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Franka Potente was born on 22 July 1974 in the German city of Münster, to Hildegard, a medical assistant, and Dieter Potente, a teacher, and raised in the nearby town of Dülmen. After her graduation in 1994, she went to the Otto-Falckenberg-Schule, a drama school in Munich, but soon broke off to study at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York. After a notable debut in Nach Fünf im Urwald (1995), the role of the heroine in Run Lola Run (1998), directed by her then longtime companion Tom Tykwer was her national breakthrough. After some other successful movies in Germany, she starred in several Hollywood productions, most prominently The Bourne Identity (2002) and The Bourne Supremacy (2004) and lived one year in Los Angeles. After her return to Berlin, she continues working with German and international directors.

Discovered by a casting magazine "Dramalogue" for the role of mindless killer Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th: Part 3 (1982), Richard Brooker also gained the supporting role of the warrior Oghris in "Deathstalker" (1983). It was the only acting experience of Brooker, who later started creating completely a different professional career.

Born in 1954, Richard Brooker was originally from the UK, where he was a son of C.S.M.I. (Canadian forces school of Military Intelligence) of the British Cavalry. He was also an avid polo player and sailor. He has performed as a trapeze artist and stage manager in a circus throughout the world and trained and performed with horses. Later he trained horses again for stunts and stunt coordination and worked in all areas of television and film production.

At the end of 1980s, Brooker quit his acting career and became a technical and production manager, and also an independent producer, mainly for Polo Championships, Horse shows, Fox Sports and many others. In the period 1999-2002, he was executive in Charge Of Production for six daily shows, produced in Digital Television for AENTV (Alternative Entertainment Network) based in Los Angeles, California. He also directed 42 episodes of 1993 TV Series "Bill Nye the Science Guy".

Richard Brooker died from an apparent sudden heart attack in Los Angeles on April 8, 2013 at age 58.

Antje Mönning was born on 2 February 1978 in Münster, Germany. She is an actress and producer, known for Überall gibt es ein Hausen, Taste of Life (2017) and Roland Reber's Cabaret of Death (2019).

European actor Branko Tomovic was born in Muenster, Germany, though his actual origin is from the Carpathians in Serbia. His parents emigrated in the 70s from the Golubac Fortress area on the Danube and Branko was raised between Germany and Serbia before he studied acting at the prestigious Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York City. Tomovic was first seen on the big screen in the lead role of the award winning American Film Institute/Sundance drama Remote Control (2001), for which he received the OmU-Award at the Potsdam Film Festival. Now currently settled in London, with his dark, brooding looks he has appeared in striking roles on British Television. He played the creepy main suspect Antoni Pricha, the Morgue Man, in Jack the Ripper thriller Whitechapel (2009), the pyromaniac Junky-Henchman Marek Lisowski in the final episodes of A Touch of Frost (1992) and Polish fighter pilot Miroslaw Feric in WW2 drama The Untold Battle of Britain (2010). He has been named "One to watch" by Moviescope Magazine and worked with internationally respected film directors as Ken Loach, Sönke Wortmann and Paul Greengrass. In 2010, he won the 'Best Actor' Award at the San Francisco Short Film Festival and at The Accolade Film Awards for his performance as a Serbian soldier who is tormented by grief and guilt after being a witness of war crimes in the drama Inbetween (2008). He also stars opposite Debbie Harry in Jimi Cauty 's Road movie Believe the Magic (2012) and 'Steve Stone' 's ghost thriller Entity (2012) with Dervla Kirwan and Charlotte Riley. Entity won two awards at the London Independent Film Festival 2013 and Best Film at the British Horror Film Festival where Branko was also nominated for Best Actor. The British Filmmakers Alliance honoured him as Best International Actor for his role. He is set to play the title character of Nikola Tesla in the upcoming bio-pic Tesla. In 2014, he played Jack Bauer's right hand man, the mysterious and dangerous Belcheck, next to Kiefer Sutherland in 24: Live Another Day. He was also seen opposite Brad Pitt and Logan Lerman in David Ayer's WWII drama Fury. In 2016 Tomovic made his directorial debut with Red, a short dark thriller set in the underground world of illegal organ trade. Branko stars in the lead role Niklas alongside Dervla Kirwan and Francesca Fowler. The Film has played numerous prestigious festivals, e.g. screening at the San Diego International Film Festival, Tangier International Film Festival, the European Film Award qualifying International Short Film Festival in Drama, and picking up awards and nominations at Kraljevski Filmski Festival, the Maverick Movie Awards and Naperville Independent Film Festival, and other BAFTA and European Film Award qualifying festivals. His second film as a writer/director, The Smell of Petrol, deals with human trafficking and the current refugee crisis. It world premiered at Oldenburg Film Festival in 2018 and won Best UK Short Film Special Mention at Winchester Film Festival and the Grand Prix Festival Award at Jahorina Film Festival and several selections and nominations at BFI Future Film, BAFTA and European Film Award qualifying festivals. His feature debut as a writer/director is the European arthouse horror film Vampir in which he also stars in. It had the world premiere at Sitges International Film Festival October 2021 in the New Visions competition, followed by the UK premiere at Raindance Film Festival and Trieste Science+Fiction where it was nominated for a Silver Melies Award as Best European Fantastic Film. Tomovic won the Oscull Award for his special contribution to film art at the Festival of Serbian Fantastic Film and was nominated for the German Cinema New Talent Award (Förderpreis Neues Deutsches Kino) as well as for the Hof Gold Prize (Hofer Goldpreis) at the prestigious 56th Hof International Film Festival in Germany.

