Huff
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Oliver Platt
Russell Tupper
Oliver Platt was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. His place of birth is often reported as Washington because that is where his parents resided at the time. His parents are Sheila Maynard, a former clinical social worker in Islamabad, and Nicholas Platt who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, the Philippines, and Pakistan. Oliver is the middle child of three sons. His older brother Adam is a writer for New York Magazine and his younger brother Nicholas Jr. is a publishing executive.
Due to his father's diplomatic career, Oliver Platt's family moved to many different places, including the Middle and Far East, and he attended many different schools. In 1983, he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Drama from Tufts University, Massachusetts.
In September 1992, Oliver Platt married Mary Camilla Bonsal Campbell at the First Congregational Church in Kittery Point, Maine. Camilla Campbell works as a freelance assistant producer of documentary films in New York. They have three children, Lili (born in 1994), George (born in 1997), and Claire (born in 1999). Oliver Platt is mainly a movie actor and says that he enjoys playing interesting supporting roles. His major tv credits include the Award-winning role as Russell Tupper in Huff and recurring roles in The West Wing and Bored To Death.moreless -
Paget Brewster
Beth
Paget Brewster took an auspicious if roundabout path to an acting career. Firstly she sought out fame in New York, where she was the singer for an underground rock band, then later moved to San Francisco where she became a local television personality. From there, she moved to Los Angeles, where she acted in a string of failed pilots, landed a recurring role on NBC's hit sitcom "Friends" and made her starring regular debut on the 1999 CBS series "Love & Money".
Dark-haired and quick witted, with a winning smile and a mischievous allure, Brewster broke through as a talk show host on the aptly named late-night series "The Paget Show", aired on San Francisco's KPIX. Fielding topics that ranged from serious family disputes to drag queen makeovers, she had a likeable, spunky presence and came across well in the genre.
The series was courted by syndication companies, the USA Network and Fox, but despite this interest, and no doubt partly due to the influx of other talkers on the air at the time, "The Paget Show" never lived past its 65 episode KPIX incarnation. Still, her engaging energetic presence opened doors for acting opportunities, and she filmed two failed sitcom pilots for Fox, the music video network-set "MV24" and a zany vehicle for comedian Dana Gould entitled "World on a String". Persevering despite these early disappointments, Brewster landed a role on the popular NBC sitcom "Friends", playing Kathy, a medical assistant/actress who dates hunky but dim Joey, only to fall in love with his sarcastic, self-effacing roommate Chandler.
Brewster appeared on six episodes of the series, significantly raising her profile and lining up more starring roles in failed pilots, including the Fox police series "Ghost Cop" and the CBS detective drama "The Expert". 1998 saw her take on a recurring voice role in the Fox animated adventure adaptation "Godzilla: The Series" and a starring role as a NASA technician in the action packed "Max Q" (ABC), producer Jerry Bruckheimer's misfired TV-movie debut. Brewster struck gold with "Love & Money", a CBS pilot picked up for the 1999 fall season, in which she starred as Allison Conklin, a kindergarten teacher and daughter of privilege who falls for her affluent apartment building's blue-collar superintendent (Brian Van Holt).
With a supporting cast including Swoosie Kurtz as her boozy mother and David Ogden Stiers as her austere father, she made her network television starring debut in good company and considered the series, whether or not it proved a hit, an invaluable learning experience. On the big screen, Brewster starred in the 1998 independent feature "Let's Talk About Sex", as Michelle, an intimacy-wary and controlling single woman who routinely dates much younger men.
Brewster played a fast-talking down-on-her luck actress in Bill Fishman's "Desperate But Not Serious" (lensed 1998), co-starring Christine Taylor and Claudia Schiffer and was later featured in "The Specials" (lensed 1998) as Ms. Indestructible, comprising, along with actors including Rob Lowe and Thomas Haden Church, a group of oddly powered superheroes in this "Mystery Men" (1999) reminiscent comedy.
