TILDA SWINTON (Jadis, the White Witch) is the Scottish (and Cambridge-educated) actress who began making films with the English director Derek Jarman in 1985 with "Caravaggio." She went on to work with him for eight years and seven more films before his death in 1994, including "The Last of England," "The Garden," "War Requiem" and "Wittgenstein." In 1990, Swinton won the Coppa Volpe at the Venice Film Festival for her performance in Jarman's film adaptation of Marlowe's "Edward II." Two years later, she came to wider international recognition and critical acclaim with her extraordinary portrayal of the androgynous and eternal "Orlando," directed by Sally Potter.

Since then, Swinton's work has included two films with Lynn Hershman-Leeson, "Conceiving Ada" and "Teknolust," Susan Streitfeld's "Female Perversions," Tim Roth's "The War Zone" and Robert Lepage's "Possible Worlds." In 2000, she starred in "The Deep End" for directors David Siegel and Scott McGeehee, again winning numerous international awards, including a Golden Globe Nomination for Best Actress. Recently, she co-starred in Spike Jonze's "Adaptation," David Mackenzie's renowned noir "Young Adam" and "Thumbsucker," directed by Mike Mills, released in 2005. She reunited with Keanu Reeves in "Constantine” and co-stars with Bill Murray in Jim Jarmusch's acclaimed drama, "Broken Flowers." Upcoming film roles include Bela Tarr's "That Man from London” Hillary Broughr’s “Stephanie Daley” and Tony Gilroy’s “Michael Clayton” opposite George Clooney.

GEORGIE HENLEY (Lucy) makes her professional acting debut in the film. Georgie was born in Ilkley, W. Yorkshire, in the north of England. A member of a local drama club called Upstagers, the ten-year-old was discovered by casting director Pippa Hall in a countrywide casting call for the film launched in June, 2003, winning the role over 2,000 other hopefuls.

SKANDAR KEYNES (Edmund) is a 14-year-old London-born talent who began his professional acting career at age nine in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of "Macbeth" for Britain's Channel 4 TV, winning the role just a few months after enrolling in the Anna Scher Theatre School in Islington (where his older sister also studied acting). He immediately followed with another television role as a Victorian waif in Jonathan Meade's docudrama, "The Victorians," which aired on BBC-2. A few months later, the youngster appeared onstage at the St. George's Theatre in a pantomime adaptation of the classic fairy tale, "Cinderella." The next year (2001), Skandar played the role of Enzo Ferrari as a child in Duemila Productions/Victory biopic, "Enzo Ferrari.”

ANNA POPPLEWELL (Susan) most recently appeared as Vermeer's eldest daughter in Peter Webber's globally-acclaimed drama, "Girl with A Pearl Earring." The sixteen-year-old made her professional acting debut in the 1998 television adaptation of du Maurier's novel, "Frenchman's Creek." She has appeared in such other feature films as "The Little Vampire," "Me Without You," "Mansfield Park" and "Thunderpants." Her television roles include "Dirty Tricks" and the BBC dramas "Love in A Cold Climate" and "Daniel Deronda." Popplewell was born and lives in London, the daughter of a barrister father and doctor mother. She is the eldest of three siblings, all of whom have attended 'Allsorts Drama for Children', a Saturday morning drama class. Her sister Lulu recently appeared in Richard Curtis' "Love, Actually," and her brother Freddie was Michael Darling in PJ Hogan's "Peter Pan."

WILLIAM MOSELEY (Peter) makes his motion picture debut in the film and is the son of English cinematographer Peter Moseley. A native of Gloucestershire in the Cotwolds area of England, William, 18, was first spotted by casting director Pippa Hall seven years ago (in primary school) when she was casting the 1998 English TV movie, "Cider with Rosie," based on Laurie Lee's memoirs about his childhood in the Cotswold Valley (coincidentally, the village next to the young actor's own). She kept her eye on the budding talent over the ensuing years, which led to his first audition for "The Chronicles of Narnia" over eighteen months ago. Hall's casting partner here, Gail Stevens, cast him in the 2002 SMG telefilm, "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," his first professional role.

