DEN OF THIEVES (2018) Cast & Crew

Writer/Director/Executive Producer CHRISTIAN GUDEGAST is a native of California, born and raised in Los Angeles, where he fell in love with photography and film at an early age.

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CHRISTIAN GUDEGAST (Writer/Director/Executive Producer) is a native of California, born and raised in Los Angeles, where he fell in love with photography and film at an early age. As a young kid, Gudegast was so enthralled with movies that he would sneak into theaters in Westwood and watch everything from Fellini to Jaws, from Cheech and Chong to Stanley Kubrick. Growing up in the entertainment industry, Gudegast loved going to work with his father, Eric Braeden, a German-American film and television actor, known for his work on "Hawaii 5-0," "Gunsmoke," "Charlie's Angels," "The Rat Patrol," Colossus, and Titanic, to name a few. After high school, Gudegast studied extensively under renowned acting coaches Roy London and Daryl Hickman, but soon realized that acting wasn't for him. Later, while at UCLA's Graduate School of Film and Television, Gudegast directed music videos for Los Angeles gangster rap artists such as "Kurupt." Graduating at the top of his class Summa Cum Laude, Gudegast's thesis film, God's Lonely Man, won the prestigious "Best Film Award" that same year. Following graduation, he sold his first screenplay, Black Ocean, to Oliver Stone, which officially launched his screenwriting career.

Today Gudegast is known as one of the industry's most sought after screenwriters, having written for every major film studio and television network in Hollywood, working on major releases such as Speed Racer, and the Dwayne Johnson starrer The Rundown, the Vin Diesel crime-drama A Man Apart, the ancient-Greek war epic Immortals, and the Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman action drama, London Has Fallen, which grossed $205 million worldwide.

In 2009, Gudegast wrote and produced the award-winning documentary, Sequestro, about the kidnapping epidemic in Sao Paolo, Brazil.

In between writing assignments, Gudegast is a passionate still photographer, focusing on urban landscapes. He is also a black belt in Muay Thai and Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and trains under legendary instructors Rob Kaman, Rigan Machado and Rickson Gracie. Gudegast currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife Natasha, and their three daughters, Tatiana, Oksana, and Angelika.

A gifted actor with striking charm and humor, GERARD BUTLER (Nick O'Brien) has impressed audiences in roles that cover all ends of the creative spectrum. Most recently, Butler starred opposite Ed Harris and Andy Garcia in Dean Devlin's Geostorm for Warner Bros. The epic disaster film follows 'Jake Lawson' (Butler), a satellite designer who tries to save the world from an apocalyptic "geostorm" caused by malfunctioning climate-controlling satellites.

Butler has completed production on two feature films: Keepers, a psychological thriller based on a real-life unsolved mystery about a trio of lighthouse keepers pitted against each other on a remote Scottish island, and Hunter Killer, in which he stars as an untested American submarine captain who teams with a group of Navy SEALS to rescue the kidnapped Russian president.

Upcoming, Butler is set to begin production on Angel Has Fallen, the third installment of the film series following 2016's London Has Fallen and 2013's blockbuster hit, Olympus Has Fallen. Co-starring Morgan Freeman, Aaron Eckhart, Angela Bassett, and Melissa Leo, the films have grossed over $400 million at the worldwide box office.

The actor is also set to star in Darrin Prescott's directorial debut, Snow Ponies. The film follows a crew of men who travel across difficult terrain to deliver a mysterious package, but are forced to choose between survival and honor when they face brutal obstacles and bandits along the way. He will also reprise his role voicing the character 'Stoick' in the third installment of DreamWorks Animation's Academy Award- nominated film, How To Train Your Dragon with Cate Blanchett, Jonah Hill, Craig Ferguson, and Kristen Wiig.

Butler solidified himself as a leading man when he starred as the bold and heroic King Leonidas in Zack Snyder's blockbuster film, 300. The film broke box office records in its opening weekend and went on to earn more than $450 million worldwide. Butler's other $100 million plus films include The Bounty Hunter opposite Jennifer Aniston; Robert Luketic's The Ugly Truth opposite Katherine Heigl; Nim's Island with Jodie Foster and Abigail Breslin; P.S. I Love You opposite Hilary Swank; Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera opposite Emmy Rossum; and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life opposite Angelina Jolie.

