ValleyCon | Oct 17th - Oct 19th 2025

Diana Prince (Darcy the Mail Girl) was born in Charleston, SC, of mixed Irish, German and Cherokee descent. An avid fan of comic books and video games, she has been featured as an on-line personality for various pop culture websites, which included hosting the daily program “Geek Rawk” for Music Plus TV. Diana has also made occasional forays into the mainstream with small roles on two episodes of the hit cable TV series Entourage (2004) and bigger roles in several direct-to-DVD films. She has also appeared on numerous reality shows, including “Playboy’s Foursome” and Blind Date Uncensored (2002). She resides in Los Angeles, California, and is the mother of an autistic son. Diana is an advocate for free speech and anti-censorship, she hosted the webcast “Geek Rawk” topless to help demonstrate her belief that female nudity should be a non-issue. Diana/Darcy was very involved in getting Joe Bob Briggs to return to hosting films on tv with the Last Drive-In. She took the role of “Mail Girl” based on the same role other Mail Girls had had during Joe Bob’s Monstervision on TNT days. The Last Drive-In is entering its’ 5 th season with upcoming Halloween special (and hopefully Christmas again!) before the new season next spring. Diana/Darcy is very active with social media and you can find her on Twitter @kinky_horror and on Instagram. Diana is VERY knowledgeable about horror and cult films!

Joe Bob Briggs is the world’s foremost drive-in movie critic. His wisecracking take on B-movies was featured on two long-running late-night television shows, first on The Movie Channel and then on TNT. That tradition continues with his latest series, The Last Drive-In, currently featured on AMC’s Shudder streaming platform.

Briggs is also a successful investigative journalist, actor, and author. His nine books include Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In (1987) and Profoundly Disturbing: Shocking Movies that Changed History (2003).

He has appeared in several movies, including Casino, Face/Off, and Great Balls of Fire, and continues to be a regular host and Master of Ceremonies at film festivals and conventions. Joe Bob is currently touring with his critically acclaimed “How Rednecks Saved Hollywood,” a one-man comedy show that traces the entire history of the redneck, as told through movies, from 16th-century Scotland to the present. Reviewers have described the show as, “Part history lesson, part clip show, and all entertaining, Joe Bob’s How Rednecks Saved Hollywood is the man wholly in his element: hilarious, insightful, and courageously plain spoken” (TenneseeHorror.com) and “…a rollicking yet well-researched history of the origin of rednecks and our culture’s love-hate affair with them” (Queen City Nerve).

Briggs hosted Joe Bob’s Drive-In Theater for eleven years on The Movie Channel and MonsterVision for five years on TNT. During the course of his hosting career, he has executive-produced 20,000 hours of television and become the leading authority on exploitation and genre films. In 2018, The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs broke the Internet and is now in its 5th season on Shudder. John Waters said of Joe Bob, “[He] is the Henri Langlois of exploitation films. He’s already a cinema saint, and if I were you, I’d pray for his guidance.”

Every self-respecting horror fan remembers the first time they saw Bill Moseley – grinning like a demented Cheshire cat with a mouthful of festering tombstone teeth; pale, peeling skin and sporting a foppish black Sonny Bono Wig screaming “Music is my LIFE!” At the same time, the twitchy weirdo is flicking a Bic to the end of a rusty coat hanger, absent-mindedly scraping his diseased scalp with the heated hook and eating the scabby spoils. This, of course, was Moseley as ChopTop, the madder than mad, larger than life and sicker than sick younger brother of cannibal chili king Drayton Sawyer in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2.

From the moment Moseley skeezed on screen in Tobe Hooper’s outrageous sequel to TCM, he owned the film, essaying the kind of scene (and scalp)-chewing character that would be forever bronzed in horror history. The fact that some saw-wielding goon with human rawhide on his face eventually blustered in seemed like an afterthought, and even the presence of screen vet Dennis Hopper running around screeching mad didn’t make much difference. It was Moseley who stole the show.

