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Ethan began doing photo ads when he was four years old as a way for his mother and him to spend time together. After a few ads, he was asked to audition for commercials and then movies. He landed his first movie role acting with Vince Vaughn in Fred Claus (2007) when he was seven years old. At the age of nine, Ethan played a mythical spirit named Barto in the movie The Unborn (2009), where he had the opportunity to play opposite Gary Oldman.
In 2009, Ethan was selected for the Showtime series Shameless (2011) to play Carl Gallagher, the second youngest Gallagher sibling and biggest troublemaker. Shameless ran for 11 seasons until 2021 and is currently the longest-running original scripted series in Showtime's history.
Ethan continues to expand his voice as an artist, creating his own fashion brand Khaotic Collective in 2018 and producing music. He resides in Los Angeles, California.- Actress
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An extremely gifted, versatile performer adept at both comedy and drama, actress/singer Katey Sagal became a household name in the late 1980s as the fabulously brazen, undomesticated Peg Bundy on the enduring Fox series Married... with Children (1987). During its lengthy run she received three Golden Globe and two American Comedy Award nominations. As popular and identifiable as her Peg Bundy persona was, Katey assertively moved on after the show went off the air, not only starring in other sitcoms and television movies, but portraying characters that were polar opposites of the outrageous role that first earned her nationwide attention. For example, in 2008 she took on the role of Gemma Teller Morrow, the matriarch of a Hell's- Angels-esque California biker gang, on the series Sons of Anarchy (2008), and in 2011 her portrayal earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in the Television Series--Drama.
Catherine Louise Sagal was born on January 19, 1954, to director and singer Sara Zwilling and noted television and film director Boris Sagal. The Los Angeles native began performing at age 5 and studied voice and acting at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California.
A singing waitress during her "salad" years, she started performing with the band "The Group With No Name," then caught a break after hooking up with Gene Simmons and his 1970s rock band KISS. In the meantime, she gained valuable experience as a backup recording singer for Simmons and other established stars like Bob Dylan, Olivia Newton-John, Etta James, and Tanya Tucker. She was also dynamic performing live with diva Bette Midler as one of her "Harlettes" in Bette's wildly avant-garde stage shows during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
In 1985, while performing on stage in a musical, she was spotted by talent agents who subsequently cast her as Mary Tyler Moore's feisty co-worker Jo Tucker in Mary (1985), a short-lived comedy series. From that point on she focused on film and television. In 1987 she won the role of voluptuous "housewife" Peg Bundy in the irreverent comedy Married... with Children (1987), and the rest is history.
In addition to her busy on-camera scheduling, Katey has retraced her steps to her first love: singing and songwriting. With the support of her record label Valley Entertainment, she released the album "Room" in 2004 that combined classics like "Feel a Whole Lot Better" and "(For the Love of) Money" with original songs she penned, including "Life Goes Round," "Daddy's Girl," and "Wish I Were a Kid." "Room" is her first CD since her 1994 debut "Well."
In her post-Bundy career, Katey has continued to demonstrate a strong range, playing a much more responsible parent in the popular sitcom 8 Simple Rules (2002), co-starring the late John Ritter and valiantly moving to single-household-head after Ritter's sudden passing in 2003 with highly successful results.
She has earned earned equally-fine kudos for her television movies like Chance of a Lifetime (1998), a charming romantic comedy that also co-starred John Ritter, God's New Plan (1999), a tearjerker in which she played a dying mother, and the Disney offerings Smart House (1999) and Mr. Headmistress (1998). The voice of Turanga Leela, the beautiful one-eyed sewer mutant in the animated series Futurama (1999), she has also guested on Ghost Whisperer (2005), Lost (2004), Boston Legal (2004), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000), and Eli Stone (2008). Feature films have included Maid to Order (1987), The Good Mother (1988), the Sundance Film Festival favorite Dropping Out (2000), Following Tildy (2002), and the indie I'm Reed Fish (2006).
Playing Jack's mother in a live-action/adventure retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk (2009) that also featured the talents of Christopher Lloyd, James Earl Jones, and Chevy Chase, Katey's more recent efforts include recurring role on TV's Lost (2004), a role in the mini-series The Bastard Executioner (2015) and a regular role in the series Superior Donuts (2017). She would also join the cast of the sitcom The Conners (2018) as a love interest to widower Dan John Goodman.
