Alfre Woodard (Evey)

Alfre Woodard has won four Emmy Awards® (on 17 nominations), three  SAG Awards (seven nominations), a Golden Globe Award® (three nominations), nine NAACP  Awards (21 nominations) and an Independent Spirit Award (two nominations). Her performance in  Martin Ritt’s Cross Creek netted Woodard an Academy Award® nomination for Best Supporting  Actress.  

Woodard stars in the feature film Clemency, released in theaters December 2019. In addition  to the critical praise received for this performance, she was honored with an Independent Spirit  Award nomination for Best Female Lead. Woodard’s other recent credits include the blockbusters  Captain America: Civil War and Annabelle. On the small screen she most recently starred as the fierce  Mariah Dillard on Marvel’s “Luke Cage” for Netflix. She also recently played the title character  in the feature Juanita, which she also developed and produced. 

Woodard currently stars opposite Jason Momoa in the Apple TV+ series “See,” created by  Steven Knight. She will next appear in the forthcoming feature Fatherhood, alongside Kevin Hart. Woodard’s many film credits include Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, John Sayles’ Passion  Fish, Maya Angelou’s Down in the Delta, Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Love & Basketball, Spike Lee’s 

Crooklyn, Lawrence Kasdan’s Grand Canyon and Mumford, Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys, Bille  Woodruff’s Beauty Shop and Richard Donner’s Scrooged. Her telefilm work includes “Mandela” and  “Miss Evers’ Boys,” both for HBO. 

In addition to her acting career, Woodard garnered a Grammy Award® nomination (Best  Children’s Spoken Word Album) for “Nelson Mandela’s Favorite African Folktales,” which she  directed and produced. It featured a collaboration of talent both broad and diverse, including voice work by Matt Damon,  Don Cheadle, Helen Mirren, Alan Rickman and Samuel L. Jackson. 

Woodard is a longtime activist who has been involved in countless nonprofit organizations  including Artists for a New South Africa, a nonprofit she co-founded that is working to reverse the  spread of HIV/AIDS and further the cause of democracy and human rights in South Africa. In  2009 President Barack Obama appointed Woodard to the President’s Committee on the Arts and  the Humanities. As part of her work on the committee, Woodard adopted several high-poverty and  underperforming public schools around the country, including ReNew Cultural Arts Academy in  New Orleans and Noel Community Arts School in Denver. She is an active advocate for the arts in  education, largely through her work on the committee’s Turnaround Arts initiative, which was  launched in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Education and the White House Domestic  Policy Council to narrow the achievement gap and increase student engagement through the arts. 

Benjamin Bratt (Abel)

BENJAMIN BRATT is a veteran of over 25 films. He won a Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the Outstanding Ensemble Cast in Steven Soderbergh’s  Traffic. Most recently he played conflicted sorcerer Jonathan Pangborn in Scott Derrickson’s Doctor  Strange and had starring roles in Brad Furman’s The Infiltrator, opposite Bryan Cranston; Ric Roman  Waugh’s Shot Caller, opposite Nikolaj Coster-Waldau; Waugh’s Snitch, opposite Dwayne Johnson;  Ricky Gervais’ Special Correspondents, opposite Gervais and Eric Bana; Tim Story’s Ride Along 2,  opposite Ice Cube and Kevin Hart; and Shawn Ku’s A Score to Settle, opposite Nicolas Cage. 

Bratt’s other film credits include Curtis Hanson’s The River Wild, Phillip Noyce’s Clear and  Present Danger, Donald Petrie’s Miss Congeniality, Mike Mills’ Thumbsucker, Nicole Kassell’s The  Woodsman, Mike Newell’s Love in the Time of Cholera, Anita Doron’s The Lesser Blessed, Taylor  Hackford’s Blood In, Blood Out and Leon Ichaso’s Piñero.

Television audiences may know Bratt best for his Emmy-nominated role as Detective Rey  Curtis in the original “Law & Order” series. His other starring roles on the small screen include the  limited revival “24: Live Another Day,” opposite Kiefer Sutherland, and “The Cleaner,” for which  he won an Alma Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series. The actor had two-season stints on Lee  Daniels’ “Star” and Shonda Rhimes’ “Private Practice.” Bratt also had a recurring role on “Modern  Family” as Sofia Vergara’s ne’er-do-well ex-husband, Javier.  

In the realm of animation, Bratt voiced the memorable role of famous Mexican crooner Ernesto de la Cruz in the Oscar-winning Disney/Pixar hit Coco, as well as the villainous El Macho in  smash hit Despicable Me 2. 