But where did he come from, this freakish form of spastic evil energy? What tortured paths and crooked miles did he walk before he became what he’d become? Not surprisingly, like many cinematic icons of horror, his roots were both benign and humble – the antithesis of his delightfully dreadful destiny. Believe it or not, Moseley was a man of letters. Born in Connecticut, Moseley’s parents enrolled the future screen fiend in The Hotchkiss School, an elite boarding institution in Lakeville, CT (yes it’s true, ChopTop was once a preppie… now that’s scary). His stellar academic career would eventually lead to Yale University, where he graduated with a BA in English.

After Yale, Moseley relocated to New York City and became a freelance writer for prestigious periodicals like Omni, National Lampoon, Rolling Stone, Interview and Psychology Today while simultaneously finding work in a myriad of Soho art galleries. From political ad writing, to being a gossip columnist for Showtime TV and, surprisingly, even Editor-In-Chief of CB Bible Magazine, Moseley had done it all when it came to his publishing career.

The jack-of-all-trades Renaissance man wrote, funded, and starred (as The Hitchhiker) in a wigged- out parody of one of his favorite films, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, called The Texas Chainsaw Manicure. An impressively imaginative, dead-on rip on the original, the film eventually ended up in the mitts of Massacre auteur Tobe Hooper, who was so impressed he promised Moseley a role in a proposed sequel to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre that he had in the works. Two years later, reps from Cannon Pictures had him on the horn and within days the deal was sealed. Moseley, metal plate fastened securely to his clean-shaved bald pate stepped into the bloody boots of The Hitchhiker’s severely unhealthy twin brother, ChopTop, and a new horror icon was born.

In the years to follow, Moseley would work continuously in front of the camera, appearing in Chuck (The Mask) Russell’s successful remake of The Blob, Clint Eastwood’s Pink Cadillac, the anti- Christmas slasher sequel Silent Night Deadly Night 3, Tom Savini’s remake of Romero’s Night of the Living Dead and Sam Raimi’s third entry in his Evil Dead series, Army of Darkness. And while the celebrated cult actor continued developing his professional career, his more intimate and personal career as father and family man was also blossoming.

At the same time, another man was slowly building his own blood spattered empire, its foundation consisting of adolescent obsessions with comic books, exploitation pictures, dirty punk rock ‘n’ roll, and gory horror movies. That man was Rob Zombie. After a string of wildly successful albums both with and without his mutant metal band White Zombie, the ambitious musician began exploring the idea of making his first film, a picture that would tip its machete to not only the great shockers of the 1970s, but more specifically to a movie that had become part of his DNA: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2. Zombie’s first order of business was hiring his hero, ‘ole ChopTop himself, Bill Moseley for one of the starring roles.

Zombie’s controversial House of 1000 Corpses would become a massive cult favorite – which spawned an even more vicious and critically embraced sequel, The Devil’s Rejects – which also landed Moseley a prime role in HBO’s dark and delicious sideshow-set melodrama Carnivàle. As homicidal artist/serial killer Otis B. Driftwood in both House and Rejects, Moseley’s bizarro charms would be retooled for a whole new generation of counter culture enthusiasts, who immediately catapulted him into horror superstardom.

Now a genre icon twice over, Moseley lives a quiet life in Hollywood with his two daughters, two cats, a cantankerous parrot named Mr. Hanky, and his wife Lucinda, the love of his life. He’s a hysterically funny, bright, approachable guy who also finds time to release full-length albums of experimental rock ‘n’ roll, with the likes of Guitar God Buckethead (CORNBUGS) and Rani Sharone (SPIDER MOUNTAIN.) Both CORNBUGS and SPIDER MOUNTAIN CD’s are available @ www.choptopsbbq.com .

