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| Michelle
Clunie: |  Growing
up in Portland, Oregon, Michelle Clunie accepted a
scholarship to study at the Academy of Professional
Ballet and later went on to dance with the company in
original works choreographed by Dennis Spaight.
Shortly after moving to Los Angeles, she co-produced
the original play "A Comedy of Eros" and
received a DramaLogue Award for best actress. Her
television credits include "The Jeff Foxworthy
Show," "ER," "Life with
Roger" and "The Chris Elliot Show."
Clunie made her feature film debut in the "The
Usual Suspects" and later went on to work
opposite David Spade and Sophie Marceau in "Lost
and Found."
Her stage credits include "The Class of
1999" at the Tiffany theatre, as well as the
title role in "Antigone." Clunie has also
played Nina in "The Seagull," Maggie in
Arthur Miller's "After the Fall," Nina in
"A Strange Interlude" and Maggie in
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."
Clunie played Laura Dern's nemesis, Gemma Combs in the
SHOWTIME Original movie DAMAGED CARE. She has also
toured with the critically acclaimed "The Vagina
Monologues" helping raise money to stop violence
against women.
Clunie is also the Spokesperson for 'Destination
Foundation,' a non-profit organization that grants
dream trips to people in the San Francisco Bay Area
community who are living with life-threatening
illnesses.
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| Thea
Gill: |  Originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, Thea Gill received her BFA
Honors in Theatre Performance from Toronto's York
University. Recent film credits include PAX's
"Tornado Warning," SHOWTIME's SIGHTINGS:
HEARTLAND GHOST and COMMON GROUND, as well as
"Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows"
and "Washed Up." Other projects include
roles in such films as "Lily," "Let Me
Call You Sweetheart," "Paper Trail,"
"Grateful" and "Awake." Her
television credits include feature roles in "Due
South," the Dick Wolf series, "D.C.,"
"Traders," "Forever Knight,"
"Secret Service," "Top Cops,"
"Kung Fu" and "Royal Canadian Air
Farce." Gill recently completed the pilot for
PAX's "Just Cause" and the anthology series
"Bliss" for the Oxygen Network.
On stage, Gill has appeared in numerous starring roles
such as Mary Ann in George Walker's "Better
Living" for Factory Theatre; Nell in Theatre
Junction's premiere of Sharon Pollock's "Moving
Pictures;" Yelena in Guardian Spring Production's
"Uncle Vanya," directed by Brian Richmond;
Desdemona in "Othello;" Frances Farmer in
Hollywood Ten's production of Sally Clark's
"Saint Frances of Hollywood;" Rosaura in
Skylight Theatre's "Life's a Dream;" and
Juliet in the Arbour Festival production of
"Romeo and Juliet."
As a jazz singer Gill performed a three night solo gig
at the renowned jazz club Top O' the Senator in
Toronto in October 2002.
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 Gale Harold made his New York stage debut Off-Broadway in April 2001 in
Austin Pendleton's "Uncle Bob" starring
opposite George Morfogen. He has also appeared on
stage in productions of "Cymbeline" and
"The Misanthrope" with A Noise Within in Los
Angeles.
Harold's film credits include Jennifer Elster's
"Particles of Truth," Aaron Woodley's
"Rhinoceros Eyes" and "Wake" by
Roy Finch.
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|  Actor/comedian
Hal Sparks began his professional career in Chicago as
a member of the famed Second City Troupe. At 17, he
was named the "Funniest Teenager in Chicago"
by the Chicago Sun Times.
After a successful run with Second City, Sparks moved
to Los Angeles and immediately began performing at
numerous comedy clubs including The Improv, The Comedy
Store, The Laugh Factory, The Ice House, as well as at
Comic Relief's American Comedy Festival.
From 1999 to 2000, Sparks hosted the Emmy®
Award-winning "Talk Soup" on E!
Entertainment Television. Sparks recently completed
guest-star roles in "Frasier" and "One
on One" and appears in the upcoming David Spade
film "Dickie Roberts, Former Child Star." He
was seen last April in the SHOWTIME Original feature
BLEACHER BUMs, adapted form the critically- acclaimed
play of the same name.
In addition, Sparks co-starred in the comedy hit
"Dude, Where's My Car?" and appeared in the
feature film "Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town"
with Billy Bob Thornton. Sparks also provided the
voices for two animal characters in the 20th Century
Fox film "Dr. Dolittle 2." His numerous
television appearances include "The Tonight
Show," "Larry King Live," "Charlie
Rose," "Politically Incorrect,"
"MTV," "Hollywood Squares,"
"The View," and "Martial Law."
Sparks also wrote, directed and starred in his own
sketch comedy show entitled "Here Comes the
Neighborhood" and produced comedy segments for
the Disney Channel. On stage, he has performed in such
productions as "Equus," "The Elephant
Man," and "Brighton Beach Memoirs."
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| Randy
Harrison: |
 Randy Harrison has been acting since the age of seven. He received his
BFA in theatre from the University of Cincinnati
College Conservatory of Music.
