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Naoki Sato
Composer · Known for Godzilla Minus One, Godzilla Minus Zero
Naoki Sato (佐藤 直紀 Satō Naoki) is a Japanese composer who has provided the music for several popular anime series including the first five Pretty Cure series, X, Eureka Seven, Sword of the Stranger, and Blood-C. He graduated from the Tokyo College of Music in 1993. At the 29th Japan Academy Prize in 2006, he won the Best Music prize for his work on the film Always Sanchōme no Yūhi (Always Sunset on Third Street). He also composed music for anime films such as Pretty Cure All Stars DX trilogy, Stand By Me Doraemon. In live-action dramas, he provided music and soundtracks for TV dramas Good Luck!! Water Boys, H2: Kimi to Ita Hibi and Ryōmaden. He provided the music for the Space Battleship Yamato film, as well as the Rurouni Kenshin and Parasyte live-action film series. For the 38th Japan Academy Prize in 2015, he was nominated in the Best Score category for his work in The Eternal Zero.[6] While he did not win the award, The Eternal Zero won several awards including Best Picture, and Stand By Me Doraemon won for Best Animated Film.
Melissa Fahn
Melissa Fahn is an American voice actress and singer for anime dubs, such as Cowboy Bebop, Digimon, Eureka Seven, FLCL, Noein, Zatch Bell! and Fate/stay night. She is also known for her role as Gaz Membrane in the American animated television series Invader Zim. She starred in the Broadway performance of Wicked and various theatre projects in Los Angeles.
Stephanie Sheh
Cast · Known for We Bare Bears
Stephanie Sheh is an American voice actress, ADR director, writer and producer. Born on April 10, 1977 in Kalamazoo, Michigan and raised in California, Sheh first gained interest in voice acting while attending high school, and upon graduating college would land her first major roles as Silky in Tenshi ni narumon (1999) and Mamimi Samejima in FLCL (2000). This eventually led to her landing more roles in anime series such as Hinuta Hyuuga in the Naruto franchise, Orihime Inoue in Bleach (2004), the title character from Eureka Seven (2005), Akira Kogami in Lucky Star (2007), and Yui Hirasawa in K-On! (2009). Sheh has also done work for numerous characters in video games, and in addition to reprising her anime roles in various games based on their respective series, she also voiced Tharja in Fire Emblem: Awakening (2012) and other installments in the Fire Emblem franchise and motion capture work as Cereza in Bayonetta (2009). Among her other roles include Usagi Tsukino in Viz Media's red of the Sailor Moon franchise, Yui in the Sword Art Online franchise, Lotte Yanson in Little Witch Academia (2017), and Nui Harime in KILL la KILL (2013).
Keiji Fujiwara
Cast · Known for Eureka Seven, クレヨンしんちゃん, Blue Exorcist
Keiji Fujiwara (藤原 啓治, Fujiwara Keiji, October 5, 1964 – April 12, 2020) was a Japanese voice actor. His best known works are voicing Shinnosuke's father Hiroshi Nohara in the long-running anime series Crayon Shin-chan, Maes Hughes in Fullmetal Alchemist, Holland in Eureka Seven, Axel in Kingdom Hearts, Shiro Fujimoto in Ao no Exorcist and Esidisi in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency. In the live action field, he is mostly known for dubbing actor Robert Downey Jr. He founded his own talent management and production company, Air Agency, in 2006.
Kaori Nazuka
Cast · Known for Eureka Seven, Soul Eater, Anyway, I'm Falling in Love with You.
Kaori Nazuka is a Japanese freelance voice actress. She usually plays her characters with a signature childlike yet low-and-dignified voice. Nicknamed "Mr. duck". Major appearances are “ .hack // Roots ” (Shino), “ Symphonic Psalm Eureka Seven ” (Eureka), “ Gag Manga Days ” series, “ Silver Olinsis ” (Thea), “ Code Geass Lelouch of the Rebellion ” series (Nanally Lamperouge) etc.
Dai Sato
Writer · Known for Eureka Seven, Lazarus, Pokémon Horizons
Dai Satō (佐藤 大, Satō Dai, born in 1969) is a Japanese screenwriter and musician. Having begun scriptwriting at a young age and writing scripts for various companies, Satō later focused his attention on writing for anime series. The first major series he worked on was the groundbreaking 1998 Sunrise series Cowboy Bebop, after which he worked on other well-known series, such as Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and Wolf's Rain. In 2005, Satō was the chief writer of Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven, for which he received an award for best screenplay at the Tokyo International Anime Fair in 2006. In 2006 and 2007, Satō worked on the Sunrise OVA series Freedom Project (which featured director Katsuhiro Otomo). Satō also created his own consultant company, Frognation, with two of his acquaintances, which incorporated he and his friend Kengo Watanabe's own electronic music label Frogman Records. In 2007, after leaving Frognation, Satō established his own company Storyriders. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dai Satō, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Ayaka Ohashi
Cast · Known for Aikatsu!
