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Jon Hamm is an American actor and producer from St. Louis, Missouri who is known for playing Don Draper in Mad Men. He also played Mister Sinister in a deleted scene of The New Mutants and Legion, Brogan from Shrek Forever After, and other films and shows including Sucker Punch, Million Dollar Arm, Black Mirror and Good Omens.- Known to audiences worldwide as spitfire advertising executive "Pete Campbell" on Matthew Weiner's Golden Globe, Emmy, and SAG Award-winning drama series Mad Men (2007), Vincent Kartheiser has actually been acting since he was a teen. Starting with Untamed Heart (1993), alongside Marisa Tomei, Kartheiser accumulated an impressive number of credits during his youth, inclusive of Little Big League (1994), Iron Will (1994), The Indian in the Cupboard (1995), and Alaska (1996). He has since appeared in the likes of Another Day in Paradise (1998) with James Woods and Melanie Griffith; Crime + Punishment in Suburbia (2000); and most recently, the sci-fi thriller In Time (2011), which reunited him with his Alpha Dog (2006) co-star, Justin Timberlake.
During his Mad Men (2007) hiatus, Kartheiser filmed the indie, Beach Pillows (2014), and performed the lead role in "Death of the Novel", which brought him back to his stage roots, that originated at the renown Guthrie theatre.
Kartheiser previously starred on Joss Whedon's Angel (1999), and has guest-starred in numerous other series, including ER (1994), BBC America's Money (2010), and The Cleveland Show (2009). He's also lent his voice to the big screen's Rango (2011) and will next lead the cast of FOX's High School USA! (2013).
A native of Minneapolis, MN, Kartheiser was named after Vincent van Gogh and grew up surrounded by his works. - Actor
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Aaron Staton was born on 10 August 1980 in Huntington, West Virginia, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for L.A. Noire (2011), Mad Men (2007) and The Nanny Diaries (2007). He has been married to Connie Fletcher since 18 December 2006. They have one child.- Actor
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Sommer returned to Cleveland in 2008 to teach a master class at the Case Western Reserve University / Cleveland Play House graduate program. He earned an MFA in the program in 2004.
Sommer planned his future in improv comedy during his Play House days. He has performed with the Upright Citizens Brigade improv troupe, but the bulk of his career has been in television and film.
Sommer's career is a fulfillment of a childhood dream. He was born in Toledo, and lived in Rocky River and Cuyahoga Falls (Ohio). When he was eight his family moved to Stillwater, Minnesota and graduated from Stillwater Area High School in 1996 and went on to study theater at Concordia College in Moorhead.
He did odd jobs and improv after graduating from college, but wanted to act full time. He saw an ad in a theater magazine about the Cleveland Play House graduate program and applied.
He and his wife, Virginia Donohoe Sommer, met as graduate students. The couple moved to New York in 2004, married the following year and moved to Los Angeles in 2007. Virginia Sommer is a full-time mom to the couple's two children (Beatrice c. 2007 and Patrick Ryan, August 31, 2010).
At the start of his career, he wished for one legacy job -- something to tell the grandchildren about. With 'Mad Men' he has that.- Actor
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John Slattery was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Joan (Mulhern), a CPA, and John "Jack" Slattery, a leather merchant, both of Irish descent. John landed his first TV gig on the 1988 series The Dirty Dozen (1988) and has worked steadily since then. His television career has included the short-lived series Under Cover (1991), Homefront (1991), Maggie (1998) and Feds (1997); and the mini-series A Woman of Independent Means (1995) with Sally Field and From the Earth to the Moon (1998), in which he played Walter Mondale. By having recurring roles on Will & Grace (1998) as Will's big brother, "Sam"; Judging Amy (1999) as Amy's estranged husband; and Sex and the City (1998) as a very kinky politician, John has become one of the most in-demand character actors. In 2001, he had a role on NBC's comedy-drama Ed (2000), where he played the confident, cool, aloof high school principal "Dennis Martino". This role earned him much notoriety, and made him the subject of debate among Ed (2000) fans. John has also had a long, successful and diverse career in the theater. He made his theater debut in the 1989 play "The Lisbon Traviata", which also starred Nathan Lane. He has had several successful collaborations with the playwright Richard Greenberg and appeared in the author's "The Extra Man", "Night and Her Stars" and "Three Days of Rain", for which he earned critical praise for his dual roles of father and son. In 1993, John made his Broadway debut starring opposite Nathan Lane in Neil Simon's "Laughter on the 23rd Floor". Returning to the theater in 2000, John starred in a revival of Harold Pinter's "Betrayal". Making his feature film debut in 1996, John had a small role in the movie City Hall (1996). He then appeared in the movies Eraser (1996), Where's Marlowe? (1998), Traffic (2000), and the Anthony Hopkins/Chris Rock vehicle Bad Company (2002)_, before finding greater fame as one of the stars of the television series Mad Men (2007).- With that impish, gap-toothed grin, nervous bundle of energy, Robert Morse could never be contained long enough to become a film star. The live stage would be his calling.
