The Top Law & Order/Homicide/Chicago TV Show Crew
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Dick Wolf was born on 20 December 1946 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Law & Order (1990), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) and Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001). He has been married to Noelle Lippman since 17 June 2006. They have two children. He was previously married to Christine Marburg and Susan Scranton.- Director
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Tom DiCillo is an American director, cinematographer, writer and (sometimes) actor born in Camp Le Jeune, North Carolina, and who studied film at New York University. During his early career he began working with director Jim Jarmusch as a cinematographer on films that include Stranger Than Paradise (1984) and Coffee and Cigarettes (1986). He also worked with Howard Brookner on the documentary Burroughs (1983), which featured the William S. Burroughs. His experience as cinematographer proved invaluable and he was soon writing and directing his own films.
Notable directorial projects from Tom include Johnny Suede (1991), Living in Oblivion (1995), The Real Blonde (1997), and When You're Strange (2009).
He is a good friend of Steve Buscemi and is thanked in Trees Lounge (1996), Steve's directorial debut.- Producer
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An industry veteran, Arthur W. Forney began his career in post-production at Warner Bros. Working on independent films throughout the years, Forney landed at Universal where he served as an editor on the hit CBS series "Magnum, P.I." and joined Wolf Entertainment in 1987, working as an editor with Dick Wolf on "Gideon Oliver", "Cristine Cromwell", "Nasty Boys", and "Law & Order" (which premiered on NBC in 1990).
As a producer, Forney has worked on many shows for Wolf Entertainment, as well as heading all post-production activities.
Forney began directing in 1994 when he directed a few episodes of "New York Undercover", and he has since gone on to direct episodes of "Legacy", "Millennium", "Profiler", "JAG", "D.C.", and numerous episodes of the "Law & Order" and "One Chicago" franchises.- Writer
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Rene Balcer was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Rene is a writer and producer, known for Law & Order True Crime (2017), Above the Drowning Sea (2017) and Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001).- Director
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Nick attended SUNY Purchase with an interest in sound design, music and movies. It was there he met a group of filmmakers, producers, and actors that he would work with for the next decade; producer Bob Gosse, director Hal Hartley; actors Edie Falco, Paul Schulze, Saul Stein, Adam Trese, all of whom Nick would use in his films.
After SUNY, Nick worked on commercials and features in NYC and wrote a few scripts that caught some attention around NYC. In the early 1990's Nick's SUNY friend, Bob Gosse and Larry Meistrich started The Shooting Gallery in downtown NY to be a home for independent filmmakers. With them, Nick would make Laws of Gravity (1992) starring Edie Falco, Adam Trese, and Paul Shulze - heralding a return of New York City cinema verité, for the first time since Lumet and Scorsese in the 1970's.
From there, Nick made New Jersey Drive (1995) starring Shar-Ron Corley, Gabriel Cassius, Saul Stein, and Donald Faison. Spike Lee, and his company; 40 Acres and A Mule, produced. Nick received Independent Spirit Award nominations for best director on both the critically acclaimed, Laws of Gravity and New Jersey Drive. New Jersey Drive would also receive the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 1995 along with a nomination and win at the Torino and Berlin festivals.
Next, Nick directed the feature, Illtown, starring Michael Rapaport, Lili Taylor, Adam Trese, Kevin Corrigan, Angela Featherstone, Tony Danza, Isaac Hayes, Paul Schulze, Saul Stein. Of his third, and most experimental feature, Nick told the Village Voice: "The mood and tempo of Illtown express what I felt like at the time. I had to make it to come out the other end. It was incredibly hard, but it was really satisfying working on a more intimate scale again." Former NYC mayor, Ed Koch is claimed to have said of Illtown, "It's like a Picasso. You don't always understand it, but you know it's a masterpiece"
In 1995, after a screening of Laws of Gravity, Nick was approached by Tom Fontana and Barry Levinson to create with them a look and tone for their new series for NBC; Homicide; Life on the Street. Nick would in turn, direct the pilot for the series and subsequent episodes. In 1997, Nick would again collaborate with Fontana in the creation of his new series, Oz, for HBO.
Following Oz, Nick, now deeply ensconced in the world of television - a place he felt comfortable to express his ideas and flourish, found himself on the crest of the golden age of television with the explosion of cable. He has directed some of the best episodic television of the past two decades and enjoyed close collaborative relationships with the creators of Chicago P.D. along with countless others. Nick, a prolific episodic director, recently inspired by the wealth of up-and-coming artists, will produce television and bring projects through his company, Eidophusikan Productions.- Producer
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Warren Leight is a writer and showrunner who is currently helming Law & Order: Special Victims Unit during its historic 21st season. Previously, he developed new projects for Sony's television division and was showrunner and Executive Producer of the NBC drama, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit from 2011 - 2016 (Imagen, NAACP and PRISM Awards). He was also showrunner and Executive Producer of HBO's Peabody Award-winning In Treatment, the FX drama Lights Out, and the Edgar-winning Law and Order: Criminal Intent. He wrote and directed "The Night We Never Met," and co-wrote the documentary "Before the Nickelodeon" (New York Film Festival).
Warren's play "Side Man" won the 1999 Tony Award for Best Play, and was a 1999 Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Other plays include "No Foreigners Beyond This Point" (Drama Desk nomination), "Home Front", "Fame Takes a Holiday," "Glimmer, Glimmer and Shine" (ATCA nomination) and "The Loop." He wrote the book to the musical "Mayor" (Drama Desk nomination) and co-wrote the book to "Leap of Faith" (Tony Award nomination). Two collections of one-acts, "Dark, No Sugar," and "Stray Cats," have been published by DPS.
His many articles and humor pieces have appeared in dozens of periodicals including the International Herald Tribune, Rolling Stone, Village Voice, Mademoiselle, National Lampoon and BOMB magazine.
Warren is a former President of The Writer's Guild of America, East, and is a current member of the Dramatists' Guild council. He is an enthusiastic supporter of The 24 Hour Plays.
Warren is a graduate of Stanford University. He lives with his wife and daughters in New York City.- Cinematographer
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Michael Green is known for Eight Legged Freaks (2002), Executive Decision (1996) and Just Cause (1995).- Producer
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Judi McCreary is known for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000) and East New York (2022).- Producer
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William Theodore Kotcheff was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to Bulgarian parents from Plovdiv. He graduated with a degree in English Literature from the University of Toronto. He began his professional career directing TV drama at age 24 at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, at the time becoming the youngest director in the CBC. After two years there he went to live and work in England, directing in television and the theatre.
