Sin City: Welcome to Town

CAST

Jessica Alba (Nancy) will be seen in three of 2005’s most anticipated films. In addition to SIN CITY, she will next be seen as Sue Storm/The Invisiible Girl in Marvel Comics’ action-franchise “The Fantastic Four,” directed by Tim Story; and in “Into the Blue,” this summer’s underwater action-adventure co-starring Paul Walker, Josh Brolin and Scott Caan. Alba also has a deal with Universal Pictures and Strike Entertainment to produce and star in a film derived from the limited-series comic book “Beautiful Killer,” from Black Bull Comics.
Alba made her major studio film debut starring as the title character the 2003 release, “Honey,” which grossed over $60-million worldwide. Earlier, Alba achieved worldwide recognition as the lead character in James Cameron’s television series “Dark Angel,” Cameron’s first project after “Titanic.” Playing Max, a genetically-enhanced human prototype in 21^st Century Seattle, she was nominated for a Golden Globe and a People’s Choice Award. Alba was also voted the TV Guide Award as Breakout Star of the Year by readers, and won Favorite TV Actress at the 2001 Teen Choice Awards.
Alba fell in love with acting at a very early age, becoming active professionally at the age of 12. She began studying with acting coaches in Los Angeles and, shortly thereafter, landed at the Atlantic Theatre Company, where she studied with founders William H. Macy and David Mamet.

Alba’s first feature film credits include “Never Been Kissed,” “Idle Hands” and “The Sleeping Dictionary.” In recent years, Alba has appeared in a select handful of iconic campaigns including L’ Oreal cosmetics, the famous “milk mustache” Got Milk? campaign and the 30^th Anniversary Fall ‘04 campaign for The Gap. An exotic beauty, Alba was raised in a traditional American family in California. Her mother’s family has a French-Danish heritage, while her father is from Mexican-Indian and Spanish lineage.

Benicio Del Toro (Jackie Boy) recently garnered his second Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in “21 Grams.” He also won the Audience Award for Best Actor (in a tie) at the 2003 Venice International Film Festival, in addition to other critical accolades for the role of born-again ex-con Jack Jordon. Earlier, Del Toro earned the Academy Award for his performance as Javier Rodriguez in Steven Soderbergh's “Traffic” as well as Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, BAFTA, New York Film Critics Circle, National Society of Film Critics, Chicago Film Critics Association, and Silver Bear [Berlin International Film Festival] Awards. He has also received two Independent Spirit Awards for Best Supporting Actor: first as Fred Fenster in Bryan Singer's “The Usual Suspects, and then as Benny Dalmau in Julian Schnabel's “Basquiat.” Del Toro is currently directing his first feature-length film, based on Hunter S. Thompson’s “Rum Diary.”
Del Toro made his motion picture debut in John Glen's “License to Kill,” opposite Timothy Dalton as James Bond. His subsequent films include Peter Weir's “Fearless,” George Huang's “Swimming with Sharks,” Abel Ferrara's “The Funeral,” Marco Brambilla's “Excess Baggage,” Terry Gilliam's “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” Christopher McQuarrie's “The Way of the Gun,” Guy Ritchie's “Snatch,” William Friedkin's “The Hunted” and “The Indian Runner” and “The Pledge,” both directed by Sean Penn.
His television credits include the NBC Emmy-winning miniseries “Drug Wars: The Camarena Story.” directed by Brian Gibson. Born in Puerto Rico, Del Toro grew up in Pennsylvania. He later attended the University of California at San Diego, where he divided his time between painting and acting classes. He appeared in numerous student productions, one of which led to his performing at a drama festival at the Lafayette Theatre in New York.


