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Lee Remick was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, to Gertrude Margaret (Waldo), an actress, and Francis Edwin Remick, a department store owner. She had Irish and English ancestry. Remick was educated at Barnard College, studied dance and worked on stage and TV, before making her film debut as a sexy Southern majorette in Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd (1957). Her next role was also southern: Eula Varner in The Long, Hot Summer (1958). She emerged as a real star in the role of an apparent rape victim in Anatomy of a Murder (1959). And she won an Academy Award nomination for her role as the alcoholic wife of Jack Lemmon in Days of Wine and Roses (1962). After more work in TV and movies, she moved to England in 1970, making more movies there. In 1988 she formed a production company with partners James Garner and Peter K. Duchow.

Mary Astor was born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke on May 3, 1906 in Quincy, Illinois to Helen Marie Vasconcellos, an American of Portuguese and Irish ancestry from Illinois, and Otto Ludwig Langhanke, a German immigrant. Mary's parents were very ambitious for her and wanted something better for her than what they had, and knew that if they played their cards right, they could make her famous. Recognizing her beauty, they pushed her into various beauty contests. Luck was with Mary and her parents because one contest came to the attention of Hollywood moguls who signed her when she was 14.

Mary's first movie was a bit part in The Scarecrow (1920). It wasn't much, but it was a start. Throughout 1921-1923 she continued her career with bit or minor roles in a number of motion pictures. In 1924, she landed a plum assignment with a role as Lady Margery Alvaney opposite the great John Barrymore in the film Beau Brummel (1924). This launched her career to stardom, as did a lively affair with Barrymore. However, the affair ended before she could star with him again in the classic Don Juan (1926). By now, Mary was the new cinematic darling, with each film packing the theaters.

By the end of the 1920s, the sound revolution had taken a stronghold on the industry, and Mary was one of those lucky actresses who made the successful transition to "talkies" because of her voice and strong screen presence. Mary's career soared to greater heights. Films such as Red Dust (1932), Convention City (1933), Man of Iron (1935), and The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) kept her star at the top. In 1938, she turned out five feature films that kept her busy and in the spotlight. After that, she churned out films at a lesser rate. In 1941 she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Sandra Kovac in The Great Lie (1941). That same year she appeared in the celebrated film The Maltese Falcon (1941), but her star soon began to fall.

Because of her three divorces, her first husband Kenneth Hawks' death in a plane crash, alcoholism, a suicide attempt, and a persistent heart condition, Mary started to get smaller film roles. She appeared in only five productions throughout the 1950s. Her final fling with the silver screen was as Jewell Mayhew in Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964).Although it was her final film, she had appeared in a phenomenal 123 motion pictures in her entire career.

Mary lived out her remaining years confined to the Motion Picture Country Home, where she died of a heart attack on September 25, 1987. She was 81.

When Ruth Gordon convinced her father, a sea captain, to let her pursue acting she came to New York and studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She acted in a few silents made at Fort Lee, New Jersey, in 1915. She made her Broadway debut in "Peter Pan" as Nibs the same year. The next 20 years she spent on stage, even appearing at the Old Vic in London in the successful run of "The Country Wife" in 1936. Nearly 25 years after her film debut, she returned to movies briefly. Her most memorable role during this period in the early 1940s was as Mary Todd in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940).

She left Hollywood to return to theater. Back in New York, she married Garson Kanin in 1942 (her first husband Gregory Kelly, a stage actor, died in 1927). She began writing plays, and, later, her husband and she collaborated on screenplays for Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, whose screen relationship was modeled on their own marriage. She returned to film acting during the 1960s. It is during this last period of her career that she became a movie star, with memorable roles in Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Harold and Maude (1971). She wrote several books during the mid-1970s and appeared on TV. She won an Emmy for her role on Taxi (1978) in 1979.

