

Two-time
Academy Award®-winning actor DENZEL WASHINGTON
portrays Army Major Ben Marco, a talented career soldier determined
to discover the truth about his experiences in Kuwait during the Gulf War.
In such roles as the South African freedom fighter Steven Biko in “Cry
Freedom,” Shakespeare’s tragic historical figure “Richard
III,” the womanizing trumpet player Bleek Gilliam in Spike Lee’s
“Mo’ Better Blues,” and his Academy Award®-winning
portrayal of an embittered runaway slave in Ed Zwick’s “Glory,”
Denzel Washington has amazed and entertained us with a rich and colorful
array of characters distinctly his own.
Washington was awarded the Oscar® for Best Actor for one of his most
critically acclaimed performances to date, as a grizzled LAPD veteran in
“Training Day,” directed by Antoine Fuqua.
In 2002, Denzel Washington made his feature film directorial debut with
“Antwone Fisher.” Based on a true-life story, the film follows
Fisher, a troubled young sailor played by newcomer Derek Luke, as he comes
to terms with his past. The film won critical praise, and was awarded the
Stanley Kramer Award from the Producers Guild of America, as well as winning
an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Motion Picture and Outstanding Supporting
Actor for Washington.
Most recently, Washington starred in Tony Scott’s “Man on Fire,”
in which he portrayed a former Marine who swears vengeance on people who
have harmed the family he’s sworn to protect. In 2003, he starred
in Carl Franklin’s “Out of Time,” in which he played a
Florida police chief who must solve a double homicide before he falls under
suspicion for the murders himself. He was also seen in “John Q,”
a story about a down-on-his-luck father whose son is in need of a heart
transplant, which garnered Washington a NAACP Image Award for Outstanding
Actor in a Motion Picture.
In September of 2000, he starred in Jerry Bruckheimer’s box-office
sensation ($115 million domestic gross) “Remember the Titans,”
a fact-based film about the 1971 integration of a high school football team.
In 1999, he starred in “The Hurricane,” for director Norman
Jewison, and received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and an Academy
Award® nomination (his fourth) for his portrayal of Rubin “Hurricane”
Carter, the world middleweight champion boxer who was wrongfully imprisoned
twice for murder.
In November of 1999, he starred in “The Bone Collector,” the
adaptation of Jeffery Deaver’s novel about the search for a serial
killer, co-starring Angelina Jolie and directed by Phillip Noyce. In 1998,
he starred in the crime thriller “Fallen,” for director Greg
Hoblit, and in Spike Lee’s “He Got Game.” He also re-teamed
with “Glory” director Ed Zwick for the terrorist thriller “The
Siege,” co-starring Annette Bening and Bruce Willis.
In 1996, Washington starred in the critically acclaimed military drama “Courage
Under Fire,” for director Ed Zwick, and also starred opposite Whitney
Houston in Penny Marshall’s romantic comedy “The Preacher’s
Wife.” In 1995, he starred opposite Gene Hackman in Tony Scott’s
underwater action adventure “Crimson Tide”; as an ex-cop released
from prison to track down a criminal in the futuristic thriller “Virtuosity”;
and as World War II veteran Easy Rawlins in the 1940s romantic thriller
“Devil in a Blue Dress” (which Washington’s Mundy Lane
Entertainment produced with Jonathan Demme’s Clinica Estetico).
Washington also starred in the title role of the complex and controversial
Black activist in director Spike Lee’s biographical epic, “Malcolm
X,” for which the actor received, among many other accolades, an Academy
Award® nomination for Best Actor.
A native of Mt. Vernon, New York, Washington studied acting under Robinson
Stone at Fordham University and later attended San Francisco’s prestigious
American Conservatory Theater.
Washington’s professional New York theater career began with Joseph
Papp’s Shakespeare in the Park and was quickly followed by numerous
off-Broadway productions, including “A Soldier’s Play,”
for which he won an Obie Award. Washington’s stage appearances also
include the Broadway production of “Checkmates” and the Shakespeare
in the Park production of “Richard III.”