. Brewster's range of talent is additionally exhibited in her guest appearance in the "George Lopez Show" where her comedic ability was stellar. As of 2008, Paget resides in Los Angeles, California and stars in the television show "Criminal Minds" on CBS.moreless -
Hank Azaria
Dr. Craig "Huff" Huffstodt
Hank Azaria was born in Queens, NY on April 25, 1964. Hank Azaria attended Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, from 1981-1985, but did not receive his B.A. until he completed two courses in L.A. in 1987. Hank Azaria was given Tufts' Light on the Hill Award in 1999. Azaria, who trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, is a master of film, stage, and screen. He's appeared in numerous TV shows, including Herman's Head, Friends, and Mad About You as well as movies like America's Sweethearts and Mystery, Alaska. He was also a bartender in New York at the Arcadia, which may have helped him prepare for his most notable role as Moe Szyslak, on Fox's The Simpsons. He voices many members of the cast, including Police Chief Wiggum, Apu, Cletus, Professor Frink, and Comic Book Guy. Azaria has had several Emmy nominations for his work, and has won 3 of them for his work on The Simpsons itself. He also won for his performance in Tuesdays With Morrie. While he's stil working on the Simpsons, Azaria has a new series he's working on, Huff, in which he plays a psychiatrist who's wide array of patients keeps him quite frustrated, along with his family. In 2005, Azaria was nominated for an Emmy in the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his performance on Huff.moreless -
Jack Laufer
Homeless Hungarian
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Andy Comeau
Teddy
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Anton Yelchin
Byrd
Anton Yelchin was born on March 11, 1989 in St. Petersburg, Russia to Viktor and Irina Yelchin. His parents were professional pairs figure skaters ranked third in the country, and had previously qualified for the 1972 Winter Olympics. Citing persecution because of their Jewish faith, they left Russia when Anton was six months old and claimed refugee status in the United States. Anton started acting at the age of nine in an independent film called 'A Man Is Mostly Water'. His first major film role was in 'Hearts In Atlantis', for which he won a Young Artist Award for Best Young Actor. At sixteen he played kidnap victim Zack Mazursky in the movie 'Alpha Dog', for which he received critical acclaim. More plaudits came for his portrayal of the eponymous hero in the teen comedy 'Charlie Bartlett' in 2007. Yelchin's first high profile TV role was as Byrd Hoffstodt, the son of the main character in the seies 'Hoff'(2004). Previous to this he had guest starred in single episodes of 'ER', 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and 'NYPD Blue'. In 2009 Anton appeared as the young Pavel Chekov in Star Trek and as Kyle Reese in Terminator : Salvation.moreless -
Blythe Danner
Izzy
Blythe Danner studied acting and got her degree from Bard College and began her career in Boston theater companies. She made her theatrical debut as Laura in "The Glass Menagerie." By 25, she won the Theater World Award for her work in Moliere's "The Miser" at Lincoln Center. She also won the 1970 Tony award for her role in "Butterflies Are Free". She made her film premiere in the same year in the television production of "Dr. Cook's Garden". For 25 years she has been a regular performer at the Williamstown Summer Theater Festival. She has also been nominated for Tony's for performances in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Betrayal". Married to director Bruce Paltrow, she is the mother of two acting children Gwyneth and Jake Paltrow.moreless -
Faith Prince
Kelly Knipers [Season 2 - ]
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Kimberly Brooks
Paula Dellahouse
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Lara Flynn Boyle
Melody Coatar
Boyle's first film role was a bit part in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), which earned her a SAG card, though her scene was eliminated from the final cut of the film. She then appeared in Amerika (1987), Poltergeist III (1988) and Dead Poets Society (1989), before landing her first major part, and the role which made her well known, playing Donna Hayward in the critically acclaimed series Twin Peaks. When the series ended in 1991, creator David Lynch produced a movie, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, but - largely due to her rise in fame, and increased film offers - Boyle chose not to return. Moira Kelly took over the role of Donna for the film.
