Legendary Stars Stefanie Powers, Lesley Ann Warren, Nancy Kwan, Keith Carradine, Stephen Tobolowsky and More to Come Aboard the 2025 TCM Classic Cruise

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New York - August 20, 2025 - Turner Classic Movies (TCM) announced that actress, screenwriter and conservationist Stefanie Powers, renowned Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe-winning stage and screen actress Lesley Ann Warren, Asian Hall of Fame inductee, actress and producer Nancy Kwan, Oscar-winning actor and songwriter Keith Carradine and veteran film and television character actor Stephen Tobolowsky are set to attend the TCM Classic Cruise, sailing October 8, 2025, from Port Canaveral, FL to Nassau and Disney Lookout Cay at Lighthouse Point on the Disney Magic. In addition, award-winning film and television director Carl Franklin, prolific Emmy Award-winning casting director Victoria Thomas, actress, author and producer Jennifer Grant (daughter of iconic actor Cary Grant), and founder of Rialto Pictures and Founding Repertory Artistic Director of New York’s Film Forum Bruce Goldstein will join TCM hosts Ben Mankiewicz, Alicia Malone, Dave Karger, Eddie Muller, and Jacqueline Stewart for film screenings, special fan events and in-depth interviews aboard this unforgettable classic movie experience at sea. 

Fans can join the waiting list for staterooms at tcmcruise.com. 

For full biographies and headshots, please visit https://www.tcmcruise.com/talent/. 

STEFANIE POWERS

Stefanie Powers began her career at age 15, dancing for famed Broadway choreographer, Jerome Robbins. She was put under contract to Columbia Pictures in the final years of the Hollywood star system. While under contract, she appeared in 15 of the 31 motion pictures she has made, co-starring with screen legends such as; John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Cliff Robertson, Elliott Gould, Roger Moore, Donald Sutherland, Bing Crosby, Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, James Caan and Sammy Davis Jr. She recently co-starred with Richard Chamberlain in the critically acclaimed independent film, Three Days (of Hamlet) (2012). Her first television series, The Girl From U.N.C.L.E., marked a milestone in U.S. television's history as the first hour long series featuring a female in the leading role. Her television career includes over 25 mini-series, over 200 episodic guest starring appearances, 35 movies for television and two more television series, Feather and Father and the long running Hart to Hart, starring opposite Robert Wagner. She became a member of the Screen Writers' Guild of America in the 1980s and has produced several of the screenplays she has written, one of which, Family Secrets (1984), was not only a stepping stone for the careers of James Spader and Gary Sinise but it garnered her a nomination for the best screenplay of the year by her peers in the Writers' Guild. Her writing has extended itself to a memoir called, One From The Hart, published by The Robson Press. Throughout her career she has never neglected her theatrical roots, appearing in productions of How the Other Half Loves, Under the Yum Yum Tree, Sabrina Faire, View from the Bridge, Oliver, Annie Get Your Gun, the West End debut of Matador, off-Broadway in The Vagina Monologues and back to the West End with Robert Wagner in Love Letters, which they also toured the United States with, becoming the cast most associated with the play after over 500 performances. She once again appeared in the UK in the West End production of The King and I, which also toured the United States for ten months. As a result of the successful remounting of the musical Sunset Boulevard at the Ogunquit Theatre, a US revival is being planned. She appeared once again in the UK in 2012 co-starring opposite Richard Johnson of Royal Shakespeare Company fame, in the play, On Golden Pond. She has recorded a CD with the legendary jazz artist Page Cavanaugh called On the Same Page, available online at Jambomusic.com. Also in 2012 she performed her one woman show, Hart of my Heart, a tribute to the life and the lyrics of Lorenz Hart at the a tribute to the life and the lyrics of Lorenz Hart at the newly opened Matcham Room at the Hippodrome. As much a part of her life as her career is her devotion to animal preservation and protection, which at times becomes more of a vocation than an avocation. She is founder and president of the William Holden Wildlife Foundation, established in 1982 to continue and to further her long-time partner’s conservation work in East Africa after his death. Throughout her life, Stefanie Powers has had a long-time enviable and successful career in theatre, television and films. However, foremost in her mind has always been the protection, conservation and welfare of the natural world.

