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Felicity Porter
The following is a partial list of characters from the television series '' Felicity'': Main characters Felicity Elizabeth Porter The title character is played by Keri Russell. The series opens with Felicity's high school graduation. Following the ceremony she sees Ben, her high school crush, and goes over to ask him to sign her year book. The note he writes is thoughtful, and hints at missed opportunity and disappointment. Felicity decides to abandon her plans to study pre-med at Stanford University and instead follows Ben to New York. Once there she realizes her decision was more than about Ben, that she needs to find herself, away from her parents' influence and expectations. She is a remarkably intelligent and thoughtful person, yet can be led to make rather impulsive and rash decisions. As the show progresses she grows into a more secure and centered young woman. Felicity chose to be an art major. Ben Steven Covington Ben (Scott Speedman) is the reason Felicity goes t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felicity (TV Series)
''Felicity'' is an American drama television series created by J. J. Abrams and Matt Reeves and produced by Touchstone Television and Imagine Television for The WB. Brian Grazer and Ron Howard were executive producers through Imagine Entertainment. The series revolves around the college experiences of the title character, Felicity Porter (portrayed by Keri Russell), as she attends the "University of New York" (based on New York University), which lies across the country from her home in Palo Alto, California. The show ran for four seasons from September 29, 1998, to May 22, 2002, with each season corresponding to the traditional American university divisions of freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years. In 2007, ''Felicity'' was one of ''Time'' magazine's "All-''Time'' 100 Best TV Shows." AOL TV named ''Felicity'' one of the "Best School Shows of All Time." In June 2010, ''Entertainment Weekly'' named Felicity Porter one of the "100 Greatest Characters of the Last 20 Years" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eve Gordon
} Eve Gordon (also known as Eve Bennett-Gordon) is an American actress. Her television roles include playing Marilyn Monroe in the Emmy Award-winning miniseries ''A Woman Named Jackie'', Congressional aide Jordan Miller in the short-lived sitcom ''The Powers That Be'', the mother of the title character in the drama series '' Felicity'', and Monica Klain, the wife of Ron Klain (played by Kevin Spacey) in the 2008 Emmy Award-winning HBO film ''Recount''. She also starred in the 1997 film ''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves'', starring opposite Rick Moranis. Life and career Gordon is the daughter of Mary (née McDougall), a history professor, and Richard Bennett Gordon, a lawyer. Gordon graduated from the Ellis School in Pittsburgh, Brown University, and Yale School of Drama. She started her acting career in 1982, playing Marge Tallworth in the film ''The World According to Garp''. After that, she appeared in '' ER'', '' Come On Get Happy: The Partridge Family Story'', ''Avalon'' and ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Klugman
Brian Klugman (born September 15, 1975) is an American actor, screenwriter, and director. In 2012 he debuted as a co-director with Lee Sternthal on the film '' The Words'', which they both co-wrote as well. Early life Klugman was born in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father, Gerald, is a real estate broker, and his mother, Helen, is a school teacher. He has an older brother, Jeffrey, a younger sister, Laurie, and a younger brother, Michael. His paternal grandfather, Reuben, is actor Jack Klugman's brother. He graduated from Germantown Academy and attended Carnegie Mellon University for two years. Career His most recent role has been Dr. Oliver Wells in ''Bones''. He appeared in ''Cloverfield'', '' The Bogus Witch Project'', '' Dreamland'', ''Joan of Arcadia'', ''Can't Hardly Wait'', and ''National Lampoon's Adam & Eve''. He also played Kirby Gardner, a student, in several episodes of ''Frasier''. Klugman appeared in the 2009 horror/thriller '' Vacancy 2: Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dash Mihok
Dashiell Raymond Mihok (; born May 24, 1974) is an American actor and director best known for playing Brendan "Bunchy" Donovan in the Showtime drama ''Ray Donovan''. Early life Mihok was born in New York City, the son of theater actors Andrea Mihok (née Cloak) and Raymond Thorne (né Mihok).Archived aGhostarchiveand thWayback Machine He has two older sisters: Gwen Mihok, an actress, and Cecily Trenka, a science teacher. He is of Czech and British descent. Mihok grew up in Greenwich Village and lived in the artist community Westbeth on Bank Street. Mihok went to PS 3, a public elementary school in Manhattan, currently named the John Melser Charrette School. He attended the Center School (MS 243) for middle school. While attending Bronx High School of Science, where he played baseball as a middle infielder, Mihok joined CityKids Repertory, and appeared in the short-lived TV show, '' CityKids,'' which featured local New York child actors and Jim Henson's The Muppets. Mihok also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Jane Morris (actress)
Sarah Jane Morris (born April 12, 1977) is an American actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Julia Walker on the ABC television drama '' Brothers & Sisters'' from 2006 to 2009. Life and career Morris was born to Walker (a commercial airline pilot) and Janie Morris, a social worker, the youngest of four siblings, and graduated from the private all-girls' Hutchison School in Memphis. She attended Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. It was there that she met her future husband, Ned Brower, whom she married on February 19, 2005. They have a son, Emmett Andrew Brower (born January 24, 2010) and a daughter Beau Katherine (born February 1, 2014). Morris moved to Los Angeles after college to pursue an acting career and immediately found work on such network television series as ''Boston Public,'' ''Undeclared'' and '' Ed.'' She had a recurring role as Zoe Webb on '' Felicity'' from 2001-2002. She later appeared in short-l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Gorham
