GET YOUR STUFF - ACTORS' BIOS
in alphabetical order

Click to view larger photoBLAYN BARBOSA started his career at the age of 6. His credits include over 25 commercials and over 30 voice-over/radio commercials. He has starred in several films and is excited to be a part of Get Your Stuff. He currently attends a school for the performing arts and has starred in the lead stage production titled Toy Town. While trying to maintain his "A" honor-roll status, he is currently working on his guard position in football and is consumed by his science project. He successfully throws in auditions when necessary.

Click to view larger photoJASON BOEGH recently completed the premiere run of Medea the Musical at the Hudson Theatre in Hollywood.  A graduate of UC San Diego, he has performed in several theatrical productions in L.A. and San Diego, including Anything Goes, Little Shop of Horrors, and Tartuffe and The Servant of Two Masters at the La Jolla Playhouse.  He also recently appeared in the forthcoming indie feature "Speed Bump" and the short films "Shoulda Woulda Coulda" and "Too Soon Too Late."  Currently studying with The Groundlings Improv School, Jason is working on several wacky characters but can be very serious, too ... no, really.

Click to view larger photoJIM J. BULLOCK is probably best known for his role of Monroe on the TV sitcom, "Too Close for Comfort." He has also appeared on a number of other TV programs, including "Seinfeld," "Alf," and "Boogie's Diner." Notable film roles include Switch, directed by Blake Edwards, and Mel Brooks' science fiction spoof Spaceballs.  Jim has been a regular on Hollywood Squares and he co-hosted the sadly short-lived cult favorite talk show "The Jim J. and Tammy Faye Show."

Click to view larger photoSadly, PATIENCE CLEVELAND passed away recently and will be sorely missed. She always made us laugh. Patience has had guest-starring roles in "The Practice," The Drew Carey Show," and "Chicago Hope," as well as appearing in "The Steve Harvey Show," "Chicken Soup for the Soul," "E.R.," "Party of Five," "Diagnosis Murder," "X-Files," and "Angel."  Patience majored in Theatre at Smith College under Hallie Flanagan, studied acting in Paris at the Cours Simon and took classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York with Sanford Meisner. She made her Broadway debut in 1956 in The Apple Cart, starring Maurice Evans. She toured briefly with Walter Pidgeon in The Happiest Millionaire and then returned to New York where she played Laura James in Look Homeward Angel with Miriam Hopkins and Ed Begley. In New York she worked in winder stock, summer stock, and off-Broadway and went on a USO Tour of the Far East. After moving to California she toured with Tallulah Bankhead and Estelle Winwood in "Here Today." Her first sizeable TV role was on "Dr. Kildare" and her first feature was Fitzwilly. Since then she has appeared in over 100 TV shows including "Everybody Loves Raymond," "News Radio," "Suddenly Susan," "Dave's World," "Seinfeld," "Ellen," and "Hope and Gloria." She has had recurring roles on several soaps, most notably Dorothy Sanford on "General Hospital." She recently played Daisy in Driving Miss Daisy at the Forum Theatre in the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza and last summer originated the role of Granny Gee in a new play Hard Feelings at the Ojai Playwrights Conference.

Click to view larger photoKiko Ellsworth has had many guest spots on TV shows such as "Once & Again" to independent films like Redemption & All or Nothing (in which he plays a homicidal maniac), Kiko shows great range in his ability to play extremely varied roles.  He's also appeared in numerous commercials, including spots for Visa, Toyota, Eggo, Coke and MCI. Kiko is also one of the newest cast members on the daytime drama "Port Charles."

Click to view larger photoDAVID FAUSTINO is known worldwide as Bud on the longest running sitcom in the history of television "Married With Children." David stars opposite Ice-T and Luke Perry in the soon to be released comedy The Heist. Last year, he shot Kiss and Tell, a murder mystery with four (4) Arquettes, Heather Graham and Lukas Haas, and Totally Irresponsible, with Robert Stack.

Click to view larger photoELAINE HENDRIX starred with Molly Shannon and Will Ferrill in Superstar last October and with Elizabeth Shue in Molly in November. Elaine also starred in the Disney film The Parent Trap with Dennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson. Before that she appeared in Romy & Michele's High School Reunion with Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino. Last October Elaine was in Toronto filming Wish You Were Dead with Cary Elwes, Christopher Lloyd and Mary Steenburgen for first-time director Valerie McCaffrey. She plays a disenchanted hit-woman who falls in love with her target (Elwes) in the dark comedy. Last summer Elaine shot Here on Earth in Minnesota, playing the sister of Leelee Sobieski and daughter of Bruce Greenwood and Annette O'Toole in a movie she describes as "Romeo and Juliet" meets "Love Story." Born in Oak Ridge, Tenn., Elaine Hendrix spent her early years in nearby Knoxville and Morristown, Tenn. At 15, she moved with her divorced mother to Atlanta, Ga., where she attended the Northside School of Performing Arts. She started her professional career as a dancer and model but gave up dance after she was hit by a car while bicycling. Hendrix officially moved to Los Angeles in 1992 and had an agent within a month. She worked her way from commercials to TV guest shots to a starring role on the 1995 Fox revival of "Get Smart" to features. A member of Women in Film, Women in Theatre and Women of Los Angeles, Hendrix has written a short film that she recently directed. She has two birds and two turtles and in September 1999 added a dog named Tiloc to her family.