Joshua Swickard was born in central Illinois to a pastor and vocal coach, Bob and Gina Swickard. He is the second oldest of four, with three sisters. After graduating from high school, Josh moved to Chicago to study accounting at College of DuPage. After two years, he left to start a career as a model, modeling for companies such as Men's Health, Sports Illustrated, Guess, Jockey, Finish Line, Kohl's, Nordstrom, and others.

He made his television debut as a recurring guest star on the Disney Channel shows "Liv and Maddie" and "K.C Undercover" and just finished filming his first feature coming out next year starring as a rodeo cowboy. Josh appears on ABC's General Hospital as Detective Harrison Chase.

He enjoys singing, dancing, and playing the drums when he's not working. His hobbies include snow skiing, hiking, reading, and volunteering for non-profit organizations in Central America

Roy Brocksmith began his career on the bar at Hap Kuhl's Tavern in his native Quincy, Illinois, at the age of three. As a boy soprano, he performed in churches, schools, and appeared regularly on local radio and television programs. At 16, he taught at the local children's theater. Two years later he married his high-school girlfriend.

He left Quincy, touring the US for two years in the Oberammergau Passion Play of Richmond, Virginia. He returned and attended Hannibal LaGrange Junior College, Culver-Stockton College, and graduated from Quincy University in 1970. During this time, he directed for the community theater, Pragressive Playhouse, and founded the Great River Theater Workshop. As a director, he was taken to New York by a Ukrainian anesthesiologist in 1969, where he was joined by his wife and son, Blake (born 8/5/66).

For one year he was a librarian at the Lilliam Morgan Hetrick Medical Library at Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital in Manhattan and was on the board of the American Association of Midwives. This regular job ended when he received his AEA union card-playing opposite John Carradine in "The Stingiest Man in Town," a musical based on Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" and narrated by then-Mayor John Lindsay at New York's Town Hall.

On the legit stage, he made his Broadway debut--and the cover of the New York Times Magazine (11/9/75)--in "The Leaf People for Joseph Papp. He also appeared in Herr Tartüff with Mildred Dunnock in "Stages" with Jack Warden and sang "Mack the Knife" in Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht's award-winning "Threepenny Opera" as the Ballad Singer in Papp's Lincoln Center revival (Original cast album and "Broadway Magic of the Seventies" CDs, both on Columbia/CBS Records), and as the King of France in "The Three Musketeers." Off-Broadway shows included "Polly," "The Beggar's Opera," "Dr. Salavy's Magic Theater," and "In the Jungle of Cities" with Al Pacino. He starred in the Broadway-bound "Swing" at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. At the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he appeared in "Arms and the Man (as Petkoff), William Shakespeare's "As You Like It" (as Touchstone), Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" (as Professor Willard), and Molière's "Don Juan" (as Sganarelle). This last garnered him the Kudos Award from the Minneapolis critics and the production was brought to the Delacourt Theater in New York by Joseph Papp, and he received international praise. His work with Papp and directors Richard Foreman Liviu Cuilei, Stuart Ostrow, Tom O'Horgan, Andrei Serban, Alan Schneider, and John Cassavetes, to name just a few, made Brocksmith a solid part of America's most innovative and provocative theater.

He was first to direct Foreman and Silverman's "Africanis Instructus" for Lyn Austin's Lennox Arts Center, and his adaptation of Feydeau's "A Flea in Her Ear" was presented under his direction at Baltimore's Center Stage. His unusual staging of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" gave the Alaska Repertory Theater a major box-office and critical hit and was chosen out of 100 entries to be presented at the Joyce Theater in New York that season. He also appeared as Thurio in the national tour of John Guare's musical version of "Two Gentelmen of Verona," and he made his California debut starring opposite Gena Rowlands.