Following brief marriages to musician Freddie Beckmeier, Fred Lombardo, and former Steppenwolf drummer and "Mighty Ducks" hockey film advisor Jack White, Katey resides in the Los Angeles area with fourth husband writer/producer/director/creator Kurt Sutter, whose acclaimed work includes The Shield (2002) and the offbeat Sons of Anarchy (2008), which Sutter created. She had three children by White: Ruby (died at birth), Sarah, and Jackson; and one daughter by Sutter, Esme Louise.- Actor
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William Hall Macy Jr. is an American actor. His film career has been built on appearances in small, independent films, though he has also appeared in mainstream films. Macy has won two Emmy Awards and four Screen Actors Guild Awards, while his performance in Fargo earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. From 2011 to 2021, he played Frank Gallagher, a main character in Shameless, the Showtime adaptation of the British television series. Macy has been married to Felicity Huffman since 1997.- Actor
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Noel Fisher has become one of the entertainment industry's most sought-after and versatile performers, bringing to life memorable characters on the big and small screens over the past few years. Fisher's film and television credits include starring as Michelangelo in Paramount Pictures' summer hit Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, playing Mickey Milkovich opposite William H. Macy and Emmy Rossum on the critically acclaimed Showtime series Shameless, and Vladimir in the final chapter of the worldwide phenomenon The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2. Additional credits include History Channel's miniseries Hatfields & McCoys; the blockbuster film Battle: Los Angeles with Aaron Eckhart; CBS' Two and a Half Men, The Mentalist, and Medium; recurring roles on NBC's Law and Order: SVU; Showtime's Huff; and FOX's Bones; as well as the Sundance film RED (Official Selection) and the critically acclaimed HBO miniseries The Pacific. Audiences may best remember Fisher from his breakout performance in the critically acclaimed FX series The Riches portraying Cal Malloy, the conniving and clever son of Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver. Fisher is represented by United Talent Agency, Industry Entertainment, and attorney Marcy Morris.- Actress
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Emma Rose Kenney is an American actress. She has portrayed Deborah "Debbie" Gallagher on Shameless, a role she has played from 2011 to 2021, and Harris Conner-Healy in the tenth season of the family sitcom Roseanne, and its spin-off continuation The Conners. Kenney was born on September 14, 1999, in New York City. Her parents are Gillian Kenney, a criminal defense lawyer, and Kevin Kenney, a sports writer who formerly wrote for the New York Post and now works for Fox Sports.- Actress
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Ever Carradine was born on 6 August 1974 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for The Requiem Boogie (2024), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) and Bubble Boy (2001). She has been married to Coby Brown since 1 October 2005. They have two children.- Actor
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John Billingsley was born on 20 May 1960 in Media, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor, known for The Man from Earth (2007), Out of Time (2003) and 2012 (2009). He has been married to Bonita Friedericy since June 2000.- Actor
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Born on September 24, 1981 in Clearwater, Florida, Andrew Leeds started acting professionally at the age of 8. He first appeared on Broadway in the musical "Teddy & Alice" and soon after appeared as Gavroche in "Les Miserables." He next starred on Broadway in the musical "Falsettos" as Jason. He graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Computer Science. He splits his time between Los Angeles and New York. As a writer, he has written pilots for various networks including FOX, NBC, and Showtime.- Actor
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Joel is a versatile writer-director-actor. The youngest of the nine Murrays is a veteran of over 250 sit-com episodes. He has been a series regular on the comedies Grand, Pacific Station, Love and War, Dharma and Greg and Still Standing. He has also recurred on the series Mike and Molly, My Boys and Two and a Half Men. On the dramatic side, Joel played Freddy Rumsen on AMC's Mad Men as well as Eddie Jackson on Showtime's Shameless. He recently starred in Bobcat Goldthwait's dark comedy, God Bless America. He can be heard playing Don Carlton in the Pixar prequel, Monsters University. He was also in 2011' Best Picture, The Artist. Joel has been in numerous films including One Crazy Summer, Scrooged, Long Gone, Hatchet, Lay the Favorite. Sophie and The Rising Sun, Mr. Pig , Bloodsucking Bastards, Lamb, and Seven Minutes. He can also be seen in the upcoming The Last Word. He studied improvisation with Del Close, among others, and was a founding member of Chicago's Improv Olympic. He enjoyed five years at The Second City in Chicago. He has been doing theater since the 4th grade, performed with the Remains and Organic Theatres Companies in Chicago and still performs frequently at the I. O. West in Los Angeles. Joel loves playing with Whose Live Anyway, playing golf and ordering scotch.- Actress