Washington first came to the attention of American audiences when he was
cast as Dr. Phillip Chandler in NBC’s long-running, hit television
series “St. Elsewhere.” In 1984, he re-created his role from
“A Soldier’s Play” for Norman Jewison’s film version,
“A Soldier’s Story,” and soon went on to star in Sidney
Lumet’s “Power” and Richard Attenborough’s “Cry
Freedom,” for which he received his first Oscar® nomination. Washington
also starred in the action adventure film “Ricochet,” in Mira
Nair’s bittersweet comedy “Mississippi Masala,” as well
as in “For Queen and Country,” “The Mighty Quinn,”
“Heart Condition” and Spike Lee’s “Mo’ Better
Blues.”
Additional film credits include Kenneth Branagh’s film adaptation
of “Much Ado About Nothing,” Jonathan Demme’s controversial
“Philadelphia,” with Tom Hanks, and “The Pelican Brief,”
based on the John Grisham novel.

MERYL STREEP plays Eleanor Prentiss
Shaw, a powerful U.S. senator who has ambitious plans for her son, war hero
and congressman, Raymond Shaw.
Regarded as one of the world’s finest actors, Meryl Streep has portrayed
an astonishing array of characters in a career that has cut its own unique
path from the theater through television and film. A two-time Academy Award®
winner and a recipient of a record-breaking 13 Oscar® nominations, Streep
recently was honored by the American Film Institute with a Lifetime Achievement
Award. She also received the new Dramatists’ Lifetime Achievement
Award as well as the Stanislavsky Award at the Moscow International Film
Festival. In addition, Streep was awarded a Golden Globe and a SAG Award
for her starring role alongside Al Pacino and Emma Thompson in the HBO epic
“Angels in America,” directed by Mike Nichols, from Tony Kushner’s
adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize-winning plays.
Streep made her acting debut at Vassar College starring in the title role
in Strindberg’s “Miss Julie,” and later won a scholarship
to the Yale School of Drama where she received an M.F.A. degree and the
Carol Dye Acting Award, becoming the first woman in the school’s history
to receive this honor.
After a summer with the O’Neill Playwrights conference in Connecticut,
Streep moved to New York and made her debut in Joseph Papp’s Lincoln
Center production of “Trelawney of the Wells.” At Phoenix Repertory,
for her performances in rotating productions of the Civil War melodrama
“Secret Service,” Arthur Miller’s “A Memory of Two
Mondays” and Tennessee Williams’ “27 Wagons Full of Cotton,”
Streep won the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Theater World Award and a
Tony nomination. She performed in seven productions during her first season
in New York, including the New York Shakespeare Festival productions of
“Henry V” and “Measure for Measure,” opposite John
Cazale and Sam Waterston. She starred on Broadway in the Brecht/Weill musical
“Happy End,” and won an Obie for her performance in the all-sung,
off-Broadway production of “Alice at the Palace.” During this
period she also won the Emmy for Best Actress for her portrayal of a devastated
German wife in the controversial eight-part miniseries “Holocaust.”
Meryl Streep began her feature film career as Jane Fonda’s society
friend in “Julia,” directed by Fred Zinnemann. In her second
screen role, Streep starred opposite Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken
in “The Deer Hunter,” receiving her first Oscar® nomination.
Her next film was the political drama “The Seduction of Joe Tynan,”
with Alan Alda. She returned to the stage that summer to star opposite Raul
Julia in the Shakespeare in the Park production of “The Taming of
the Shrew,” and during the day alternated filming “Manhattan”
for Woody Allen and “Kramer vs. Kramer” with Dustin Hoffman.
Playing Hoffman’s troubled ex-wife in a custody battle, she garnered
her first Academy Award® for Best Supporting Actress.