Brittany Murphy (Shellie) continues to reign as one of Hollywood’s most sought after and engaging young actresses. She is currently in production for Kingsgate Films’ “Never Was,” starring opposite Alan Cumming, Aaron Eckhart, Ian McKellen and Nick Nolte.
Murphy was most recently seen in the hit romantic comedy “Little Black Book,” starring alongside Ron Livingston, Holly Hunter and Kathy Bates. Other recent roles include “Uptown Girls” with Dakota Fanning; the family film “Good Boy,” for which she lent her voice; the blockbuster hit “Just Married,” starring opposite Ashton Kutcher; and the acclaimed “8 Mile” opposite Eminem.
Murphy’s other film credits include Ed Burns’ ensemble drama “Sidewalks of New York,” Penny Marshall’s “Riding in Cars with Boys” opposite Drew Barrymore and Gary Fleder’s “Don’t Say A Word” opposite Michael Douglas. She starred alongside Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie in “Girl, Interrupted” and in Alan Rudolph’s “Trixie” opposite Emily Watson. She gained national attention from her breakthrough role as “Tai Frasier” in the box office smash “Clueless.” Other film credits include “Summer Catch,” “Drop Dead Gorgeous” and “Cherry Falls.”
On television, Murphy starred opposite Lukas Haas and Sidney Poitier in “David and Lisa,” in Showtime’s critically acclaimed “Devil’s Arithmetic” opposite Kirsten Dunst and in Showtime’s “Common Ground.” Her talent for voices and accents can be heard on Fox-TV’s animated comedy ‘King of the Hill,” as she gives life to “LuAnn” and “Joseph” on the hit series. Murphy also performed on Broadway with Allison Janney in Arthur Miller’s Tony Award-winning “A View From the Bridge,” directed by Michael Mayer.

Clive Owen’s (Dwight) performance in the title role of Mike Hodges’ sleeper hit “Croupier” had critics comparing him to the likes of Bogart, Mitchum, and Connery. More recently, he won the Golden Globe Award and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his work in Mike Nichols’ “Closer.” He will next be seen in the thriller “Derailed” with Jennifer Aniston.
His recent film credits also include “Beyond Borders,” a romantic war drama co-starring Angelina Jolie, the Mike Hodges thriller, “I’ll Sleep When I Am Dead” and “King Arthur.”
Owen first came to the U.K. public’s attention as the star of the television series “Chancer.” U.S. audiences later saw him starring opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones in Jack Gold’s telefilm adaptation of “The Return of the Native,” which aired on CBS. More recently, he starred in the BBC’s “Second Sight” police dramas, which aired on PBS’s “Mystery!”
Owen’s feature films also include Beeban Kidron’s “Vroom,” Stephen Poliakoff’s “Close My Eyes” and “Century,” Sean Mathias’ “Bent,” Joel Hershman’s “Greenfingers” and Robert Altman’s star-studded “Gosford Park.” His acclaimed stage work includes portraying Romeo at the Young Vic, starring in Sean Mathias’ staging of Noel Coward’s “Design for Living” and playing the lead role in Patrick Marber’s original production of “Closer” at the Royal National Theater.
His U.K. telefilm credits also include Andrew Grieve’s “Lorna Doone,” Andy Wilson’s “An Evening with Gary Lineker,” Diarmuid Lawrence’s “The Echo” and David Blair’s “Split Second.” In the fall of 2001, he starred in London in Lawrence Boswell’s staging of Peter Nichols’ “A Day in the Death of Joe Egg” and in “The Hire,” series of BMW Internet short features, in which he was directed by (respectively) John Frankenheimer, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wai, Guy Ritchie, and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.
Mickey Rourke (Marv), one of the few true method actors of today and a graduate of New York’s Actor’s Studio, is this generations’ classic working actor. Rourke launched his acting career with roles in “1941,” “Heaven’s Gate” and “Body Heat.” His career has been defined by his performances In “9 1/2 Weeks,” “Barfly,” “Angel Heart,” “Year Of The Dragon,” “Pope Of Greenwich Village,” “Rumble Fish” and “Diner.”
Other notable appearances include Sean Penn’s “The Pledge,” Steve Buscemi’s “Animal Factory,” Wong Kar Wai’s BMW short film “The Follow,” Francis Ford Coppola’s “Rain Maker” opposite Matt Damon, Jonas Akerlund’s cult hit “Spun” and Robert Rodriguez’ “Once Upon a Time in Mexico.”
Mickey most recently co-starred in Tony Scott’s blistering hardboiled revenge film “Man on Fire,” opposite Denzel Washington. He currently is in production on Tony Scott’s “Domino” opposite Keira Knightley.