Bill Moseley’s other film projects include REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA and THE DEVIL’S CARNIVAL (directed by SAW franchise director Darren Lynn Bousman), GRINDHOUSE (Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez), Rob Zombie’s HALLOWEEN; also THE DEVIL’S TOMB (with Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Beowulf’s Ray Winstone); horror/thrillers BLOOD NIGHT and THE GRAVES, Rob Zombie’s animated feature THE HAUNTED WORLD OF EL SUPERBEASTO, Twisted Pictures’ THE TORTURED and the 3-D horror musical HIGHWAY TO HELL. Bill has leads in the films 2001 MANIACS: Field of Screams (directed by Tim Sullivan), NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: ORIGINS (reprising his role as “JOHNNY”) and the thriller ROGUE RIVER. Bill also stars in the features EXIT HUMANITY, Lionsgate Film’s TEXAS CHAINSAW 3-D and OLD 37, which Bill and Kane Hodder star opposite each other. Bill also stars in the horror films DEAD SOULS, THE CHURCH, OLD 37 and MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT. Add on to this CHARLIE’S FARM and BOAR, Which Bill filmed in Australia, directed by Chris Sun. Bill adds to his roster of lead roles the feature films THE DEVIL’S CARNIVAL I & II, directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, ALMOST MERCY and the children’s comedy ARLO: THE BURPING PIG, both directed by Tom DeNucci, DEATH HOUSE directed by B. Harrison Smith, the award-winning film CYNTHIA directed by Devon Downs & Kenny Gage, the lead role of Abraham Lincoln in GINGERBREAD, and he also stars as OTIS DRIFTWOOD in Lionsgate Film’s 3 FROM HELL (Rob Zombie’s sequel to his hit films HOUSE OF A THOUSAND CORPSES and THE DEVIL’S REJECTS) and most recently stars in PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND, opposite Nicolas Cage and directed by Sion Sono, filmed in Japan. Bill also has a role in GODZILLA VS KONG directed by Adam Wingard for Warner Brothers. Bill Moseley has starred in hundreds of other films, television shows, cartoons and music videos, which can be found on Bill Moseley’s resume, as well as IMDBPro.

From preppie journalist to satanic serial killer, Moseley’s taken a long and unusual road to cult stardom, firmly cementing his place in the annals of horror history along the way. Bill has received numerous honors and awards over the years, recognizing his many achievements: Bill was Guest of Honor at the 2006 World Horror Convention; he has won two Spike Awards, two Fangoria Chainsaw Awards, an Eyegore Award, the 2010 Song of the Year Award from the RockSolidPressure radio show for “Stupid Life of A Mom Eater” from Bill’s Spider Mountain album “No Way Down,” the 2011 SyFy/NBC/Universal Fantasy Horror Award for Career Achievement and the 2011 Crypt Icon Award. Bill is also a member of the Fangoria Magazine Horror Hall of Fame.

From Super Hero (Black Canary, Smallville) to Super Villian (Abaddon, Supernatural) Actor Alaina Huffman has earned her Geek Cred appearing as a regular cast member in several genre television series including Syfy’s PainKiller Jane (Maureen) Stargate Universe (Lt Tamara Johansen) and most recently CWs The 100 playing rebel leader Nikki (affectionately known as Nikki-Bang-Bang) Her non-genre credits include several guest starring roles on network shows, CSI (Miami, NY) NCIS, NCIS Los Angeles, The OC etc, Leads in TV movies and can currently be seen in The Netflix Thriller “The Perfection” starring Allison Williams.

Adding to her acting credits Huffman is the Co-creator alongside Tony Lee of “Agent Mom” a graphic novel with MTV comics. Currently, you’ll find her behind the scenes in the director’s chair! Huffman is set to direct her first film in 2021!

When she’s not acting, Alaina is a full time mom to 4 amazing kids, she’s a certified life coach and enjoys being creative, active and traveling!

She-Squatchers came together in 2015 to begin their “all female bigfoot experiment” as the midwest’s first all female bigfoot research team. Jen Kruse founded the team after receiving a suggestion from cryptozoologist, Loren Coleman who had shared his idea that the recipe to success for interacting with bigfoot would be to send women into the woods without men, dogs or guns.

