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Mercy Street (TV Series)
''Mercy Street'' was an American period medical drama television series created by Lisa Wolfinger and David Zabel. The series is based on the memoir, ''Adventures of an Army Nurse in Two Wars'', by Mary Phinney von Olnhausen. It is set during the Civil War and follows two volunteer nurses from opposing sides who work at the Mansion House Hospital in Alexandria, Virginia. The first season of six episodes premiered on-demand on January 14, 2016 and made its broadcast debut on January 17, 2016 on PBS with 3.3 million viewers. PBS announced in early March 2016 that ''Mercy Street'' had been renewed for a second season which premiered on January 22, 2017. On March 9, 2017, PBS cancelled the series after two seasons. Cast and characters * McKinley Belcher III as Samuel Diggs * Suzanne Bertish as Matron Brannan * Norbert Leo Butz as Dr. Byron Hale * L. Scott Caldwell as Belinda Gibson * Gary Cole as James Green, Sr. * Jack Falahee as Frank Stringfellow * Peter Gerety as Dr. Alf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Zabel
David Breitel Zabel is an American television producer and writer. He has worked extensively on '' ER'', becoming an executive producer and the series' showrunner. He has won a Humanitas Prize for his writing for ''ER''. He was also the showrunner/executive producer of the PBS series ''Mercy Street''. Early life Zabel was raised in New York City. He attended Princeton University and New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts. Career Zabel began his scriptwriting career with episodes for '' JAG'' and '' Star Trek: Voyager''. He then became the story editor for the first season of ''Dark Angel'' in 2000 while continuing to write teleplays. In 2001, Zabel joined the crew of ''ER'' as an executive story editor and was promoted to co-executive producer later that season. He was made executive producer partway through the tenth season and took on the role of showrunner for the eleventh season. As a credited writer, Zabel contributed to over 45 scrip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Green (Alexandria VA Businessman)
James, Jim, or Jimmy Green may refer to: Politics * James Green (New Zealand politician) (1836–1905), New Zealander who was a Member of Parliament * James A. Green (politician) (1930–2011), American who was a US Representative for Pennsylvania * James C. Green (1922–2000), American politician who was lieutenant governor of North Carolina * James D. Green (1798–1882), American politician who was mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts * James S. Green (1817–1870), American U.S. Senator and Representative from Missouri * Jim Green (councilman) (1943–2012), Canadian politician and university instructor * Jimmy Green (South African politician), South African trade unionist and politician Sports * James Green (basketball) (born 1960), American college coach * James Green (Canadian football) (born 1983), Canadian former player in the Canadian Football League * James Green (rugby league) (born 1990), English league player with Hull KR and Castleford Tigers * James Green (wres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wade Williams
Wade Andrew Williams (born December 24, 1961) is an American actor. He is known for his various character roles, and for a major supporting role as correctional officer Brad Bellick on the Fox television series '' Prison Break'' and Father Cronin on ''The Bernie Mac Show'' (2001–2004). Williams also voiced Two-Face in '' Batman: The Dark Knight Returns'' (2012–2013). Life and career Williams was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He studied theatre at the University of Tulsa. He began his acting career at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park in ''The Taming of the Shrew'' with Morgan Freeman and Tracey Ullman. Williams also had a role with Denzel Washington in '' Richard III''. Williams then continued with performances on and off Broadway and toured nationally in productions such as ''Guys and Dolls'', ''Les Misérables'', '' Kiss of the Spider Woman'', ''Ragtime'', and ''Show Boat''. His film credits include ''Flicka'', ''Collateral'', ''Ali'' and ''Erin Brockovich''. Additionally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tara Summers