JAMES McAVOY (Mr. Tumnus, the faun) is well-known in America for his role of Leto II in the Sci-Fi Channel series "Children of Dune," based on the books by Frank Herbert. In his native Britain, the young Scot garnered critical acclaim for his work on the BBC-1 political thriller, "State of Play" and the BBC-2 presentation of "Early Doors." Before that, McAvoy starred in "White Teeth” for Britain's Channel Four, where he was also recently seen in "Shameless." Last year, he completed a leading role in Stephen Fry's new film, "Bright Young Things," with Peter O'Toole and Stockard Channing. He co-starred opposite Kirsten Dunst, Paul Bettany and Sam Neill in the romantic comedy, "Wimbledon" and played muscular dystrophy victim Rory O'Shea in "Rory O'Shea Was Here.”

After completing his role in "Narnia," McAvoy starred with Forest Whitaker and Gillian Anderson in Kevin McDonald's "The Last King of Scotland," which depicts Idi Amin's brutal regime in Uganda. Upon returning to the UK, James started work on his lead role in the adaptation of the hugely-popular David Nicholls book, Starter For Ten for HBO Films. Among McAvoy's film credits are "Bollywood Queen," "Trench Horror," "Tabloid TV," "The Swimming Pool" and "Regeneration," with Jonathan Pryce. His TV credits include HBO's award-winning miniseries "Band of Brothers," produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. Among his credits for BBC Productions are "Inspector Lynley Mysteries," "Murder in Mind" and "Lorna Doone." McAvoy, a native of Scotstoun in west Glasgow, studied at the prestigious Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama after making his professional acting debut at age 16 in the British film, "The Near Room."

JIM BROADBENT (Prof. Kirke) won the 2001 Best Supporting Actor Oscar® for his role as writer John Bayley in Richard Eyre's poignant drama, "Iris." Starring opposite fellow Oscar® nominee Judi Dench, Broadbent also won acting honors from the Los Angeles Film Critics, the National Board of Review and the HFPA's Golden Globe. He also received nominations from the Screen Actors Guild, the Broadcast Film Critics Association and the BAFTA Award. That same year, Broadbent also triumphed on the big screen opposite Nicole Kidman in Baz Luhrmann's "Moulin Rouge!," for which he captured a BAFTA Award, a SAG nomination (for ensemble cast) and dual honors from the National Board of Review and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (both shared with "Iris").

After graduating from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, his first job was an assistant stage manager at Regent's Park Open Air Theater. He also logged roles onstage with the Royal National Theatre (including "The Government Inspector," directed by Richard Eyre) and most recently, "The Pillowman." His career took off in 1977 with a role in Ken Campbell's "Illuminatus." Soon thereafter, he began his ongoing collaboration with director Mike Leigh, first in stage productions of the writer-director's plays "Ecstasy" and "Goosepimples." He would later reunite with Leigh on "Life Is Sweet" and his 1999 acclaimed classic, "Topsy-Turvy," for which Broadbent won Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival, the London Critics Circle and Evening Standard Film Awards, and earned nominations for the BAFTA, the British Independent Film and Chicago Film Critics Awards. He also collaborated with Leigh on the 1992 short film, "A Sense of History." His most recent work with Leigh was “Vera Drake.”

He debuted on the motion picture screen in Jerzy Skolimowski's "The Shout" in 1978, and soon caught the attention of such British film directors as Stephen Frears ("The Hit") and Terry Gilliam ("Time Bandits," "Brazil"). He also gained popularity from appearances on several popular British TV series. His first foray into Hollywood came in "Superman IV: The Quest For Peace" alongside Christopher Reeve and Gene Hackman. As his profile grew on both sides of the Atlantic, co-starring in such British films as "Enchanted April" and Neil Jordan's "The Crying Game" and appearing in Woody Allen's "Bullets Over Broadway,” Broadbent was dubbed one of Britain's best-loved character actors.