Click to view larger photoGRADY HUTT, a native Chicagoan, has been working in "the biz" since he was a few months old. He has done live theatre from Shakespeare to singing and dancing with Sandy Duncan in That's Christmas. His voice has been heard on radio and TV spots such as Disney's Tarzan and the voice of Tod Johnson in the "Tedcat" cartoons. We've seen him on commercials "burping" the alphabet for Math Blasters, playing football in the mud for Gain Detergent, pillow fighting with an orangutan for Coke and being pulled across the screen by blue ants while eating Chicken McNuggets for McDonalds.

Click to view larger photoIn addition to Get Your Stuff, in the past year ANTHONY PAUL MEINDL has played leads in two other independent films, Minor Details with Peter Skaarasgard (Boys Don't Cry), and Death of a Saleswoman. Television credits include "Will & Grace," "Family Law," "Any Day Now," "Diagnosis Murder," "All My Children," "Guiding Light," among others, and he plays Garth Brooks' best friend in his VH1 special, "The Life and Times of Chris Gaines." In New York, Mr. Meindl performed Off Broadway in several shows including Queen's Blvd. (The Players Theater), Message To Michael (Theatre Off Park), Titus Andronicus (SoHo Rep), and Taxicab Chronicles (Tribeca Lab). Los Angeles theatre credits include Cabaret at West Coast Ensemble (Ovation Award Nomination), and Bells Are Ringing for the Pasadena Music Theatre Guild at the Pasadena Playhouse. Regional theatre credits include lead work at The Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera, The Caldwell Theatre, The Pittsburgh Public Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre and The Texas Shakespeare Festival. Mr. Meindl is currently playing the lead in the Stephen Sondheim musical Merrily We Roll Along, in its Los Angeles premiere at West Coast Ensemble.

Click to view larger photoKELLY PACKARD is also known around the globe for her role in the hit series "Baywatch," still running after many seasons. Kelly was Miss California Pre-Teen in 1988. Born in Glendale, California, she grew up in Arizona and later moved to Canyon Country, California. Kelly has an older brother, and two younger step-brothers. Her hobbies are tennis, basketball, volleyball, horse-riding and softball.

KIMBERLY SCOTT has appeared in many feature films, including The Client, Flatliners, The Abyss, and has just completed work on The Imposter and three independent features. Her television work includes many recurring and regular roles as well as guest star spots on "Touched by an Angel," "NYPD Blue," "The Practice," "Any Day Now," "J.A.G.," "E.R.," and "Chicago Hope," among many others. She participated in the Chekhov Festival in Moscow, playing Antigone in a remounting of The Gospel at Colonus at the original Moscow Art Theatre. She also received nominations for the Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for her Broadway performance as Molly in Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson, a role she created at Yale Repertory Theater. She has appeared regionally at Old Globe (San Diego), Mark Taper Forum, Arena Stage, Shakespeare & Co., and South Coast Repertory. Born in Texas, Ms. Scott is a graduate of Yale School of Drama.

Click to view larger photoAn actor, writer, singer and dancer, DENIS SIMPSON has appeared most recently as Jesus in Godspell, Willie in Master Harold ... and the Boys, Belize in Angels in America (Parts 1 and 2), and his acclaimed one-man show Denis Anyone? (Jessie Award). Other stage credits include Ain't Misbehavin' (Dora Award), Jesus Christ Superstar and Little Shop of Horrors, to name a few. TV credits include "The X Files," and hosting his own children's program (TV Ontario's "Polka Dot Door"). He is currently working on a cabaret act, celebrating aging.

Click to view larger photoActor and comic JASON STUART has become one of the top openly gay comics in the country.  He's best remembered for his critically acclaimed performacne on Comedy Central's "Out There in Hollywood" with Scott Thompson and for having in-depth interviews on "Entertainment Tonight" and "Extra."  As an actor, he recently guest-starred on ABC's "The Drew Carey Show," WB's "Charmed," and the award-winning HBO film "Gia" with Angelina Jolie.  You can see Jason in the new David Spade comedy "Lost and Found," and later this year he will be making his dramatic debut in "Southern Man," in addition to being in such films as "Vegas Vacation" and "Kindergarten Cop." And if that's not enough, Jason has hosted the recent Gay VN Awards, HRC Dinners, Experience Workshop banquets, and your very own 1st GLAMA Awards.

LISA ANN WALTER starred with Elaine Hendrix in The Parent Trap for Disney and appeared with Whoopi Goldberg and Frank Langella in the basketball comedy Eddie. Television viewers will recognize Ms. Walter from her comedy series on ABC entitled "Life's Work." Other series she appeared in are "Late Bloomer" and "My Wildest Dreams." She also starred in "Early Bird Special" with the legendary Anita Gillette.

Click to view larger photoCAMERON WATSON recently starred opposite Allison Janney in the independent film Leaving Drew. His career began in the New York theater where Watson starred in Horton Foote's The Widow Claire at Circle in the Square. Other theater credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream with Peri Gilpin, the world premiere of Jack Heifner's Comfort and Joy, and many Los Angeles productions including The Maderati, directed by the late Ron Link. Cameron lists "Stark Raving Mad," "Frasier," "Caroline in the City," "Ned and Stacy," "Profiler," "Movie Stars," "Wings," and "Cheers" among his numerous television appearances. He has just written his first screenplay, Our Very Own, and is in the early stages of developing it for production in the near future.