Famous Faces on "OZ" (1st Season)!
by gattonero975 | created - 25 Oct 2016 | updated - 25 Oct 2016 | PublicNo matter how hardened a criminal or killer, whether you're in for a few years or in for life, you have a role to play in Emerald City, an experimental unit of Oswald Maximum Security Prison or "OZ". Em City is about prisoner rehabilitation over public retribution. It is run by Tim McManus and overseen by Warden Leo Glynn.
Every group- Aryans, Italians, Latinos, Muslims- stick close to mutual friends and terrorize mutual enemies. Once inside, you must choose your friends carefully. Get yourself a weapon, Don't ever smile and try to stay on everyone's good side...if they have one.
1. Craig muMs Grant
Actor | Dark Water
Craig muMs Grant was born on December 18, 1968 in Bronx, New York, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Dark Water (2005), Side Effects (2013) and Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014). He died on March 24, 2021 in Wilmington, North Carolina, USA.
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 1 The Routine (12 Jul 1997) Poet (as muMs the Schemer)
2. Frank Bonsangue
Transportation_department | I Am Legend
Frank Bonsangue also known as Frankie the butcher was born and raised in Astoria, Queens. He has appeared in many Films, TV shows and commercials. He has also appeared in many cooking shows including the Food Networks Hot Off The Grill Show with Bobby Flay as a series regular, Frankie The Butcher, ...
"Sicilian Crew"
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 1
The Routine (12 Jul 1997)
(uncredited)
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 2
Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise (14 Jul 1997)
(uncredited)
3. Tim Carr
Actor | Rocky Balboa
Born in Queens, New York, but splitting time growing up between Newark, Delaware and Avondale, Pennsylvania, Tim Carr started out doing radio for various stations in the local area.
From radio, he moved on to TV, scoring a very small but recurring role on NBC's "Homicide: Life on the Street" from ...
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 1 The Routine (12 Jul 1997) Irish Gen Pop Prisoner (uncredited)
4. Susan Floyd
Actress | Domestic Disturbance
Susan Floyd studied Shakespeare at the National Theatre of Great Britain and with Kenneth Washington. Originally Susan pursued a career in opera. She Lives in New York and works in the theater. She created the character of Suzanne in the hit play "Picasso at the Lapin Agile". Written by Steve Martin...
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 2 Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise (14 Jul 1997) "Genevieve Beecher"
5. Ray Iannicelli
Actor | Joker
With a career that spans over 30 years, and a resume that reads like a book, chances are you have grown up with Ray Iannicelli in your household, and not even known it. His versatility in film, television, and on stage has left audiences alike captivated but also wondering where else do I recognize...
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 2 Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise (14 Jul 1997) "Officer Roger Brese"
6. Zeljko Ivanek
Actor | Seven Psychopaths
Zeljko Ivanek was born on August 15, 1957 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is an actor and producer, known for Seven Psychopaths (2012), Argo (2012) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017).
"Governor James Devlin"
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 2
Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise (14 Jul 1997)
7. Tomas Milian
Actor | Traffic
Tomas Milian, an American actor born in Cuba; was trained at the Actors Studio. He appeared in a few plays on Broadway, as well as in a show by Jean Cocteau in Spoleto. Mauro Bolognini noticed him and that was the starting point of a rich cinematographic career in Italy, where he played in all ...
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 2 Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise (14 Jul 1997) "Ricardo Alvarez"
8. Leif Riddell
Actor | A Perfect Getaway
Leif Riddell was born on October 7, 1964. He is an actor, known for A Perfect Getaway (2009), Gotham (2014) and Oz (1997).
"Mark Mack"
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 1
The Routine (12 Jul 1997)
(uncredited)
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 2
Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise (14 Jul 1997)
(uncredited)
9. José Ramón Rosario
Actor | Mystic River
José Ramón Rosario is known for Mystic River (2003), Stay (2005) and Arthur (2011).
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 2 Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise (14 Jul 1997) "Eduardo Alvarez" (as Jose R. Rosario)
10. Jon Seda
Actor | La Brea
Jon Seda's first passion was to be a championship boxer. After taking runner-up in the NJ Golden Gloves, the 1992 Olympics was the next goal. That's when fate stepped in; at his first audition, for Gladiator (1992), he was given a co-starring role! Since then he has branched off into numerous ...
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 1 The Routine (12 Jul 1997) "Dino Ortolani"
11. Skipp Sudduth
Actor | Ronin
Skipp Sudduth was born on August 23, 1956 in Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Ronin (1998), Louie (2010) and Quarry (2016).
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 2 Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise (14 Jul 1997) "Lenny Burrano"
12. Desiree Marie Velez
Actress | Super Mario Bros.
