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An avid dancer and ice skater, Smith, when
she isn’t working, loves to play on her computer, play
piano or guitar and teach Abby, her black Scottish terrier,
new tricks.
JENNIFER JASON LEIGH (Voice of Bridget) is an actress,
director and producer. Last year, she marked her directional
debut with “The Anniversary Party,” which she co-wrote,
co-directed and starred in with Alan Cumming. A critical success,
the film received a citation for Excellence in Filmmaking
from The National Board of Review, and Leigh was nominated
for two Independent Spirit Awards for Best First Feature and
Best First Screenplay. Also in 2001, she won Best Actress
at the Tokyo International Film Festival for her role in “The
King is Alive.”
In 2002, Leigh stars in Sam Mendes’
“The Road to Perdition,” opposite Tom Hanks, Paul
Newman and Jude Law. The drama, based on the DC Comics novel
of the same name, is set in the depression and revolves around
a hit man bent on avenging the murder of his wife and son.
Leigh first came to prominence in 1990,
winning both the New York Film Critics Circle and the Boston
Society of Film Critics Awards for Best Supporting Actress
for her work in “Last Exit to Brooklyn” and “Miami
Blues.”
In 1993, she first began working with Robert Altman in “Short
Cuts” as the phone sex worker, and later in “Kansas
City,” as a lovesick misguided woman trying to save her
husband’s life by kidnapping a politician’s wife
(Miranda Richardson).
In 1994, Leigh played Dorothy Parker in
Alan Rudolph’s “Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle,”
which Robert Altman also produced. She was named Best Actress
by The National Society of Film Critics and The Chicago Film
Critics and was nominated for both the Golden Globe and Independent
Spirit Best Actress Awards.
In 1995, Leigh produced and starred in “Georgia,”
written by Barbara Turner and directed by Ulu Grosbard. For
her role as Sadie, a desperately ambitious third-rate singer,
Leigh won the New York Film Critics Circle Best Actress Award
and the Montreal Film Festival Award for Best Actress, and
she was also nominated for and Independent Spirit Award for
Best Actress.
Other films to Leigh’s credit include:
David Cronenberg’s “eXistenZ” opposite Jude
Law, Agnieska Holland’s “Washington Square,”
opposite Albert Finney, Joel and Ethan Coen’s “The
Hudsucker Proxy,” opposite Tim Robbins, Taylor Hackford’s
“Dolores Clairborne,” opposite Kathy Bates, Barbet
Schroeder’s “Single White Female,” Lily Zanuck’s
“Rush,” opposite Jason Patric, “A Thousand
Acres,” with Jessica Lange and Michelle Pfeiffer, “Fast
Times at Ridgemont High,” “Sister, Sister,”
“Backdraft,” “Crooked Hearts,” “Eyes
of a Stranger,” “Wrong is Right,” “Easy
Money,” “Grandview U.S.A.,” “Flesh and
Blood,” “Men’s Club,” “The Hitcher,”
“Undercover,” “Heart of Midnight” and
Christopher Guest’s “The Big Picture.”
Currently, she is staring on Broadway in
David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize winning play “Proof.”
Her additional theatre credits include two plays directed
by Marshall Mason, William Inge’s “Picnic”
at Los Angeles’ Ahmanson Theater and “Sunshine”
at New York’s Circle Repertory Theater as well as the
Broadway production of “Cabaret” directed by Sam
Mendes and co-starring Alan Cumming.
Leigh has been honored with numerous retrospectives
including the prestigious American Cinematheque, Telluride
Film Festival and the American Museum of the Moving Image
in New York. On June 6th 2002, The Film Society of Lincoln
Center will present her with the 2002 Young Friends of Film
Honors, an annual tribute to an outstanding film artist whose
work is especially enjoyed and admired by today’s young
filmgoers.
CHRISTOPHER LLOYD (Voice of the City
Coroner) began his career in theatre, appearing in over two
hundred plays including many on Broadway, regional and summer
stock productions. For his title role in “Kaspar,”
he took home an Obie and Drama Desk award, and most recently,
he appeared in a New York production of “Waiting for
Godot.”
Lloyd began his film career in the 1975
five-time Oscarâ winner “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s
Nest.” Three years later, he followed with the role of
Jim Ignatowski on the hit TV series “Taxi,” for
which he won two Emmys. He then garnered a third Emmy for
a guest appearance on Disney’s “Road to Avonlea.”
Appearing in over ninety film and television
productions, Lloyd’s impressive filmography includes
the “Back to the Future” trilogy, “Things to
do in Denver When You’re Dead,” “Eight Men
Out,” “Addams Family Values,” “The Pagemaster,”
“Adventures of Buckaroo,” “Banzai,” “Track
29,” “Clue,” “The Dream Team,” “Star
Trek III,” “Goin’ South,” “Who Framed
Roger Rabbit,” “My Favorite Martian,” and “Twenty
Bucks,” for which he won an Independent Spirit Award.
Currently Lloyd can be seen in HBO’s teleplay adaptation
of Margaret Edson’s play “Wit,” directed by
Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson.
He also has two movies scheduled for release
in 2002 as well as an ongoing role in PBS’ “Cyberchase.”
Veteran actor PAUL SORVINO (Voice of Scheck)
recently starred, in the CBS Drama “That’s Life,”
opposite Ellen Burstyn, and completed two films: “Plan
B” with Diane Keaton and “Perfume” with Jeff
Goldblum, Omar Epps, Rita Wilson and Peter Gallagher.
