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13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
When everything went wrong, six men had the courage to do what was right.
An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.
  • Released on 01/14/2016 (Movie)
  • 7.3 out of 10 (3562 votes on TMDB)
  • War / Action / History / Drama
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John Krasinski

Character's name: "Jack Silva"
Birthday: 10/20/1979
Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Biography:
John Burke Krasinski (born October 20, 1979) is an American actor, film director and writer. He is widely known for playing Jim Halpert on the NBC sitcom The Office from 2005 to 2013. He has also appeared in several films including License to Wed (2007), Leatherheads (2008), Away We Go (2009), It's Complicated (2009), Something Borrowed (2011), Aloha (2015), 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016), Detroit (2017), and A Quiet Place (2018), which he also directed and co-wrote. Also in 2018, Krasinski returned to television portraying the titular character in the Amazon series Jack Ryan.

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James Badge Dale

Character's name: "Tyrone 'Rone' Woods"
Birthday: 05/01/1978
Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA
Biography:
James Badge Dale  (born May 1, 1978) is an American actor who starred in the AMC drama series Rubicon. He is most famous for his role of Chase Edmunds in the third season of 24 and Robert Leckie in the HBO miniseries The Pacific. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Badge Dale, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Dominic Fumusa

Character's name: "John 'Tig' Tiegen"
Birthday: 09/13/1969
Birthplace: Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Biography:
Dominic Fumusa is an American stage and screen actor, best known for his role in the comedy drama series "Nurse Jackie" on Showtime.

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Max Martini

Character's name: "Mark 'Oz' Geist"
Birthday: 12/11/1969
Birthplace: Kingston, New York, USA
Biography:
Maximilian Carlo "Max" Martini (born December 11, 1969) is an American film, theater and television actor known for his roles as Corporal Fred Henderson in Saving Private Ryan, Wiley in Level 9, First Sergeant Sid Wojo in The Great Raid, and as Sergeant Mack Gerhardt on the military television drama, The Unit.

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Pablo Schreiber

Character's name: "Kris 'Tanto' Paronto"
Birthday: 04/26/1978
Birthplace: Ymir, British Columbia, Canada
Biography:
Pablo Tell Schreiber (born April 26, 1978) is a Canadian actor known for his dramatic stage work and for his portrayal of Nick Sobotka on The Wire and for his Emmy nominated role of George Mendez on Orange Is the New Black. He was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in Awake and Sing! on Broadway. He also narrated the American Psycho audiobook. He also starred in the HBO series The Brink as Lieutenant Commander Zeke “Z-Pak” Tilson, a Naval pilot who is also a drug dealer, and played a leading role in the Michael Bay film 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016). He also played William Lewis on Law and Order Special Victims Unit.

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Matt Letscher

Character's name: "Chris Stevens"
Birthday: 06/26/1970
Birthplace: Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA

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Alexia Barlier

Character's name: "Sona Jillani"
Birthday: 12/21/1982
Birthplace: Paris, France
Biography:
Alexia Barlier is a French actress born in Paris, France. She was brought up in both French and English language. She stars in the Michael Bay film 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016). Alexia is fully bilingual and has dual nationality. Growing up in Paris with a New Zealand ballet dancer mother and a French art dealer father exposed her not only to many cultures, but also to many languages, with French and English spoken at home in equal measure. She discovered her talent in acting at the age of 14 when she played Viola in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night on stage. She started taking acting classes soon after, and got her first part at 18 on the feature film 24 Hours in a Woman's Life by French director Laurent Bouhnik. That confirmed her love of acting and that she would definitely do it as a career. Alexia was revealed in 2007 as an Adami talent at the Cannes Film Festival for her part in the short films of Comédiennes by the Larrieu brothers and the same year for playing Magda, Daniel Auteuil's mistress in Conversations with My Gardener by famous French director Jean Becker.

