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Grace and Frankie

2015

Elegant, proper Grace and freewheeling, eccentric Frankie are a pair of frenemies whose lives are turned upside down - and permanently intertwined - when their husbands leave them for each other. Together, they must face starting over in their 70s in a 21st century world.

Jack Plotnick

Cast · Known for Meet the Fockers, Grace and Frankie, Reno 911!

Jack Stuart Plotnick (born October 30, 1968) is an American actor, writer and producer who is known for his roles in TV series such as The Jenny McCarthy Show (1997), The Mentalist (2008-2013) and Grace and Frankie (2017-2022)

Timothy V. Murphy

Timothy Vincent Murphy is an Irish actor based in Los Angeles. His notable 2015 roles have been on The Bastard Executioner, Grace and Frankie, and True Detective. He played Galen O'Shea for three seasons on the Kurt Sutter FX series, Sons of Anarchy.

June Diane Raphael

Cast · Known for Grace and Frankie, Weapons, Big Mouth

June Diane Raphael is a versatile American actor, comedian, writer and producer known for her captivating performances on screen. Born in California, Raphael embarked on a successful career in entertainment, showcasing her talent and versatility. She gained recognition for her roles in various television series and films, including "Grace and Frankie" alongside Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, "Burning Love" and Adult Swim's "NTSF:SD:SUV::" where her comedic timing and depth as an actor were showcased. June Diane has been a guest on Comedy Bang! Bang! She co-hosts the podcast How Did This Get Made with her husband Paul "Tall John" Scheer and Jason "Heynong Man" Mantzoukas.

Martin Sheen

Cast · Known for Apocalypse Now, The West Wing, Grace and Frankie

Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez (born August 3, 1940), known professionally as Martin Sheen, is an American actor. He first became known for his roles in the films The Subject Was Roses (1968) and Badlands (1973), and later achieved wide recognition for his leading role as Captain Benjamin Willard in Apocalypse Now (1979), as U.S. President Josiah Bartlet in the television series The West Wing (1999–2006), and as Robert Hanson in the Netflix television series Grace and Frankie (2015–2022). In film, Sheen has won the Best Actor award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival for his performance as Kit Carruthers in Badlands. Sheen's portrayal of Capt. Willard in Apocalypse Now earned a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor. Sheen has worked with a wide variety of film directors, including Richard Attenborough, Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, David Cronenberg, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Oliver Stone. Sheen received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1989. In television, Sheen has won a Golden Globe and two Screen Actors Guild awards for playing the role of President Josiah Bartlet in The West Wing, and an Emmy for guest starring in the sitcom Murphy Brown. In 2012, he portrayed Uncle Ben in The Amazing Spider-Man directed by Marc Webb. Born and raised in the United States by a Spanish father and an Irish mother, he adopted the stage name Martin Sheen to help him gain acting parts. He is the father of four children, all of whom are actors. Sheen has directed one film, Cadence (1990), in which he appears alongside his sons Charlie and Ramón. He has narrated, produced, and directed documentary television, earning two Daytime Emmy awards in the 1980s, and has been active in liberal politics.

Kenny Loggins

Kenny Loggins (born January 7, 1948) is an American musician, singer and songwriter. Born in Everett, Washington, USA as Kenneth Clark Loggins. He is known as the King of the Movie Soundtrack because of his many successful movie soundtracks. He won many awards, including an Academy Award nomination for "Footloose" in 1985. He was previously married to Julia Cooper and Eva Ein. He appears as a guest star in many tv series such as Archer, Family Guy, Grace and Frankie, etc.

Jeff Austin

Jeff Austin was born on August 29, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Mr. Mayor (2021), Grace and Frankie (2015) and Armageddon (1998).

Bella Shepard

Bella Shepard, born on December 17, 2001, in Michigan, USA, is an American actress who lives and works in Los Angeles. She made her film debut in 2013 in Sam Raimi's Oz the Great and Powerful after her grandmother sent her photo to casting, and subsequently moved to LA. Her further roles include appearances in series such as Grace and Frankie, Life in Pieces, A Girl Named Jo (2018–2019), iCarly (2022), The Wilds (2020), as well as the lead role of Blake Navarro in the horror thriller Wolf Pack (2023); she was recently cast in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (2026).