She-Squatchers isn’t just women in the woods, they are psychic women, utilizing their extra senses while looking for bigfoot. Team leader, Jen Kruse is an energy worker who specializes in geographic remote viewing. Her teammates, Jena Grover & Tammy Treichel, are also gifted intuitives as well as adventurous woodswomen! Together they have had some amazing, sometimes scary experiences, collecting evidence along the way. The team is based primarily out of Minnesota, but have literally been traveling from coast to coast searching for bigfoot while sharing what they have found.

As seen in: Tubi Original, “Scariest Monsters in America”

Documentaries:

• Searching For Sasquatch, Chapter 3
• Searching for Sasquatch, Chapter 4
• Cultured Bigfoot

To be released soon: Searching For Sasquatch 8, Enter Ohio Grassman

John Bivens’ work has appeared in the Eisner and Harvey Award winning Comic Book Tattoo, the Harvey Award winning Popgun volume 4, and the Harvey nominated Reading with Pictures. He has also received nominations for an Eagle Award and a Ghastly Award. He has worked for IMAGE Comics, Heavy Metal Magazine, Vault Comics, Valiant Comics, IDW Publishing. and others.

John’s work spans the genres of crime, horror, science fiction, fantasy, romance, and education. His education includes the undergraduate illustration program at Northern Illinois University and the Graduate program at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He has taught as an adjunct professor at Northern Illinois University, Dakota County Technical College, and participated in multiple visiting workshops and panels.

John currently resides in Minneapolis, MN where he is a proud member of World Monster HQ studios.

Dave Wheeler is a jack of all trades when it comes to comics, working as an: inker, colorist, letterer, writer and book designer. In addition to the comics industry he has worked in the advertising and graphics industry for 10 years. Dave currently resides in Minneapolis, MN. with his family. He is proud to be one of the co-founders of the kid-friendly comic company MIND WAVE COMICS doing his part to bring back fun to comics! When he’s not in the studio he enjoys long walks on the beach, making toys and professional wrestling!

North Dakota native Martin Keller is a former pop culture journalist, published author and unproduced screenplay writer, whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Leaders, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Final Frontier, Billboard, Utne Reader, Right On! the Star Tribune, the Mpls-St. Paul Business Journal, City Pages and many others, with appearances on “Today,” “48 Hours,” PBS, Public Radio, Coast To Coast AM, and many strange podcasts.

Keller also has written Hijinx & Hearsay: Scenester Stories from Minnesota’s Pop Life and contributed to The Minnesota Series. For the past 25 years, he has worked as an award-winning public relations pro, including an adventurous stint for The Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI), founded by Dr. Steven Greer’s, MD, The Space Pen Club is based, in part, on that period.

A librarian and a crafter, Karlene spends non-writing time working on hand crafts like crotcheting and cross-stitch. Married to an amazing husband, they have the care of a sassy African Grey that has no problem speaking her mind about things! The bird may have been some inspiration behind the gryphon in “Assassin’s Gift.”

Terry has been reading fantasy and science fiction books since his early teens and was introduced to the world of tabletop gaming and Dungeons and Dragons when he was 11. When not working in the IT industry and writing, he enjoys several hobbies including wood and leatherworking, DnD minature painting, reading, console gaming, online RPGs and playing in different tabletop RPG groups. He is married to the love of his life, Karlene, and the two of them are raising a sassy African Grey Parrot named Nisse. He lives in the upper Midwest, straddling the border of North Dakota and Minnesota.

Ivy Cosplay, originally from Puerto Rico and currently, a resident of Florida, began cosplaying in 2010. Her first cosplay was of Lara Croft in a photoshoot directed by her husband Michael of MC Illusion Photography, who she assists in his work.

Ivy’s first public appearance in cosplay was during Star Wars Celebration VI where she appeared as Princess Leia during the convention, sparking her love for the cosplaying community thanks to their acceptance of her.

She has appeared in various magazine photoshoots for COSPLAYology, Cosplayzine, as well as Surreal Beauty Magazine and has appeared on the cover of Vengeance of Vampirella.

As part of her ongoing cosplaying, she has been a guest at a number of conventions including Comix Megazone in Puerto Rico, Geekfest Florida and CONjure.

Ivy has cosplayed more than 100 characters from various movies and comic books as well as a number of original characters. Her favorite cosplays are of Catwoman, Wonder Woman, and Lara Croft.

At the end of 2020, Ivy was asked to become the official model of Bianca Bordeaux from the independent comic book series known as Vampire Bloodlines. She is on the cover of issue 2.

Ivy creates her own unique costume designs, making them herself by hand, costume design being a passion. Her future goals include becoming a professional costume designer.

Brad Thingvold is a comic book artist/creator hailing from Bismarck, ND. He has worked on a few different comic properties over the years, and is also a teacher’s assistant for art courses at comicsexperience.com. Currently, he’s been putting together his own webcomic, “Bingo!” You can see it – and more – at bradthingvold.art.

Adrian Lee is the founder of The International Paranormal Society and a member of the Luton Paranormal Society in England. He has investigated ghosts and paranormal activity all over the world for twenty-five years. Lee first came to Minnesota early in 2008 to work on several paranormal video productions and spent two years working in Minneapolis as the national and international news correspondent for a live paranormal talk radio show on 100.3 KTLK. He currently hosts the only weekly paranormal news quiz show, More Questions than Answers, every Friday on the Dark Matter Digital Radio Network. A show that was nominated for the 2018 Comedy Awards. Lee has also appeared on My Real Ghost Story, Fox 9, WCCO, Eyewitness News, KSTP, KGRA, KSAX and KARE 11.

Lee has written the following books: Ghosts & UFOs, Connecting Paranormal Phenomona through Quantum Physics; How to be a Christian Psychic: What the Bible says about Mediums, Healers and Paranormal Investigators; Mysterious Midwest, Unwrapping Urban Legends and Ghostly Tales from the Dead and Mysterious Minnesota, Digging up the Ghostly Past at Thirteen Haunted Sites. He currently lectures on all aspects of the paranormal, including ghosts, UFOs, psychic development and angels.

After breaking into the industry at a young age, Sean Murphy made a name for himself in the world of indie comics. Writing and illustrating Punk Rock Jesus, Sean showed his versatility as a creator; while he is widely known for his work with some of the industry’s top writers on titles like Joe the Barbarian, American Vampire, The Wake, Chrononauts and Tokyo Ghost, Sean enjoys writing for himself. His Batman: White Knight, Curse of the White Knight, and Beyond the White Knight story arcs have garnered critical and popular acclaim. After finishing his self-published project The Plot Holes, Sean is moving onto his next self-published project: Zorro, coming to a crowdfunding platform in 2023!

Billy West was born in 1952 in Detroit, Michigan. Best known for his work on Ren & Stimpy, West has a career in radio and television that began in the 1980’s when he did comedic impersonations for Charles Laquidara’s Big Mattress morning show on Boston’s WBNC FM radio network. By the mid-90s, he had moved to doing impersonations of Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott on The Howard Stern Show, giving him greater exposure. From there, West became involved with the Nickelodeon shows Doug and Ren & Stimpy. Portraying the title characters on both shows, Billy West saw his voiceover work reach an even larger, yet younger audience. This led to Warner Bros. hiring him for the film Space Jam in 1996. Featuring Chicago Bulls legend Michael Jordan and the cast of Looney Tunes, West voiced Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, two characters whom he has sporadically voiced throughout the next decade. He is also known for his portrayal of Philip J. Fry on the cartoon Futurama, which began in 1999 and has continued on through a number of changes through 2012 and currently airs on Comedy Central. In addition he is also the voice of the iconic Red M&M.

With over 30 films and 200 hours of television experience, versatility, discipline and a solid work ethic have been the underpinnings of Adrian’s very successful 30-year acting career. Internationally recognized for his role as Duncan Macleod, in Highlander-The Series”, Adrian has also produced and directed both film and television projects.

Born and raised in London, England, Adrian arrived in the United States in 1984, working as a choreographer and a model. After a year of taking acting classes with acting coaches, Ivana Chubbuck and Roy London, his first series role came on the ABC television show, The Colbys. This led to a role in the Broadway play, “Bouncers”, in 1987, a guest role on the television show, Beauty and the Beast (1987) and his first film role in the film Last Rites (1988), with Tom Berenger.

After a starring role in Roger Corman’s,” Masque of the Red Death “(1989),he became a series regular in the second season of the television series “War of the Worlds”(1988), followed by four episode arc on the MGM Dark Shadows series. Fast becoming known for his solid work ethic, CBS cast him as the lead in the television pilot, The Owl (1990). Although the series wasn’t picked up, Adrian didn’t stop working, guest starring on Angela Lansbury’s “Murder She Wrote”, and co starring opposite the up-and-coming Sandra Bullock in “Love Potion Number 9”. But it would be his next role that would bring him international recognition…that of “Duncan MacLeod” in the syndicated series, Highlander (1991-1997). During the 6 year run, Adrian directed four of the series’ episodes, including the epic 100thepisode, shot in Bordeaux France. Three of these episodes were voted in the top ten best of series for the 117 episode run.

When the series ended in 1997, although he was in demand, Paul wanted to go back to his acting roots. After studying with renowned acting coach Larry Moss, he worked on John Landis’ romantic comedy, “Susan’s Plan”, the action thriller, “Dead Men Can’t Dance”, and helped found Actors in Process, a theater group, where actors could meet weekly to ”showcase” current work and receive positive critique from their peers. After two years, a production of an original play, “Things Just aChange”, was showcased at the Odyssey theater in Los Angeles, with Paul in the lead role.

The success of the Highlander series however, was still current, leading Paul to be offered to star opposite Christopher Lambert in “Highlander : Endgame”(2000), to take over the franchise’s lead position. Other films followed, including the now cult classic “The Breed” (2001), shot in Budapest, Hungary where Adrian met his future wife, Alexandra.

In 2001, Lionsgate signed Adrian to a 3 picture deal, as well as to star in and executive produce the Sci Fi action thriller, “Tracker” (created by Gil Grant) for Lionsgate Television. With the advent of so many new media outlets, however, the syndicated series was not renewed for a second season. Adrian continued to work on films such as “Nemesis Game” (Lionsgate) and “Tides of War”, along with the Spelling Television and Paramount Pictures’ hit TV series, ”Charmed”. This was the first time in thirteen years that Adrian had actually filmed again on US soil.

In 2006 the Highlander Franchise was back again, this time filming in Lithuania, with Adrian starring in and Executive Producing, what would become his last sortie as Duncan Macleod, in “Highlander :The Source”. After that came, ”The Legend of Roanoke”(2007) and the Sci Fi Action Comedy “The Immortal Voyages of Captain Drake”(2009), a film in which Paul choreographed all the fight scenes.

Always looking for interesting roles, Adrian found himself in Hungary and Tunisia, filming the Seven Arts production, ”Nine Miles Down”(2009), that he now considers one of his most emotionally challenging roles. Next, he was off to London, in an out of character role, as a Conservative member of Parliament in the thriller, “The Heavy ”(2010), with Gary Stretch, Stephen Rea and Christopher Lee. Also in 2010, Adrian co-founded his first production company Filmblips Inc., in an attempt to bring compelling material to advertising companies.

