Without a Trace
CBS (ended 2009)
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Eric Close
Martin Fitzgerald
Eric Close was born in Staten Island, New York on May 24th, 1967. Before settling down in San Diego at the age of seven, his family had moved to Indiana and Michigan. Eric's father is an orthopedic surgeon. He is the eldest of three brothers. In fact, one of the brothers (Chris) had a part in The Magnificent Seven episode "Wagon Train". Eric graduated with a B.A. in communications at the University of Southern California in 1989.
He married Keri in 1995 and has two daughters, Katie (born in October 1998) and Ella (born in April 2001). Eric is a very reserved person who likes to keep his private life separate from his work. He loves traveling the world. He's a sportsman, preferring outdoor sports such as mountain climbing/free climbing, snow skiing, tennis, golf, sailing and surfing. He mentioned in one of his many interviews that he liked fly-fishing.
Having always been a passionate reader of historical books, when the part of John Loengard (Dark Skies television series based in the '60's) was proposed to him in an interview he declared, "Perfect. I now have the opportunity to live the moments that I could only have heard by what people said. Taking part in a project like this, it's like having a time machine at your disposal. Kennedy's new frontiers, which for my generation are stories told long ago, sometimes faded and incomplete. It would be wonderful to breathe filling your lungs with the air of that era."
Eric had been interested in acting from a very early age. His first stage experiences he had was when he was in elementary school, already demonstrating his outstanding talent. It seemed as though his acting career was just a beautiful dream and would never come true. In 1989, he appeared in a small film made by some college students. Eric had become determined to start his career as an actor. He also had the ambition to become a film director. After his graduation, he had attended various auditions and done some publicity spots.
His first role was in the theater production Rat Songs in L.A. He was then offered a part in the film American Me and Safe House, directed by Elena Mannus. Eric returned to the theater with Thanksgiving Cries.
He appeared as a guest star in many television series: Santa Barbara (Sawyer Walker), MacGyver (security guard), and Major Dad (private tutor). He starred in McKenna (Brick McKenna), Sisters (police officer), Dark Skies (John Loengard), the television western The Magnificent Seven (Vin Tanner), and Now and Again (Michael Wiseman).
At this moment Eric is filming a series called Without a Trace. This television series is based on a group of FBI agents who investigate cases of missing persons. He is also co-starring in Steven Spielberg's mini television series, Taken. His role is an alien.
Eric has also played part in Keeping Secrets, Without Constant, A Stranger Beside Me, Hercules and the Lost Kingdom, Long Island Fever, and N.T.S.B./Everything That Rises.
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Poppy Montgomery
Samantha Spade
Poppy's parents are named Nicola and Phil Donahue. Her mother is a market researcher and her father a restaurateur. Five out of the nine siblings, along with herself, are named after flowers, as her mother named many of them after names she found in the book, 'The Flower Fairy Book'. Her sisters names are: Rosie Thorn, Daisy Yellow, Lily Belle and Marigold Sun. She also has a brother named Jethro Tull. The remaining three siblings have more common names as they're named Tara, Sean and Patrick. Her parents divorced when she was young.
Poppy was taunted at school with names such as Sloppy Poppy, Poopy Poppy, and Floppy Poppy. Poppy was thrown out of six private schools, for such things as eating with her elbows on the table and wearing the wrong underwear. Poppy legally dropped out of school without her parents' permission at the age of 14 years and 9 months. After leaving school, she took on a job as a waitress at one of her father's restaurants, but she claims to have been such a horrible waitress that she was fired by her own father.
She left Australia for America to be with a boyfriend; the relationship soon broke up. Poppy chose her mother's maiden name, Montgomery, as her stage name. She arrived in Hollywood at age 18 carrying a copy of 'How to Make It In Hollywood'. Poppy once lost out on a role because the casting people thought her real Australian accent sounded fake. She later lost her Australian accent by using speech therapy techniques and talking slowly with an American accent.
In January 1996 Poppy could be seen guest starring in both the NYPD Blue episode Burnin' Love and the Party of Five episode Poor Substitutes. The same fall she appeared in Relativity as a regular cast member in the role of 'Jennifer Lukens'.
In 2001 her dream role came knocking. Poppy had been obsessed with Marilyn Monroe since she was 12, and now she got to play her in the made for television movie Blonde. Poppy was ecstatic and stopped working out and doing yoga in order to gain about 12 pounds for the role to obtain the lush figure of her idol. Poppy loved doing the part so much that she says she could have done Marilyn forever. Poppy was praised by some critics for her portrayal, but more importantly for her career the performance also caught the eyes of the producers of Without a Trace. Thanks to her performance as Marilyn they now decided to cast her in the part of 'Samantha Spade' without her even having to auditioning for the role. The show became a success and seven seasons as 'Samantha Spade' have made Poppy a star.