He twice won the British Emmy for Best Director, the second time for an extraordinary docudrama about a female derelict entitled, "Edna, the Inebriate Woman" episode of Play for Today (1970). The film also won the Best Actress and Best Script Award. Kotcheff's television work in Great Britain was part of the new wave of working-class actors and drama that changed British theatre and television in the late 1950s. His stage successes include the long-running Lionel Bart musical, "Maggie May." His film career started in England: Tiara Tahiti (1962), a social comedy starring James Mason and John Mills; Life at the Top (1965), starring Laurence Harvey and Jean Simmons; Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969), starring Robin Phillips, a film set in the West Indian community of London and dealing with relationships between blacks and whites which was the official British entry at the Venice Film Festival. His next film, Wake in Fright (1971), was made in Australia. It was the Australian entry in the Cannes Film Festival and many Australians still think it is the finest Australian film ever made and the beginning of the renaissance of the Australian cinema. Kotcheff returned to Canada in 1972 to make a film of a novel written by his best friend, Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974). This film, thought to be one of the best Canadian films ever made, won the Golden Bear First Prize at the Berlin Film Festival and numerous other awards including an Academy Award nomination for best script. Kotcheff also directed Fun with Dick and Jane (1977), starring Jane Fonda and George Segal; Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978), starring Jacqueline Bisset and George Segal; North Dallas Forty (1979)--which he also wrote--starring 'Nick Nolte' (a film considered by many in the sport to be one of the best ever made about professional football); First Blood (1982), starring Sylvester Stallone--one of the biggest box-office winners of all time--Uncommon Valor (1983), starring Gene Hackman; and Weekend at Bernie's (1989). In the mid-'80s Kotcheff made a film of another Mordecai Richler novel, Joshua Then and Now (1985). This film, starring James Woods and Alan Arkin, was the official Canadian entry in the Cannes Film Festival, and together with "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz", is one of the most widely known and acclaimed Canadian films in the United States. Kotcheff is married to Laifun Chung and has two children, Thomas age 7 and Alexandra age 9. Laifun Chung is President of their film company, Panoptica Productions, Inc. He has homes in Toronto and Los Angeles.- Producer
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Neal Baer was born in 1958 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He is known for ER (1994), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) and If You Build It (2013). He has been married to Brandon Weiss since 18 June 2022. He was previously married to Geri Smith.- Jonathan Greene is known for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), A Gifted Man (2011) and Stitchers (2015).
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Julie Martin is known for Homicide: Life on the Street (1993), Octopussy (1983) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999).- Producer
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Michael Ciliento is known for Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) and Law & Order (1990).- Producer
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Randy Roberts was born on 12 September 1945 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a producer and editor, known for Early Edition (1996), Chicago Hope (1994) and Jaws 3-D (1983). He was married to Claude Rush. He died on 15 December 2014 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Producer
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Dawn DeNoon was born on 29 October 1964 in Moundsville, West Virginia, USA. She is a producer and writer, known for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), Crisis (2014) and The Blacklist (2013).- Producer
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Gail Barringer is known for Luke Cage (2016), Person of Interest (2011) and A Perfect Murder (1998). Gail has been married to Jansen Lambie since 4 September 2005.- Producer
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Patrick Harbinson is known for Homeland (2011), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) and Wire in the Blood (2002).- Producer
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Producer, Production Manager, and Assistant Director on a range of television, feature film, and commercial projects in many US cities, Europe and Asia.
A Wichita, Kansas native, Jonathan holds a BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and is a member of the Directors Guild of America and the PGA.
He lives in Boston, MA and is a member of Emerson College's Affiliated Faculty.- Kevin Fox was born in 1968. Kevin is a producer and writer, known for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), The Negotiator (1998) and Ryan Caulfield: Year One (1999).
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Michele Fazekas is a writer, producer, and showrunner. She is the co-founder and executive of Fazekas & Butters, a television production and development company. She is known for producing Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), Gen V (2023), Agent Carter (2015), Kevin (Probably) Saves the World (2017), Emergence (2019). She served as the co-showrunner for Prime Video's Gen V (2023) with business partner Tara Butters, a spin-off of the superhero series The Boys (2019).- Producer
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Michael Brandt was born on 1 October 1968 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for 3:10 to Yuma (2007), Arthur the King (2024) and Chicago Fire (2012).- Writer
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Derek Haas was born on 30 June 1970. He is a writer and producer, known for FBI: International (2021), The Double (2011) and Chicago P.D. (2014).- Producer
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Matt Olmstead is known for Chicago P.D. (2014), Prison Break (2005) and NYPD Blue (1993). He is married to Dawn Olmstead.- Writer
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Gwen Sigan is known for Chicago P.D. (2014), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) and Law & Order (1990).- Writer
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Born in South Carolina, raised in North Carolina. Craig moved to Chicago where he received a degree in fiction/creative writing from Columbia College Chicago. After graduating, Craig moved to Los Angeles in 2000, where he started optioning books, writing pilots and features. He broke into the business in 2008, selling the pilot "Stray Bullets" to Fox TV Studios. After that, Craig sold five original pilots before he began staffing on shows...- Producer
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Eduardo Javier Canto is known for Death and Other Details (2024), Parish (2024) and Chicago P.D. (2014).- Writer
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Ike Smith is known for Chicago P.D. (2014) and 312.- Director
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Ernest Roscoe Dickerson A.S.C., aka. Ernest R. Dickerson, is an American film director and cinematographer. As a cinematographer, he is known for his frequent collaborations with Spike Lee. As a director, he is known for films such as Juice (1992), Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995), Bones (2001) and Never Die Alone (2004). He has also directed several episodes of acclaimed television series such as Once Upon a Time (2011), The Wire (2002), Dexter (2006), and The Walking Dead (2010).- Actor
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Mario Van Peebles is a highly regarded director, actor, producer and writer. His directorial skills can be seen in the retelling of the epic mini-series "Roots" starring Forest Whitaker and Matthew Goode. Van Peebles has directed award-winning shows such as the recent hit "Empire" and "The Last Ship," as well as "Sons of Anarchy," "Lost," "Damages," and "Boss." As an actor Van Peebles has credits are as equally impressive.
An independent filmmaker to his core, Van Pebbles grew up watching Melvin Van Peebles, his maverick filmmaker father. A true master craftsman in his own right, Van Peebles is defined as a director, screenwriter, playwright, novelist and composer; known for funding his own work.
His many talents can be seen in films like his directorial breakout hit "New Jack City," "Posse" and "Panther;" plus Michael Mann's Oscar® nominated "Ali," in which he received critical acclaim for his role as real life minister and human rights activist Malcom X; the multi-award-winning "Cotton Club" written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola; Clint Eastwood's "Heartbreak Ridge;" and several projects with Ava DuVernay.