She won her third Oscar® nomination and the British Academy Award for
her next film, “The French Lieutenant’s Woman,” directed
by Karel Reisz, in which she played the dual roles of a sophisticated contemporary
actress and a tragic 19th-century heroine. The following year, she won the
Academy Award® for Best Actress for her extraordinary performance in
the title role of “Sophie’s Choice,” directed by Alan
J. Pakula from his adaptation of William Styron’s novel. She was nominated
again the next year, for her portrayal of Karen Silkwood, the activist/heroine
of Mike Nichols’ “Silkwood.” Reuniting with Robert De
Niro in her next film, “Falling in Love,” she won the David
Award, the Italian equivalent of the Oscar®.
Streep completed two films in 1985: Fred Schepisi’s screen adaptation
of David Hare’s “Plenty” and Sydney Pollack’s sweeping
romantic adventure “Out of Africa,” for which she received an
Academy Award® nomination for Best Actress. She then filmed two projects
co-starring Jack Nicholson: Mike Nichols’ “Heartburn”
and “Ironweed,” directed by Hector Babenco, for which she received
her seventh Oscar® nomination. She then traveled to Australia for Fred
Schepisi’s “A Cry in the Dark,” in which she played the
infamous, unfairly maligned Lindy Chamberlain, a role that won Streep the
Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival, The New York Film Critics
Circle, the AFI Award and another Oscar® nomination.
She next won Golden Globe nominations for her work in Susan Seidelman’s
“She-Devil” and “Postcards From the Edge” (with
Nichols again), starring opposite Shirley MacLaine. This adaptation by Carrie
Fisher from her own novel won Streep praise for her singing and yet another
Oscar® nomination. She continued to find comedic work; with Albert Brooks
in his delicious contemplation of a neurotic’s trial in purgatory
in “Defending Your Life,” and in Robert Zemeckis’ satirical
look at aging in L.A., “Death Becomes Her,” co-starring Goldie
Hawn. After returning to the States from Europe – where she had filmed
Bille August’s “The House of the Spirits,” from Isabel
Allende’s acclaimed novel – she tackled the physical challenges
of an action movie, in “The River Wild,” directed by Curtis
Hanson, co-starring Kevin Bacon.
Her next film, Clint Eastwood’s “The Bridges of Madison County,”
won her overwhelming acclaim and Screen Actor’s Guild, Golden Globe
and Oscar® nominations for her complex portrayal of a lonely Iowa farm
wife who opens her heart to a stranger. The following year she was seen
opposite Liam Neeson in Barbet Schroeder’s “Before and After,”
and opposite Diane Keaton and Leonardo DiCaprio in “Marvin’s
Room,” for which she received another Golden Globe nomination.
She next returned to television, co-producing with director Jim Abrahams
the real-life drama “First Do No Harm” and earning an Emmy nomination
for her work as the mother of an epileptic child who pursues alternative
therapies.
In 1998, Streep teamed with Renee Zellweger in “One True Thing,”
based on Anna Quindlen’s prize-winning novel, winning SAG, Golden
Globe and Oscar® nominations for her performance. That same year, Streep
appeared in the critically lauded “Dancing at Lughnasa,” based
on Brian Friel’s play, directed by Pat O’Connor. In 1999, Streep
earned her 12th Academy Award® nomination for Wes Craven’s “Music
of the Heart,” the real life story of a teacher and single mother
who brings the violin to inner city kids.
In 2001, she returned to Central Park’s Delacorte Theatre in Mike
Nichols’ production of “The Seagull,” for the Public Theater’s
New York Shakespeare Festival, co-starring Kevin Kline, Christopher Walken,
Marcia Gay Harden, Natalie Portman, John Goodman and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
More recently, her work in Paramount’s “The Hours” won
Streep the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival, along
with her co-stars Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore, as well as SAG and Golden
Globe nominations. In the same year, her eccentric portrayal of Susan Orlean
in Spike Jonze’s “Adaptation” was recognized with a Golden
Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and BAFTA and Oscar® nominations.
She was recently seen in the comedy “Stuck on You” with Matt
Damon, Greg Kinnear and Cher. Streep will next star in Paramount’s
“Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events,” an
adaptation of the beloved children’s books, with Jim Carrey and Jude
Law.
