W H O W E A R E
Emmanuel Ighodaro
Heading up The A'rc' s Actors Services is Emmanuel Ighodaro, an extremely versatile actor with a striking physical appearance and a talent for playing characters from both ends of the demographic scale. He is known for playing ‘Jackson Powell’ a series regular in three series’ of the hit television comedy-drama ‘Shameless’, for Channel 4. Most recently he can be seen in the award winning short film ‘Unseen’ about a young Congolese woman who is trafficked into the UK to live a life of domestic subjugation.
In ‘The Walk’ in which he stars as Isaac, a burnt-out child social worker trying to rebuild his life, who is haunted by the memories of a brutal and violent incident.
Emmanuel has also starred in ‘Occupation’ (with Stephen Graham Dir. Nick Murphy for Kudos Productions), ‘DCI Banks’ (ITV/Left Bank Pictures), ‘One Child’ (BBC1/Sundance films co-production)
Emmanuel will also be seen the upcoming feature film ‘Habit’ (Not A Number Productions) due for release 2017. A thriller set in the seedy underbelly of Manchester’s criminal underworld.
Emmanuel is represented by Kristin Tarry at TCG Artist Management, London.
London based writer and producer, Junior Rhone, has been working in the entertainment industry for over 13 years as a writer, director and producer; and has worked with new and established filmmaking talent in the business. He has been hired by the BBC UK to develop treatments and concepts in the horror genre.
He has been optioned by independent producers in America and Europe. Junior is currently working with one of the producers of Peter Jackson's LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY on another of his horror screenplays, titled DARK LIGHT. Junior is also a competition winning screenwriter.
Alongside his screenwriting, Junior is forging a steadily growing career as a music video and short film producer. He recently produced and directed the latest music videos for melodic death metal band GRAVIL and underground dance act RUN RIOT, which have been released to acclaim. Junior’s latest produced music video ‘Beyond Reprieve’ was voted a Top Five music video in 2015 by FIREBRAND’S METAL & ROCK MAGAZINE.
Junior’s 25 minute short film THE WALK (which he also wrote, directed and co-produced) has been released and will soon be making its way onto the festival circuit.
Junior is an original member of THE VIPER’S NEST, a celebrated collective of UK & Irish filmmakers formed under THE SALT COMPANY, a UK film sales company.