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GET YOUR STUFF - ACTORS' BIOS
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BLAYN 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. |
JASON 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. |
JIM
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." |
Sadly, 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. |
Kiko 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." |
DAVID 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. |
ELAINE 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. |
GRADY 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. |
In
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. |
KELLY 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. |
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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. |
Actor
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.
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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. |
CAMERON 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.
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