Sunshine Cleaning

About the Cast

Amy Adams (Rose Lorkowski)
Academy Award nominated actress Amy Adams has built an impressive list of credits in a short period of time, challenging herself with each new role.   Adams’ role as the pregnant, childlike 'Ashley’ who is awe-struck by the arrival of her glamorous sister-in-law in Phil Morrison's Junebug earned her nominations for an Academy Award and a SAG Award in 2005.  She also won awards for this role from the Broadcast Film Critics Association, National Society of Film Critics, San Francisco Film Critics Society, as well as the Independent Spirit Award, Breakthrough Gotham Award and the Special Jury Prize for Acting at the Sundance Film Festival.

Adams' other film credits include Adam McKay's Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby with Will Ferrell, Clare Kilner's The Wedding Date with Debra Messing and Dermot Mulroney, Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can, Reginald Hudlin's Serving Sara, Anthony Abrams' Pumpkin, Drop Dead Gorgeous, and Psycho Beach Party

Adams will next be seen in Kevin Lima's Enchanted opposite James Marsden, Idina Menzel, Patrick Dempsey and Susan Sarandon scheduled to be released by Disney on November 21, 2007. She will also star in Mike Nichols' Charlie Wilson's War opposite Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Emily Blunt and Phillip Seymour Hoffman to be released by Universal Pictures on December 25, 2007.

Emily Blunt     (Norah Lorkowski)
Emily Blunt shot to international prominence with her role as the mysterious, privileged Tamsin in Pawel Pawlikowski’s award-winning film, My Summer of Love, which earned her Most Promising Newcomer at the 2004 Evening Standard Film Awards and a nomination in the Best Newcomer category at the British Independent Film Awards

In 2006, Blunt starred as the intensely neurotic Emily Charlton in The Devil Wears Prada opposite Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci. For her performance, Blunt was honored with the Breakthrough Award at Movieline’s Young Hollywood Awards. She also received several nominations including Breakthrough Female by the Teen Choice Awards and Best Supporting Actress by the Golden Globes and BAFTA. 

In 2007, Blunt received a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series for her performance as Natasha in the British Television series, Gideon’s Daughter

Blunt will next be seen in multiple projects including The Jane Austen Book Club co-starring Maria Bello, Frances McDormand, Kevin Zegers and Hugh Dancy. She will also star in Mike Nicholls’s Charlie Wilson’s War opposite Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Amy Adams and Philip Seymor Hoffman to be released by Universal Pictures on December 25, 2007.

Alan Arkin (Joe Lorkowski)
Alan Arkin has long been recognized as an actor of great talent and versatility on stage, screen and television. He won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the 2007 BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor, the 2007 Best Motion Picture Cast Performance by the SAG Awards and the 2007 Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance in Little Miss Sunshine. 

Arkin’s first feature, The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming, earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, as well as an Oscar nomination.  He received a second Oscar nomination, and the New York Critic's Award, for his performance in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.  A second New York Critic's Award followed for his role in Hearts of the West.  His other films have included Catch 22; Little Murders (which he also directed); Joshua: Then and Now; The In-Laws; Edward Scissorhands; Havana; Glengarry Glenn Ross; Four Days In September; Mother Night; Slums Of Beverly Hills; Gattaca; Steal Big, Steal Little; Jakob The Liar; Grosse Pointe Blank; America’s Sweethearts; and Thirteen Conversations About One Thing, Noel, The Novice.  He has written and directed two short films, T.G.I.F. and People Soup.  The first opened the New York Film Festival, and the latter received an Oscar nomination for Best Short Subject.

Arkin recently completed filming Rendition starring opposite Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal and Meryl Streep and will next play the role of the Chief in Get Smart starring opposite Steve Carell.

About the Director

Christine Jeffs (Director)
Christine Jeffs was born in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. She graduated from Massey University with a B.A. in Sociology and Geography.

Jeffs entered the film industry to work in post-production sound. Becoming an assistant editor, she worked on several New Zealand documentaries as well as such feature films as Melanie Read’s Send a Gorilla, Gaylene Preston’s Ruby and Rata, John Laing’s Absent Without Leave, and Alison Maclean’s Crush (starring Marcia Gay Harden). In 1990, she completed a diploma in editing at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School and began cutting films as well as commercials

Her first short film, Stroke, which she wrote, directed and edited, was screened at numerous film festivals including Cannes and Sundance. Her first feature film, Rain, for which she adapted the screenplay from Kirsty Gunn’s novel, was selected for its World Premiere in the Directors Fortnight at the 2001 Cannes International Film Festival. After Cannes, Rain was invited to screen all over the world. Concurrent with its screening at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2002, Jeffs was named one of Daily Variety’s “10 Directors to Watch.”

In 2003, Jeffs directed Focus Features’ Sylvia, the biographical story of prominent American Poet, Syliva Plath and her husband Ted Hughes. The film starred Gwyneth Paltrow and Daniel Craig.