Throughout his career, Van Peebles has brought challenging, compelling material to the screen, including his hip hop coming-of-age film "We the Party," for which he wrote, directed and produced; his documentary short "Bring You're a Game;" and, of course, "Baadasssss!" This was Van Peebles' odyssey about the making of his father's groundbreaking film "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" and was one of Ebert and Roeper's ten best movies of the year for 2004.
As a director, Van Pebbles has affected unusually strong performances from his fellow actors. They often remark that he creates a collaborative climate where they feel free to do their best work. He believes his background as an actor helps him approach the actor's character development process internally. Conversely, he believes being a director has made him a more trusting, nuanced actor. Being able to do both is like creative crop rotation for Van Peebles. Not many directors get the privilege of being directed by other strong filmmakers. Acting for others is still "super exciting" to him.
In 1994, Hofstra University awarded Van Peebles an honorary doctorate of humane letters. After earning a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Columbia University, Van Peebles spent two years working at New York's Department of Environmental Protection before moving to Hollywood to try his hand at acting writing and directing.
In addition to directing and acting in features, Van Peebles is passionate about supporting education and eco-consciousness through media. With his reality show, Mario's Green House, he teamed up with his five children and his father to chronicle the Van Peebles family's often-humorous attempts to raise their eco-consciousness as they try to go green in Hollywood. Green "We never got to the full green, more like Olive green," jokes Van Peebles.- Director
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Born near Windsor, England, Steve became an oil painter, photographer and printer, graduating in Fine Art at Leeds University. He then joined ground-breaking British experimental theatre company Impact Theatre Cooperative as an actor. For the next six years Steve appeared in thirteen original shows which toured throughout the UK and Europe. When Impact disbanded Steve went on to write, produce, direct and design a dozen new shows for his own theatre company which performed in Britain and around the world. Retrospectives of his work were staged at Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Arts and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.
In recognition of his work in theatre, Steve was selected for the BBC Drama Director's Course and was trained at the Television Centre in Shepherds Bush, London to direct for the screen in multi camera, single camera, video and film. He went on to direct for UK ratings leaders "EastEnders", "Emmerdale", "Casualty" and "The Bill" before relocating to New York. His first job in the US was for Sidney Lumet on his TV courtroom series "100 Centre Street" starring Alan Arkin. Sidney wanted to make television drama the way he'd done it live in the 1950s and Steve was hired because of his BBC training and experience in that style. Following many episodes of the "Law & Order" franchise in New York for Dick Wolf, Steve began to work for HBO on "The Wire" in Baltimore and then "The Sopranos", "Rome", "Carnivale" and "Big Love". He directed the pilot of "The Tudors" in Dublin starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers and was nominated for a 2006 WGA Award for his writing on "Deadwood" which he also directed. He has produced and directed many pilots around the world including "Dracula" for NBC shot entirely in Budapest.
He directed the Screen Gems motion picture "Obsessed" starring Beyonce Knowles and Idris Elba which opened at number one in the US box office.
In 2010, Steve won the Emmy for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series for his work on the Season 4 finale of Showtime's "Dexter".- Director
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Darnell Martin was born on 7 January 1964 in Bronx, New York, USA. She is a director and writer, known for I Like It Like That (1994), Cadillac Records (2008) and Do the Right Thing (1989). She is married to Giuseppe Ducrot.- Producer
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Norberto Barba was born on 12 September 1963 in The Bronx, New York, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001) and The Event (2010). He has been married to Regina Osorio since 1999. They have two children.- Producer
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Michael Smith is a NY based Producer and Director. After getting his first directing opportunity on Law and Order: Criminal Intent in 2007, Michael has gone on to direct over 40 episodes of television. He has also worked continuously as a Producing/DIrector on Law and Order: SVU, Satisfaction and The Mysteres of Laura to name a few. Michael is an alumni of The University of Michigan and can usually be spotted on the set wearing some combination of blue and gold. He resides in NJ with his wife Tracy and their two children.- Director
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Alex Chapple is known for FBI (2018), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) and The Americans (2013). Alex has been married to Mala Chapple since 31 December 1998.- Producer
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Edwin Sherin was born on 15 January 1930 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a producer and director, known for Law & Order (1990), Homicide: Life on the Street (1993) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999). He was married to Jane Alexander and Pamela Nichol Vevers. He died on 4 May 2017 in Lockport, Nova Scotia, Canada.- Director
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Constantine Makris is known for Law & Order (1990), Orange Is the New Black (2013) and Jungle 2 Jungle (1997).- Camera and Electrical Department
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Richard Dobbs is known for Local Commercial (2012), Duty Trumps Doubt (2010) and Law & Order (1990).- Producer
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Matthew Penn grew up in New York City and is the son of Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde). Penn has directed and/or produced over 200 episodes of some of television's most respected series. Penn began his career at Law and Order where he was nominated for an Emmy for Best Director for the episode 'Empire' starring Julia Roberts. Other iconic series include: The Sopranos, NYPD Blue, Orange is the New Black and Damages. Penn has directed in single camera film and multi-camera television. Penn is also known for his stage work most recently directing Glenn Close in the Public Theater's production of Jane Anderson's Mother of the Maid.- Director
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Don Scardino was born on 17 February 1949 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a director and producer, known for The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013), 30 Rock (2006) and 2 Broke Girls (2011). He has been married to Dana L. Williams since 1995. They have one child. He was previously married to Pamela Blair.- Producer
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Lewis H. Gould is a recipient of the Emmy Award (nine-time nominee), the Peabody Award and the Producers Guild of America Award for producing the NBC crime drama, "Law & Order". He has directed multiple episodes of "Law & Order" as well as the television shows, "Medium", "Judging Amy", "Close To Home" and "Daredevil" (2nd Unit).
Lewis produced and directed the feature length documentary, "Karmu: A Place In The Sun" which is being distributed by Beyond Words Films. His theatre work includes directing the award winning drama "Heads" at New York's Theater For The New City and an acclaimed staged reading of "What Would Nora Say?" at the National Arts Club.
Prior to his long run as a producer and director in episodic television, Lewis worked as an A.D. and U.P.M. on over fifty feature film and televison productions for directors Norman Jewison, Arthur Penn, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma, Woody Allen, Sidney Lumet and many more.
He has taught "Advanced Television Production" at New York University: Tisch School of the Arts and "Directing and Producing Episodic Television" at The School of Visual Arts in Manhattan.
Lewis is a member of The Directors Guild of America, The Producers Guild of America, SAG-AFTRA and The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.- Producer
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Award-winning director/producer Michael Pressman has, by design, worked across most entertainment genres and mediums, including comedies, dramas, social commentaries, short films, feature length studio and indie films, series television and movies, Broadway stage productions, and regional theater.