Ernie Hudson

Cast · Known for The Crow, Oz, Ghostbusters

Earnest Lee Hudson (born December 17, 1945) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Winston Zeddemore in the Ghostbusters franchise. Hudson has also acted in the films Leviathan (1989), The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992), The Crow (1994), Airheads (1994), The Basketball Diaries (1995), Congo (1995), Miss Congeniality (2000), and The Ron Clark Story (2006). His most prominent role on television was Warden Leo Glynn on HBO's Oz (1997–2003). Hudson has also appeared in the television shows St. Elsewhere (1984), The Last Precinct (1986), 10-8: Officers on Duty (2003–2004), Desperate Housewives (2006–2007), The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008–2013), Law & Order (2009–2010), the voice of Agent Bill Fowler in Transformers: Prime (2010–2013), Franklin & Bash (2012–2014), Grace and Frankie (2015–2020), and L.A.'s Finest (2019–2020). From 2022 to 2024, Hudson appeared as Herbert "Magic" Williams on the NBC drama Quantum Leap.

Jane Fonda

Cast · Known for Grace and Frankie, Luck

Jane Seymour Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is an American actress, activist, and former fashion model. She is the recipient of various accolades including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the AFI Life Achievement Award, the Golden Lion Honorary Award, the Honorary Palme d'Or, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award. Born to socialite Frances Ford Seymour and actor Henry Fonda, Fonda made her acting debut with the 1960 Broadway play There Was a Little Girl, for which she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play, and made her screen debut later the same year with the romantic comedy Tall Story. She rose to prominence during the 1960s with the comedies Period of Adjustment (1962), Sunday in New York (1963), Cat Ballou (1965), Barefoot in the Park (1967), and Barbarella (1968). Her first husband was Barbarella director Roger Vadim. A seven-time Academy Award nominee, she received her first nomination for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Actress twice in the 1970s, for Klute (1971) and Coming Home (1978). Her other nominations were for Julia (1977), The China Syndrome (1979), On Golden Pond (1981), and The Morning After (1986). Consecutive hits Fun with Dick and Jane (1977), California Suite (1978), The Electric Horseman (1979), and 9 to 5 (1980) sustained Fonda's box-office drawing power, and she won a Primetime Emmy Award for her performance in the TV film The Dollmaker (1984). In 1982, she released her first exercise video, Jane Fonda's Workout, which became the highest-selling VHS of the 20th century. It would be the first of 22 such videos over the next 13 years, which would collectively sell over 17 million copies. Divorced from her second husband Tom Hayden, she married billionaire media mogul Ted Turner in 1991 and retired from acting, following a row of commercially unsuccessful films concluded by Stanley & Iris (1990). Fonda divorced Turner in 2001 and returned to the screen with the hit Monster-in-Law (2005). Although Georgia Rule (2007) was her only other movie during the 2000s, in the early 2010s she fully re-launched her career. Subsequent films have included The Butler (2013), This Is Where I Leave You (2014), Youth (2015), Our Souls at Night (2017), and Book Club (2018). In 2009, she returned to Broadway after a 49-year absence from the stage, in the play 33 Variations which earned her a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, while her major recurring role in the HBO drama series The Newsroom (2012–14) earned her two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. She also released another five exercise videos between 2009 and 2012. Fonda currently stars as Grace Hanson in the Netflix comedy series Grace and Frankie, which debuted in 2015 and has earned her nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Creed Bratton

