Gretchen Egolf

Gretchen spen her childhood in Lancaster (Pennsylvania, USA). She was attracted towards acting at a young age. Soon after graduating from the high school, she joined the Juilliard School for drama in New York. She divided her time in New York and Los Angels, and performed in a number of Broadway, off-Broadway and West End theater productions. She also started to star in a number of television series including Martial Law in which she became a series regular. In another series, Roswell, she appeared in a regular role as Vanessa Whitaker. She also starred in a movie, Gleason, in which she played the role of Jackie’s wife. She has also appeared in a number of TV series including Law and Order, Without a Trace, Century City, Nero Wolfe, Cosby, The Naked Brothers Band, Cracker, Leap of Faith, The Corsairs.

Filmography

• Journeyman (2007)
  
• East Broadway (2007)
  
• The Namesake (2006)
  
• Naked Brothers Band Movie (2005) (TV)
  
• Without a Trace (2003)
  
• Law & Order (2002)
  
• Gleason (2002)
  
• Corsairs (2002) (TV)
  
• A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001)
  
• Nicolas (2001)
  
• Roswell (2000)
  
• Martial Law (1999-2000)
  
• The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
  
• Cracker (1997)
  
• Quiz Show (1994)
  

Kevin McKidd Biography

Kevin McKidd

Born:
9 August 1973, Elgin, Moray, Scotland, UK

Education:

University of Edinburgh (dropped out)
Queen Margaret College in Edinburgh (Studied drama)

Science Fiction, Horror or Fantasy
Journeyman
Hannibal Rising
Dog Soldiers
The Magical World of Leprechauns

Biography from Wikipedia

“McKidd was born and spent his childhood in Elgin, Moray, Scotland. He was a member of the local acting group the Moray Youth Theatre. As a teenager he was part of rock band Plan 9, touring the north of Scotland and enjoying some local success. Planning to study engineering he attended the University of Edinburgh but dropped out and instead enrolled at Queen Margaret College in Edinburgh to study drama. He also joined the University’s student theatre company, Bedlam Theatre.

McKidd’s first professional role was in the television series Father Ted; he played Father Deegan in the 1996 episode “A Christmassy Ted”. Some of his subsequent roles include Tommy in Trainspotting and Malky Johnson in Small Faces, with Iain Robertson. In 2004, he played James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, the third husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, in the BBC mini-series Gunpowder, Treason & Plot.

He appeared in Kingdom of Heaven, the blockbuster movie directed by Ridley Scott, the 2002 film adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby and was also the voice of Jezz Torrent in GTA: Vice City. Others might know him from Neil Marshall’s horror film, Dog Soldiers, as Pte. Cooper. In the 2005 BBC drama, The Virgin Queen, he played Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk.

In 1998, he again joined Robert Carlyle on-screen in the 4-part BBC2 series Looking After Jo Jo, playing the role of Basil, a drug dealing cohort of Carlyle’s eponymous character. The show was directed by John Mackenzie of The Long Good Friday. He was one of the stars of the joint HBO/BBC series Rome, where his portrayal of the soldier/politician Lucius Vorenus received critical acclaim.

Additional work includes his role in the Silence of the Lambs prequel Hannibal Rising (2007). In the fall of 2007, McKidd will star in the American science-fiction television series Journeyman on NBC.[1]

Rumours have linked McKidd to play the part of Marvel Comics Thor in the film of the same name, due to be released in 2009.

Kevin McKidd is married to Jane and has two children; Joseph and Iona and lives in Bedford, England.”

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Trivia from IMDB.com

“Due to illness could not attend the photo shoot for the iconic Trainspotting (1996) advertising campaign, and is the only main star of the film who is missing.

Left a university course in engineering to audition for the Queen Margaret Drama School.

Has a son named Joseph (born 2000) and a daughter named Iona (born 2002).

Played a Roman on Rome (2005) and a Barbarian on The Last Legion (2007).

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Gretchen Egolf

Gretchen Egolf was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania on the 9th of September 1973. She started participating in theater performances at a very young age. After graduating from high school, Gretchen enrolled as a drama major in New York’s illustrious Julliard. She then appeared in a number of Broadway, off-Broadway and West End theater productions. New York and Los Angeles are home to Gretchen, where she as worked and lived ever since graduating from high school. She is an actress for television, a film star and an on and off-Broadway actress.

Reed Diamond

Reed was born in Brooklyn and raised in Manhattan. Reed once considered a career on the force. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He then went on to study acting at Julliard, as did his Homicide: Life on the Street (HLOTS) co-star, Andre Braugher. Reed was a freshman at Julliard when his future HLOTS co-star Braugher was a senior. They had previously appeared on-stage together for Julliard production of Othello, with Andre as Iago and Reed as a servant.

Reed is divorced from Frederika Kesten, who co-starred with him in HLOTS episode # 48, “Justice, Part Two.” She played Janine, the ballistics expert. While filming Homicide, Reed fell in love with Michelle Forbes, better known as Dr. Julianna Cox, also formerly of HLOTS. After Reed and Michelle broke up, he dated Kristin Davis, of Sex and the City. As of 2007, Reed lives in Los Angeles with his wife, actress Marnie McPhail.