Boyle spent much of the nineties making a name for herself in films with varying degrees of success. Some of her most notable roles were that of the obsessive and accident-prone Stacy in Wayne's World (1992) , the fragile, homeless teen Heather in Where The Day Takes You (1992) , psycho secretary-from-hell Kris Bolin in what was geared to be her breakout success, but ultimately became a box-office bust, The Temp (1993) , the sultry and manipulative Suzanne of Red Rock West (1993) which solidified her status as a premier femme fatale, Alex, the sexually assured drama queen in the cult c Generation X comedy Threesome (1994) and flighty, manically repressed housewife Marianne Byron in Afterglow (1997).
Finally, in 1997, Boyle auditioned for the title role in David E. Kelley's Ally McBeal. Although she lost out to Calista Flockhart, Boyle impressed him enough to create the role of Assistant District Attorney Helen Gamble in his other 1997 series, The Practice specifically for her. She starred on the show until 2003, when - in a dramatic attempt to revamp the show and cut costs - she was unceremoniously dismissed along with most of the other main cast. The role of Helen earned her an Emmy nomination, as well as household fame and several Screen Actors Guild ensemble cast nominations. She also made a crossover appearance in the role of Helen in an episode of Ally McBeal.
In 2002, Boyle played a lead role in the blockbuster film Men in Black II as the villainous alien Serleena. She also guest starred on one of the last episodes of Ally McBeal once again, only this time as Tally Cupp, a completely different role from that which she played before.
Recently, she had a recurring role on several episodes of Huff, playing Melody Coatar, an unstable bipolar manic-depressive .
In 2005, Boyle joined the cast of Las Vegas for a seven episode stint as Monica, a new hotel owner.moreless -
Faith Prince
Kelly
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Nancy Linehan Charles
Lois
A professional actress since 1973, Nancy Linehan Charles is also a writer. She has developed three adaptations of Shakespeare's plays for Dramatic Publishing, the latest: A Midsummer Night's Dream or The Night They Missed the Forest for the Trees. Her other adaptations are of Macbeth and Othello. In 2001, she played the title role in Frank Marcus' The Killing of Sister George in Los Angeles. In 2000, sporting a bald head for three months, she portrayed the dying John Donne scholar in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit. She received the 1994 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for her portrayal of Claire Zachanassian in Pacific Resident Theatre's The Visit, which also received a Circle Award for Best Production. In 1998, she received an LADCC nomination for her portrayal of the title role in Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession. She has appeared at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center and across the country in regional theatres-playing such roles as Emilia in Othello, Esther in The Price and the title roles in Letttice and Lovage, The Miracle Worker and Driving Miss Daisy. Recent television credits include guest appearances on ER, The Practice, Providence, Norm, Kate Brasher and HBO's Six Feet Under. She can be seen as Bette Davis in Norma Jean and Marilyn starring Mira Sorvino. Charles ran the Los Angeles marathon in 1999. She resides in Los Angeles and has two sons: Charlie (30), soon to be a Manhattan district attorney; and Will (14), also a professional actor.moreless -
Liza Lapira
Maggie
Liza Lapira hails from Queens, New York, but relocated to Los Angeles in 2004. In the last few years she has had guest/recurring roles in popular shows such as NCIS, Law & Order SVU, Huff, and Dollhouse, as well as supporting roles in the movies 21, Fast and Furious, and Repo Men. Her latest project is a starring role in Fox's new comedy, Traffic Light.moreless -
Misti Traya
Gail
Misti Traya wasted a perfefctly good liberal arts education from Sarah Lawrence College and became an actress when she discovered that working on a movie set fetching coffee and making copies wasn't going to keep her in shoes. In January 2005, she crossed over from behind the camera and stayed there for six episodes of "Joan of Arcadia," another half dozen of the upcoming Showtime series "Huff," and is now pleased and flabbergasted to find herself under the tutelage and portraying the daughter of Fran Drescher on Jamie Kennedy's "Shacking Up." Born in Hawaii, raised in L.A., and a realist at heart, she knows if all fails she makes a mean latte and can coalate like a demon.moreless -