In 1987 he formed the California Cottage Theater with partner Michael Liscio, joining a long and formidable list of American actor-managers. As Producing Director he presented only new works: "A Cold Day in Hell" by January Quackenbush, Brocksmith's own "Box Prelude OPUS #1," "Matinee" by Hal Corley, "The One Less Traveled" by Cary Pepper, "A Necessary End" by Joe Rubinoff, "Ripe Conditions" by Claudia Allen, and "Letters from Queens" by Brocksmith. The Cottage was unique because it was the only professional theater heater in the country under AEA jurisdiction for presentations in a private home. By its closing on February 17, 1996, over 8,000 people had attended performances. It was hailed as "Suburbia's Rialto" (Wall Street Journal), "The epicenter of quirky folk" (L.A. Weekly), "Pick of the Week" (L.A.Times), and "Critic's Choice" (Drama Logue). Calling himself a theater craftsman, it was Brocksmith's belief that "good theater is not a matter of money and place as it is a matter of imagination, craft and guts." The concept of the California Cottage Theater, a professional theater for free, was, to him, theater in its most essential form.

Brocksmith also appeared on several episodes of 3-2-1 Contact (1980) in its "Bloodhound Gang" segment and on an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987). Sadly, he died of kidney failure on December 16, 2001.

Mike Mitchell was born on 6 October 1982 in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for The Tomorrow War (2021), The Birthday Boys (2013) and Love (2016).

Noreen Corcoran was born on 20 October 1943 in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA. She was an actress, known for I Love Melvin (1953), General Electric Theater (1953) and The Girls on the Beach (1965). She died on 15 January 2016 in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, USA.

American child actress of the 1950s, on screen from the age of nine. Donna Marie Corcoran was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, to police officer William Henry Corcoran Sr. (1905-1956) and his wife Kathleen Hildegarde McKenney (1917-1972), one of eight brothers and sisters. Three of her siblings also went into show business, most notably her younger sister Noreen.

The family relocated to California on the advice of a family doctor who suggested that the warmer climate might ameliorate Kathleen's painful arthritic condition. Before long, William Henry secured a job as Director of Maintenance at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. While visiting her dad at the studio, Donna was spotted by a casting director and invited to audition for the role of the orphan girl Bridget in Angels in the Outfield (1951). Director Clarence Brown picked Donna from among 635 hopeful aspirants, thus launching her brief career in pictures.

Her first notable role was as the precocious Bunny Jones, whose character becomes the catalyst for the breakdown of Marilyn Monroe's emotionally disturbed babysitter Nell Forbes in Don't Bother to Knock (1952). Donna next appeared in two aquatic musicals with Esther Williams (Million Dollar Mermaid (1952) and Dangerous When Wet (1953)) for which MGM had to teach her how to swim. Sandwiched in between those was a pivotal role, Donna giving arguably her best performance, as a troubled Catholic orphan adopted by Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon (who co-starred together for the eighth and final time) in Scandal at Scourie (1953). On the strength of this, she received first billing in Gypsy Colt (1954), an equine iteration of Lassie Come Home (1943), aimed squarely at the family market. Her big screen swansong was a minor supporting role in Fritz Lang's gothic melodrama Moonfleet (1955).

A few TV guest spots were to follow, before Donna left show business in 1963.She eventually forged a career, first in real estate, then in gemology.

Barbara Baldavin was born on 18 October 1938 in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA. She was an actress and casting director, known for Star Trek (1966), Skeeter (1993) and Mannix (1967). She was married to Joseph D'Agosta. She died on 31 March 2024 in Manhattan Beach, California, USA.

Lady Chablis was born on 11 March 1957 in Quincy, Florida, USA. She was an actress, known for Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997), Partners (1999) and Stranded with Cash Peters (2005). She died on 8 September 2016 in Savannah, Georgia, USA.

Comedian, author and composer, educated at Emerson College. He served in the US Infantry during World War II. Later, he was part of the team Dana and Wood on television and in supper clubs. As a single, he appeared on television with Martha Raye and Imogene Coca and was a writer for Steve Allen, and he also appeared in night clubs and on records. Joining ASCAP in 1958, his popular-song compositions include "My Name Jose Jimenez", "All About Love" and "Big Bells and Bongo Drummers".

Jonathan Van Ness was born on 28 March 1987 in Quincy, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Queer Eye (2018), Gay of Thrones (2013) and JVN-lympics: Live from My House (2020). He has been married to Mark Peacock since 5 June 2020.

