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- Bess Armstrong was born on 11 December 1953 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. She is an actress, known for Jaws 3-D (1983), My So-Called Life (1994) and The Four Seasons (1981). She has been married to John Fiedler since 12 April 1986. They have three children. She was previously married to Chris Carreras.
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Pamela Hayden born November 28, 1953 is an American actress and voice actress, known for providing various voices for the animated television show The Simpsons (1989) including Bart Simpson's unlucky best friend Milhouse Van Houten, teenage thug Jimbo Jones, Ned Flanders' first-born son Rod, Chief Wiggum's wife and Ralph Wiggum's mother Sarah, Lois Pennycandy and Lisa Simpson's friend Janey Powell. She also originally voiced the character of Katrina (Shanks) Meltsner on the Focus on the Family radio drama Adventures in Odyssey from 1993 to 2000. She is also the voice actress for Bianca from Spyro: Year of the Dragon (2000), Douglas McNoggin on Lloyd in Space: The Lloyd Bonus Minute (2001) and Sublimity Jill/Daughter #2 in Party Wagon (2004).- Actress
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Christine Ebersole was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Marian Esther (Goodley) and Robert Amos Ebersole, a steel company president. She won the 2007 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her work in "Grey Gardens". Previously, she was awarded the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Drama League awarded her both a citation and the Outstanding Performance of the Year, and she was named to its dais for 2007. She also received a special citation from the New York Drama Critics' Circle and the Obie for her off-Broadway turn in "Grey Gardens".- Actress
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Catherine Carlen was born and raised in Cookeville, Tennessee. She moved to New York City in the late 1970's to start her acting career. Catherine studied with Uta Hagen and Stella Adler and Susan Batson. She is a lifetime member of The Actors Studio. Catherine wrote ,produced, directed and starred in The Award winning Feature Film Running Out of Time in Hollywood (2006), 50-year-old actress trying to make a comeback in Hollywood when everything and everybody is against her. Catherine currently has a recurring role on a New Shondaland series for Netflix. She is married to the love of her life Roger 'Biff' Johnson Jr. and has a beautiful talented daughter Carlen Johnson.- Actress
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2023 marks AppleTV's long awaited Season Two of the Tiffany Haddish, Sam Richardson, Zoe Chao led mystery comedy series by Oscar winning team Chris Miller and Phil Lord, The Afterparty, with Jade creating the major recurring role of Aunt Ruth.
Also a screenwriter, Jade placed in the 2023 Screencraft TV Pilot Quarterfinals for her series, "The Copper Bucket" and in the 2023 BlueCat TV Pilot Quarterfinals for two series, "Cogito Ergo" and "Ersatz."
In 2022, she became part of the DC Comics universe in a major recurring role of Susie Lin alongside Rosario Dawson leading the Ava DuVernay/Roberto Patino HBO Max series "DMZ."
In the 2021 Toronto Intl Fest preem of the Samuel Goldwyn release, Snakehead, Jade created the Variety critically acclaimed lead role of Dai Mah.
She has played recurring Judicial Judge roles on all three major networks. In 2021, Jade entered the return of the NBC mothership Law & Order series as Judge Carol Ward. For two seasons, she recurred as Judge Julie Tanaka in Hank Steinberg's ABC "For Life" led by Nicholas Pinnock. On CBS' long running hit Bull led by Michael Weatherly, Jade recurred for three seasons as Judge Cara Bergen.
In 2020-21, Jade guest starred as Cousin Rosalind opposite Grandma in Comedy Central's hit "Awkwafina is Nora from Queens" and played Oleen opposite the hilarious Bobby Lee in "Magnum, P.I."
Part of the Marvel universe in the Disney/Netflix hit "Luke Cage", Jade created the recurring role of Genghis Connie Lin for two seasons.
Jade was first known for her breakout lead role as Ahma Chin in the Spirit Award nom, Sundance pedigree, Humanitas Award-winning film The Motel by Mike Kang, produced by Matthew Greenfield, Miguel Arteta, Gina Kwon and Richard and Esther Shapiro.
Additional television guest star roles include Linda Chu in Jenji Kohan's "Teenage Bounty Hunters," Warden Glynnis Robinson in Showtime's "Billions," recurring as the Chinese Delegate in NBC's "Blacklist," and recurring as Sul Rae Roh in the Tom Fontana/Barry Levinson's "Homicide: Life on the Streets" on NBC.
On stage, in one of only four coveted female roles in the Tony Kushner's adaptation of "Mother Courage and her Children" directed by George C. Wolfe, starring Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline, Jade played a newly created role, The Farmer's Wife.
In 2019, in the six week run of Play On Shakespeare in collaboration with Classic Stage and Oregon Shakespeare of 34 new modern translations by famous contemporary playwrights, Jade played some of The Bard's favorite characters, both male and female, Warwick in Henry VI/Part III, King Henry in Henry IV/Part I, and Paulina in Winters Tale.
In 2002-4, Jade was critically acclaimed in the New York Times and Variety for her lead roles in Off-Broadway's "Barriers" playing Naima and in the first revival of the 1920's scandalous Broadway hit "The Shanghai Gesture" playing the infamous Mother God Damn originated by Florence Reed.
In 1980, she received a Best Actress nomination for Medea in "Medea, A Journey, A Dream" at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland.
Other stage include Trojan Women direct by JoAnne Akalaitis at Shakespeare Theatre of DC, Off-Broadway's Primary English Class directed by Gerald Gutierrez, Red directed by Blanka Zizka and The Great American Quiz Show Scandal directed by Alan Schneider.
Jade has workshop and developed works by award winning playwrights Lucy Thurber, Susan Soon He Stanton, Leah Nanako Winkler, Jen Silverman, Max Yu, Teresa Huang, Don Nguyen, and Alexa Junge.
Jade is a screenwriter, director and producer under her banner production company Cogito Ergo Productions, Inc. She is also a documentary filmmaker screening her films as official selections of the IFP, Asian American International Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, Angelika and a finalist in the Sundance Producers Conference.
Her novel "The Jesus of Burma" was a PEN America Rosenthal Emerging Writers Finalist.
She is a grant recipient from the Jerome Foundation, Film/Video Arts and Ms Foundation for Documentary Filmmaking and Writing and has served on Jury Panels for the International Emmy Awards, National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts.
She has been a Guest Lecturer and Associate Professor at Cal State East Bay, Bard College, and The Raul Julia Performing Arts Institute.- Actress
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Amy Hill's television and film credits number over 180. As a voice actor, she's been heard as recurring characters on numerous shows including "American Dad", "Lilo and Stitch" (film and series), "King of the Hill", and HBO's "Happily Ever After." She had recurring roles on "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend", "UnReal", "Preacher", and the CBS sitcom "Mom". She's was also a regular on Amazon Prime's "Just Add Magic."
She started her career in theater working with the famed Asian American Theater Company in San Francisco and continued as a teacher, director, and artistic committee member there in addition to being a part of San Francisco's improvisation and sketch-comedy scene. Hill is also known in the theatre world as a respected performance artist, having written and performed a number of one-woman shows, including the trilogy of "Tokyo Bound", "Reunion", and "Beside Myself."
She has worked with regional theaters such as The Mark Taper Forum, Berkeley Rep, Seattle Rep, Actors Theater of Louisville, and The Public Theater in New York City, and has appeared on Broadway in Lincoln Center's "Twelfth Night," which also aired on PBS' "Live from Lincoln Center." She is proud to consider East West Players as her Los Angeles Theater "home," where she has also performed, directed, and taught.