Ayaka Ohashi (大橋 彩香, Ōhashi Ayaka, September 13, 1994) is a Japanese voice actress and singer from Tokyo, Japan. She is affiliated with the talent agency HoriPro International. As a singer, she is signed under Lantis. Originally a child actress, she appeared in many commercials, dramas, NHK Educational TV programs, and stage productions. After participating in an audition sponsored by Horipro, She played her first main role as Fleur Blanc in the anime Eureka Seven AO in 2012. She is known for her roles as Ran Shibuki in Aikatsu!, Sāya Yamabuki in BanG Dream!, and Uzuki Shimamura in The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls; as Sāya, she is a member of the band Poppin'Party as its drummer. She also performed theme songs for anime such as Masamune-kun's Revenge, and Knight's & Magic.
Blu Mankuma
Blu Mankuma (born July 5, 1948) is an American actor. He has appeared in numerous Canadian and American productions filmed in Canada. Mankuma was born in Seattle, Washington. Among Mankuma's film credits are Tin Man, The Russia House, Another Stakeout, Harmony Gate, Bird on a Wire, Harmony Cats, Cadence, Look Who's Talking, Connor's War, Shoot to Kill, Blacktop, Eureka, 2012 and G-Saviour The Movie, the first attempt so far at a live action G-n-am Movie. Television credits include continuing roles on M.A.N.T.I.S., Forever Knight, Madison, Love on the Run (1994), Street Justice, Mom P.I., 21 Jump Street, Huckleberry Finn and His Friends, RoboCop and his role as host of the seven-part series Diversity. Individual television episodic credits include the series The X-Files, The Outer Limits, Supernatural, Kung Fu, North of 60, The Round Table, Hat Squad, Scene of The Crime, Booker, Wiseguy, MacGyver, Walt Disney's Davy Crockett, Blue's Folly, Stargate SG-1 and Jack. Mankuma is widely-known as the voice of Tigatron, Tigerhawk and one of the Vok in Beast Wars. Other notable roles include Gigabyte in ReBoot, Heavy Duty in G.I. Joe: Spy Troops and G.I. Joe: Valor vs. Venom, and Anubis in the 1997 cartoon Mummies Alive!. He also done voices on other animated films and television shows including Spider-Man Unlimited, Extreme Dinosaurs, Fat Dog Mendoza, RoboCop: Alpha Commando, NASCAR Racers, Scruff, G.I. Joe Extreme, Captain N: The Game Master, Trollz, The Animated Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Space Strikers, Double Dragon, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Madeline, Inspector Gadget's Last Case, Ultimate Book of Spells, Shadow Raiders, X-Men Evolution, Being Ian, Sabrina, the Animated Series, Sonic Underground, The Littlest Angel, Barbie: Mermaidia, Firehouse Tales, The Wacky World of Tex Avery, Littlest Pet Shop, Card Captors, CatDog, Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century, Gadget Boy, Yvon of the Yukon, Billy the Cat, Super Duper Sumos and A Hollywood Hound's Christmas. Mankuma became an internet celebrity in 2010 for his seminal work in "Sex Ed Video: Puberty," a YouTube sensation from San Francisco to Columbus, Ohio. Mankuma is an avid musician, singer, songwriter and stage actor. He and his family currently reside in Vancouver. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Patrick Gilmore
Cast · Known for YAGA
Patrick Gilmore (born June 1, 1976) is a Canadian actor best known for playing the role of Dale Volker in the science fiction series Stargate Universe. He has also been seen in other science fiction shows such as Battlestar Galactica and Eureka, as well as playing Trennan in Riese. He is one of the first actors to appear in all three Stargate TV series, along with Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, Ona Grauer, and Gary Jones. Dale Volker began as a simple side character, but Patrick's excellent portrayal of Volker impressed show-runners and Volker has subsequently been given more screen time and more back story. A similar situation occurred with the character of Dr. Carson Beckett, played by Paul McGillion. Patrick also portrays entrepreneur Tom Drexler in the new AMC television series The Killing Patrick is the son of professional hockey player Tom Gilmore, and brother of Scott Gilmore, Executive Director and one of the founders of Peace Dividend Trust. Patrick is a graduate of the University of Alberta with a degree in English Literature. Description above from the Wikipedia article Patrick Gilmore, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Erica Cerra
