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Margaret Qualley was born on 23 October 1994 in Kalispell, Montana, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019), Fosse/Verdon (2019) and Kenzo: Kenzo World (2016). She has been married to Jack Antonoff since 19 August 2023.

A small-town girl born and raised in rural Kalispell, Montana, Michelle Ingrid Williams is the daughter of Carla Ingrid (Swenson), a homemaker, and Larry Richard Williams, a commodity trader and author. Her ancestry is Norwegian, as well as German, British Isles, and other Scandinavian. She was first known as bad girl Jen Lindley in the television series Dawson's Creek (1998). She appeared in the comedy film Dick (1999), which was a parody of the Watergate Scandal along with Kirsten Dunst, as well as Prozac Nation (2001) with Christina Ricci. Since then, Michelle has worked her way into the world of independent films such as The Station Agent (2003), Imaginary Heroes (2004), and The Baxter (2005). But her real success happened in 2005 when she starred in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain (2005) as Alma Beers Del Mar. A woman who realizes her husband is in love with another man. Her talent shown in Brokeback Mountain (2005) landed her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. In 2011, she received her first lead role Academy Award nomination for Blue Valentine (2010). She followed this in 2012 with a lead role Academy Award nomination for My Week with Marilyn (2011).

Michelle has a daughter, Matilda, with late Australian actor Heath Ledger.

Born in Montana, Gladstone was raised on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation and later near Seattle, WA. She graduated with high honors from the University of Montana in 2008 with a BFA in Acting/Directing, and a minor in Native American Studies.

Gladstone was introduced to audiences in Alex and Andrew Smith's adaptation of Winter in the Blood, a NYT best seller and seminal novel by Blackfeet/Gros Ventre author James Welch. Her breakout role came in 2016 from Kelly Reichardt's Certain Women, a performance which earned her the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress, Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress, as well as nominations for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female and Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Actor.

In 2017 Gladstone joined the Oregon Shakespeare Festival acting company, and in 2020 she stared in the Yale Repertory Theater production of Mary Kathryn Nagle's Manahatta.

In 2019 Gladstone reunited with Reichardt for First Cow. The film won Best Film at the 2020 New York Film Critics Circle Awards, and was named one of the ten best films of 2020 by the National Board of Review.

Phillip Bradley "Brad" Bird is an American director, screenwriter, animator, producer and occasional voice actor, known for both animated and live-action films. Bird was born in Kalispell, Montana, the youngest of four children of Marjorie A. (née Cross) and Philip Cullen Bird. His father worked in the propane business, and his grandfather, Francis Wesley "Frank" Bird, who was born in County Sligo, Ireland, was a president and chief executive of the Montana Power Company. On a tour of the Walt Disney Studios at age 11, he announced that someday he would become part of its animation team, and soon afterward began work on his own 15-minute animated short. Within two years, Bird had completed his animation, which impressed the cartoon company. By age 14, barely in high school, Bird was mentored by the animator Milt Kahl, one of Disney's legendary Nine Old Men. Bird recalls Kahl's criticisms as ideal: Kahl would point out shortcomings by gently delivering thoughts on where Bird could improve. After graduating from Corvallis High School in Corvallis, Oregon in 1975, Bird took a three-year break. He was then awarded a scholarship by Disney to attend California Institute of the Arts, where he met and befriended another future animator, Pixar co-founder and director John Lasseter.

Born in Montana to homesteading parents, Robert Bray eventually moved to Seattle with his family and attended Lincoln High School. After graduation, he knocked around for a while as a lumberjack, cowboy and a member of the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps).

As a young man, Bray worked for a while in Hollywood as a studio carpenter in the early 1940s, before joining the U.S. Marine Corps in 1942 during World War II. He saw heavy action in the South Pacific during his tour of duty, before finally mustering out as a Master Sergeant at war's end.

With aspirations of being a taxidermist or owner of a hunting/fishing lodge, Bray finally decided to pursue acting as a career, and was eventually signed in 1946 to a contract at RKO Pictures where he was looked upon as the new Gary Cooper. He spent three years of a seven-year deal playing supporting roles in a variety of RKO police dramas and Tim Holt westerns before his contract was dropped. From then until the early 1960s when he landed the plum TV role of Ranger Corey Stuart in the Lassie (1954) TV series, he was a freelance actor, who found work mainly portraying he-men such as a tough cavalry officers, hard-bitten cops, a stagecoach driver, etc., in a wide range of action-oriented movies and television episodes. He won the part in "Lassie" over several other candidates because of his affinity for animals, and theirs for him.

Earlier in his career Bray played in some well-received if minor roles such as "Carl" the bus driver in Bus Stop (1956), the film that finally got Marilyn Monroe taken seriously as a dramatic actress. That picture's director, Joshua Logan, offered Bray a part in his next film, South Pacific (1958) but, to his never-ending regret, Bray instead opted to star in several forgettable low-budget pictures for Allied Artists. "Had I appeared in the smash hit South Pacific," he said, "who knows where I might have ended up."