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Annie Potts
Doris Johnson
Remembered mostly as Mary Jo on Designing Women, Annie Potts became interested in acting at an early age and studied it at Stephens College in Missouri. Annie Potts was born in Franklin, Kentucky on October 28, 1952. She married her college sweetheart, Steve Hartley, in 1973 and shortly after, was involved in an automobile accident which resulted in Annie's traumatic arthritis and Steve's loss of his leg. Annie divorced Steve in 1978 just as she began to get more acting roles. In 1980, Annie began on her first TV series, Goodtime Girls, with Georgia Engel and Peter Scolari. She also married her second husband, B. Scott Senechal, that same year. By 1989, Annie had 18 movies under her belt and was ready to enter season 4 of the very successful CBS series Designing Women. And in 1989, Annie's second marriage, from which was born her first son Clay, came to an end. She married for the third time in 1990 and had two more sons (Doc and Harry) with James Hayman. Hayman has been a director on many popular series such as Law & Order, ER, Any Day Now and Judging Amy. In 1998 Annie was cast as Mary Elizabeth on the original Lifetime series Any Day Now with Lorraine Toussaint. She continues a career in movies and television. (by matthewdw)moreless -
Hal Linden
Judge Bork
Hal Linden, born Harold Lipshitz on March 20th in 1931 is most famous for his role as Barney Miller on the show of the same name. Being musical, he played classical clarinet in symphony orchestras. After graduating high school, he studied music at Queens College New York. He played in dance bands and was drafted and entertained the troops in Korea. His taste of being an entertainer inspired him to pursue acting, enrolling at New York's American Theatre. Mr. Linden has been happily married to Frances Martin since 1958, they have 4 children. For his role of Barney Miller, Mr. Linden was nominated every year of it's run, but he never won.moreless -
Bob Saget
Jonathan Young
Bob Saget was born on May 17, 1956 in Philadelphia, PA. He is best known for his role as Danny Tanner on "Full House". Bob Saget started acting by doing stand up at the Comedy Store and studying with acting coach Darryl Hickman. In 1978, Bob Saget graduated from Temple University's film school. After moving to New York in 1987, he became the co-host of the "The Morning Program." In 1987, Bob Saget landed his first major role as Danny Tanner on the sitcom "Full House". In 1990, Bob Saget became the first host of America's Funniest Home Videos. He stayed on that show for seven years. (1990-1997). Today, Bob Saget works on off-broadway productions and continues to do stand up routines.moreless -
Noel Fisher
Sam Johnson
Noel Fisher is a Canadian actor. He appeared on the television show X-Men: Evolution. Recently, he played Patricia Arquette's son in the Medium episode Sweet Child o'Mine and stars in the new FX drama, The Riches.
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Swoosie Kurtz
Madeleine
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Swoosie Kurtz
Madeline
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T.J. Thyne
Neil
TJ Thyne went to high school in Plano,Texas.He graduated in 1993. He moved to Los Angeles to study acting at the University of Southern California's school of theatre,where he graduated in 1997. TJ Thyne has numerous television appearances. Film credits include Erin Brockovich, Ghost World, and EdTV,Forest Gump. TJ Thyne plays Dr Jack Hodgins in Fox TV's series Bones. While not playing his character Jack Hodgins on Bones, TJ enjoys watching Prison Break and cooking. Thyne is listed as Creative / Co-Founder with Dave Kuhr of Theatre Junkies Productions, which is dedicated to building a community of artists in Los Angeles and beyond.moreless -
Jewel Staite
Carolyn
Jewel was born in White Rock, British Columbia, but her family moved almost immediately to Maui where she lived until she was four. Jewel made her first public appearance while in Maui at the "Maui County Most Beautiful Baby Contest" and has loved the limelight ever since.