He was born Robert Allen Morse on May 18, 1931, in Newton, Massachusetts, the son of May (Silver) and Charles Morse, who worked at a record store. His father was of German Jewish descent and his mother was of Russian Jewish ancestry. He developed an interest in performing in high school. Moving to New York, he joined elder brother Richard who was already studying acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse. Robert made his debut with the musical "On the Town", in 1949, and trained with Lee Strasberg, before making his inauspicious film debut in The Proud and Profane (1956), but movie offers were few. Instead, he brightened up the lights of Broadway as "Barnaby Tucker" in "The Matchmaker" (and in the film version of The Matchmaker (1958)), as well as in "Say, Darling" (Tony nomination in 1958), "Take Me Along" (Tony nomination in 1959) and his best-known role as the ever-ambitious "J. Pierpont Finch" in "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying", in which he finally won the Tony, in 1961, while singing his signature song, "I Believe in You", to himself in the mirror. He took that role to film, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967), six years later.
Morse's best movie roles also came in the 60s, as a Britisher arranging his uncle's funeral in the cult favorite, The Loved One (1965), and as Walter Matthau's philandering buddy/advisor in A Guide for the Married Man (1967). His offbeat musical talents were used for the intriguing experimental James Thurber-like TV series, That's Life (1968), with E.J. Peaker, which combined sketches, monologues and musical interludes, but the show lasted only one season.
Overall, Bobby's work has never been less than interesting with no gray areas in his performances -- ranging from bizarre to irritating, from frenzied to fascinating. After earning acclaim and another Tony-nomination as the cross-dressing musician on the lam in "Sugar", a Broadway musical version of Some Like It Hot (1959), Morse appeared less and less -- his eccentricities proving both difficult to cast and to deal with.
Following an unfulfilling stint on the daytime soap, All My Children (1970), he came back in grand style in the one-man tour de farce, Tru (1992), based on the life of the equally-eccentric Truman Capote - a perfect fit, if ever there was one, between actor and role. With this role, Bobby became one of the choice few to ever win Tony awards for both a musical and dramatic part. At the age of 85, Morse returned to the lights of Broadway in the 2016 revival of "The Front Page" starring Nathan Lane.
Robert continued to be seen in odd roles from time to time, such as "Grandpa" in the revamped TV movie, Here Come the Munsters (1995). Into the millennium, he focused on TV work. He made a huge dramatic impression as an advertising agency founder Bertram Cooper on the popular series Mad Men (2007) and earned five Emmy nominations. He also impressed as Dominick Dunne on the series American Crime Story (2016) and provided the TV voice of Santa Claus in the animated short series Teen Titans Go! (2013).
Married twice, his five children include actresses Andrea Doven, Hilary Morse and Robin Morse. Robert Morse died on April 20, 2022, in Los Angeles. He was 90. - Actor
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Christopher Stanley was born and raised in working-class Providence, Rhode Island. Christopher is of Irish and Italian descent and one of five brothers. He became interested in acting as a teenager, but could never muster the courage to audition for the school plays he loved to attend. "It just wasn't something you did in my neighborhood, not unless you wanted to be harassed daily". Much to his surprise, it was Christopher's father who encouraged him to pursue his interest in acting. Instilled with his father's blue collar work ethic and his mother's artistic influence, he began to imagine a more artistic life for himself beyond the confines of his Italian/Irish upbringing in New England. Years later, Christopher moved to Los Angeles. He studied acting at the prestigious Loft Studio with Peggy Feury and Bill Traylor. He also studied with Jose Quintero and Bobby Lewis of the Actors Studio. Christopher has worked extensively in both film and television.- Actor
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Best known for his portrayal of adman Paul Kinsey on Mad Men, Michael began his career in the New York theater and has also played a wide range of characters in film and television.
