‘CHRISTMAS ENCORE’ Cast Bios

MAGGIE LAWSON (Charlotte Miller) – Born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, Maggie Lawson started appearing in local community and dinner theater when she was eight years old. She became a youth journalist for the local FOX station before moving to Los Angeles.

Lawson recently starred in Hallmark Channel’s “My Favorite Wedding,” completed recurring arcs on the Netflix series “The Ranch” as well as CBS’ “The Great Indoors” and in 2016, she starred opposite Jane Lynch in the CBS series “Angel from Hell.” Also that year, she filmed the Netflix feature Spivak, starring alongside Michael Bacall and Rob Kazinsky. Prior to that she had a season-long arc on Chuck Lorre’s “Two and a Half Men,” playing the love interest to both Jon Cryer and Ashton Kutcher.

Lawson is well known for her role as Juliet O’Hara on the hit USA series “Psych,” a role to which she returns in the upcoming feature film Psych: The Movie. Other television credits include “Back in The Game,” “Justified,” “Crumbs,” “It’s All Relative,” “Inside Schwartz,” “E.R.” “Party of Five” and “Felicity.” Television movie credits include “Killer Hair,” “Hostile Makeover,” “Model Behavior” and “Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman.” Her film credits include Cheats, Pleasantville, Nice Guys Sleep Alone and Cleaner.

Lawson is an animal-lover and the co-founder of The Tiger Frances Foundation, a non-profit organization to end animal abuse and place animals in loving homes. She is especially proud of Love On Paws, a program created by TTFF to bring rescue animals into the classroom, sharing their stories with kids to help foster empathy and compassion, important components in the quest to end abuse. The program is currently partnered with Communities in Schools and School on Wheels. She currently resides in Los Angeles.

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BRENNAN ELLIOTT (Julian Walker) – Brennan Elliott has been an established, professional working actor for more than 15 years. Having studied in Canada and New York, he has found a home for the last 13 years studying at the prestigious Eric Morris Studio in Los Angeles when he’s not acting. Elliott has been described by many as not only a leading man but also a character actor who has been difficult to recognize from role to role. He has shown incredible versatility in his recurring roles on television such as “Cold Case,” “The 4400,” “What About Brian” and “CSI,” to name just a few.

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Elliott recently starred in Hallmark Channel’s “All of My Heart: Inn Love” and currently stars in Lifetime’s acclaimed “UnREAL,” a series about behind-the-scenes at a reality show similar to “The Bachelor,” in which he plays the charming host. Elliott was also last seen in 20th Century Fox’s Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb and he played the male lead in Universal’s Curse of Chucky.

Over the past four years, Elliott has become one of Hallmark Channel’s major stars as a series regular opposite Andie MacDowell on “Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove” as Warren Saget, the real estate mogul and villain you love to hate. He also stared in three of the network’s original films, “Love You Like Christmas,” as well as “All of My Heart” and “A Christmas Melody,” both opposite Lacey Chabert. Finally, Elliott played opposite Brooke Shields in “Flower Shop Mysteries” on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries.

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