Desiree Marie Velez is an American actress, producer and co-host born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y. She relocated to Virginia to finish High School and College. She majored in Drama which she flourished at due to life experiences with a blue-collar family in N.Y which exposed her to all accents, ...
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 1 The Routine (12 Jul 1997) "Gintare Ortolani"
13. Avery Kidd Waddell
Actor | Why Men Are Clueless
Avery Kidd Waddell was born on September 10, 1976. He is an actor and producer, known for Questions (2023), True Story (2021) and Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000).
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 2 Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise (14 Jul 1997) Young Man (uncredited)
14. Goodfella Mike G
Actor | Oz
Goodfella Mike G was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is known for Oz (1997).
"Joey D'Angelo"
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 1
The Routine (12 Jul 1997)
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 2
Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise (14 Jul 1997)
15. Tony Musante
Actor | The Incident
Handsome, rugged, and talented Italian-American actor Tony Musante was born on June 30, 1936 in Bridgeport, Connecticut to an accountant father and a school teacher mother. He attended both Northwestern University and Oberlin College. Tony worked as a school teacher prior to beginning his acting ...
"Nino Schibetta"
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 1
The Routine (12 Jul 1997)
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 2
Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise (14 Jul 1997)
16. Kirk Acevedo
Actor | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Born and raised in the Bronx, and spent most of his formative years hanging out in New York City, Kirk Acevedo, who is of Puerto Rican descent, received his BFA from SUNY Purchase and founded a theater company called The Rorschach Group. After guest-starring on several television shows like New ...
"Miguel Alvarez"
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 1
The Routine (12 Jul 1997)
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 2
Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise (14 Jul 1997)
17. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Actor | Farming
Born and raised in London, England, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje began his career as a model in Milan. He graduated with a masters degree in Law from London's prestigious Kings College, before moving to Los Angeles to make the transition to acting. Fluent in several languages, including English, ...
"Simon Adebisi"
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 1
The Routine (12 Jul 1997)
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 2
Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise (14 Jul 1997)
18. O.L. Duke
Stunts | Man on Fire
O.L. Duke's acting career breakthrough occurred when he replaced Denzel Washington in Charles Fuller 's Pulitzer Prize-winning original production of "A Soldier's Play" (later made into the film A Soldier's Story (1984). He was a member of both the renowned Actors Studio and the Negro Ensemble ...
"Paul Markstram"
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 1
The Routine (12 Jul 1997)
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 2
Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise (14 Jul 1997)
19. Edie Falco
Actress | The Sopranos
Edith Falco, called Edie, was born on July 5, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York, to Judith Anderson, an actress, and Frank Falco, a jazz drummer. She is of Italian (father) and Swedish, English, and Cornish (mother) descent. Edie grew up on Long Island and attended SUNY Purchase, where she was trained in ...
"Officer Diane Whittlesey"
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 1
The Routine (12 Jul 1997)
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 2
Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise (14 Jul 1997)
20. Ernie Hudson
Actor | Ghostbusters
As a child growing up in Benton Harbor, Michigan, Ernie Hudson wrote short stories, poems and songs, always thinking that his words might one day come to life on stage. After a short stint in the Marine Corps, he moved to Detroit where he became the resident playwright at Concept East, the oldest ...
"Warden Leo Glynn"
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 1
The Routine (12 Jul 1997)
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 2
Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise (14 Jul 1997)
21. Terry Kinney
Actor | Billions
Terry Kinney, the stage, film and television actor, was born in Lincoln, Illinois and attended Illinois State University. While at university, his friend, the aspiring actor Jeff Perry, took Kinney to Chicago to see a production of "Grease" in which his best friend, Gary Sinise, was appearing. The ...
"Tim McManus"
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 1
The Routine (12 Jul 1997)
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 2
Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise (14 Jul 1997)
22. Leon
Actor | Cool Runnings
2022 is shaping up to be another breakout year for Leon! Leon is starring in the action movie "A Day to Die" opposite Bruce Willis and Frank Grillo in theaters March 2022. Leon can be seen in the Show:me Drama "City on A Hill". In 2020 Leon starred in Hallmark's #1 movie of the year, "Time for Us ...
"Jefferson Keane"
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 1
The Routine (12 Jul 1997)
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 2
Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise (14 Jul 1997)
23. Tim McAdams
Stunts | Black Panther
Tim R. McAdams is an extremely talented Actor & Stuntman with over 30 years experience in the performing arts industry. Tim was exposed to the performing arts industry in elementary school when he joined the drama department. At this early age, teachers and audiences recognized that Tim was a ...