After being replaced on "Lassie" in 1968, Bray's motivation for continued acting work waned and he eventually retired with his wife Joan to Bishop, California, where he could often be found cruising around town in his Winnebago motor home with his dog Lady. An ardent fly fisherman, hunter, model duck carver and all-around sportsman, Bob lived out his final years in the shadow of the eastern High Sierras, where he made so many of his early western movies. After his passing in 1983, his ashes were scattered over Zuma Beach, California, where he spent many pleasant days as a young man.

Misty Anne Upham, born in Kallispell, Montana, grew up in south Seattle, the fourth of five children. She began her career at the age of thirteen when she joined a community theater group, Red Eagle Soaring. What began as a summer workshop soon turned into a full-time job. By the age of fourteen she was writing and directing short skits and performing on tours throughout the northwest. In the next four years she would be accepted to several Seattle theater companies, all while attending high school. Her first break came in 2001 when she landed the role of Mrs. Blue Cloud in Chris Eyre's sophmore project Skins (2002), where she portrayed a victim of domestic abuse on the Pine Ridge reservation. She also had a large role in the family drama August: Osage County (2013), playing Johnna Monevata, a live-in housekeeper.

Misty died in 2014, in Auburn, Washington, of blunt-force trauma.

Shadi Petosky was born on 18 September 1974 in Kalispell, Montana, USA. She is a writer and producer, known for Danger & Eggs (2015), Parks and Recreation (2009) and Clean Slate (2025).

Rusty Hendrickson was born on 28 September 1953 in Kalispell, Montana, USA. He is an actor, known for The Postman (1997), Wyatt Earp (1994) and The Bodyguard (1992).

Scott grew up in a small town in Northwest Montana making VHS Videos and 8mm films with childhood friends. Studied film production at San Diego State University. He is a Member of the Director's Guild of America, a past DGA AD/UPM Council West member, Currently he splits time between LA, Chicago, San Diego, and Bigfork Montana. Shelley Leonard-Remick.

Born on December 19, 1985, in Kalispell, Montana, Shane Bitney Crone grew up with the nickname "Motor Mouth." Now that name seems even more appropriate in light of his recent YouTube video, which went viral with almost three million hits. Shane's film portrays the many injustices he experienced after losing his partner and the great love of his life, Tom Bridegroom. This gut-wrenching, mini documentary (in memory of Tom) has now inspired millions of people worldwide to join Shane's pursuit of marriage equality.

From a young age, Shane has used his considerable voice on behalf of good causes, inspiring others through his talent and actions. In Montana, he also regularly performed at the Missoula Children's Theater International Performing Arts Camp. During high school, he was active in the community and was awarded Student of the Year for his leadership.

Shane worked part time to earn money so he could pursue his dream of moving to Los Angeles after graduation. Armed with this money and with all of his worldly belongings in the trunk of his car, Shane headed to California without a job, but with an abundance of ambition and willingness to work hard.

In 2005, Shane met his partner, Tom Bridegroom. Dedicated to each other and their mutual success, Shane and Tom started a social media/public relations company, Bridegroom and Bitney, in 2008. Targeting up and coming artists in the music industry, they assisted clients in obtaining record deals, performing at national league sporting events and garnering international exposure (via Tom and Shane's expertise with social media).

He soon landed a position on Entertainment Tonight as a production assistant and was subsequently promoted to talent coordinator.

In 2011, the devastating accident that took Tom's life, turned Shane's world upside down. As a form of therapy, he created his now viral video in order to honor and mourn Tom. As a result, he has found a new calling and is slowly regaining the voice he was born with. Shane has vowed to devote himself to the cause of marriage equality, giving interviews to CNN, ABC, E! News, and numerous radio programs and has been invited to write guest posts for GLAAD, Human Rights Campaign, The Advocate, and The Huffington Post. He is receiving speaking requests from around the world and has been invited to Amsterdam Pride as one of their international guests of honor. Shane has also partnered with Designing Women creator and director and producer of the critically acclaimed Man from Hope, Linda Bloodworth Thomason, in order to make a documentary film about his and Tom's life together and what happened in the aftermath of Tom's death. After successfully raising over three-hundred-thousand dollars using the crowd funding website Kickstarter, the film, entitled Bridegroom, A Love Story Unequaled, is currently being made.