Bruce Willis (Hartigan) has demonstrated incredible versatility in his career. From playing the ultimate action hero in the popular “Die Hard” films to his critically-acclaimed performances in recent movies like “The Sixth Sense” and “Unbreakable,” Willis has carved a niche for himself as one of the world's most talented and bankable box office superstars.
Raised in a working-class family in New Jersey, Willis attended Montclair State College and eventually moved to Hell's Kitchen to pursue an acting career. Soon he was cast in off-Broadway plays and television commercials, while occasionally playing his harmonica and sitting in rhythm and blues bands. His acting breakthrough came in 1984 when he replaced the lead in Sam Shepard's hit play “Fool for Love,” a run which lasted for 100 performances off-Broadway. Later that year while on a trip to Los Angeles, Willis was selected from 3,000 contenders to star as David Addison in the phenomenally popular television series "Moonlighting," for which he would win an Emmy and Golden Globe Award and ultimately become an international star.
In 1986, his continued pursuit of the love of music resulted in the release of an album for Motown Records entitle Bruce Willis: The Return of Bruce, which eventually went platinum, hanging on the charts for over 29 weeks. His remake of the single "Respect Yourself" landed at an impressive number five on the charts. In 1989, he released his second album, If It Don't Kill You, It Just Makes you Stronger, also for Motown.
Willis made his feature film debut opposite Kim Basinger in the Blake Edward's comedy “Blind Date.” He then reunited with the director to play Tom Mix in the murder mystery “Sunset” before going on to star in “Die Hard,” one of the highest-grossing films of 1988. He then a dramatic turn by portraying a haunted Vietnam War veteran in Norman Jewison's “In Country.” Returning to comedy, Willis proved the voice of Mikey, the wisecracking baby in the highly successful “Look Who's Talking” and “Look Who's Talking, Too.” Next Willis starred in “Die Hard 2: Die Harder,” and Brian De Palma's “Bonfire of the Vanities” opposite Tom Hanks. He went on to star opposite Demi Moore in “Mortal Thoughts”; as a cat burglar in “Hudson Hawk”; and as gangster Bo Weinberg in “Billy Bathgate.” Willis followed these roles with The Last Boy Scout,” the number one box-office hit “Striking Distance” and the erotic thriller “Color of Night.”
He then costarred to great acclaim in the Quentin Tarantino drama “Pulp Fiction” which was the 1994 Grand Prize winner of the Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. He was also lauded for his turn in “Nobody's Fool” co-starring Paul Newman, starred in the box office hit “Die Hard 3” and was seen in “Four Rooms.” He starred in “Twelve Monkeys” for director Terry Gilliam, in “Last Man Standing” for director Walter Hill, and in “The Fifth Element” for director Luc Besson. He also starred in “The Jackal” and “Mercury Rising.” Willis starred in the action-adventure blockbuster “Armageddon” produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. He also made “Breakfast of Champions” for director Alan Rudolph, based on the best-selling novel by Kurt Vonnegut, and served as executive producer on the film.
More recently, Willis starred in the critically acclaimed feature film drama “The Sixth Sense,” which was nominated for six Academy Awards. Willis won Best Actor from the People's Choice Awards for the film. He costarred with Michelle Pfeiffer in “The Story of Us” directed by Rob Reiner; produced and starred in the dark comedy “The Whole Nine Yards,” and was seen in the hit film “The Kid.” Willis reunited with M. Night Shyamalan to star with Robin Wright-Penn and Samuel L. Jackson in “Unbreakable.” He also recently starred opposite Billy Bob Thornton and Cate Blanchett in Barry Levinson's “Bandits,” opposite Colin Farrell in “Hart's War” and is currently starring in the police drama “Hostage.”
In 1997 Bruce Willis co-founded A Company of Fools, a nonprofit theater company committed to developing and sustain a company of theater artists that stage productions in the Wood River Valley, in greater Idaho and throughout the U.S. During the summer of 2001 he starred in and directed Sam Shepard's “True West” which was aired on Showtime. This special served as a tribute to Robert Willis, the younger brother of Bruce, who passed away of pancreatic cancer.