Louise DuArt, recognized as one of the industry's outstanding comedic impressionists, won rave reviews on Broadway, television and touring shows, and is today the co-author of six Godwink books with her husband Squire D. Rushnell and co-founder of Godwink Brands. They are Executive Producers of the "A Godwink Christmas" movie series, beginning with A Godwink Christmas (2018), for Hallmark Channel and Rescued by Ruby (2022) for Netflix.

Mr. Donahue is originally from Quincy, Massachusetts. He attended St. Mary's School in Quincy, Massachusetts and for high school he attended Archbishop Williams in Braintree, Massachusetts. It is at Archbishop Williams that Donahue first gained athletic acclaim for his success in football and track and field. Donahue was the chosen to the Boston Globe 1980 All - Scholastic Track Team. After high school, he attended the prestigious Phillips Exeter Academy, in Exeter, New Hampshire, where he excelled in football/track (National champion in the shot put). In August 1980 he placed 3rd in the Shot Put at the National Junior Olympics in Santa Clara, California. Donahue was chosen as the Bicentennial Athlete of the Year at Phillips Exeter Academy in 1980. He garnered interest from Div. 1 programs across the country. In 1981, he decided to attend the University of Texas in Austin, Texas. As a Texas Longhorn he competed in numerous national track championships and played football. While at the University of Texas he competed at the Sun Bowl in 1982. He earned the nickname "Sled Slayer" after breaking the hinges off a seven man blocking sled during practice with the football team.

In 1983, Donahue trained with U.S. Olympic coach Tony Naclerio while enrolled at Iona college, New Rochelle, New York Donahue was the winner of the shot put in January 1985 at Millrose Games at Madison Square Gardens in New York City. In April 1985 at the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Indoor Track and Field Championships Donahue set the meet record of 60-0 ¼.

It was also at Iona that Donahue realized he still had a passion for acting working with Theatrical instructor Roderick Nash. It turned out the days of musical theater during high school had left an indelible impression on him.

While enrolled at Iona college, New Rochelle, New York. he met his wife, Lori (DeThomasis) Donahue. They were married in Roslyn, New York in 1986. They are parents of a daughter, Jessica Donahue (b. 1987) born in Quincy, Massachusetts.

In 1986 with the help of Iona's coach Harold Crocker, Donahue got a tryout with the New York Jets NFL Football team. He signed a free agent contract with the New York Jets to play nose tackle. He participated in mini-camp and summer training camp with the Jets. He was released in August 1986. In 1987, Donahue signed a free agent contract with the Green Back Packers to play nose tackle. During camp Donahue suffered a knee injury. He was released in August 1987. In 1989, he joined the Toronto Argonauts of the C.F.L. Donahue hurt his knee while with the Argonauts. He was released from his contract that same year.

After his football days were over he embarked on a professional wrestling career. He was known most notably as the "Dublin Destroyer" and Brian "The Basher." Donahue wrestled with Universal Wrestling Federation (UWF) in 1991 and then with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) during 1991-1992. While training with former professional wrestler Mark Tendler, Tendler introduced Donahue to an acting agent. It was during this time that he began to fully pursue acting with full heart. Working his way up the ranks, taking classes, auditioning, and landing commercials, some TV roles, and eventually small roles in films.

In January 1993 Donahue and his family moved to Orlando, Florida to work for the Walt Disney World company in the Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular at Disney MGM Studios. Donahue was the German Mechanic and Scimitar Swordsman in the show. During his time at Walt Disney World Donahue was named Cast Member of the Month at Disney MGM Studios. While at Disney Donahue trained with stunt coordinators, Ronnie Rondell and Steve Hart. He would train with follow cast members and became proficient in hitting the ground hard, tumbling, falls, high falls, sword work and stunt fighting.

In addition, to working at Walt Disney World, Donahue spent his time in Orlando working on the Hulk Hogan and Chris Lemon series "Thunder in Paradise" and landing commercials.