Cast · Known for The Office

**Creed Bratton** (born William Charles Schneider on February 8, 1943) is an American actor, musician, singer, and songwriter. Known for his offbeat persona, deadpan delivery, and dual career in classic rock and television comedy, he achieved cult fame portraying a fictionalized, eccentric version of himself on the hit NBC mockumentary series *The Office* (2005 to 2013). Born in Los Angeles, California, and raised in Coarsegold near Yosemite, Bratton showed early musical aptitude, picking up the guitar as a teenager. After studying drama at the College of the Sequoias and Sacramento State College, he traveled extensively across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa as an itinerant musician. In the late 1960s, he co-founded the legendary American folk-rock group The Grass Roots, playing lead guitar and singing vocals. During his tenure, the band generated a string of major Billboard hits, including "Let's Live for Today" and "Midnight Confessions," before he departed in 1969 to pursue solo projects and acting. Following decades as a working character actor and recording artist, Bratton joined the cast of *The Office* during its first season. Initially hired as an extra, he pitched a self-scripted talking-head segment showcasing a bumbling, morally ambiguous, and mysterious older employee who shared his real name. The bit became a hit with showrunner Greg Daniels, turning Creed Bratton into a beloved recurring character who served as Dunder Mifflin's inscrutable quality assurance manager. Along with the ensemble cast, he won two Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. Outside of *The Office*, Bratton has appeared in independent films and television series, including *Terri* (2011), *The Guilt Trip* (2012), *Grace and Frankie*, and *Into the Dark*. He has maintained an active recording and touring career, releasing numerous solo folk-rock albums such as *Chasin' the Ball* (2001), *While the Young Punks Dance* (2018), and *Slightly Altered* (2020), frequently blending his live musical performances with storytelling and comedy. He remains an enduring, multi-talented fixture in American pop culture.

Bill Stevenson

Cast · Known for Step by Step

Bill Stevenson (born February 18, 1969) also credited as Billy, is an American actor. Stevenson contributed music to the comedy film, Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985). Early on in his acting career, he landed roles in various films, including Like Father, Like Son (1987), Little Nikita (1988), The 'Burbs (1989), and Say Anything (1989). His film career continued throughout the nineties in productions like The Last Seduction (1994) and Outbreak (1995). He also worked in television during the 90's, including appearances on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Friends, Melrose Place, Step by Step, Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, NewsRadio, Murphy Brown, Dream On, and Tom (CBS, 1993-94). He shifted from film to television work through the early 2000s and beyond, appearing on series including ER, Prison Break, Desperate Housewives, Southland, Better Off Ted, NCIS, The Middle, Mike & Molly, Hot in Cleveland, Ghosted, Workaholics (Comedy Central), and Fresh Off The Boat, Speechless, Grace and Frankie, and Homecoming.

Ethan Embry

Cast · Known for Eagle Eye, Grace and Frankie, That Thing You Do!

Ethan Embry (born June 13, 1978), credited early in his career as Ethan Randall, is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor, with starring roles in the films Dutch (1991), All I Want for Christmas (1991), and A Far Off Place (1993). He gained mainstream recognition for his supporting role in Empire Records (1995) and starring roles in Evolver (1995) and That Thing You Do! (1996). In the late 1990s, Embry had the lead role in the teen comedy film Can't Hardly Wait (1998), starred in Vegas Vacation (1997) and Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 (1998), and a main role as Sebastian on the CBS sitcom Work with Me (1999). In the 2000s, Embry starred in the films They (2002) and Vacancy (2007) and had main roles as Derek and Adam Barnes on the Fox television series FreakyLinks (2000–2001), Frank Smith on the ABC television series L.A. Dragnet (2003), and Declan Giggs on the Showtime television series Brotherhood (2006–2008). In the 2010s and 2020s, Embry starred in the films Cheap Thrills (2013), Blindspotting (2018), and Last Seen Alive (2022), and had a main role as Coyote Bergstein on the Netflix television series Grace and Frankie (2015–2022). He had supporting roles in the films Christy (2025) and Scream 7 (2026).

Tim Kirkby

Timothy John Kirkby (born 13 November 1970 in Sidcup, Kent, England) is a British filmmaker, working in both the United Kingdom and the United States. He is best known for directing the science parody series Look Around You, the BAFTA winning BBC 2 show Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, and setting up the multi-award winning Fleabag. Kirkby made his TV directorial debut with the BAFTA nominated science spoof Look Around You. He received further recognition for the first season of the BAFTA nominated My Mad Fat Diary, the BAFTA nominated BBC single drama The C Word, and more recently the critically acclaimed Fleabag. In the United States he created and directed all eight episodes and co-executive produced the award-winning first & second season of Brockmire for IFC. Other notable US television directing credits includes episodes of the Emmy-winning HBO comedy Veep (TV series), Grace & Frankie, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Man Seeking Woman, and his Netflix 6-part TV series The Pentaverate created by Mike Myers, about a secret society that has been working to control world events since 1347. He has also made documentaries with Motörhead, Iron Maiden, and Judas Priest for the multi-award-winning documentary strand Classic Albums, as well as creating and directing all 4 series of the critically acclaimed BAFTA winning show Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle a six-part comedy series featuring standup and sketches. The first season was executive produced by Armando Iannucci and script edited by Chris Morris. The first episode received positive reviews from The Independent and The Daily Mirror, although the show received a negative review, written by Stewart Lee in Time Out, in which he described himself as "fat" and his performance as "positively Neanderthal, suggesting a jungle-dwelling pygmy, struggling to coax notes out of a clarinet that has fallen from a passing aircraft". The second series won a BAFTA for Best Comedy Programme in 2012. More recently Tim is directing The Revenge Club for Gaumont UK, Freemantle & Paramount+, which premieres 2025.