The projects he has been privileged to choose have, notably, tended toward socially relevant subjects, a direction to which he gravitated naturally in light of his young family life with two dynamic parents impacted directly by the notorious McCarthy Blacklist.
A native of Manhattan, Pressman was born into a theatrical family. His mother, Sasha, a modern dancer, was an original member of Martha Graham's renowned first dance troupe. His father, David Pressman, was a well-known theatrical and television director who helped launch Boston University's distinguished school of theater and helmed Broadway plays, including The Disenchanted, Jason Robards' first Broadway appearance; and the original Actor's Studio Anthology Series in the late 1940's, for which he discovered and cast an unknown Grace Kelly. David Pressman's pioneer career in live television in the early 1950's was suddenly derailed when he was targeted by Senator Joseph McCarthy during his blacklisting of alleged communist sympathizers. Unable to work in television for close to 15 years, he survived the blacklist by teaching. When the Blacklist itself derailed in the early 1960's, he began working regularly in television directing soap operas. He directed the popular One Life to Live for twenty-eight years, and for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy and ten Daytime Emmys, winning three times.
Michael Pressman graduated from Manhattan's famed high school of Music and Art. He then went on to study drama at Carnegie-Mellon University (with classmates of the likes of Ted Danson). He subsequently moved to Los Angeles where he received his B.F.A. in film from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and studied with the acclaimed British film director, Alexander Mackendrick.
Pressman's interest in filmmaking was directly motivated, if not provoked, by his family's persecution for their early political sympathies, not unlike others of his era, including those in entertainment (Dalton Trumbo, et al) and in sciences (Robert Oppenheimer). It led him to pursue projects, when professionally and financially viable to do so, that were politically, socially and racially compatible with his personal perspectives.
Of course, young filmmakers must make a living, and Pressman knew he needed to establish his bona fides first. His first feature film as a director was the raucous indie comedy The Great Texas Dynamite Chase, made in collaboration with producers and fellow film school students Sean Daniel and David Kirkpatrick, both who went on to forge successful producing careers of their own. With that modest success, Pressman was categorized as a comedy director, and was offered films like the Bad News Bears in Breaking Training, the sequel to the immensely popular original starring Walter Matthau, the Dan Aykroyd comedy Doctor Detroit, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze. These films, though successful, represented but one side of his ambition and talent.
Pressman was able to break this cycle the studios had seemingly mapped out for him, and very early in his career directed the ground-breaking dramatic cult hit Boulevard Nights, the first Latino gang movie of the era which was recently selected for preservation by the Library of Congress. He followed that with Those Lips, Those Eyes, a love letter to the theater about the life of the actor in summer stock, with a lead star-making performance by Frank Langella.
With these successes behind him, Pressman chose to follow up not with another feature, which he had been offered, but with a 1985 short film entitled And The Children Shall Lead, which, for its time, was a racially progressive story starring Danny Glover, Beah Richards and LeVar Burton. He was next courted to direct a resurgent Richard Pryor in post Vietnam War drama, Some Kind of Hero, co-starring the then top box office grossing actress Margot Kidder. However, the studio had other ideas about the film being a drama, not to mention its explicit love scene between the interracial leads, and took the film away from the filmmakers and recut it. It was a lesson Pressman learned the hard way: studios at that time were not interested in taking any kind of progressive posture with its movie stars.
It was time for a change. Television at that time was offering young directors a variety of dramatic content, and Pressman gravitated to directing more than a dozen films for television in quick succession during that medium's heyday. His most successful television movie was To Heal a Nation, about the building of the Vietnam memorial starring Eric Roberts. He also directed the famed Anne Tyler novel Saint Maybe, starring a young Tom McCarthy, Blythe Danner and Mary-Louise Parker for Hallmark Hall of Fame. His notoriety as a top director of dramatic content earned him an offer from David Kelley to co-executive produce and direct a much-anticipated new TV series called Picket Fences, which lasted four seasons and won him two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Drama Series. He next went on to launch Kelley's next show, Chicago Hope, which earned him another Emmy nomination for Outstanding Drama Series.
Since then, Pressman has produced and directed numerous network series, including multiple episodes of the Emmy Award-winning series Law & Order SVU, and two seasons of the then new series Blue Bloods. Pressman also directed the final two hours of the Emmy-nominated TV mini-series Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders, starring Edie Falco and Heather Graham. Most recently, Pressman executive produced the fifth and sixth season of NBC's Chicago Med, earning that show its highest ratings to date. He left the series after the first year of the pandemic.
Pressman's stage work includes directing the Los Angeles premiere of To Gillian on her 37th Birthday, which he then directed as a feature film starring Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeifer, and Peter Gallagher and a Los Angeles equity waiver production of Frankie and Johnny in the Claire De Lune, which he also later adapted into the independent film Frankie and Johnny are Married. He also directed the 2008 Broadway revival of Come Back, Little Sheba, for which he cast the indomitable S. Epatha Merkerson, in the role of the lead character Lola, which had previously been played by only white actresses, and depicted an interracial relationship on stage. Merkerson went on to be Tony nominated for her performance in this role, which the New York Times called, "a performance that stops the heart." Pressman won Best Director that year by the NAACP Artist Awards.
In between series projects, Pressman also directed the play Finks in Los Angeles. It was a very personal story for him as it is about the blacklisting of comic actor Jack Gilford during the McCarthy witch-hunt. Joe Gilford, the author of the play, was a childhood friend and they were able to share and embrace their pasts as children of the Blacklist and how it affected both of their creative lives.
