FIFTY SHADES FREED (2018) Cast & Crew

Director James Foley, and stars Jamie Dornan, and Dakota Johnson

CAST & CREW

JAMES FOLEY (Directed by) is an American film director. His 1986 film At Close Range was nominated for the Golden Berlin Bear Award at the 36th Berlin International Film Festival. Other films he has directed include Glengarry Glen Ross, based on both the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play of the same name by David Mamet (the film was nominated for the Golden Lion at the 49th Venice International Film Festival); Fear, which starred Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon; as well as The Chamber, based on the novel of the same name by best-selling author John Grisham. Recent film credits include Fifty Shades Darker.

Foley also has an extensive background in television, having directed for hit shows such as Netflix's House of Cards, Showtime's Billions and NBC's Hannibal.

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DAKOTA JOHNSON (Anastasia Steele) has become one of Hollywood's fastest-rising stars, playing the coveted role of Anastasia Steele in the feature adaptation of E L James' novel and worldwide phenomenon Fifty Shades of Grey.

She then landed two highly acclaimed feature roles, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival. The first was opposite Johnny Depp in the Whitey Bulger biopic Black Mass, which was directed by Scott Cooper. The other, a starring role in Luca Guadagnino's remake of Jacques Deray's La Piscine titled A Bigger Splash, alongside Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes and Matthias Schoenaerts.

Teaming up with Guadagnino for the second time, she recently wrapped production on the thriller Suspiria, set for a 2018 release. Last year, Johnson reprised her role as Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades Darker.

After bursting onto the scene with her performance in David Fincher's critically acclaimed The Social Network, which was written by Aaron Sorkin, Johnson went on to appear in the feature comedies The Five-Year Engagement; 21 Jump Street, with Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum; and How to Be Single, which also starred Rebel Wilson, Leslie Mann and Alison Brie.

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Northern Ireland-born actor JAMIE DORNAN (Christian Grey) has received huge critical acclaim for his portrayal of a chilling serial killer on the BBC's crime drama The Fall, which co-stars Gillian Anderson. The series, which launched in 2013, was the highest-rated drama for the channel in eight years. For his performance, Dornan earned a BAFTA Television Award nomination for Best Actor, two Irish Film & Television Awards for Best Actor-Television, the Irish Film Board's Rising Star and the Broadcasting Press Guild's Breakthrough Award. The second season premiered in winter 2014 in the U.K. and in January in the U.S. Dornan starred in Channel 4's miniseries New Worlds, which aired in the U.K. in spring 2014. The historical drama depicts the terror and turbulence experienced in both England and America at the time of the English Civil War. In 2011, on his first U.S. television series, Dornan played the complex dual role of Sheriff Graham and The Huntsman for three seasons on ABC's fantasy drama Once Upon a Time, opposite Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Morrison and Robert Carlyle.

Dornan's feature-film debut was in Sofia Coppola's 2006 Oscar-winning historic epic Marie Antoinette, in which he starred as Count Axel Fersen, the lover to Kirsten Dunst's eponymous Marie Antoinette. In 2009, he starred in the British independent film Shadows in the Sun, with Jean Simmons and James Wilby. Dornan played the lead role of Joe in the story of a young loner who changes the lives of one family by helping them rediscover their roots. In 2013, he completed the Belgium film Racing Hearts, alongside Anthony Head and Max Pirkis, which was released across Europe in 2014.

In 2016, Dornan was seen in The 9th Life of Louis Drax, which also starred Aaron Paul and Sarah Gadon, which followed the story of a psychologist, Dr. Allan Pascal (Dornan), who begins working with a young boy who has suffered a near-fatal fall and finds himself drawn into a mystery that tests the boundaries of fantasy and reality. That same year, he starred as Pat Quinlan in Parallel Films' The Siege of Jadotville, a military-based story about the 1961 siege of 150 Irish United Nations troops in the Congo. Other recent film credits include Anthropoid, which also starred Cillian Murphy; the upcoming Untogether, which also stars Lola Kirke and Alice Eve; the upcoming Robin Hood; and the upcoming television movie My Dinner with Herve.