Elijah Wood (Kevin), widely regarded as one of the most talented actors of his generation, continues to challenge himself with roles in films spanning the spectrums of style and genre. Wood was last seen in Michel Gondry’s "Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind" with Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet. He recently completed production on "Hooligans" directed by Lexi Alexander and Liev Schreiber's adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's bestselling novel Everything Is Illuminated. Wood has also lent his voice to the forthcoming animated film "Happy Feet".
Wood was also recently seen in the final trilogy of J.R.R. Tolkein's "The Lord of the Rings: "Return of The King" in the lead role of Frodo Baggins. "Return of the King" won 11 Academy Awards, tying "Titanic" for the record. Earlier, he received critical acclaim for his performance opposite Christina Ricci in Ang Lee’s film “The Ice Storm.”
His films include Jeffrey Porter's "Try Seventeen", a romantic comedy starring Franka Potente and Mandy Moore, the drama "Ash Wednesday" starring opposite Ed Burns, James Toback's "Black and White," "The Faculty" written by Kevin Williamson and directed by Robert Rodriguez and Mimi Leder's "Deep Impact." He also has appeared in Alan Shapiro's "Flipper" with Paul Hogan; Pontus Lowenhielm and Patrik Von Krusenstjerna's "Chain of Fools" opposite Salma Hayek; Jon Avnet's "The War" opposite Kevin Costner; Rob Reiner's "North" with Jason Alexander and Julia Louis-Dreyfuss; Joe Ruben's "The Good Son" opposite Macauley Culkin; Stephen Sommers' "Huck Finn”; Steve Miner's "Forever Young" with Mel Gibson; Mary Agnes Donohue's "Paradise”; Richard Donner's "Radio Flyer" with Lorraine Bracco; Barry Levinson's "Avalon" opposite Armin Mueller-Stahl and Aidan Quinn; and Mike Figgis' "Internal Affairs" with Richard Gere. He also starred in Martin Duffy's independent film "The Bumblebee Flies Anyway."
On television, Wood recently appeared on ABC in Tony Bill's "Oliver Twist” starring as the 'Artful Dodger' opposite Richard Dreyfuss' 'Fagin.' Other television credits include the NBC telefilm, "Dayo," and the CBS movie, "Child in the Night." Wood was named 1994's Young Star of the Year by NATO/ShowEast following his performance in "The War."

Rosario Dawson (Gail) is emerging as one of Hollywood’s hottest leading ladies. She was most recently seen in the Oliver Stone epic “Alexander,” joining an all-star cast including Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, and Jared Leto. Dawson was also seen co-starring with The Rock, Seann William Scott and Christopher Walken in the action/comedy “The Rundown”; in the acclaimed drama “Shattered Glass” with Hayden Christensen; and in the indie film “This Girls Life.”
Dawson shone on-screen starring in the critically acclaimed Spike Lee film, “The 25^th Hour,” opposite Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Barry Pepper. This followed roles in “Men in Black 2” with Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones and “The Adventures of Pluto Nash” opposite Eddie Murphy. She also starred in “Chelsea Walls” for director Ethan Hawke, which was based on the play of the same name. Dawson’s additional credits include Ed Burns’ “Sidewalks of New York: and “Ash Wednesday”; Jon Favreau’s “The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest”; and “Love in the Time of Money.” Her current projects include the political thriller “This Revolution” and the big screen adaptation of the Broadway musical sensation “Rent.”
Dawson made her film debut in the highly acclaimed and controversial hit film “Kids,” directed by photographer Larry Clark. With a surprise midnight screening at the Sundance and a spot in the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival, her film career was well underway. Dawson’s other film credits include: Spike Lee’s “He Got Game” opposite Denzel Washington; “Light It Up” opposite Forrest Whitaker and Vanessa Williams; “Down To You” with Freddie Prinze Jr.; and “Josie and The Pussycats” with Rachel Leigh Cook and Tara Reid. Dawson also produced a 15-minute short film entitled “Bliss Virus,” written and directed by Talia Lugacy.

