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(Kate Mosley) was born in Sherman Oaks, California and raised in New York City. She was exposed to acting at an early age by her father, John Aniston, who starred on NBC's daytime drama "Days of Our Lives," and by her godfather, the late Telly Savalas. Aniston has been starring as Rachel Green on the hit NBC series "Friends" for the past three seasons. Last year, Aniston was seen in the feature film "She's the One," opposite director Edward Burns and Cameron Diaz; she also has a supporting role in the recently-released "'Til There Was You," with Jeanne Tripplehorn, Sarah Jessica Parker and Dylan McDermott. This summer, Aniston is shooting the motion picture "The Object of My Affection." Wendy Wasserstein wrote the screenplay, based on the Stephen McCauley novel, and Nicholas Hytner is directing. The film will be released next year by Twentieth Century Fox. Aniston, who is of Greek descent, spent a year of her childhood living in Greece with her family, but relocated to New York when her father landed a role on the daytime drama "Love of Life." She had her first taste of acting at age 11 when she joined the Rudolf Steiner School's drama club. Her experience also helped Aniston develop a passion for art, and at age 11, one of Aniston's paintings was selected to be displayed in an exhibit at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. She began her professional training as a drama student at New York's High School of the Performing Arts. After graduating in 1987, Aniston won roles in such off-Broadway productions as "For Dear Life" at New York's Public Theatre and "Dancing on Checker's Grave." In 1989, she landed her first television role as a series regular on "Molloy." Aniston's other television credits include regular roles on "The Edge" and "Ferris Bueller," and a recurring role on "Herman's Head." |
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(Sam Mayfair) has worked in a wide variety of film genres, from action thrillers to romantic comedies to heavy dramas, and even the occasional musical. His talent for balancing starring roles with powerful supporting characters has allowed him to build a varied and critically acclaimed body of work. With the support of his parents, Bacon left his native Philadelphia to become the youngest student at Circle in the Square Theatre in New York where he studied until he made his film debut as Chip in "National Lampoon's Animal House." This led to roles in "Diner" and "Footloose," the latter of which propelled him to stardom. Last year, Bacon directed his first film, "Losing Chase," featuring his wife, actress Kyra Sedgwick, as well as Beau Bridges and Helen Mirren. Originally produced for Showtime, the film was honored with a screening at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival. The film debuted on Showtime this summer and was also screened at the 1996 Toronto Film Festival. Bacon also reunited with "Diner" director Barry Levinson on "Sleepers," co-starring Brad Pitt, Robert De Niro and Jason Patric. Bacon recently filmed "Telling Lies in America," a film about a Hungarian immigrant boy's experiences in the world of rock 'n' roll radio and his assimilation into American society in the early 1960s. Written by Joe Eszterhas and directed by Guy Ferland, the film co-stars Brad Renfro. He also completed Timothy Hutton's feature directorial debut, "Digging to China." Starring opposite Mary Stuart Masterson, Bacon plays a naive, mentally challenged man with the mind set of a young child. In 1995, Bacon was seen in Ron Howard's hugely successful "Apollo 13," also starring Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise and Bill Paxton. Earlier, for his role as a convict on trial for murder in "Murder in the First," Bacon was voted Best Actor by The Broadcast Critics Association and received Best Supporting Actor nominations from both The Screen Actors Guild and The London Film Critics Circle. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his role in "The River Wild," co-starring Meryl Streep. Bacon's other roles include the brilliant but self-destructive Fenwick in "Diner"; the dancing rebel in "Footloose"; an overly expectant father in John Hughes' "She's Having a Baby"; a disarming, psychotic killer in "Criminal Law"; a film student/director wooed by Hollywood in "The Big Picture"; the hapless handyman in "Tremors" and the voice of the title character in Steven Spielberg's animated film "Balto." Bacon's other memorable appearances include Oliver Stone's "JFK" and Rob Reiner's "A Few Good Men." Bacon's stage work includes such Off-Broadway productions as "Album," "Poor Little Lambs" and "Getting Out." He made his Broadway debut in 1983 with Sean Penn in "Slab Boys," and also starred in the 1986 production of Joe Orton's highly-touted play "Loot." More recently, Bacon returned to New York to appear in Theresa Rebeck's comedy "Spike Heels," with Tony Goldwyn and Saundra Santiago. Bacon's television credits include the American Playhouse version of Lanford Wilson's play "Lemon Sky," a production that teamed him with his future wife. Other television credits include "The Gift" and the cable film "Enormous Changes at the Last Minute." |
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(Nick) burst onto the screen last year and received critical acclaim for his role opposite Tom Cruise in the Academy Award-nominated box office hit "Jerry Maguire," directed by Cameron Crowe. As the rival agent to Cruise's "Maguire," Mohr was signaled out for his outrageous portrayal of a desperate agent talking on two phones at once to save his clients. Mohr first gained critical notice and attention with his starring role on "Saturday Night Live" with his impressions of Christopher Walkin, Ricki Lake and Sean Penn, among others. Following PICTURE PERFECT, Mohr co-stars opposite Christopher Walken, Denis Leary, Sean Patrick Flanery and Johnny Galecki in "Suicide Kings," directed by Peter O'Fallon, a complete turnaround from his comedic role in "Jerry Maguire" and his leading-man role opposite Jennifer Aniston in PICTURE PERFECT. A native of New Jersey, Mohr currently resides in Los Angeles. |