LESLEY ANN WARREN 

After winning Broadway’s “Most Promising Newcomer” Award at the age of 17, in the Broadway production 110 In the Shade, Lesley Ann Warren found stardom on the small screen in the title role of the legendary Rogers & Hammerstein’s musical adaptation of Cinderella. Warren’s feature film debut was in Disney’s The Happiest Millionaire (1967), but it was her brilliant performance in Blake Edwards’ comic masterpiece, Victor/Victoria (1982), that earned her nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, as well as winning a New York Film Critics Award and a People’s Choice Award. Additionally, Warren received nominations for a Golden Globe for Songwriter, and a People’s Choice Award for Choose Me (1984). Her additional film credits include the 2006 film 10th and Wolf (written and directed by Academy Award winner Bobby Moresco), Secretary (2002), Steven Soderbergh’s The Limey (1999), Clue (1985), Burglar (1987), Pure Country (1992), Cop (1988) and Mel Brooks' Life Stinks (1991). Warren’s television credits include a Golden Globe Award for her Best Actress performance in the miniseries 79 Park Avenue. She also was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Emmy for her role in the CBS miniseries Family of Spies. Warren received a Cable Ace nomination for her work in Tennessee Williams’ 27 Wagons Full of Cotton. She also received Cable Ace and Golden Globe nominations for her work in HBO Pictures’ Baja Oklahoma. Further television credits include leading roles in the NBC telefilm Evergreen, and the Emmy winning TNT miniseries Joseph (opposite Ben Kingsley). Warren’s recurring roles in television include a comedic tour de force opposite Sydney Pollack on NBC’s hit comedy Will & Grace, the ABC series Desperate Housewives and most recently, five seasons in the USA Network drama, In Plain Sight. Additional credits include the 100th episode of Psych, a tribute to the movie Clue, Community for Yahoo, Gigi Does It for IFC, Girlfriends’ Guide To Divorce for Bravo, Blunt Talk for Starz, Daredevil for Netflix, Jenji Kohan’s American Princess for Lifetime, Broke for CBS, All Rise for CBS and season eight of the hit show 9-1-1 for FOX. Warren’s other recent credits include a series regular role on Panhandle for Sony starring opposite Luke Kirby, Echo Boomers starring opposite Michael Shannon, 3 Days With Dad starring opposite J.K. Simmons, Home Delivery (2025) co-starring opposite Rainn Wilson, Jimmi Simpson and Donald Faison and the upcoming feature film Shadow Watchers co-starring Billy Lush and Victoria Elder. Additionally, Lesley stars in the Silver Screen winner at Cannes for Young Directors short film, Olive, written and directed by Tom Koch. 

NANCY KWAN

Nancy Kwan was catapulted from her native Hong Kong at 19 to become an international star in such famed American films as The World of Suzie Wong and Flower Drum Song. Kwan, the daughter of a prominent architect, was born in Hong Kong and educated in England, where she also studied dancing at the Royal Ballet School. By chance, while on vacation from school in Hong Kong, she was spotted by famed American producer Ray Stark, who was then searching for an Asian beauty to star in the film adaptation of The World of Suzie Wong. After a number of screen tests in Hong Kong, Los Angeles, and London, Kwan finally got the part starring opposite William Holden. For this role, she was nominated for Best Actress and won the International Star of Tomorrow award by the Hollywood Foreign Press. Kwan’s second starring role, which allowed her to display her dancing talents, was in Flower Drum Song, based on the acclaimed Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway Musical. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards. An authentic global player, Ms. Kwan has written and produced film and TV commercials in Southeast Asia while continuing to perform in the United States, Asia, and Europe. In 2002, Ms. Kwan was appointed Hong Kong’s Film Ambassador. Kwan has starred in over fifty films. Some of her films include Fate is the Hunter with Glenn Ford, Walking the Edge with Robert Forster, Keys to Freedom with Jane Seymour and Omar Sharif, Dragon: The Life of Bruce Lee, with Jason Scott Lee. Mr. P’s Dancing Sushi Bar, a project that was developed at Sundance. Kwan appeared on television in the pilot for Hawaii 5-0, with Jack Lord, as well as the two-part Cenotaph episode of Kung Fu, with David Carradine, episodes of Chicago Story, The Last Ninja, James Clavell’s Noble House, Miracle Landing, and Babies. Stage plays include The Quartered Man, Love Letters, Arthur and Leila, and as Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? A woman devoted to spiritual growth, Ms. Kwan developed the concept for Tai Chi Chuan – Touching the Clouds, based on the ancient Chinese exercise. Ms. Kwan starred in the documentary film, To Whom It May Concern: Ka Shen’s Journey, based on her life. Asian Hall of Fame 2021 inductee, Nancy Kwan, was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Recently, Ms. Kwan’s memoir, The World of Nancy Kwan, was released by Hachette Books.

