Cracker (US)
ABC (ended 1999)
Cast & Crew
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Carolyn McCormick
Judith Fitzgerald
Carolyn trained at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater (ACT). She played in her first feature, the interesting science-fiction saga "Enemy Mine" while completing her graduate studies. She joined the company of the ACT for a time thereafter, but TV work picked up when she joined the cast of the detective series, "Spenser: For Hire", during its second season in 1986 to play Rita Fiori, feisty young assistant D.A. and romantic sparring partner for series star Robert Urich. Carolyn subsequently did regional stage work and played a recurring role as Minuet, a computer-generated ideal woman, on the popular science-fiction series, Star Trek: The Next Generation. Occasional feature work, as in "A Simple Twist of Fate", came her way, but Carolyn was primarily seen as intelligent police psychiatrist Elizabeth Olivet, another recurring role, on most of the series episodes of acclaimed "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit " from 1991 to 1997. In the fall of 1997, she moved on to become the unhappy wife of a police psychiatrist played by Robert Pastorelli in the short-lived Americanized version of "Cracker (1997)". Carolyn is married to Byron Jennings; mother of two children.moreless -
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Angela Featherstone
Hannah Tyler
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Robert Pastorelli
Gerry 'Fitz' Fitzgerald
Known for playing streetwise, savvy and ballsy characters, Robert Pastorelli was an accomplished film, TV and stage actor perhaps best known for the role of house painter Eldin on Murphy Brown.
Pastorelli was a former boxer, which added to the tough-guy persona of many of his characters. His break-out film role came in 1990 when he appeared in Dances With Wolves, and he also could be seen in Eraser, Michael, and Be Cool.
Pastorelli is perhaps most famous and most widely remembered for his seven seasons on Murphy Brown as Eldin, the house painter who was always ready to lend an ear and advice to Candace Bergen. The role earned Pastorelli a 1995 Emmy nomination, and paved the way for him to star in his own short-lived sitcom, Double Rush. Pastorelli got to return to his theatre roots later in his career. He appeared alongside Glenn Close in the made-for-TV adaptation of South Pacific and co-starred with her in London onstage in A Streetcar Named Desire. In 1998, he starred in the US version of the British crime drama Cracker, assuming the role created by Robert Coltrane.
Sadly, drug use dogged Pastorelli throughout his life, and he died of a heroin overdose on March 8, 2004.moreless -
Robert Wisdom
Detective Danny Watlington
Robert Wisdom is an American actor whose success can also be seen on television programs such as Cracker (1997-1999) and The Wire (2003-2006). Wisdom was born and raised by Jamaican parents in Washington, D.C. He went to St. Alban's School and graduated from Columbia University in New York with a degree in history and economics. Wisdom loves World Music. To follow his passion, he has traveled the world and plays several percussion instruments.moreless -
Josh Hartnett
Michael Fitzgerald
Joshua Daniel Hartnett was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on July 21, 1978. Josh attended Cretin-Derham Hall and South High School.
Josh's first acting gigs were a Northwestern Airline commercial and role as "Huck Finn" in a high school play. After leaving the Midwest, going to New York where he studied at SUNY, Josh went to California where he landed a role of Michael Fitzgerald in the TV series Cracker. Then in 1998 he played John Tate in Halloween H20 Twenty Years Later. The movie roles have been increasing ever since.
Josh dated his high school sweetheart Ellen Fenster for several years after making it big as an actor, but the two broke up for good in February 2004. Josh has cemented his heart-throb status and is often seen with a number of different actresses.moreless -
Amber Benson
Amy
Sign: Capricorn Height: 5'4" Eyes: blue Amber was born in Birmingham, Alabama on January 8, 1977. Her experience with show business started early, and she had already studied acting, dancing, and singing by the time she was 13. During her teen years she performed in a number of productions at a community theater, and by 1992 she and her family had moved to Los Angeles so that she could pursue her acting career full time. Amber landed her first movie role in 1993 in "King of the Hill". The same year she played Alicia Silverstone's best friend Cheyenne in "The Crush". She then moved to the small screen playing the daughter of Detective Jack Reed in a series of made-for-TV movies called, "Jack Reed: Badge of Honor" , "Jack Reed: A Search for Justice", and "Jack Reed: One of Our Own." Most of Amber's film career revolves around independent films, with parts in "Take it Easy", "Deadtime", "Don's Plumb" with Leonardo DiCaprio, and "Hollywood, Pennsylvania." Her parts in larger films include "S.F.W." with Reese Witherspoon, "Imaginary Crimes" with Harvey Keitel, and "Bye Bye, Love" with Paul Reiser and Eliza Dushku. Still, she is easily best known for her three seasons on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" as Tara, the shy and awkward witch who becomes involved with Willow in season 4 of the series. The time on the show opened many doors for Amber, both in front of the camera, and behind it. In the new millennium, Amber has been working in many other areas of show business. She has written a film script ("The Theory of the Leisure Class") and two shorter animated pieces for BBC television ("Ghosts of Albion: Legacy" and "Ghosts of Albion: Embers"). She also wrote, produced, directed, and starred in her own film in 2002 called "Chance." She most recently finished writing the script for her movie "Lovers, Liars and Lunatics." She is also on a book tour with Christopher Golden, promoting their book, "Ghosts of Albion: Accursed."moreless -
