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Sirry Jons was born and raised in the small town of Keflavik in Iceland. At the age of 17 she moved to Spain and continued for the next years to travel around the world. Her film debut took place in Iceland where she discovered acting by chance when she was cast as a femme fatale in a small but pivotal role in the indie film "USSSS". From then on she decided to leave Iceland and pursue acting in Hollywood. She had neither money, nor connections, nor a work permit, but that didn't deter her. She overcame all these obstacles one by one and has since appeared in numerous short films (such as "Patriot Acts" and "Alien Secrets"), plays (including a role as Lucy in "Dracula" and as Laura in Strindberg's "The Father") and features ("A Gothic Romance, "The Appearance of Things") as well as a music video and an online vampire TV-series.

It was whilst studying at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute that she met director Marianne Hansen. The two have since embarked on a fruitful partnership. They have worked on two plays together and Sirry also starred as Alice in Marianne's thesis short "Alice Rose" and also plays the lead in her debut feature "Lapse".

Karolina is a graduate of The Theatre Academy in Warsaw. After finishing her studies, she became a member of The National Theatre in Warsaw, where she performed for four years, working with a great team of actors and acclaimed directors like Jerzy Grzegorzewski and Maciej Prus. Karolina also works in Polish film and television. For the part of Maria in Urszula Urbaniak's feature drama "The Junction", she was awarded The Most Promising Actress Award at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia.

Karolina speaks fluent English and Russian and has received international acting training. She has attended theatre workshops in Moscow, and in 2003-2006 Karolina lived in Los Angeles, where she studied at The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. After coming back to Warsaw she continues her career in film and television. Her recent work includes the tv series "Ekipa" directed by Agnieszka Holland, "Alien VI" by Borys Lankosz and the feature film "Lapse" directed by Marianne Hansen.

After graduating with an honours degree in History and Sociology, Emmett decided to go into acting full time, immediately landing leading roles in the TV series "The Big Bow Wow" and becoming the face for "Lucozade", "Irish Broadband" and "Action Man".

Since then, Emmett has regularly worked in both TV and movies worldwide; occasionally treading the boards in Ireland and Los Angeles, most notably his latest stint which saw him in "Three Sisters" at the Actors Studio for Al Pacino. Emmett starred alongside long time friend Eoin Macken and Brendan Gleeson in "Studs", picking up recurring TV roles in "Paddywhackery" starring Fionnuala Flanagan and Paddy Courtney, "Maru" and "The Roaring Twenties", as well as Italian hit movie "Colour From The Dark". Later, Emmett appeared as himself in RTE's hit reality show "Hollywood Trials", where 10 Irish actors had the chance to try and make it in Hollywood. The only one to book a movie while out there, Emmett stayed on to pursue his dream. Since then his career has gone from strength to strength.

Emmett has signed with top management companies in Los Angeles and London representing the likes of P. Diddy, David Schwimmer, Nick Frost, Minnie Driver, John Malkovich and Harvey Keitel. Over the past couple of years, Emmett has trained under one of the best acting coaches in the world, Lesly Kahn. Taken under her wing, he now coaches actors from TV and movies on a regular basis, using what he has learnt to teach courses back home in Ireland. Emmett teamed up with Justin Timberlake and Freemantle to lead MTV's 10 million dollar (and most expensive TV show ever) "The Phone", where he ended up shooting in LA, Seattle and Boston for almost 5 months. Emmett's face was soon on billboards in Times Square, as well as papers, magazines and cinemas nationwide. Since then he has gone from show to show, picking up recurring and leading roles in Irish based drama "The Clinic", Pat Shortt's "Mattie", and American shows "The Agency" and another Freemantle production "The Lockout". With movies such as "Anton", "Savage", "Freakdog", "3Crosses" and "Blood" released this year, Emmett finished up a pilot in LA before flying home to lead TV3's new drama series "The Guards".

Keith Roenke grew up in a small town in New Hampshire and studied Film and Theatre at Keene State College. After completion of University he set off for Los Angeles. Upon his arrival he quickly joined the band "The Drugstore Cowgirls" as their drummer. Over the next five years "The Cowgirls" toured the west coast and south, releasing one full length album and two EP's. After a number of almosts to crack the big market "The Cowgirls" disbanded. Keith took this opportunity to throw himself back into the art of acting. He quickly enrolled under the tutorship of Nicholai Guzov. And was trained in the Michael Chekov technique. This work put a whole new light on the art of acting for Keith. He later booked his first feature film "Lapse" and in a short time since has worked in a handful of notable short films and a half dozen feature films including Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" He most recently played the lead role in the Jorge Ameer film "D'Agostino", which shot in Santa Barbara, London UK, and Santorini Greece. Keith, while making acting his main focus, has continued to make music. He is currently the lead singer for the group "The Naked" who are releasing their first full length this year. Keith is also currently in preproduction on the play "Extropia" which will be premiering at King King in Hollywood early 2010.