Petey Gibson

Petey Gibson is an LA-based, Boston-bred trans comedian, actor, producer and writer, currently recurring as C Hemingway on FOX's Alert: Missing Persons Unit. He has appeared on Broad City, Grace & Frankie, and NCIS: New Orleans, as well as the Emmy-nominated doc miniseries This Is Me, and Mastercard's groundbreaking TrueName commercial, the first all-trans commercial of its kind. As a producer, he cut his teeth on critically-acclaimed digital series Meals with Mary before co-producing (and starring in) award-winning indie feature The Sympathy Card.

Odessa Young

Cast · Known for Black Rabbit

Odessa Young (born January 11, 1998) is an Australian actress. She is known for her roles in the 2015 feature films Looking for Grace and The Daughter, the latter of which earned her an AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She won further accolades for her performance in the web series High Life in 2017. In 2018, she starred in the films Assassination Nation and A Million Little Pieces. That year, she also made her off-Broadway debut in Days of Rage. In 2020, she starred as Frannie in the post-apocalypse miniseries The Stand, based on the 1978 novel of the same name by Stephen King, and opposite Elisabeth Moss in Shirley (2020), a film about the novelist Shirley Jackson. Description above is from the Wikipedia article Odessa Young, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Cast · Known for Sherlock, The Grinch, The Imitation Game

Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch (born July 19, 1976) is an English actor. Known for his roles on the screen and stage, he has received various accolades throughout his career, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a British Academy Television Award, and a Laurence Olivier Award. Cumberbatch won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Play for Frankenstein and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for Sherlock. His performances in the dramas The Imitation Game (2014) and The Power of the Dog (2021) earned him nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award, all for Best Actor in a Leading Role. For playing the title role in five-part drama miniseries Patrick Melrose, he won a BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. In 2014 Time magazine included him in its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2015 he was appointed a CBE by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2015 Birthday Honours for services to the performing arts and to charity. A graduate of the Victoria University of Manchester, Cumberbatch continued his training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, obtaining a Master of Arts in Classical Acting. He first performed at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park in Shakespearean productions and made his West End debut in Richard Eyre's revival of Hedda Gabler in 2005. Since then, he has starred in the Royal National Theatre productions After the Dance (2010) and Frankenstein (2011). In 2015, he played the title role in Hamlet at the Barbican Theatre. Cumberbatch's television work includes his performance as Stephen Hawking in the television film Hawking in 2004. He gained worldwide recognition for his performance as Sherlock Holmes in the BBC series Sherlock from 2010 to 2017. He has also headlined Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Parade's End (2012), The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses (2016), Patrick Melrose (2018), and Brexit: The Uncivil War (2019). In films, Cumberbatch has starred in Amazing Grace (2006) as William Pitt the Younger, Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) as Khan, 12 Years a Slave (2013) as William Prince Ford, The Fifth Estate (2013) as Julian Assange, and The Imitation Game (2014) as Alan Turing. He also acted in the historical dramas The Current War (2017), 1917 (2019) and The Courier (2020), and received critical acclaim for his performance in Jane Campion's Western drama The Power of the Dog (2021). From 2012 to 2014, through voice and motion capture, he played the characters of Smaug and Sauron in The Hobbit film series. Cumberbatch portrays Dr. Stephen Strange in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films, beginning with Doctor Strange (2016), and also voiced the character in the animated series What If...? (2021).