Fab Filippo
Guest Star
Fabrizio (Fab) Filippo (born 1974 in Toronto) is a Canadian actor. His best-known roles include Scott Hope in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, violinist Ethan Gold in Queer as Folk , Dom Ramone in Ready or Not and lawyer Sam Caponelli in Billable Hours, as well as the films waydowntown, The Life Before This and Lives of the Saints.moreless -
Jason Behr
Andrew Lang
Jason was raised by his mother. He has three brothers and a half sister. His first role in acting came at age five when he was in a play at his school. At the age of six he landed a role playing many characters in the movie "Seasons Greetings." Jason has filmed many commercials and modeling jobs. He is best known for his starring role on "Roswell." He also starred with Sarah Michelle Gellar in "The Grudge." He married actress KaDee Strickland on November 10, 2006 who he met on the set of the film "The Grudge" in 2004.moreless -
Meredith Monroe
Faustian Fitz
Meredith Monroe was born in Houston, Texas, but grew up in Hinsdale, Ill. Meredith is best known for her role as Andie McPhee in the WB's popular series Dawson's Creek. She also had small roles in the television shows Dangerous Minds and Criminal Minds, as well as film roles in Manhood, Full Ride, and Minority Report. Besides acting, Meredith starred in a commercial for Tylenol sinus and appeared on the covers of five "Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys" books.moreless -
William Lee Scott
Jeremy Falls
Born July 6 1973, in a small town in New York, Hudson New York. William went to an art intensive high school that taught writing, theatre, and the arts. It's no wonder that his likes include screenwriting and painting, among other things.
Discovered while working as a waiter in New York City, William was introduced to an agent and an acting coach.
In 1995 Columbia University presented him with the "Best Actor Award" for Tis the Season. In 2003 He was awarded the "Rising Star" Award at the 5th Annual Young Holloywood Awards. William's schedule right now is becoming busy with Killer Diller, The Winning Season, and $5.15/Hr. for just this year.moreless -
Lorraine Toussaint
Guest Star
When deciding upon a career, young Lorraine Toussaint let her fingers do the walking. The actress, who now shifts from playing a successful attorney in "Any Day Now" to an assertive medical examiner in NBC's "Crossing Jordan," gained her initial interest in acting after somebody asked her -- at the age of 11 -- what she wanted to do with her life. Puzzled, she opened the phone directory, turned to the "A" section and found a variety of acting school advertisements. She called the school with the largest ad, and quickly found herself hooked. Toussaint got her start studying theater at New York's renowned High School of Performing Arts and The Juilliard School. On her graduation day, she landed her first paying job as Lady Macbeth with "Shakespeare & Company." That was just the beginning as she spent 12 years working in New York theater prior to moving to Los Angeles. Toussaint starred for four seasons as Rene Jackson on the critically acclaimed cable drama "Any Day Now," a role she concluded last year. As a result, she was nominated for four NAACP Image Awards for Best Actress in a Drama Series, a TV Guide Award nomination for Best Actress in a Drama Series and received the Wiley A. Branton Award from the National Bar Association. Toussaint's other television credits include recurring roles on NBC's Emmy Award-winning drama "Law & Order" and "Murder One" as well as regular series lead roles on "Leaving L.A.," "Where I Live" and "Amazing Grace." She also appeared in several television movies, including "Lullabyes and Lies," "A Case of Deadly Force," "The Cherokee Kid," "Nightjohn," "If These Walls Could Talk," "America's Dream," and the miniseries "Queen," starring Halle Berry. Toussaint's feature-film credits include "Point of No Return," "Psalms from the Underground," "Breaking In" and "Hudson Hawk." Upcoming projects for Toussaint include producing the cable television movie "The Joyce Ann Brown Story," which is currently in development. Toussaint currently resides in Los Angeles. In her free time she enjoys traveling, cooking and hiking with her dog, Kaia. Her birthday is April 4. From: NBCmoreless -
Mariska Hargitay
Guest Star
Mariska was born on January 23, 1964 as Mariska Magdolna Hargitay. She was born in Los Angeles, California. Her legendary parents, Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay brought Mariska up in the world of spot lights and cameras. She is their youngest daughter. Mariska doesn't recall much of her mother due to her early death in a tragic car accident when Mariska was only 3 years old. Though this car accident took the life of her mother, thankfully Mariska, who was in the back seat at the time, survived.
Mariska didn't always dream of being an actress. When she attended High School she was more involved in cheerleading, student government, and sports. She occasionally involved herself in theater. The more involved she became in theater the more she began to realize that she liked it. Eventually she enrolled in UCLA and became a drama student. She claimed notoriety in many different films, television shows and other theatrical performances. In April of 2004 Mariska married Peter Hermann. In June 2006, she and her husband welcomed her first child a son, named August Miklos Friedrich.