Over the past 20 years his career has encompassed all the mediums of the business including film, TV, print, radio, live theatre (NYC) and Walt Disney World, stand-up comedy (Caroline's NYC) fit modeling (Tommy Hilfiger and Polo). Because of his athletic background and extensive training he has also forged a strong stunt resume.

In September 15, 1999 Donahue made his first appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman. He demonstrated various stair falls during that show. During the years 1999-2012 Donahue would return to the show many times as "The guy that beats up Alan" or the "Alan Kalter Assaulter" to beat up the announcer of the Late Show with David Letterman, Alan Kalter. The "gag" was that Donahue would appear as different characters then beat up Alan Kalter. Some of the characters were a CBS Page, secret service man, pizza delivery man, a Mets' fan, "Lance Armstrong", "Maria Pope" the producer, he posed as a member of the Late Show Orchestra and as Alan Kalter's son Tyler. He also beat up Ruppert Jee of the Hello Deli in a couple of shows. Billy Crystal beat up Donahue on his entrance during a July 2001 appearance. Donahue also appeared as Stan Drucker the Strongman where he was supposed to flip over a car outside the studio.

Donahue is the subject of the 2019 documentary "The Guy : The Brian Donahue Story" directed by E.J. McCleavey-Fisher.

Mineola (NY) High School PTSA awarded him the New York State PTA Distinguished Person award in 2005 as recognition of his outstanding contributions to welfare and growth of children and youth in the community. He volunteered his time as Track and Field coach for high school students in Nassau County, NY. Over the years he coached many athletes to the New York State Championship meet, including his daughter, Jessica. He was the recipient of the 2006 Al Dawson award by Nassau County Track Coaches Association. Donahue participated in the heavy athletics at local Highland Games in New York.

In 2010, Donahue was inducted into the Archbishop Williams High School Hall of Fame.

Mr. Donahue is based in New York.

Eliza Swenson is an American film actress born in Quincy, California to parents Terry (a law enforcement officer) and Penelope (an education professor and administrator). She was born on July 28, 1982, the sixth of seven siblings and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music Media and Sound Engineering from Brigham Young University. She was first known for her roles in horror films as well as the direct-to-video mockbusters produced by The Asylum before venturing on to produce, edit, co-write, and star in the theatrically released film Dorothy and the Witches of Oz (2011). The multi-talented Swenson brought her sense of humor and comedic stylings to the Nickelodeon television series Drake & Josh (2004). In addition to her acting ability, she has composed several film scores including the music from 'Dorothy and the Witches of Oz' available on iTunes. She writes for her Goth/Rock band The Divine Madness under the alias Victoria Mazze, whose music has found its way onto Showtime's The Tudors (2007) as well as the Japanese manga series Bizenghast.

Born Marvin Wesley Vye, Jr., this Massachusetts-born, Yale-trained character actor was associated for a time with the Theatre Guild in the 1940s. Equipped with a tough-looking countenance and sturdy baritone, he was hired to originate the role of Jigger Craigin in the Guild's 1945 mounting of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Carousel," which also starred John Raitt and Jan Clayton. A spectacular success, this led to Hollywood offers and in 1947 he made an auspicious film debut (third billed) in Golden Earrings (1947) starring Marlene Dietrich and Ray Milland, playing Zoltan, a gypsy who sings the title tune. Playing next a baddie in the Alan Ladd starrer Whispering Smith (1948) and Merlin in the Bing Crosby remake of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949), Vye returned to Broadway to co-star as the Kralahome in the musical "The King and I." The musical, of course, went on to become a smash but without Vye for he quit the production during tryouts after his only song was cut. Unfortunately he would not recreate his Jigger role in the movie version of "Carousel" either. Cameron Mitchell took the honors.

