🔸 melissabenoist is an American actress and singer, born in Houston, Texas! She started dance classes at the age of three, focusing on jazz, ballet, and tap. After graduating High School she moved to New York to pursue a career in musical theatre.
🔸 Benoist’s first film was Tennessee in 2008 along with singer Mariah Carey. Afterwards, she made guest appearances on shows like Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Blue Bloods, Homeland, and The Good Wife, while attending college.
🔸 She portrayed Marley Rose on the fourth and fifth seasons of Glee and Nicole in the 2014 independent drama film Whiplash, which won top prizes (Grand Jury and Audience awards)! In May 2015, it was announced that Benoist would be playing Lorelai in the film Low Riders. In August of that year, she landed the leading role in the Screen Gems drama feature film Oxford.
🔸 In October 2015, the superhero adventure series Supergirl, with Benoist in the lead role premiered on CBS. She became the first woman to lead a prime time superhero TV series since Wonder Woman. Benoist generally received positive reviews for her portrayal of Kara Zor-El for which she received the Breakthrough Performance Award and two Best Actress on a Television Series Award at the Saturn Awards!
🔸Her other projects include the drama film Patriots Day, the comedy-drama film Sun Dogs, HBO’s series The Girls On The Bus and more! Benoist will star in a new NBC drama series, Duo, which will be produced by her company, Three Things Productions. She will also serve as an executive producer for the series.
🔸 Now Melissa has joined the cast of Netflix’s new drama series thewaterfront where she will portray Bree Buckley, the intelligent and hot-tempered Buckley who formerly oversaw the fishery’s finances and, like her father, has allowed alcohol to ruin her bright future. After losing custody of her son, Bree struggles to maintain a relationship with him while maintaining her sobriety.
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🔹brady_hepner is an American actor, born and raised in North Carolina. Growing up, he displayed a passion for the arts and an innate talent for performing. He attended a local high school, where he honed his communication skills and further developed his craft.
🔹 Hepner’s career in the entertainment industry began with his debut appearance on the hit TV series “Chicago Fire” in 2021. He made a strong impression with his acting skills and caught the attention of industry insiders.
🔹 Following his debut, he secured a role in the film “Charlotte Moon Mysteries: Green on the Greens” in the same year. The movie further showcased his talent and versatility as an actor.
🔹 In 2022, Hepner guest-starred on an episode of “See/Saw,” a popular TV series that further solidified his presence in the industry.
🔹 Widesly recognized for his role as Vance in the horror film “The Black Phone,” Brady has allured audiences with his skills and on-screen presence.
🔹The next big challenge ahead of him is his role in the new Netflix family drama thewaterfront! Hepner will play Diller Hopkins, Bree’s son who now lives with her ex-husband. Diller is a resentful teenager, a product of having an alcoholic mother. Although Bree is looking to mend their relationship, Diller treats her with hostility and turns to his grandfather Harlan, whom he idolizes.
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🔹holtmccallany (Holt Quinn McAloney) is an American actor. Born in New York, his mother was an American singer and actress & his father was an Irish actor and producer!
🔹His first job in the professional theater was as an apprentice actor at the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival in Cleveland, Ohio!
🔹McCallany landed a series of supporting parts! After playing the legendary boxing trainer Teddy Atlas in the HBO telefilm Tyson, he became a supporter of the Atlas Foundation Charity, a grassroots organization dedicated to helping children and families with medical and financial hardships.
🔹He continued working in films and television throughout the nineties and 2000s with roles in films such as Fight Club, Three Kings, Men Of Honour, Below, CSI: Miami and Criminal Minds. His other appearances include the 2010 film, The Losers, the 2011 FX television series, Lights Out and the Netflix series Mindhunter!
🔹Now McCallany is set to return to Netflix once again as the lead of Kevin Williamson’s new series thewaterfront! He will play the patriarch Harlan Buckley who has built up the Buckley fishery business with his dad, even veering into some illegal territory in the 1980s. Since his two heart attacks, Harlan hasn’t changed his lifestyle, but his absence from the family business left it in the hands of his wife and his son, whose desperate, foolish decisions have left Harlan with no choice but to take the reins once again.
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🔸 officialmariabello is an American actress and producer! She was born in Norriston Pennsylvania, to a school nurse and teacher, & a contractor. She majored in political science and honed her acting skills in a number of New York theater productions.