Poppy is dating actor Adam Kaufman whom she met on the set of Between, and as of 2007 they resides in Los Angeles, California. They welcomed the birth of their first child, Jackson Phillip Kaufman, on December 23, 2007 in Los Angeles, and weighed 7 lbs., 4 oz. Her pregnancy was written into Without A Trace and Adam is also playing the father of her character's baby there.
Poppy enjoys board games, horseback riding, photography, sleeping, snowboarding, traveling and yoga. She also enjoys listening to Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, Liz Phair, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles and serious music like chamber music. Her acting inspirations include Audrey Hepburn, Gillian Armstrong, Jack Nicholson, Juliette Binoche, Katharine Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando and Molly Ringwald. She says her mother is a huge fan of Ellen DeGeneres, but her own favorite TV star is Oprah Winfrey and Poppy's also been quoted saying Oprah is a wonderful role model.moreless -
Anthony LaPaglia
Jack Malone
Despite spending the first 25 years of his life in Adelaide, Australia, Anthony LaPaglia is best known for playing street-savvy Italian New Yorkers. This was not, however, Anthony's original plan. Rather than testing the waters of show business, he travelled to the United States intending to pursue a full-time teaching career. As luck would have it, however, one of Anthony's odd jobs was a small role in Cold Steel (1987), a low-budget detective drama. Anthony began pursuing theatre and television in his spare time - one of his more notable early performances was in 1988's Frank Nitti: The Enforcer - and considered himself a full-time actor by 1989, when he made his feature-film debut in Slaves of New York. It was 1990, however, when the young actor earned critical recognition for his role as an exceedingly polite mobster in Betsy's Wedding. Anthony continued to build his rsum throughout the early '90s, most of which he spent playing either kindly policemen or good-hearted mobsters, and was delighted to work alongside a variety of noted actors so early in his career. Among those actors were Alan Alda in Betsy's Wedding, Michael Keaton in One Good Cop (1991), and Nathan Lane, Sharon Stone, and Kevin Bacon in He Said, She Said (1992). Later in 1992, Anthony could be found playing his first leading role in George Gallo's gangster farce 29th Street. Though the film did not fare particularly well, audiences were nonetheless impressed with Anthony's intensity, and he played a more serious gangster with great success opposite Susan Sarandon in The Client (1994). He switched gears for his next handful of films; in Mixed Nuts (1994) he played a disillusioned Santa Claus, while Empire Records (1995) found him as a down-on-his-luck store manager, and the Australian-helmed Brilliant Lies (1996) featured him as the defendant in a sketchy sexual-harassment case. Despite a smattering of mediocre films between 1995 and the early 2000s, Anthony continued to earn critical acclaim for many of his endeavours, such as Steve Buscemi's directorial debut, Trees Lounge (1996), for which Anthony joined a star-studded supporting cast, as well as for his role as a detective in Spike Lee's Summer of Sam (1999). Luckily for him, 2000 and 2001 proved excellent for his career, as it was during this period that he played a wealthy businessman in The House of Mirth and an adulterous police detective in Lantana. In addition to receiving international success, Lantana earned Anthony the prestigious 'Best Actor' award from the Australian Film Institute, as well as a nomination from the Film Critics Circle. In the meantime, he was adding several major television credits to his rsum, including a starring role as the head of the FBI's Missing Persons Squad on CBS's Without a Trace, and a recurring role on the long-running sitcom Frasier, a performance for which he would receive an Emmy in 2002. Far removed from his fledgling days as a teacher, 2002 also found Anthony working with Val Kilmer for The Salton Sea; Sigourney Weaver for The Guys; Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal in Analyze That; and Eric Stoltz in Happy Hour. In 2003, after filming Manhood with Janeane Garofalo and the late John Ritter, Anthony agreed to star in director Josh Sternfeld's Winter Solstice (2004).moreless -
Enrique Murciano
Danny Taylor
Enrique Murciano was born in Miami, Florida on July 9, 1973, and was raised there. He is of Cuban descent. He attended Tulane University and Boston Law School, but moved to Los Angeles to pursue his goal of becoming an actor. He brought with him his love of exotic cars and motorcycles.
On his first audition, 1997, Enrique landed the role of Alejandro in Speed 2. A role that only involved one line, but 6 months of shooting.
His break came three years later, when a two-day stint on the set of the Academy Award winning Traffic turned into several weeks work as the role of DEA agent Ricky placing him in several pivotal scenes with Luis Guzman and Don Cheadle.
After the short lived TV series "Spyder Games", Enrique landed the role of Sgt. Lorenzo Ruiz in the much-acclaimed Ridley Scott film, Black Hawk Down.
It was during the filming of Black Hawk Down that he was introduced to Jerry Bruckheimer, a meeting that led to his role in "Without a Trace" (2002).