Over the last decade, he has co-starred in such films as "Little Voice" (Screen Actors Guild nomination for Best Ensemble Cast), "Smilla's Sense Of Snow," "The Avengers," "Bridget Jones's Diary" (and the upcoming sequel, "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason"), "Nicholas Nickleby" (National Board of Review nomination -- Best Ensemble Performance), Martin Scorsese's Oscar®-nominated epic, "Gangs of New York" and the recent remake, "Around the World in 80 Days." Other recent and current film projects include reuniting with Oscar®-nominated director Mike Leigh on "Vera Drake," as well as the HBO western, "And Starring Pancho Villa As Himself," "Bright Young Things," "Vanity Fair," and voice roles in "The King's Beard," "Tooth," "Valiant," "Robots," "The Magic Roundabout Movie" and "Pride." For television, he won a Golden Globe and an Emmy nomination for the HBO epic, "The Gathering Storm" and a BAFTA TV nomination for "The Young Visiters." He completed a co-starring role in Terry Zwigoff's "Art School Confidential." He most recently completed work on The Street for the BBC, and next year will star in Longford for Channel 4/HBO written by Peter Morgan.

JAMES COSMO (Father Christmas) is well known for his roles as the warrior Campbell in Mel Gibson's Oscar®-winning epic, "Braveheart" and, more recently, Glaucus, a Trojan ally and co-captain of the Lycian forces, in Wolfgang Petersen's global boxoffice hit, "Troy." A native of Scotland, Cosmo grew up in the west central town of Clydebank, known for its a shipbuilding industry. He honed his acting skills in dozens of British film and television productions dating back almost four decades, making his motion picture debut in the 1969 WWII epic, "Battle of Britain."

Cosmo has since appeared in five dozen feature and TV films, including "Young Winston," "Highlander," "Stormy Monday," "Trainspotting," "Emma," Shekhar Kapur's recent remake of "Four Feathers," "The Reckoning," "To End All Wars" and HBO's "The Last of the Blonde Bombshells." In George Miller's enchanting sequel, "Babe: Pig in the City," he provided the voice of Thelonius, the orangutan. Recent projects include "The Last Legion" and the Scottish thriller "Half Light." He has guest-starred on such English TV series as "Badger," "The Bill," "Hammer House of Horror," "Quiller," "The Sweeney,” “Fairly Secret Army” and “Roughnecks." For his outstanding work onscreen and his charitable work off, he received the lifetime achievement award for the Sunday Mail/McEwan's People's Film Festival.

KIRAN SHAH (Ginarrbrik) is one of the movie industry's premiere stunt doubles for children and small people. According to the current edition of the Guiness Book of World Records, he is the world's shortest stuntman in the entertainment business.. The diminutive (4'1") Kenyan native, who lived in India before relocating to London during his teen years, began his performing career in London in 1973 after winning an audition with the Red Buddha Theatre Company.

After three years in experimental theatre, Shah won his first film role, as a stand-in for a child actress on "Candleshoe." Spotted by the film's stunt coordinator, Shah served as the actress' stunt double, thus launching his new career in front of the cameras. He next won a small role in the film adaptation of Edgar Rice Burrough's adventure story, "The People That Time Forgot," and has since appeared in such big screen projects as Steven Spielberg's "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and the sequel "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom," Ridley Scott's "Legend," James Cameron's "Titanic" and "Aliens," and, most recently, Peter Jackson's landmark trilogy, "Lord of the Rings," in which he doubled for Elijah Wood's Frodo and appeared as a Hobbit. Other motion picture credits include Hugh Hudson's "Greystoke: Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes," Richard Donner's "Superman," two Jim Henson production, "The Great Muppet Caper" and "The Dark Crystal," George Lucas' "Return of the Jedi" (playing an Ewok), Mel Gibson's Oscar®-winning "Braveheart" and Terry Gilliam's "The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen." Shah is also a published poet in both Britain and the U.S. Kiran has gone behind the camears and has just directed with his nephew Chaitan (Kit) his first feature length film. It is called 'Weekend Lovers', a comedy farce set in UK.

One of the most accomplished actors of his generation, Irish-born LIAM NEESON (Aslan the Lion) has collaborated with such renowned filmmakers as Steven Spielberg ("Schindler's List"), Ridley Scott ("Kingdom of Heaven"), George Lucas ("Star Wars: Episode 1 -- The Phantom Menace"), Neil Jordan ("Michael Collins"), Roland Joffe ("The Mission"), Woody Allen ("Husbands and Wives") and John Boorman ("Excalibur").