🔸 Bello’s breakthrough came when she was cast as Mrs. Smith in the TV series spy show Mr. & Mrs. Smith, though the show was cancelled after eight weeks. She then appeared in the third season of ER as pediatrician Dr. Anna Del Amico and was a regular cast member during the medical drama’s fourth season.
🔸Bello moved on to films, landing a role in Coyote Ugly. She is 2 times Golden Globe Nominee for Best Supporting Actress in The Cooler and for Best Actress in A History of Violence. She also won the Critics Choice Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress this year for her role in Beef.
🔸She starred in The Jane Austen Book Club, Assault on Precinct 13 and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. In 2011, she became a founding board member of the CQ Matrix Company, to help clients achieve “transformative living and the power of intelligent exchange” by enhancing their communication quotient.
🔸 In 2014, she starred in the thriller Demonic. Bello began producing short films in 2010. In 2022, she was a producer on the film The Woman King.
🔸Bello is now set as a series regular in the new Netflix family drama thewaterfront! She will play Mae Buckley, a complex woman who’s married to Harlan (McCallany) and the mother of their two children. After her husband took a step back from the family business, together with their son, she has been running the fishery in very questionable ways in a desperate attempt to save the family.
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🔹thechakeweary is an American actor, born in Trenton, New Jersey in a family of actors! His first acting roles included a guest appearance on the long-running soap opera Guiding Light! He was cast as Luke Snyder on another of CBS’s long-running soaps, As The World Turns. He would remain with the show until December 2005, when Weary left to focus on his schoolwork.
🔹After making his film debut as a hall monitor in Assassination of a High School President in 2008, Weary has since appeared as Sal in the 2010 film Altitude and Hugh in the 2015 horror-thriller It Follows.
Weary starred as Deran Cody in the TNT criminal drama Animal Kingdom, based on the 2010 Australian film of the same name.
🔹In the new Netflix series thewaterfront Weary will play Cane Buckley, Harlan’s only son who has a complicated relationship with his father but never stops trying to do the right thing by his dad and can’t seem to say no to him. Married to Peyton (Danielle Campbell) and the father of a young daughter, Cane likes the money his family business affords him, a Band-Aid for the life he got instead of the life he wanted.
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🔸 thedaniellecampbell is an American actress born in Hinsdale, Illinois! Her first acting role was as a guest star in five episodes of Prison Break. She also appeared in a nationwide commercial for Build A Bear Workshop and played the character of Darla in the 2008 movie The Poker House.
🔸In 2010, she appeared in the Disney Channel television series Zeke and Luther as Dani, before starring in the television movie Starstruck the same year. Upon Starstruck’s release, she signed a development deal with Disney. She starred in the 2011 movie Prom!
🔸In 2013, she was cast in a starring role on the television series The Originals as a powerful sixteen-year-old witch named Davina. In April 2015, Campbell shot the movie Race To Redemption in which she starred alongside Aiden Flowers and Luke Perry; the movie was released in 2016.
🔸Campbell was also cast as Ellie Reed in the 2016 television series SINs, and Maddy in the 2017 movie F the Prom. In March 2018, she appeared in the music video for “Better With You” by Jesse McCartney. The same year, Danielle had a recurring role in the second season of Famous In Love and was cast in the television drama series Tell Me A Story. In 2021, Campbell starred in the Broadway’s Trouble In Mind.
🔸In the new Netflix family drama thewaterfront Campbell’s Peyton Buckle is a proper Southern woman, built to sparkle. The wife of Cane and mother of an 8-year-old, she loves Cane and understands his complex relationship with his dad.
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🔹actuallyrafa is an American and Brazilian actor born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil! Growing up in a family of farmers, when he was little, he wanted to pursue a career in animal care (just like his grandfather and his uncles). However, his family moved to New Jersey when he was thirteen years old.
🔹 Silva was hit by a culture shock that resulted in him becoming introverted and becoming fearful when speaking in public. He started acting while in high school to overcome that fear. “I used to be very afraid to speak in public. I figured if you were going to be afraid of something, you might as well be in the eye of the hurricane. So I started acting because I was afraid of speaking in public...”
🔹 In 2017, Rafael graduated Pace University, in downtown Manhattan, NY, with a B.F.A. in Acting for Film, Television, Voice-Overs & Commercial. He made appearances in Madam Secretary and Fluidity.
