MELANIE LYNSKEY (Lauren)
won international acclaim for her debut performance in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures, which earned her a Best Actress award in her native New Zealand. Since then she has had a very successful feature film career, co-starring in Flags of Our Fathers, Sweet Home Alabama, Ever After, Shattered Glass, Coyote Ugly, But I'm a Cheerleader, Abandon and Detroit Rock City, and playing the lead in another NZ film, Snakeskin. On the small screen, she appears regularly as "Rose" on the sitcom Two and a Half Men, starred in Stephen King's Rose Red and Larry McMurtry's Comanche Moon, and guest starred on The L Word, Psych and The Shield.

Claustrophobia is Melanie's second feature with writer/director Mark Tapio Kines; their first collaboration was Foreign Correspondents.

 
SHEERI RAPPAPORT (Gina)
made her television debut as a troubled teen in the series Clarissa Explains It All. Thus began a busy career on the small screen, with recurring roles on CSI (in which she still frequently appears as fingerprint expert Mandy Webster) as well as Xena, 7th Heaven, The District and NYPD Blue, where she starred for a season as Officer Mary Franco. Having also appeared in the TV movies For My Daughter's Honor, Two Voices and My Summer as a Girl, Sheeri gained a cult following for her starring role in the teen horror flick Little Witches.

Sheeri recently guest-starred on Strong Medicine and appeared in the independent features The United States of Leland and Seeing Other People. She stars in the shorts Last Night (opposite Frances McDormand), The Vision and Losing Lois Lane.

 
MARY LYNN RAJSKUB (Grace)
plays surly computer expert Chloe O'Brian on the hit TV series 24, which has made her insanely popular with the show's millions of fans. She was also a regular on the popular HBO comedies Mr. Show and The Larry Sanders Show. She has co-starred in several major feature films, with her biggest roles in Sunshine Cleaning, Punch-Drunk Love, Firewall and Legally Blonde 2, along with small but memorable turns in Little Miss Sunshine, Road Trip, The Anniversary Party, Dude Where's My Car?, Mysterious Skin, Man on the Moon, Storytelling and Sweet Home Alabama.

Mary Lynn has performed in the TV series The Sketch Show, The King of Queens, Gilmore Girls, Veronica's Closet and Just Shoot Me, as well as the TV movie Helter Skelter.

 
JUDY O'DEA (Alena Gray)
will go down in cinema history for her leading role in George Romero's original 1968 thriller Night of the Living Dead, one of the most influential horror movies of all time. Her performance as Barbra (as in "They're coming to get you, Barbra") won her legions of film fans.

Judy is also an accomplished stage actress and has done a great deal of voiceover work for radio. She now runs her own business as a presentation consultant. Claustrophobia brought her out of cinematic retirement for her small but pivotal role as an early target of a mysterious killer. She next appeared in the independent horror thrillers October Moon, Women's Studies and November Son. Please visit her web site here.