REBECCA ROMIJN
(Roxanne “Roxie” Torcoletti)

Rebecca Romijn continues to maintain her leading lady status in Hollywood with roles in a number of prominent film and television projects. In addition to her starring role as Roxie – a free spirited artist who is discovering her inner-witch – she recently wrapped production on the feature film The Love Child, opposite Donald Sutherland and Sarah Roemer.

Romijn co-starred for two seasons on the Emmy nominated ABC comedy series Ugly Betty as Alexis Meade, formerly known as Alex Meade, the presumed dead brother of current MODE Magazine editor Daniel (Eric Mabius). In its debut season, the show won the Golden Globe for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy and the Writers Guild Award for Best New Series.

Previously Romijn starred in the blockbuster hits X-Men, X2 and X3: The Last Stand, opposite Hugh Jackman and Halle Berry. However it was her role in Brian De Palma’s Femme Fatale, opposite Antonio Banderas, that won her critical acclaim. In this film noir thriller, she plays a woman attempting to go straight while being haunted by her shady con-woman past. Other film credits include, The Punisher, Godsend, Rollerball, Simone, Lies and Alibis, Man About Town and Lake City.

Romijn previously starred on the WB series Pepper Dennis. She began crossing over from the fashion world to TV with memorable appearances on the hit television shows Friends and Just Shoot Me, as well as hosting MTV’s House of Style.

She currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband, actor Jerry O'Connell, and their twin daughters.

JAIME RAY NEWMAN
(Kat Gardener)

Jaime Ray Newman is no stranger to television, having started her career on the popular ABC soap General Hospital. She starred on the series from 2001 until 2003 as Kristina Cassadine, a member of the infamous and aristocratic Cassadine Family. She then moved on to recurring roles on CW’s Veronica Mars, ABC Family’s Lincoln Heights, SciFi’s Eureka and FX’s Nip/Tuck. Newman has also appeared in dozens of other series, including Supernatural, Stargate: Atlantis, Crossing Jordan, Bones, Medium, Criminal Minds and CSI.

On the big screen she recently completed filming the independent film The Gauntlet. She also appeared in Sony’s Made of Honor, Sex and Breakfast and Live!

A native of Michigan, Newman currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

LINDSAY PRICE
(Joanna Frankel)

Lindsay Price has been a staple on network television since her starring role as Janet Sosna on Beverly Hills, 90210. Born to parents of European and Asian decent, she started acting at the age of eight with a guest role on Finder of Lost Loves.

In 1991, Price took on a two-year recurring role on All My Children. She then appeared in The Bold and the Beautiful, from 1995-1997, followed by her role on Beverly Hills, 90210. She also had a string of guest starring roles in several hit series, including CSI, Becker, Jack and Jill, Coupling, Frasier and Pepper Dennis.

Price recently stared alongside Brooke Shields and Kim Raver in the NBC series Lipstick Jungle, based on the bestselling book by Candace Bushnell, as Victory Ford, a free-spirited designer in search of Mr. Right.

Film credits include the independent films Lonely Street and Waterbourne, and she recently completed production on the feature film Happy Thank You More Please. A talented singer/songwriter, Price’s song, “Someone Like Me,” played over the last scene in the finale of Lipstick Jungle.

PAUL GROSS
(Darryl Van Horne)

Paul Gross is one of Canada’s most popular actors, internationally known for his role as Constable Benton Fraser on the multi award-winning drama series Due South. He was honored with two Gemini Awards for Best Actor and one for his writing on the series, which he also executive produced during the final season.

Gross starred in, co-wrote and produced the miniseries H2O, which aired on CBC in October 2004, as well as the recently aired CBC miniseries The Trojan Horse. He received two Gemini Awards (Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role) for his portrayal of Geoffrey Tenant in the critically acclaimed series Slings & Arrows. He was also awarded the Golden Nymph for Best Actor in a Miniseries at the Monte Carlo International Television Festival for his performance in H2O. Other credits include starring roles in the television movies Murder Most Likely, Getting Married in Buffalo Jump, Buried on Sunday, the miniseries Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City and Chasing Rainbows. Gross also performed in the feature films Wilby Wonderful, Aspen Extreme, Cold Comfort, Paint Cans, Whale Music and Married to It.

In 2000, Gross wrote, directed and starred in the feature film Men with Brooms, which was the highest-grossing English language Canadian film of the previous 20 years. He released his feature film Passchendaele, a movie based on the famous First World War battle heroically fought by 50,000 Canadians in the bloodied fields of Ypres, Belgium. He wrote and directed the screenplay and stars as Michael Dunne, a character based on his own grandfather. Passchendaele won five Genie Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor nomination for Gross. He also stars in the feature film Gunless.

