梅丽莎·里奥并不是家喻户晓的大牌影星，她甚至连小牌都不算。除了《冰冻之河》，她最有名的作品是《21克》。然而凭借演过的70部电影和电视剧，梅丽莎·里奥已经是好莱坞令人肃然起敬的黄金绿叶。
Martha Plimpton出现在多部美剧中，她是《家有喜旺》中喜旺年轻的奶奶，也曾经在《傲骨贤妻》中客串一个律师。
霍兰德·泰勒出生在费城，是家里三个孩子的老小，长着一头红棕头发的她有个“PennyTaylor”的昵称。她在Bennington大学主修戏剧专业，22岁那年，前往纽约发展，此后的15年却只是寂寂无名的小龙套演员，直到1980年才迎来了事业上的突破，1999年，她凭借《律师本色》（The Practice）的表演赢得艾美奖剧情类最佳女配角奖，2000年再次因为该剧和《The Lot》获双重艾美提名，2005年她出演了CBS剧集《好汉两个半》），于同年和2007年两度获得艾美奖喜剧类最佳女配角提名。
Brooke Smith grew up in New York in the shadow of show business owing to the fact that she is the daughter of powerful publicist Lois Smith. After studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, her "first big thing" was playing Catherine Martin, the abducted young girl in The Silence of the Lambs (1991). She went on to play Sonya in Louis Malle's Vanya on 42nd Street (1994) and Dawn in Daniel Minahan's brutal sendup of reality television Series 7: The Contenders (2001). Whether she is humming a Tom Petty tune, as her character did in "Lambs," or screaming for a bean dip, as her pregnant character does in "Series 7," Smith is known for giving brooding, detailed performances. In addition to stage work, her other interests include filmmaking (she has directed a short film and a feature-length documentary), journalism (she has published interviews with actors Steve Buscemi, Ed Harris, and Fred Ward), and travel (she has traveled extensively, especially to Africa).
The director and actor Andre Gregory was born on May 11, 1934, to a family he describes as fugitives from Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany. Gregory was born in a hotel in Paris, his mother reportedly having just played cards with the Turkish ambassador. His childhood was spent in Hollywood amongst the stars of the 1940s. Gregory attended Harvard and then studied acting, but was unable to find his feet in that profession. Theatrical success finally came to Gregory as a director in the avant-garde theater in Philadelphia, Los Angeles and New York. By the late 1960s he had established himself as a prominent director in New York experimental theater, collaborating with such luminaries as the legendary Polish director Jerzy Grotowski. Probably the most remarkable achievement in this early summit of Gregory's career came in 1970 when his theater group, The Manhattan Project, staged "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" in New York for a year, which then went on to tour the world to acclaim, and earned him OBIE and Drama Desk Awards for his directing.
罗迪·麦克道尔，生于1928年，十三岁时就在奥斯卡获奖影片《青山翠谷》中扮演重要角色，后来又在《灵犬莱西》中和伊丽莎白·泰勒合作。六十年代他出演过反映诺曼底登陆的影片《最长的一天》，并在终身好友泰勒的巨片《埃及艳后》中扮演屋大维，他担任角色的著名影片还有灾难片《海神号遇险记》。1998年，因患癌症不幸去世。
He was a master class in cerebral eloquence and audience command...and although his dominant playing card in the realm of acting was quite serious and stately, nobody cut a more delightfully dry edge in sitcoms than this gentleman, whose calm yet blistering put-downs often eluded his lesser victims.
