THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON - Visual Hollywood

The Twilight Saga: New MoonProduction Notesand Sir Ian McKellen, set for a US release later this year on AMC. In 2007, he received critical acclaim forhis portrayal of Douglas in the BBC’s ‘The Dinner Party’.EDI GATHEGI (Laurent) has recently begun to gain increasing notoriety for his roles on both the big andsmall screens. He is probably most recognized for his recurring role as Dr. Cole (AKA: Big Love), on FOX’shit television series “House.” Having been a guest star on the best reviewed show of last year’s Fallseason, ABC’s “Life on Mars,” Gathegi went on to join the ensemble cast of the theatrical box officephenomenon, Twilight, and will reprise his role as Laurent in this year’s sequel, The Twilight Saga: NewMoon, releasing wide on November 20th. He most recently starred in the well-received feature, MyBloody Valentine 3-D.Gathegi’s past film credits include feature, Gone Baby Gone directed by Ben Affleck, Death Sentenceopposite Kevin Bacon and Crank with Jason Statham.He is also no stranger to on-stage production as his theatre resume includes “Two Trains Running” at theprestigious Old Globe Theatre in San Diego with other regional stage work including “King Hedley II”,“Blues for an Alabama Sky”, “Golden Boy”, “As You Like It”, “Twelfth Night”, “The Crucible”, “Fade”, “AMaiden’s Prayer” (Santa Barbara Independent Award), “A Raisin in the Sun”, “Othello”, a “MidsummerNight’s Dream”, “Cyrano” and “Dutchman.”Gathegi graduated from NYU’s famed MFA program for acting and currently resides in Los Angeles.MICHAEL WELCH (Mike) has already made a strong impression on the entertainment world. Starting atthe age of 10, he has worked in every aspect of the business including film, television, voice-over, andstage. Michael is the recipient of two Young Artist Awards, one for his performance at age 10 in StarTrek: Insurrection, his first feature film, and another for his work as Luke Girardi on the television series“Joan of Arcadia,” which ran for two seasons on CBS.Welch will star in Unrequited (2010), a psychological thriller directed by Jason Epperson, second placewinner of “The Lot”, executive produced by Stephen Spielberg. Epperson has chosen Unrequited for hisfirst feature film and Welch to play the lead role.Michael can be seen in award-winning festival favorites such as My Suicide, An American Crime, UnitedStates of Leland, American Son, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane and Lost Dream. Welch has completed 19films in his 12-year career.Michael is familiar to television audiences for his many starring roles on Emmy Award-winning shows.His most recent starring roles include episodes of “CSI” and an arc on “The Riches”. During the pastseveral years he appeared on “CSI: Miami”, “Numb3rs”, “Law & Order: SVU”, “Crossing Jordan”, “NCIS”,“Cold Case” and “Without a Trace.” His earlier years included performances on “Stargate SG-1”, “JudgingAmy”, “The District”, “Touched by an Angel”, “Malcolm in the Middle”, “The X-Files”, “The Pretender”,“7th Heaven”, “Chicago Hope” and “Frasier.”In spite of his busy schedule he finds time for theater (Speech & Debate-2008), received the 2005 StarInnovative Award for environmental causes and has been active with the charity Kids With a Cause since25