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As an actress and filmmaker, Illeana Douglas (Darcy O'Neal) has proven her abilities both in front of and behind the camera. She has won acclaim for her feature film and television roles, as well as with several projects that she has written, directed and produced. Raised in Massachusetts, Douglas realized early on that she wanted to pursue a career in acting. She was inspired by her grandfather, screen legend Melvyn Douglas. Her grandmother, Helen Gahagan Douglas, is best remembered for her 1950 Senate campaign against Richard M. Nixon. Douglas received notable reviews for her performance in "Cape Fear." In "Alive," she co-starred with Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano and Josh Hamilton in the story of the triumph and survival of the South American rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes. She also starred in the comedy "Grief." Douglas next appeared in Robert Redford's critically-acclaimed "Quiz Show," and then co-starred as Marie, a budding screenwriter, in the screwball tragedy "Search and Destroy," opposite Griffin Dunne, Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken, and directed by famed artist David Salle. The picture, which Douglas helped develop, has since become a cult favorite. Her next role, as the suspicious and ultimately vengeful Janis in "To Die For," co-starring Nicole Kidman and Matt Dillon, earned her rave reviews and international attention. She then starred in Allison Anders' "Grace of My Heart." In addition, Douglas recently appeared in the independent film "Wedding Bell Blues," directed by Dana Lusting. She also completed her fourth project, "How to Make a Woman's Film," for the Bravo Network. Douglas oversees her own production company and is presently developing projects for herself as an actress and director. She wrote and directed the highly regarded short films "Everybody Just Stay Calm," "The Perfect Woman" and "Boy Crazy, Girl Crazier." |
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(Rita Mosley) came to national prominence for her role as Rose Castorini in the 1988 film "Moonstruck." Not only did she win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, she also received a New York Film Critics Award, a Los Angeles Film Critics Award and a Golden Globe Award. She has also appeared in the films "Steel Magnolias," "Working Girl," "The Cemetery Club" and "Mr. Holland's Opus." On television, she played a leading role in the highly praised PBS mini-series "Tales of the City." Dukakis' first love remains the theatre, where she enjoys a reputation as one of the country's truly Great Ladies of the Stage. She was a co-founder of two prestigious regional theatres -- the Charles Playhouse in Boston and the Whole Theatre in Montclair, New Jersey. She taught drama for fifteen years at New York University, and she is the recipient of two Obie Awards for her work in Bertolt Brecht's "A Man's Man" and Christopher Durang's "The Marriage of Bette and Boo." |
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(Mr. Mercer) has amassed an impressive list of motion picture and television credits. He recently appeared in the motion picture comedy "The Sixth Man" and, last year, portrayed an FBI agent hunting Keanu Reeves in the thriller "Chain Reaction." In 1995, he received attention for his role as Charles Colson in Oliver Stone's provocative biopic "Nixon." His numerous big screen credits also include a role as a Presidential aide in the hit comedy "Dave," "Mad Love," "Commandments," "Little Big League," "1492: Conquest of Paradise," "Chaplin" (as J. Edgar Hoover), "Hot Shots," "Only the Lonely," "Blue Steel," "The Bonfire of the Vanities," "Marked for Death" and "Mississippi Burning." On television, Dunn has appeared in the movies-of-the week "On the Edge of Innocence," "The Second Civil War," "Four Diamonds," "Unforgivable," "Shadow of the Doubt," "Double Edge" and "Blind Faith," among others. He also had a role on the "Arsenio" series. |
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ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS... Director/Co-writer GLENN GORDON CARON is a native of New York City, and graduated from the State University of New York, College of Arts and Sciences at Geneseo. Over the next few years, Caron moved back and forth between New York and Chicago, studying with Del Close and The Second City, and working at a variety of jobs including gas station attendant and theatre usher. After landing a position at an advertising agency, he was contacted by an independent producer who had been impressed with a script that Caron had written years earlier. The producer arranged for Caron to meet with NBC about the possibility of writing a pilot for the network. Although the pilot did not become a series, the script did not go unnoticed by writer/producer/director James L. Brooks, who invited Caron to join the writing staff of his hit series "Taxi." A short time later, Caron moved on to serve as the story editor on the highly-acclaimed but short-lived series "Good Time Harry," created by the late Steve Gordon. Caron made his producing debut after being asked by Steve Tisch to assist in writing/producing the television adaptation of the Academy Award-winning film "Breaking Away." He next wrote and produced the first ten episodes of "Remington Steele" before leaving the show to form his own company, Picturemaker Productions. Under its auspices, he wrote and executive-produced the pilots "Concrete Beat" and "Long Time Gone." One year later, Caron introduced television audiences to Maddie Hayes and David Addison, owners of the Blue Moon Detective Agency, in the television series "Moonlighting." Caron wrote many of the episodes and served as the show's executive producer. The program introduced the world to Bruce Willis and garnered 42 Emmy nominations, nine Golden Globe nominations, six Writers Guild Of America nominations and four Directors Guild of America nominations. Caron received the WGA Award for writing for the series.
