Less Than Perfect
ABC (ended 2006)
Cast & Crew
EDIT
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Sara Rue
Claude Casey
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Andrea Parker
Lydia Weston
Ever since Andrea Parker left home at age 15 to become a ballerina, Andrea Parker was certain she would achieve success. After recurring roles on "ER" and "JAG", she needed just a few paragraphs of the pilot script for "The Pretender" to know that she wanted the roll of Miss Parker.
"It was kind of strange, " says Parker. "As soon as I saw the role of Miss Parker, I said, 'Hey, my name's all over this script.' I knew I had to make it mine. There was just too much synchronicity for it not to happen. After I was cast, I had to tap into a lot of anger and pain in playing her. We're both alike in that we go after what we want, but I would never dream of treating people the way she does."
Parker got her first big break with a part on a "Sienfeld" episode, followed by guest-starring roles on "Dream On", "Coach", "Dave's World", "Ellen","Herman's Head", "Can't Hurray Love", "Mariied...with Children", and "Murder, She Wrote." She soon was cast in recurring roles in "The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.." TV movies include "Ed McBain's 87th Precinct", "XXX's&OOO's" and "Victim of Love: The Shannon Mohr Story."moreless -
Eric Roberts
Will Butler
Eric was born in Biloxi in 1956, but his family moved to Georgia when he was small.
He began appearing in stage productions by the age of 5 at the Actors and Writers Workshop. After studying at both the London Academy of Dramatic Art and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, he made his film debut in King of the Gypsies (1978). Roberts was drawn to dark, offbeat characters, such as those in Raggedy Man (1981) and Miss Lonelyhearts (1983). His superstar sister Julia made an early acting appearance in his starring vehicle Blood Red.
Eric currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife Eliza, and daughter, Emma.moreless -
Andy Dick
Owen Kronsky
Dick was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He was adopted at birth by Allen and Sue Dick. His surname at birth was Thomlinson. Dick graduated from Joliet West High School (Joliet, Illinois) in 1984. He was in numerous productions during high school, was well known as the class clown, and was elected homecoming king his senior year in the fall of 1983. Even in high school, Dick tended to use his name as a joke. One day while dressed in the Joliet West gold athletic sweats he pulled on a pair of red shorts over his sweats and used a red towel as a cape matching his shorts. He presented himself at school as "Super Dick." He's good friends with theatre personality Anthony Rapp, who has known him since they were children. In 2004, Andy starred in a satirical reality television show on MTV called The Assistant. The show spoofed themes and scenes from The Apprentice, The Bachelor, and Survivor. Dick is also the lead singer of his band Andy Dick and the Bitches of the Century. They have appeared together on television and despite speculation otherwise are a serious performing group. They released a self-titled album in 2002. Dick also provides the voice of Maurice from the radio station WCTR's segment "Gardening with Maurice" in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. In 2005, Dick was featured in the documentary The Aristocrats with his own version of the joke and analysis along with explanations to some of the "acts". Always one to make a joke out of everything and everyone he could, Dick--while introducing singer Deborah Cox at a music awards show he was hosting--cracked, "Andy Dick, Deborah Cox, I wonder if we're related". Recently, Dick wrote and directed his first feature film, Danny Roane: First Time Director. He currently portrays the character "Owen Kronsky" on the ABC sitcom Less Than Perfect. Dick is openly bisexual, but says both straight and gay people have told him "C'mon, you know you're just gay." From 1986 to 1990, he was married to Ivone Kowalczyk, with whom he has a son, Lucas (born 1988). He also has a son, Jacob (born 1994), and a daughter, Meg (born 1997), from his previous relationship with Lina Sved. On May 15, 1999, Andy Dick drove his car into a telephone pole in Hollywood. He was charged with possession of cocaine, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, driving under the influence of alcohol/drugs and hit-and-run driving. He later plead guilty to felony cocaine possession and two other misdemeanor charges, marijuana possession and possession of a smoking device. After completing an 18-month drug diversion program, a judge dismissed felony and misdemeanor drug charges against him.moreless -
Will Sasso
Carl Monari
William Sasso, born on May 24, 1975, was born in Canada. Born into a Italian-Canadian family, Antonio and Anna, Will's parents have supported him through good and bad times. He graduated from Delta Secondary, Delta B.C. Canada. He knew from an early age he wanted to act. He also showed signs of comedy then too. After a while of aspiring, he took action and got an agent at the age of fifteen. Shortly after he played wacky teenager Derek Wakaluk on "Madison". Appearing in many movies, Will is most famous for his role on late-night sketch show "MADtv". He also starred on the popular ABC sitcom "Less Than Perfect". He also does many voices on animated comedy "Family Guy".moreless -
Sherri Shepherd
Ramona
Sherri Shepherd was born in Chicago where she was raised with her three sisters. Her father worked as a manager at a McDonald's franchise and he paid for her to attend a trade college in order to work as a legal secretary. While Sherri Shepherd pursued such a career for roughly seven years, she eventually got her big break in the show-business field when she appeared in the series Cleghorne, which eventually gained her additional performing roles. She has since then married and divorced actor and comic Jeff T., in which they now live in Los Angeles with their two pet dogs. She was announced as The View new co-host on September 10, 2007. Sherri Shepherd recently moved to New York City, New York to accommodate her schedule with The View.moreless -
Patrick Warburton
Jeb Denton
Patrick Warburton lept into pop culture consciousness as David Puddy, Elaine's on-again, off-again boyfriend on the hit sitcom Seinfeld in 1995, and has since then steadily found his deadpan talents in ever-greater demand. With his squinty eyes and hard-boiled detective's voice, Warburton has become a humorous personality who can generate giggles with almost no effort, whether onscreen or in voice-overs.