KEITH CARRADINE

Academy Award winner Keith Carradine is an actor and singer-songwriter with over 70 feature films and 30 cable and network television movies to his credit. The son of actors John Carradine and Sonia Sorel, he got his start in the Broadway musical Hair in 1969. Returning to Los Angeles, Keith landed the part of a young gunslinger in A Gunfight (1971) with Kirk Douglas and Johnny Cash. He followed this with an important role in Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) with Warren Beatty and Julie Christie, and his first starring role in Emperor of the North (1973) with Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine. He went on to star in the Altman classics Thieves Like Us (1974) and Nashville (1975), which incorporated several of his musical compositions, including “I'm Easy,” which won the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Song in 1976. His single recording of the song on David Geffen’s Asylum Records reached the Top Ten on the Billboard charts. He released two LP albums with Asylum: I'm Easy and Lost and Found. One highlight of Carradine’s career is a quartet of films directed by close friend and Altman protégé Alan Rudolph: Welcome to L.A. (1976), Choose Me (1984), Trouble in Mind (1985), and The Moderns (1988). Another of Keith's talents was unveiled when he painted several canvases for The Moderns including one that became the film's poster. Keith and Alan recently reunited for Alan’s latest oeuvre, Ray Meets Helen (2017), also starring Sondra Locke. Keith also composed the end-title song “Northern Light” for the Icelandic film Falcons (2002) in which he starred and recorded it in Reykjavik with members of Sigur Rós. He also co-wrote and performed with the late Nanci Griffith "Our Very Own," the end-title song for the film Our Very Own (2005) in which he co-starred opposite Allison Janney and Jason Ritter. Carradine recently appeared in the Quiver release The Devil and the Daylong Brothers (2025), a southern-gothic musical from Brandon McCormick and Nicholas Kirk, as well as Laws of Man (2024) with Dermott Mulroney and Harvey Keitel and in Chris Weitz’s Blumhouse thriller Afraid (2024) opposite John Cho and Katherine Waterston. Additional film credits include Ridley Scott’s The Duellists (1977), Walter Hill’s Southern Comfort (1981), Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog (2021), Cowboy & Aliens(2011), Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (2013), A Quiet Passion (2016), and The Old Man and the Gun (2018). On television, Carradine has appeared in a diverse array of series, including Imperfect Women, Accused, Fargo, Madam Secretary, The Big Bang Theory, Dexter, Deadwood, and Fear the Walking Dead. He returned to Broadway in 1982 in Foxfire, for which he received an Outer Critics Circle Award. He later originated the title role in The Will Rogers Follies, which earned him a Tony nomination for Best Lead Actor in a Musical. Additional stage credits include David Hare's Stuff Happens at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, the musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels on Broadway, Sam Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind, and Hands on a Hardbody, for which he received a second Tony nomination. Keith Carradine has four children: actress Martha Plimpton, fabricator Cade Carradine, and actress Sorel Carradine, and his son with wife Hayley, Sean David Carradine.

STEPHEN TOBOLOWSKY

Stephen Tobolowsky, the quintessential character actor, has appeared in more than one hundred movies and more than two hundred television shows. (USA Today recently noted that he was the ninth most frequently seen actor in film today.)  His roles have spanned virtually the entire spectrum of a working actor’s career, from the big-budget and Oscar-worthy (as head of the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi Burning), to the cult phenomenon (Groundhog Day), to the buzzworthy (Nobody Wants This, Deadwood, Silicon Valley, and Glee).  He wrote and performed in the film Stephen Tobolowsky’s Birthday Party and wrote True Stories with David Byrne and Beth Henley. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two sons. 

CARL FRANKLIN

Carl Franklin is an accomplished filmmaker and television director. After studying history and dramatic arts at UC Berkeley, Franklin spent several years working as an actor both on the New York stage and in series television before returning to school to study filmmaking at the American Film Institute. Armed with his experience in front of the camera, Franklin successfully transitioned behind it with his 1992 breakthrough independent feature One False Move. Named the #1 and #2 film of the year by Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert respectively, the film garnered major critical acclaim and Franklin earned several awards, including Best Director at the Independent Spirit Awards, Best New Filmmaker at the MTV Movie Awards, and the New Generation Award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Carl quickly diversified his resume with the award-winning HBO miniseries Laurel Avenue.  More critical success came with Carl’s follow-up film, the moody neo-noir Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) starring Denzel Washington and Don Cheadle.  He next went on to direct Renée Zellweger, William Hurt, and Meryl Streep in her Academy Award-nominated performance in One True Thing (1998). Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman starred in his thriller High Crimes (2002), and he teamed up again with Denzel Washington, along with Eva Mendes and Sanaa Lathan, for the quirky caper Out of Time (2003). Shot on location in New Mexico, Carl’s indie film Bless Me, Ultima (2012) brought Rudolfo Anaya’s classic Latino coming-of-age tale to the screen.  Carl has also built a remarkable body of work in streaming and prestige TV, directing projects as diverse as HBO’S The Pacific, Rome, The Newsroom, and The Leftovers. His work on the game-changing Netflix streamer House of Cards was nominated for an Emmy and won an NAACP Award for Directing. He took home the NAACP Award for his directing on Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why and was again nominated for a Golden Globe and an Emmy for his work on the sensational Netflix series Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. Carl is up for another NAACP Award this season for Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story. Currently, Carl is writing a new neo-noir series set in Paris, developing a limited series at Netflix on the Black Panther Party, and working on a documentary focused on ancient Nile Civilization.

