‘ACCIDENTALLY IN LOVE’

CAST BIOS

JENNIE GARTH (Annie) – Jennie Garth skyrocketed to stardom with her role as Kelly Taylor on “Beverly Hills, 90210.” The show became a ratings juggernaut, lasting 10 seasons, and garnering Garth two Young Artist Award nominations. It remains one of the most successful television series ever produced. Garth reprised her role as Kelly in the CW’s new spin-off series, “90210,” but this time she is all grown up and working as the school guidance counselor at West Beverly High.

Garth also competed on ABC’s hit show “Dancing with the Stars,” in 2007. Her newfound moves and loyal fans made her a crowd favorite and kept her in the competition through the semi-finals. Garth also recently starred opposite Andrea Bowen in Lifetime Network’s “Girl, Positive” which was the network’s highest-rated movie in 2007.

In 2002, Garth made her comedy debut as the straight-laced sister of Amanda Bynes in the WB’s “What I Like About You.” The series concluded in 2006 after a four-season run. In addition, Garth made several appearances alongside Jennifer Connolly, Adam Goldberg and Tom Everett Scott on Fox’s “The $treet,” produced by Darren Starr.

The talent Garth displayed on the iconic “Beverly Hills, 90210” opened up additional professional doors. Garth’s first starring role in a TV movie was “Danielle Steel’s Star,” which launched NBC’s fall 1993 schedule and garnered the highest ratings for a season premiere for NBC since 1989. Later that year Garth starred in and executive produced “Without Consent,” an entertaining and educational telepic for ABC. Garth’s character was a rebellious teen committed to a psychiatric facility by her out-of-touch careerist parents. Based on true accounts, “Without Consent” explored a growing problem in the mental health care system, and aspired to help bring about change by raising public awareness for the issue. The success of this project led to a three-picture deal at ABC for Garth to develop and produce her own projects.

Garth serves as a National Spokesperson for the American Heart Association, working to raise awareness on heart disease and preventive measures to reduce risk factors. Garth contributes her time through numerous national media outlets.

Garth and her husband, actor Peter Facinelli, have three daughters: Luca Bella, Lola Ray and Fiona Eve. The family enjoys spending time at their home in Los Angeles and ranch in Northern California.

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ETHAN ERICKSON (Eddie) – A native of the Twin Cities, Ethan Erickson first performed as a gymnast before discovering a natural talent for performing on camera. Moving west for college, Erickson graduated from University of California Santa Barbara with a bachelor’s degree in English Literature.

Lighting up the silver screen, Erickson has starred in feature films including thriller “Dorian,” “The In Crowd,” “Burn” and the critically acclaimed independent film “Jawbreaker.”

Erickson has also been seen on a variety of popular primetime dramas and comedies including recurring roles on “CSI: NY” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” He has guest-starred on everything from “Friends” and “Joey” to “Monk,” “The “Starter Wife,” “CSI: Miami” and “CSI,” completing the “CSI” trifecta. As a series regular, Erickson played designer John Cotter on the MY Network TV series “Fashion House.”

Most recently, Erickson steamed up the CW’s update of “Melrose Place,” portraying epicurean executive chef and restaurant co-owner Marcello, boss to Violet and Auggie, played by Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and Colin Egglesfield.

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MARILU HENNER (Carol) – A five-time Golden Globe nominee, Marilu Henner has starred in over thirty films and television movies and a total of nine seasons on two highly successful Emmy® award-winning classic TV sitcoms.