As a musician he enjoys playing acoustic guitar, clawhammer banjo, and ukulele.
He also loves to work with horses, both in the saddle and on the ground. He recently adopted a Percheron draft horse named Rosie, and volunteers for a program that provides equine therapy for veterans and children with disabilities.
An avid chess player since childhood, he also enjoys camping, off-roading, and fishing. He can also often be found tinkering and making stuff in his garage workshop.
These days he most enjoys getting to know his newborn daughter, Emma George Gladis.
Also a writer and producer, Michael has multiple projects in development.- Actor
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Jay R. Ferguson was born on 25 July 1974 in Dallas, Texas, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Mad Men (2007), The Real O'Neals (2016) and The Conners (2018). He is married to Lorena Ruiz. They have three children.- Actor
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Bryan Batt was born on 1 March 1963 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Mad Men (2007), 12 Years a Slave (2013) and Jeffrey (1995). He has been married to Tom Cianfichi since 28 September 2014.- Actor
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Jared Francis Harris was born in London, England. He is the son of Irish actor Richard Harris and Welsh actress Elizabeth Harris (Elizabeth Rees), and brother of Damian Harris and Jamie Harris. Despite his lineage, Jared showed little interest in becoming an actor, until he was cast in a college production while attending North Carolina's Duke University (USA), where he studied drama and literature, in the early 1980s.
After graduation, Jared returned to the UK where he attended Central School of Speech and Drama and then joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, performing in Mark Rylance's "Hamlet", "Romeo & Juliet", "The Silent Woman" and "A Clockwork Orange". In 1989, he had his screen debut in The Rachel Papers (1989).
In 1990, while on vacation in New York, Jared auditioned for the role of Hotspur in "Henry IV, Part 1", which he played at the New York Shakespeare Festival following his brilliant course as an excellent theater artist in the off-Broadway play "Ecstasy", for which he was honored with an Obie Award in 1992.
Widely regarded as the one of greatest stage and screen actors both in his native Great Britain and internationally, from his breakthrough role as Andy Warhol in I Shot Andy Warhol (1996) and VH1's Two of Us (2000) where he portrayed John Lennon to Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) and Lincoln (2012), Jared Harris expressed his unparalleled qualities as a sublime "chameleon" in a wide range of roles full of profoundness, intelligence and insights through his praised performances, among others, in The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Natural Born Killers (1994), Smoke (1995), Happiness (1998), How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2000), Igby Goes Down (2002), B. Monkey (1998), Shadow Magic (2000), Mr. Deeds (2002), Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008).
His tour-de-force mesmerizing, staggering and fascinating interpretations of substantial mastery, subtlety, charisma and generosity also include some of his finest precious gems on TV such as in The Other Boleyn Girl (2003), The Riches (2007), Fringe (2008), Mad Men (2007), The Crown (2016), The Terror (2018) and Chernobyl (2019).
Jared is married to Allegra Riggio, lauded intelligent lighting designer and accidental comedian.- Actor
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A native of Washington, DC, Feldman made his first foray into acting at the age of 6 when a camp counselor convinced him to participate in the musical "Annie." In high school, Feldman was involved in the school theater program and participated in many plays. He also hosted the school's yearly production of "Blast from the Past." Feldman then attended Ithaca College and majored in acting.
In 2005, Ben Feldman made his Hollywood feature film debut in The Perfect Man (2005), co-starring Hilary Duff, Chris Noth, and Heather Locklear. Previous to this, he starred in the independent feature When Do We Eat? (2005).
His theater work includes the Broadway production of The Graduate (1967), with Kathleen Turner and Alicia Silverstone.
Feldman made his television-series debut in Living with Fran (2005)- Actor
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Kevin Rahm is an American actor known for his television roles as Kyle McCarty on Judging Amy, Lee McDermott on Desperate Housewives, and Ted Chaough on Mad Men. Kevin Rahm was born on January 7, 1971, in Mineral Wells, Texas. He attended and graduated from Atlanta High School in Atlanta, Texas in May 1989. Following high school, Rahm, then a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, attended one the church's Missionary Training Centers before serving as a missionary in France, Switzerland, and on the islands of Mauritius and Réunion between 1990 and 1992.- Actor
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Mark Moses was born in New York City, and grew up in Evanston, Illinois. His parents Philip and Patricia met in the West Village, his father worked in sales on Madison Avenue and his mother was an interior decorator. After playing football and basketball in high school and a few years at Ithaca College, Mark stumbled into acting, eventually graduating from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Grad Program. He immediately found success on stage and was on Broadway with Sean Penn and Kevin Bacon in "Slab Boys."