Back in Hollywood, Vye became a standard fixture in mobster pics including Al Capone (1959) as Bugs Moran, King of the Roaring 20's: The Story of Arnold Rothstein (1961) and The George Raft Story (1961). With a homely, imposing mug made for adventure tales, he played everything from warrior chiefs to Blackbeard the Pirate. On TV he portrayed a number of corrupt characters on such shows as "The Untouchables" and "77 Sunset Strip" and sometimes even played his tough guys for laughs. In between he appeared in musical productions of "Oklahoma!" and "South Pacific," among others. Vye died in 1976 at age 63.

Jane Morris was born on 15 April 1953 in Quincy, Illinois, USA. She is an actress, known for Frankie and Johnny (1991), Raising Helen (2004) and True Lies (1994). She has been married to Jeff Michalski since 1984. They have two children.

Mikey Kelley is a voice actor who landed his first major job when he was cast as the lead in Steven Spielberg's Invasion America for The WB Network. He's gone on to voice several animated projects including the 2007 big screen movie TMNT as the character of Michelangelo, Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase, The Super Hero Squad Show, Elena of Avalor, Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, The Stinky & Dirty Show, Ben 10, Harvey Beaks, Rocket Power, The Land Before Time, The Adventures of Puss in Boots, Wabbit, among others.

On the commercial front, he's worked on a host of television and radio campaigns.

Mikey has also been featured in a variety of video games including Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Lego Jurassic World, Halo 3, Tony Hawk's Underground, Full Spectrum Warrior, Viewtiful Joe, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, Final Fantasy XIII-2, Mad Max, as well as many others.

Mikey was born and raised in Quincy, Massachusetts. He graduated from Emerson College.

Fans of the cult sitcom Get Smart (1965) will remember David Ketchum as the unfortunate Agent 13, whose lot it was to be wedged into tiny spaces, like airport lockers, vending machines, fire hydrants and mailboxes. Ketchum may have been used to these tight spots, since he was reputedly born in an elevator. However, in his own words: "The hardest part for me was when they put Agent 13 in a washing machine. I'm six-foot-two, so I can't fit easily into cramped places, and a washing machine is about as cramped as it gets".

David Ketchum was born in Quincy, Illinois, the son of Cecil Estel Ketchum (1894-1977) and his wife Flora M. Mueller (1897-1959). The future character actor and comedian started out majoring in physics at UCLA with plans of becoming an electrical engineer. Instead, he became curious about what makes people laugh and joined a group of fellow students on the USO circuit to entertain GI's serving abroad. With help from Bob Hope and Doris Day, he then proceeded to host his own radio show in San Diego which was on air for seven years.

Ketchum made his television debut in 1961. His first regular role was as the inept carpenter Mel Warshaw in the ABC sitcom I'm Dickens, He's Fenster (1962), starring John Astin and Marty Ingels. As Senior Counselor Spiffy, he was then cast as one of the principal leads in Camp Runamuck (1965), a family comedy about madcap shenanigans at two competing youth camps. In addition to guest appearances on other shows, Ketchum worked as occasional voice actor on the animated series Roger Ramjet (1965). In 1966, he took over from Victor French as Agent 13 on Get Smart, a role he reprised for a 1989 telemovie and a short-lived sequel to the original series in 1995.

In addition to his work in front of the camera, Ketchum has also been prolific as a screenwriter. For Get Smart, he penned 'Classification: Dead', plus diverse episodic scripts for shows like Here's Lucy (1968), Barefoot in the Park (1970), Happy Days (1974) and Laverne & Shirley (1976). Not limited to the funny side of life, he also provided dramatic material for, among others, The Six Million Dollar Man (1974), T.J. Hooker (1982) and MacGyver (1985). He was a co-nominee for a Writer's Guild of America Award for his work on the M*A*S*H (1972) episode 'Tuttle'.

Since 1957, Ketchum has been married to the singer Louise Bryant.

Omar Moustafa Ghonim is a first generation Egyptian-American actor, born in Quincy, MA and raised in Braintree, MA. He graduated from Braintree High School and attended Bridgewater State University where he studied Kinesiology and played middle linebacker for the BSU Bears.

