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Olivia Hamilton

Cast · Producer · Known for La La Land, Babylon, Heart of the Beast

Olivia Hamilton (born June 3, 1987) is an American actress and producer. She is best known for her roles in the films La La Land (2016), First Man (2018), and Babylon(2022), which were all directed by her husband Damien Chazelle. In 2013, she founded the PLAY initiative, an organization dedicated to encouraging and injecting more fun and playfulness into people's lives while reconnecting them with their inner child. According to the foundation's website, PLAY is a two-hour guided experience. Hamilton is also the president of the Women's Foundation of California Board of Directors. Description above from the Wikipedia article Olivia Hamilton (actress), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Ursula O. Robinson

Cast · Known for Beauty in Black

Ursula Oriana Robinson is the Drama Program Coordinator and a Tenured Associate Professor of Drama at South Carolina State University where she cultivates and molds young dreamers into accomplished artists. This award winning playwright is also the Artistic Director of Ursula O. Robinson Productions (UORP), a comprehensive artistic company that creates tailor-made works of art that heal, entertain, educate, and even set the mind free! Ms. Robinson is also chair of the Creative Spiritual Arts Department at Spiritual Foundation Ministries in Orangeburg, South Carolina, where she uses her God-given talents to edify the Body of Christ. She is also an accomplished Toastmaster's International award winning speech maker holding the title of District 58 Humorous Speech Winner for two consecutive years. This accomplished artist, is known for her one-woman shows, her hilarious comedy acts , and her prowess as a writer of personalized monologues. Ms. Robinson holds a BA in English, a BA in Theater Arts, and an M.F.A. in Acting. Blessed with the gifts of playwriting, performance, and practically anything artistic, Ms Robinson believes that the arts have the ability to change people's lives for the better.

Bianca Amato

Cast · Known for Isidingo

Bianca Amato is a South African actress known for her work in American theatre, as a prolific audiobook performer and for her portrayal of Philippa De Villiers in the original cast of the South African soap opera Isidingo. Amato was a member of the original cast of the long running South African soap opera Isidingo, portraying Philippa De Villiers from 1998 to 2001. The character's relationship with mine manager Derek Nyathi (Hlomla Dandala) featured the first interracial kiss, and was the first interracial romance, to be depicted on South African television. The storyline has been described as "groundbreaking and big news in post apartheid South African television". Of the experience Amato said, "It was wonderful to be part of the slow but healthy process that shifted people's attitudes." Her performance in Isidingo earned Amato an Avante for Best Actress in a Television Series. In 2002, Amato was granted a United States Permanent Resident Card as an "Alien of Extraordinary Ability" in the arts and emigrated to the United States. After appearing in a 2002 episode of the HBO series Sex and the City, she played several leading roles with the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota between 2003 and 2005. Since 2009 Amato has guest starred in several U.S. TV series. In 2015, Amato portrayed Delia Alexander in the 2015 PlayStation Network series Powers. Amato appeared in the original Broadway production of Tom Stoppard's Tony Award-winning trio of plays The Coast of Utopia (2006–07), as well as the 2013–14 Broadway revival of Shakespeare's Macbeth. She also understudied the roles of Hannah Jarvis and Lady Croom in the 2011 Broadway revival of Stoppard's Arcadia. Off-Broadway, Amato has appeared in Bill Irwin's Mr. Fox: A Rumination (2004), and as Emma in Trumpery (2007). She later costarred as Calantha in The Broken Heart in 2012, and played the leading role of Olga Knipper in Neva in 2013. Amato also starred as Amanda in a production of Noël Coward's Private Lives directed by Maria Aitken, first presented in 2012 at the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston, and again in 2014 at the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Lansburgh Theatre in Washington, D. C. In 2014 she also portrayed Regan in the Theatre for a New Audience production of King Lear in New York. Amato has narrated over 40 audiobooks, including most of the historical novels in the Cousins' War series written by Philippa Gregory, and Charles Stross' 2008 science fiction novel Saturn's Children. She also voiced the 2006 gothic novel The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, which had risen to No. 1 on The New York Times Best Seller list in its second week of publication.