Tara Summers (born 19 December 1979) is an English actress. Summers was educated at Heathfield St Mary's School, in Berkshire. She later attended Brown University, where she graduated with a B.A. in history in 2001. Her grandmother was Fritzi Gordon, an Austrian-born WBF World Grand Master bridge player with four world titles. Summers has written and starred in a one-woman theatrical show, ''Gypsy of Chelsea''. The play is the story of her childhood, charting her mother's turbulent journey from cocaine addiction to recovery. She has appeared in several films, including '' Factory Girl'' in 2006. In 2007 and 2008, Summers starred on TV as Katie Lloyd on ''Boston Legal''. Summers was the director in the video for Snow Patrol's 2011 single "Called Out in the Dark". She also appeared in the first half of the first season of The CW's mystery drama series '' Ringer''. In 2014, she appeared as Leanne Zander in the Fox dramedy series ''Rake Rake may refer to: * Rake (stock charact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AnnaSophia Robb
AnnaSophia Robb (born December 8, 1993) is an American actress, model, and singer. She began as a child actress on television, making her leading debut as the titular role in '' Samantha: An American Girl Holiday'' (2004). She made her feature film debut in ''Because of Winn-Dixie'' (2005), followed by the supporting role of Violet Beauregarde in Tim Burton's ''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'' (2005). Her performance as Leslie Burke in ''Bridge to Terabithia'' (2007) garnered her recognition and praise, and two Young Artist Awards. Her subsequent film roles include ''Race to Witch Mountain'' (2009), ''Soul Surfer'' (2011), and ''The Way Way Back'' (2013). She received wider recognition and praise for playing the lead role of Carrie Bradshaw on The CW's series ''The Carrie Diaries'' (2013–2014). In 2019, she played the role of Gypsy Blanchard's neighbor Lacey in the Hulu miniseries ''The Act''. Early life Robb was born in Denver, Colorado, the only child of Janet, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Radnor
Joshua Thomas Radnor (born July 29, 1974) is an American actor, filmmaker, author, and musician. He is best known for portraying Ted Mosby on the popular and Emmy Award–winning CBS sitcom ''How I Met Your Mother''. He made his writing and directorial debut with the 2010 comedy drama film ''Happythankyoumoreplease'', for which he won the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize. In 2012, he wrote, directed and starred in his second film, ''Liberal Arts'', which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. In 2014, Radnor portrayed Isaac in the Broadway play ''Disgraced'', which was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play. He then starred as Dr. Jedediah Foster on the PBS American Civil War drama series ''Mercy Street'', Lou Mazzuchelli in the musical series ''Rise'', and as Lonny Flash in ''Hunters''. Early life and education Radnor was born in Columbus, Ohio to a Jewish family, the son of Carol Radnor (née Hirsch), a high school ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donna Murphy
Donna Murphy (born March 7, 1959) is an American actress, best known for her work in musical theater. A five-time Tony Award nominee, she has twice won the Tony for Best Actress in a Musical: for her role as Fosca in '' Passion'' (1994–1995) and as Anna Leonowens'' in The King and I'' (1996–1997). She was also nominated for her roles as Ruth Sherwood in ''Wonderful Town'' (2003), Lotte Lenya in ''LoveMusik'' (2007) and Bubbie/Raisel in ''The People in the Picture'' (2011). Murphy made her Broadway debut as a replacement in the 1979 musical ''They're Playing Our Song''. Her other stage credits include the original off-Broadway productions of ''Song of Singapore'' (1991) and '' Hello Again'' (1993), as well as the alternate to Bette Midler as the title character in a Broadway revival of '' Hello, Dolly!'' (2017–2018). In 1997, she won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in a Children's Special for her role in ''Someone Had to be Benny'', an episode of the HBO ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameron Monaghan
Cameron Riley Monaghan (born ) is an American actor and model. He is known for his role as Ian Gallagher on the Showtime comedy-drama series '' Shameless'' and as twins Jerome and Jeremiah Valeska, who serve as origins for the Joker, on the DC Comics-based TV series '' Gotham.'' He also portrayed Cal Kestis in the action-adventure game '' Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order''. Monaghan began his career as a child model at the age of three and as a child actor at the age of seven. Early life Monaghan was born in Santa Monica, California, the only child of Diane Monaghan, an insurance claims specialist and single mother. He and his mother relocated to Boca Raton, Florida, shortly after his birth. Recognizing that Monaghan was an exceptionally outgoing child, his mother sent his picture to modeling agencies when he was three. He appeared on the cover of his first catalogue at the age of five and appeared in his first regional commercial at seven. He attended Addison Mizner Elementar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luke Macfarlane
