Erik is the youngest of 3 sons born to Peter and Queenie Palladino. He grew up in Yonkers, and wanted to become an actor since seeing Robert De Niro's performance in Raging Bull (1980) when he was 12. A year later, he joined a children's repertory company. He and his brother, Chris, performed... Read More

Anthony Peter Planck Edwards was born on July 19th, 1962 in Santa Barbara, California. He started his acting career when he was 12 on the stage. He would act over 30 plays in 5 years before he went over to London to attend the Royal Academy of Arts. He would also attend USC in Los Angeles to... Read More

Alex Kingston was born on March 11, 1963, in Surrey, England. She grew up in Epsom, on the outskirts of London, the eldest of three daughters of a butcher and his German wife. She became interested in acting after a family trip to Germany, where she saw her uncle performing on stage. Her first... Read More

Maura Lynn Tierney was born on February 3, 1965, in Boston, Massachusetts, the oldest of three children, to a prosperous politician father, Joseph Tierney, and a real estate agent mother, Pat Tierney. She grew up in the exclusive Hyde Park district of Boston and attended Notre Dame Academy, an... Read More

Goran Visnjic was born in Sibenik, Croatia on September 9, 1972. The child of a bus driver and a food market worker, he has one older brother. Visnjic is married to Ivana Vrdoljak, daughter of director Antun Vrdoljak, and they have one adopted son, Tin. Goran Visnjic began acting as a... Read More

Michael was born Michael Michele Williams on August 30, 1966, to proud parents Jerry and Theresa Williams. She spent many of her formative years in New York City where she later began to pursue an acting career. In 1984, practically right our of high school, Michael moved to New York and began... Read More

Ming-Na Wen was born on Coloane Island, Macau (an island under Portuguese rule that was later returned to China) on November 20, 1963. Her mother, Lin Chan Wen, divorced her father when Ming-Na was a young child. After the divorce, Ming-Na and her family moved to Hong Kong where her mother became... Read More

Noah Wyle was born Noah Strausser Speer Wyle on June 4, 1971, in Hollywood, California. He was the middle child of three raised by parents Stephen Wyle, an electrical engineer, and Marjorie Speer, an orthopedic nurse. His parents divorced when Wyle was six. His mother, with whom the children... Read More

Paul McCrane was born in Philadelphia in 1961. He started learning to play the guitar in his teenage years, and even wrote a song at the age of 16 for his girlfriend. However, although he was interested in music, he also wanted to pursue a career in acting. He landed his first role in 1977 in... Read More

La Salle is one of four children. He has a B.F.A. Degree in theatre from New York University. In adition, he studied two years at Juillard. La Salle acted in many plays on and off brodway. His big break came when he played "Mike Rivers" in the soap opera One Life to Live in 1968. Following that... Read More

One of six children, Laura Innes was born in Pontiac, Michigan, and raised in nearby Birmingham. She remembers her father, a college English instructor, taking the family to the famous Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario, Canada, when she was small. It was there that she got her first taste... Read More