In 2010, Bratt won Cinequest’s Maverick Spirit Award for his work as producer and star of  the acclaimed independent film La Mission. Written and directed by his brother Peter Bratt, the  locally produced San Francisco-set film garnered much critical praise, received a nomination for  Outstanding Independent Motion Picture from the NAACP, a GLAAD Award nomination and  multiple Imagen Award bids, including wins for Best Feature Film and Best Actor. Bratt served as  consulting producer for his brother’s Peabody Award-winning documentary Dolores, which centers  on the work of labor and civil rights leader Dolores Huerta. 

Calvin Levels (Kaz)

Calvin Levels is an award-winning actor/playwright who was mentored by the  renowned acting teacher Lee Strasberg. His feature credits as an actor include Ragtime, directed by  Milos Forman; Convicts, starring Robert Duvall and James Earl Jones; Johnny Suede, co-starring Brad  Pitt; and Adventures in Babysitting, directed by Chris Columbus and co-starring Elisabeth Shue. On the  small screen he’s best known for CBS’ five-hour miniseries “The Atlanta Child Murders,” in which  he portrayed the central character alongside Morgan Freeman, Jason Robards, Martin Sheen, Ruby  Dee, Rip Torn and a long list of notables. His other television credits include several regular roles on  network series, starring roles in telefilms and guest spots on a number of shows.  

Levels’ playwriting credits include the recently completed book and lyrics for “Warhol &  Basquiat,” a new rock and hip hop musical adapted from his play “Collaboration: Warhol &  Basquiat.” Levels’ previous plays include “James Baldwin: Down From the Mountaintop,” which  was performed at more than 60 venues around the country, and “Common Ground,” which ran at  Lincoln Center’s Mitzi Newhouse Theater. 

Also an acclaimed stage actor, Levels won the Theatre World Award and was nominated for  Tony®, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for “Open Admissions” at the Long Wharf  Theatre and later on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre. Among his many other theater credits  Levels was directed by veteran Broadway director Lonny Price in “Collaboration: Warhol &  Basquiat,” at HERE’s Mainstage Theatre in New York City, and appeared in David Mamet’s “The  Shawl” at Lincoln Center Theater. Levels is a lifetime member of both the Actors Studio and the  Ensemble Studio Theatre.  

Jesse Borrego (Tudee)

can currently be seen in the hit indie film Phoenix, Oregon.  Borrego was recently recurring on the critically acclaimed Starz series “Vida” and he also appeared  on AMC’s “Fear the Walking Dead.” The actor’s other TV credits include TNT’s “Good Behavior”  and ABC’s “American Crime.” He co-starred with Zoe Saldana in the feature Colombiana and was  seen in John Sayles’ Go for Sisters. Borrego co-starred with Benjamin Bratt for the third time in the  2010 feature film La Mission. 

Raised in San Antonio by a professional musician father and dancer mother, Borrego would  enter dance competitions with his sister from a young age. In college he was a member of an  experimental theater company and, one year after transferring to the California Institute of the Arts,  he landed a recurring role on the hit television series “Fame.” Borrego went on to co-star in features  such as Blood In, Blood Out, directed by Taylor Hackford, as well as John Sayles’ Lone Star, Darnell  Martin’s I Like It Like That, Allison Anders’ Mi Vida Loca and Terrence Malick’s The New World. He  also played the title role in TNT’s “Tecumseh: The Last Warrior” and was seen in the Jerry  Bruckheimer-produced Con Air and the anthology film New York Stories.  

In 2010 Borrego formed Cine Studio San Antonio to educate and inform future filmmakers.  Along with his brother, film professor James Borrego, he connects young media programs with  students and resources for the cultural content creators of the 21st century. 

Steve Reevis (Freddy)

Steve Reevis memorably played Shep Proudfoot in the Coen brothers’ 1996  Oscar winner Fargo and was Baby Face Bob in the 2005 remake of The Longest Yard, starring Adam  Sandler. More recently Reevis played Two Stone in Ron Howard’s The Missing and was seen in  several high-profile television projects including the miniseries “Into the West” and “Comanche  Moon.” He also guest-starred on series such as “Bones,” “LAX,” “Malcolm in the Middle,”  “Walker, Texas Ranger,” “JAG” and “Goode Behavior.” 

In 1996 Reevis received an award from First Americans in the Arts (FAITA) for his  supporting roles in Fargo and the telefilm “Crazy Horse.” In 2004 he received this honor again, this  time for his work on the ABC series “Line of Fire.” 

The fourth of six siblings, Reevis was born and raised on the Blackfeet Reservation in  Browning, Montana. After earning a degree in the arts at Haskell Indian Junior College in Lawrence,  Kansas, he said farewell to the reservation in Montana and set off to pursue an acting career in Los  Angeles. For months Reevis lived on the beach in his car, a 1971 Ford Torino, while he struggled to  find steady income. Eventually acting became more than a dream and he enjoyed a long and  memorable career until his death in 2017.