Casper Van Dien (Tarzan) recently starred as the brash Mobile
Infantry recruit Johnny Rico in Paul Verhoeven's hit science-fiction adventure,
"Starship Troopers." A former football team captain and third-generation
military man himself (his father was a commander and Navy pilot, one
grandfather was a Marine infantryman in WWI and the other, a Navy doctor), Van
Dien attended Admiral Farragut Academy, graduating third in command of his
class. He then went on to attend Florida State University as a pre-med
student. After the theater class he took as a lark began to command his interest, he found himself immersed in theater and subsequently relocated to Los Angeles to pursue acting. Following the move to the West Coast, Van Dien almost immediately began a successful career in television; the actor appeared as a series regular on "One Life to Live" and "Beverly Hills 90210" and in the telefeatures "Murder for Menu," "James Dean & Me," "The Colony" and "PCH." His breakthrough feature was the title role in "James Dean: Race With Destiny."
His other feature credits include starring roles in the upcoming "Revenant" (a
stylish vampire thriller opposite Natasha Wagner) and October Films' action
film noir "On the Border," with Bryan Brown and Daniel Baldwin.
Jane March (Jane) came to international attention with her screen
debut in Jean-Jacques Annaud's art-house hit, "The Lover," the story of a young
woman in 1920s Saigon caught up in an obsessive affair with a man twice her
age. A native of Middlesex, England, March was already a top model at the time
of her motion-picture debut, having graced the pages of fashion magazines since
she was 15. (Director Annaud had seen March in her layout for Just
Seventeen magazine while he was searching for an actress to portray the
lead in the screen adaptation of Marguerite Duras' semi-autobiographical
novel.)
The life-changing experience of working on Annaud's film and subsequently
touring the world giving press interviews convinced her to pursue an acting
career. She followed "The Lover" with starring roles in "The Color of Night"
(opposite Bruce Willis), "Provocateur" and "Never Ever."
At age 18, British-born Steven Waddington (Nigel Ravens) earned a
place at London's East 15 Acting School and three years later joined the
esteemed Royal Shakespeare Company. The actor spent a two-year season with the
RSC, appearing in such plays as "All's Well That Ends Well," "Coriolanus" and
"Pericles," before being cast as the lead in Derek Jarman's controversial
art-house feature, "Edward II." With no prior film experience, the actor found
the transition from stage to screen an easy one, following his screen debut
with a starring role in Michael Mann's epic, "The Last of the Mohicans."
His other feature credits include "1492: Conquest of Paradise," the BBC's professional boxing drama "Seconds Out," "Don't Get Me Started," "Carrington" (opposite Emma Thompson and Jonathan Pryce) and Antonia Bird's "Face" with Robert Carlyle. He also portrayed the hero of BBC 1's critically acclaimed mini-series, "Ivanhoe."