Gross earned a degree in drama at the University of Alberta and went on to perform extensively in Canadian regional theatres, in addition to forging a writing career. His first play, The Deer and the Antelope Play, performed in Edmonton, won the Clifford E. Lee National Playwriting Award and the Alberta Cultural Playwriting Award (1982). He performed the title role in the Stratford Festival’s 2000 production of Hamlet, received a 1985 Dora Award nomination for his performance as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and a Dora Award for Best Performance for his role in the acclaimed North American premiere of Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Toward the Somme (1988), which played at Toronto’s CanStage.

Gross is the honorary chair of the National Screen Institute and a spokesperson for Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children. He recently received the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award.

ASHLEY BENSON
(Mia Torcoletti)

Ashley Benson is one of today’s young, hot triple threats. Born and raised in California, she developed a passion for theater at the age of three, began acting when she was nine, working mostly in commercials, then quickly made the transition into film and television. She has appeared on such TV shows as The District, The West Wing, Scrubs and The OC. She also spent three years on NBC's Days of Our Lives, playing “Abigail Deveraux.”

Benson made her feature film debut in 13 Going on 30, starring Jennifer Garner. She played the lead in Bring It On: In It to Win It, as the fresh faced captain of the West High cheerleading team. She was seen in the independent film Bart Got a Room, opposite William H. Macy, and starred in Lifetime's TV movie Fab Five.

Aa positive role model in her community, Benson highly values the importance of charity work. She participates in public speaking – advocating education, strong life goals and the achievement of dreams through perseverance. She feels that reaching out to others, especially youth close to her age, provides an invaluable sense of fulfillment. She is also an avid promoter of animal rights.

She lives in the Los Angeles area with Olive, her adorable Maltese Shih Tzu. In her spare time, Benson enjoys Pilates, studying acting, tap, jazz, ballet and hip-hop, swimming, playing Wii and going to the movies.

JON BERNTHAL
(Raymond Gardener)

Jon Bernthal was raised in Washington, DC. He went to study at The Moscow Art Theatre School in Russia, where he also played in the European Professional Baseball Federation.

While in Moscow, Bernthal was noticed by the director of Harvard University's Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at the American Repertory Theatre and was invited to obtain his MFA there. After graduating in 2002, he performed in over 30 plays regionally and off-Broadway, including many with his own award-winning theatre company, Fovea Floods.

Bernthal appears in the upcoming HBO miniseries The Pacific, from Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. He starred as Duncan Carmello on The Class for CBS and has made guest appearances on How I Met Your Mother, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Boston Legal and CSI: Miami. 

He recently shot the feature film The Ghost opposite Ewan McGregor and directed by Roman Polanski. Additional film credits include Oliver Stone's World Trade Center, The Air I Breathe, Day Zero and the role of Al Capone in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.

Bernthal lives in Venice, California, with his dogs, Boss and Venice.

VERONICA CARTWRIGHT
(Bun Waverly)

Veronica Cartwright was born in Bristol, England and immigrated to the United States as a young girl with her parents and sister, Angela. She began her career modeling and doing print ads, eventually becoming the Kellogg’s Girl, with commercials for Kellogg’s Corn Flakes, Sugar Smacks and Rice Krispies.

At the age of nine Cartwright appeared in In Love and War, as sister to Robert Wagner’s character, followed by a semi-regular role as Violet Rutherford on Leave It to Beaver – where she was famed for giving Beaver his first kiss. Other shows followed, including The Eleventh Hour, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and the classic episode of The Twilight Zone entitled “I Sing the Body Electric,” as well as numerous guest appearances and a role as Jemima Boone on Daniel Boone from 1964-66.

At 15, Cartwright won an Emmy® for Best Actress in a Television Movie for Tell Me Not in Mournful Numbers, an actual case-history of a young girl admitted to the Children's Psychiatric Unit of Los Angeles County General Hospital, thinking, drawing and speaking only in numbers. She has been nominated three other times for an Emmy® Award: In 1997, for her guest starring role of Mrs. Huston in two widely acclaimed episodes of ER, and twice for her pivotal role of Cassandra Spender on Fox's The X Files (1998 and 1999).

Cartwright has appeared in such television movies and series as The Rat Pack, The Lottery, My Brother’s Keeper, opposite John Lithgow, Dead in the Water and RFK: His Life and Times – in which she played Ethel Kennedy. She also had a memorable recurring television role as zealous prosecutor Margaret Flanagan on L.A. Law. Most recently, she has been seen in CSI, Cold Case, October Road, Six Feet Under, Law & Order SVU, Boston Legal, The Closer, Invasion and Will & Grace, among other series.

