SAMUEL L. JACKSON (The Champ)

JOSH HARTNETT (Erik Kernan Jr.)

KATHRYN MORRIS (Joyce)

ALAN ALDA (Metz)

TERI HATCHER (Flak)

SAMUEL L. JACKSON (The Champ) Jackson’s career began upon his graduation from Morehouse College in Atlanta with a degree in dramatic arts. He went on to perform in numerous stage plays, including Home, A Soldier’s Play, Sally/Prince and The District Line. He also originated roles in two of August Wilson’s plays at Yale Repertory Theatre. For the New York Shakespeare Festival, Jackson appeared in Mother Courage and Her Children, Spell #7 and The Mighty Gents.

Jackson made his film debut in Together for Days, while still a student at Morehouse. He most recently completed work on Irwin Winkler’s Home of the Brave and Craig Brewer’s Black Snake Moan, both scheduled for release in 2007. Currently, Jackson is in production simultaneously in Doug Liman’s sci-fi thriller, Jumper as well as in The Cleaner, a drama/thriller that Jackson is co-producing. He will begin production on Black Water Transit with Bruce Willis this spring.

In 2006, Jackson starred in New Line’s thriller Snakes on a Plane and in Freedomland opposite Julianne Moore. In 2005, he played Agent Derrick Vann in the action crime comedy The Man opposite Eugene Levy. Also in that year, Jackson topped the opening weekend box office charts with the success of the Paramount Pictures’ Coach Carter, which also screened opening night of the Palm Springs Film Festival, where Jackson received a Career Achievement Award and Best Actor at the NAACP Image Awards.

Jackson also starred in In My Country, directed by John Boorman, as an American reporter who must cope with the aftermath of apartheid as his newspaper assigns him to cover the Truth and Reconciliation Trials. He then did two reprising roles, first as Agent Augustus Gibbons in XXX: State of the Union and then as Mace Windu in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith.

Jackson’s additional credits include the voice of Frozone in Disney’s critically acclaimed, animated action-adventure film The Incredibles, as well as starring roles in S.W.A.T., Changing Lanes, Formula 51, XXX, Stars Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Kasi Lemmons’ Caveman’s Valentine and Eve’s Bayou. 15

In 2000, Jackson starred opposite Bruce Willis in writer/director M. Night Shyamalan’s suspense drama, Unbreakable. Also in that year, he starred in the courtroom drama Rules of Engagement and in John Singleton’s Shaft. Both films were screened at the 2000 Deauville Film Festival, where Jackson was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

His portrayal of Jules, the philosophizing hit man, in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction brought him unanimous critical acclaim, as well as Academy Award® and Golden Globe nominations. For Jackie Brown, his second film with director Quentin Tarantino, Jackson received a Golden Globe nomination and the Silver Bear Award for Best Actor in a Comedy at the Berlin Film Festival. For his performance in Joel Schumacher’s 1996 film of the John Grisham novel A Time to Kill, Jackson received a Golden Globe nomination and an NAACP Image Award.

In 1991, Jackson made movie history with his portrayal of a crack addict in Spike Lee’s Jungle Fever when he was awarded the first and only Best Supporting Actor Award ever given by the judges at the Cannes Film Festival. He also won the New York Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor for that performance.

On television, Jackson starred in John Frankenheimer’s Emmy Award-winning Against the Wall for HBO. His performance earned him a Cable Ace nomination as Best Supporting Actor in a Movie or Miniseries, as well as a Golden Globe nomination.

JOSH HARTNETT (Erik Kernan Jr.) was born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, and he was most recently seen starring opposite Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank and Scarlett Johansson in Brian De Palma’s The Black Dahlia.

Hartnett first came to audiences' attention as Michael “Fitz” Fitzgerald in the television series “Cracker,” and he made his feature film debut in 1998, co-starring with Jamie Lee Curtis in Miramax’s Halloween: H20. For his efforts, he received an MTV Movie Award nomination for Best Breakthrough Performance. Also in that year, he starred in The Faculty, directed by Robert Rodriguez, again for Miramax. He followed in 1999 with a starring role opposite Kirsten

Dunst in the film which marked Sofia Coppola’s directorial debut, the critically acclaimed black comedy, The Virgin Suicides.

In 2001 Hartnett starred in three features. His portrayal of the antagonist, Hugo, in the Lions Gate Film O, a modern day version of Othello, earned him widespread praise. He then went on to star in the Jerry Bruckheimer blockbuster Pearl Harbor and segued to Morocco for Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down, another Bruckheimer production. In 2002 the National Theater Owners awarded him the ShoWest 2002 Male Star of Tomorrow Award.

Hartnett also starred in MGM's Wicker Park opposite Diane Krueger and Rose Byrne for director Paul McGuigan, Miramax’s Sin City for director Robert Rodriguez and Mozart and the Whale, a love story between two savants with Asperger's Syndrome written by Ron Bass. He recently re-teamed with director McGuigan when he starred with Morgan Freeman and Bruce Willis in Lucky Number Slevin for The Weinstein Company. Hartnett has also just completed starring in 30 Days of Night for director David Slade which will be released by Sony in October 2007.

Additional film credits for Hartnett include Hollywood Homicide, 40 Days and 40 Nights, Blow Dry, Town and Country and Here on Earth.

KATHRYN MORRIS (Joyce) stars as Detective Lilly Rush in the CBS hit drama Cold Case produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. She made her breakthrough film performance opposite Tom Cruise in Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report and went on to appear in Spielberg’s A.I. alongside Jude Law and Haley Joel Osment.

Most recently, Morris was seen opposite Ben Affleck in John Woo’s Paycheck and alongside Christian Slater, LL Cool J and Val Kilmer in Renny Harlin’s Mindhunters.

Morris is director Rod Lurie’s touchstone, appearing in all of his feature films including Deterrence, the Academy Award®-nominated political thriller The Contender and The Last Castle. Her other film credits include As Good As It Gets, Jerry Maguire, Stand-Ins and the independent feature Ghost of a Chance.

Morris’ television credits include the acclaimed Showtime production of Inherit the Wind, with Jack Lemmon and George C. Scott, two CBS mini-series And Never Let Her Go and Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, NBC’s Long Road Home, Fox’s Rise and Walk: The Dennis Byrd Story, as well as the series Providence and The Magnificent Seven.

ALAN ALDA (Metz) earned the distinction of being nominated for an Oscar®, a Tony, and an Emmy and made The New York Times bestseller list, all in the same year (2005). Alda received the Academy Award® nomination (and a BAFTA Award nomination) for Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator, the Emmy nomination (and a Screen Actors’ Guild nomination) came from his portrayal of Arnold Vinick, the Republican candidate for the presidency in NBC’s hit series The West Wing, and the Tony nomination was for his performance in the Broadway revival of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross. That same year, Alda’s memoir, entitled Never Have Your Dog Stuffed, and Other Things I’ve Learned, became a best seller.

Alda has also earned international recognition as an actor, writer and director. His performance in Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors earned him the D.W. Griffith Award, the NY Film Critics Award and a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actor. His additional film credits as an actor include Everyone Says I Love You, Flirting With Disaster, Manhattan Murder Mystery, And The Band Played On, Same Time, Next Year and California Suite. He wrote and starred in The Seduction of Joe Tynan, and he wrote, directed and starred in The Four Seasons, Sweet Liberty, A New Life and Betsy’s Wedding.

On Broadway Alda played the physicist Richard Feynman in QED and starred in the first American production of the international hit play ART. He received Tony Award nominations for his performances in Neil Simon's Jake’s Women and the musical The Apple Tree. His other appearances on Broadway include The Owl and the Pussycat, Purlie Victorious and Fair Game for Lovers, for which he received a Theatre World Award.

On television Alda hosted the award winning PBS series Scientific American Frontiers for eleven years, interviewing leading scientists from around the world. He played Hawkeye Pierce on the classic television series M*A*S*H, and also wrote and directed many of the episodes. In eleven years on M*A*S*H, Alda won an Emmy five times and is the only person to be honored by the TV Academy as top performer, writer and director.

Alda has won three Director’s Guild Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, seven People’s Choice Awards, and received two Writer's Guild nominations for his work in television. In all, he has been nominated for 32 Emmys including a nomination in 1999 for his performance on ER, as well as for his portrayal of Caryl Chessman, the inmate who spent 12 years on death row in Kill Me If You Can. His TV work also includes Truman Capote's The Glass House. He was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1994.

TERI HATCHER (Flak) is renowned for her deliciously deadpan delivery on the award-winning television show, Desperate Housewives. Now in her third season on the ABC hit series, Hatcher plays Susan Mayer, a single mom searching for love amid the sometimes sordid, always intriguing goings-on of her suburban neighborhood. In 2005 Hatcher’s performance in the much talked about show earned her a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Television Critics Award and an Emmy Award Nomination, followed in 2006 by a Golden Globe Nomination and a Screen Actors Guild Nomination for Best Ensemble.

The U.K. edition of Glamour magazine honored Hatcher as one of its “2005 Women of the Year” with an award presented by Sir Elton John. In addition, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev presented Hatcher with the Actress of the Year Award, from the Women’s World Awards in November 2005 and Hatcher continues to work with the organization to help support it and women’s issues around the world. Most recently Hatcher became a NY Times Bestselling Author with her first book, Burnt Toast and Other Philosophies of Life, published in May 2006.

Hatcher first drew attention on TV as Lois Lane in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and her present visibility in the media and on television follows years of success in feature films, including Spy Kids directed by Robert Rodriguez, Tomorrow Never Dies, as Bond girl Paris Carver, Soapdish with Kevin Kline, Two Days in the Valley with Charlize Theron and James Spader and The Big Picture, her feature film debut directed by Christopher Guest.

The many highlights of Hatcher’s career include her portrayal of Sally Bowles in the national tour of the Tony Award-winning musical Cabaret, her performance in Eve Ensler’s wildly popular The Vagina Monologues and a turn hosting Saturday Night Live.

Hatcher is also well known for her involvement in worthy causes, including the Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance, The Starlight Starbright Foundation and the Make-A-Wish Foundation. She was honored in 1996 with the Aviva Center’s Spirit of Compassion Award, and she is a generous, longtime supporter of the organization, which provides services to adolescent victims of abuse. Likewise, Hatcher has been a strong advocate of both AIDS Walk Los Angeles and AIDS Walk New York, and she is an active participant in the battle against breast cancer.