After briefly studying theater at UCLA, she landed her first motion picture role as Donna in The Ghoulies (1985). She also appeared in the films Leaving Las Vegas (1995)and in Lake Placid (1999) as Myra Okubo. A made-for-TV movie, Plain Truth (2004) (TV), in which she plays attorney Ellie Harrison, aired in the fall of 2004.
She landed the role of Det. Olivia Benson on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" in 1999, when the "Law & Order" spin-off premiered.
Hargitay also speaks Hungarian, French, Spanish, and Italian. She started the Joyful Heart Foundation in 2004, an organization for survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence and child abuse. In April 2011 Mariska and her husband Peter Hermann adopted a newborn baby girl they named Amaya Josephinemoreless -
Elpidia Carrillo
Anna
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Linda Carlson
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Louis Ferreira
Boyfriend/Stalker
Justin's parents immigrated to Canada early in his life and he grew up in North York, Ontario. He is best known for his role as Colonel Everett Young in Stargate Universe. -
Christine Healy
Guest Star
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Paul Perri
Guest Star
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Boti Bliss
Tina
Boti's appeared in many film and television shows from Bubble Boy to Nash Bridges. But the one show she's more recognized as is playing Maxine Valera, the DNA lab analysis on the CBS hit crime drama CSI: Miami. -
Sarah Paulson
Nina
A lovely and talented actress with a knack for both comedy and drama, Sarah Paulson was born in Tampa, Florida on December 17, 1975. Her family relocated to Manhattan, where she attended both the LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Paulson made her professional debut at the age of 12 in an off-Broadway production of Amerlia Again, and she worked extensively on the New York stage after completing her education. She made her television debut in a 1994 episode of the series Law & Order, and, in 1995, was cast as Merlyn Temple, a dead woman who can communicate with her living brother, on the fantasy series American Gothic. While the show only ran for a year, it developed a devoted cult following. Following American Gothic's cancellation, Paulson made her feature-film debut in the thriller Levitation, and in 1999, she appeared in Garry Marshall's comedy drama The Other Sister.
She returned to episodic television that same year as Elisa Cronkite on the romantic drama series Jack and Jill, which ran two seasons. During the show's run, she landed a supporting role in the Mel Gibson/Helen Hunt vehicle What Women Want, and after Jack and Jill ran its course, Paulson was cast in the lead role of the short-lived situation comedy Leap of Faith. She later had a supporting role in the 2003 romantic comedy Down With Love.
In 2006 Sarah starred in Aaron Sorkin's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. After the show's cancellation Sarah set her focus on her film career.moreless -
Wanda Lee Evans
Guest Star
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Ted Marcoux
Toby
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Efrain Figueroa
Hector Chavez
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Jillian Armenante
Ina Gardner
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Amy Hargreaves
Cathy
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Heather McComb
Guest Star
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Grace Phillips
Collen McBeal
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Larry Holden
Steve
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Lee Tergesen
Dan Green
Lee Allen Tergesen was born on July 8, 1965 in Ivoryton, Connecticut. Lee graduated from Valley Regional High School in Deep River, Connecticut, and was 18 when he moved to New York to become an actor. After graduating from the American Theatre and Dramatic Academy in 1985, Lee did a lot of stage work, and upon finding there was no money in it, he decided to grow his hair long to counteract the straight-arrow type of roles his agents thought he should try for. During this time, Lee primarily worked at the Empire Diner where he met Tom Fontana (the award-winning producer and writer whose work includes "Oz," "Homicide: Life on the Street," and "St. Elsewhere"), who lived around the corner from the diner. In 1990, Lee accompanied Fontana to Los Angeles to help him move. While dining at a restaurant on the day after arriving in L.A., a casting director and friend of Fontana's asked Lee if he was an actor. It was this encounter that led to Lee being cast in the surfing-action-detective movie "Point Break". Lee subsequently appeared as Terry, the cameraman, in "Wayne's World" and became part of two major pieces of pop culture: The "Bohemian Rhapsody" scene and uttering the "I love you, man" line that was adopted for Budweiser commercials. In 1993, he began a series of recurring appearances in Tom Fontana's "Homicide: Life on the Street." He then was a series regular in 1994-1997 as Chett, the bullying older brother, in "Weird Science." In 1997, Lee went East for an episode of "Homicide" and met up with Tom Fontana. They discussed a prison drama that Fontana was producing for HBO. Soon, Lee was cast as a central character in "Oz," playing Tobias Beecher, a part Fontana wrote for him. After "Oz" ended its run in 2003, Lee had numerous guest appearances and/or supporting roles in TV shows and movies. From October 2004 into January 2005, following his desire to return to theatre, he appeared in an off-Broadway play, "The Foreigner," a comedy with Matthew Broderick. Most recently, Lee can be seen in a new TV series, "Wanted," which begin airing July 31, 2005, on TNT and has also appeared on several episodes of "Desperate Housewives" in spring 2006. His most recent film is as a biker in the horror/slasher film, "Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning".moreless
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