For his acclaimed work on the motion picture screen, Neeson has earned Academy Award®, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations for "Schindler's List," Best Actor honors at the Venice Film Festival, London's prestigious Evening Standard Award and his second Golden Globe nod for "Michael Collins," a second Evening Standard Award nomination for his role as a tortured priest in "Lamb" and his third Golden Globe nomination, the London Critics Circle Film Award and the Los Angeles Film Critics honor for Bill Condon's incisive biopic, "Kinsey."

Since debuting in Boorman's "Excalibur," Neeson has starred in over thirty films, including Roger Donaldson's retelling of the 1935 seafaring epic "The Bounty" opposite Mel Gibson and Sir Anthony Hopkins, Andrei Konchalovsky's "Duet for One," Peter Yates' "Suspect," Sam Raimi's "Darkman," David Leland's "Crossing the Line," Carl Franklin's "Before and After," Richard Curtis' “Love Actually," Kathryn Bigelow's "K-19: The Widowmaker," Michael Caton-Jones costume epic, "Rob Roy" and, most recently, Christopher Nolan's, "Batman Begins." He recently reteamed with Neil Jordan on the comedy-drama, "Breakfast on Pluto." Other big screen credits include "The Good Mother" with Diane Keaton, "Gun Shy" opposite Sandra Bullock, Bille August's "Les Miserable" (playing Jean Valjean, Hugo's tragic hero), "Krull," "A Prayer for the Dying," Clint Eastwood's final Dirty Harry thriller, "The Dead Pool," Michael Apted's "Nell" and "The Haunting."

Neeson has also triumphed on the Broadway stage, earning two Tony nominations for his 1993 New York stage debut in Eugene O'Neill's "Anna Christie" and the 2002 revival of Arthur Miller's "The Crucible." He also essayed the role of Oscar Wilde in David Hare's "The Judas Kiss.” The Northern Ireland native began his career by joining the prestigious Lyric Players Theatre in Belfast in 1976, making his acting debut in Joseph Plunkett's "The Risen People." After performing with the Lyric Players for two years, he collaborated with the famed repertory company of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, where he appeared in "Translations." He won The Best Actor Award at the Royal Exchange Theater for his appearance in Sean O' Casey's "The Plough and The Stars."

RAY WINSTONE (voice of Mr. Beaver) has long been recognized as one of England's most powerful performers. He gained international acclaim for his intense role as the alcoholic wife-beater in Gary Oldman's directorial debut, "Nil by Mouth," for which he earned a BAFTA nomination as Best Actor and won the top prize at the British Independent Film Awards. He followed with yet another gut-wrenching performance in Tim Roth's hard-hitting directorial debut, "The War Zone" (co-starring opposite actress Tilda Swinton), winning accolades at the Berlin and Cannes Film Festivals and a Best Actor nomination at the European Film Awards. He also collected his second Best Actor nod for the British Independent Film Award for Roth's film, and garnered a third the next year for his role as a retired gangster opposite Oscar® nominee Ben Kingsley in "Sexy Beast."

Since his motion picture debut at age 17 as the bully Carlin in Alan Clarke's "Scum," and the ex-con in Harley Cokeliss' "That Summer" (for which he was BAFTA nominated as Best Newcomer), Winstone has made his mark onscreen in such films as Franc Roddam's "Quadrophenia," Ken Loach's "Ladybird, Ladybird," Antonia Bird's "Face," Anjelica Huston's "Agnes Browne," Anthony Minghella's Oscar®-nominated "Cold Mountain," Liliana Cavani's "Ripley's Game" (from Patricia Highsmith's novel), Fred Schepsi's acclaimed "Last Orders" and Lou Adler's "Ladies and Gentleman, the Fabulous Stains.” He co-starred in the Jerry Bruckheimer retelling of the medieval tale of "King Arthur." Most recently he worked with Martin Scorcese in “The Departed” and the title role in Robert Zemeckis’ “Beowulf.”

His television work in England includes the award-winning BBC miniseries, "Births, Marriages and Deaths," the drama, "Our Boy," for which he won Best Actor at the Royal Television Society Awards, and the title role in “Henry VIII” which went on to win Best Mini Series/TV Movie at the International Emmy Awards. British episodic appearances include "Boon," "Cats Eyes” and the recurring role of Stubby Collins in "Fairly Secret Army." The London native, amateur boxer and drama school dropout has also been a mainstay on the London stage, essaying roles in Jez Butterworth's "The Night Heron," Kathy Burke's "Mr. Thomas," Patrick Marber's "Choice," Nick Whitby's "To the Green Fields Beyond" (directed by Sam Mendes), among others.