Christopher Gorham (born August 14, 1974) is an American actor who is best known for the ABC series ''Ugly Betty''. He has also appeared in such series as '' Insatiable'', ''Popular'', ''Odyssey 5'', '' Felicity'', ''Jake 2.0'', '' The Magicians'', ''Medical Investigation'', ''Out of Practice'', ''Harper's Island'', ''Covert Affairs'', and ''Once Upon a Time''. He is also the voice of Barry Allen / The Flash in the DC Animated Movie Universe beginning with '' Justice League: War'' (2014) and ending with '' Justice League Dark: Apokolips War'' (2020). Early life Gorham was born in Fresno, California, to David Gorham, a certified public accountant, and Cathryn Gorham, a school nurse. He attended the Roosevelt School of the Arts and graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Theater in 1996. While in college he participated in many sports, including martial arts, stage combat, fencing, rollerblading, and ballroom dancing. Career His first job in the acting business was as an intern on ''B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris William Martin
Christopher William Martin (born January 17, 1975), also known as Corky Martin or Chris Martin, is a Canadian actor.Glen Schaefer, "Felicity's hair-raiser: Vancouver actor Chris Martin's job was to stir the pot and divert attention from star Keri Russell's bad crop. The result: more bad hair. `I looked like Eraserhead'". ''The Province'', July 16, 2000. He has appeared on a number of television series, including ''Felicity (TV series), Felicity'' and ''The L Word'', as well as leading the 2002 Canadian series, ''Tom Stone (TV series), Tom Stone''. Early life Martin was born in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, the son of Victoria Kathleen and Chris William Martin. He attended McRoberts Secondary School followed by Richmond Secondary School, Richmond High School in Richmond, British Columbia. He is also an alum of Ideal Mini School in Vancouver. Career His first role was in the 1991 teen drama series ''Fifteen (TV series), Fifteen'', filmed in Vancouver. His performance as Dylan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Anderson
Erich Anderson (born Edward Eric Anderson; 1957) is an actor, sometimes credited as E. Erich Anderson, and is married to actress Saxon Trainor. He has starred in film and on television, and is best known for his first film role in the 1984 horror film '' Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter'' as Rob Dier. He also starred in the 1988 film ''Bat*21'' and in the 2002 drama film '' Unfaithful''. Anderson's television appearances have included the series ''Second Chances'' as Bruce Christianson, ''thirtysomething'' as Billy Sidel, and '' Felicity'' as Felicity's father. He also guest starred on ''Melrose Place'' as Courtney Thorne-Smith's psychiatrist. He has made guest appearances on such television series as ''Murder, She Wrote'', '' CSI'', ''CSI: Miami'', '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'' in the Season 5 episode " Conundrum" as Commander Kieran MacDuff, and ''Boomtown'' as D.A. Ben Fisher. He also appeared in '' Season 3 Episode 19'' of US drama ''House''. He also had a memorab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Aquino
Amy Aquino McCoy (born March 20, 1957) is an American television, film, and stage actress. The graduate of Harvard and Yale universities has appeared in television series such as '' Brooklyn Bridge'', '' ER'', and ''Being Human'', and was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for her role in ''Picket Fences''. She was co-secretary/treasurer of the SAG-AFTRA until August 2015 and starred in the television series ''Bosch'' as Lt. Grace Billets. Early life and education Aquino was born in Teaneck, New Jersey. She first acted in junior high school productions. At Harvard University, she majored in biology. In her final year, she realized she was spending more time acting than studying and so left to travel to New York to take acting classes, while working at a law firm. She stayed there for three years without landing any acting jobs, then traveled to Minneapolis, where she gained her first roles. In 1986, after two years of rejections, she enrolled at Yale University School of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janeane Garofalo
Janeane Marie Garofalo ( ; born September 28, 1964) is an American comedian, actress, and former co-host on the now-defunct Air America Radio's ''The Majority Report''. Garofalo began her career as a stand-up comedian and became a cast member on ''The Ben Stiller Show'', ''The Larry Sanders Show'', and ''Saturday Night Live'', then appeared in more than 50 movies, with leading or major roles in ''The Truth About Cats and Dogs'', ''Wet Hot American Summer'', ''The Matchmaker'', ''Reality Bites'', ''The Wild'', '' Steal This Movie!'', ''Clay Pigeons'', '' Sweethearts'', ''Mystery Men'', '' The Minus Man'', and ''The Independent'', among numerous others. She has been a series regular on television programs such as '' Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp'', '' 24'', ''Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce''. and ''Ideal''. Garofalo continues to circulate regularly within New York City's local comedy and performance art scene. Early life Garofalo was born in Newton, New Jersey, the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah-Jane Potts
Sarah-Jane Potts (born 30 August 1976) is an English actress, best known for her roles as Saint (Sarah) in '' Sugar Rush'', Ellie, Abs' on/off girlfriend in '' Casualty'' and Jo Lipsett in '' Waterloo Road''. Potts is the sister of actor Andrew-Lee Potts. From 2011 to 2012, she appeared in ''Holby City'' as Senior Nurse Eddi McKee on AAU, playing a different character to the one she played in ''Casualty''. Potts left ''Holby City'' in the second episode of Series 15; her departure was kept a secret by the production team and was not reported at all by the media, resulting in a shock exit for her character. Early in her career she noted that, "In the three years I have been acting I have spent most of the time looking dirty, scruffy, ill or tarty." Personal life Potts attended Bradford's Scala Kids stage school with her brother Andrew. As a teenager she worked in a greasy spoon cafe in Bradford. She left school during her A-levels to star in ''Meat''. From 1999 to 2001, she d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