Warburton was born on November 14, 1964, in Paterson, NJ, and raised in Southern California, a son of little-known television actress Barbara Lord. The future Bugle Boy model studied marine biology at Orange Coast College, where he met his wife, Cathi, before dropping out to pursue modeling and acting at age 19. In his first screen appearance, the 17th century slave film Dragonard (1987), Warburton was subject to what is thought to be the longest onscreen flogging on film, a 100-lash scene that consumes nearly four minutes of screen time. He also appeared in the sequel, Master of Dragonard Hill (1989), before turning his attention to television.
Warburton had guest spots on such shows as Murphy Brown, Designing Women, Gone with the Whim, and Quantum Leap before scoring a recurring role on the short-lived Dave Barry sitcom Dave's World in 1993. But it was not until he appeared in the 1995 episode of Seinfeld entitled "The Fusilli Jerry" that Warburton really started to attract attention. As Puddy, Jerry's lunkhead mechanic who spits out dialogue in macho spurts, notably the catchphrase affirmation "Yeah that's right," Warburton quickly became a popular semi-regular, involved in a running joke about his frequent breakups and reconciliations with Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus). He stayed with the show until it finished in 1998, and provided the voice for Superman in a series of commercials starring Seinfeld.
Warburton had another recurring role as unscrupulous businessman Johnny Johnson on News Radio in 1999, then contributed his memorable voice to characters on the animated shows Family Guy, Hercules, and Buzz Lightyear of Star Command. By this time the big screen was really beckoning, as Warburton flexed his comic talents as a bodyguard in Scream 3 (2000), then toned them down as an American astronomer in Australia in The Dish (2000). His voice was again called upon, this time by Disney, for the role of a sorceress' thug assistant in The Emperor's New Groove (2000).
Going zanier than on Seinfeld, Warburton signed on as the star of the Fox sitcom The Tick, about a muscle-bound but dimwitted superhero in a blue costume, which premiered in the fall of 2001. High-profile projects in 2002 would include a role in the delayed ensemble farce Big Trouble and as Agent T alongside Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith in Men in Black 2. ~ Derek Armstrong, All Movie Guidemoreless -
Zachary Levi
Kipp Steadman
Zachary Levi, born on September 29, 1980 in Lake Charles, Louisiana, is an American TV and film actor most known for his role as unwilling undercover government agent Chuck Bartowski on the NBC action-comedy Chuck. Zach, who grew up with one younger sister and one older sister, lived all over the country with his family before they finally settled in Ventura, California. At age six, he was already singing and dancing in church and acting in school and local theater productions.
After college, Levi moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue his acting dream. Initially, he worked in stage plays including a portrayal of Jesus in an Ojai production of Godspell, his performance in which caught the attention of Hollywood agents. Soon after, Zachary made TV movie debut FX's Confessions of a Campus Bookie. He then played Kipp Steadman on ABC's sitcom Less Than Perfect between 2002 and 2006. After the show ended, he appeared in numerous films and TV movies including his first big-screen film, Reel Guerrillas, and his debut as a producer, Spiral.