Throughout her extensive acting career, Henner has worked with several legendary directors and has played opposite Hollywood’s biggest stars. Her film career began in the 1977 sleeper hit, “Between the Lines,” starring Jeff Goldblum. Then, Henner flew to Hollywood to land the role opposite Richard Gere in Robert Mulligan’s “Bloodbrothers.” She played a girl pursued by Burt Reynolds in “The Man Who Loved Women,” and again starred with Reynolds as Shirley MacLaine’s buddy in the star-studded comedy “Cannonball Run II.” Henner also appeared in the cult classic “Johnny Dangerously” with Michael Keaton, and “Perfect” and “Chains of Gold” with John Travolta. Her award-winning role as Steve Martin’s girlfriend-from-hell in “L.A. Story” was followed by the Peter Bogdanovich comedy “Noises Off” where she starred with Michael Caine, Carol Burnett and Christopher Reeve.

In 1987, Henner was nominated for an ACE Award for Jules Pfeiffer’s HBO’s movie “Grown Ups.” She also starred in “Love With the Perfect Stranger,” “Grand Larceny,” “Lady Killers,” “Batman: Mask of Phantasm” and “Fight For Justice: The Nancy Conn Story.” Henner played Molly Brown in the miniseries “Titanic,” also starring Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Television audiences know Henner best from her Emmy® winning classic TV sitcoms, first as Elaine Nardo in “Taxi” (1978-1983) with Judd Hirsch, Danny DeVito, Tony Danza, Jeff Conaway,

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Christopher Lloyd and Andy Kaufman; and later as Ava Evans Newton, the wife of Burt Reynolds in “Evening Shade” (1990-1994) which also starred Ossie Davis, Hal Holbrook, Charles Durning and Elizabeth Ashley.

Henner has also made her mark on stage, starring in six hit Broadway shows. She created the role of Marty in the original production of Grease and then later reprised the role on Broadway. After a very successful run in film and on television, Henner returned to Broadway with the comedy Social Security; then later starred as Roxie Hart in Chicago. The following year, she played Annie in the national tour of Annie Get Your Gun.

She hosted and executive-produced three of her own talk shows. Her most recent is a series of interstitial mini-segments designed to teach and inspire positive lifestyle choices called “The Art Of Living With Marilu Henner,” which aired in 2009. Henner was featured as a competitor on Donald Trump’s “Celebrity Apprentice,” hosted “America’s Ballroom Challenge” on PBS for two years, and recently guest starred on “Numb3rs,” “Party Down,” “My Boys,” and in the series finale of “ER.”

A multiple New York Times bestselling author, Henner has written eight books on health, fitness and lifestyle, and an autobiography. She lectures frequently throughout the country as a keynote speaker and motivator for universities, interest groups, and corporations on topics ranging from diet and fitness, women’s issues, surviving cancer and child psychology, to lifestyle, entertainment and business organization strategies.

In all her achievements, Henner is most proud of her success as a mother of two boys, Nick (15) and Joey (14), and her loving relationship with her husband, Michael Brown.

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FRED WILLARD (Dick) – Four-time Emmy® nominee Fred Willard, radiates a unique charm that has established him as one of our generation’s most gifted comic actors. A master of sketch comedy, Willard is most heralded for his quick wit and improvisational expertise, which he has exemplified in over 100 appearances on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.”

An alumnus of The Second City, Willard was also a founding member of the classic improv group The Ace Trucking Company. He co-starred with Martin Mull in Norman Lear’s innovative cult classic, late night talk show, “Fernwood 2Night.”

Willard has appeared in over seventy films. From “Silver Streak” with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor to his most recent film, “Youth in Revolt,” starring Michael Cera, Ray Liotta, Steve Buscemi and Jean Smart, he has worked with Hollywood’s best. He danced with Jane Fonda in “Fun With Dick and Jane,” played a Presidential advisor in “First Family” starring Bob Newhart, Gilda Radner and Madeline Kahn, he has worked with James Mason in “Salem’s Lot,” Jennifer

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Lopez in “The Wedding Planner,” and Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah in “Roxanne.” Willard’s work in “Waiting For Guffman” earned him an American Comedy Award nod for Funniest Supporting Actor. In addition, he won the Boston Film Critics Award, the American Comedy Award, The Sierra Award and a tribute from the American Film Institute for his performance in “Best in Show.”