DAWN FRENCH (voice of Mrs. Beaver) has been dubbed Britain's "first lady of television comedy," resulting from the success of her wildly popular, international Emmy-winning BBC sitcom, "The Vicar of Dibley," created by Richard Curtis ("Notting Hill," "Bean," "Love Actually," "Four Weddings and A Funeral"). French hails from Holyhead, Wales. She trained to be a drama teacher at London's Central School of Speech and Drama, where she met another of England's most popular comediennes, Jennifer Saunders ("Shrek 2," "Absolutely Fabulous"). That fateful meeting led to one of the most successful partnerships in British comedy today -- French and Saunders, a pairing that began onstage at the Comic Strip in London's Soho district, and has survived over two decades. A few years later, they began appearing together on the BBC variety show, "Entertainers," were featured in the sitcom "Happy Families," and wrote their first sitcom, "Girls on Top" (1985), in which they starred with another little-known comedienne, Tracey Ullman. They also appeared in numerous episodes of the long-running BBC series, "The Comic Strip Presents."

French also played the lead role in "Murder Most Horrid,” has starred in a variety of advertising campaigns, was the face of television advertising for Terry's Chocolate Orange and has featured on a number of spoken recordings of children's stories, notably for Mick Inkpen's "Kipper" series. French has starred in such BBC Screen One dramas as "Tender Loving Care" and "Sex and Chocolate.” Other British TV appearances include vocalizing the title character of "Pongwiffy," "Wild West," the voice of Buttercup in "Watership Down," "David Copperfield," "Ted and Alice," "Comic Relief" and "Let Them Eat Cake." She has also been featured on the big screen in "The Adventures of Pinocchio" and "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," in which she appears as the Lady in the Painting.

RUPERT EVERETT (voice of The Fox) reunites with director Andrew Adamson after lending his vocal talents to Adamson's animated blockbuster, "Shrek 2," in which he played the character of Prince Charming. He began his career on the stage with Scotland's avant-garde Glasgow Citizens Theater, appearing in such plays as "The Vortex," "Heartbreak House," "A Waste of Time," "Private Lives," "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and "The White Devil." Back on the London boards, he won attention and acclaim for his starring role of Guy Bennett in the London staging of Julian Mitchell's "Another Country." He reprised the role in the 1984 film version (earning a BAFTA nomination as Best Newcomer), and followed that triumph with his starring role opposite Miranda Richardson in Mike Newell's thriller, "Dance with A Stranger."

He continued working in the motion picture arena, logging memorable performances in Paul Schraeder's "Comfort of Strangers," Robert Altman's "Prêt-à-Porter" ("Ready to Wear"), Andrei Konchalovsky's "Duet for One" and Nicholas Hytner's Oscar®-nominated "The Madness of King George," before gaining worldwide stardom for his supporting performance as Julia Roberts' confidant in P.J. Hogan's comedy, "My Best Friend's Wedding." For his role, Everett earned Golden Globe and British Academy (BAFTA) nominations as Best Supporting Actor, and won the London Film Critics, Blockbuster Entertainment and American Comedy Awards. He followed with yet another screen triumph (and his second Golden Globe nomination, this time as Best Actor in a Comedy) in the film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's "An Ideal Husband," directed by Oliver Parker. He reteamed with Parker in 2002 in another Oscar Wilde project, "The Importance of Being Earnest," which reunited him with Colin Firth.

Everett's film work includes Hogan's "Unconditional Love," "To Kill A King," "The Next Best Thing" directed by John Schlesinger and starring Madonna, "Inspector Gadget," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "Dunston Checks In," "Tolerance," "Inside Monkey Zetterland” and "Chronicle of A Death Foretold.” He completed another voice role in the Disney animated feature, "Valiant," and also voiced the character of Sloane Blackburn in "The Wild Thornberrys Movie." His TV miniseries credits include "Princess Daisy" and "Far Pavilions."

His recent work includes Richard Eyre’s "Stage Beauty" and Julian Fellowes’ “Separate Lies.”