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Vanessa Bell Calloway was born on 20 March 1957 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She is an actress and director, known for Coming to America (1988), What's Love Got to Do with It (1993) and Daylight (1996). She has been married to Tony Calloway since 3 September 1988. They have two children.- Actress
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Cheryl Texiera is an actress/writer/producer most known for playing Katy Hart on Disney's Girl Meets World and Jane Ponderosa on It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. In 2012, she began creating her own content and opened the production company: CrazyChic Productions. Her directorial debut, Mama's Boys was an Official Selection of HBO's Women in Comedy Film Festival (2018) and her web series Confessions of a Bitter(sweet) Actress was nominated for a 2014 Independent Television Award for Best Web Comedy. Originally from Mahopac, NY and one of five children, Cheryl loves living as bicoastal as possible and spending time with her family.- Nancy Linehan Charles was born on 11 December 1942 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Minority Report (2002), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) and The Stepfather (2009).
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Jenica Bergere is a Los Angeles-based flailing mother of three and an award-winning filmmaker. Working in the industry for over 25 years as a comedic actress, Bergere has appeared as a memorable character in over twenty feature films, and as a series regular on numerous shows across several networks such as ABC NBC CBS FOX, and Showtime. During her prolific career, Bergere has written and sold shows, developed and produced content, and honed her creative eye to encompass all areas of filmmaking. Over the past several years, Bergere has fostered her growing passion for storytelling as a director of feature films. Drawing from a well of personal experience coming from a family of porn stars hookers and thieves, Bergere wrote, directed, and starred in her debut micro-budget film Come Simi. Shot in 10 days and with a cash outlay of only $10,000, Come Simi garnered several festival awards, including Best Actress, Best Screenplay, and Best Feature, and received worldwide distribution via The Orchard. Bergere's second directorial endeavor was the award-winning Spare Room, a visually unique and beautiful tale with both stunning breakout and seasoned performances written by a woman from Chicago who sought Bergere out to tell her story. Their collaboration was featured in Forbes magazine and Bergere was also cited as one of the top five female filmmakers making the festival rounds in 2019. Bergere's ability to coax authentic emotion and performances from her cast combined with her decisiveness on set are what enable her to accomplish so much with relatively little time and money during filming. Spare Room is distributed worldwide through Gravitas Ventures.
Bergere lives in Culver City with her three daughters, a professional chef husband, and two rescue dogs with bad breath.- Susan Berger was born in Buffalo, NY. Susan went to Nursery school in Paris, France, finished elementary school in Cape Town, South Africa and graduated high school in Rome, Italy. In between, she lived in five different states so she called a lot of places home. She lives in Los Angeles, California.
After she graduated from the University of Georgia she got a scholarship to teach acting at Honolulu Community Theatre in Hawaii (her alums include Clyde Kusatsu, Keone Young and Haunani Minn) and take a Master's degree at The University of Hawaii. From there she went to London where she hoped to pursue an acting career. England's work permit requirements didn't make that possible so she went to Front Street Theatre in Memphis, Tennessee, and from there to New York. Susan appeared in many Regional and Off-Broadway plays and in both the original and Broadway productions of the musical The Robber Bridegroom.
One of her most memorable experiences was being cast in Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth. The film shot during Covid. And everyone involved was grateful to be a part of a truly magical experience. Susan's other films include Kajillionaire, Looks to Kill, The Dollar King, and the upcoming The Legacy of Cloudy Falls.