He continued to work in New York and in regional theaters until he met Oliver Stone who cast him in the academy award winning film Platoon (1986) where he played Lt. Wolfe. That sent Mark west to Hollywood where he worked in film, television, and theater.
Mark is most recognized for his work in television. He played Duck Philips in Mad Men (2007), Paul Young in Desperate Housewives (2004), Dennis Boyd in Homeland (2011), President Jeff Michener in The Last Ship (2014), Jason Wolfe in Berlin Station (2016), Col. Alden Cox in Manhattan (2014), Undersheriff Jerry London in Fox television's Deputy (2020), Mr. Robot (2015), Key and Peele (2012), Man Seeking Woman (2015), and many others.
His films include Platoon (1986), Cesar Chavez (2014), Mapplethorpe (2018), Fear, Inc. (2016), Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012), Swing Vote (2008), Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), Big Momma's House 2 (2006), After the Sunset (2004), Deep Impact (1998), Gettysburg (1993), Rough Riders (1997), The Doors (1991), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Someone to Watch Over Me (1987), and Bombshell (2019).
He has won three SAG/AFTRA awards. He supports numerous charities, is married to playwright and actress Annie LaRussa, and has two boys, Walker and Zane.- 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.- Actor
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Harry Robinson Hamlin is an American actor of stage, television and films. He was born in 1951, in Pasadena, California, to Berniece (Robinson), a socialite, and Chauncey Jerome Hamlin, Jr., an aeronautical engineer. He graduated from Yale University in 1974 with degrees in Drama and Psychology and was later awarded a Master of Fine Arts in acting from The American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. Though awarded an ITT-Fullbright scholarship in acting in 1977 he opted instead to make his feature film debut in Stanley Donen's comedy spoof "Movie Movie" opposite George C. Scott for which he received his first Golden Globe nomination. Best known for his roles a Perseus in "Clash of the Titans" with Lawrence Olivier and Michael Kusac in the Emmy winning TV series "LA Law", he is the son of Chauncey Jerome Hamlin Jr. who helped design the Saturn V rocket with Dr.Wernher Von Braun at Rocketdyne and North American Aviation. He is the grandson of Chauncey Jerome Hamlin who founded the Buffalo Museum of Science in Buffalo, New York. Chauncey Hamlin was also a president of the American Association of Museums and created the International Council of Museums.- Actor
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James Wolk was born in Farmington Hills, Michigan, to Edie (Elson), an art teacher, and Robert Wolk, a shoe store owner. His family is Jewish. James graduated from North Farmington High School, and worked in his father's store as a teenager. He graduated from the University of Michigan drama school in 2007, and won the role of 'Brad Cohen' in CBS/ Hallmark Hall of Fame's "Front of the Class". Based on the book of the same name, James beautifully portrayed Brad, who has been challenged with Tourette Syndrome from a young age but defied all odds to become a gifted teacher.
In 2009, he landed the title role in the ABC pilot "Solving Charlie" directed by Gregory Hoblit. James plays a young detective who, after his estranged father passes away, learns he has an 11 year old half-brother by the same name. His father's last wish is for Charlie to raise his younger brother.
James played the lead role of 'Robert/Bob Taylor' in the 2010 FOX pilot "Lone Star", directed by Marc Webb. James played a con man who has wives in two different Texas towns and leads a double life. The cast included Eloise Mumford and Adrianne Palicki as Bob's two wives, veteran actor David Keith as Bob's con-artist father, and Oscar winner Jon Voight as a powerful Texas oilman whose daughter is one of Bob's wives.
James also appeared in the 2010 Disney feature film "You Again" with Kristen Bell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Odette Yustman, Sigourney Weaver, and Kristin Chenoweth.
He resides in Los Angeles.- Actor
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Patrick Cavanaugh was born on 3 August 1977 in Vallejo, California, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Mad Men (2007), Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013) and Casting Call (2017).- Actor
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Charlie Hofheimer was born on 17 April 1981 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Black Hawk Down (2001), The Village (2004) and Fathers' Day (1997). He is married to Shannon Lucio. They have one child.- Los Angeles native Trevor Einhorn has been working in the entertainment industry since the age of five. His breakout role was playing the recurring character of Frederick Crane on the sitcom Frasier (1993). His most recent work includes a thirteen-episode arc on Mad Men (2007), playing Neil Kellerman in the ABC remake Dirty Dancing (2017), and can now be seen as a series regular on SyFy's The Magicians (2015) where he plays Josh Hoberman. He has also appeared on The Last Tycoon (2016), [lnk=tt0460676] and The Office (2005), among numerous other television shows and feature films.