🔹However his breakthrough came in 2020 when he landed the role of Carlos Reyes, a police officer (later a Texas Ranger) with a Mexican heritage who is in an openly gay relationship with firefighter/paramedic T.K Strand! Throughout the series’ run Rafael has expressed numerous times how important it was for him to portray that character as a symbol of representation for the LGBTQ+ community!
🔹Now Silva is about to once again live up to his potential by landing his next big role in the Netflix’s new drama series thewaterfront! He will play Shawn Wilson, a newly employed bartender for the Buckleys who is intrigued by the family and carries a secret that could upend the family forever.
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🔸humberly is a Venezuelan, Canadian actress who was born and grew up in Punto Fijo, Venezuela! Her family moved to Aruba when she was 12, and to Canada in 2007;
🔸González attended Westwood Community High School in Fort McMurray, Alberta, where she performed in productions of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Urinetown in lead roles. One of her first acting auditions was for High School Musical at Keyano Theatre in Fort McMurray, performing as Gabriella Montez.
🔸Humberly graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada in 2015. She began her career with appearances in short films and TV series in the 2010s, appearing as Ana in two episodes of Orphan Black. She had recurring roles in the television series Utopia Falls, Ginny & Georgia and Nurses as well as a major supporting role in the 2022 film Stay The Night!
🔸In 2023, González acted in Friends and Family Christmas, The Hallmark Channel’s first lesbian-themed Christmas romantic comedy film. In 2024, she played the leading role in the video game Star Wars Outlaws, for which she received nominations at the Golden Joystick Awards and The Game Awards 2024.
She played the role of Melle in the 2025 television film Star Strek: Section 31!
🔸Now she’s about to step up into her newest challenge which is Kevin Williamson’s new Netflix drama thewaterfront! González will play Jenna Tate, a journalist who leaves the city to return to Beaufort to tend to her ailing father. Returning to her hometown, she is confronted with past relationships, including her high school sweetheart Cane, who still holds a flame for her.
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🔹gerardocelasco (also known as Adrian Bellani), is an American actor. Born in Miami, he moved to his parents’ home country El Salvador with his family as a child and later returned to the US to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in finance.
🔹 After graduating from college, Celasco became the face of the Toni & Guy Bed Head campaign. People en Español magazine voted him as one of the 25 hottest Latin bachelors in the world in 2006.
🔹 Celasco played Miguel Lopez-Fitzgerald
on the NBC daytime drama Passions from 2006 to 2007. In 2007, he appeared with Passions co-star Heidi Mueller
on The Tyra Banks Show to help host Tyra through “soap opera school”. In 2019, Celasco appeared as Xavier Castillo in the ABC series How to Get Away with Murder!
🔹In Netflix’s new family drama thewaterfront, Celasco will play DEA Agent Marcus Sanchez.
Guest Stars on "The Waterfront"!
i_am_hyde_ as Tim Donnely (Room 316, Sins of The Father, High Noon Bounty, Inimicus, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Heavenly Conquerors)
Billie Roy as Savannah Buckley (Kim, Original, A Little Prayer, Spooky Night: The Spirit of Halloween)
Michael Gaston as Sheriff Clyde Porter (Togo, Irreplaceable You, Madame Secretary, Blindspot, A Mouthful of Air, First Reformed, Spencer Confidential)
• imjelliott as Tommy (Forgotten, The Lies That Bind Us, Giving Thanks, Suffocated The Prequel, The Post, Dollhouse, Out on a Lim)
dave_annable as Wes Larsen (Lioness, Walker, Heart Of Life, No Sleep Til Christmas, Final Vision, Joe, Joe and Jane, 666 Park Avenue, Brothers & Sisters)
• tophergrace as Grady (Heretic, Home Economics, Irresistible, Breakthrough, Mississippi Requiem, Under the Silver Lake, Delirium, War Machine, The Institute)
• theandrewcall as Deputy Sawyer (Doctor Doctor, Space Cadet, Bad Influencer, Power Trip, Ordinary World, Grease Live, Z: The Beginning of Everything)
• zach_roerig as Troy (The Vampire Diaries, Love in the Great Smoky Mountain, A Christmas to Savour, Step Up: High Water, The Last Full Measure, Dare Me, The Outer Wild)
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