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CLOUD ATLAS (2012) PRODUCTION NOTES
A native of Hertfordshire, Whishaw graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 2003.
Prior to drama school, he played supporting roles in the 1999 films "The Trench," directed by William
Boyd and Michel Blanc's "Mauvaise Passe." After graduation he went on to appear in Roger
Michell's "Enduring Love," the film adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel; Matthew Vaughan's "Layer
Cake"; "The Booze Cruise"; and portrayed Keith Richards in "Stoned."
JAMES D'ARCY (Young Rufus Sixsmith, Old Rufus Sixsmith, Nurse James, Archivist) will next
be seen alongside Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson and Jessica Biel playing the
role of Anthony Perkins in "Hitchcock," which follows the making of the famed director's "Psycho";
as well as the dramas "The Philosophers," written and directed by John Huddles, and "The
Domino Effect."
His most recent film credits include the independents "In Their Skin," a thriller which premiered at
the Tribeca Film Festival in April; the comedy "Overnight"; and Madonna's historically based romance
"W.E.," in which he portrayed King Edward VIII, starring opposite Abbie Cornish and Andrea
Riseborough.
Among Darcy's previous features are the drama "Screwed"; "Rise: Blood Hunter," starring Lucy
Liu; "An American Haunting," with Sissy Spacek and Donald Sutherland; Renny Harlin's "Exorcist:
The Beginning"; Peter Weir's "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World," starring Russell
Crowe and Paul Bettany; "Dot the I," with Gael Garcia Bernal and Tom Hardy; and William
Boyd's war film "The Trench," starring Daniel Craig.
D'Arcy graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in July 1995, and quickly
became a popular face on British screens with lead roles as Nicholas Hawthorne in Ruth Rendell's
"Bribery and Corruption," Lord Cheshire in "The Canterville Ghost" and Jonathan Maybury in "The
Ice House." His additional television credits include the BBC hit miniseries "The History of Tom
Jones, a Foundling"; "Sherlock Holmes: Case of Evil"; the television series "POW"; and Stephen
Whittaker's "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby." More recently, he starred as Tom
Bertram in "Mansfield Park," opposite Billie Piper, Hayley Atwell and Blake Ritson, and he has
also had a recurring role in the hit series "The Secret Diary of a Call Girl."
In 2002, D'Arcy was nominated for the prestigious Ian Charleson Award for his portrayal of Piers
Gaveston in Michael Grandage's production of "Edward II" at the Crucible Theatre, where he performed
opposite Joseph Fiennes and Lloyd Owen.
XUN ZHOU (Talbot/Hotel Manager, Yoona-939, Rose) is one of Asia's most acclaimed and admired
actresses and the only Chinese actress to have won all the major Chinese-language film
awards, including China's Hundred Flowers Awards, the Hong Kong Film Awards and Hong
Kong's Golden Bauhinia Awards, Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards, and Asian Film Awards, among
others. Her performances have made her a household name in greater China and earned her many
accolades abroad.
She has performed in art house classics such as "Suzhou River," "The Little Chinese Seamstress"
and "The Equation of Love & Death," to such blockbuster hits as "Perhaps Love," with Takeshi
Kaneshiro, Shakespeare's "The Banquet," starring Ziyi Zhang, "Painted Skin," with Donnie Yen,
"The Message," and "Confucius," with Chow Yun-Fat.
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