In 2007, Zach landed the role of his career as NBC tagged him as the title character in their "24-meets-The Office" series, Chuck. On the show, he plays Charles Bartowksi (Chuck), a superstore employee who downloads classified government information into his head, inevitably forcing him to become a government secret agent. Levi is single and continues to live in Los Angeles, California.moreless -
Harry Groener
Dr. Skaarsgard
Harry played the villainous Mayor Wilkins on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Ralph Drang on Dear John, and Gunther on Las Vegas. Harry also dances and sings at the theatre, his first success came on stage with the musical "Oklahoma!". -
Suzanne Kent
Madeline
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Joanna Cassidy
Norma Craft
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Martin Mull
Buddy Casey
A classically trained artist, Martin fell into acting by stages. While still a student and struggling artist, Martin began writing songs and performing. First as part of a group called Soop, he performed on one album called In the Soop. Subsequent albums were under his own name, although pianist Ed Wise (who was with MM in the previous group) continued to perform with him. His break into acting came when Norman Lear offered him a role on the soap opera parody Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. After this character was killed off (followed quickly by the assassination of Mary Hartman itself because star Louise Lasser burned herself out), Lear cast him in another parody, Fernwood 2Night, which poked fun at small-town talk shows. This was set in Fernwood, Ohio, the fictional home of Mary Hartman. For the second season, the show was renamed America 2Night. The locale was changed to a small town near Los Angeles so that big stars could appear on the show from time to time. After America 2Night, Martin appeared in numerous movies and had a recurring character on Roseanne. Currently he can be seen as the Principal on Sabrina, the Teenaged Witch. But as far as MM was concerned, this was just a side trip. His real love was, and is, in his painting. If he got some money from his acting or singing/songwriting (one of his songs was covered by Sonic Youth), it was more to buy "more tubes of paint" than anything else.moreless -
Kathryn Joosten
The Mule
Kathryn Joosten is a two time Emmy Award winning actress. Joosten did not began her to hone her craft until middle age in the 1980's, after she started taking acting classes in Chicago. She started her acting career at the age of 42. Prior to finding herself under the bright lights and behind the camera lens Joosten worked as a psychiatric nurse. By the time the mid-1990's had rolled around Joosten found her way to Hollywood, where she would take on many guest roles in some of televisions most beloved shows such as Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Roseanne, Dharma & Greg, Murphy Brown, and several others. In a 1997 episode of Frasier titled 'Roz's Turn', Joosten appeared as Vera, the mother and personal secretary of Frasier's conniving agent, Bebe Glazer, played by Harriet Sansom Harris. Little did the two actresses know that they would be reunited to play neighbors in the first season of the colossal ABC hit Desperate Housewives. As 1999 approached Joosten would find herself in the role that would put her on the map, a role that she would become well known for, as Delores Landingham, secretary to the president (played by Martin Sheen) on the wildly popular West Wing. Joosten played this part for two seasons, until her character's death in a car crash in 2001. She would lend her talents to the show twice more after her death in flashback episode. Joosten's role on The West Wing opened many doors for her and gave entrance into many significant guest spots on several extremely popular shows. Since 2001, she has appeared in such shows as Scrubs in the episode titled 'My Old Lady' which won her a Humaitas Prize. Some of her other credits include The X-Files, The Closer, Grey's Anatomy, Charmed, Will & Grace, and many others. Joosten also had a recurring role as one of the less intimidating incarnations of GOD on the now canceled TV series Joan of Arcadia. Most recently Joosten can be found living on Wisteria Lane portraying Mrs. Karen McCluskey on ABC's smash hit Desperate Housewives. Joosten's Mrs. McCluskey is the lonely and most often bickering neighbor of Felicity Huffman's character Lynette Scavo. With her role on Desperate Housewives Joosten has earned two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Guest Actress In A Comedy Series in both 2005 and 2008. She has also received three Screen Actors Guild Award nominations alongside her fellow Housewives for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series from 2006 - 2008. While Kathryn Joostens name may not be one that everyone recognizes right off the bat her face and her talent certainly are. With an impeccable gift for comedic timing and the ability to make some of the most hateful characters seem lovable Joosten is definitely an A+ actress. It might have taken her a long time to begin her acting career but she isn't showing any signs of letting it go any time soon and for that we are truly happy.moreless -
Joe Medalis
older executive
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Alex Skuby
Fran
Alex was born in NJ. After finishing high school in Wall Twp., Alex went to Brookdale Community College. He took an acting class there and was bitten by 'the bug.' From NJ he left for Chicago where he studied at DePaul University for 2 years. Realizing that school wasn't his gig, he left and set out to do theatre in Chicago. After 4 years of doing theatre in the Windy City, working with theatre groups such as Famous Door, Ivanhoe, and The Organic, Alex moved to LA to take a shot at the big time. It has been paying off ever since!!
