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CAST BIOS
TREAT WILLIAMS (Doug Smith) - Treat Williams has spent nearly three decades in the entertainment limelight, with a career that spans film, stage and television. The versatile actor has earned three Golden Globe nominations (“Hair,” “Prince of the City,” “A Streetcar Named Desire”). He also received an Emmy® nomination for his role in HBO’s “The Late Shift.”
Williams’ countless film credits include Steve Spielberg’s “1941,” “Smooth Talk,” “Dead Heat,” “Heart of Dixie,” “Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead,” “Mulholland Falls,” “The Phantom,” “Devil’s Own,” “The Deep End of the Ocean” opposite Michelle Pfeiffer, Woody Allen’s “Hollywood Ending” and “What Happens in Vegas” with Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz.
Williams may be best known for his role as New York neurosurgeon Dr. Andrew Brown, who moved his family to rural Colorado in the WB series “Everwood.” The part garnered Williams two Screen Actors Guild award nominations for Outstanding Performance in a Drama Series. Williams also starred as a surgeon on TNT’s 2007 series “Heartland,” set in a Pittsburgh transplant hospital.
Williams’ Broadway roles range from Stephen Sondheim’s Follies to Grease and Pirates of Penzance. He recently received critical acclaim for his starring role in the Lifetime film “The Staircase Murders,” and has also guest-starred on the ABC series “Brothers and Sisters” as Sally Field’s love interest.
An aviation buff who has long held a pilot’s license, Connecticut native Williams lives in Utah with his wife and two children.
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NANCY TRAVIS (Robbie Smith) – Nancy Travis was born in New York and grew up in both Baltimore and Boston. She returned to New York to study drama at New York University. Soon after, she joined the national touring company of Neil Simon's hit play, Brighton Beach Memoirs. Her additional theater credits include Broadway's I'm Not Rappaport and Athol Fugard's My Children, My Africa, which the author directed at the La Jolla Playhouse. Travis is a founding member of the off-Broadway theatre company, Naked Angels.
Travis was recently seen in Sony Picture Classics’ “The Jane Austin Book Club,” a story of several women who start a club to discuss the famous author and realize their relationships
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begin to resemble a 21st century version of her novels. She also appears in the Lifetime movie “The Party Never Stops,” about a college track star who struggles with alcoholism.She starred alongside Bradley Whitford and Amber Tamblyn in the Warner Bros. film “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” and plays a starring role in the TBS comedy series “The Bill Engvall Show.”
Travis returned to the stage in Boy Gets Girl at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. She portrayed ‘Theresa Bedell,’ a bright woman in her thirties who is set up on a blind date with a stalker. She also starred in the classic Three Sisters at the La Jolla Playhouse.
Travis made her feature film debut in the blockbuster comedy “Three Men and A Baby.” Her additional film credits include “Internal Affairs,” “Air America,” “Three Men and a Little Lady,” “So I Married an Axe Murderer,” “The Vanishing,” “Greedy,” “Fluke,” “Destiny Turns on the Radio” and “Bogie.” On the small screen, she starred in “Becker” with Ted Danson, “Almost Perfect” for CBS and in the television movies “My Last Love” and “Fallen Angels.”
Travis resides in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.
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CHARLIE McDERMOTT (David Porter) – Charlie McDermott started his career off with a role in M. Night Shyamalan’s “The Village,” alongside Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver and Brendan Gleeson. McDermott also had a supporting role in Summit’s “The Sex Drive,” opposite Seth Green and James Marsden and in the Sundance favorite “The Ten,” in which he starred alongside such stars as Jessica Alba, Adam Brody, Gretchen Mol, Oliver Platt, Paul Rudd, Winona Ryder and Liev Schreiber. He also appeared in “All Along,” alongside Krista Allen, and “Disappearances” with Luis Guzmán and Kris Kristofferson.
McDermott was nominated for a Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his work in the Sundance Grand Jury winner “Frozen River.”
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REILEY McCLENDON (Luke Barsochinni) – Despite his young age, Reiley McClendon has already distinguished himself as an actor with a wide range of performances in both film and television. He began acting in Louisiana and relocated with his family to California in 1998 in order to pursue acting full time.
McClendon has appeared in such films as Michael Bay’s blockbuster “Pearl Harbor,” in which he played a young Josh Hartnett, Disney’s “The Kid” starring Bruce Willis, Jason Wiles’ “Lenexa One Mile” and “Flyboys” with Stephen Baldwin and Tom Sizemore.
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His television credits include The Disney Channel’s telefilm “Buffalo Dreams” and the lead in Hallmark’s remake of “Gentle Ben” and the sequel “Gentle Ben 2.” In addition, McClendon has guest-starred in several highly acclaimed television shows, including “CSI,” “CSI: Miami,” “Medium,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “E.R.,” “Everwood,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” and “Will and Grace.”
Most recently, McClendon had a large guest star role in A&E’s new pilot “Danny Fricke,” starring Connie Nielsen, and just wrapped the lead in the independent thriller “The Mine.”
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SAM JONES III (Billy Johnson) – Sam Jones, III was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He is well-known on the small screen for playing Pete Ross on the television series “Smallville” and also for playing Chaz Pratt on “E.R.” Jones has also appeared on the television shows “Army Wives,” “Bones,” “The Practice,” “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” and “7th Heaven.”
His feature film credits include MGM’s “Home of the Brave” opposite Jessica Biel and Samuel L. Jackson, “Glory Road” opposite Josh Lucas and Derek Luke and David Goyer’s “ZigZag.”
Jones currently lives in Los Angeles.
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ORSON BEAN (Judge Roberts) - Orson Bean’s career spans more than five decades, from the ‘Golden Age of Television’ in the 50s (“Playhouse Ninety,” “The Twilight Zone”) to a six year run on “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman” in the 90s to his SAG Award nominated performance in “Being John Malkovich.” In addition to being an actor and director, he is a storyteller and raconteur who sat on the panel of the game show “To Tell The Truth” for seven years and guested on “The Tonight Show” more than 200 times (100 of them as substitute host).
He starred on Broadway for 20 years, enjoying long runs in such plays as Never Too Late and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter, and in a number of musicals including Subways Are For Sleeping, for which he received a Tony Award nomination. His numerous film credits include “Anatomy of a Murder,” “Innerspace” and “Forty Deuce.” Three new independent pictures in which he appears await release this year.
Bean works frequently on television, guesting on dramas like “Cold Case” and “The Closer,” as well as on such sitcoms as “Two and a Half Men” and “How I Met Your Mother.”
A successful author, he has had four books published: Me and the Orgone, which recounts his experience in Reichian therapy, Too Much is Not Enough, an autobiography and the satirical 25.
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Ways to Cook a Mouse. His latest, M@il for Mikey, tells in a humorous, touching (sometimes raunchy) way, how he became a Christian Born in Burlington, VT (and second cousin to Calvin Coolidge), he survived the industry blacklist of the 1950s.
Bean currently lives in Venice, California with his wife, actress Alley Mills, where they are both members of the acclaimed Pacific Resident Theater. He has four children and seven grandchildren.
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