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Alien: Covenant
The path to paradise begins in hell.
The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise but is actually a dark, dangerous world.
  • Released on 05/09/2017 (Movie)
  • 6.1 out of 10 (8474 votes on TMDB)
  • Science Fiction / Horror / Thriller
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Michael Fassbender

Character's name: "David / Walter"
Birthday: 04/02/1977
Birthplace: Heidelberg, Baden-Wurttemburg, Germany
Biography:
Born in Germany to a mother from Northern Ireland and a German father, Fassbender relocated to Ireland at age two.[a] He made his feature film debut in 300 (2006). Early roles include in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers (2001) and the Sky One fantasy drama Hex (2004–2005). Fassbender first came to prominence playing Bobby Sands in Hunger (2008), for which he won a British Independent Film Award. Subsequent roles include the 2009 films Fish Tank and Inglourious Basterds, and the 2011 films Jane Eyre and A Dangerous Method. He gained mainstream success for playing Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto in X-Men: First Class (2011), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) and X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), and David 8 and Walter One in Prometheus (2012), and its sequel, Alien: Covenant (2017). For his portrayal of a sex addict in Steve McQueen's drama Shame (2011), Fassbender won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor and was nominated for Golden Globe and BAFTA Award. His performance as Edwin Epps in 12 Years a Slave (2013) earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He also starred in The Counselor (2013), Frank (2014), Macbeth, and Steve Jobs (both 2015). Fassbender received another Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of the title role in the latter. After a hiatus, he starred in the action thriller film The Killer (2023). Fassbender began competing in auto racing in 2017 with the Ferrari Challenge. As of 2023, he races in the European Le Mans Series, driving for Proton Competition. He married Swedish actress Alicia Vikander in 2017.

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Katherine Waterston

Character's name: "Daniels"
Birthday: 03/03/1980
Birthplace: London, England, UK
Biography:
Katherine Boyer Waterston (born March 3, 1980) is a British-American actress and daughter of veteran actor Sam Waterston. She made her feature film debut in Michael Clayton (2007). She had supporting roles in films including Robot & Frank, Being Flynn (both 2012) and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (2013), before her breakthrough performance in Inherent Vice (2014). She portrayed Chrisann Brennan in Steve Jobs (2015), and went on to star in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) and its sequels. Her other film roles were in Alien: Covenant (2017), Logan Lucky (2017), The Current War (2017), Mid90s (2018) and The World to Come (2020).

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Billy Crudup

Character's name: "Oram"
Birthday: 07/08/1968
Birthplace: Manhasset, New York, USA
Biography:
William Gaither Crudup (born July 8, 1968) is an American actor. He is a four-time Tony Award nominee, winning once for his performance in Tom Stoppard's play The Coast of Utopia in 2007. He has starred in numerous high-profile films, including Without Limits, Princess Mononoke, Almost Famous, Big Fish, Mission: Impossible III, Watchmen, Public Enemies, Spotlight, Jackie, The Stanford Prison Experiment, Justice League, and Alien: Covenant, in both lead and supporting roles. He has been nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead for his performance in Jesus' Son, and received two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations as part of an ensemble cast for Almost Famous and Spotlight, winning for the latter. Crudup starred in the streaming television series Gypsy (2017) and The Morning Show (2019), the latter of which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award and a Critics' Choice Television Award.

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Danny McBride

Character's name: "Tennessee"
Birthday: 12/29/1976
Birthplace: Statesboro, Georgia, USA
Biography:
Daniel Richard McBride (born December 29, 1976) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer. He starred in the HBO television series Eastbound & Down, Vice Principals, and The Righteous Gemstones, also co-creating the former two with frequent collaborator Jody Hill while creating the latter himself. He has appeared in films such as The Foot Fist Way (2006), Hot Rod (2007), Pineapple Express (2008), Tropic Thunder (2008), Up in the Air (2009), Your Highness (2011), This Is the End (2013), and Alien: Covenant (2017). He has done voice acting for Despicable Me (2010), Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011), Hell and Back (2015), The Angry Birds Movie, Sausage Party (both 2016), The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019), and The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021). Description above from the Wikipedia article Danny McBride licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Demián Bichir