Gene Wilder

Cast · Known for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Gene Wilder (born Jerome Silberman; June 11, 1933 – August 29, 2016) was an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, singer-songwriter, and author. He began his career on stage, and made his screen debut in an episode of the TV series The Play of the Week in 1961. Although his first film role was portraying a hostage in the 1967 motion picture Bonnie and Clyde, Wilder's first major role was as Leopold Bloom in the 1967 film The Producers for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. This was the first in a series of collaborations with writer/director Mel Brooks, including 1974's Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, which Wilder co-wrote, garnering the pair an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. He is known for his iconic portrayal of Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) and for his four films with Richard Pryor: Silver Streak (1976), Stir Crazy (1980), See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989), and Another You (1991), as well as starring in Woody Allen's Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972). He directed and wrote several of his own films, including The Woman in Red (1984). With his third wife, Gilda Radner, he starred in three films, the last two of which he also directed. Her 1989 death from ovarian cancer led to his active involvement in promoting cancer awareness and treatment, helping found the Gilda Radner Ovarian Cancer Detection Center in Los Angeles and co-founding Gilda's Club. After his last acting performance in 2003 – a guest role on Will & Grace for which he received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor – he turned his attention to writing. He produced a memoir in 2005, Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art; a collection of stories, What Is This Thing Called Love? (2010); and the novels My French Whore (2007), The Woman Who Wouldn't (2008), and Something to Remember You By (2013).

Victoria Emslie

Victoria Emslie is a British stage, television and film actress, best known for her roles in Downton Abbey, The Theory of Everything, The Frankenstein Chronicles, The Danish Girl (film), Grace (TV series) and the TV adaption of 12 Monkeys. She has a Masters in French and Arabic from the University of St. Andrews Emslie choose these languages as an opportunity to live abroad and travel. She then studied MA Acting For Screen at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Through her activism with Time’s Up UK and ERA 50:50, she bootstrapped Primetime at Cannes Film Festival in 2019. This global organisation helps the Entertainment Industry find and hire more women and non-binary professionals behind the camera. Primetime spans 75+ countries, partnering with leaders like BAFTA and the Geena Davis Institute. Victoria’s “Primetime Pledges” initiative facilitated high-end job offers and RTS award wins. A multiply neurodivergent founder, Victoria created a £40k filmmaking grant with major industry deals and is currently producing five films from her community. Primetime emphasises accessibility and inclusion, with features like self-identification for enhanced visibility. Recognised as "Shaker of the Year" by industry leaders, Victoria is a multidisciplinary artist and also serves on BAFTA’s Disability Advisory Group.

Chyler Leigh

Cast · Known for Supergirl

Chyler Leigh (born April 10, 1982) is an American actress, best known for portraying Dr. Lexie Grey on Grey's Anatomy and Alex Danvers on Supergirl. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina and raised in Virginia Beach and Miami Beach, Chyler began her career in front of the camera at age 12 modeling for magazines and catalogues. Her success in print later led to national commercials for Coca Cola and Wendy's, among others. By age 16, she had already completed several pilots (ABC's Wilder Days (2000) and the WB's Saving Graces (1999)) at the onset. Aaron Spelling confirmed the young actress's talent when he hired her a few years ago as a series regular in the WB series Safe Harbor (1999) after seeing her performance on Saving Graces (1999). She also guest-starred on 7th Heaven (1996) in a powerful three-story arc wherein her character, "Frankie", a young, inept mother had adversely influenced the family. Leigh made her film debut in the Colombia/Tri-Star hit comedy spoof Not Another Teen Movie (2001), which opened nationwide December, 2001. She originally auditioned for a smaller role, but the producers and directors were so impressed with her performance that they invited her to read for the lead. Leigh was stunned by her good fortune. By January of 2002, Leigh had already landed a series role on the Fox comedy That '80s Show (2002) (from the producers of "That '70s Show"). The mid season comedy series portrayed Leigh as a rebellious teenager on the Fox Network. After the short-lived run, the series was canceled, and Leigh was immediately brought to executive producer David E. Kelley for consideration in his new Fox series Girls Club (2002). Three days later, Leigh was flown for the New York up-fronts where she was introduced as one of the new series leads, "Sarah Mickle", a young attorney, on Fox's 2002 Girls Club (2002). After only two episodes of Girls Club (2002) had aired, Leigh received a personal phone call from Kelley informing her of the show's cancellation and his desire to bring her forward to his already established series The Practice (1997). With only a matter of weeks between shows, Leigh was at work on the set of ABC's The Practice (1997) as "Claire Wyatt", a new Series Regular for the 2002-2003 season. In 2004, Leigh was reunited with Fox for their new half hour comedy pilot "Lucky Us". Chyler landed the starring role of the free-wheeling conservative young architect, "Lucy Reed". Weeks later, Leigh made a guest starring appearance as "Kate Spangler", a feisty young ad exec, in Fox's new drama series North Shore (2004)". Later in the season, Leigh took a brief break from Fox to shoot a series lead role opposite Billy Campbell in the WB's drama pilot Rocky Point (2005). The series was centered on a young woman (Leigh) living on Hawaii's North Shore who takes in her estranged father (Campbell).