VICTORIA THOMAS

Vickie Thomas is one of the most gifted and prolific casting directors working today. Combining a lifelong passion for film and television with a keen insight into human nature, Vickie has worked her craft on a wide range of extraordinary films, both studio and independent. Her credits include Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019), Hidden Figures (2016), Straight Outta Compton (2015), Django Unchained (2012), 42 (2013), Blood Diamond (2006), Ali (2001), High Fidelity (2000), The Last Samurai (2003), Bulworth (1998), Enemy Of The State (1998), Crimson Tide (1995), Con Air (1997), White Men Can’t Jump (1992), Devil In A Blue Dress (1995), Ed Wood (1994), Sid And Nancy (1986), Edward Scissorhands (1990), The Grifters (1990) and The Piano (1993). Television credits include The Last Of Us, The Morning Show, Watchmen, Insecure, Power and Everybody Hates Chris. She is a graduate of UC San Diego and the UCLA Graduate Film School. 

JENNIFER GRANT

Jennifer Grant was born and raised in Malibu, California, the only child of icons Cary Grant and Dyan Cannon. Jennifer graduated from Stanford University with a degree in history. Jennifer’s first acting role was as a series regular in Aaron Spelling's Beverly Hills, 90210, and she later appeared in Friends, Ellen, and CSI, as well as several feature films. Jennifer recently appeared in Damien Chazelle's Babylon (2022) starring Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt and will next be seen alongside Colin Farrell in Kogonada’s A Big, Bold, Beautiful Journey (2025). In 2010, Grant wrote Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant, published 2011 by Alfred A. Knopf. Grant served as executive producer on the 2023 ITV/Britbox series Archie, which starred Jason Isaacs as her father. She lives in Los Angeles with her two children, Cary and Davian, and her dog Whisper. 

BRUCE GOLDSTEIN

Bruce Goldstein is the founder of classic film distributor Rialto Pictures and Founding Repertory Artistic Director of New York’s Film Forum, the nation’s flagship cinema for classic film restorations, for which he has created over 500 film festivals in 40 years. He’s been called “the dean of repertory film programmers.” Goldstein’s programming at Film Forum has been called “the Best of New York” by New York Magazine. In 1997, Time Out New York named him one of the 101 essential people or places of New York “for keeping showmanship alive,” and, in 2005, “New York’s Finest Film Programmer.” In its 2012 “Best of New York” issue, the Village Voice called him “the Michael Jordan of Film Programmers.” Kent Jones’s profile of Goldstein in Film Comment was entitled “The King of New York.” He’s been profiled in The New York Times and The New Yorker, among many other publications. Goldstein founded Rialto in 1998. Among the nearly 100 international classics re-released by the company are Jules Dassin’s Rififi (1955), Renoir’s Grand Illusion (1937), Carol Reed’s The Third Man (1949), the original Japanese Godzilla (1954), and Mel Brooks’s The Producers (1968), which kicked off the 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival. Since 2012, Rialto has been the main U.S. theatrical and non-theatrical representative of the Studio Canal library of over 8,000 international titles. In 2023, the Museum of Modern Art in New York honored Rialto with a 25th anniversary retrospective and this year honored Goldstein’s career as a film programmer. Goldstein has produced events for all of TCM’s Festivals and Cruises, including popular presentations on pre-Code movies, character actors, vaudeville, subtitling, Godzilla, the Nicholas Brothers, Capra’s The Donovan Affair (for which he re-created the missing soundtrack with live actors), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), and many other events. Each year, Club TCM is packed to the rafters for his quiz show “So You Think You Know Movies,” which helps kick off the annual TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood. Goldstein’s acclaimed “New York trilogy” of short films (Uncovering The Naked City, In the Footsteps of Speedy, and TCM’s Pelham One Two Three: NYC Underground) were all shown on HBO Max as part of the 2021 virtual TCM Classic Film Festival. In 2023 he served as a consultant on the Museum of the City of New York exhibition “You Are Here,” a 16-screen installation using clips from over 700 movies set in NYC. In 1990, the New York Film Critics Circle presented Goldstein with a special award “for consistent and imaginative quality programming of repertory films.” In 2002, he was decorated with the French Order of “Chevalier” of Arts & Letters. In 2012, he was the recipient of the first Lifetime Achievement Award in Film ever given by George Eastman House. Goldstein recently appeared alongside Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg in TCM’s mini-doc Two For One.

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