After his freshman year he began making videos on the app Vine where he amassed over 600,000 followers. The audience he'd gained on the app paved the way for his first auditioning opportunities thus beginning his acting journey. He left BSU in 2017 to pursue acting full time.

Omar has since appeared in several network television shows from Law & Order: Organized Crime to AMC's Kevin Can F**k Himself. He can also be seen films like the Oscar nominated Netflix movie, Don't Look Up as Damain. This year he will appear in upcoming movies: The Instigators starring Matt Damon and Thug starring Liam Neeson.

Writer-performer Nancy Ellen Shore can be seen as Dr. Watson in Emmy-nominated director Paul Starkman's multi-award-winning feature Wheels (2018), which won Best Film at the 2019 Harlem International Film Festival, First Place (Feature) in the 2019 San Francisco Black Film Festival, and Best Narrative Feature and Audience Award at the 2018 Woodstock Film Festival. Other recent film work: Dorothy (lead), an aging punk rocker grieving her best friend's death while struggling with eviction in Classic Punk (2019 short), and Matty's Aunt in Romina Schwedler's The Visit, a multi-award-winning 2016 short costarring Academy Award-nominee June Squibb. Recent theater work: Mrs. Higgins in New Bedford Festival Theatre's My Fair Lady starring Peter Gregus (Broadway's Jersey Boys) at the Zeiterion Theatre. Recent TV: Five seasons (81 episodes) as a recurring State Department Advisor/Senior White House Staff (core ensemble) on Madam Secretary (CBS); Recurring Inmate (core ensemble), Orange Is the New Black, Seasons 1-5 (Netflix). Nancy has been featured since 2012 in many other TV shows and movies, playing everything from a homeless woman to a wealthy Theater Patron/Tony Voter friend of Eileen Rand, Anjelica Huston's character, on Smash. A former theater critic/feature writer for Backstage, Stages, and The Providence Journal, she has penned juvenile biographies (Amelia Earhart, Anne Hutchinson), written for Time-Life Books, and done editorial work at Condé Nast, The New York Review of Books, and many other NYC newspapers, magazines, and publishing companies. Proud member of SAG-AFTRA, Actors' Equity, the Dramatists Guild, and New York Women in Film and TV.

Michael is a film and television actor born and raised in Quincy, Massachusetts. In college he was involved in theater and began studying acting. Michael started auditioning after graduating college and joined the Screen Actors Guild.

Michael resides on the south shore of Massachusetts with his wife and 2 daughters.

Born: Feb 2, 1974

Bob Livingston's father was a newspaper editor in Quincy, Illinois. As a reporter for the Los Angeles Daily News Bob did a story on the Pasadena Playhouse, and that got him interested in acting. In his mid-20s, he was doing bit parts for Universal and Fox and went from there to romantic roles with MGM. His first real success came with Republic, in 1936, as a masked hero in the serial The Vigilantes Are Coming (1936). That led to more cowboy roles and the leading role in the "Three Mesquiteer" series. He had more appearances (29) in that series than anyone else. He played other cowboy roles (Zorro in The Bold Caballero (1936)), worked with Al St. John in the "Lone Rider" Series (1941-43) and finished up in a number of character parts in Gene Autry and Roy Rogers movies.

Kevin Deters joined Walt Disney Animation Studios in 1996, working in the clean-up and story departments on such films as "Mulan," "Tarzan," "Lilo & Stitch," "Brother Bear," and "Chicken Little." Deters made his directorial and writing debut with the 2007 animated short, "How to Hook Up Your Home Theater".

Deters went on to write and direct three award-winning "Prep & Landing" holiday specials for ABC television, and the short film, "The Ballad of Nessie" with creative partner Stevie Wermers-Skelton. 2017 saw another directorial achievement with the theatrical and television release of the holiday featurette "Olaf's Frozen Adventure" alongside producer Roy Conli, who produced the Academy Award®-winning "Big Hero 6."

Kevin O'Donnell was born on 21 December 1976 in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Salt (2010), The Sublet (2010) and Penance.