Steven Polito

Hedda Lettuce is an American drag queen, comedian and singer who lives and works in New York City.[1][2] The New York actor Steven Polito debuted his character Hedda Lettuce in 1991 on the Manhattan Cable TV show The Brenda and Glennda Show. Lettuce's appearances include MTV, Comedy Central, The People's Court and a cameo on Sex and the City as Samantha's ex-beau turned Bingo Drag impersonator. Lettuce's film appearances include To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar; Cruise Control; The Look; Red Lipstick, and Musical Chairs.

Ashley Benson

Cast · Known for Stranglehold, Pretty Little Liars, Pixels

Ashley Benson (born December 18, 1989) is an American actress and singer. Her accolades include four Teen Choice Awards, a Young Hollywood Award, as well as three People's Choice Award nominations. Ashley Benson began her career as a competitive dancer at age three, and transitioned to acting in her teens, first gaining recognition for her role as Abigail Deveraux in the soap opera Days of Our Lives (2004–2007). Following her film debut in the 2004 comedy 13 Going on 30, she gained international recognition for starring as Hanna Marin in the Freeform drama thriller series Pretty Little Liars (2010–2017). During this time, she also continued to appear in films such as the crime comedy Spring Breakers (2012), the psychological horror Ratter (2015), the comedy drama Chronically Metropolitan (2016), and the musical drama Her Smell (2018). She has since starred in the films Private Property (2022), Mob Land (2023), and McVeigh (2024), as well as in the Amazon Prime Video psychological thriller miniseries Wilderness (2023). Aside from acting, Benson has ventured into music, first in 2018 with the soundtrack of Her Smell, followed by her collaboration with G-Eazy in his cover of the Radiohead song "Creep" (2020). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ashley Benson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Khadija Speer

See Khadija in a couple of highly anticipated television shows, starting with FX's Atlanta, Season 3 Episode 7 streaming now on HULU, and MSNBC's and Peacock's The Best Man: Final Chapters Episode 1 on Peacock TV. Khadija Speer is an actress, dancer, producer, and writer. She also has a love affair with talk show radio and television presenting and producing. On account of Khadija being a people's person she loves hosting live events where she gets to actively interact with her audiences. Being a Caribbean Gyal, born and raised in the twin island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Khadija loves the outdoors, particularly waterfalls, the ocean, and marine life. Khadija lives by her personal credo, "Be the LOVE you want to receive." After attending the Department of Creative and Festival Arts, University of the West Indies where she obtained honors B.A degrees in Theatre Arts and Festival Management, Khadija taught high school and worked in media for 13 years before migrating to the USA. She also works as a creative industries consultant. Khadija loves God and loves people and further contributes to the beauty of the world, by way of philanthropy and volunteer work.

Sasha Waddell

Sasha was born in Italy and grew up in Sussex. She read English Literature at Durham university before going on to train at the Drama Studio London. She is delighted to be performing Fallen Angels at Vienna’s English Theatre. During the Noël Coward centenary celebrations in the UK she appeared as Priscilla in the rediscovered early hit The Young Idea at Chester Gateway, and more recently played Amanda in Private Lives at Margate Theatre Royal. Other theatre includes Lady Windermere’s Fan at Chichester Festival Theatre; Duet For One for Gateway Theatre Company; The Winter’s Tale in the rare art deco Spiegeltent for Creation Theatre Company in Oxford; Much Ado About Nothing for Albion Shakespeare Company; Bergman’s Scenes From a Marriage for SCT Company; the UK premiere of Equiano in London and on tour; and Dear Brutus at the well-known King’s Head pub theatre. This Christmas Sasha appeared on BBC1 as British agent Naomi Russell in Julian Fellowes Investigates: The Case of the Earl of Erroll, a re-examination of the notorious Happy Valley scandal set in Kenya (but, sadly, filmed in Surrey!) She played Fergie in the TV movie People’s Princess and the tsunami survivor Anna Beyerinck in Channel 4’s feature length drama-documentary Krakatoa. Other TV appearances include A Lump in My Throat (BBC2); Gobble (BBC Screen One); and England, My England (Channel 4). Sasha first visited Vienna in 1996 while touring Twelfth Night with the Royal Shakespeare Company and is thrilled to be back in this beautiful city.