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David Costabile

Character's name: "Bob"
Birthday: 01/09/1967
Birthplace: Washington, D.C., USA
Biography:
David Costabile (born January 9, 1967) is an American actor. He is best known for his television work, having appeared in supporting roles in several television series such as Billions, Breaking Bad, Damages, Flight of the Conchords, Suits, The Wire, and The Dirt. He has also acted on film and in Broadway theatre

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David Denman

Character's name: "Dave 'Boon' Benton"
Birthday: 07/25/1973
Birthplace: Newport Beach, California, USA
Biography:
​David Denman (born July 25, 1973) is an American film and television actor. As of 2011, Denman stars in the Fox comedy series Traffic Light.

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Payman Maadi

Character's name: "Amahl"
Birthday: 07/30/1970
Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA
Biography:
Peyman Maadi (پیمان معادی) was born in 1970 in New York City to an Iranian couple. His father was a lawyer. Peyman Maadi's family moved back to Iran when he was 5 years old. He graduated in Metallurgical Engineering from Karaj Azad University. Maadi started his film career as a screenwriter in late 2000s. He is the writer of several famous Iranian films. Peyman Maadi started his acting career in Asghar Farhadi's film About Elly (2009). Two years later, he received the Silver Bear award for Best Actor in Leading Role for his performance as Nader in Farhadi's A Separation (2011) from the Berlin International Film Fest.

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Toby Stephens

Character's name: "Glen 'Bub' Doherty"
Birthday: 04/21/1969
Birthplace: Fitzrovia, London, England, UK
Biography:
Toby Stephens (born 21 April 1969) is an English stage, television and film actor who has appeared in films in both Hollywood and Bollywood. He is best known for playing megavillain Gustav Graves in the James Bond film Die Another Day (2002) and Edward Fairfax Rochester in the BBC television adaptation of Jane Eyre (2006). He is the youngest son of actors Dame Maggie Smith & Sir Robert Stephens. He is married to the actress Anna Louise Plowman & have three children.

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Demetrius Grosse

Character's name: "DS Agent Dave Ubben"
Birthday: 02/26/1981
Birthplace: Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Biography:
Demetrius Grosse (born February 26, 1981) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Rock in the film Straight Outta Compton, Emmett Yawners in the Cinemax television series Banshee, Errol in the FX television series Justified, and Baron Samedi in NBC's Heroes. He joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Eric Williams/GGrim Reaper in the Disney+ series Wonder Man. Description above from the Wikipedia article Demetrius Grosse, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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David Giuntoli

Character's name: "DS Scott Wickland"
Birthday: 06/18/1980
Birthplace: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Biography:
David C. Giuntoli (born June 18, 1980) is an American actor. He's best known for his roles as Det. Nick Burkhardt on NBC's supernatural drama Grimm (2011–2017), and Eddie Saville on ABC's drama A Million Little Things (2018–2023). He has appeared in films such as 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016) and Buddymoon (2016). He first gained attention as a participant on MTV's Road Rules: South Pacific, and later on Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Gauntlet. In 2007, he moved to Los Angeles, CA to pursue an acting career. He has appeared on several TV series including Nip/Tuck, Veronica Mars, Grey's Anatomy, Ghost Whisperer, Privileged, Without a Trace, and Cold Case, among others. He also hosted AT&T U-Verse "Buzz". His music career has not been as successful, but he has performed with German DJ Flula Borg, his occasional co-host on "Buzz," at The Viper Room in Los Angeles. He married his Grimm co-star, actress Elizabeth Tulloch in June 2017. They have a daughter, Vivian, who was born in February 2019. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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Freddie Stroma

Character's name: "Brit Vayner"
Birthday: 01/08/1987
Birthplace: London, England, UK
Biography:
Frederic Wilhelm C.J. Sjöström (born January 8, 1987), known professionally as Freddie Stroma, is a British actor and model, known for his work in roles including Cormac McLaggen in the Harry Potter film series; Adam Cromwell on the Lifetime series Unreal; Brit Vayner in 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016); H.G. Wells in the ABC series Time After Time; and Adrian Chase/Vigilante in Peacemaker.

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Christopher Dingli

Character's name: "Sean Smith"
Birthday: 01/02/2025


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Chuck Hogan
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Erwin Stoff
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Scott Gardenhour
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Matthew Cohan
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Richard Abate
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