Rolfe Sedan

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rolfe Sedan (January 20, 1896 – September 15, 1982) was an American character actor, best known for appearing in bit parts, often uncredited, usually portraying clerks, train conductors, postmen, cooks, waiters etc. He began his career in show business as a nightclub and vaudeville performer and began acting in East Coast theatre. Sedan debuted on Broadway in 1916 and appeared in his first motion picture for Metro Pictures Corporation in 1921. He became a prolific character actor and is probably best remembered by movie buffs as the hotel manager in Ninotchka (1939) starring Greta Garbo. Around the same time, he appeared in an uncredited role as the Emerald City's Balloon Ascensionist in The Wizard of Oz (1939). He returned to Broadway, performing in several different shows during the first half of the 1940s and in the 1950s began a sequence of guest roles in television series such as The Jack Benny Show. His most frequent TV work came from recurring roles as put-upon mail carriers (25 episodes as Mr. Beasley on The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show; 4 episodes as Mr. Briggs on The Addams Family). He was also seen as the train conductor in the film Young Frankenstein (1974). Rolfe Sedan remained active throughout a career that spanned more than six decades.

Dorothy Jeakins

Costume Design · Known for The Sound of Music, The Ten Commandments

Dorothy Jeakins (January 11, 1914 – November 21, 1995) was an American costume designer. Born in San Diego, California, she attended public school in Los Angeles from first grade through high school. As a senior at Fairfax High School, she was offered a scholarship to study at the Otis Art Institute (now known as Otis College of Art and Design). She also attended the Art Students League of Los Angeles, under Stanton Macdonald-Wright. She was later awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Otis College in 1987. Jeakins worked on WPA projects and as a Disney artist in the 1930s. Her fashion career began as a designer at I. Magnin's, where she was spotted by director Victor Fleming. Hired as a sketch artist for Joan of Arc (1948), Jeakins worked on the costumes with Barbara Karinska and shared an Oscar with her in the color category. This was the first Oscar ever awarded for costumes outside the black and white category. Jeakins was unusual in that she freelanced, never signing a long-term contract with any one studio. She worked steadily for the next thirty-nine years, winning another two Oscars, for Samson and Delilah (1949, shared with Edith Head and others), The Night of the Iguana (1964), and another 12 nominations. She designed period costumes for The Ten Commandments (1956), The Music Man (1962), The Sound of Music (1965), Little Big Man (1970), The Way We Were (1973), Young Frankenstein (1974) and The Dead (1987). Her modern dress excursions included Niagara (1953), Three Coins in the Fountain (1954), South Pacific (1958), and On Golden Pond (1981). Jeakins also worked on stage productions, including South Pacific (in which Motley was the principal costume designer), King Lear, Winesburg, Ohio, and The World of Suzie Wong (for which she received her third Tony nomination), and such television productions as the 1957 production of Annie Get Your Gun, and Mayerling. For ten years beginning in 1953, she served as designer for the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera. In 1961 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study in Japan. She spent a year there, studying theater costume. From 1967 to 1970, Ms. Jeakins was Curator of Costumes and Textiles at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In 1987, she was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award for outstanding women who, through their endurance and excellence of their work, have helped to expand women's roles within the entertainment industry. Jeakins, who retired in 1990, once summed up her designing: "I can put my world down to two words: Make beauty. It's my cue and my private passion."

