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Kinds of Kindness
A triptych fable following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.
  • Released on 05/30/2024 (Movie)
  • 6.6 out of 10 (581 votes on TMDB)
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Emma Stone

Character's name: "Rita / Liz / Emily"
Birthday: 11/06/1988
Birthplace: Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Biography:
Emily Jean "Emma" Stone (born November 6, 1988) is an American actress. The recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Award, she was the world's highest-paid actress in 2017. Born and raised in Scottsdale, Arizona, Stone began acting as a child, in a theater production of The Wind in the Willows in 2000. As a teenager, she relocated to Los Angeles with her mother and made her television debut in In Search of the New Partridge Family (2004), a reality show that produced only an unsold pilot. After small television roles, she made her film debut in Superbad (2007), and received positive media attention for her role in Zombieland (2009). The 2010 teen comedy Easy A was Stone's first starring role, earning her nominations for the BAFTA Rising Star Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. Stone gained wider recognition as Gwen Stacy in the 2012 superhero film The Amazing Spider-Man, and its 2014 sequel. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a recovering drug addict in the black comedy Birdman (2014), and her Broadway debut came in a revival of the musical Cabaret (2014–2015). She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing an aspiring actress in the romantic musical La La Land (2016). Stone received a third Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of Abigail Masham in the historical comedy-drama The Favourite (2018).

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Jesse Plemons

Character's name: "Robert / Daniel / Andrew"
Birthday: 04/02/1988
Birthplace: Dallas, Texas, USA
Biography:
Jesse Plemons (born April 2, 1988) is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor and achieved a breakthrough with his role as Landry Clarke in the NBC drama series Friday Night Lights (2006–2011). He subsequently portrayed Todd Alquist in season 5 of the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad (2012–2013) and its sequel film El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019). For his role as Ed Blumquist in season 2 of the FX anthology series Fargo (2015), he received his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination and won a Critics' Choice Television Award. He received a second Emmy nomination for his performance in "USS Callister", an episode of the Netflix anthology series Black Mirror (2017). Plemons received his third Emmy nomination for his supporting role in the HBO miniseries Love & Death (2023). Plemons has appeared in supporting roles in several films, including The Master (2012), Black Mass, Bridge of Spies (both 2015), Game Night, Vice (both 2018), The Irishman (2019), Judas and the Black Messiah, Jungle Cruise, and The Power of the Dog (all in 2021). He has also starred in the psychological thriller I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020). He was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead for his starring role in Other People (2016), and for his performance in The Power of the Dog, he was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

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Willem Dafoe

Character's name: "Raymond / George / Omi"
Birthday: 07/22/1955
Birthplace: Appleton, Wisconsin, USA
Biography:
William James "Willem" Dafoe (born July 22, 1955) is an American actor. He is the recipient of various accolades, including the Volpi Cup for Best Actor, in addition to receiving nominations for four Academy Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and a British Academy Film Award. He frequently collaborates with filmmakers Paul Schrader, Abel Ferrara, Lars von Trier, Julian Schnabel, Wes Anderson, and Robert Eggers. Dafoe was an early member of experimental theater company The Wooster Group. He made his film debut in Heaven's Gate (1980), but was fired during production. He had his first leading role in the outlaw biker film The Loveless (1982) and then played the main antagonist in Streets of Fire (1984) and To Live and Die in L.A. (1985). He received his first Academy Award nomination (as Best Supporting Actor) for his role as Sergeant Elias Grodin in Oliver Stone's war film Platoon (1986). In 1988, Dafoe played Jesus in Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ and costarred in Mississippi Burning, both of which were controversial. After receiving his second Academy Award nomination (as Best Supporting Actor) for portraying Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire (2000), Dafoe portrayed the supervillain Norman Osborn / Green Goblin in the superhero film Spider-Man (2002), a role he reprised in its sequels Spider-Man 2 (2004) and Spider-Man 3 (2007), and the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) earning him the Guinness World Record for the "longest career as a live-action Marvel character". He also portrayed the villains in Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) and XXX: State of the Union (2005), as well as Carson Clay in the film Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007). In 2009, he starred in the experimental film Antichrist, one of his three films with Lars von Trier. Dafoe then appeared in The Fault in Our Stars, John Wick, The Grand Budapest Hotel (all 2014), The Great Wall (2016), Murder on the Orient Express (2017), The Florida Project (2017) (for which he received his third Academy Award nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category), The Lighthouse (2019), The French Dispatch, and Nightmare Alley (both 2021). He portrayed Nuidis Vulko in the DC Extended Universe films Aquaman (2018), Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2022). Dafoe has portrayed several real-life figures, including T. S. Eliot in Tom & Viv (1994), Pier Paolo Pasolini in Pasolini (2014), Vincent van Gogh in At Eternity's Gate (2018) (for which he received an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination, his first in that category), and Leonhard Seppala in Togo (2019).

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Margaret Qualley

Character's name: "Vivian / Martha / Ruth / Rebecca"
Birthday: 10/23/1994
Birthplace: Kalispell, Montana, USA
Biography:
Sarah Margaret Qualley (born October 23, 1994) is an American actress. The daughter of actress Andie MacDowell, she trained as a ballerina in her youth and briefly pursued a career in modeling. She made her acting debut with a minor role in the 2013 drama film Palo Alto and gained recognition for playing a troubled teenager in the HBO drama series The Leftovers (2014–2017). Qualley then appeared in the dark comedy The Nice Guys (2016) and in Netflix's supernatural thriller Death Note (2017). Qualley gained acclaim and a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for portraying actress and dancer Ann Reinking in the FX biographical drama miniseries Fosse/Verdon (2019) and the title role in the Netflix drama miniseries Maid (2021). Her biggest commercial success came with Quentin Tarantino's comedy-drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019).