Cartwright’s film career began in such classic films as The Children’s Hour, with Audrey Hepburn and Shirley McLaine and directed by William Wyler; Spencer’s Mountain and Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. She made her transition into adult roles in Inserts and Goin’ South, the first of three films in which she starred opposite Jack Nicholson. She appeared in two science fiction classics in the 1970s, Philip Kaufman's remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Ridley Scott's masterpiece thriller, Alien. In 1983 she starred as Betty Grissom in the epic dramatization of NASA's space program based on Tom Wolfe's novel, The Right Stuff, also directed by Kaufman. She made an indelible impression on moviegoers in 1987 with her standout performance in The Witches of Eastwick, alongside Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer, Susan Sarandon and Nicholson. Other film credits include Man Trouble, again with Nicholson, and Candyman II, based on a Clive Barker story.

In 1997, Cartwright starred in Money Talks, opposite Chris Tucker and Charlie Sheen. Upcoming films include Darren Stein's comedy, Sparkler, opposite Park Overall, and A Slipping Down Life, opposite Guy Pierce and Lili Taylor. She has also appeared in Just Married, Scary Movie 2 and The Invasion.

Cartwright’s many theater credits from New York to Los Angeles include Electra, Tally’s Folly, and The Master Builder. Her performances in The Hands of Its Enemy, The Triplet Collection and Homesteaders each brought her DramaLogue Awards for Best Actress.

SARA RUE
(Penny Higgins)

Born and raised in New York City, Sara Rue spent most of her childhood backstage with her parents, who were very active in the Broadway theatre community. Rue’s acting career began at age nine, when she was cast as Kevin Spacey’s daughter and Burt Lancaster’s granddaughter in the film Rocket Gibraltar. Shortly thereafter, she won critical acclaim for her television series debut, starring in the comedy Grand.

Since then Rue has appeared as a series regular on a number of shows, including Phenom, Minor Adjustments, Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane, and Popular. Most notably she was the star of ABC’s hit series Less than Perfect for four seasons. Following that, Chuck Lorre added her for recurring appearances on Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory. She has also been seen in many guest and recurring roles on shows such as ER, Will & Grace and The Division.

In features, Rue starred as Sigourney Weaver’s cellmate in A Map of the World, and appeared as a scene-stealing social misfit in Can’t Hardly Wait, alongside Jennifer Love Hewitt. She was also cast in Pearl Harbor as a tough-talking nurse, and as Lili Taylor’s best friend in the adaptation of Anne Taylor’s novel, A Slipping Down Life. That same summer, she received rave reviews for her portrayal of the title character in the film Gypsy 83. Rue also played the Attorney General of the United States opposite Luke Wilson in the Mike Judge film, Idiocracy. She has three other indie films “in the can” awaiting release, and is most excited about the comedy For Christ Sake, in which she plays a porn star who falls in love with a priest.

On stage, Rue starred at the Ensemble Studio Theatre’s (NYC) one-act festival for two years in a row in productions of The Shallow End and Seventh Word, Four Syllables. In conjunction with shooting two television pilots and a feature film in the spring of 1999, she made her Los Angeles theatre debut at the Matrix Theatre in the play The Water Children, which dealt with the controversial issues of abortion and a woman’s right to choose. She also starred in the world premiere musical Little Egypt at the Matrix Theatre, portraying a lovable, social misfit and star-crossed lover. She later reprised that role for a short run Off-Broadway.

Rue has begun producing film and television, recently selling her first movie to Dimension Films, based on an original idea of hers and her partner’s. She lives in Southern California with her two cats and two dogs. She loves to garden and play the guitar, and says that she spends too much of her free time playing poker.

JOHANN URB
(Will St. John)

Johann Urb, a native of Tallinn, Estonia and the son of Estonian musician Tarmo Urb of the Urb Brothers, immigrated to Finland at the age of 10, where he spent the remainder of his childhood. Subsequently he moved to New York City, where he modeled on contract with the Ford Agency. Through a scholarship, he formally studied drama at the prestigious Lee Strasberg Institute.

Urb’s television credits include a series regular role in The Mountain, a recurring role in Dirt and guest-starring roles in such diverse shows as Entourage, One Tree Hill and CSI: Miami.

He will be in seen in Roland Emmerich’s feature film 2012 for Sony Pictures, opposite John Cusack, Thandie Newton and Oliver Platt. He recently wrapped the independent film Pornstar, which he also produced. Other film credits include All In, Strictly Sexual, Zoolander, The Bank Job and The Hottie & the Nottie.

Urb currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife.