Ron Mustafaa

Ronald "Ron" Mustafaa (born December 3, 1989) is a young Bangladeshi Canadian actor. He played Abbud Siddiqui on the MTV television teen drama Skins.

Life and career

Ron Mustafaa is of Bengali origins. He is currently attending the University of Toronto as an undergrad student majoring in International law and Political Science.

Ron Mustafaa originally wanted to become a lawyer, but his mother wanted him to become an actor. His mother grew up in Bangladesh and was an aspiring actress, but never gained success. He often states that his mother is living her dream through him.

Prior to Skins, he was best known for his role as Roy Jackson in Team Epic.

In 2010, Ron was cast as Abbud Siddiqui in the MTV adaptation of the British teen drama Skins. There he plays Abbud in Skins, who defies his parents conventional wishes and prefers a lifestyle involving girls, drugs, party and alcohol.

His character is based on the character Anwar Kharral from the original Skins UK show.

Personal life

James Newman (actor)

James Milo Newman (born James Myron Newman; January 22, 1992) is an American actor. He played Tony Snyder on the MTV television teen drama Skins. Newman's first acting experience was auditioning for Skins. He had previously planned to fight in the Golden Gloves boxing tournament (he had once boxed with Yuri Foreman).

Personal life

Newman was raised in Greenwich Village, New York. He is the son of actress Antonia Beresford Dauphin and producer Peter Ross Newman. His maternal grandmother, Ruda Dauphin (née Podemska), was the president of film production company Odeon International.

His maternal grandfather was English novelist Marc Brandel, the son of writer J. D. Beresford. His parents had a Jewish wedding.

For years he attended Camp Greylock.

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Sofia Black D'Elia

Sofia Black D'Elia (born December 24, 1991) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Bailey Wells in All My Children, Tea Marvelli in Skins and Sage Spence in Gossip Girl.

Life and career

D'Elia was born in Clifton, New Jersey, to a mother who works in printing, and Anthony D'Elia, a lawyer. Her father is of Italian descent and her mother is Jewish. She started acting at the age of 5 and signed up for dancing classes at Broadway Bound. When she was seventeen, she was cast in her first major gig on the soap opera All My Children as the recurring character Bailey. In 2010, she booked the role of Tea on the MTV adaptation of the hit British teen drama Skins, where she plays an openly lesbian teenager. She is featured in Hoodie Allen's music video for "The Chase is On" and plays Allen's love interest in the video. As of fall 2011, D'Elia had begun classes at The William Esper Studio as well as landing the role of Mina in Vicky Jewson's Born of War. This is her first film role. Starting in the fall of 2012, D'Elia played Sage Spence in the sixth and final season of Gossip Girl. She also portrayed Jessie in the Michael Bay-produced time travel thriller Project Almanac, which was released in January 2015.

Skins (film)

Skins is a 2002 feature film by Chris Eyre and based upon the novel of the same name by Adrian C. Louis. The film is set on the fictional Beaver Creek Indian Reservation in South Dakota near the Nebraska border, a place very much like the actual Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, the setting in the book and the place where the film was actually shot. Lakota Sioux tribal police officer Rudy Yellow Lodge (Eric Schweig) struggles to rescue his older, alcoholic brother, Mogie (Graham Greene), a former football star who was wounded in combat three times in Vietnam. Winona LaDuke makes a cameo appearance as Rose Two Buffalo.

Plot

Rudy and Mogie Yellow Lodge are Lakota Sioux brothers on the Beaver Creek Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Mogie, unemployed and with a teenage son. Rudy, a police officer, struggles to care for his brother, nephew and the rest of the town through the hands of law. Mogie resists Rudy's attempts, preferring to drink and joke about the depressed state of their people and town. As a child, Rudy had been bitten by a spider, and Mogie told him it was Iktomi, the trickster spider; this spider re-appears to Rudy early in the film and Rudy's attempts to help begin to wander outside the lines of the law.

Daniel Flaherty

Daniel Flaherty (born June 11, 1993), known professionally as Danny Flaherty, is an American actor, known for his role as Stanley Lucerne on the MTV television teen drama Skins.

Life and career

By the age of 17, Flaherty was already a veteran of the indie-arty short film scene, having acted in Spark, Vacant, The Parade, and Portnoy. He also makes music; Daniel writes songs, sings, and plays guitar in a local New Jersey band. Other hobbies include skateboarding and ultimate frisbee. His resume lists "fearless roller coaster rider" as one of his skills.

Daniel originally went to the New York open call but didn’t get a callback. His agent arranged a private audition and it seems like the individual attention was just what he needed to snag the role of Stanley. Daniel's favorite part of working on Skins is getting to contribute to the development of his character.

Daniel started studying acting at age 11. When he turned 13, he booked his first short film, My First Kiss.

In 2010, Flaherty was cast as Stanley Lucerne in the MTV adaptation of the British teen drama Skins. His character is based on the character Sid Jenkins from the original Skins UK show.