Pressman recently married Maia Danziger, an Emmy Winning actress of television and Broadway theater and feature films, and is also a creator of Relax and Write, a meditative writing program that she teaches around the world. They knew each other as children, having grown up in the same building on the upper west side of Manhattan. They re-connected six years ago, and married four years ago.- Director
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Clark Johnson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor and director, known for S.W.A.T. (2003), The Sentinel (2006) and Homicide: Life on the Street (1993). He was previously married to Heather Salmon.- Writer
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Paul Albert Attanasio (born November 14, 1959) is an American screenwriter. He is a 1981 graduate of Harvard College, where he lived in Currier House, and earned his law degree at Harvard Law School in 1984. Paul is known for Homicide: Life on The Street (1993-1999), Quiz Show (1994), Donnie Brasco (1997) and House M.D. (2004). He is married to Amanda Attanasio.- Writer
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David Simon was born on 13 May 1960 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for The Wire (2002), Homicide: Life on the Street (1993) and The Corner (2000). He has been married to Laura Lippman since 3 October 2006. They have one child.- Writer
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Tom Fontana was born on September 12, 1951 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He is an Emmy Award winning writer and producer, known for Copper (2012), Borgia (2011), Oz (1997), Homicide: Life on the Street (1993) and St. Elsewhere (1982). He was twice married to Sagan Lewis, before her death in 2016.- Producer
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James Yoshimura is known for Homicide: Life on the Street (1993), Homeland (2011) and The Jury (2004). He is married to Mary Lin Hallagan. They have one child.- Producer
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Henry Bromell was born on 19 September 1947 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Homeland (2011), I'll Fly Away (1991) and Homicide: Life on the Street (1993). He was married to Caroline Thompson, Sarah and Trish Soodik. He died on 18 March 2013 in Santa Monica, California, USA.- Producer
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Sean Whitesell was born on 11 March 1963 in Iowa Falls, Iowa, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for The Killing (2011), Oz (1997) and Cold Case (2003). He was married to Maria Quiban. He died on 28 December 2015 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Producer
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Bonnie Mark is known for Homicide: Life on the Street (1993), NYPD Blue (1993) and Third Watch (1999).- Producer
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Anya Epstein was born on 10 July 1970 in New York City, New York, USA. She is a producer and writer, known for Homicide: Life on the Street (1993), Tell Me You Love Me (2007) and The Beat (2000). She has been married to Dan Futterman since 23 September 2000. They have two children.- Writer
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Advisor, Screenwriter, Director, and professor Darryl Wharton-Rigby hails from a family of poets and storytellers. With more than 20 years in film, television, and theatre he embodies a wealth of knowledge in story development, pre-production, production, and post-production.
Darryl has his MFA from Chapman University and taught film for Morgan State University's Screenwriting and Animation Program. He has earned awards and grants from the Urbanworld Film Festival, the Maryland State Arts Council, The Painted Bride Arts Center, the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, and the Caucus Foundation. His work has screened around the United States, France, and Australia.
His feature film Detention, received numerous honors and awards, including "Best Director" at the Urbanworld Film Festival and the "Audience Award" at the Atlanta Film and Video Festival.
Wharton-Rigby worked as a writer for the critically acclaimed television series, Homicide: Life On The Street. After being hired by MTV to write a script based on the Japanese manga TokyoTribe 2, he moved to Japan and taught English in a small town in Fukushima.
He is working on a documentary, Don Doko Don: The Yamakiya Taiko Club Story, about a group of young drummers displaced due to high levels of radiation in their community from the failed nuclear plant.
He splits his time between Baltimore, Los Angeles, and Japan. He credits his wife and three children as his ultimate muse.- Producer
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Jorge Zamacona is known for City on a Hill (2019), Homicide: Life on the Street (1993) and Oz (1997).- Producer
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Eric Ellis Overmyer was born on 25 September 1951 in Boulder, Colorado, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Homicide: Life on the Street (1993), Law & Order (1990) and The Wire (2002).- Noel Behn was born on 6 January 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Homicide: Life on the Street (1993), The Kremlin Letter (1970) and The Brink's Job (1978). He was married to Jo Ann LeCompte. He died on 27 July 1998 in New York City, New York, USA.
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David Mills was born on 20 November 1961 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for NYPD Blue (1993), The Corner (2000) and The Wire (2002). He died on 30 March 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.- Producer
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Kenneth Fink is known for Homicide: Life on the Street (1993), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000) and Gotham (2014). He is married to Beth.- Director
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Peter Medak is a Hungarian-born British film director. Born in Budapest, Hungary, then part of the Warsaw Bloc, Medak fled to England at the age of 18 during the bloody uprising against the Soviet regime. He began his career with associated British Picture Corporation in Borehamwood. He studied and worked his way through by being an assistant editor, assistant cameraman and eventually a 3rd, 2nd and 1st assistant director on many British films of the late 1950s and early 196Os.
Medak worked with some of the most legendary British film directors, including, among others, Sir Carol Reed, David Lean, Anthony Asquith, and Fred Zimmerman. He was signed in 1963 by Universal Studios in Hollywood where for the first six months he the chance to observe Alfred Hitchcock and many others. He began directing television in Hollywood and in London. In 1967, he signed with Paramount Studios where he finally achieved his dream and directed his first feature film called Negatives (1968), featuring Glenda Jackson in her film appearance.
He then proceeded making two highly acclaimed black comedies: The Ruling Class (1972), and A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972) (for which he received an Academy Award nomination). Since then he has directed many feature films on both sides of the Atlantic. In recent years, he made The Krays, which won him The Evening Standard Award for Best Director in England. Later films which he directed include: Let Him Have It, Romeo is Bleeding, The Men's Club, etc.- Director
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John McNaughton was born on 13 January 1950 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is a director and writer, known for Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986), Wild Things (1998) and The Borrower (1991).- Director
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Leslie Libman is known for Alphas (2011), Flashforward (2009) and Designated Survivor (2016). Leslie was previously married to Larry Williams.- Director
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Larry Williams was born on 26 June 1950 in Pennsylvania, USA. He was a director, known for Homicide: Life on the Street (1993), Oz (1997) and Michael McDonald: Sweet Freedom (1986). He was married to Leslie Libman. He died on 31 May 1999 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Director
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Uli Edel was born on 11 April 1947 in Neuenburg am Rhein, Germany. He is a director and writer, known for The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008), Christiane F. (1981) and Das Adlon. Eine Familiensaga (2013).- Director
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Tim Hunter was born on 15 June 1947 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a director and producer, known for The Failures (2003), River's Edge (1986) and Returning to Earth.- Director
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A very talented painter, Kathryn spent two years at the San Francisco Art Institute. At 20, she won a scholarship to the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program. She was given a studio in a former Offtrack Betting building, literally in an old bank vault, where she made art and waited to be critiqued by people like Richard Serra, Robert Rauschenberg and Susan Sontag. Later she earned a scholarship to study film at Columbia University School of Arts, graduating in 1979. She was also a member of the British avant garde cultural group, Art and Language. Kathryn is the only child of the manager of a paint factory and a librarian.- Producer
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Barry Lee Levinson was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Violet (Krichinsky) and Irvin Levinson, who worked in furniture and appliance. He is of Russian Jewish descent. Levinson graduated from high school in 1960, attended college at American University in Washington, DC. He did well, but decided he wanted to go to Los Angeles. In LA, Levinson worked for the Oxford Company, studying acting, improvisation, and production; worked in comedy clubs, where he learned how to write; and began dating Valerie Curtin. In 1967, won a job writing for a local TV comedy show. He eventually performed his material on the show, winning a local Emmy. In the 70s, Levinson wrote for The Carol Burnett Show (1967) -- and won two Emmys in three years. Mel Brooks hired him for Silent Movie (1976), then, High Anxiety (1977). Levinson and Curtin married in 1975. They co-wrote: _...And Justice for All (1979)_, and other scripts. While Curtin performed in San Francisco, he wrote Diner (1982). MGM bought it and, with a budget of under $5 million, Levinson directed. Curtin and Levinson divorced in 1982. Levinson met Dianna Rhodes while he was filming Diner (1982). She lived in Baltimore, with her two children Patrick and Michelle Levinson. Levinson and Rhodes later married and had two more children, Sam Levinson and Jack Levinson. Proving himself as a director with The Natural (1984), he tackled his most ambitious project to that time in Rain Man (1988). Levinson went on to place his stamp on films like Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), and Bugsy (1991). After his many successes, Toys (1992) did poorly. Levinson had a hit with Disclosure (1994) in 1994, the same year the Levinsons moved to Marin County in Northern California to get away from the Hollywood scene.- Director
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Martin Campbell knows how to entertain an audience when he steps behind the camera. When he directed The Mask of Zorro (1998), the movie earned Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations and launched the international careers of Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Next, when he helmed Vertical Limit (2000), the film was well received by the critics and earned over $200 million in worldwide box-office sales. In addition, Campbell is credited with rejuvenating the James Bond franchise when he directed GoldenEye (1995), Pierce Brosnan's first outing as the famed British spy, which went on to gross more than $350 million. He also directed Daniel Craig's debut Bond feature as well, Casino Royale (2006).