Roseanne Barr

Cast · Known for Home on the Range

Roseanne Cherie Barr (born November 3, 1952) is an American actress, comedian, writer, television producer and director. Barr began her career in stand-up comedy at clubs in Colorado in the 1980s. Her big break came in 1987 when she was cast in her own sitcom, Roseanne. The show was a hit and lasted nine seasons, from 1988 to 1997. Barr won both an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her work on the show. In addition, she has won six People's Choice Awards, three American Comedy Awards, a Kids Choice Award, a GLAAD Media Award, and the TV Land Innovator Award. Barr starred in the film She-Devil (1989) and had a voice role in Look Who's Talking Too (1991). In 2004, she voiced one of the main characters in the animated film Home on the Range. After her sitcom ended, Barr launched her own talk show, The Roseanne Show, which aired from 1998 to 2000. She later returned to stand-up in the mid-2000s. She had guest spots on shows, 3rd Rock from the Sun, The Nanny, and My Name Is Earl. Barr released her autobiography in 1989, a second book in 1994, and a third book in 2011. She will star in her own reality TV show on Lifetime, revolving around her family and life on her farm. She hosts a radio show on KCAA on Sundays. In 1990, controversy arose when she sang the "The Star-Spangled Banner" during a nationally aired baseball game, by singing the song off-key, then spitting and grabbing her crotch. The next year she appeared in People magazine announcing that she was an "incest survivor", something her parents and sister publicly denied. Twenty years later Barr and her sister appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show to explain how they felt at the time. She was married to Bill Pentland for 15 years and had three children before divorcing and marrying comedian Tom Arnold four days later. Their marriage lasted for four years, before going through a highly publicized divorce. Barr married her bodyguard in 1995 and had one child before divorcing in 2002. She began dating Johnny Argent in 2003, and now lives in Hawaii. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roseanne Barr, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Victor Webster

Victor Webster (born February 7, 1973) is a Canadian actor. He is known for playing the mutant Brennan Mulwray in Mutant X, Coop the cupid on Charmed and detective Carlos Fonnegra in Continuum. Victor Webster was born in Calgary, Alberta, the son of Roswitha, a hair stylist, and John ("Jack") Webster, a police officer.As a teenager, his misbehaviour often got him into trouble. To find another more productive outlet, he started studying martial arts and eventually became a teacher, earning an undefeated record as an amateur kickboxer and a heavyweight black belt. Meanwhile, his early interest in acting was demonstrated in his involvement with numerous school plays and theater classes.Webster worked as a stockbroker and in import/export. He appeared in Cosmopolitan Magazine's "All About Men" 1998 special issue. He began to pursue acting opportunities in the late 1990s. In 1999 he landed a part on the NBC daytime soap opera, Days of our Lives. After leaving Days, he was cast as one of the leads in the nationally syndicated SF-action series Mutant X (2001), which ran for three seasons. In 2002, he was listed as one of People Magazine's "50 Most Eligible Bachelors". Webster appeared in the film Bringing Down the House and made guest appearances on other TV shows, including a 2003 role on HBO's Sex and the City, while doing Mutant X. Since Mutant X, Webster has continued to alternate between television and theatrical film roles. In 2006 he appeared in the final episodes of Charmed, portraying Coop, a cupid who married Phoebe Halliwell (played by Alyssa Milano) in the final episode of the series. In 2009, Webster had a recurring role as Caleb Brewer on the Melrose Place relaunch. He appeared on the Season 5 episode "Parasite" of Criminal Minds playing a con artist-turned-serial killer. He also guest-starred in the 2009 murder mystery Harper's Island. He had a small role in the 2010 Tyler Perry film Why Did I Get Married Too. In 2011, he had a recurring role on Castle as Kate Beckett's boyfriend, Josh Davidson. In the 2013 remake of 'Embrace of the Vampire', he played the lead male vampire Stefan.