Since 2010, while working as an actor on several other films and TV movies, Adrian also wrote three screenplays, developed financial and artistic presentation packages for film and television, along with spearheading his charity, The Peace Fund, that he founded in 1997. Peace stands for Protect. Educate. Aid. Children. Everywhere. Over the past 17 years, Adrian has overseen the work of the fund in countries such as Romania, Bellarus, Niger, Hungary, Haiti, Cambodia, Thailand and the United States. In 2012, Adrian launched Peace Fund Radio that he currently co hosts with Ethan Dettanmaeir, with an estimated audience of between 1.8 and 2 million listeners a month. The innovative radio show, has been host to many celebrities with causes of their own and is the catalyst behind the Peace Fund’s partnership and donation to bring computers into LAUSD schools. Through the radio shows influence the fund has also partnered with Kimberly Moore’s,” Adopt a Letter” program to fulfill children’s wishes at Christmas, brought books for libraries and lights for homes in El Salvador, along with connecting like minded charities to fulfill their initiatives.

In 2014, Adrian helped launch his second production company, Radical Road, aimed at lower budget films. Radical Road is in the funding stages of a slate of pictures for the next five years, some of which Adrian is set to direct and act in.

Adrian has two movies, “The Secret of Emily Blair” and “Stormageddon”, about to be released in 2016 and currently, Adrian is getting ready to direct his first feature, “Chemical Influence”, a screenplay he wrote from an original script. Adrian is also launching, “The Sword Experience”. Half day seminars of sword training, that include stage and real life combat and safety tips aimed at individuals, corporations, film, stage, re-enactment societies, martial artists and role playing groups.

Alfred Trujillo is a comic book artist and photographer. Alfred has had the privilege to be published by Coffin Comics, Zenescope, Big Dog Ink, Aspen Comics, and many more. He has worked on a variety of covers for independent books and has successful original comic book projects through his studio. Alfred travels nationally and internationally to promote comic book art with panels and workshops, and has gained notoriety with the fans. You can see Alfred’s photography work on comic book covers and in cosplay prints.

Cara Nicole aka AzPowergirl is a stellar cosplay sensation online and on the convention circuit. She brings her unique brand of sassy stylings to the world with her successful book crowdfunding campaigns, calendars, comic books, and convention appearances. Her success as a comic book creator and comic book cover model only add to her skill set. She also enjoys celebrity as the model for Magic: The Gathering, has earned great notoriety for her support of upcoming cosplayers in her informative panels on cosplay as a career. Music and stand-up comedy add to her showcase. Cara has graced the pages of Heavy Metal Magazine, Kotaku, Forbes, Bleeding Cool, and many more.

Spencer Lee Wilding (born 26 July 1972) is a Welsh actor and special creature performer in the UK. He is from Meliden in Denbighshire, North Wales. He has also had some success as a professional kickboxer and professional cruiser weight boxer. He was trained by former three-time world champion Russ Williams.

Wilding physically portrays Darth Vader alongside Daniel Naprous in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. He is also notable for playing the werewolf form of Remus Lupin in the 2004 film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the Ice Warrior Skaldak in the Doctor Who episode “Cold War,” and the White Walker that stalks the Night’s Watch in the Game of Thrones episode “Winter Is Coming” (sharing the role with fellow Star Wars actor Ian Whyte, while fellow Star Wars actor Bronson Webb plays the one survivor of the encounter).

Wilding went through a series of auditions for the role, during which he had to sign a non-disclosure agreement. His first three auditions were self-tapes, and he didn’t know what production it was for or who the character was going to be. His final audition took place at Pinewood Studios, during which he got to try on Vader’s costume for the first time. Wilding shares the role with Daniel Naprous, with Naprous doing the fight scene at the end of the film, and Wilding doing all the other scenes.

Rachel Alice Marie Skarsten was born April 23, 1985 daughter to Mary Aileen Self Skarsten and Dr. Stan Skarsten. She has a younger brother Jonathan Skarsten.

Rachel danced for the Royal Academy of Dance for 12 years, earning her Elementary Level with distinction in 1999. After an injury to her ankle, Rachel was forced to give up dance and turned to sports. She played at the highest level of competitive female hockey as a goalie for the Leaside Wildcats in Toronto, where in 2002 she won the Toronto City Championships in a shootout.