Born in New Zealand, Campbell moved to London where he began his career as a cameraman. He went on to produce the controversial British feature Scum (1979), as well as Black Joy (1977), which was selected for competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Campbell made his directorial debut on the British police action series The Professionals (1977) and continued with the popular BBC series Shoestring (1979) and Thames TV's Minder (1979)
Considered one of the U.K.'s top directors by the mid-'80s, he directed the highly praised British telefilm, Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983). For his work on Edge of Darkness (1985), a five-hour BBC miniseries about nuclear contamination in England that depicted murder and high-ranking corruption, he won six BAFTA awards.
Campbell's first Hollywood movie was Criminal Law (1998) and he went on to direct Defenseless (1991) and No Escape (1994). Some of his American credits include directing HBO's Cast a Deadly Spell (1991) and two episodes of NBC's Homicide: Life on the Street (1993), among others. He also directed the epic romance Beyond Borders (2003) starring Angelina Jolie and Clive Owen.- Producer
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David J. Burke was born on 8 November 1948 in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Wiseguy (1987), Tribeca (1993) and SeaQuest 2032 (1993).- Actress
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Mariska (Ma-rish-ka) Magdolna Hargitay was born on January 23, 1964, in Santa Monica, California. Her parents are Mickey Hargitay and Jayne Mansfield. She is the youngest of their three children. In June 1967, Mariska and her brothers Zoltan and Mickey Jr. were in the back seat of a car when it was involved in the fatal accident which killed her mother. The children escaped with minor injuries. Her father remarried a stewardess named Ellen, and they raised the three children and gave them a normal childhood. They also financially supported the children, since Jayne Mansfield's debt-ridden estate left no money for them.
Mariska majored in theater at UCLA. Her first motion picture feature was the cult favorite, Ghoulies (1984), where she gave a memorable performance as Donna. Unlike her mother Jayne, who had changed her name, her hair color, and did nude pictorials to become a star, Mariska took a very different approach on her journey to become a star. She rejected advice to change her name and appearance. And she refused to copy her mother's sexy image by turning down nude scenes in her next film Jocks (1986). She told casting directors that she was her own person when she held onto her dark locks and athletic figure, when they were expecting another blond, buxom Jayne Mansfield. Mariska continued with her acting classes and waited on tables, while she landed forgettable roles in short-lived television shows. She appeared a few times on the nighttime soap Falcon Crest (1981). She also appeared in the hit film Leaving Las Vegas (1995), credited as 'Hooker at the bar', and in the flop film Lake Placid (1999) as Myra Okubo. Her recurring role on the top-rated show ER (1994) in 1998 gave her career enough of a jolt to land her the starring role of Det. Olivia Benson in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), the first spin off from the excellent franchise of Law & Order (1990). The hour-long show deals with sex crimes and the detectives who solve these cases. Mariska played Olivia as a tough, compassionate detective, who did action scenes and her own stunt work. She reaped the rewards from the hit TV show, after struggling and studying her craft for fifteen years. She became the highest paid actress on television, and she won Emmy and Golden Globe awards for her performance. The show also changed her personal life, since she met her husband actor Peter Hermann on the set and married him on August 28, 2004. That same year, she appeared in the television movie Plain Truth (2004), in which she played attorney Ellie Harrison. Mariska became an activist, when fans of her show who were abused, would write to her, and she founded a non-profit organization called "Joyful Heart Foundation" to help "survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse."
Mariska gave birth to her son August in 2006. But that tremendous joy was soon followed by tremendous sadness when her beloved father Mickey died just two months later at the age of 80. Mariska and her husband Peter adopted two children, a girl named Amaya, and a boy named Andrew, within a span of few months in 2011.
Mariska speaks English, Hungarian, French, Spanish, and Italian, and her husband also speaks several languages, including his native language German. They divide their time between New York and Los Angeles.- Actress
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Milena Govich is a director, actor, and musician who has helmed many episodes of TV, including The Equalizer (2021), Chicago Med (2015), FBI: Most Wanted (2020), Chicago Fire (2012), among others. She also served as Co-EP/Producing Director on Dick Wolf's CBS series FBI (2018), and is attached to direct two pilots in development. Milena was one of eight filmmakers selected for AFI's prestigious Directing Workshop for Women, as well as the exclusive Sony Pictures Television Diverse Directors Program. Her short film and TV series proof-of-concept called Unspeakable, starring Laura Vandervoort and Jeff Kober, had its World Premiere at SXSW and won Best Episodic at Seattle International Film Festival and Best Pilot at SoHo International Film Festival. Her short film Temporary (2017) has played all over the country, winning Best Narrative Short at Anthem Film Festival, Best Dark Comedy at Atlanta ShortsFest, and the Director's Choice Award at Sedona International Film Festival.
