who plays noah bennet?
Jack Coleman
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 Cameron opted to hire actors who had , or could imitate , American accents . After over 3 @,@ 000 individuals in the United Kingdom were unsuccessfully auditioned , American actors were chosen instead , including three who had previously worked with Cameron on The Terminator ; Lance Henriksen , Bill Paxton , and Michael Biehn . Actors who played Marines were asked to read Starship Troopers and undergo military training , which included running , lifting weights , learning salutes , marches , deployments , and maneuvers , for two weeks . Cameron wanted the Marines to train together so that they would form bonds that would show on @-@ screen . Sigourney Weaver , William Hope , and Paul Reiser were absent from training because of other obligations , but Cameron felt that this suited their characters as " outsiders " in the film . 

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 In 2011 , Aronofsky tried to launch production on Noah , a retelling of the Bible story of Noah 's Ark , projected for a $ 115 million budget . By the following year , the film had secured funding and distribution from New Regency and Paramount Pictures , with Russell Crowe hired for the title role . The film adapted a serialized graphic novel written by Aronofsky and Ari Handel , published in French in October 2011 by the Belgian publisher Le Lombard . By July 2012 , Aronofsky 's crews were building an ark set in Oyster Bay , Long Island , New York . Aronofsky announced the start of filming on Noah on Twitter in the same month , tweeting shots of the filming in Iceland . The film featured Emma Watson , Anthony Hopkins , Logan Lerman , and Jennifer Connelly , with the latter having also starred in Requiem for a Dream . During its opening weekend , Noah held the largest non @-@ sequel opening within Russia and Brazil , and the fourth @-@ largest opening of all time . Aronofsky did not use live animals for the film , saying in a PETA video that " There 's really no reason to do it anymore because the technology has arrived . " The HSUS gave him their inaugural Humane Filmmaker Award in honor of his use of computer @-@ generated animals . 

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 The film features the same principal cast as The Naked Mile minus Jessy Schram ; John White , Steve Talley , Christopher McDonald and Eugene Levy reprised their roles from the preceding film , with Levy returning to play Noah Levenstein for the sixth time in the series . Craig Kornblau , the president of Universal Studios Home Entertainment , said " we think he [ Levy ] is crucial to this franchise because his character represents the heart of the movie . " Jake Siegel , Jaclyn A. Smith , Dan Petronijevic , and Jordan Prentice also reprised their roles from The Naked Mile . 

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 In 1996 , a docudrama was produced titled Unabomber : The True Story , featuring actors Dean Stockwell as Ben Jeffries , Robert Hays as David Kaczynski and Tobin Bell as Ted Kaczynski . In this film a determined postal inspector was followed as he tracked down the suspect and also centered on Kaczynski 's brother , who played a key role in the investigation . 

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 Six characters receive top billing in the episode : Casey McCall ( Peter Krause ) , Dan Rydell ( Josh Charles ) , Dana Whitaker ( Felicity Huffman ) , Isaac Jaffe ( Robert Guillaume ) , Natalie Hurley ( Sabrina Lloyd ) and Jeremy Goodwin ( Joshua Malina ) . Several recurring characters also appear in the first episode , including Kim ( Kayla Blake ) , Elliot ( Greg Baker ) , Chris ( Timothy Davis @-@ Reed ) and Will ( Ron Ostrow ) . Robert Mailhouse guest @-@ stars as J.J. , while Bernard Hocke and Nina Jane Barry appear as Dave and Claire respectively . 