Ute Lemper has left her mark on the stage, in films, in concert and as a unique recording artist on more than 30 albums over 30 years of career. She has been universally praised for her interpretations of Berlin Cabaret Songs, the works of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht and the chansons of Marlene Dietrich, Édith Piaf and many others. She became a world-famous musical star, playing Sally Bowles in Paris, Lola Lola in The Blue Angel (1930) in an ill-fated Berlin production directed by Peter Zadek, and Velma Kelly on Broadway and in London's West End. She actually started her career playing "Cats" in Vienna, then went on to star as "Peter Pan" in Berlin before acting in plays by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Jérôme Savary in Stuttgart. In Paris, she won the prestigious Molière Award, in London she was honored with the Laurence Olivier Award, and in the US, they presented her with the Theatre World Award for her stunning portrayals.

Perfectly fluent in German, French, and English, Miss Lemper has toured the entire world with her one-woman shows, i. e. "The Bukowski Project", "The 9 Secrets", and "Rendezvous with Marlene". Her Grammy-nominated album "Paris Days/Berlin Nights" was an overwhelming success in 2012. Maurice Béjart created a ballet especially for her while Michael Nyman, impressed with her versatile voice, composed a song cycle for her to record on CD.

Born in Münster, Germany, Miss Lemper studied at the Max Reinhardt Seminary Drama School in Vienna and completed her dance studies in Cologne. In her native Germany, she first rose to stardom in a television series: Das Erbe der Guldenburgs (1987) was a star-studded rip-off of American soap operas in the vein of Dynasty (1981) and Dallas (1978). Herein, Miss Lemper portrayed Peggy Brinkley, a rock singer who falls in love with Alexander von Guldenburg (Jochen Horst).

Her first big foray into films came in 1990 when she made L'Autrichienne (1990) with director Pierre Granier-Deferre. The film was not a big hit upon its release but has since gained a cult-following with Miss Lemper's sensitive portrayal being singled out and praised enthusiastically. She played Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Not Mozart: Letters, Riddles and Writs (1991), Ceres in Prospero's Books (1991), and a sexy model in Jean Galmot, aventurier (1990). Robert Altman gave her a small but showy part in Ready to Wear (1994). (She was nine months pregnant with her first child when she walked down a runway naked.) Miss Lemper then went on to star alongside Daniel Craig in Smoke Wrings (1996) (obviously pregnant again) and with Whoopi Goldberg and Gérard Depardieu in Bogus (1996), directed by Norman Jewison. In Germany, she provided the singing voices of Ariel in The Little Mermaid (1989) and Esmeralda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996). But her focus never really was on doing films, so she semi-retired after delivering fine performances in little-seen films like Wild Games (1997) and Aurélien (2003).

Miss Lemper is now a full-time musician, songwriter and stage personality. She married Todd Turkisher in 2011 and is a devoted mother of four. She moved to New York City permanently in 1998.

Alissa Jung was born on June 30th, 1981 in Germany. She started her career in acting and filmmaking as a child, dubbing films and tv series as well as working on audio plays. Her teenage years were mainly spent at the theatre: she was a member of several acting groups and played leading parts in Sophocles' "Antigone" at the "Leipziger Schille" or in "Gelb" directed by Armin Petras at the "Schauspiel Leipzig" (now "Centraltheater"). It was here that she was discovered for German television at the age of 16. Since then she has been involved in several film productions, playing leading roles in the German crime thriller "Tatort", the fairy-tale "Des Kaisers neue Kleider", the romantic comedy "Im Brautkleid meiner Schwester" or the international production "Maria". In recent years, she has increasingly left the spot in front of the camera for gaining experience as a writer and director, shooting her own films and documentaries. In 2010 she founded the organization PEN PAPER PEACE, financing two schools in Haiti.