Enrique lives in Los Angeles with his dog, Tonto. He is considered a great cook, and loves to experiment in the kitchen. Enrique's obsession with cars also applies to fixing them. His personal record for changing a flat tire is 1 minute and 19 seconds.
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Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Vivian Johnson
Marianne Jean-Baptiste is a British actress who first became known to an international audience through her breakthrough performance in Mike Leigh's Secrets and Lies -1996. Marianne has received Best Supporting Actress Oscar, BAFTA, and Golden Globe nominations for he measured, insightful portrayal of a young woman who is reunited with her biological mother who gave her up for adoption. She appeared is films like Noah Baumbach's Mr. Jealousy (1997), the psychological thriller A Murder of Crows (1998), the independent comedy How to Make the Cruelest Month (1998), and Nancy Savoca's The 24-Hour Woman (1999). The beginning of the next decade founding Jean-Baptiste scoring roles in the thriller The Cell, the comedy drama 28 Days, and the thriller Spy Game. In 2002 she took on a role in the Jerry Bruckheimer produced CBS television series Without a Trace as FBI agent Vivian Johnson who works in the missing persons division. In addition to acting, Jean-Baptiste is also a composer. She supplied the music for Leigh's Career Girls in 1997. Rebecca Flint, She is married to British ballet dancer Evan Williams, by whom she has one daughter.moreless -
Roselyn Sanchez
Elena Delgado (Seasons 4-7)
Dancer, model, and singer Roselyn Sanchez was awarded Miss America Petite in 1994. In Puerto Rico, she gained public attention as a dancer and co-host of the variety show Que Vacilon. She moved to New York City in search of an acting career at the age of 21 and worked on her one-woman show, Out Here on My Own. Her first English speaking role was for the CBS soap opera As the World Turns as Pilar, the show's first Latina character in its over 40-year history on the air.moreless -
Martin Landau
Frank Malone
A star of both big and small screens, Martin Landau worked for a time as a cartoonist for the New York Daily News. After attending New York City's famed Actors' Studio, where he counted James Dean among his close friends, he landed major supporting roles in such movies as North by Northwest (1959), as James Mason's henchman who stalks Cary Grant) and Cleopatra (1963, as Rufio). He found fame as a costar of TV's Mission: Impossible (1966-69) and Space: 1999 (1975-77), both of which teamed him with his then real-life wife Barbara Bain.
From the late 1970s through the mid 1980s, Landau worked mainly as an acting teacher, while onscreen he was mired in low-budget genre films (including 1980s Without Warning, a career low), until a juicy supporting role as Jeff Bridges' unlikely partner Abe Karatz in Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988 ) earned him an Oscar nomination and renewed attention. Woody Allen gave him a prime leading part as an amoral married man who has his mistress killed in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), which merited another Oscar nomination. But this being show business, Landau continued to appear in cheapies such as Firehead (1991), Mistress (1992, as a has-been producer), Sliver (1993), and Intersection (1994). Later, Tim Burton thought of Landau for another perfect part: that of the aging Bela Lugosi in his offbeat biopic Ed Wood (1994). Landau's performance was nothing short of astonishing, and it finally earned him a well-deserved Supporting Actor Oscar. He followed with City Hall (1995).
Along with Mark Rydell, Martin Landau is executive director of the Actor's Studio's West Coast Branch.
His current role is Dr. Sol Goldman in The Evidence airing on ABC.
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Talia Balsam
Maria Malone
The daughter of actors Martin Balsam and Joyce Van Patten, Talia Balsam has herself pursued an acting career since her teens. Talia's film resume includes Sunnyside (1979), Crawlspace (1986) and In the Mood (1987). In the obscure film melodrama Private Investigations, Talia co-starred with her father Martin. Among Talia Balsam's many TV credits is the 1981 TV docudrama Kent State, in which she played one of the five students felled by National Guard bullets.moreless -
Ty Miller
Tech Agent
Ty Miller's first big TV job was on the television series "Hotel". Other TV appearances before his hit show "The Young Riders" were "Growing Pains" and "General Hospital".
He also starred in a horror flick named "Slaughterhouse Rock", "Trancers 5: Sudden Death" and "US Seals". He took a long break from Hollywood during the 1990's and returned in September of 2005 as a recurring character on "Without a Trace".