In 1986, Jewel's family moved to her current home town of Vancouver. There she was approached by a Sears representative to appear in a video for the department store. At first she refused because she felt she was being talked down to, but after seeing the clothes that young models got to wear she changed her mind. Her parents supported both decisions, and her modeling career was soon underway. Modeling jobs led to commercials which led in turn to larger acting roles.
She got her start appearing in a student short film for the Vancouver Film School, called Meeting Dad. This lead to some small movie parts and then to a larger role in the series Flash Forward for which she won a Gemini Award in 1996. She was featured in a number of other series, but is probably best known for playing the role of Kaylee on the short lived Joss Whedon series Firefly and the movie sequel called Serenity.Her Firefly co-star Morena Baccarin was the maid of honor at her wedding to Matt Anderson on April 25, 2003.
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Brian Palermo
Doug
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Lucille Soong
Xui Shi
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Jeanette O'Connor
Brenda
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Robert Forster
Ben Huffstodt
Robert Forster first became interested in acting while attending Rochester's Madison High School. After he graduated in 1959, he attended Heidelberg College, Alfred University, and the University of Rochester on football scholarships while continuing to perform in student theatrical revues.Robert earned a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Rochester in 1963. Later on he began his apprenticeship at an East Rochester theater where he performed in different plays including 'West Side Story'. In 1965 he moved to New York City and received his first big break when he landed the lead in a the two-character play Mrs. Dailey Has a Lover. Later on he returned to Rochester and began working as a substitute teacher and construction worker until an agent from 20th Century Fox pictures offered him a five-picture deal. His movie debut was a small part in the 1967 drama Reflections in a Golden Eye along side Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando. By the late 1980s Robert's acting career had began to fade and he was casted in small parts playing villains. Robert began working as a motive speaker and an acting coach in Hollywood film schools.
In the mid 1990s, his career was resurrected by Quinten Tarantino, a long-time fan of Forester's early works, whom offered him to audition for a part in his latest movie. After a seven-hour audition, Robert was cast in the role of the tough, but sympathetic, bail bondsman Max Cherry in Jackie Brown (1997). Robert received an Academy Award nomination and some nationwide recognition for his role in that movie. Following his success in Jackie Brown Robert landed some high profile starring roles in films such as All the Rage (1998), the Gus Van Sant's remake of Psycho (1998), and Supernova (2000).
Robert was married to June Provenzano from 1966 till 1975. In 1978 he married
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Alex Black
Tim Winnick
Alex Black is recurring on two television shows at present: Showtime "Huff" and Nickelodeon's "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide." Alex, along with his brother Tony, has appeared in numerous movies and television guest appearances. Alex most recently appeared in "CSI: Miami" in the episode, "Hell Night." Realizing how fortunate he is, Alex volunteers for a children charity and has served three terms on the Youth Advisory Board. He loves snowboarding, chess, basketball and video games. In his free time, Alex enjoys writing music, playing his guitar and singing.moreless -
January Jones
Marisa
January Jones is an American model-turned-actress born on January 5, 1978 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA. She has appeared in numerous feature films, TV movies, and television series. She may be best known for portraying Carole Dawson in the drama We Are Marshall and Cadence Flaherty in American Wedding. In 2007, she became a regular cast member of AMC's period drama Mad Men.moreless -
January Jones
Marissa Wells
January Jones is an American model-turned-actress born on January 5, 1978 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA. She has appeared in numerous feature films, TV movies, and television series. She may be best known for portraying Carole Dawson in the drama We Are Marshall and Cadence Flaherty in American Wedding. In 2007, she became a regular cast member of AMC's period drama Mad Men.moreless
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