Harrison has appeared in various theaters throughout
the United States. His theater performances include
"A Letter From Ethel Kennedy,"
"1776," "Grease" and
"Anything Goes" at the St. Louis Municipal
Theatre and "West Side Story" at the
Forestburgh Playhouse. Harrison made his television
debut in QUEER AS FOLK and was recently seen in the
SHOWTIME movie BANG, BANG, YOU'RE DEAD.
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| Peter
Paige: |  Peter Paige was seen in the highly acclaimed SHOWTIME original film OUR
AMERICA opposite Josh Charles and Vanessa Williams in
the story of a NPR DJ who changes the lives of two
misdirected inner-city youths. Some of Paige's screen
credits include "Joyriders" where he
appeared opposite Martin Landau and "Pop"
where he starred with Elisa Donovan
("Clueless"). In 1999, "Pop" hit
all the major film festivals and garnered fantastic
reviews and invitations to New York's prestigious 'New
Director's Series' at the Angelica Theatre as well as
a slot at the Independent Film Festival Market.
Also an accomplished theatre performer, Paige was last
seen in the triumphant play "Secret Agents"
by Jessica Litwak for which he earned rave reviews
from audiences and critics alike. Among Paige's other
notable stage works are "Twisted" and "Pantophobia."
He co-wrote and starred in both alongside Abraham
Higginbotham in Los Angeles. He has also performed in
"High Concepts" (with Robert Sean Leonard),
"Tartuffe," "Les Deux Précieuses,"
"A Midsummer Night's Dream," "The
Rivals," "Blue Window" and "You're
A Good Man Charlie Brown."
Among Paige's television credits are roles in
"Will & Grace," "Time of Your
Life," "Undressed," "Caroline in
the City" and "Suddenly Susan."
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| Scott
Lowell: |
 Scott
Lowell was born in Denver and raised in Connecticut.
He majored in theater at Connecticut College and also
studied acting at the National Theatre Institute.
Shortly thereafter, he moved to Chicago where, over
the course of a decade, he immersed himself in the
local theater performing at the famed Steppenwolf and
The Goodman. He also landed his first TV role in
Chicago on "Early Edition."
His television credits include appearances on "Frasier,"
"Caroline in the City," and a number of
successful commercial campaigns for such companies as
Nike, Lexus, Budget Rent-A-Car, and Payday candy bars.
On the feature front, Lowell has most recently
co-starred in ON THE EDGE for SHOWTIME. He also
appeared in such feature films as "The
Debtors," "Damned If You Do,"
"Ladies from LA," "Love Bites"
(Sundance 1999), and "Opus 27" in which he
played a young Ludwig von Beethoven.
Lowell's stage credits include productions of
"Present Laughter," "Assassins,"
"Twelfth Night," LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR,
and the world premiere production of Steve Martin's
"Picasso at the Lapin Agile."
Lowell has also penned a full-length play about John
Wilkes Booth.
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| Sharon
Gless: |
 From her starring role in "Faraday & Company" in 1973,
Sharon Gless has brought her own brand of humor,
intelligence and dramatic flair to each of her roles.
She is best known for her portrayal of New York Police
Detective Christine Cagney on the hit series "Cagney
& Lacey" a role that garnered her two Emmys®,
a Golden Globe®, and six Emmy® nominations.
Following "Cagney & Lacey," Gless
re-teamed with the show's executive producer, Barney
Rosenzweig, on "The Trials of Rosie O'Neill"
for which she was awarded her second Golden Globe®
and two more Emmy® nominations. Gless married
Rosenzweig in 1991.
In 1994 and 1995, Gless and her television partner,
Tyne Daly, joined together to recreate their title
roles in a quartet of critically acclaimed and popular
"Cagney & Lacey" television movies which
they fondly call "The Menopause Years".
Other television series in which she starred include
"Switch," "House Calls," and the
short-lived, but critically lauded Steven Bochco
half-hour, "Turnabout." Gless has received
much acclaim for dramatic roles in such television
movies as "Separated By Murder," "Hard
Hat and Legs," "Honor Thy Mother,"
"Hobson's Choice," "Letting Go,"
among others, as well as the mini-series, "The
Immigrants," "The Last Convertible,"
"Centennial," and Garson Kanin's "Moviola:
The Scarlett O'Hara Wars, in which she played Carole
Lombard.
Gless' theatrical film credits include a featured role
in the suspenseful and thought-provoking film,
"The Star Chamber," which starred Michael
Douglas. She has recorded several 'Books on Tape' and
starred in numerous radio plays, one of which,
"'Night, Mother," for the BBC, garnered her
the International Sony Award. She has starred twice on
stage in London's famed "West End," the
first time in 1993 with Bill Paterson, where she
created the role of Annie Wilkes in Stephen King's
"Misery" at the Criterion Theater, and four
years later, opposite Tom Conti, in Neil Simon's
"Chapter 2," at the Gielgud Theater.
She recently starred at Chicago's Tony Award-winning
playhouse, The Victory Gardens Theater, in Claudia
Allen's "Cahoots," as well as several
stints, including an evening at Madison Square Garden
with the National Company of Eve Ensler's "The
Vagina Monologues." Gless made her stage debut in
Lillian Hellman's "Watch on the Rhine" at
Stage West in Springfield, Mass.
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