Garrett Palm

Garrett Palm is the show-runner and co-host of the hit Youtube show Eat It or Yeet It on Smosh. He is a Los Angeles based creative producer, director, show-runner, actor, host, podcaster, and writer: a true multi-hyphenate. Originally from Portland, OR (which explains all the Earth tones), Garrett leads from a place of kindness and empathy, spurred on by the belief that people do their best work when they feel safe. Domestically, Garrett has produced, directed, and show-run for Smosh, UPROXX, and Misfits Gaming Group, working with clients like Ubisoft, Activision, Warner Brothers, Pandora Jewelry, among others. Garrett has also had the pleasure of producing several projects internationally including a travel show highlighting the locations in Assassin’s Creed: Origins in and around Cairo, a program for Malian television at The Festival In The Desert in Timbuktu, and 7 years of stage shows for musical improv comedy troupe Baby Wants Candy in Edinburgh, London, Adelaide, and Reykjavik. Garrett has a BA in Theater from Principia College. He studied and performed improv at the Magnet and UCB Theaters in New York and has taught improv around the world. He co-founded Kickstand Comedy Theater in Portland, OR. Garrett has lived many lives: he’s been a Ranch Hand in Colorado, a Hedge Fund assistant on Wall Street, an improv teacher to business students in Copenhagen, a travel photographer for a small paper, a Barista in the East Village, NY, but the best life by far was the one in which he was choked out by Danny Trejo for making bad tacos.

Ron Gans

While many people may not know Ron Gans' face, any self-respecting fan of 70s drive-in exploitation cinema should be highly familiar with his extremely distinctive and unmistakable deep'n'dulcet velvet smooth golden throat voice. Gans lent his deliciously plummy tones to numerous theatrical trailers for Roger Corman's New World Pictures which include "The Student Nurses," "The Big Doll House," "Bury Me An Angel," "Night Call Nurses," "The Big Bird Cage," "The Arena," "Caged Heat," and "The Great Texas Dynamite Chase." Gans also did the trailers for "Terminal Island" and "The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane." Moreover, Gans' booming sonorous voice can be heard on the radio spots for John Carpenter's "Halloween" and Lucio Fulci's "Zombie." Gans hilariously sent up his trailer work in the sidesplitting "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble" sketch in the riotous anthology comedy "The Kentucky Fried Movie." He was likewise amusing as the pompous voice of a cooking instructor in the uproariously raunchy "Revenge of the Cheerleaders." Gans narrated the documentaries "The Raw Ones," "Sexual Liberty Now," and "Go for It." On television Gans was the voices for both Kanga and Roo on the Walt Disney Channel children's show "Welcome to Pooh Corner" and the voice of Drag Strip on the "Transformers" cartoon program. He was especially effective as the metallic voice of Crimebuster in the charming sci-fi comedy "Heartbeeps" and the sinister voice of Armus on the "Skin of Evil" episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation." Among his occasional on-screen appearances are a job interviewer in "Group Marriage," a would-be rapist in the sordid "Runaway, Runaway," and a television newscaster in "Carnal Madness."

Melaw Nakehk'o

Cast · Known for The Revenant

Melaw Nakehk'o's professional acting debut in The Revenant is the natural progression of her distinguished career as an artist and community leader. Born in Canada's north, raised in the community of Liidlii Kue, Melaw comes from a long line of tribal leaders of the Dehcho Dene & Denesuline people. Melaw attended the prestigious Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, where she earned a degree in 2 dimensional arts. Melaw is also recognized for her exemplary work in revitalizing traditional Indigenous artistic practices, with contemporary applications of ancient techniques. Her work in reviving and teaching moosehide tanning techniques has initiated a resurgence of the practice and shaped a broader community building movement within Canada. She is a Founding Member of Dene Nahjo, and is a regular instructor at the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning, a land-based university program. Melaw has three sons and lives in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada.

Harry Long

Harry can be seen in ITV’s Unforgotten, Breathtaking and Protection. Most recently Harry played Doctor Smith in Queenie the highly anticipated series for Channel 4 and Billy Morgan in Beyond Paradise for BBC. Further television credits include: Father Brown (BBC), Captive (Netflix), The Hunt for Tony Blair (BBC), Lark Rise to Candleford (BBC), Doc Martin (ITV), One Summer (BBC). Film credits include: Boxing Day (Boxing Day Productions Ltd), A Serial Killer’s Guide to Life (Forward Motion Pictures), Gold (Bollywood feature – Eros International). Theatre credits include: Looking Good Dead (josh Andrews Productions); The Crucible, North&South and Blithe Spirit (Pitlochry Festival Theatre) and The Big Corner,The Winters Tale, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Secret Garden, An Enemy of the People, The Family Way and Private Lives (Octagon Theatre, Bolton). Harry trained at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Morgan Brayton