Last year she was given an Honorary César for Career Achievement
in Paris, where she also was accorded a Commandeur de l’Ordre des
Arts et des Lettres, the highest civilian honor given by the French government.

Widely regarded as one of the finest actors of his generation,
LIEV SCHREIBER stars as Raymond Shaw, son of the powerful Senator
Eleanor Prentiss Shaw and a decorated Gulf War hero, who becomes a candidate
for vice president of the United States.
Schreiber is currently directing his adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s
best-selling novel, Everything Is Illuminated, for Warner Independent Pictures,
in Prague. This film marks his feature directorial debut. A blend of high
comedy and great tragedy, Everything Is Illuminated tells the story of a
young, American Jewish man’s (Elijah Wood) quest to find the woman
who saved his grandfather – in a small Ukrainian town that was wiped
off the map by the Nazi invasion. Prior to publication of the novel, Schreiber
read an excerpt in The New Yorker, secured the rights himself, wrote the
screenplay and subsequently brought the project to Warner Independent Pictures.
Schreiber’s distinguished list of acting credits includes “The
Sum of All Fears” with Morgan Freeman and Ben Affleck, “Kate
& Leopold” with Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman, Michael Almereyda’s
“Hamlet,” “The Hurricane” opposite Denzel Washington,
Tony Goldwyn’s “A Walk on the Moon,” Robert Benton’s
“Twilight” with Paul Newman, Barry Levinson’s sci-fi epic
“Sphere,” the box-office hits “Scream,” “Scream
2,” “Scream 3” and “Ransom.” Schreiber is
also known for his work in such acclaimed independent features as Stanley
Tucci’s “Big Night,” “Party Girl,” “The
Daytrippers” with Hope Davis, Nicole Holofcener’s “Walking
and Talking” with Catherine Keener, Nora Ephron’s “Mixed
Nuts,” Antonia Bird’s “Mad Love,” Hal Salwen’s
“Denise Calls Up” and Tom Gilroy’s “Spring Forward”
with Ned Beatty, for which he also served as a producer.
Initially interested in playwriting, Schreiber went on to spend a year studying
acting with the faculty from England’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.
In 1992, he graduated with a M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama. His impressive
stage credits include his critically acclaimed turn as Henry V in last summer’s
Shakespeare in the Park production at the Delacorte Theatre, along with
“The Mercy Seat,” opposite Sigourney Weaver and directed by
Neil LaBute, Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal,” co-starring Juliette
Binoche, and “Moonlight,” with Blythe Danner and Jason Robards.
Schreiber’s enduring relationship with the Public Theatre’s
New York Shakespeare Festival has produced several critically acclaimed
performances including the title role in “Hamlet,” Iago in “Othello,”
“Macbeth,” “The Tempest” and “Cymbeline,”
for which he won an Obie award. Other productions include “All for
One,” “In the Summer House,” “Escape From Happiness,”
“The Real Thing,” “Richard III,” “Underground”
and the Moscow Art Theatre’s production of “Ivanov.”
For television, Schreiber starred as Orson Welles in “RKO 281”
(Emmy and Golden Globe nominations) and will also appear in the forthcoming
“Lackawanna Blues” with Halle Berry, Jeffrey Wright and Rosie
Perez. His television credits include “Spinning Borris,” “Buffalo
Girls,” “People V” and “The Sunshine Boys,”
with Woody Allen and Peter Falk. As a voice-over artist, Schreiber has narrated
numerous documentaries, including the popular PBS miniseries “Rock
& Roll.”

JON VOIGHT plays Thomas Jordan, a respected
U.S. senator who stands in the way of Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw’s
ambitious plans. Voight is still remembered for the classic “Midnight
Cowboy,” which brought his first Academy Award® nomination, as
well as for his Oscar®-winning turn as Luke Martin in “Coming
Home.” Since then, Voight has forged a career in which he successfully
transitioned from leading man to one of America’s most versatile character
actors.
Voight recently played Mr. Sir in the popular and critically acclaimed Andy
Davis feature film “Holes,” based on the Newberry Award-winning
book of the same name, and was also recently nominated for an Academy Award®
for his role as Howard Cosell in “Ali.”
