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Chase Coleman

Chase Coleman was born on March 20, 1985 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and raised in Monroe, Louisiana. As both a talented actor and musician, he is best known for his roles as Billy Winslow in the HBO TV series, Boardwalk Empire, and portraying the werewolf, Oliver, in the CW hit spin-off series, The Originals. Before he became an actor, Coleman attended Grace Episcopal School for elementary and Junior High school education. He graduated from St. Frederick Catholic High School. However, during his second year of high school, Coleman became the leader singer in a rock band called, Crawl Space, until he graduated. Later, while attending college at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, Coleman became interested in acting. He began performing with local theatre groups and in his junior year, signed with the Baton Rouge Agency, Stage 2000. During that time, Coleman traveled to Dallas to compete at the Mike Beaty Model and Talent Expo, winning several awards while there. He then met Suzanne Schachter of Suzelle Enterprises and was invited to travel to New York City for the summer. Coleman's first acting gig was portraying the character, Garrett, on the popular daytime show, One Life to Live. From there, he landed multiple guest star roles including: The Good Wife, Gossip Girl, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and Kings, as well as many other starring and supporting roles in independent films like New York City Serenade, Catahoula, and God Don't Make the Laws. He also played the lead of Andrew in the off-Broadway play My Big Gay Italian Wedding. In 2010, Coleman won the Screen Actors Guild Award for "Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series," for his role on Boardwalk Empire. In 2011, he was nominated for an Indie Soap Award for "Best Supporting Actor in a Drama," for his portrayal of Dr. Dane Sullivan on the show, In Between Men. Coleman founded the production company Bloodstone Productions and wrote the short film Into the Rose Garden which he also directed and starred in. Then, in the summer of 2012, he guest starred as Robert in the pilot of the TV series, The Americans, as well as filming Season Two of In Between Men. In 2014, Coleman was cast as Oliver on The Originals, the popular spin-off show of The Vampire Diaries. Oliver's run spanned twelve episodes between Season One and Season Two of the series. Later in 2016, he guest starred on the NBC series, Aquarius, as Terry Melcher, a character that spanned three episodes. Currently, Coleman is appearing at several fan conventions developed for The Vampire Diaries and The Originals, both as a guest star and musician. Additionally, he also has several other acting projects in production as well as touring with his band, Mercy Mode.

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Daniel Gillies

Daniel made his acting debut in the New Zealand drama Street Legal, where he played Tim O'Connor (2000-2002). His next bigger role was in Spider-Man 2, where he played John Jameson, a fiancee of Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst). He guest-starred on NCIS as a British MI-6 agent, and had a recurring role on The Vampire Diaries as Elijah Mikaelson. Since 2013 he has starred in the Vampire Diaries' spin-off series - The Originals. He also worked with Ian Somerhalder in the film Sensasion Of Sight. From 2012 to 2015, he played the young surgeon Joel Goran in the NBC medical drama, Saving Hope. Gillies' other television credits include HBO's True Blood and A&E's The Glades. Other guest appearances include Masters of Horrors, Jeremiah and Mentors. A veteran of the theater, Daniel participated in over twenty plays professionally; including Julius Caesar, Three Sisters, Long Day's Journey into Night and The Judas Kiss. In 2006, he played a lead in the International Festival film The Sensation of Sight, alongside Academy Award nominee David Strathairn. The following year, Gillies started his own production company - Holy Monster. In 2010, Daniel wrote and directed his first independent film Broken Kingdom. The film was shot in Bogotá, Colombia and Los Angeles. He also worked in Gurinder Chadda's Hollywood film called Bride and Prejudice as the role, Johnny Wickham.

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Ian Somerhalder

Ian Somerhalder was born and raised in the small southern town of Covington, Louisiana. His mother, Edna (née Israel), is a massage therapist, and his father, Robert Somerhalder, is a building contractor. He has Cajun (French), English, and Scots-Irish ancestry. Boating, swimming, fishing and training horses filled much of his recreational time growing up, as did the school drama club and performing with the local theater group. With his mother's encouragement, at age 10, he began a modeling career that took him to New York each summer. By junior high, he opted to put modeling on the back burner and focus more on sports and school. A few years later, when the opportunity to model in Europe arose, Somerhalder grabbed it, embarking on an enriching path of work, travel and study that took him to cities, including Paris, Milan and London. At 17, he began studying acting in New York and, by 19, had committed himself to the craft, working with preeminent acting coach William Esper. His fate was sealed while working as an extra in a club scene in the feature film, Black & White (1999). A talent manager visiting a client on the set spotted Somerhalder in a crowd scene of 400 and immediately signed him for representation. He was cast later for the drama Changing Hearts (2002) directed by Martin Guigui. Happy to be anchored in New York, Somerhalder spends much of his time studying acting, writing and practicing yoga. His recreational interests include water and snow skiing and horseback riding.

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Matthew Davis

Matthew W. Davis (born May 8, 1978), also professionally known as Matt Davis, is an American actor who is known for his roles as Adam Hillman on the ABC comedy-drama What About Brian from 2006 to 2007 and Alaric Saltzman on The CW fantasy drama The Vampire Diaries from 2009 to 2012. In 2014, he returned as a series regular for the sixth season, he starred on the short-lived CW mystery and horror drama Cult as Jeff Sefton, and had a recurring role on the CBS police drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Sean Yeager. Davis was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He attended Woods Cross High School, and the University of Utah. He was briefly married to actress Leelee Sobieski in 2008. Davis co-starred with Reese Witherspoon and Selma Blair in the comedy Legally Blonde (2001), as Warner Huntington III, who breaks up with Elle Woods (Witherspoon). His notable film credits include Blue Crush (2002) with Kate Bosworth and Michelle Rodriguez, Tigerland (2000) with Colin Farrell and BloodRayne (2005) with Kristanna Loken. Davis starred in The CW fantasy drama The Vampire Diaries, as Alaric Saltzman since 2009 and starred in the short-lived CW mystery and horror drama Cult, as Jeff Sefton that same year. Davis had a recurring role in the CBS police drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation from 2013 to 2014 in the 14th season, as swing shift CSI Sean Yeager. He appeared in the sixth episode titled "Passed Pawns", the eighth episode titled "Helpless", and the 13th episode titled "Boston Brakes". He later returned to the hit The CW show The Vampire Diaries as Alaric Saltzman once again as a series regular.

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