- Born in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, as Sam Elliott, Sam Page attended Princeton University where he earned a BA in ecology and evolutionary biology. For his senior thesis, Page wrote about the mating habits of a female mosquitofish; the work was published in a science journal.
After graduation, Page went on to become a series regular on CBS's "Shark". He also landed a recurring role on The WB's "7th Heaven."
In 2002, People Magazine named Page to their Most Eligible Bachelors list. - Actor
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Allan Havey is considered one of the best stand-ups working today. The New York Times called him "irreverant and very funny." He's an accomplished actor, starring as Lou Avery in eleven episodes of AMC'S highly acclaimed Mad Men - and has made sixteen appearances as Karl Allard on Brian Koppelman, David Levien and Andrew Sorkin's current hit Billions on Showtime. Sean Collins of the NY Times (6/3/18) said of Allan's performance "as always, a perfectly laid-back foil for Paul Giamatti's measured bombast." Other television appearances include GLOW, Man in the High Castle, LOVE, Bosch, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and many more.- Actor
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Edin Gali, born in Bosnia and Hercegovina. Due to the Bosnian war moved to Germany where he performed in theater as a young child. As a teenager he and his family arrived in the United States, St Louis, Missouri where he attended Melville Senior High School, and continued to study Acting. Upon graduating from High School he drove cross country to Los Angeles to realize his dream of becoming a Film and Television Actor. Since arriving in Hollywood Edin has appeared on Mad Men where he received a Screen Actors Guild Award for best Ensemble in a Drama Series. Edin continued to work on Life, New Girl, Hemingway and Gellhorn, Independent Films. Edin continues to work and he is happy to call him self a working Actor in Europe and United States.- Actor
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Matt Long was born and raised in Winchester, Kentucky and started acting early on in school plays in elementary school. He continued to act throughout his college years and after graduating from Western Kentucky University, Matt moved to New York. While playing at the Williamstown Theater Fest in Massachusetts he was spotted by his current manager and soon after that he was set to star as alpha bro Jack McCallister in his television-debut in Jack & Bobby (2004). Matt currently resides in Los Angeles, loves the outdoors and enjoys hiking and backpacking when he is not working.- Actor
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- Timothy was raised on a cattle farm in rural New Kent, Virginia for the formative years of his life. His interest in performance arts started at a young age when he received an award after performing in a New Kent County talent show in 1998 when he was just 9 years old. During middle school and high school Timothy secured modeling jobs for different events such as a Paul Mitchell showcase.
In High School, Timothy began his development as a theatre actor by taking part in New Kent County High School's One Act Play, for which he lettered 4 years and received all District Best Actor in 2007 for the Bay Rivers District of Virginia. Timothy also took part in a joint British and American production of Andrew Lloyd Weber's "Jesus Christ Superstar" that was put on in celebration of the 400 anniversary of the founding of Virginia. He was cast in the title role of Jesus Christ. Timothy also performed with Williamsburg Backstage Productions. There he performed as Beast in "Beauty and the Beast" and as Joseph in "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat."
Timothy graduated from New Kent County High School in 2007. He was accepted into the Theatre Arts Program at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he performed as Charlie Brown in a production of "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown." While at VCU he was able to expand his horizons and help direct and write several plays. Timothy also expressed a deep interest in politics and nearly earned two degrees, but was just shy of the hours required to earn a Political Science degree. Timothy graduated in 2011 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre.
Timothy moved to Los Angeles after graduation to try to break into Film. He was able to land a role in a small independent film called "The Amateur." He also has worked as an extra in AMC's "Mad Men." Timothy continues to develop as a film actor while maintaining his love for theatre. - Ryan Cutrona is an American actor. He shares two Screen Actors Guild Awards with the Ensemble of Mad Men for his role as 'Grandpa Gene', Betty Draper's father. He is perhaps best known for playing gruff authority figures and military men in films and on television, in both dramatic and comedic roles.
He collaborated with Joe Frank on his Peabody Award winning National Public Radio series': "Work In Progress", "Somewhere Out There", "In The Dark", and "The Other Side"; produced at legendary KCRW.