One of her first movie roles was Caroline Lofton on Virginia’s Run (2002)

At 16 she won a major role — that of superhero Black Canary/Dinah Lance — in the WB series Birds of Prey(2002), after being discovered by Producer Brian Robins. After the show was canceled, she moved home from Los Angeles eager to take a hiatus from acting, to graduate high school and pursue an undergraduate degree. After graduating from Earl Haig Secondary School in the top 10% of her class, and being named an Ontario Scholar, she was accepted into the prestigious Canadian Queen’s University. There she completed a double major in English Literature and Classical History. She moved back to Los Angeles in the spring of 2008.

Following this, she returned to acting with arcs on Flashpoint, The Listener and The LA Complex.

Rachel represented the role of Tamsin in the supernatural crime drama television series Lost Girl (2010-2016), Andrea in the successful movie Fifty Shades of Grey (2015), Queen Elizabeth I in the CW series Reign and worked in several tv movies as Marry Me at Christmas, Timeless Love and For Love and important big screen projects as Aaron Sorkin’s Molly’s Game (2017) and Acquainted (2018).

Rachel has been cast as a villainous lead opposite Ruby Rose in Batwoman, the CW’s drama from Greg Berlanti’s Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros Television now in its third season.

Edgley was born in Perth. She is the daughter of theatre, concert and circus promoter Michael Edgley, known for bringing the Moscow State Circus to Australia during the 1980s. Her mother, Jeni Edgley, was formally involved in managing a 250-acre health retreat. As a child, Gigi Edgley performed both in and out of school. She became mainly interested in acting and had her first professional theatrical engagement at the Twelfth Night Theatre. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Queensland University of Technology in 1998. As a believer in the school of method acting, Gigi has developed a broad set of skills and experiences for her roles. Edgley is proficient in martial arts along with ballet, jazz, character dance, and singing with her signature skill fire-twirling.

Edgley’s early TV and film work included several independent productions, as well as a guest star spot on the popular Australian series Water Rats and a role in Australian film titled The Day of the Roses. Edgley is best known for her role as Chiana on the science fiction TV series Farscape. Originally, she was hired for only one episode, and her character was supposed to die at the end of the hour. The creators decided to keep her around for a few more episodes. At the beginning of Season 2, she was promoted to be a regular on the show. She appeared in total of 68 episodes of the series. Her character’s nickname “Pip” was actually coined by her co-star Ben Browder.

Between Farscape seasons, Edgley has appeared in other guest starring roles on TV, including the series The Lost World and BeastMaster, has undertaken some independent film work, was cast in a feature film, and read a starring role in an audio drama for Seeing Ear Theatre. After the cancellation of Farscape, Edgley pursued other projects including a role in the Australian drama telefilm BlackJack with Colin Friels. She joined the cast of Australian drama series The Secret Life of Us in 2003 and Stingers in 2004.

Edgley returned as Chiana in the SciFi Channel miniseries Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars in 2004. In 2006 Edgley starred as the female lead in critically acclaimed Australian Drama/Thriller Last Train to Freo. Her role was nominated for a Best Actress in a Lead Role by the Film Critics Circle of Australia. She also had a minor supporting role in the 2007 USA Network TV miniseries The Starter Wife. She had a leading role in three seasons of Rescue: Special Ops from 2009. In 2018, she appeared in the film Diminuendo opposite Richard Hatch. In 2014 she hosted Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge as herself!

Edgley has won numerous awards as well including:

• 2006 – Film Critics Circle of Australia Award Nomination for Best Actress in a motion picture (Last Train to Freo)
• 2003 – SyFy Genre Award for Best Supporting Actress (Television)
• 2002 – Saturn Award Nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series (Farscape)
• 2001 – Maxim Award Nomination for Sexiest Space Babe (Television)