Michael Clarke Duncan’s (Manute) performance as the gentle giant in “The Green Mile” received widespread critical-acclaim and has led to a career of diversified roles. Duncan most recently starred in the indie film “D.E.B.S” and will next be seen in Michael Bay’s “The Island” and “American Crude” alongside Jennifer Esposito, Ron Livingston and Rob Schneider.
Duncan portrayed the evil Kingpin in the mega-hit “Daredevil,” based on Frank Miller’s comic, opposite Ben Affleck. Prior to that, Duncan starred in several blockbuster films including “The Scorpion King” opposite The Rock, “Planet of the Apes” opposite Mark Wahlberg, “See Spot Run” opposite David Arquette and “The Whole Nine Yards” opposite Bruce Willis. Duncan also worked with Bruce Willis on the mega-hit film “Armageddon.” It was Willis who placed the call to director, Frank Darabont to suggest Duncan for the critical role of John Coffey in “The Green Mile.” Portraying John Coffey won Duncan numerous accolades including an Academy Award nomination, Golden Globe nomination, SAG nomination, Broadcast Film Critics Award, Saturn Award and Black Reel Award, to name a few. In addition, Duncan was recognized as the ShoWest Male Star of Tomorrow. Duncan’s previous film credits include “Bulworth,” “The Player’s Club” and “A Night At The Roxbury.” He has had guest roles on the hit television shows “The Jamie Foxx Show,” “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air,” “Weird Science,” “Married…With Children” and “The Wayans Brothers.”
With an unmistakable deep voice, Duncan has thrived as a voiceover actor as well. His most recent voiceover film credits include “Racing Stripes,” “Delgo” and “Dinotopia: Curse of the Ruby Sunstone.” Previously he voiced characters in “Brother Bear,” “George Of The Jungle 2” and “Cats & Dogs.”

Michael Madsen (Bob) has run the gamut from the hippest of cult films to the biggest studio blockbusters in his career. He is probably best known for his hard-edged roles in genre films, including: the ear-slicing Mr. Blonde in Quentin Tarantino's “Reservoir Dogs,” a Mafia family capo in “Donnie Brasco,” a hard-core Special Ops officer in “Species” and, most recently, the deadly Sidewinder in Tarantino’s “Kill Bill Vol. 2.” Yet, displaying his versatility, Madsen has also portrayed a lovable and caring father in “Free Willy”; starred as Susan Sarandon's supportive, understanding boyfriend in “Thelma and Louise”; and brought the gentle Virgil Earp to life opposite Kevin Costner in Lawrence Kasdan's “Wyatt Earp.” He also recently joined Parker Posey and Adam Goldberg in the USA series “Frankenstein” with producer Martin Scorsese, author Dean Koontz and director Marcus Nispel. He currently can be seen as the lead in ESPN’s poker-themed dramatic series “Tilt.”
Forthcoming films include the horror thriller “Bloodrayne,” the action adventure “The Last Drop” and the crime drama “Chasing Ghosts.” Madsen will also star in Larry Bishop’s biker film “Hell Ride” with Quentin Tarantino.
Born in Chicago, Madsen and his two siblings, including actress Virginia Madsen, were reared in a close-knit family environment. He entered the world of acting after seeing “Of Mice and Men” at Chicago's fabled Steppenwolf Theater. Following stints painting houses, repairing cars, working as an orderly in a hospital, and pumping gas, Madsen moved to Los Angeles and began landing guest spots on “Miami Vice,” “Cagney and Lacey,” “St. Elsewhere” and other TV series.
Madsen made his feature debut in the thriller hit “War Games” in 1983, and went on to appear in “The Natural,” “War and Remembrance” and “The Doors,” while coming to national prominence with his roles in “Thelma and Louise” and the highly influential “Reservoir Dogs.” He has played a deviant killer in “The Getaway” with Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin; the psycho killer in John Dahl’s “Kill Me Again”; the over-the-top cop in David Lynch’s “Mulholland Falls” and Halle Berry’s CIA boss in “Die Another Day.”
In 2002 Madsen starred in the series “Big Apple,” as Miller the Killer in the TV remake of “High Noon” in FX's controversial “44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shootout,” opposite Ashton Kutcher in “My Boss's Daughter” and in the epic Euro-Western “Muraya,” a film adaptation of Jean “Mobius” Giraud's classic French comic strip “Blueberry.”
Madsen has published three books of poetry and short stories: Beer, Blood, and Ashes, Eat the Worm and Burning in Paradise, which won the Independent Book Publisher's Firecracker Poetry Book of the Year Award in 2001. His most recent book, Blessing of the Hounds, was published by 12 Gage Press in 2002. He is currently at work on his third book of prose, 46 Down.