Thomas Luke Macfarlane (born January 19, 1980) is a Canadian-American actor and former singer. He is known for playing Scotty Wandell on the ABC television drama '' Brothers & Sisters'' (2006–2011), RAC Agent D'avin Jaqobis on the Space television science fiction series ''Killjoys'' (2015–2019) and the romantic lead in a number of Hallmark Channel movies. Early life and education Thomas Luke Macfarlane was born on 19 January 1980, in London, Ontario. His father Thomas was the Director of Student Health Services at the University of Western Ontario, and his mother Penny is a mental health nurse at a London hospital. Macfarlane attended London Central Secondary School with twin sister, Ruth, and older sister Rebecca. Macfarlane went to school at the Lester B. Pearson School for the Arts, then later studied drama at Juilliard in New York City. Career Macfarlane had an early role playing opposite Cynthia Nixon in Robert Altman's miniseries ''Tanner on Tanner'' on the Sundance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Green (nurse)
Emma Green (1843–1929) was an American involved in Civil War intrigue in Alexandria, Virginia. Described as a Southern belle, her politics shifted from pro-Union or neutral during the Civil War, after the Union seized her family's hotel to serve as the Mansion House Hospital. A fictionalized version of her is played by Hannah James in ''Mercy Street'', where the character is a nurse. Early life Emma Green was born in 1843 into a wealthy and socially aspiring family in Alexandria, Virginia. She was raised in a devout Episcopalian household. She had three brothers who lived in town, three older sisters, and three younger sisters. She grew up in the Carlyle House in Alexandria along with her older sister Lydia, her mother Jane Muir Green, and her father James. In her youth, Emma Green sometimes stayed at the adjacent Mansion Hotel House owned by her family, or stayed at their 232 acre family farm outside town called The Grove. Her father, James Green, was the owner of the M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannah James (actor)
Hannah James is a British–American actress. James grew up on a rural farm in Madison County, Virginia, which the '' Culpeper Star Exponent'' called an ''"1830 homestead"''. Early life James was home-schooled, until the age of ten. She started taking dance lessons when she was just two years old. As a youth she studied ballet, but describes deciding she would seek out a career as a regular actor, like her heroines Maggie Smith and Judi Dench, because the intense physical requirements dancers put on their bodies meant they had short careers. James attended the Guildford School of Acting in Surrey, England. Career Her first major role was a Civil War belle who becomes a volunteer nurse, in the mini-series ''Mercy Street''—set in Virginia. The character James plays, Emma Green, was based on a historical figure. As in the miniseries, she was a daughter of the owners of the hotel that the Union seizes to use as a hospital, the Mansion House Hospital. Many Virginian newspapers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shalita Grant
Shalita Grant (born August 28, 1988) is an American actress best known for portraying NCIS Special Agent Sonja Percy on '' NCIS: New Orleans.'' She is also known from her roles on ''Mercy Street, You, Santa Clarita Diet,'' and '' Search Party.'' Early life and education Grant was born in Petersburg, Virginia. She attended Appomattox Regional Governor's School For the Arts and Technology for a year before transferring to the Baltimore School for the Arts in Maryland, where she was a YoungArts Winner in Theater and Presidential Scholar in the Arts. At 17, she received a scholarship to attend the Juilliard School. In 2010, she graduated from Juilliard with a B.F.A. in Drama. Career Stage Grant's earlier theater work includes The Public Theater's 2010 productions of '' Measure for Measure'', ''The Winter's Tale'', and ''The Merchant of Venice.'' Grant originated the role of Cassandra in Christopher Durang's comedy ''Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike'' since the beginning of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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