Cast · Known for Eureka
Erica Cerra (born October 31, 1979) is a Canadian actress, best known for her portrayal of Deputy Jo Lupo on the Syfy series Eureka. Cerra was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, of Italian descent. She was captivated by acting from the age of eight and appeared in numerous commercials as a child. For a time, she took a break from acting and returned in 2001 at the age of 22. She was named one of Vancouver's five hottest up-and-coming actresses by Vancouver Lifestyles Magazine in 2005. Cerra had starred as Deputy Jo Lupo in Eureka, a Syfy series which was broadcast between 2006 and 2012. Also, in 2006, she starred in the music video for the Michael Bublé song "Save the Last Dance for Me". Cerra is credited with featured roles in several popular and critically acclaimed TV shows including Battlestar Galactica and The L Word. She has also appeared in major cinematic movie releases including Man About Town with Ben Affleck and Rebecca Romijn, and Blade:Trinity with Wesley Snipes. Cerra's face and body were used as the model for the character of Ashley Williams in the Mass Effect franchise of video games. Her other guest-starring roles include turns on Smallville, The 4400, The Dead Zone, Reaper, Huff and Dead Like Me. Other shows on her resume include the Canadian police procedural Cold Squad, the monster-hunting action series Special Unit 2, and the supernatural thriller series The Collector. Cerra married Raffaele Fiore in November 2010. Cerra gave birth to the couple's first child, Talia Serafina, on May 14, 2012.
Steve Cochran
He is perhaps best remembered for his role of Big Ed Somers, the power hungry gangster pal of James Cagney in "White Heat" (1949). Born Robert Alexander Cochran in Eureka, California, he was the son of a California lumberjack, who moved the family to Wyoming in the 1920s, where Cochran grew to adulthood. After graduating from the University of Wyoming in 1939, Cochran began working steadily as a Wyoming cowboy, while developing his acting skills working in summer stock and regional theaters and gradually moving on to Broadway. In 1945, he signed with MGM, and for the next several years, played mostly secondary roles as gangsters or boxers. He made his film debut with "Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion" (1945) and quickly followed with "Wonder Man" (1945). Released from his contract in 1948, he returned to Broadway where he worked with Mae West; the next year he signed on with Warner Brothers, where he earned leading roles in such films as "The Damned Don't Cry" (1950), "Highway 301" (1950) and "Tomorrow is Another Day" (1951). Warner Brothers often had him playing the villain in several of its western films, such as "Dallas" (1950), and "Back to God's Country" (1953). With the end of his contract in 1953, he began his own film company, Robert Alexander Productions, while also freelancing for other studios and moving on to guest star roles on television shows. He would show up in such television shows as Death Valley Days, Burke's Law, The Untouchables, Naked City, The Twilight Zone, Route 66, and The Virginian. A notorious womanizer, Cochran was married and divorced three times, and was often in the Hollywood tabloids reportedly having affairs with such actresses as Mae West, Jayne Mansfield, Joan Crawford, Merle Oberon, Ida Lupino and Mamie Van Doren. Cochran died under mysterious circumstances. In May 1965, Cochran had revived his production company, and together with three women, whom he had hired as his assistants, boarded his 40-foot yacht to travel to Central and South America to look for filming locations. On June 25, 1965, the yacht drifted into Port Champerico, Guatemala, with three alive but very distraught women aboard and the body of Steve Cochran, who had died ten days earlier. The women did not know how to operate the boat, and were dependent upon its drifting to shore after his death. There were numerous rumors of murder and poisoning, and actress / former lover Merle Oberon used her influence to push for further police investigation, but no evidence of foul play was ever determined. The official cause of his death was given as Acute Infectious Edema (lung infection).
Raugi Yu
In the late 1990s, Yu began appearing on television. In 1998 he appeared in one episode of The Sentinel. In 2001, he was the voice of the Cook in several episodes of the PBS children’s animated series, Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat and also in an episode of Dark Angel. From 2002 – 2004, he appeared in three episodes of Da Vinci’s Inquest. He was seen in one episode of Gather Up Little People episodes of Dead Like Me in 2003, two episodes of The Dead Zone in 2003 and 2004, as well as playing the Chinese son in the film Spook in 2003. In 2005, he also supplied the voice of Wendy’s Butler in an episode of the animated series The Cramp Twins. He is also friends with Selene Rose – notable member of UBC Improv of Vancouver, British Columbia. In 2006, Yu appeared in the television shows Intelligence, and Masters Of Horror. In 2007 he played Dennis in When a Man Falls in the Forest and Wayne Kwan in an episode of Eureka. Most recently, Yu was seen as Kam Fong on the series JPod. Yu was part of the recurring cast for Mr. Young. During his early acting years, Yu was seen in several theatre productions, which soon grew into his film and television work. For several years, during the 90s and early 2000s, Yu was an actor at Bard On The Beach in Vancouver, where he now continues to be an acting coach. In 2002, Yu portrayed The King Of Siam in Theatre Under The Star’s theatre production of The King And I. In the spring of 2008, Yu directed The Odd Couple for the Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre company. As of 2010-2011, Raugi teaches acting courses at New Image College of Fine Arts in Vancouver, British Columbia. He also teaches the summer Young Shakespearian program which Bard puts on every year for youth ages eight to eighteen.
Ed Quinn
Cast · Known for 2 Broke Girls, Eureka
Ed Quinn originally pursued a path in music before considering a career in acting. He was born in Berkeley, California and attended the St. Mary's College High School. After high school, Ed attended the University of California, Berkeley. He graduated in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and lettering in Rugby and embarked on modeling throughout Europe, including Paris, Milan and Barcelona. Upon his return to the United States, Ed began his acting career. His first big break was the series regular role of FINN in 2000 on the WB television series "Young Americans". (A Dawson's Creek spinoff). Ed then found lots of work on television during the early 2000s, including Jack & Jill (1999) and Crossing Jordan (2001) and several network pilots. He also appeared in movies like BEEPER with Harvey Keitel and starred in the Sequel Starship Troopers 2 (2004). (Directed by STAR WARS Special Effects Legend Phil Tippett) Other television appearances included numerous episodes on JAG (1995), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000), CSI: NY (2004) and most notably on vampire series True Blood (2008) and the series regular role of NATHAN STARK on the Sci-Fi comedy/drama series Eureka (2006). In recent years he has joined the casts of hit shows such as 2 Broke Girls, One Day At A Time, and Mistresses. He is currently the Lead of TYLER PERRY's THE OVAL on BET playing President Hunter Franklin. He will also be seen in the feature films SHADOW FORCE and GUNS AND MOSES in late 2024. During his time as a musician, Ed studied with instrumental rock guitarist Joe Satriani. After playing in the Los Angeles-based bands Mad Theory and Scattergood, Ed went on to cut his first solo demo CD, entitled "Quinn". He currently releases music and music videos with his band ED QUINN and THE SWAMP METAL ALLSTARS and his solo title SuperEQ.
Jeanette Nolan
Cast · Known for The Rescuers, The Virginian
Jeanette Nolan (December 30, 1911 – June 5, 1998) was an American actress. Nominated for four Emmy Awards, she had roles in the television series The Virginian (1962–1971) and Dirty Sally (1974), and in films such as Macbeth (1948). Nolan began her prolific acting career at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California, and, while a student at Los Angeles City College, made her radio debut in 1932 in Omar Khayyam, the first transcontinental broadcast from station KHJ. She continued acting into the 1990s. Nolan made more than three hundred television appearances, including the religion anthology series, Crossroads and as Dr. Marion in the 1956 episode "The Healer" in Brian Keith's CBS Cold War series, Crusader. She appeared on Rod Cameron's syndicated series, State Trooper. Nolan was cast as Emmy Zecker in the 1959 episode "Johnny Yuma" of the ABC western series, The Rebel, starring Nick Adams. She appeared in two episodes of David Janssen's crime drama, Richard Diamond, Private Detective. She starred as Maggie Bowers in the Peter Gunn episode "Love Me to Death" in 1959. She played Sadie Grimes in Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode titled "The Right Kind of House" which first aired March 9, 1958 and Mrs.Edith in "Coming Home" June 13, 1961. Nolan graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in her native Los Angeles, California. In 1935, Nolan married actor John McIntire; the couple remained together until his death in 1991. Nolan and McIntire had two children together, actors Holly and Tim. Nolan and McIntire worked together several times from the late 1960s on, sometimes as voice actors. They appeared in a 1969 KCET television reading of Norman Corwin's 1938 radio play The Plot to Overthrow Christmas, with McIntire as the Devil and Nolan as Lucrezia Borgia. In 1977, they appeared in Disney's twenty-third animated film The Rescuers, in which McIntire voiced the cat Rufus and Nolan the muskrat Ellie Mae. Four years later, the couple worked on the 24th Disney film, The Fox and the Hound, with McIntire as the voice of Mr. Digger, an ill-tempered badger, and Nolan as the original voice of Widow Tweed, the old kindly widow who takes in Tod after his mother was killed by an off-screen hunter. They guest-starred on screen together, often portraying a married couple, as in an episode of The Love Boat in 1978, Charlie's Angels in 1979, The Incredible Hulk in 1980, Goliath Awaits in 1981, Quincy, M.E. in 1983, and Night Court in 1985, playing Dan Fielding's hick Louisianan parents. Nolan died of a stroke in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on June 5, 1998. She was buried in Eureka, Montana's Tobacco Valley Cemetery. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. CLR
Eureka O'Hara
Eureka, also known as Eureka O'Hara and Eureka!, is the stage name of Eureka D. Huggard (born August 26, 1990), an American drag queen and reality television personality. Eureka competed on seasons 9 and 10 of RuPaul's Drag Race. In 2021, Eureka competed on the sixth season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars. Since 2020, Eureka has co-hosted We're Here on HBO alongside fellow Drag Race contestants Bob the Drag Queen and Shangela.