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Hong Chau

Character's name: "Sarah / Sharon / Aka"
Birthday: 06/25/1979
Birthplace: Thailand
Biography:
Hong Chau (born June 25, 1979) is a Vietnamese-American actress who gained recognition for her supporting role in the 2017 film Downsizing, in which she played the character Ngoc Lan Tran. For her performance, she was nominated for several supporting-actress awards. Variety wrote in 2022 that Chau had "been prolific in recent years" and that she had "an acclaimed turn" in the TV series Watchmen (2019) and Homecoming (2018–2020). Before Downsizing, she appeared in the television series Treme (2010–2013) and the film Inherent Vice (2014). In 2018, she had guest star roles in several TV series. In 2019, she played a supporting role in the limited series Watchmen, and had leading roles in the films American Woman and Driveways. In 2020, she had a starring role in the second season of the TV series Homecoming, having had a supporting role in its first season in 2018. In 2022, she appeared in supporting roles in the films Showing Up, The Menu, and The Whale with the latter earning her a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Chau was born to Vietnamese parents who lived in a refugee camp in Thailand after fleeing Vietnam in the late 1970s. A Vietnamese Catholic church in New Orleans, Louisiana sponsored Chau and her family to move to the United States. She grew up in New Orleans and studied film at Boston University before pursuing an acting career.

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Mamoudou Athie

Character's name: "Will / Neil / Morgue Nurse"
Birthday: 07/25/1988
Birthplace: Mauritania
Biography:
Mamoudou Athie is a Mauritanian-American actor and producer. He is best known for his roles in the films The Circle (2017), The Front Runner (2018), Unicorn Store (2017), Underwater (2020), and Uncorked (2020), as well as the television series The Get Down (2016–2017) and Sorry for Your Loss (2018–2019). Athie was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for his performance in Cake.

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Joe Alwyn

Character's name: "Collectibles Appraiser / Passenger / Joseph"
Birthday: 02/21/1991
Birthplace: London, England, UK
Biography:
Joseph Matthew Alwyn (born 21 February 1991) is an English actor. He made his feature film debut as the titular character in Ang Lee's 2016 war drama, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, and has since played supporting roles in films such as The Favourite (2018), Boy Erased (2018), Mary Queen of Scots (2018), and Harriet (2019). His accolades include a Trophée Chopard, a Critics' Choice Movie Award, a Satellite Award, and a Grammy Award. Born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, and raised in North London, Alwyn developed an interest in acting during his teenage years and joined the National Youth Theatre in 2009. He acted in two student productions at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and graduated with a BA degree in English literature and drama from the University of Bristol (2012). He received another BA in acting from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (2015). He won the Trophée Chopard at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, following his appearance in various critically acclaimed films. Alwyn has also worked with American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift on ten of her songs; he co-wrote tracks such as "Exile", "Betty", "Champagne Problems" and "Coney Island" from Swift's 2020 albums, Folklore and Evermore. "Exile" charted inside the top 10 in eight countries. For his contributions to Folklore, Alwyn won the Album of the Year at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards. In 2022, he appeared in a lead role of Hulu series Conversations with Friends, starred in the romantic thriller film Stars at Noon, which won the Grand Prix at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, and featured on the Time 100 Next list.

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Hunter Schafer

Character's name: "Anna"
Birthday: 12/31/1998
Birthplace: Trenton, New Jersey, USA
Biography:
Hunter Schafer (born December 31, 1998) is an American model and actress. She made her acting debut as transgender high school student Jules Vaughn in the HBO teen drama television series Euphoria (2019–present), which earned her nominations for a Shorty Award, an MTV Movie & TV Award, and a Dorian Award. In 2023 she portrayed Tigris Snow in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. For her activism against North Carolina's anti-LGBT legislation HB2, Teen Vogue listed Schafer on its "21 Under 21" list in 2017.

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Yorgos Stefanakos

Character's name: "R.M.F."
Birthday: 09/16/2024
Biography:
Yorgos Stefanakos is a notary public, lives in Athens. He's an old friend of Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou.

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Fadeke Adeola

Character's name: "Paramedic"
Birthday: 09/16/2024
Biography:
Fadeke Adeola is known for Kinds of Kindness (2024).

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Tessa Bourgeois

Character's name: "Louise"
Birthday: 09/16/2024
Biography:
Tessa Bourgeois is known for Kinds of Kindness (2024).

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Kencil Mejia

Character's name: "Cheval Barman"
Birthday: 09/16/2024
Biography:
Kencil Mejia is known for Kinds of Kindness (2024).

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Thaddeus Burbank

Character's name: "Collectibles Appraiser 2"
Birthday: 09/16/2024
Biography:
Thaddeus Burbank is known for Kinds of Kindness (2024).

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Suzanna Stone

Character's name: "Mr. Smith's Secretary"
Birthday: 09/16/2024
Biography:
Suzanna Stone is known for Kinds of Kindness (2024).

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Jerskin Fendrix

Character's name: "Cheval Bar Piano Player"
Birthday: 01/01/1995
Birthplace: UK
Biography:
Jerskin Fendrix (real name Joscelin Dent-Pooley) is an English musician currently signed to untitled (recs). He is often associated with the music scene surrounding The Windmill pub in Brixton, alongside bands such as Black Midi and Black Country, New Road.


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Yorgos Lanthimos
Director

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Yorgos Lanthimos
Writer

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Efthymis Filippou
Writer

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Ed Guiney
Producer

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Andrew Lowe
Producer

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Kasia Malipan
Producer

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Yorgos Lanthimos
Producer

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Ollie Madden
Executive Producer

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Daniel Battsek
Executive Producer

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Louise Lovegrove
Executive Producer

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