His other film credits include: A Family Man, Gods of Egypt, Playing For Keeps, Chasing Mavericks, Marc Forster's Machine Gun Preacher; Coriolanus, Gamer, Guy Ritchie's RocknRolla, Beouwulf & Grendel, The Game of Their Lives, the independent feature Dear Frankie opposite Emily Mortimer, Timeline, Reign of Fire, John Madden's award-winning drama Her Majesty, and Mrs. Brown, starring Judi Dench. His early work in film includes roles in Harrison's Flowers, One More Kiss, Fast Food, and the screen adaption of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard.

In 2008, Butler and his manager Alan Siegel formed their production company, G-BASE, which has produced nine feature films including Law Abiding Citizen, Olympus Has Fallen, the sequel London Has Fallen, eOne's Septembers of Shiraz, which was selected into the 2015 Toronto Film Festival, A Family Man, which premiered at the 2016 Toronto Film Festival, Hunter Killer, and most recently Keepers. In addition to film, the company continues to produce and develop a diverse slate of projects including television series, documentaries, and interactive media projects.

Butler is dedicated to charitable efforts around the world including Mary's Meals, an organization founded with the simple mission to serve one meal a day to a child in school, as well as Artists for Peace and Justice, where he is a board member. APJ was established in 2009 and is a fundraising mission founded by Paul Haggis that encourages peace and social justice and addresses issues of poverty and enfranchisement in communities around the world.

Born in Scotland, Butler made his stage debut at the age of twelve in the musical, "Oliver," at Glasgow's famous Kings Theatre. As a young man, his dreams of acting were temporarily deterred and he went on to study law for seven years before returning to the London stage in the acclaimed production of "Trainspotting," and later in "Snatch" and the Donmar Warehouse production of Tennessee Williams' "Suddenly Last Summer" opposite Rachel Weisz.

ABLO SCHREIBER (Merrimen) was nominated for an Emmy award for his performance as the sadistic corrections officer George "Pornstache" Mendez in the smash hit Netflix original series "Orange Is the New Black." He was most recently seen in Michael Bay's 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi for Paramount, and the independent film Thumper from director Jordan Ross.

Recent television credits include the Starz hit series "American Gods," in which he plays foul-mouthed leprechaun "Mad Sweeney." Before that he played opposite Jack Black and Tim Robbins in the HBO comedy series "The Brink," and had an acclaimed season-long arc on "Law & Order: SVU," where he played "William Lewis," a sociopathic killer who kidnaps and torments "Olivia Benson" played by Mariska Hargitay.

Schreiber's other film credits include: Josh Radnor's Happythankyoumoreplease, which won the Audience Award at Sundance, Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Catherine Hardwicke's The Lords of Dogtown, Michael Cuesta's Tell Tale, George C. Wolfe's Nights in Rodanthe, Jonathan Demme's The Manchurian Candidate, Daryl Wein's Breaking Upwards, Claudia Myers's Fort Bliss, and Stephen Frears' Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight.

Past television credits include his classic role as "Nick Sobolka" in HBO's critically acclaimed "The Wire," "Weeds," "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," "A Gifted Man," "Lights Out," "The Good Wife," "Dirt," "Law & Order," "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," and John Grisham's "A Painted House."

He was nominated for a Tony award for his Broadway debut performance in the revival of Clifford Odets' classic Awake and Sing! directed by Bartlett Sher. He has performed in numerous Broadway and off- Broadway plays including: Desire Under The Elms on Broadway directed by Robert Falls, Rajiv Joseph's Gruesome Playground Injuries at Second Stage, Neil LaBute's Reasons To Be Pretty at MCC (for which he won the Drama Desk Award), Dying City at Lincoln Center, Mr. Marmalade at Roundabout, Sin: A Cardinal Deposed at The New Group, Manuscript at the Daryl Roth Theatre, Julius Caesar at the New York Shakespeare Festival, and Blood Orange, his professional debut.

He will next be seen in Jesper Ganslandt's Beast of Burden opposite Daniel Radcliffe, Rawson Marshall Thurber's Skyscraper opposite Dwyane Johnson for Universal Pictures, and Damien Chazelle's First Man opposite Ryan Gosling.

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