Character's name: "Lope"
Birthday: 08/01/1963
Birthplace: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Biography:
Demián Bichir Nájera (August 1, 1963, height 5' 10" (1,78 m)) is a Mexican actor. Both of his parents, Alejandro Bichir and Maricruz Nájera, and brothers Odiseo and Bruno Bichir are actors. He was married to singer Lisset Gutiérrez. He started his acting career at the age of 14 in the telenovela Rina with Ofelia Medina. His second acting role was as an adult in Vivir enamorada both telenovelas were during his years with Televisa. The following year he obtained a role in his first movie, the American production Choices of the Heart. He then continued his acting roles in telenovelas with film productions of Mexico, Spain and the United States. His movie Sexo, pudor y lágrimas (1999) broke box-office records in Mexico becoming the #1 movie in the history of Mexican cinema until El crimen del Padre Amaro. The MTV Movie Awards-México created a special category "Mejor Bichir en una Película" ("Best Bichir in a movie") because of the many films the Bichir siblings act in every year. He earned this award for Bendito infierno, in which he co-stars with Victoria Abril, Penélope Cruz and Gael García Bernal. His American debut occurred when he depicted Fidel Castro in Steven Soderbergh's 2008 biopic Che, on the life of revolutionary Che Guevara. Recently he has been exposed to a wider American audience with his recurring role as Esteban Reyes, the corrupt mayor of Tijuana and love interest of Nancy Botwin in the fourth, fifth and sixth seasons of the Showtime comedy series Weeds.

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Carmen Ejogo

Character's name: "Karine"
Birthday: 10/22/1973
Birthplace: London, England, UK
Biography:
While still an adolescent, Carmen Ejogo made her feature film debut in the musical, "Absolute Beginners" (1986). Her big break came when she was cast in the title role of the television movie, "Sally Hemings: An American Scandal" (2000). Since that time she has built an impressive body of work in both feature films and on television.

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Jussie Smollett

Character's name: "Ricks"
Birthday: 06/21/1982
Birthplace: Santa Rosa, California, USA
Biography:
Jussie Smollett (born June 21, 1982) is an American actor, singer and photographer. As a child, he began his acting career for summer fun in 1987 starring in national network commercials in NYC. He later co-starred in the films The Mighty Ducks (1992) and Rob Reiner's North (1994). In 2015, Smollett received rave reviews for his portrayal of musician Jamal Lyon in the Fox music-industry primetime TV drama Empire.

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Callie Hernandez

Character's name: "Upworth"
Birthday: 05/24/1988
Birthplace: Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Biography:
Callie Marie Hernandez (born 1988) is an American actress known for her roles in the films Blair Witch (2016), La La Land (2016), The Endless (2017), and Alien: Covenant (2017).

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Amy Seimetz

Character's name: "Faris"
Birthday: 11/25/1981
Birthplace: Tampa, Florida, USA
Biography:
Amy Lynne Seimetz is an American actress, writer, producer, director, and editor.

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Nathaniel Dean

Character's name: "Hallett"
Birthday: 09/16/2024

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Alexander England

Character's name: "Ankor"
Birthday: 09/16/2024
Birthplace: Australia
Biography:
Alexander England is known for Alien: Covenant (2017), Gods of Egypt (2016) and Paper Giants: Magazine Wars (2013).

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Benjamin Rigby

Character's name: "Ledward"
Birthday: 09/16/2024
Biography:
Benjamin Rigby is known for Alien: Covenant (2017), Ford v Ferrari (2019) and Lion (2016).

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Uli Latukefu

Character's name: "Cole"
Birthday: 08/02/1983
Birthplace: Australia
Biography:
Talia'uli "Uli" Latukefu is an Australian actor and singer, best known for his role as Byamba in the American Netflix series Marco Polo. Wikipedia

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Tess Haubrich

Character's name: "Rosenthal"
Birthday: 05/12/1989
Birthplace: Sydney, Australia
Biography:
Tess Haubrich is an Australian actress and model. Born in Sydney's Northern Beaches area, and educated at Pittwater High School and SCECGS Redlands, Haubrich spent her late teens as a fashion model in Australia, Hong Kong, France and Germany. Wikipedia

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Lorelei King

Character's name: "Mother (voice)"
Birthday: 03/08/1963
Birthplace: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lorelei King is a United States-born actress who has been based in the United Kingdom since 1981. She is primarily known for her voice acting, narrating audiobooks and appearing in plays on BBC Radio 4. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lorelei King, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia


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