Morgan Brayton is a writer and performer who lives in Vancouver with her wife and an excessive number of cats. A Canadian Comedy Award nominee, she is one quarter of The Lady Show, winners of Best Variety Show at the Vancouver Comedy Awards and Pick of the Fringe at the Vancouver Fringe Festival. Morgan is the creator of the solo shows Give It Up, Raccoonery! and Girls Like Me. Her sketch comedy credits span decades and include Girl Parts, 30 Helens and The Crawford Twins and her theatre credits include the final tour of The Number 14. You can hear her on CBC Radio's The Debaters or see her on BC's Knowledge Network, her own show on OutTV, Morgan Brayton ...and Other People (2014), or in a wide range of memorable film & TV acting roles including Chubby Best Friend, Second Cashier, and Person with Face.

Joanna Bradley

Joanna is an award-winning writer and performer who lives and writes and performs in New York City, where she is a living performer/writer. She is proud to be on the sketch team BELLEVUE and the improv team DEATH BY ROO ROO. Joanna has been a writer and an actor in the monthly UCB show Sketch Cram. She is the writer and star of the solo show, I Am Very Important People, which begins its run at UCBNY July of 2014, as well as the 2012 solo show, Everybody’s Dumb and Boring, which ran at both UCBNY and UCBLA. A “solo show” is another way of saying”one-woman show,” but Joanna only says “one-woman show” when she is menstruating. Joanna was a cast member on the weekly VH1 show Best Week Ever. She has appeared on 30 Rock and on the internet in videos for College Humor, various UCB Beta teams, and several webseries, including Between The Scenes (UCBComedy & Nerdist), Two Guys Named Josh (MTVOther) and MC Extra Cheese (a BANFF World Media finalist.)

Mark Knight

Mark Knight, Current Archaeology’s Archaeologist of the year 2017 was the Dig Director of Must Farm excavations for the Cambridge Archaeological Unit. Knight specialises in prehistoric landscapes, as well as Neolithic and Bronze Age pottery. His interests include exploring later prehistoric contexts of inhabitation and mobility, and comprehending the lives of people in southern Britain between 3800-800 BC. After completing his degree in 1995, Mark joined the CAU and began researching the prehistoric Fens, a landscape that still absorbs him some 20 years on.

Chris Ellis

Cast · Known for That Thing You Do!, Catch Me If You Can

Chris Ellis (born April 14, 1956) is an American film and television actor. Ellis always wanted to be an actor because of television. He grew up in the 50's in the deep south in a "world of privation and violence", but saw on television people who seemed to have lives of ease and privilege. It took him seven years to finish college however, because "I have always been shiftless". During those years Chris became involved in community theatre in Memphis, where "I did and do still think the quality of the work has always been quite good". By the time he moved to New York, he had worked with many excellent actors in about two dozen plays, classical and contemporary. "I cannot imagine what might have supplanted that background for a newcomer in New York." His first part in either television or film came in 1979, where he played a truck driver in the TV movie The Suicide's Wife, which starred Angie Dickinson. The role resulted in very little TV or film work. After working in regional theatre for a year or so, Chris fell off the radar screen and did not work for about ten years. During that time he lived in "bone-grinding poverty" in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen. In one nine-month period of 1987, Chris accepted 102 dinner invitations. "I don't know why they kept arriving, nor why I counted them, though I do know why I accepted them." In 1990, a break came when he got a part in Days of Thunder, which starred Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Cary Elwes, Robert Duvall, and Randy Quaid. John C. Reilly and Fred Dalton Thompson also appear. This seemed to jump-start Ellis' career as parts in films like My Cousin Vinny with Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei, a small part in Addams Family Values, and a larger one in Apollo 13 as former NASA Mercury Seven astronaut Deke Slayton, alongside Tom Hanks, followed. He also began picking up credits on well-known television shows like Melrose Place, NYPD Blue, and The X-Files. Since working with Hanks on Apollo 13, the two have worked together on That Thing You Do, the TV miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, and Catch Me If You Can. Ellis returned to a fictional NASA Mission Control when he played a Flight Director in 1998's Armageddon. Additional films in which Ellis has appeared include Home Fries, October Sky, Live Free or Die Hard, and Transformers. His television credits also include The West Wing, Ghost Whisperer, Chicago Hope, The Pretender, Alias, JAG, CSI: NY, Burn Notice, and Cold Case. He appeared in three season one episodes of Millennium as group member Jim Panseayres. He has established a reputation as being particularly talented at portraying Southern lawmakers or serious military or police-type characters. He also appeared in Criminal Minds as Sheriff Jimmy Rhodes who calls for the BAU's help in investigating a string of murders in New Mexico. In addition to that, he also had two guest appearances in NCIS as Gunnery Sergeant John Deluca. Ellis's appearance in the Season 1 episode, "The Curse" was uncredited while his second and final appearance in Season 2's "The Bone Yard" was credited. Description above from the Wikipedia article Chris Ellis (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Shirley Henderson