He has performed at noted theater festivals, including The Theater Of Nations, and on stages in New York City (New York Theater Workshop, Vineyard Theater) and Los Angeles (Mark Taper Forum, Geffen Playhouse).
His World Premiere performances of texts by Samuel Beckett (La MaMa ETC, Performance Space New York [PS 122]) have been hailed by Mel Gussow in The New York Times as "...a direct emanation of Beckett's vision".
Admitted by Martin Landau and Mark Rydell, he has been a member of the Actors Studio for 30 years. He lives in Los Angeles, where he has enjoyed a long association with, among others, some Padua Playwrights. - Actor
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He was born in Sacramento, California, the eldest of three sons of a career Air Force Officer. A military "brat", he attended many schools in the United States and abroad, graduating Stateside from Pemberton Township High School in New Jersey. Very athletic, Chelcie lettered in Baseball, Football and Basketball. Up until this point, he still had yet to discover acting. It wasn't until he was a Senior at Southwest Texas State University, that he took on his first theatre production, playing the Title Role in William Shakespeare's King Lear. Along with acting, he continued his collegiate baseball career, and also became the Commander of the AFROTC Corp of Cadets.
After college Chelcie became a radio disc jockey in Texas, but left that line of work in order to go on active duty as a Commissioned 2nd lieutenant in the USAF. He spent one year in Than Son Nhut, Saigon, Viet Nam, and was a recipient of the Bronze Star. The following year he was stationed at the Pentagon, and after that assignment, Captain Ross resigned his commission to become an actor.
In 1970, he entered the MFA program at the Dallas Theatre Center. It was during that time, in which he appeared in his first feature film, Keep My Grave Open. He spent the next four years as a member of the resident acting company of the DTC. In 1975, Chelcie left Dallas and moved to Chicago, where his stage debut was in a local production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Ten years later, He was cast opposite Gene Hackman in Hoosiers It would be the first of many major film roles.- Andy Umberger is an American actor who spent the early part of his career in New York City, where he was primarily a stage actor and appeared in three Broadway shows: "City of Angels," "Passion" and "Company." In the late 90s he and his wife moved to Los Angeles. Since then he has had supporting roles in over 15 films and has guest starred on over 80 television shows, with recurring roles on 10 different series, including "Mad Men," "Weeds," "Boston Legal," "The West Wing" "Desperate Housewives," "ER," and as D'Hoffryn in "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer."
- Joe O'Connor is known for The Green Hornet (2011), Clarissa Explains It All (1991) and Friends (1994).
- John Sloman was born on 23 June 1954 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for The Ugly Truth (2009), The Producers (2005) and Grey's Anatomy (2005).
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Brian Markinson was born on 1 September 1961 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Painkiller (2023), Mad Men (2007) and Tribal (2020). He is married to Nancy Lynn Kerr . They have two children.- Actor
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La Monde Byrd is an actor, writer, director and producer. He began his acting career while studying at Central State University. He went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts from the American Film Institute. La Monde's first feature length script placed in the top 15% of the Nicholl Fellowships Competition. He has directed and produced films that have premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, Venice International Film Festival, Newport Beach Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival and others.- Actor
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Morgan Rusler was born on 21 September 1961 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and set decorator, known for Easy A (2010), The Green Hornet (2011) and Solaris (2002).- Writer
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Danny Strong started his career as an actor in numerous classic films and TV shows such as Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Gilmore Girls, then transitioned into screenwriting, exploding onto the scene with his 2007 script Recount which was #1 on the Hollywood Blacklist and became an award winning HBO Film. Since then he has become a prolific film and TV writer, director and producer, garnering numerous awards for various projects, including two Emmys, a Golden Globe, two WGA awards, a PGA Award, and the Peabody Award.
Through out his career he has shown a wide range and versatility moving between mediums and genres with films like the political docudramas Recount and Game Change, the civil rights epic The Butler and the big budget action blockbusters Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Part I and II). He co-created the smash hit TV show Empire which won him the NAACP Image Award and he produced the civil rights drama The Best of Enemies starring Taraji P. Henson and Sam Rockwell. He has also written numerous theater projects having made his theatrical debut with a new book to the musical Chess that premiered at the Kennedy Center.
