in Prague and spent part of his childhood in Syria. He is fluent in ...
Childric D'Essoms
30. Evanna Lynch
Actress | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Evanna Patricia Lynch is an Irish actress. Born in the town of Termonfeckin in Ireland, she is one of four children to Donal and Marguerite Lynch. Her acting career began in 2007 when she competed in an open audition against nearly 15,000 girls, and won the coveted role of Luna Lovegood in the "...
Hedwig Amildsdottir
31. Dakota Fanning
Actress | War of the Worlds
Hannah Dakota Fanning was born on the 23rd of February 1994, in Conyers, Georgia, USA, to Heather Joy (Arrington) and Steven Fanning. Her mother played professional tennis, and her father, now an electronics salesman, played minor league baseball. She is of German, Irish, English, French, and ...
Moiread, sister of Drustan mab Necthama
32. Lucia Klein Svoboda
Actress | Pirko
Lucia Klein Svoboda was born on February 2, 1979 in Levoca, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]. She is an actress and director, known for Pirko (2016), Mstitel (2021) and Rodinné tajomstvá (2005).
Anastaizia, mother of Hyacinth
33. Avan Jogia
Actor | Zombieland: Double Tap
Vancouver native, Avan Jogia landed his first acting role as Danny Araujo on the award-winning TV movie drama A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story (2006), directed by Oscar nominee Agnieszka Holland. Jogia followed up with a recurring role on the SyFy Channel hit series Caprica (2009) as well as ...
Hyacinth
34. Andreja Pejic
Actress | The Girl in the Spider's Web
Andreja Pejic was born on August 28, 1991 in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is an actress, known for The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018), Habit (2021) and The Other Me (2022).
Alcuin nó Delaunay
35. Ester Geislerová
Actress | Terapie sdílením
Ester Geislerová was born on March 5, 1984 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. She is an actress and writer, known for Terapie sdílením (2020), LOVEhunt (2019) and Dogs Don't Wear Pants (2019). She has been married to Jan Kadlec Jr. since April 2005. They have two children.
Favrielle nó Eglantine
36. Parminder Nagra
Actress | Bend It Like Beckham
Parminder Nagra was born in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Bend It Like Beckham (2002), ER (1994) and The Blacklist (2013). She was previously married to James Stenson.
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