Sorvino made his directorial debut with
“That
Championship Season” for Showtime. Along with directing,
he also starred and wrote some of the musical score for the
film. He has appeared in more than 80 films including William
Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” “Nixon,”
“The Firm,” “Goodfellas,” “Dick Tracy,”
“That Championship Season,” “Reds,” “Slow
Dancing in the Big City,” “Oh, God!,” “The
Brinks Job” “Money Talks” and “Bulworth.”
On television, Sorvino starred in the award-winning
NBC series “Law and Order” as well as three other
series: “The Oldest Rookie,” “We’ll Get
By,” and “Bert D’ Angelo, Superstar.”
He starred in such telefilms as “Dummy,” the Peabody
award-winning drama, “Tell Laura I Love Her,” “Perry
Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives” and “Don’t
Touch My Daughter,” as well as the NBC mini-series, “Chiefs”
and the ABC movie-of-the-week, “It Couldn’t Happen
to a Nicer Guy.”
He also appeared on the PBS Great Performances
20th Anniversary Special, “The Last Mile,” and has
hosted and written for the A&E comedy show, “An Evening
at the Improv.”
Sorvino has also appeared in many theater
productions. He starred in the Broadway production of “That
Championship Season,” which earned him a 1973 Tony Award
nomination and a New York Drama Critics Award for Best Actor.
He also appeared in the Broadway production of “An American
Millionaire” and directed the Broadway play “Wheelbarrow
Closers.” Off-Broadway, he directed, produced and starred
in “Marlon Brando Sat Right Here.” He also starred
in the Stephen Schwartz musical “The Baker’s Wife.”
In addition, Sorvino is founder and artistic director of the
American Stage Company at Fairleigh Dickinson University.
An accomplished tenor, Sorvino sang the
role of Alfred in “Die Fledermaus” with the Seattle
Opera Company and created a public television special, “Paul
Sorvino: An Evening of Song,” with the Seattle Symphony
Orchestra. Sorvino has had the honor of performing at New
York’s Metropolitan Opera House and has recorded three
CDs, the most recent entitled “Paul Sorvino Sings.”
The founder of the Sorvino Children’s
Asthma Foundation, Sorvino regularly does operatic concerts
on behalf of his organization. He is also the author of How
to Become a Former Asthmatic, published by William Morrow.
JAMIL SMITH (voice of Gerald, Rasta
Guy) has been the voice for Gerald since the creation of the
character and the “Hey, Arnold!” TV series in 1996.
His passion for acting began when he started
training in theatre at six years old, and he has worked steadily
in television for the past eight years, appearing on such
shows as “The X Files,” “Touched By an Angel,”
“Sister, Sister,” “Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper”
and “NYPD Blue.”
On stage, Smith has had numerous roles including
the distinctive honor of playing the part of Sojourner Truth’s
son in the Cal State Northridge production of “Ain’t
I a Woman,” as well as the part of Scrooge in the Hollywood
Playhouse production of “A Soulful Christmas.”
Nominated for two NAACP Theatre Awards for
Best Supporting Actor for his role of Mr. Magie in “Anny
Mae and Asbury” and his portrayal of Jeremy in “Power
Over Weapons,” Smith was recognized as a 1977 California
Arts Scholar in Theatre. He has also appeared in a number
of theatrical productions in Los Angeles where he is an active
member of the Theatre Rascals production company.
When he’s not working, Smith enjoys
playing almost any sport including basketball, football, baseball
and track.
DAN CASTELLANETA (voice of Grandpa/
Nick) has done voiceover work for countless animated features
and television series, and he has received two Emmys for his
voiceover work as Homer, Krusty, Grandpa and others on the
irreverent animated series, “The Simpsons.”
On the big screen, Castellaneta most recently did the voice
of Mullins in “Return to Never Land,” and his additional
animated feature work includes numerous “Aladdin”
films, “Recess: School’s Out,” “Rugrats
in Paris: The Movie,” “Joseph: King of Dreams,”
“Olive, the Other Reindeer” and “All Dogs Go
to Heaven 2.”
In front of the camera, Castellaneta has
appeared in a variety of films including “The Client,”
“Forget Paris,” “Love Affair,” “The
War of the Roses,” “Nothing in Common,” “My
Giant,” “The Settlement” and Neil Simon’s
teleplay “Laughter on the 23rd Floor.”
On the small screen, Castellaneta has co-starred
on the Emmy-winning “Tracey Ullman Show” with Tracey
Ullman and Julie Kavner, as well as on “Sibs” with
Marsha Mason. In addition, he has appeared on such popular
series as “Murphy Brown,” “Grace Under Fire,”
“NYPD Blue,” “Friends,” “Everybody
Loves Raymond” and “Mad About You.”
A Chicago native, Castellaneta has performed
on stage with the famed improvisational comedy troupe The
Second City. In Los Angeles, he won a Dramalogue Award for
his performance in “Tom & Jerry,” and he created
the role of Harvey Pekar, the undergroud cartoonist, in the
long-running hit production of “American Splendor”
at Theater/Theater in Hollywood.
Castellaneta made his New York stage
debut in “The Alchemist,” and has performed his
one-man show “Where Did Vincent Van Gogh?” in New
York, Los Angeles, Chicago, The Edinburgh Festival Theatre
in Scotland and on the Aspen HBO Comedy Festival in Colorado.
Release Date: 20th December 02
Distributor: UIP
Cert: U
Running Time: 1 Hour 16 minutes
www.uip.co.uk
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