A film by Leilani Downer

CAST BIOS

Brian Fortuna (Joe Munao) is an actor, singer, performer and professional dancer.  He competed on Dancing with the Stars during its 4th season before becoming a principal dancer and host in  two national Dancing with the Stars Tours, and then joining the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing.  While in England he performed on the West End, where he received a “What’s On Stage Award” nomination as Best Newcomer for his work in Burn the Floor and starred in such stage plays as Aladdin and the critically acclaimed, award winning \musical Over the Rainbow

Brian was the featured dancer in the Oscar award winning movie The Aviator.  He had a starring role in the Canadian documentary Live to Dance.  And while appearing in a number of television commercials, he recently guest starred in the hit NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation,

Ashley Johnson (Arizona Barrett) is best known as a child actress as Chrissy Seaver in the TV show Growing Pains, and most recently as Amber Ahmed on the drama series The Killing.    In 2012, she appeared in The Avengers, directed by Joss Whedon, as a waitress who develops an attraction to Captain America after he saves her life. 

While starring in such television shows as Private Practice, Monk, Drop Dead Diva and  In Plain Sight, Ashley’s other feature credits include What Women Want, Fast Food Nation and The Help.

Also a voice actress, she voiced Gretchen Grundler on the Walt Disney TV animated series Recess, Terra in the Teen Titans, and Gwen Tennyson on Ben 10 Alien Force. Currently she co-stars in the upcoming and highly anticipated PlayStation exclusive The Last of Us.

Vanessa Lee Chester (Emily Myers) as a young girl starred in Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park, the Lost World, holding her own up against Jeff Goldblum and Julianna Moore.  She landed the part after receiving rave reviews as “Becky” in Warner Brothers’ A Little Princess… and catching Spielberg’s eye. 

While successfully transitioning from child to adult star, she appeared in 17 Again, and has demonstrated her talent for acting in such hit television shows as The West Wing, Veronica Mars, Switched at Birth, and most recently How I Met Your Mother.

Andrew Lawrence (Louis Stanley) is an actor, singer, songwriter, and member of a very talented acting family.  He began his career in show business at the very young age of three.  While having acted in both film and television, his most recent list of credits includes Bones, The Closer, CSI NY, Castle, Melissa and Joey, Hawaii Five-O, and the critically acclaimed feature film, The Least of These, starring Isaiah Washington .  Andrew is also a voice actor and has worked on such shows as King of the Hill and Recess.