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Bill Smitrovich
SAC Alexander Olczyk
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Vanessa Marano
Hanna Malone
Vanessa was born on January 18th, 1993 in Burbank, California and is best known for her role as April Nardini on 'Gilmore Girls.' Vanessa's acting career started at the young age of seven when she starred in many plays at the Stage Door Theater in Agoura, California. From there, she started acting in movie and television roles as well as appeared in several nationwide commercials. She has guest-starred in television shows such as "Six Feet Under," "Malcolm in the Middle," "Grounded for Life" and a recurring role as Jack's daughter, Hanna, on "Without a Trace." Though Vanessa had many guest starring and recurring roles in highly sucessful series, it was not until 2005, when she was hired to play Luke's daughter, April, in the highly successful CW series, "Gilmore Girls" that she started gaining attention. With her career in the rise, Vanessa has roles in 2 upcoming TV projects due out in 2007 and she resides in Los Angeles, California.moreless -
Stephanie Venditto
Dr. Lisa Harris
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Lynn Whitfield
Paula Van Doren
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Haley Ramm
Jen Long
By the age of 11, Haley Ramm knew her career was acting. She urged her family to let her go to Los Angeles for auditions. This caused a family upset because it meant leaving her father and brother behind. Haley's sharp acting skills and ease in front of an audience and the directors got her noticed at once, She started her acting career in commercials and independent films.moreless -
Joshua Gomez
James Mackeroy
Joshua grew up in South Plainfield, New Jersey. He went to a Christian school for many years called Cornerstone Christian Academy, which is also a church called Faith Fellowship Ministries and was originally located in Edison, New Jersey. His parents were involved in different parts of the church. While his father was with the music group, his mother worked in the office. His parents are now divorced. After leaving Cornerstone Christian Academy, he went to South Plainfield High School where he ended up graduating there in 1993. He then went on to pursue his acting career in New York City and then to Los Angeles, California with his older brother Rick Gomez. Joshua was always known as a comedian. He was also fun to be around. In 2007, he has been cast to play the title character's best friend, Morgan, in NBC's comedy Chuck.moreless -
Laura Marano
Kate Malone
Laura lives in Los Angeles, California and does very well in school. She enjoys helping people find their soul mates. -
Adam Kaufman
Brian Donovan
Adam is an actor who has appeared in guest star roles on shows such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Law and Order and CSI Miami. Adam attended Lynchburg College and the Eugene O'Neill Center's National Theater Institute. Adam and his partner Poppy Montgomery welcomed a son, Jackson Phillip Kaufman, on December 23, 2007 in Los Angeles.moreless -
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Anne Cassidy
She is a very low profile actress and singer. She has starred in the films: Scarface The Color of Money Slam Dance The January Man The Abyss Fools Of Fortune Uncle Vanya Class Action Robin Hood: The Prince of Thieves White Sands Consenting Adults Three Wishes Two Bits Limbo My Life So Far Witness Protection The Perfect Storm Tabloid Standing Room Onlymoreless -
Adriana DeMeo
Lucy
Born in 1981, Adriana graduated from Rutgers University in 2003. One of her classmates at Rutgers was Tom Pelphrey, with whom she had attended a special two-year performing arts program at Howell High School (she graduated in 1999). -
Stacy Kesten
ND Agent
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Vyto Ruginis
Phil Damore
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Ron Marasco
Guest Star
Associate Professor, Theatre Arts, Loyola Marymount University
Ph.D. in Theatre History from UCLA
Writer and filmography in The Mesmerist and The Illusion, also an actor in The Illusion. Was a part of the crew and filmography for the film "The man of the century."moreless -
Michelle Horn
Tara Patterson
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Maury Sterling
Glenn Remick
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Heather Stephens
Lindsay Randall
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Colby French
Guest Star
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Geoff Meed
John Burns
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Eion Bailey
Christopher Mayes
Eion Bailey grew up in the Santa Ynez Valley of California. His father owned a small airline service which flew people around the state. Eion tagged along on flights and his father gave him flying lessons after dropping off passengers. His first lesson was at the age of twelve. When not flying or playing baseball, Eion and his friends frequented Solvang, a small tourist town nearby. He struggled in school until he found his calling in his high school drama department. Eion was soon performing in each school play and went on to study formally at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. He appeared in a cameo role in Cameron Crow's "Almost Famous", portraying Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner. Bailey was also seen in "Center Stage," "Fight Club," Catherine Jelski's "The Young Unknowns.", "The Scoundrel's Wife," "Seven and a Match," Renny Harlin's "Mindhunters" for Miramax, and the independent feature "Sexual Life" for director Ken Kwapis. Bailey's TV appearances include "Signigicant Others," "Dawson Creek," HBO's highly acclaimed series, "Band of Brothers" produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, and the HBO original film "And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself" opposite Antonio Banderas. On stage, Bailey has appeared in Peter Schaffer's classic psychological drama, "Equus," at the Pasadena Playhouse, as well as "Spoon River Anthology," "Look Homeward, Angel," and "Dinner at Eight" at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, "Desire and I" at the Access Theatre Santa Barbara, and "Icarus' Mother" at the SBCC Studio Theatre.moreless -
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Categories
Drama, Suspense
Themes
Assassination, Callous Rebellion, Child Hero, Children In Adult Situations, Controversial
