David Oyelowo is a multiple Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Emmy-nominated actor and producer. In 2014, he earned a Golden Globe Award nomination starring as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Ava DuVernay’s Selma as well as a Golden Globe and Emmy nomination for Nightingale. In 2016, he earned an NAACP Image Award nomination for Queen of Katwe. Oyelowo made his directorial debut with the critically-acclaimed The Water Man. He has performed in many films, including Come Away, which he also produced, Interstellar, Lee Daniels’ The Butler, Lincoln, and more. On television, he has performed on the HBO Max/BBC series The Girl Before, the BAFTA Award-winning series Spooks/MI:5, Masterpiece Theatre’s Small Island, for which he won the Royal Television Society Award and was nominated for a BAFTA TV Award, the Golden Globe-nominated production of A Raisin in the Sun, and more. Onstage, Oyelowo was nominated for an Outer Critic Circle Award for Othello, earned an Evening Standard Theatre Award nomination and won the 2001 Ian Charleson Award for King Henry VI when he was the first Black actor to play an English king in a major production of Shakespeare. With his wife Jessica, he heads a production company, Yoruba Saxon. In 2015, in association with The Geanco Foundation, Oyelowo established the David Oyelowo Leadership Scholarship to fully fund the education and rehabilitation of girls who have been directly affected by terrorism in Nigeria.

British actor Asa Butterfield is best known for his leading role in the Netflix worldwide phenomenon Sex Education. For his performance in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, he was nominated for a British Independent Film Award. He can be seen in Flux Gourmet for IFC Films as well as Choose or Die for Netflix. More credits include After Thomas, Son of Rambow, Hugo, A Brilliant Young Mind, and much more.

Steven Pasquale is widely known for his role in the hit TV series Rescue Me on FX. He also has had notable performances in the Showtime limited series The Comey Rule, American Crime Story: The People vs. OJ Simpson on FX, and many more. He is a lauded theatre actor and has starred on Broadway opposite Kerry Washington in American Son, lead the musical adaptation of The Bridges of Madison County alongside Kelli O’Hara, for which he earned a Drama Desk and Drama League nomination, and has starred in numerous productions including Junk (Lincoln Center), Assassins (CSC), The Robber Bridegroom (Roundabout). On the big screen, he has appeared in Alien vs. Predator: Requiem, Aurora Borealis, The Last Run, and more.

Laurence J. Fishburne III is an actor, producer and director whose versatile acting has won him awards in theatre, film and television. He has been nominated 25 times for NAACP Image awards with seven wins. He won a Tony award for Two Trains Running, an Emmy for Tribeca and Thurgood, as well as an Oscar-nomination for What’s Love Got to Do with It. He was an Emmy Award nominee and an NAACP Image Award winner for Miss Evers’ Boys as well as an Emmy nominee for the television remake of Roots. Fishburne may be best known for his role as Morpheus in the blockbuster The Matrixtrilogy and has performed in numerous notable films, including Boyz ‘n the Hood, The Color Purple, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Higher Learning, Mystic River, Deep Cover and King of New York. Fishburne also won an Audie Award for the New York Times bestselling Audible Original The Autobiography of Malcolm X. With his longtime manager and producing partner, Helen Sugland, he founded Cinema Gypsy Productions, which produced numerous nominated and award-winning projects, including the Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe-winning black-ish. Fishburne has served as an Ambassador for UNICEF since 1996. In 2007, he was honored by Harvard University as Artist of the Year for his Outstanding Contributions to American and International Performing Arts as well as his humanitarian contributions.