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Jerry Lambert
Dr. Astrow
A graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, Jerry Lambert's passion for acting has taken him from performing on stage to television, feature films, as well as voice-over work for a number of animated characters. In television Lambert has guest starred on numerous popular television series, including "Malcolm in the Middle," "Ally McBeal," "Angel," "7th Heaven," "Everybody Loves Raymond, "3rd Rock from the Sun" and "The West Wing." He was also the voice of various animated characters on "Toonsylvania" and "Bagboy." In addition to performing in more than 60 plays around the country, Lambert has written and performed several of his own plays, all produced in Los Angeles. Stage performances include "The Day They Shot John Lennon," "Richard III," "Hit and Run," "The Man with the Flower in His Mouth," "Crashing Heaven," "The Time of Your Life" and "Three Sisters." Feature film credits include "The Godson," "The Purple Flowers" and "Anchorman." Lambert is also trained in improvisational and sketch comedy, and has performed at The Improv, The Comedy Store, Stand-Up New York and The Acme Theatre. In his spare time, he enjoys writing, travel, swimming, whitewater rafting and camping. Raised in Montesano, Washington, Lambert now resides in Los Angeles with his wife of seventeen years, Nadine.moreless -
Sean Moran
party guy #1
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Esther Scott
Interviewer
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Cindy Williams
Joan Casey
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Joan Rivers
Louise
Joan is the younger of two daughters of Russian immigrants Beatrice and Meyer Molinsky. Joan got into acting from an early age and continued throughout college; appearing in almost every college production. After graduating and at a loss for what to do Joan took a job as a buyer for a department store. Whilst there she married the Boss's son a marriage which only lasted 6 months. After this and determined to fulfill her dream Joan started making the rounds in New York going through the normal motions of sleazy agents, dirty clubs and hostile audiences. It wasn't until 1965 when her dreams came true with a booking on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. After this Joan met and married her second husband and had a daughter, Melissa. For Joan 1968 through 1972 was when she started making it with appearances on both television and the big screen. In 1983 Joan thought she was at the top of the world, she had book deals, permanent guest star positions on television, sold out concerts and comedy albums. After hitting rock bottom in her personal life Joan picked herself back up and in 1989 she was back on the screens and the stage.moreless -
Kristin Bauer
Kaye
American film and television actress Kristin Bauer, who has been in the business since her early 20's, is most known for her role as Pam, the vampire co-owner of Bon Temps' Fangtasia bar, in True Blood. Born and raised in Racine County, Wisconsin, Kristin had an idyllic childhood engaged in riding horses, shooting guns, and playing sports. In junior high, she got interested in the arts, specifically drawing, and being done with academics, after graduation, she compiled a portfolio and applied to a fine arts school in St. Louis, Boston and New York. In 1993, Bauer decided to pursue a career in acting and moved to Los Angeles, California. While juggling her various odd jobs, she was asked to become part of a movie which earned her more in a day than she was getting in a week. She still continued drawing and painting while she began appearing on television and in film during the mid-'90s, making her small screen debut in a 1994 episode of L.A. Law. Her first major television break came the following year when she was hired to portray flight attendant Maggie Reynolds on the FOX comedy The Crew, which lasted for one season. In 1996, Kristin appeared in one of her most memorable guest roles as "Man Hands" Gillian, Jerry's girlfriend, on Seinfeld. Throughout the years, she has played a few other series regular characters including the Geneva Renault, the buxom secretary of a high-tech security agency, on the short-lived action drama Total Security, Candy Cooper in the CBS family drama That's Life, and the sexy, softball "porn mom" on the NBC comedy Hidden Hills. In 2008, Alan Ball tapped her to co-manage the vampire bar Fangtasia with formidable Viking Eric Northman (Alexander Skarsgrd) on HBO's original drama True Blood.moreless -
Eddie McClintock
Jake