As an actor, Milena has appeared in close to 100 episodes of television. She first gained national attention in CBS's Love Monkey (2006), then as the prostitute/con-artist Candy on three seasons of Rescue Me (2004) (Denis Leary/FX). She also starred in the Dick Wolf series Conviction (2006), which led to her role as the first and only female detective on the Emmy-winning series Law & Order (1990). She has been featured or recurred on numerous other shows: K-Ville (2007) (Fox); The Defenders (2010) (CBS); Make It or Break It (2009) (ABC Family); and as Lori Stevens on the MTV drama Finding Carter (2014). Milena has also appeared in several movies, including Sordid Things (2009); A Novel Romance (2011), starring opposite Steve Guttenberg; Pass the Light (2015); #Lucky Number (2015), starring opposite Method Man; and the features Closure (2018), Be the Light (2020), and The Cleaner (2021).
A native of Norman, Oklahoma, Milena was valedictorian of her high school before completing a double major in vocal performance and pre-med, with minors in dance and violin at the University of Central Oklahoma, also graduating valedictorian. Soon after, she capitalized on her classical ballet training to appear on Broadway in the Sam Mendes/Rob Marshall production of 'Cabaret' at Studio 54. She began in the role of Lulu, featuring her singing, dancing, and playing violin, and was the understudy and eventual replacement for the lead role, Sally Bowles. Milena also danced on Broadway in the musical revival of 'The Boys From Syracuse' (choreographed by Tony winner Rob Ashford), and the Beach Boys musical 'Good Vibrations.' She starred as Millie in the first regional production of 'Thoroughly Modern Millie,' and starred in the title role of 'Sweet Charity' at the Lyric Theatre in NYC.
Milena resides in Los Angeles and is actively developing TV/film projects with her husband and producing partner, writer David Cornue.
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Carlos Bernard spent his formative years in Mexico City and Chicago. He attended New Trier High School and majored in Fine Art at Illinois State University. It was after college that Carlos began his acting career - performing at such Chicago theaters as The Second City, Victory Gardens and Pegasus Players. He later made the move to San Francisco to train at the prestigious American Conservatory Theater masters program. While at A.C.T., he appeared in the classic plays Hamlet, As You Like It, The Cherry Orchard, Heartbreak House and Good.
Carlos has starred in various films and television series, including The Lincoln Lawyer, The Orville, Madame Secretary, Supergirl, Castle, CSI Miami and Dallas; however, he is probably best known for his portrayal of Tony Almeida on Fox's Golden Globe and Emmy Award winning series 24 - for which he received two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, two Alma Award nominations and three Imagen Award nominations.
Carlos has written and directed for the stage and screen. He received an LA Weekly Theater Award nomination (Best Director) for his staging of Vaclav Havel's play The Memorandum. His first film Your Father's Daughter, which he wrote and directed, premiered at The Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival. He has directed episodes of FBI, Law & Order, FBI Most Wanted, Chicago Fire, BULL, Ciminal Minds, Hawaii Five-0, MacGyver, Magnum P.I. and The Inspectors.
Carlos was selected to participate in the Warner Bros. Directors' Workshop and the Sony Pictures Television Diverse Directors Program. He was one of the founding members of the Ashbury Actors Group theater company in Los Angeles.
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Leslie Hope was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and is a dual citizen of the US and Canada. She has directed several episodes of television including Snowpiercer (2020), Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022), Lost in Space (2018), The Order (2019), Murdoch Mysteries (2008), Van Helsing (2016), Ghost Wars (2017), and Aftermath (2016). Leslie produced and directed the award-winning documentary What I See When I Close My Eyes (2008), which screened all over the world and was sold to Moviola, The Short Film Channel. She wrote and directed the viral internet hit Gaykeith (2010), the music video [tt14222660/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2] by Christina Apostolopoulos and she has directed several movies for television. Leslie served as executive producer on The Bling Ring (2011), and she additionally executive produced and directed the award-winning Buried Treasure (2012). Leslie was the Artistic Director of The Wilton Project, a Los Angeles based writer-driven theater company she founded with Charlie Stratton, and she created and directed 'F-Lying: Fellini', with Roberto Campanella of ProArte Danze. In 2019, she produced the feature film Lie Exposed (2019). Leslie has also enjoyed a successful acting career.- Producer
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Mark Tinker was born on 16 January 1951 in Stamford, Connecticut, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Deadwood (2004), St. Elsewhere (1982) and NYPD Blue (1993). He has been married to Chandra West since 1 October 2005. He was previously married to Kristin Harmon and Rosemary Helen O'Malley.- Writer
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Juan José Campanella was born on 19 July 1959 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a writer and director, known for The Secret in Their Eyes (2009), The Man of Your Dreams (2011) and The Weasel's Tale (2019).- Producer
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Ilene Chaiken was born on 30 June 1957 in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, USA. She is a producer and writer, known for Barb Wire (1996), The Handmaid's Tale (2017) and Law & Order: Organized Crime (2021). She has been married to LouAnne Brickhouse since 2013. She was previously married to Miggi Hood.- Director
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Jud Taylor was born on 25 February 1932 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and actor, known for The Great Escape (1963), Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963) and The Fugitive (1963). He was married to Lynn Kressel and Devra Korwin. He died on 6 August 2008 in New York City, New York, USA.- Director
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Eric Laneuville was born on 14 July 1952 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He is a director and actor, known for I'll Fly Away (1991), Lost (2004) and The Omega Man (1971).- Producer
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Jonathan Kaplan was born in Paris, France, to film composer Sol Kaplan and actress Frances Heflin (the sister of actor Van Heflin and a regular on ABC's soap opera All My Children (1970). He started his career as a child actor in the Broadway production of "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs," directed by Elia Kazan. He also performed as a child in Elaine May's improvisational theatre, and worked with Martin Ritt in "The Molly Maguires" and 'Arthur Hiller (I)' in "Plaza Suite." Kaplan earned his B.A. at the University of Chicago and attended New York University's Film School, where he made a short film entitled Stanley, Stanley (1965), which won the grand prize in the National Student Film Festival. While at NYU Kaplan cut a film for PBS and worked at the Fillmore East. He then received a call from Roger Corman, who offered him a chance to direct his first Hollywood film, Night Call Nurses (1972). Kaplan displayed sufficient resourcefulness on a severely restricted budget to be given another Corman feature to direct, The Student Teachers (1973). He also directed The Slams (1973) for Roger's producer brother, Gene Corman. His next film, Truck Turner (1974) starring Isaac Hayes, was one of the early black exploitation films. Kaplan then directed White Line Fever (1975) starring Jan-Michael Vincent and Kay Lenz, which went on to become one of Columbia Pictures' successful films in 1975, and followed it with Mr. Billion (1977) starring Terence Hill. Kaplan's next film, Over the Edge (1979) for which he discovered Matt Dillon, encountered distribution problems, and it was not until two years later, when the film was shown in revival houses, that it received the critical attention it deserved. Kaplan has also directed the television films 11th Victim (1979) starring Bess Armstrong, The Hustler of Muscle Beach (1980), The Gentleman Bandit (1981) and Girls of the White Orchid (1983). Heart Like a Wheel (1983), starring Bonnie Bedelia and Beau Bridges, opened to a warm reception at the New York Film Festival. Since "Heart Like a Wheel," Kaplan has turned his talents toward directing music videos, including Barbra Streisand's "Left in the Dark," Rod Stewart's "Infatuation" and John Mellencamp's "Rain on the Scarecrow," "Lonely Ole Night," "Smalltown" and "R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A."- Cinematographer
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Jim Denault is a cinematographer known for his work in feature films and television. He is a member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and the American Society of Cinematographers. He received a BFA in Photographic Illustration from Rochester Institute of Technology.- Script and Continuity Department
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Rick Wallace was born on 12 February 1948 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is a producer and director, known for L.A. Law (1986), Hill Street Blues (1981) and Halloween (1978). He has been married to Lillian D'Arc since 4 January 1994. They have three children.- Producer
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John Coles is an award-winning director and producer known for evocative material with compelling performances from some of today's most respected actors. He has enjoyed success in features, television and theater while his production company, Talking Wall Pictures, has focused on the development of cutting-edge feature and television projects.