Cast · Known for I Swear, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Elio

Shirley Henderson (born 24 November 1965) is a Scottish actress. Her accolades include two Scottish BAFTAs, a VFCC Award and an Olivier Award, and BAFTA, BIFA, London Critics' Circle, Chlotrudis, Gotham, and Canadian Screen Award nominations. Henderson's film roles include Gail in Trainspotting (1996) and its 2017 sequel, Jude in the Bridget Jones films (2001–2025), and Moaning Myrtle in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005). Her other notable credits include Rob Roy (1995), Wonderland (1999), Topsy-Turvy (1999), 24 Hour Party People (2002), Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002), Intermission (2003), American Cousins (2003), Frozen (2005), Marie Antoinette (2006), Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008), Life During Wartime (2009), Meek's Cutoff (2010), Anna Karenina (2012), Filth (2013), Okja (2017), Never Steady, Never Still (2017), and Stan & Ollie (2018). Henderson starred as Isobel Sutherland in the BBC series Hamish Macbeth (1995–97) and played Frances Drummond in the BBC drama Happy Valley (2016). She was nominated for RTS Awards for the BBC miniseries The Way We Live Now (2001) and the ITV television film Dirty Filthy Love (2004), and received a BAFTA nomination for her portrayal of Claire Salter in the Channel 4 miniseries Southcliffe (2013). She won the 2018 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role as Elizabeth in the original Old Vic production of Girl from the North Country. Description above from the Wikipedia article Shirley Henderson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Mark Overholt

Mark Overholt is an award-winning actor and writer. His work as an actor includes television, film, commercials, and more. He is known for For The People, Snowfall, Grey's Anatomy, Days of Our Lives, and The Young and the Restless. His production experience began early in his career in the world of independent films where he learned about creating and selling content. Mark later became very involved with the various technical aspects of building a film, the importance of picture, sound, and editing as well as the economy of storytelling. Mark created Map on Fire Films at first to tell socially relevant short stories with a cinematic flair and collaborate with professional actors and filmmakers.

Gloria Loring

A consummate singer and entertainer, Gloria Loring is the recording artist of the #1 hit song "Friends and Lovers," co-composer of television theme songs for Diff'rent Strokes (1978) and The Facts of Life (1979), an audience favorite from daytime TV's Days of Our Lives (1965), spokesperson for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), the author of seven books, a keynote speaker, one of the few artists to sing two nominated songs at the Academy Awards, and is the mother of world-wide singing sensation Robin Thicke. With eleven albums to her credit, Loring has performed all over North America and Australia. As an actress and singer, she's starred in musicals, movies of the week, prime time series and specials, and has hosted television shows and live events. Gloria's new book, Coincidence is God's Way of Remaining Anonymous: Reflections on Daytime Dramas and Divine Intervention, details a series of extraordinary coincidences that transformed her life and offers prescriptive insight into how each of us can use coincidence for our own good and the good of those we love. Gloria is a certified yoga instructor and an articulate champion of biomedical research. After her son Brennan was diagnosed with diabetes at age four, she created and self-published two volumes of the Days Of Our Lives Celebrity Cookbook which raised more than $1 million for diabetes research. In total, she has written and created six books benefiting people with diabetes. Her newest musical show, TV Tunez, a celebration of television's best theme songs, draws from sitcoms and dramas, to westerns, sports, games shows and commercials, appealing to all demographics. Honored with the Lifetime Commitment Award from JDRF and the 1999 Woman of Achievement Award from the Miss America Organization, Loring is listed in the World Who's Who of Women and Who's Who in America. She is married to Emmy Award-winning art director and production designer René Lagler and lives in Southern California.