Veronica Carlson

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Veronica Carlson (born 18 September 1944 in Yorkshire, England) was an English model and actress, famous for her roles in Hammer horror films. Born as Veronica Mary Glazer, Veronica Carlson spent most of her childhood in Germany where her father was stationed. She attended the Thetford Girls' School and later, High Wycombe College of Technology and Design, where she studied art and participated in college amateur productions. In her mid-twenties, Veronica played a few minor parts in movies and television programmes. James Carreras, the boss of Hammer Films, saw one of her photographs in a newspaper and offered her a role opposite Christopher Lee in Dracula Has Risen from the Grave. She was best-known in the late 1960s for a series of roles in three Hammer Horror films, including Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968) Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) and The Horror of Frankenstein (1970). She also appeared in the Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) episode "The Ghost Who Saved the Bank at Monte Carlo" in 1969 and an episode of The Saint ("The Man who Gambled with Life") with Roger Moore and also an episode of Department S ("The Double Death of Charlie Crippen"). Veronica Carlson went into semi-retirement after marrying and moving to the U.S.. She lived in South Carolina with her husband and three children and was a professional painter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Veronica Carlson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Cappi Ireland

Costume Design · Known for Animal Kingdom, Last Seen, Mortal Kombat

Cappi Ireland is a leading Australian costume designer. Cappi has worked for some of the best directors in Australia on some of the most awarded projects. Her film and television credits are impressive and varied. Recent credits include the feature MORTAL KOMBAT 2, directed again by Simon McQuoid; APPLE CIDER VINEGAR (NETFLIX TV), directed by Jeffrey Walker; and BETTER MAN, a musical biopic about Robbie Williams with director Michael Gracey. Also, the LOVE ME series 1 & 2, a 6-part Binge Original/Warner Bros TV series with directors Emma Freeman and Bonnie Moir on their respective series; the TAP/NBCU series FIRES, a story of a catastrophic bushfire season that tore through the hearts of Australia and the world, which reunited her with long-time collaborators Tony Ayres and Liz Watts; and the period drama NEW GOLD MOUNTAIN set in the goldfields in the 1800s and directed by Corrie Chen for SBS and Goalpost Pictures. The 2021 AACTA Awards remarkably saw Cappi nominated for a record 4 nominations for her work on feature films MORTAL KOMBAT and THE DRY and television series FIRES and NEW GOLD MOUNTAIN—the latter going on to win Best Costumes for Television. She received a further nomination in 2022 for her iconic costumes on the hugely successful first series for Binge, LOVE ME. Cappi received a great deal of attention for her costumes for the action-adventure fantasy feature film MORTAL KOMBAT, directed by Simon McQuoid. She enjoyed returning to the world of fantasy speciality costuming and having the opportunity to work at such a scale again with the recent sequel (MORTAL KOMBAT 2). Additional credits include THE DRY, released in 2020, which reunited her with director Robert Connolly; the third season of GLITCH for Matchbox Pictures and Netflix, following up on her work designing seasons one and two; RIDE LIKE A GIRL, Rachel Griffiths’ directorial debut starring Teresa Palmer; the Matchbox Pictures/NBCU TV series; SEVEN TYPES OF AMBIGUITY; NEWTON’S LAW; and Garth Davies Academy Award-nominated feature film LION, for which she received an AACTA Award, an APDG Award, and a nomination for Excellence in Contemporary Film at the 19th Costume Designers Guild Awards (USA). Other notable work includes the Matchbox Pictures/NBCU TV miniseries BARRACUDA, for which she received a 2017 APDG Award Nomination for Best Costume Design in a Television series; GALLIPOLI, an epic 7-part TV miniseries for Channel 9/Endemol, which garnered her a 2015 APDG award for Best Costume in a TV series; BALIBO; and the multi-award-winning TV drama, THE SLAP. Additional films include, FRANKENSTEIN; CUT SNAKE; THE MULE; and THE ROVER, which reunited her with award-winning directors David Michod and Tony Ayres; ANIMAL KINGDOM; and ORANGES AND SUNSHINE. Cappi has received in total ten AFI/AACTA nominations and four AFI/AACTA wins. Those not included above are Cappi’s first AFI Award for Best Costume Design in 2007 for THE HOME SONG STORIES directed by Tony Ayres and an AFI in 2008 for Best Costume Design for Jonathan Ogilvie’s THE TENDER HOOK. Information above via their homepage.