He was featured in “Pearl Harbor” and “Lara Croft: Tomb
Raider” (starring his daughter, Angelina Jolie) and starred in “Mission:
Impossible,” “Varsity Blues,” “Enemy of the State”
and “Anaconda.” Other feature film credits include Francis Ford
Coppola’s “The Rainmaker” (Golden Globe nominee), “The
General,” “Deliverance,” “Runaway Train” (which
earned him an Academy Award® nomination and a Golden Globe), “The
Odessa File” and “The Champ” (Golden Globe nominee).
Voight made his Broadway debut in “The Sound of Music.” In 1966,
he starred opposite Robert Duvall in the acclaimed revival of Arthur Miller’s
“A View From the Bridge.” He later starred at L.A.’s Ahmanson
Theatre in “A Streetcar Named Desire.”
On television, Voight recently starred in the powerful, critically acclaimed
film, “Jasper, Texas,” Based on actual events, “Jasper,
Texas” tells the disturbing story of a heinous racial crime in which
a black man was dragged to his death in a small Texas town. Voight also
co-starred in “Uprising,” the true story of the Warsaw ghetto,
for NBC, and in “Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story,” a
miniseries for CBS. He starred in “Chernobyl: The Final Warning,”
“The Last of His Tribe,” which earned him a CableACE Award,
and the miniseries “Return to Lonesome Dove.” He made his directorial
debut with the Showtime cable movie “Tin Soldier,” which won
several awards, including Best Children’s Film at the Berlin Film
Festival.

KIMBERLY ELISE,
who portrays Rosie, the kind woman who Marco meets on the train, has been
on the rise ever since her star-making role in Oprah Winfrey’s “Beloved,”
for which she won the Chicago Film Critics Best Newcomer Award, playing
Denver, the grown daughter of Winfrey’s Sethe.
Elise will next star in the independent film “Woman Thou Art Loosed,”
playing an embittered woman in the throngs of resurrecting her life after
a lifetime of childhood abuse. Her performance has earned mass critical
acclaim and the film recently won top honors, including the American Spirit
Award for Best American Film, at this year’s Santa Barbara Film Festival.
It is scheduled to open nationwide in October.
Most recently, she starred in the New Line Cinema drama “John Q,”
with Robert Duvall and Denzel Washington. Other feature film credits include
“Set It Off,” F. Gary Gray’s drama in which Elise co-starred
with Queen Latifah as part of a group of women who turn to robbing banks,
and Antoine Fuqua’s comedy “Bait,” with Jamie Foxx.
Television credits include co-starring with Gregory Hines in Showtime’s
“Bojangles” and the title role in “The Loretta Claiborne
Story” for ABC. Elise also won a CableACE Award for her performance
in the Family Channel’s “The Ditchdigger’s Daughters.”

JEFFREY WRIGHT (Al Melvin) was honored with an AFI Award for
best actor for his portrayal of Martin Luther King, Jr. in HBO’s “Boycott.”
His films include “Ali,” “Shaft,” “Ride with
the Devil,” “Cement,” “Critical Care,” and
“Basquiat,” which earned him an Independent Spirit Award nomination
for his debut performance in the title role.
In 1994, Wright won a Tony Award for his portrayal of Belize in “Angels
in America: Perestroika,” a role he reprised in the 2003 HBO miniseries,
which won him a Golden Globe Award and a SAG nomination.
In 2002, Wright enjoyed a critically acclaimed run on Broadway in the Pulitzer
Prize-winning show “Topdog/Underdog,” for which he received
a Tony nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actor.
Most recently, Wright just wrapped “Lackawanna Blues,” an HBO
film co-starring Rosie Perez and Liev Schreiber.