Eddie McClintock co-stars with Jane Curtin, Fred Savage and William Devane in ABC's new comedy, "Crumbs," about a fractured family struggling to come together. He will also re-unite with "Stark, Raving Mad" co-star Tony Shalhoub, when he guest-stars on "Monk" later this summer. McClintock was most recently seen opposite Shannon Elizabeth in the Movie of the Week "Confessions of an American Bride." Prior to that, he starred in the ABC Family Movies of the Week, "Picking Up and Dropping Off" and "See Jane Date." After a brief stint in commercials, McClintock's big break came with a recurring role on the comedy "Ned & Stacey." Soon after, he landed a series regular role as an aspiring actor on Fox's "Holding the Baby." He also starred in "Stark Raving Mad," in which he played the odd assistant to horror novelist Tony Shalhoub, and "AUSA," opposite Scott Foley. Other memorable TV appearances include a role on the 2002-03's one-hour season finale of "Friends," a recurring role on "Felicity," and guest-starring turns on such popular series as " House," "Less than Perfect," "King of Queens," "Sex in the City," "Just Shoot Me" and "Spin City." McClintock has also been successful in feature films, appearing in Steven Soderbergh's "Full Frontal" and in director Roger Kumble's "The Sweetest Thing." In addition he starred in the independent films "Screenland Drive" and "Moving August." In his film debut, he portrayed Loren Dean's hands in Lawrence Kasdan's "Mumford." In his time, away from TV and film sets, McClintock, who resides in Los Angeles, is an avid surfer, painter and drummer.moreless -
Erik Palladino
Mike Abrejo
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 together in Chris' alternative rock band, No More Happy Faces. Erik majored in theatre at Marymount Manhattan College, graduating in 1991. He then continued playing in No More Happy Faces, while also pursuing his acting career. His breakthrough role came in (1994)on TV's successful series ER .moreless -
Michael Boatman
Ted Elliot
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French Stewart
Gene Schmidtline
Best known for his role as Harry Solomon on the 1990s sitcom "3rd Rock from the Sun." Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Stewart studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and toured in regional theatre for seven years before breaking into television with a role on the final season of The New WKRP in Cincinnati in 1992. In 1996, he was cast on 3rd Rock From The Sun, which lasted for five seasons, where Stewart was noted for his talents at physical comedy and his characteristic "squinting" facial expression. He has appeared in a number of minor roles, mainly in situation comedies and comedy films, although he did have major roles in the direct-to-video films Inspector Gadget 2 (2003) and Home Alone 4 (2002). Stewart married actress Katherine La Nasa in 1998.moreless -
French Stewart
Mr. Schmidtline
Best known for his role as Harry Solomon on the 1990s sitcom "3rd Rock from the Sun." Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Stewart studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and toured in regional theatre for seven years before breaking into television with a role on the final season of The New WKRP in Cincinnati in 1992. In 1996, he was cast on 3rd Rock From The Sun, which lasted for five seasons, where Stewart was noted for his talents at physical comedy and his characteristic "squinting" facial expression. He has appeared in a number of minor roles, mainly in situation comedies and comedy films, although he did have major roles in the direct-to-video films Inspector Gadget 2 (2003) and Home Alone 4 (2002). Stewart married actress Katherine La Nasa in 1998.moreless -
Richard Kind
Corcoran
Richard Kind, best known for his numerous roles in comedy shows such as "Spin City," "Mad About You" and many other shows, was born in Trenton, New Jersey, USA on November 22, 1956. Richard performs in many theaters and he loves making animated movies, because he has a very loud voice. Richard is married to Dana Stanley, he was roommates with George Clooney.moreless -
Barry Bostwick
Guest Star
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Mark Curry
Morpheus
A class clown since his earliest years, Mark quickly learned that a wild sense of humor could take him places. While working at a drugstore after quitting college he honed and polished a comedy act (which he regularly practiced on customers). It was these customers, as well as his family and friends, who finally encouraged Mark to try his stand-up routine at area comedy clubs. With comedian Richard Pryor as his inspiration, Mark made his debut in Oakland and eventually became the city's most sought-after stand-up comic. His success there paved the way for comedy-club bookings all over the worldmoreless -
Richard Ruccolo
Bobby Casey
Richard Robert Ruccolo was born on March 2, 1972, in Marlton, New Jersey. He first discovered his love of acting after he earned the lead role in his high school's production of Oklahoma! After school, he left for LA where he slept on a friend's sofa until he could find work as an actor. He won small roles on several TV series and then later starred in Two Guys and a Girl as Pete Dunville. As of 2007, he lives outside of Los Angeles and continues to win roles in movies and TV.
He was once engaged to Saved by the Bell star Tiffani-Amber Thiessen.moreless
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