Strong transitioned into directing with several episodes of Empire. He made his feature directorial debut with Rebel in the Rye that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was distributed by IFC Films. Over the years he has continued his acting career with recurring roles in many highly acclaimed TV shows including Mad Men, Girls, Justified, Billions and The Right Stuff. He grew up in Manhattan Beach, California and attended the USC School of Dramatic Arts.- Actor
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Charles was born into a show business family. His father, Alfred Shaughnessy, was the principal writer for the popular London Weekend Television/ITV series Upstairs, Downstairs (1971) and his mother, Jean Lodge, was an actress. He started appearing in plays during school. He attended Eton College and read law at Magdalene College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge, he joined Footlights, a comedy revue. After graduating, he decided to return to acting and enrolled in a London drama school, which led to him to touring in a repertory company. Eventually moving to America to follow the actress he later married, he got his break on The Nanny (1993).- Actor
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Ryan Cartwright is best known for his work on Bones (2008-2011), Mad Men (2009), Mom (2014), Vacation (2015), Alphas (2011), and Kevin Can Wait (2016-2018). After working for many years in England on shows like Hardware (2003-2004), Donovan (2005-2006) and The Grimleys (1999-2001) Ryan moved to Los Angeles to enjoy the sunshine.- Anthony Burch was born on 17 June 1984 in South Pasadena, California, USA. He is an actor, known for A Bug's Life (1998), Bandits (2001) and Mad Men (2007).
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Gabriel Mann was born in Middlebury, Vermont, USA. He is an actor, known for The Blacklist (2013), The Bourne Supremacy (2004) and Revenge (2011).- Actor
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A character actor in the truest sense, Eric's roles have ranged from J. Edgar Hoover in Boardwalk Empire (2010) to Navy SEAL James Case in American Sniper (2014).
Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Eric moved to Los Angeles to study theatre at The University of Southern California where he earned his BA. His film and television career took off shortly thereafter with a breakout role in HBO's hard hitting, topical miniseries Generation Kill (2008) and continued with recurring roles on many of cable television's most critically acclaimed series like Ozark (2017) , Mad Men (2007) , Big Love (2006) , Bosch (2014) and For All Mankind (2019). Next Eric can be seen opposite Daisy Edgar-Jones & David Strathairn in the adaptation of Delia Owen's best Selling Novel Where the Crawdads Sing (2022).
With Series Regular roles that include The Killing (2011) , The Brink (2015) , Six (2017) and The Right Stuff (2020) , Eric has proven to be a cable television commodity. In addition to on-camera work, he has lent his voice to several animated television shows and video games.
Eric resides in California with his wife and kids.- Born in Alabama, Darren trained at the Juilliard School of Performing Arts and graduated in 1996. Since then, he has worked extensively on the New York stage. He lives in New York City. He achieved his first nationwide notoriety with the recurring role of slick, bisexual tobacco heir Lee Garner, Jr. in the Hit TV series "Mad Men".
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Patrick Fischler was born on 29 December 1969 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Mad Men (2007), Happy! (2017) and Mulholland Drive (2001). He has been married to Lauren Bowles since 27 May 2005. They have one child.- Actor
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Kristoffer Polaha was born in Reno, Nevada, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Shift (2023), Jurassic World Dominion (2022) and A Work of Art (2021). He has been married to Julianne Morris since 7 June 2003. They have three children.- Actor
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Actor and filmmaker Joseph Culp was born in Los Angeles, a son of actor Robert Culp. He began acting in school plays at the age of nine. He trained as an actor in both New York and Los Angeles under various teachers, including Stella Adler, Herbert Berghof, Uta Hagen, Arthur Sherman, Kenneth MacMillan and John Lehne. He has been working in theatre, film and television since 1982. He most recently produced, directed, co-wrote and co-starred in the feature film Welcome to the Men's Group (2016) which stars Timothy Bottoms and Stephen Tobolowsky. He also produced and co-starred in the short Voice of Life (2013) by Norwegian director Knut Erik Jensen.
Culp produced and starred in the award-winning feature film, The Reflecting Pool (2008), the first investigative drama to challenge the official story of 9/11. Directed by Jarek Kupsc. Culp won international critical acclaim for his performance in Hunger (2001), an adaptation of Nobel laureate Knut Hamsun's 1890 masterpiece, written and directed by Maria Giese. In "Hunger" Culp co-produced and stars as "Charlie Pontus", a lonely screenwriter living on the brink of physical and spiritual starvation in Los Angeles. At the San Francisco IndieFest "Hunger" film received "Pick of the Pack" from the San Francisco Examiner, saying, "Joseph Culp's agreeable performance makes this one a champion!" SF Indie Fest wrote, "Joseph Culp's exquisitely naked performance and writer/director Giese ragged, guerrilla-video style add immeasurably to the bracing austerity of the film charging it with all the primitive beauty of an ancient Russian icon painting". Hunger (2001) is the first digital film made of a classic work of literature, the first American version of a Knut Hamsun novel, and was shot guerrilla-style on the streets of Los Angeles on a budget not exceeding $10,000.
