A rebel and a genius, Morgan Pym is older than he looks. Born in Nuremberg, 1326 AD and raised in a monastery, Morgan Pym studied science and medicine and devoted his life to the service of God until his love for a dying woman prompted him to rage at God and make a deal with the devil: 10 years of bliss with Katrina in exchange for his immortal soul. At the end of a blissful decade of love and good fortune comes the day of reckoning, when Katrina becomes ill again and this time dies of the plague. Morgan, too, becomes infected, but when the Devil comes for his soul, Morgan fights back, impressing the Devil to strike another deal: In lieu or eternal damnation, Morgan will become one of his Collectors.

For six centuries Morgan plays the part - finding people and notifying them that they have 48 hours until their deal expires, and their soul is sucked down to Hell. When Morgan meets a young girl named Maya - who reminds him strongly of Katrina - he is inspired to renegotiate his deal. Now he can help his "clients" seek redemption, and hope that one day he, too, will be redeemed.

Chris Kramer was born in Regina, Sask., and lived in several different Canadian cities before settling with his family in Calgary. While attending college in Calgary, Chris decided to become an actor. At 21, he left college and enrolled in The Company of Rogues Acting Studio in Calgary. Chris worked on various productions that were shot in Calgary and then moved to Vancouver. He has since guest starred on numerous television programs and pilots including The Chris Isaack Show, Just Cause, The Twilight Zone and Seven Days. In addition to playing the lead in The Collector, Chris is starring in a feature film entitled Cable Beach, which is shooting in Victoria.

Maya is a 22-year-old junkie and prostitute when she meets Morgan Pym. She sparks Morgan's intolerance of his own existence by reminding him of his lost love, Katrina. A bright, fragile and surprisingly well-educated kid from an upscale but abusive family, Maya has been on the streets since running away from home at age 17. She becomes Morgan's downstairs neighbor and he becomes her protector and the father figure she never had. Under his care, she kicks heroin and starts to heal her life. Canadian actress Carly Pope got an early start with television movie and episodic work before landing the plum role of Sam on the WB series Popular. During the two-year run of the series, Carly was featured in major magazines including Maxim, Cosmo Girl and Teen.

After Popular was cancelled, Carly returned to her hometown of Vancouver, B.C., where she has been based ever since. She has had leading roles in the Canadian independent feature Whitecoats and the American movie-of-the-week This Time Around. She was also in the CBC miniseries Hemmingway vs. Callahan and the indie Various Positions. She has been described as “a top-notch professional with an international scope to her talents,” and “an actor of the highest caliber despite her young years.”

An investigative journalist for the Vancouver Star newspaper, Jeri is a smart, pretty and driven single mother in her early 40s.In her work, Jeri crosses path with Morgan Pym who sparks her reporter's suspicion. She spots a strange pattern among certain people connected to Morgan: several years of extraordinary success, followed by failure and sudden disappearance or death. Jeri has an eight-year-old autistic son named Gabriel who has never spoken but draws compulsively. As Gabe emerges as a key to Morgan's redemption, both his and his mother's life are put in jeopardy.

The Toronto-born Ellen Dubin started her performing career as a ballet dancer. Due to a temporary knee injury, she began acting in theatre. Her stage credits include A Moon For The Misbegotten, A Chorus Line, A Servant Of Two Masters, and Tamara (the New York Circles' Award-winning production in Los Angeles and the World Stage Festival in Toronto). Ellen's TV and film credits include Never Too Late, LEXX, the Miramax/ABC miniseries A Wrinkle In Time, Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict, First Wave, Relic Hunter, Mutant X, Napoleon Dynamite (which screened at Sundance 2004), and the Bravo! television movie Murder 19C: The Detective Murdoch Mysteries - Except The Dying. Ellen divides her time between Los Angeles, Vancouver and Toronto.