"Johnny Post"
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 1
The Routine (12 Jul 1997)
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 2
Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise (14 Jul 1997)
24. Rita Moreno
Actress | West Side Story
Rita Moreno is one of the very few performers to win an Oscar, an Emmy, a Tony and a Grammy, thus becoming an EGOT. She was born Rosita Dolores Alverío in the hospital in Humacao, Puerto Rico on December 11, 1931 (but raised in nearby, smaller Juncos, which had no hospital), to seamstress Rosa ...
"Sister Peter Marie Reimondo"
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 1
The Routine (12 Jul 1997)
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 2
Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise (14 Jul 1997)
25. Harold Perrineau
Actor | Romeo + Juliet
Harold Perrineau is an American actor best known for his roles as Michael Dawson on the television series Lost (2004-2008; 2010), Augustus Hill in the television series Oz (1997-2003), Link in The Matrix franchise (2003), and Mercutio in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1996). He has also starred in ...
"Augustus Hill"
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 1
The Routine (12 Jul 1997)
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 2
Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise (14 Jul 1997)
26. Steve Ryan
Actor | Arrested Development
Steve Ryan was born on June 19, 1947 in Manhattan, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Arrested Development (2003), Crime Story (1986) and Daddio (2000). He was married to Wendy Sue Walton. He died on September 3, 2007 in Duarte, California, USA.
"Officer Mike Healy"
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 1
The Routine (12 Jul 1997)
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 2
Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise (14 Jul 1997)
27. Derrick Simmons
Actor | Paid in Full
The acting career of Derrick Simmons began at the early age of 10. He attended Harbor JHS of Performing Arts in Harlem, New York. And attended Talent Unlimited where he majored in drama. An agent saw him in a showcase and sent him out on his first audition. He was booked opposite Stacey Dash in a ...
"Billie Keane"
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 1
The Routine (12 Jul 1997)
28. J.K. Simmons
Actor | Whiplash
J.K. Simmons is an American actor.
He was born Jonathan Kimble Simmons in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, to Patricia (Kimble), an administrator, and Donald William Simmons, a music teacher. He attended the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; University of Montana, Missoula, MT (BA in Music).
He had ...
"Vern Schillinger"
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 1
The Routine (12 Jul 1997)
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 2
Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise (14 Jul 1997)
29. Lee Tergesen
Actor | Oz
He was born on July 8, 1965 in Ivoryton, Connecticut and is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. His brother, Chris Tergesen, is a music supervisor and music editor. Lee has been married three times and has been married to Yuko Otomo, an art therapist, since 2011. They have a ...
"Tobias Beecher"
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 1
The Routine (12 Jul 1997)
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 2
Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise (14 Jul 1997)
30. Luna Lauren Velez
Actress | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Queens, New York among eight siblings, including her twin sister Lorraine, Lauren Velez dreamed of becoming an actress ever since she played a groundhog in a school play in second grade. Immediately following high school, she received a scholarship from the Alvin Ailey...
"Dr. Gloria Nathan" (as Lauren Velez)
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 1
The Routine (12 Jul 1997)
31. Eamonn Walker
Actor | Oz
Eamonn Walker was born on June 12, 1962 in London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Oz (1997), Unbreakable (2000) and Lord of War (2005). He is married to Sandra Walker. They have three children.
"Kareem Said"
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 1
The Routine (12 Jul 1997)
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 2
Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise (14 Jul 1997)
32. Dean Winters
Actor | John Wick
Dean Winters is known for his role as Ryan O'Reily on HBO's award-winning series Oz (1997) and as Tina Fey's character's "Beeper King" boyfriend on the Emmy-winning comedy, 30 Rock (2006). His noteworthy comedic performance was recently included in Entertainment Weekly's "Must List" as well as ...
"Ryan O'Reily"
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 1
The Routine (12 Jul 1997)
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 2
Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise (14 Jul 1997)
33. BD Wong
Actor | Jurassic Park
BD Wong was born and raised in San Francisco, California. He made his Broadway debut in "M. Butterfly." He is the only actor to be honored with the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Clarence Derwent Award, and Theater World Award for the same performance. He starred in the ...
"Father Ray Mukada"
"OZ": Season 1, Episode 2
Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise (14 Jul 1997)
34. Sean Whitesell
Producer | The Killing
Sean Whitesell was born on March 11, 1963 in Iowa Falls, Iowa, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for The Killing (2011), Oz (1997) and Homicide: Life on the Street (1993). He was married to Maria Quiban. He died on December 28, 2015 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
"Donald Groves"
35. George Morfogen
Actor | V
George Morfogen was born on March 30, 1933 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for V (1983), What's Up, Doc? (1972) and She's Funny That Way (2014). He was married to Gene Laughorne. He died on March 8, 2019 in New York City, New York, USA.
"Bob Rebadow"
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