TED LEVINE, who portrays Colonel Howard, the psychiatrist working
with Marco, has steadily distinguished himself as an actor for many years
on the big screen, in television and on stage. This year alone, he will
appear in two other new feature films, in addition to “The Manchurian
Candidate.” He is starring in “Birth,” with Nicole Kidman
and Lauren Bacall, and has a role in “The L.A. Riot Spectacular,”
directed by Marc Klasfeld. Last year, he starred opposite Val Kilmer and
Lisa Kudrow in “Wonderland.”
After graduating with an M.F.A. from the University of Chicago, Levine appeared
in many TV films in the 1980s, and then began making his mark in feature
films in the 1990s. His breakthrough role came in 1991 for director Jonathan
Demme, when he starred with Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster in “The
Silence of the Lambs,” as the other ominous villain in this blockbuster
hit. Levine followed with “Georgia,” starring as the complicated
spouse of Jennifer Jason Leigh. Counting his role in “The Truth About
Charlie,” Levine has worked for director Jonathan Demme a total of
three times.
Levine has appeared in 24 feature films, including roles in “Heat,”
with Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, “Wild Wild West,” starring
Will Smith and Kevin Kline, and “Switchback,” with Dennis Quaid
and Danny Glover.
Most recently, Levine has become a familiar face on television in the USA
hit detective/comedy series “Monk,” playing the wry foil (Capt.
Leland Stottlemeyer) for Tony Shalhoub’s title character. In addition,
Levine is a series regular on Peter Berg’s “Wonderland”
for ABC/Imagine. His prolific television work also includes roles in Showtime/MOW’s
“Harlan County War,” for director Tony Bill, and in the HBO
miniseries “From the Earth to the Moon,” for director Tom Hanks,
as well as roles in “Moby Dick,” “Ellen Foster,”
“Crime Story” and “Wiseguy.”
Before appearing on the screen, Levine had already emerged among the most
respected of stage actors from his work at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater,
and he continues his stage career, most recently playing Tilden on Broadway
in “Buried Child,” directed by Gary Sinise.

BRUNO GANZ portrays Richard Delp, a rogue scientist who Marco
turns to for help in retrieving his memories of the Gulf War. Born in Switzerland
and living in Zurich, Ganz is fluent in German, French and English, giving
him versatility in his entertainment career.
Ganz is the winner of numerous awards, including the Berlin Film Award Winner
of numerous awards, including the the Swiss Film Award for Best Actor in
2000 for his work in Silvio Soldini’s “Pane e Tulipani.”
Ganz has appeared in over a dozen films internationally, including Werner
Herzog’s “Nosferatu,” Gillian Armstrong’s “The
Last Days of Chez Nous,” Eric Rohmer’s “The Marquise of
O,” Volker Schlöndorff’s “Circle of Deceit”
and Wim Wenders’ “Wings of Desire.” In addition, Ganz
worked as a director with Otto Sander on the film “Gedächtnis,”
a highly personal documentary-style double portrait of actors Curt Bois
and Bernhard Minetti. Ganz is also an accomplished theater actor, appearing
in numerous Shakespearean plays abroad, including title roles in “Hamlet”
and “Macbeth.”

SIMON MCBURNEY portrays Dr. Atticus Noyle, a scientist whose
experiments into the workings of the human brain have entered unchartered
territory. McBurney is artistic director of the Theatre de Complicité,
which he co-founded and for which he has devised, directed and acted in
more than 24 productions, toured all over the world and won numerous major
international awards.
As an actor, McBurney has performed extensively for radio, television and
in feature films, including Steven Soderbergh’s “Kafka”
with Jeremy Irons, “Tom & Viv” with Willem Dafoe and Miranda
Richardson, Bill Forsyth’s “Being Human” with Robin Williams,
“Mesmer,” written by Dennis Potter and starring Alan Rickman,
Volker Schlöndorff’s “The Ogre” with John Malkovich,
“Cousin Bette,” starring Jessica Lange, and “Onegin”
with Ralph Fiennes and Liv Tyler. McBurney also starred in the title role
of the film pioneer in “Eisenstein,” for director Renny Bartlett.