Josh Hartnett (The Man) first came to audiences' attention as "Michael 'Fitz' Fitzgerald" in the television series "Cracker.” He made his feature film debut in 1998, co-starring with Jamie Lee Curtis in “Halloween: H20,” receiving an MTV Movie award nomination for Best Breakthrough Performance. Also in 1998, Josh starred in “The Faculty” directed by Robert Rodriguez. In 1999 he starred in Sofia Coppola’s acclaimed black comedy “The Virgin Suicides” opposite Kirsten Dunst.
In 2001 Hartnett hit his stride starring in three diverse features: “O,” a modern day version of Othello, which earned him widespread praise; the Jerry Bruckheimer blockbuster “Pearl Harbor” which earned over $1 billion dollars worldwide for Disney; and the powerful “Black Hawk Down” for director Ridley Scott. In 2002 the National Theater Owners awarded him with the ShoWest 2002 Male Star of Tomorrow Award.

More recently, Josh starred in “Wicker Park” for director Paul McGuigan. He recently wrapped “Mozart and the Whale,” written by Ron Bass, a love story between two people with Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. Additional film credits include “Hollywood Homicide,” “40 Days and 40 Nights,” “Blow Dry,” “Town and Country” and “Here on Earth.”

Carla Gugino (Lucille) was most recently seen reprising her role as Ingrid Cortez in Robert Rodriguez’s “Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over.” She also starred in Keith Gordon’s acclaimed adaptation of Dennis Potter’s “The Singing Detective” joining a cast that included Robert Downey, Jr, Robin Wright Penn and Mel Gibson. Her additional film credits include the original blockbuster hit “Spy Kids,” “Snake Eyes,” “The Jimmy Show,” “Miami Rhapsody” and “This Boy’s Life.” She will next be seen in Mark Rydell’s “Jump Shot” with Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito and Kelsey Grammer.
Gugino also recently starred on television in the title role of hard-working federal marshal “Karen Sisco.” Her television credits also include roles on “Spin City,” a neurosurgeon on “Chicago Hope,” and “A Season for Miracles.”

Jaime King (Goldie) was scouted by a top New York model manager when she was 14 and relocated to NYC to pursue a career in fashion. She soon emerged as a top professional in her field gracing the covers of international fashion magazines and landing such sought after campaigns as Armani, Tommy Hilfiger and Victoria’s Secret. She was then selected to be a spokes-model for the cosmetics giant Revlon along with such Hollywood power players as Halle Barry and Julianne Moore.
Jaime was soon selected to host MTV’s “House of Style” solidifying her status in popular culture. King’s talents became sought after in Hollywood and she landed prominent roles in such films as “Pearl Harbor,” “Blow” and “Slackers.” Her most recent films are the Wayans Brothers’ “White Chicks” and “Bullet-Proof Monk” with Chow Yun-Fat. She is soon to be seen in the upcoming films “The Alibi” and “Pretty Persuasion” with James Woods. Jaime has just completed shooting on “Two For the Money” starring Al Pacino, Rene Russo and Matthew McConaughey.