Megan Stalter

Cast · Known for Hacks

Megan Stalter (born September 15, 1990) is an American comedian and actress. She is most famous for playing Kayla Schaeffer in the HBO comedy series Hacks (2021-2026) and Jessica Salmon in Lena Dunham's Netflix series Too Much (2025). In her viral online videos, Stalter specializes in desperate, deluded characters who are prone to theatricality, frequent mispronunciations, and botched suicide attempts. "I feel like all my characters are people whose lives didn't turn out a certain way, but they're still trying to pretend like it did," Stalter has said. In 2019, she joined the cast and writing staff of the reboot of The National Lampoon Radio Hour. She is also the host of the webseries The Megan Stalter Show and the Forever Dog podcast Confronting Demons with Megan Stalter.

Branko Đurić

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Branko "Đuro" Đurić (born May 28, 1962) is a Bosnian actor, director and musician from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Born to a Serb father and Bosniak mother in Sarajevo, Đurić rose to prominence throughout the former Yugoslavia with the hit comedy series Top Lista Nadrealista during the 1980s. Đuro became something of an epitome for the Bosnian people, primarily due to his accent and slang. He was also one of the founding members of SCH (band) and the frontman of Sarajevo rock band Bombaj Štampa. During the Yugoslav wars he moved to Slovenia. Notable films where he appeared have included: Time of the Gypsies (1988) (Dom za vešanje) Kuduz (1989) The Fall of Rock and Roll (1989) (Kako je propao rokenrol) An Additional Soul (1991) (Ovo malo duše) No Man's Land (2001) (Ničija zemlja) Kajmak and Marmalade (2003) (Kajmak i marmelada) A Small World (2003) (Mali svet) Bal-Can-Can (2005) Triage (2009) Currently, Ðurić is married to Slovenian actress Tanja Ribič with whom he played with in Kajmak in marmelada and lives and works in Slovenia, where he leads Theatre 55, a film production company. He also works in Croatia, where he had a TV show Pet Minuta Slave (Five Minutes of Fame) on Nova TV, as well as the comedy series Naša mala klinika (Our Little Clinic), which is currently being aired on POP TV and Nova TV. In February 2007, Ðurić has appeared on B92 television in Serbia in Ðurine žute minute short segments, a slightly different take on his widely popular "Ðurine kućne čarolije" sketch, which he performed in Top Lista Nadrealista. The segments mostly received poor reviews and were quickly taken off the air. In December 2008, he reunited with Bombaj Štampa for a concert in Sarajevo featuring original guitarist Nedim Babović and drummer Dragan Bajić along with bassist Ernie Mendillo (The Brandos). More concerts followed and an album of new material will be released in the Spring of 2010. Description above from the Wikipedia article Branko Đurić, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

David Ruprecht

David Ruprecht is best known to television audiences as the amiable Host of the popular Supermarket Sweep and Supermarket Sweep 2000 where, for nearly 15 years, he cheered contestants on as they made their way down the aisles collecting cash, prizes and cars. As an acclaimed Actor, he garnered praise for his appearances on True Blood, Days of our Lives, Cold Case, Beverly Hills 90210, Full House, The Drew Carey Show, Three’s Company and countless other hit shows. People Magazine called him “A comic gem.” Dave is also no stranger to the Stage, starring on Broadway and gracing stages coast to coast. Originally from Florida, Dave Ruprecht is a strong supporter of Rotary International and resides in Southern California with his wife, the gifted Director/Choreographer Patti Colombo. Biography Courtesy of David Ruprecht Official Site.

Brenda Cooper

Costume Design · Known for The Nanny

Brenda Cooper is an Emmy Award winning Fashion Stylist, Costume Designer, Transformational Coach and Personal Color Expert. She won her Emmy for creating the costumes for the iconic TV series the Nanny starring Fran Drescher, and as the Co Host of E!’s hit TV show Fashion Emergency. Passionate about empowering women to step into their greatness, she found that the same shifts she made to encourage people to take risks in their wardrobe, were the same shifts she could make to give them the confidence to take control of other areas of their lives. Brenda has studied leadership and coaching and coaches women on confidence and self esteem, teaching them how to transform their relationships with themselves and others. Her mission is to empower as many women as possible to express themselves fully, flourish in their relationships and be ready to take on anything. Brenda will take you on a magical journey of self discovery and self expression and equip you with the tools, strategies and transformation you need to feel, look and be at your best.