"Hunger" won Best Feature at the 2007 Moondance International Film Festival and Best Underground Film at the 2007 FAIF Festival. Culp's other film credits include starring roles in Alan J. Pakula's Dream Lover (1986), Monte Hellman's Iguana (1988), The Arrival (1991), the lead in the action thriller Assault on Dome 4 (1996).
Culp is known to comic fans as the first actor ever to play "Doctor Doom" in the first film version of Marvel Comics' series The Fantastic Four (1994). He co-starred with Laurie Metcalf in The Secret Life of Houses (1994) on PBS, and for Mexican director María Novaro' (Danzón (1991)) in her tale of Mexican border life, El jardín del Edén (1994). He co-starred with John Savage in the sci-fi film Firestorm (1996) and was featured in HBO's Full Eclipse (1993), Ron Howard's Apollo 13 (1995), Mario Van Peebles' Baadasssss! (2003), and Panther (1995) and the western Los Locos (1997). He appeared with Mia Kirshner, Jean-Hugues Anglade and Connie Nielsen in the noir-thriller Innocents (2000), directed by Gregory Marquette, and starred opposite Ray Wise and Sonya Smith in the award-winning sci-fi comedy Cyxork 7 (2006), directed by John Huff. His many television appearances include House (2004) ER (1994), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993), Highway to Heaven (1984) and made-for-television movies such as Project: Tinman (1990), Blue Bayou (1990) and A Doctor's Story (1984). He co-starred with Richard Thomas in Hallmark's Wild Hearts (2006). Culp notably appeared in a recurring role as "Archie Whitman", the depression-era father of Jon Hamm's "Don Draper" in the critically acclaimed AMC series Mad Men (2007).
Joseph Culp directed the short film "Traces" (2011) which held premieres at Nordkapp Film Festival in Norway, Palm Springs International ShortFest, Tucson Film & Music Festival, and Hollywood Film festival. In addition to working in film and television, Culp has continued a commitment to the theater. In 2004, he starred in the New York stage premiere of "Foul Shots", by Raymond J. Barry and Barry's "Awake in a World That Encourages Sleep" (2011-2012) in both New York and Los Angeles. Theatre credits include "Summer and Smoke", directed by the late Kenneth MacMillan; opposite Ron Leibman in "Children of Darkness" at The Actor's Studio, and "A Wilder Evening - Six Short Works by Thornton Wilder", which he produced and directed and performed. He received a Drama Logue award for his performance as a rebel Irish coal miner in Jason Miller's "Nobody Hears a Broken Drum" in Los Angeles.
Joseph Culp is the founder of the Los Angeles-based "Walking Theatre Group/Workshop" (since 1992) where he performs as an actor, writer and director as well as conducting ongoing research in the training and practice of the "Walking-In-Your-Shoes" transpersonal technique and its use in creative process. He co-founded the Walking-In-Your-Shoes body/mind technique WIYS, which combines aspects of intuitive movement and spontaneous empathy. The workshop is open to the public and supports theater and film artists developing new material. The script for the 9/11 feature, "The Reflecting Pool", was developed in the workshop. He acted and directed his own adaptations of two short stories by Franz Kafka, "The Judgment" and "In the Penal Colony", which he performed with the Walking Theatre Group.
He directed an evening with the Walking Theatre Group - "Welcome to the Great Beyond", where the audience participated in a public demonstration and exploration of the "Walking-In-Your-Shoes" transpersonal process. Joseph also directed group shows of new work from the Walking Theatre Workshop, "Reclamation (series 1-5)". "Winter Walks" and "Food for Thought". His original musical-play "The Hound (An American Poem)" about a spiritual journey on the Greyhound Bus was developed with the Walking Theatre Group at the Electric Lodge in Venice, California. He is working on a book about the "Walking" technique for use in related workshops and groups. He is married to Lauren Culp and has two children, Jackson and Sedona.- Jack Laufer was born in Israel. He is known for The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) and The Practice (1997).