Some of Willard’s other film work includes “This Is Spinal Tap,” “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy,” “A Mighty Wind,” “For Your Consideration,” the Academy Award nominated film “Monster House,” and the Academy Award winning short film, “Ray’s Male Heterosexual Dance Hall.” Willard starred as the only human in the Academy Award winning film, “WALL-E” and was honored by AFI for contributing to America’s cultural legacy. The New York Times named “WALL-E” the best film of the decade.

On stage Willard has starred off-Broadway in Jules Feiffer’s Little Murders, Dan Greenburg’s Arf and the Great Airplane Snatch, Mary Willard’s Elvis and Juliet, Mame at the Hollywood Bowl with Michelle Lee, The Los Angeles Reprise! production of Promises, Promises with Jason Alexander, the Ovation Award-winning Best Musical Anything Goes and L’il Abner with Cathy Rigby. Willard won two Artistic Director Awards for his one-man show, Fred Willard, Alone At Last!

Willard has appeared in over a thousand television episodes. He garnered three Emmy® nominations for his performance as Amy’s dad on “Everybody Loves Raymond” and a daytime Emmy® nomination for Outstanding Talk Show Host for “What’s Hot, What’s Not.”

For his charity work with City of Hope, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, and Actors and Others for Animals, Willard received a commendation from the City of Los Angeles and Mayor Antonio Villaraigarosa for “outstanding humanitarian and philanthropic work.” DePaul University recently awarded Willard with the Excellence in The Arts Award.

Willard and his playwright wife Mary live in Los Angeles. Currently, he is appearing on ABC’s “Modern Family.”

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ZACK WARD (Scott) – Zack Ward was born into the business as the son of “Canada’s Carol Burnett,” Pam Hyatt. Ward traveled the country with his actress mother as she performed across the nation, from paddleboats in the frozen Yukon to the stage of the Shakespearean festival in Stratford, Ontario. The acting bug bit Ward at a young age and he got his start in commercials, then landed his first movie role, and the one that would guarantee his infamy, as Scut Farkas, the bully in the 1983 classic Christmas movie, “A Christmas Story.” Ward continued working through his teens, shooting many films and television shows, building his craft with parts in the Canadian classic “Anne of Green Gables” and many other film and television series.

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Ward got his first starring role in the series, “Mission Reading,” then went straight on to “Boogies Diner” before moving to Los Angeles and landing the lead in Fox’s baseball show “In The Zone.” Next, he was cast as the loveable and dim-witted Dave in Fox’s cult hit “Titus,” securing him as a rising comedic talent. Meanwhile, his film resume was growing: “Almost Famous,” “Wild America,” “Freddy V.S. Jason,” “Resident Evil: Apocalypse,” “L.A. Twister,” “Aurora Borealis,” “Trade” and “Transformers” are just some highlights of what has already become a film career spanning over 50 movies.

Most recently, Ward appeared in director Michael Bay’s box office smash “Transformers” as First Sergeant Donnelly in 2007 alongside Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox. He has had guest-starring roles on “Lost,” “CSI,” “Cold Case,” “NCIS,” “Deadwood,” “Crossing Jordan” and “Dollhouse,” to name a few. Ward also had leading roles in “BloodRayne II: Deliverance,” based on the video game BloodRayne 2, “Postal,” “Alone in the Dark II” and “The Devil's Tomb.”

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DANNIKA NORTHCOTT (Taylor) – Young actress Dannika Northcott already has several film and television credits, and her star is quickly rising. Northcott got her start in 2006 in the made-for-TV movie “Alpha Mom,” and has gone on to secure several recurring roles on popular television series. Her television credits include “Tell Me You Love Me,” “In the Motherhood” and “All My Children.” In 2008, Northcott also appeared in the feature film, “Lower Learning,” starring Jason Biggs and Eva Longoria Parker.

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