Susan can be seen on Jury Duty on Amazon's Freevee, playing Barbara Goldstein. Jury Duty was a truly breath-taking experience, as all of the dialog was improvised around a set of premises that the cast were never sure would actually happen the way the writers and producers imagined them. The fact that that it came out so well is a tribute to production team's editing skills. Other TV appearances include roles in American Horror Story, Baskets, Mom, Criminal Minds, Bob Hearts Abishola, and Hunters. After studying improv and musical improv at UCB, Susan and her son Christopher Corbin formed a two-person improv group. Son of a Mother. - Actress
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Mo Gaffney was born on 5 November 1958 in San Diego, California, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999), Absolutely Fabulous (1992) and God Bless America (2011).- John Gowans was born in the USA. John is an actor, known for Oppenheimer (2023), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) and Hill Street Blues (1981).
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Betsy Baker was born in May of 1955 in Iowa. She had graduated with a combined degree in theater and classical voice from Michigan State University and embarked upon headline engagements throughout the south, including The Eden Roc in Miami Beach and other venues, with a group called Musicana. Betsy eventually found herself in Detroit, where she honed her craft in television, radio voice-overs, industrial films and films nationwide.- Actor
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Phil Abrams was born in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Dolemite Is My Name (2019), Strange Angel (2018) and Parenthood (2010).- Actress
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Bayne Gibby is an actor, writer, and director. Most recently, she appeared in the Oscar Nominated film Lady Bird as Casey Kelley. Bayne portrayed Connie on two seasons the HBO series, Enlightened, starring Laura Dern. Best known for her role as Gigi on the HBO series The Comeback with Lisa Kudrow, she reprised her role in the long awaited series return in 2014. Her other television credits include Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (CW), Shameless (Showtime), The Guest Book (TBS), Hot in Cleveland (TVLand) opposite Betty White, Fatrick (FOX) directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, Fresh Off the Boat (ABC), Bones (FOX), 2 Broke Girls (CBS), Hart of Dixie (CW), Mad Men (AMC), Parks and Recreation (NBC), Free Agents (NBC), Men In Trees (ABC), On the Lot (FOX), Sex and the City (HBO), Rita Rocks (Lifetime), and the Comedy Central special "Out on the Edge." Bayne can be seen regularly at the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater LA in the musical improv show Magic to Do. All of Bayne's original content can be found on her youtube channel. Her first children's book, You Mean the World to Me (Scholastic) has sold over 90K copies.- Actress
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Kat Purgal was born in the USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Shrinking (2023), Dave (2020) and The Muppets. (2015).- Actress
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Iowa City, Iowa-born playwright and actor June Carryl grew up in Denver, Colorado. Starting out in Political Science at Brown University, intending to be a lawyer, she bailed on the last round of LSAT's and pursued a Ph.D. in English Literature instead. She wrote a play for her midterm in a Drama survey course taught by playwright Paula Vogel (How I Learned To Drive, The Baltimore Waltz) who invited to join her playwriting class where she studied with two of the best writers to come out of that or any program, Pulitzer Prize Winner Nilo Cruz (Night Train to Bolina, Anna in the Tropics) and the late John C. Russell (Stupid Kids), as well as guest artists Aisha Rahman and Anna Deavere Smith.
June's first play was a disaster, only one of two NOT to receive a production as part of the annual New Plays Festival. She went on to receive her MA in 1992, played Cassius in a well-received production of Julius Caesar with the Fish on Fire Theater Company, and wrote a second play, a full length about a traveling circus. Perfect Freaks was presented at the George Houston Bass Memorial Play-Rites Festival at Rites & Reason Theater in 1993. That same year, she co-wrote Don't Answer these Screams with Silence, with Kelly Smith and Kathleen Jenkins, to benefit the Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence for the 1993 International Women's Playwriting Festival at Perishable Theater.
Carryl moved to the Bay Area in 1993 to study acting and worked professionally for seven years and taught playwriting and acting workshops for high school students. She joined Z-Space (later the Z Collective) and later the Marin Playwrights Lab and produced an adaptation of Wole Soyinka's Things Fall Apart and a one-act, The Art of Yes. During her time in the Bay Area, she appeared in shows at the Magic (Pieces of the Quilt), San Francisco Shakespeare Festival (As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream), Berkeley Repertory Theater (Macbeth, Civil Sex), and A.C.T. (Insurrection: Holding History). In 1999, she received the Dean Goodman Choice Award for Best actress in Thick Description's production of Suzan-Lori Parks's drama, Venus.