He will soon be seen in the upcoming dramas, “The Reckoning,”
with Willem Dafoe and Paul Bettany, Paul Cox’s “The Human Touch”
and Stephen Fry’s “Bright Young Things.”
Recently, McBurney directed Al Pacino in Bertolt Brecht’s “The
Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui” at the National Actors Theatre in New
York, in association with Complicité. He also directed the critically
acclaimed, hit stage production of “Mnemonic” in New York and
London. Other New York productions include “The Chairs” (Tony
nomination – Director of a Play), “The Three Lives of Lucie
Cabrol,” “Street of Crocodiles” and “The Noise of
Time.”
McBurney’s acclaimed production of “The Elephant Vanishes”
(Evening Standard Award nomination – Director of a Play) will transfer
from The Barbican to New York in the summer. McBurney’s production
of Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure,” is currently running
at London’s National Theatre.

VERA FARMIGA plays Jocelyn Jordan, daughter of Senator Thomas
Jordan and Raymond Shaw’s former love. Farmiga is currently in production
in Vancouver on “Touching Evil,” a television series produced
by Bruce Willis and Arnold Rifkin (“Die Hard IV,” “Hart’s
War”) and directed by Allen Hughes (“Dead Presidents,”
“Menace II Society”) for the USA Network. The crime-drama series,
about two hard-nosed detectives who specialize in solving shocking, high
profile crimes for the FBI’s new Organized and Serial Crime Unit,
co-stars Jeff Donovan. Based on the hit series by British Granada Television,
“Touching Evil” premiered in March.
At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Farmiga won a Special Jury
Prize for her performance in the independent film “Down to the Bone,”
a revelatory drama about a weary, working-class mother trapped in drug addiction.
The film, which was in the Dramatic competition, also garnered a Director’s
Award for Debra Granik.
Farmiga recently appeared in the HBO miniseries “Iron Jawed Angels,”
about a group of fierce young women fighting for women’s suffrage.
The series co-starred Hilary Swank, Anjelica Huston, Frances O’Connor
and Molly Parker.
Farmiga’s film credits include the independent drama “Love in
the Time of Money,” co-starring Michael Imperioli and Adrian Grenier,
Gregory Pritikin’s romantic comedy “Dummy,” co-starring
Adrien Brody, and “15 Minutes,” directed by John Herzfeld and
co-starring Robert De Niro and Edward Burns, as well as “Autumn in
New York” and “The Opportunists.”
Farmiga’s television and stage credits include the NBC action series
“UC: Undercover” for Danny DeVito’s Jersey Television,
ABC’s “Snow White” and a recent appearance in “Under
the Blue Sky” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, opposite Annabella
Sciorra and Marsha Mason.
ROBYN HITCHCOCK plays Laurent Tokar,
a guide to the American soldiers in Kuwait. Making his feature film acting
debut, Hitchcock is one of England’s most enduring contemporary singer/songwriters
and live performers. He started his recording career with the Soft Boys,
a punk-era band specializing in melodic pop merged with comedic lyrics.
Hitchcock’s solo debut, 1981’s “Black Snake Diamond Role,”
was followed by the psychedelia of “Groovy Decay” in 1982 and
the all-acoustic “I Often Dream of Trains” in 1984. By 1985,
his penchant for zaniness in songwriting coalesced with the album “Fegmania!,”
which he recorded with The Egyptians.
Three years later, Hitchcock landed his first major U.S. label contract
with A&M Records and released “Element of Light,” “Globe
of Frogs,” “Queen Elvis” and “Perspex Island,”
all of which topped the Rolling Stone Alternative chart. In 1996, he released
“Moss Elixir,” an acclaimed album in which Hitchcock embraced
his folk roots.
In 1998, Hitchcock starred in the concert film “Storefront Hitchcock,”
shot on West 14th Street in New York and directed by Academy Award®-winner
Jonathan Demme.
In 1999, Hitchcock released “Jewels for Sophia,” and a year
later, a companion disc entitled “A Star for Bram.” He made
his acting debut in 2002, a cameo appearance in a television adaptation
of Tony Parsons’ book Man and Boy.
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