Ralph Emerson was born Walter William Emerson on August 9, 1899 in Kalispell, Montana. He was the nephew of poet Ralph Waldp Emerson. Ralph moved to California to pursue his acting career. He was discovered while starring in a Los Angeles stage production of Alias The Deacon. In 1923 he made his film debut in the drama The Face on the Bar-Room Floor. At the start of his career he was billed as Walter Emerson. He married Jane N. Sholtz on December 25, 1922. The couple had three children. Ralph appeared in more than a dozen films including The Albany Night Boat, Dance Hall, and West Point. By the early 1930s his movie career had stalled and he returned to the stage. Ralph made headlines in 1935 when his wife Jane filed for divorce. She accused him of having affairs with actress Olive Borden and several other women. Then Ralph accused Jane of cheating on him with millionaire Barton Sewell. In a 1937 interview Ralph admitted that Jane divorced him because "she had found out about Olive Borden and me in New York and St. Louis.". His final film was the 1940 musical A Night at Earl Carroll's. He later moved to Indiana. Ralph died on February 22, 1984 at the age of eighty-four.

Ira Chute was born on 10 January 1979 in Kalispell, Montana, USA. He is a producer, known for The Last Supper (2012), Away We Go (2009) and Sunday (2009).

Kim DeLong was born on 23 February 1950 in Kalispell, Montana, USA. He was an actor, known for Wuthering Heights (2022), The Slaughter Rule (2002) and Return to Lonesome Dove (1993). He died on 22 September 2017.

William Swetland was born on 15 October 1913 in Kalispell, Montana, USA. He was an actor, known for Great Performances (1971), Mirrors (1978) and Camera Three (1954). He was married to Shirley Bryan and Dorothy Bourne. He died on 31 October 2003 in Branford, Connecticut, USA.

She was one of the first four women admitted to the Princeton University Graduate School program in composition, where she received a fellowship. Two Fulbright Scholarships took her to Paris (1958-60), where she studied composition privately with Darius Milhaud and Nadia Boulanger, who encouraged Ruth to also study Gregorian chant at the Abbey of Solesmes.

Ruth's was a multi-faceted career. She toured as a flutist with the Totenberg Instrumental Ensemble from 1951-58 and was principal flutist with the Boston Pops (1957-58). As a freelance instrumental and choral arranger, she was also an orchestrator for NBC-TV and the Lincoln Center Theater production of Annie Get Your Gun with Ethel Merman (1966) and Show Boat.

Her establishment of the Hunter College Electronic Music Studio and her involvement with the downtown music scene brought a burst of creative activity when her studies of psychoacoustics, Zen Buddhism, and her teaching intersected, sparking a number of works for tape which are truly innovative. She wrote of her work, "It has evolved from an understanding of sound as energy which affects one's state of being. [These are] pieces intended to further wholeness of self and unity with others."

Tim Koleto was born on 17 June 1991 in Kalispell, Montana, USA. He has been married to Misato Komatsubara since 23 January 2017.

Tom Burnam was born on 2 October 1913 in Kalispell, Montana, USA. He was married to Phyllis Anderson. He died on 6 September 1991 in Spokane, Washington, USA.

Blake Sherman was born on 23 June 1983 in Kalispell, Montana, USA. He is an actor, known for A Break in the Clouds (2010), Driftwood (2006) and Devil's Pond (2003).

Heather McCluskey was born on 30 April 1982 in Kalispell, Montana, USA. She is an actress, known for Suspect Zero (2004), Maniacts (2001) and Running on Indian Time (2002).

Rick Dennison was born on 22 June 1958 in Kalispell, Montana, USA.

William Snyder was born on 21 September 1894 in Kalispell, Montana, USA. He is known for Scarface (1932), Runaway Boys (1931) and Come to Papa! (1931). He died on 15 March 1955 in Kern County, California, USA.

Eric Kasprisin was born on 27 August 1982 in Kalispell, Montana, USA. Eric is a producer and production manager, known for Empty (2005), Nikolas Alexander (2008) and Comic Book Men (2012).

Gene Davis Buck was born on 27 March 1943 in Kalispell, Montana, USA. Gene Davis was a costume designer, known for The Red Shoes (1985), Alice in Wonderland (1983) and The Wind in the Willows (1983). Gene Davis died on 1 October 1992 in Portland, Oregon, USA.

Bill Wetzel is an enrolled Blackfeet Indian and a native of Cut Bank, Montana. He spent his teenage years pursuing sports, competing in rodeo as a bull rider and wrestling. He was twice an all-state wrestler, twice a Big Sky State Games freestyle state champion and a member of the 1993 Montana All-Star Cultural Exchange team which competed in Bulgaria. After graduating, he spent two years as an assistant wrestling coach at Cut Bank High School, before eventually attending the Art Institute of Seattle where he attained an A.A.A degree in Video Production. At AIS, Wetzel honed his writing, video and film skills working in various capacities on many projects. Currently he is a Creative Writing student at the University of Arizona and the co-author of a novel of short stories entitled "The Acorn Gathering: Writers Uniting Against Cancer." A close friend of Nick Pezzillo, grandson of 'Blackie Wetzel', parents Pete and Grace Wetzel, brothers Rex, Justin and Tim and friend of Chad Onstad.