Caron made his feature directorial debut with "Clean and Sober" in 1988. The film earned its star, Michael Keaton, the Best Actor Award from the National Society of Film Critics. Caron next helmed the feature "Wilder Napalm," starring Debra Winger, Dennis Quaid and Arliss Howard, produced by Mark Johnson and written by Vince Gilligan. Caron's most recent film was "Love Affair," with Warren Beatty (who was also producer as well as co-writer along with Robert Towne), Annette Bening and Katherine Hepburn.
Stoff has enjoyed great success in discovering and developing new talent. His reputation for creatively packaging the right project has led to numerous production ventures. During his tenure at 3 Arts, Stoff has produced the features "National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon I," "Excessive Force" and "Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey." Supervising a steady flow of recent projects, Stoff executive produced two Keanu Reeves films: "Feeling Minnesota" and "Chain Reaction," the latter released by Twentieth Century Fox. Stoff is also executive producer on "Devil's Advocate," starring Reeves and Al Pacino. Stoff began his career in the theatre as a professional stage director at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and Seattle Repertory. In 1978, Stoff traveled to Los Angeles to produce the award-winning and commercially successful stage production of "The Tenth Man," starring Richard Dreyfuss. Stoff subsequently started his own personal management company with his sights set on managing the industry's top talent and producing television and film projects.
Stoff and his partners Molly Madden, Howard Klein and Michael Rotenberg, through their company 3 Arts Entertainment, currently manage some of the entertainment industry's most cutting-edge writers, directors and performers. The company has recently entered into an unprecedented alliance with CBS and Sony to develop and produce primetime programming.
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PAUL SAROSSY, C.S.C. (Director of Photography) received the Canadian Society of Cinematographers Award for Best Feature Film Cinematography and a Genie Award (Canadian Oscar) for Best Cinematography on Atom Egoyan's "Exotica." In 1990, Sarossy was a winner of the Canadian Society of Cinematographers Award for Best Feature Film Cinematography on Patricia Rozema's "White Room" and was nominated for the same award, also in 1990, on Egoyan's "Speaking Parts." Sarossy also photographed Egoyan's "The Adjuster"; Atom Egoyan's "The Sweet Hereafter," Grand Prix winner at Cannes; Denys Arcand's "Montreal Stories," "Vue D'Ailleurs" and "Love and Human Remains"; Srinivas Krishna's "Masala" and "A Promise of Heaven"; John Bailey's "Mariette in Ecstasy" and Paul Schrader's "Affliction."
Sarossy's television credits include Tim Southam's "Suzanne and Satie," for which he was honored with the Canadian Society of Cinematographers Award for Most Unique Cinematography and a Gemini Award nomination for Best Photography in a Comedy, Variety, Performing Arts Program or Series; Steve Surjick's "Grand Larceny," for which he was nominated for both a Gemini Award for Best Photography in a Dramatic Program and the Canadian Society of Cinematographers Award for Best TV Drama Cinematography; and Norman Jewison's "Soir Bleu," winning him a nomination for the American Society of Cinematographers Award for Best Photography in a Mini-Series. He also photographed Nancy Savoca's "Dark Eyes" and Peter Bogdanovich's "Song of Songs."
He moved to Los Angeles eleven years ago, where he has worked as a set designer on Steven Spielberg's "Amazing Stories" and as an art director on the films "Creepshow," "Soul Man," "House II: The Second Story," "Fat Man and Little Boy," "The Doors," "V. I. Warshawski," "Fried Green Tomatoes," "Falling Down," "Mr. Jones" and "My Life." His films as production designer include "The Little Rascals," "The Baby-Sitter's Club" and "A Time To Kill."
Robinson's highly praised work on television has earned her Emmy Awards for the telefilms "Poor Little Rich Girl," "Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna" and "Jenny - Lady Randolph Churchill" (for which she was also nominated for a BAFTA Award). She was nominated for an Emmy for "Mrs. Arris Goes to Paris" and "Bridesheard Revisited," receiving a BAFTA Award for the latter.
The diverse range of projects for which he has composed, arranged and produced the scores also include the award-winning telefilms "Children Remembering the Holocaust" and "And the Band Played On," and the features "The Chamber," "Fear," "Joe's Apartment," "Bad Company," "The Celluloid Closet," "It Could Happen to You," "A Dangerous Woman," "Kalifornia," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Storyville" and "Psycho III." Upcoming he has "The Jackal," a thriller starring Bruce Willis and Richard Gere; and the Mel Gibson-Julia Roberts starrer "The Conspiracy Theory," directed by Richard Donner.
In addition to his screen work, Burwell has written and performed music for several New York stage productions including "Mother," "The Celestial Alphabet Event" and "Mother Courage." He also wrote and performed the music for "Widows" at the prestigious Williamstown Theatre Festival.
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