Tanita Tikaram was born on 12 August 1969 in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is an actress and composer, known for Bandits (2001), Tanita Tikaram: Twist in My Sobriety (1988) and Frauen sind was Wunderbares (1994).

Anna Kubin was born in 1976 in Münster, Germany. She is an actress, known for Pink (2009), Tatort (1970) and Das Hochzeitsvideo (2012).

Pia Strietmann was born in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is a director and writer, known for Herrhausen - Der Herr des Geldes (2023), Tage die bleiben (2011) and Endlich Witwer (2018).

Florian Schmidtke was born in 1982 in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor, known for Blood Red Sky (2021), Barbarians (2020) and Blood & Gold (2023).

Tom Bergmann is a Cinematographer for documentaries, narrative and experimental films. Three of his recent projects have been nominated for Academy Awards. Tom studied cinematography at the University of Film in Potsdam Babelsberg/Germany before studying Art History in New York City. He has been a freelance Cinematographer for the past 15 years with more than 30 shorts and features to his credit. Some of the directors he continuously collaborates with include Steve James, Eugene Jarecki, Roger Ross Williams, David France, and many more.

Jauch grew up in the Berlin residential district of Lichterfelde-West. He attended the Catholic elementary school St. Ursula in Berlin-Zehlendorf. He later worked as an altar boy in the Catholic Church. After the Steglitz Old Language High School in Berlin and a high school diploma of 3.1, he attended the German Journalism School in Munich. In 1975, at the age of 19, he became the youngest graduate at the time. After graduating, he studied politics and modern history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. He began his journalistic career in 1975 as a freelancer at RIAS Berlin Sportfunk. In 1977, Jauch moved to the sports department of Bayerischer Rundfunk, for which he later worked as a "Zeitfunk" editor and radio correspondent in Bonn. From 1985, Jauch worked with Thomas Gottschalk for the "B3 radio show", which was newly broadcast. Jauch was responsible for the journalistic part of the program, Gottschalk for the musical program.

The then 29-year-old Jauch gained his first TV experience as a reporter for the B3 program "Rätselflug". He then hosted the popular youth show "Live from Alabama". In 1986 ZDF became aware of Jauch and in March 1987 gave him the moderation of the program "So ein Zoff". That same year, during the International Radio Exhibition in Berlin, he presented the program "Na ihre!" every afternoon. Jauch became a whiz kid in ZDF entertainment. At Dieter Kürten's request, Jauch replaced Harry Valérien as one of the five moderators of the "Current Sports Studio" after the Summer Olympics in Seoul. He first hosted the show on October 29, 1988. As a television journalist, Jauch, who left Bayerischer Rundfunk in the summer of 1989, initially worked exclusively for ZDF. He also presented the show "People" there until 1996 and directed the "Big Show of the Eighties" together with Thomas Gottschalk. In 1989 Jauch signed a contract with RTL, where he worked as presenter and head of "sternTV" since April 1990.

From September 1992 to September 1994, Jauch also took over the editor-in-chief and achieved a market share of up to 25 percent with his show. From mid-1992, Jauch also worked for the private "Berliner Rundfunk" as a program coordinator. In June 1995 he signed a new contract with RTL. In 1998 he went on air there with his show "Millionaire Wanted! - The SKL Show". From September 1999, Jauch hosted the successful show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" and in April 2001 he presented the first season of The 10 Million SKL Show. He also gained many fans through his reporting as a sports commentator for RTL, for example on the ski jumping competition of the 4 Hills Tournament and the Football Champions League. In 2000 Jauch founded his own production company; "i&u TV" stands for information and entertainment. This now produced, among other things, the programs "sternTV", moderated by Jauch himself, and the "70s/80s/90s Show", moderated by Hape Kerkeling and Oliver Geissen.

Jauch received several awards for his journalistic work, such as the "Golden Camera", the "Bavarian Television Prize", the "Tele-Star", the "Golden Lion", the "German Television Prize" and the "Adolf Grimme Prize". In representative surveys about the most popular show presenters, the German television audience placed Jauch in first place on the popularity scale several times, where he was followed by colleagues such as Thomas Gottschalk and Jörg Pilawa. In September 2003, Jauch was awarded the Audience Prize of the German Television Prize. Two months later he received the moderator received the "Bobby" media prize, which is awarded by the Federal Association for Life Support for People with Intellectual Disabilities for particularly sensitive dealings with disabled people.

