‘AFTER ALL THESE YEARS’
CAST BIOS
WENDIE MALICK (Audrey) – For seven seasons on “Just Shoot Me,” Wendie Malick starred as Nina Van Horn, the outrageous ex-model and fashion editor, which earned her one Emmy® and two Golden Globe® nominations. She then joined the cast of “Frasier” for the final season as Ronnie Lawrence. Currently, Malick plays a five-time divorced former soap opera star in TV Land’s hit sitcom, “Hot in Cleveland,” alongside Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves and Betty White. Malick’s other series favorites include “Big Day,” “Good Company” and HBO’s groundbreaking comedy, “Dream On” (for which she won four Cable Ace Awards). She has been a guest on “CSI,” “The X-Files,” “LA Law,” “NYPD Blue,” “Seinfeld,” “Cybil” and “Law & Order,” to name just a few. She starred in many television movies, including, “Take My Advice” (playing both Ann Landers and Abby Van Buren) on Hallmark Channel, “Hello Sister,” “Goodbye Life,” “Will You Merry Me?,” “Apollo 11,” “Dynasty: The Miniseries,” “Paper Dolls” and “North Shore Fish,” in a role she originated on stage.
Malick’s feature film credits include “About Fifty,” “Adventures of a Teenage Dragonslayer,” “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakqual,” “The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard,” “Adventureland,” “Confessions Of A Shopaholic,” “Racing Stripes,” “The American President,” “The Emperor’s New Groove,” “Jerome,” “On Edge,” “Trojan Wars,” “Bugsy,” “A Little Sex,” “Funny About Love” and the cult classic, “Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video.”
Malick has appeared on stage in North Shore Fish and Burleigh Grimes (both Off Broadway), in Victor Bumbalo's Questa and Oliver Hailey's Round Trip (Artistic Director's Award nomination as Best Lead Actress), Vagina Monologues, Santaland Diaries, Steve Martin’s The Underpants in Los Angeles and in regional productions of The Guys (Studio Arena), Don’t Blame Me, I Voted For Helen Gahagan Douglas (Wooly Mammoth) and Blithe Spirit (Williamstown).
In 2000, Malick was honored by Women in Film as "A Woman of Vision," along with Tipper Gore, Gwen Ifills and Roseanne. She is on the Board of Directors of both The Environmental Media Association and The Creative Coalition (which lobbies for the Arts), the Board of Advocates for Planned Parenthood (who honored her in 2006 as a “Champion of Choice”) and the Advisory Board of The Humane Society. Through their charitable gift fund, A Drop in the Bucket, she and husband, Richard Erickson, support a medical center in the Congo. They live in the Santa Monica Mountains with two horses and a dog.
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ANDREA MARTIN (Anita) – Andrea Martin's career began in the US touring company of You're A Good Man Charlie Brown, in which she played Lucy. During the tour, she visited Toronto, Canada, fell in love with the city, moved there and within a month and was cast in the Toronto production of Godspell, in what is now considered a legendary cast:
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Victor Garber, Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Gilda Radner, Jayne Eastwood and Paul Shaffer, their musical director. Martin went on to appear in Leonard Bernstein's Candide as well as Private Lives with Maggie Smith and Brian Bedford at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival Theatre.
Martin has appeared in numerous theater and television productions in Canada, the most notable being Toronto's Second City stage show for five years, which led to the critically acclaimed “SCTV.” She has hosted every televised award program in the country and is the recipient of both the Canada Walk of Fame and Women in Television and Film awards.
For Martin's work in the recent Toronto production of Love, Loss and What I Wore, as well as her one woman show, Final Days! Everything Must Go!!, she received Broadwayworld.com's 2010 Best Actress and Best Theatrical Event Awards.
Martin has also received four ACTRA Awards for her participation in “SCTV,” two GEMINI nominations for hosting the 2007 Winnipeg Comedy Festival and for the CBC miniseries, “St. Urban's Horseman.”
Her film credits include “Delivering the Goods,” “Breaking Upwards,” “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” (which she received a SAG Award nomination and People's Choice Award for best ensemble), “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” “All Over the Guy,” Mary Walsh's “Young Triffie's Been Made Away With,” “Stepping Out,” “Bogus,” “Wag the Dog,” “New York Minute,” “Black Christmas” (both the original and the remake) and “Cannibal Girls” (co-starring Eugene Levy), for which she won the Best Actress Award at SITGES, the international horror film festival of Spain.
For her work on “SCTV,” Martin won two Emmy® Awards for writing and received an Emmy® nomination for Best Actress in a Variety series. Her additional television credits include “My Big Fat Greek Life,” “Little Mosque on the Prairie” and “Nurse Jackie.”
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MARTHA BURNS (Phyllis) – Martha Burns is one of Canada’s most distinguished stage and television actresses. She has performed leading roles at the Stratford and Shaw Festivals, and at theaters across the country. Winner of the 2005 Barbara Hamilton Award for “excellence and professionalism in the performing arts,” she has also received two Dora Mavor Moore Awards for her work in Trafford Tanzi and The Miracle Worker and has been nominated for three more.
Burns is the recipient of two supporting actress Genie Awards for “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” and “Love & Savagery” and a double Gemini winner for Best Actress for her leading role, Ellen Fanshaw, in three seasons of “Slings and Arrows.”
Burns and Susan Coyne wrote and directed the short film “How Are You?” which was an official selection for TIFF 2008.
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She co-produced all of and directed one of ten short films that form the anthology “Little Films About Big Moments” for Movie Central and TMN.
A founding member of Toronto’s Soulpepper Theater Company (where she appeared to great acclaim as Winnie in Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days), Burns has created numerous ground- breaking educational programs for youth.
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GREGORY HARRISON (David) – Gregory Harrison was born on Santa Catalina Island, California in the resort city of Avalon. Harrison’s first big break came in 1976, when he was cast in a guest-star role in the CBS series "M*A*S*H." That was followed by roles in "Barnaby Jones" and the TV movie "Trilogy Of Terror" with Karen Black. In 1977, Harrison landed the title role in the science-fiction TV series "Logan's Run." The series was cancelled after one season, but Harrison was finally becoming an established leading man.
Shortly after, Harrison was cast in the Christmas TV Movie "The Gathering," which was the first of many times he would work with Stephanie Zimbalist. After it won the Emmy® for best movie of the season, it also led to his biggest break, the 1978 mini-series "Centennial," in which he had the central role of Levi Zendt.
Harrison was soon cast in CBS’s "Trapper John, MD" in 1979 as Dr. Gonzo Gates. Eventually, Harrison directed eight of the later episodes of the show, but halfway through its seventh and final season he moved on.
In 1980 he formed, with Franklin R. Levy, the Catalina Production Group. Over the next eleven years, they produced numerous stage projects and nearly two dozen television movies.
Catalina Productions was an important force in the Los Angeles theater scene from 1981 to 1992 and plays presented by the company were honored with over 150 local theater awards. Those plays included The Hasty Heart, which won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award as Best Production (including Best Actor for Gregory) and Picnic, for which Gregory won a Dramalogue Award. In 1990, he was supremely honored with a L.A. Ovation Award for Outstanding Contribution to L.A. Theater.
Harrison is married to former "CHiPs" actress Randi Oakes. The couple has three girls and a boy: Emma, Lily, Kate and Quinn. They currently reside in southern Oregon.
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