Coles was nominated for an Emmy and a PGA award for his work as an Executive Producer and Director on the Netflix phenomenon House of Cards. His recent directing credits include The Right Stuff, the Emmy Award-winning Homeland, the Epix original series Berlin Station, 11/22/63 for Hulu, and Amazon's Mad Dogs. Other credits include Bates Motel, Power, Damages, Justified, Sex and the City, and The West Wing. Executive Producer credits include Thief,Elementary, Unforgettable, 3LBS, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, New Amsterdam, and Wonderland. Most recently he was the Executive Producer on USA's hit drama The Sinner.
Coles shot his first full length 16mm film at 17 - a wry update of Casablanca re-imagined in a high school. While at Amherst College he directed a documentary about the school that was aired on PBS, and soon after was making short films for Saturday Night Live. He then went on to become an editor on Francis Coppola's Rumble Fish and The Cotton Club. His feature directorial debut, Signs Of Life won the International Critics Prize at Deauville. Other long form credits include Rising Son with Matt Damon and Brian Dennehy, and Darrow with Kevin Spacey.
Coles continues to write and create original dramas through Talking Wall Pictures, which produced the CBS drama Songs in Ordinary Time (based on the Oprah Book Club pick) starring Sissy Spacek and Beau Bridges and co-created and executive produced the series Crash and Burn. Talking Wall has developed numerous projects with HBO, CBS, New Line, IFC, Bravo and worked with numerous distinguished writers, including Academy Award nominated Mike Weller (Hair), Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Wright (Quills), Kate Robin (Six Feet Under) and Ann Peacock (Nights in Rodanthe).
In the theatre world, Coles was a member of the Circle Rep Lab and an alumnus of Wynn Handman at the American Place Theater. His Off-Broadway credits include directing the critically acclaimed play The Impostor starring Austin Pendleton and Calista Flockhart, as well as Johnny Suede, starring Tom DiCillo.
Coles lives in New York. He is a Sundance Director's Lab Alumni, and has taught at the Columbia University Graduate Film Program, NYU Tish School of the Arts, and the School of Visual Arts.- Writer
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Theresa Rebeck was born on 19 February 1958 in Kenwood, Hamilton, Ohio, USA. She is a writer and producer, known for Smash (2012), The 355 (2022) and NYPD Blue (1993). She is married to Jess Lynn. They have two children.- Producer
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After attending the Million Man March, Bythewood wrote the screenplay for Spike Lee's indie film, "Get On The Bus." Bythewood was also one of the film's investors. Bythewood did the rewrites for the Fox Searchlight film, "Notorious" and was awarded first-position written by credit along with the film's initial writer,
He made his feature film directorial debut on the acclaimed indie flick, "Dancing in September." It was acquired by HBO and became an HBO original movie. Bythewood has also written and directed "Biker Boyz," the Laila Ali documentary, "Daddy's Girl," the ESPN 30-for-30 documentary, "One Night In Vegas" and "Gun Hill," the two hour action pilot for BET which won the 2014 NAACP Image Award for Best Director.
In 2014, Bythewood produced, "Beyond The Lights" written and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood.- Producer
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David Shore has written for cult favorite Due South, NYPD Blue and EZ Streets, served as head writer and supervising producer on Traders, which he developed for Canadian television, and was part of the writing team of the Emmy Award-winning first season of The Practice. He was twice nominated for an Emmy as a producer on Law & Order and executive-produced both Family Law and Hack before creating House.
House has won awards as varied as the People's Choice and the Peabody. Shore won the HUMANITAS Prize and an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for his HOUSE episode "Three Stories."
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Allen Coulter is an American television and film director, credited with a number of successful television programs. He has directed two feature films, Hollywoodland, a film regarding the questionable death of George Reeves starring Adrien Brody, Diane Lane, and Ben Affleck, and the 2010 film Remember Me. Coulter was born in College Station, Texas. He went on to study theater direction at the University of Texas, after which he moved to New York to pursue his career in film.- Actress
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Monica Raymund is best know for starring as Gabriela Dawson in NBC's drama "Chicago Fire."
A graduate of The Juilliard School, she is the recipient of the John Houseman Award for her commitment and dedication. Immediately following her graduation, she went on to star opposite Tim Roth for three seasons in "Lie to Me." During this time, she also became a founding member of The Mechanical Theatre Group, has been on faculty and co-head of the Communications Department at The Heifetz Institute and served as faculty for The Broadway Theatre Project. Raymund currently serves on the board and faculty of the Performing Arts Project, is a board member for The Hollywood Arts Organization in Los Angeles, is executive producing the independent feature "Submarine Kid", and is the Founder/President of the theatrical production company, SISU Theatrical Productions, LLC. She was a producer also on the Broadway production of "The Velocity of Autumn".
Other credits include, a lead role in director Stephen Elliott's latest feature "Happy Baby", a supporting role in the feature "Arbitrage" opposite Richard Gere, a starring role in the Sundance Lab musical production of "Like Water for Chocolate," and a recurring role on "The Good Wife." She also guest starred on the 200th episode of "Law & Order: SVU" opposite Robin Williams.
Monica won The Imagen Award this past year for leading actress in a drama.
Monica separated from her husband early 2013 and they completed their divorce in 2014.
Raymund resides in New York City.- Director
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Tim Deluca is known for Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001), Chicago Fire (2012) and Law & Order: LA (2010).