She moved to Los Angeles around 2000 and adopted her mother's maiden name (Lomena) professionally. She was hired to write her first screenplay, The Will, a gothic horror film for Deak Ferrand (Hatch Pictures) and Ken Rosen. Her first film acting roles were in A Smile Like Yours (1997), What Dreams May Come (1998), Sweet November (2001), and Woman on Top (2000). In 2003, she was commissioned to write The Rings of Saturn for Visible Theater in New York, which was later performed for The Blank Theatre's Living Room Series (2004). This was followed by a staged reading of God's Wife at the Zephyr Theater. In 2005, she appeared in a production of The Threepenny Opera at the Odyssey Theater. In 2007, she wrote her second feature, The Pursuit of Happy, and began developing a new feature about the genocide in Zimbabwe in the 1980s. She is a member of the Actors Studio.- Director
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Jude Weng is known for Finding 'Ohana (2021), Only Murders in the Building (2021) and The Good Place (2016).- Actor
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The move from Puerta De Tierra section of San Juan Puerto Rico to the very New England town of Boston, MA was motivated by his parents' belief that better schools, a better education, and a better life, would be available to young Juan Candido Washington y Landron. So, it was there that the actor Jack Landron began his episodic American journey.
He quickly became proficient in English. With this proficiency came a love for the spoken word, in its many forms. His grandfather's thick Spanish accent, the lilt of his Grandmother's West Indian speech pattern, the Yiddish dialect of the nurturing old couple who lived next door, all found a place in young Jack's talent for mimicry. In later years this proved most helpful when doing voice-over work.
After a lack luster college years (Emerson, in Boston) for which he paid with earnings from his successful folk singing career (Club 47 in Cambridge, was his start), Jackie Washington, went to Mississippi in the spring of 1964. Here he became a founding member of the renowned Free Southern Theatre. One night, while performing, he attracted the attention of the Rev. Martin Luther King. This resulted in a memorable time as a personal assistant to the revered Civil Rights icon.
After leaving Mississippi, he went to NYC and got deeply involved in TV & Theatre. He appeared in the NBC children's series "First Look", which required him to join AFTRA. He discovered that a Jackie Washington already existed in AFTRA, so, he used his other name, Jack Landron. He was then cast in the TV premiere of "10 Blocks on the Camino Real" (Tennessee Williams), which featured the legendary actress Lotte Lenya, with whom Jack formed a warm, and lasting friendship. Acting jobs at the famed Negro Ensemble Theatre, the Puerto Rican traveling theatre, AMAS Repertory Theatre, and the NY Shakespeare Festival, among others, poured in for Jack.
Marriage and Parenthood-and eventual single Parenthood- made it necessary to secure daytime employment, which led Jack to a long career of commercials, Industrials, and voice-over work.
In 2012, with the children grown, Jack shifted his base of operation to Los Angeles, where work in independent films coincided with a renewed career as a singer/songwriter, marked by the release of a CD entitled "Curbside Cotillion".- Actor
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Chip Chinery's showbiz career began as a 16-year-old stand-up comic. After graduating from Miami University with a Psychology degree, he worked as a TV cameraman for the CBS affiliate in Cincinnati and then as Director of Communications for TheBankMart in Connecticut. 24-year-old Chip started touring the country 45 weeks a year for a decade on the stand-up club circuit.
In 1993, Chip won the Emmy for "On-Air Performer" in the Midwest region. This was for stand-up, sketches and a man-on-the-street piece that he wrote, produced and performed. In 1994, Chip secured his second Emmy nomination. This was for a "Short Subject" that he wrote, produced, edited, and performed.
Chip studied briefly with Martin duMaat at Second City in Chicago before moving to Hollywood in 1994. He continued his improv/sketch training at The Groundlings and Acme Comedy Theatre. Chip worked his way up to the Main Company at Acme. He balanced his stand-up work on The Road with sketch, improv and auditions in Los Angeles.
It took 160 auditions over 3½ years before Chip booked his first commercial, and almost four years before he booked his first TV show: 3rd Rock From the Sun, playing the inept maintenance man in several episodes from 1997-1999. Good News: That is where Chip had his first onscreen kiss. Bad News: It was with John Lithgow.