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Bruce Miller
Writer · Known for Eureka, The Handmaid's Tale
Bruce Miller is a television writer and producer known for Eureka (2006), The 100 (2014), and The Handmaid's Tale (2017). For his work on the latter series he won the 2017 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series, which make it the first series on a streaming platform to win an "Outstanding Series" Emmy.
Missy Crider
Born in Columbia, South Carolina, and raised in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, Crider is an Emmy nominated SAG-AFTRA actress, singer, producer, author, coach, and child welfare advocate who has starred in over 60 American TV series, miniseries, and major motion pictures
Salli Richardson-Whitfield
Cast · Director · Known for Eureka, I Am Legend, The Gilded Age
Salli Elise Richardson-Whitfield (born November 23, 1967) is an American television and film actress. She is known for her role as Dr. Allison Blake on the sci-fi TV series Eureka and her voice acting as Elisa Maza on the Disney animated series Gargoyles. She also appeared in the 2007 film I Am Legend alongside actor Will Smith. Her acting credits include: A Low Down Dirty Shame, Posse, and Antwone Fisher. She has guest-starred in numerous television shows, such as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Silk Stalkings, New York Undercover, The Pretender and Secret Agent Man. Richardson had a recurring role as "Kim" on the show Mercy Point and as "Nancy Adams" on Rude Awakening. She played "Viveca Foster" on the television drama Family Law. On September 8, 2002, she married long-time boyfriend and fellow actor Dondre Whitfield. She and Whitfield have one daughter, Parker Richardson-Whitfield and one son, Dre Terrell Whitfield.
John Burnside
John Burnside is an actor, known for Hot Rod (2007), The Last Mimzy (2007) and Eureka (2006).
Antony Holland
Antony Holland was born on March 28, 1920 in Tiverton, Devon, England. He was an actor, known for The Accused (1988), Eureka (2006) and McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971). He died on July 29, 2015 in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada.
C. Douglas Quan
C. Douglas Quan is an actor, known for True Justice (2010), Eureka (2006) and Fringe (2008).
Jonathon Young
Jonathon Young is a Canadian actor best known for his role of Nikola Tesla on the SyFy show Sanctuary. Appearances include The Fog, Eureka, and Stargate Atlantis. Jonathon is a well-respected stage actor. He is the co-founder of the Electric Company Theatre in Vancouver, Canada in which he is also the artistic director, playwright and a frequently acts. He was raised in British Columbia, along with his brother and sister. Their father was a school teacher who also started a community theatre in Armstrong, British Columbia. At a Q&A after "No Exit", Jonathon Young said that his father often brought him and his sister to watch him act and that this is where his love for theatre began. Becoming an actor was never a choice, but rather just something he knew he was going to do. Jonathon is a graduate of the Studio 58 theatre school at Vancouver’s Langara College. In 1996 he co-founded the Electric Company Theatre along with fellow Studio 58 alumni Kim Collier, David Hudgins, and Kevin Kerr. He is a three-time winner of the Jessie Richardson Award. His play Palace Grand was commissioned for production by Vancouver’s PuSh International Performing Arts Festival in 2008. Young is married to actor/director Kim Collier.
Isaiah Adam
Isaiah Adam (also known as Hamza Adam) is a Canadian actor and producer. His credits include Earth’s Final Hours, Holiday Spin, Eureka, Tom, Dick and Harriet, Sanctuary, and Human Target, as well as guest roles in The Boys, The Expanse, Fringe, Psych, and Supernatural.