Now that principal photography is underway for Dolphin Tale, it behooves us to learn a bit about the involved actors who haven’t won an Oscar, don’t fill concert arenas and haven’t run barefoot on the race track after her husband won the Indy 500 (again). 

After all, no movie star who isn’t really a star at the moment wishes to go unrecognized. 

Without any official news releases yet from the Dolphin Tale staff, we’re mostly going by the handy, dandy Internet Movie Database’s IMDb Pro system, which isn’t complete (heck, it still has the film titled A Dolphin’s Tale and that changed weeks ago). It’s always worth noting that IMDb members have the ability to add information, so posting overblown vanity credits is an issue – and quite possible in a couple of cases here.

Please feel free to leave a comment about anyone we missed. For now, though, here are your Dolphin Tale actors supporting Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd and Harry Connick Jr. 

Oh yeah, and Winter the bottlenose dolphin, too. 

Nathan Gamble – Gamble (above) plays “Sawyer,” the son of Judd’s character, who bonds with Winter during the dolphin’s recuperation. The 12 year old actor has the screen resume of an actor twice his age. Already he appeared in the films The Dark Knight, Marley & Me, The Mist and Babel, and on television with roles in Ghost Whisperer, House M.D., CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Without a Trace. He is unrelated to Dennis the Menace star Mason Gamble but the resemblance is uncanny. 

Cozi Zuehlsdorff – Zuehlsdorff (right) is making her screen debut after an extended nationwide talent search, playing “Hazel,” the daughter of Connick’s Clearwater Marine Aquarium director. Zuehlsdorff is so new to show biz that even Googling her can’t come up with an age. 

Austin Stowell – The 6-foot-2 aspiring heartthrob (left) plays Kyle, a neighborhood idol of Sawyer’s whose farewell barbeque is the sequence filmed Monday in Clearwater. Stowell’s movie debut Puncture is in the can awaiting a 2011 release (he plays a medic). He plays Jesse on TV’s The Secret Life of American Teenagers, and had one-shot roles in 90210 and Secret Girlfriend. 

Juliana Harkavy – The relationship of Harkavy’s character “Rebecca” is unknown for now. Hopefully it’s juicier than her only movie credits listed in IMDbPro: “passerby” in the flop My Super Ex-Girlfriend and “girl in India” in 1995’s A Little Princess. Harkavy (right) appeared in one episode of The Glades on television. 

Josh Rozman – The Tampa actor had blink-and-you’ll-miss-him roles in The Glades and the short film Caged Dreams, directed by Ybor City cineastes Paul and Pete Guzzo. No character name is listed for his first feature film role in Dolphin Tale, so this IMDb listing has a whiff of self-promotion to it. 

Kim Ostrenko – The Miami actor (left) plays “Alice,” the supportive sister of Judd’s “Lorraine,” and reportedly a key player in the barbeque sequence filmed Monday. IMDbPro lists 15 credits for her, notably the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon and the raunchy teen comedy Sex Drive. 

Michael Roark – The Tampa actor gets a character name – “Donovan Peck” sounds movie star-ish – but the connection with Winter and Sawyer is uncertain at this time. Roark had one-shot appearances on episodes of The Glades, Drop Dead Diva and The Vampire Diaries. 

Jim Fitzpatrick – Playing Kyle’s father, hosting that farewell barbeque. The former Tarzan at Busch Gardens and Tampa Bay Bandits football player had small roles in such films as Armageddon and Elizabethtown, and TV roles in All My Children, JAG and Star Trek: Enterprise. Lately he has been focused on writing, producing and directing straight-to-nowhere movies. His long-gestating project A Fonder Heart lost its star Burt Reynolds last year, prompting the actor to text unflattering things about Fitzpatrick. I'm guessing the subject didn't come up during auditions.