With his quiz show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" Jauch set a record in autumn 2004 with a rating of 27.7% (8.96 million viewers). In mid-October 2004, Jauch was ranked 14th among the most important television producers in the magazine "Gentlemen's Quarterly" (GQ) by a jury of recognized media journalists. In November 2004, Günther Jauch was awarded the "Bambi" for "TV Event of the Year" for the program "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? - The Celebrity Special". In a survey of television viewers about the most popular TV personality in January 2005, Jauch took first place ahead of Johannes B. Kerner, Jörg Pilawa, Thomas Gottschalk, Sandra Maischberger, Harald Schmidt and Reinhold Beckmann. Meanwhile, Günther Jauch lived with his wife in Potsdam; Together they have two children, born in 1989 and 1993 became. In December 1997, Jauch adopted a 13-month-old girl, an orphan from Siberia. In early 2000, the couple adopted a second Siberian girl. The couple married in July 2006 after 18 years of relationship.

After Sabine Christiansen's announcement about the abandonment of her Polit talk show in 2007, Günther Jauch was in discussion about possibly taking over their broadcast slot, which he ultimately rejected in January 2007. As part of the 2010 Football World Cup, he was awarded the German Television Prize in the "Best Sports Program" category. From 2011 he hosted the weekly ARD talk show "Günther Jauch"; on Sunday evening at 9:45 p.m. Stars but also top politicians such as Chancellor Angela Merkel, Peer Steinbrück and former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt were regular guests. In 2012 he was awarded the audience award, moderation, the "Golden Hen".

Bernd Hölscher was born in 1971 in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is an actor, known for The Captain (2017), A Hidden Life (2019) and We Children from Bahnhof Zoo (2021).

Anna Justice was born on 16 May 1962 in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She was a director and writer, known for Max Minsky and Me (2007), Remembrance (2011) and Tut mir leid wegen gestern (1997). She died on 18 April 2021 in Germany.

Sabrina Ceesay was born in Münster, Germany. She is an actress, known for Informant: Angst über der Stadt (2024), Nachtschicht (2003) and Das Meer ist der Himmel (2024).

Wolfgang Wahl was born on 3 December 1925 in Münster, Germany. He was an actor and production designer, known for Scampolo (1958), The Buddenbrooks (1959) and Hotel Paradies (1990). He was married to Ruth Stephan. He died on 15 September 2006 in Germering, Bavaria, Germany.

Currently attending graduate school in Chicago for Muscle Activation Therapy, this Munster, Indiana native is proficient in various forms of martial arts. Growing up idolizing Bruce Lee, Stephan has excelled at jujitsu, taekwondo, wrestling, and was a local 2-time Golden Gloves champion in the super-heavyweight division. He is also a personal trainer with a degree in Sports Medicine from Purdue University. Stephan is a member of the Carlson Gracie Team.

Brandy Grace was born on 21 January 1985 in Munster, Indiana, USA. She is an actress, known for Wild Card (2015), The Girl from the Naked Eye (2012) and Extraction (2013).

Felix Lobrecht was born on 24 December 1988 in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is a writer and actor, known for Sun and Concrete (2023), Maithink X (2021) and Felix Lobrecht: Hype (2020).

Matthew R. Laudermilk was born on 16 September 1980 in Munster, Indiana, USA. He is a production manager, known for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000), The Irrational (2023) and Joan of Arcadia (2003).

Wolfgang Riehm was born in 1954 in Münster, Germany. He is an actor, known for Taiketsu (2007), Atomic Eden (2015) and Ultimate Justice (2017).

Mechthild Großmann was born on 23 December 1948 in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is an actress, known for Tatort (1970), Zwerg Nase (2008) and Die Klage der Kaiserin (1990). She is married to Stephan Meyer. They have one child.

Lorelei Llee was born on 17 September 1982 in Munster, Indiana, USA. She is an actress and costume designer, known for War of the Worlds (2005), Live by Night (2016) and Nation's Fire (2019).

Inga Dietrich was born in 1969 in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is an actress, known for Der Junge mit dem Teddy (2018), Mordach - Tod in den Bergen (2023) and Weather House (2017).

Neil Patil was born on 8 January 1979 in Munster, Indiana, USA. He is an actor, known for The Eliminator (2004), The 9/11 Commission Report (2006) and ER (1994).