Sharon Gless

sharon-glessSharon Marguerite Gless  is best known for her role as Sgt. Christine Cagney in the police procedural drama series Cagney & Lacey (1982–1988). She is an Emmy Award winner currently playing Madeline Westen on Burn Notice.

At the beginning of her career, Gless appeared in numerous television series and TV movies, such as Revenge of the Stepford Wives, Faraday and Company with Dan Daily and James Naughton (1973-1974) and Emergency! She played some smaller parts in Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969-1976) until being offered the role of Kathleen Faverty, a part she played from 1974 – 1976. In 1975 Gless was offered the part of the classy young secretary Maggie Philbin, opposite Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner on the CBS private detective/con artist series Switch (1975–1978)

Beginning with the series’ seventh episode, Gless replaced actress Meg Foster in the role of NYPD police detective Christine Cagney on Cagney & Lacey. In 1991, she married the series’ executive producer, Barney Rosenzweig. Rosenzweig created the 1990–1992 CBS drama series The Trials of Rosie O’Neill for Gless and, uncredited, played the only partially seen psychiatrist to whom attorney O’Neill confided at the beginning of each episode. Gless, who had garnered five Emmy nominations – including two wins and a Golden Globe win for her role as Cagney – earned two additional Emmy nominations for this subsequent series.

In 1994 and 1995, Gless and her television partner, Tyne Daly, joined together to recreate their title roles in a quartet of critically acclaimed and popular Cagney & Lacey television movies which they called “The Menopause Years”. Other television series in which she starred include Switch, House Calls, and the short-lived, but critically lauded Steven Bochco half-hour, Turnabout.

In 1998, Gless narrated the documentary Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life, which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature. Between 2000 and 2005, Gless appeared as Hal Sparks’s gay supportive and somewhat overbearing mother,Debbie Novotny, in the acclaimed Showtime cable television series Queer as Folk.

In 2009, Gless stars in her first leading role as a lesbian character in the independent film Hannah Free (Ripe Films), described as a film about a lifelong love affair between an independent spirit and the woman she calls home.

Audrey Landers

audrey-landersAudrey Landers is an actress and singer, who is probably best known for her role as Afton Cooper in the television drama series Dallas.

Audrey Landers was first noticed with a country song that she wrote and performed at the age of twelve, which led to a Nashville recording contract with Epic Records, a performance on the Merv Griffin show, and a year-long role on a daytime drama, The Secret Storm. During her teen years, she acted on the daytime drama Somerset and studied music at the Juilliard School in New York, while majoring in psychology at Columbia University.

After college, Audrey Landers moved to Los Angeles and was given the role in Dallas, which she held from 1981 to 1984, 1989 & the TV movie Dallas: J.R. Returns in 1996. Landers starred in Dallas during its highest rated seasons.  She is also remembered as “Val” from the film version of A Chorus Line (1985). Landers has had guest roles on many television series. From 1990-1991, she played the role of “Charlotte Hesser” on the ABC daytime series One Life to Live. Before joining “Dallas,” she guest-starred in dozens of episodics, including 2 episodes of The Dukes of Hazzard in 1980, entitled “R.I.P. Henry Flatts”, playing Flatts’ daughter.

Landers is now playing Veronica, the girlfriend of Bruce Campbell’s character Sam, in the series Burn Notice.

As a singer and composer, she has earned 10 gold singles, 4 gold albums and 2 platinum albums. Most are pop and disco records. Some of her biggest hits are “Mi Amor (Camilo Sesto)”, “Manuel Goodbye”, “Playa Blanca” and “Jim, Jeff & Johnny”. The 1991 Polydor album, ‘Rendez-Vous’, includes the song “Turn To Me” written by lyricist Martin H. Samuel and composer Lisa Nemzo.

Audrey Landers married businessman Donald Berkowitz in May 1988. They have 2 children, twins Adam and Daniel Berkowitz, born in 1993.

Silas Weir Mitchell

silas-weir-mitchellSilas Weir Mitchell is mostly known for playing disturbing and unstable characters in Tv shows.

He guests starred as recurring roles  in

  • 24  as Eli Stram
  • My Name is Earl as Donny Jones
  • Charles Haywire in Prison Break.

Other then those he’s been in CSI, Burn Notice, Dexter, Six Feet Under and Boomtown. He’s also starred as keymaker in Rat Race, and also acted in Whole Ten Yards.

His upcoming movies will include films A Fork in the Road and Halloween 2. Mental with Chris Vance is a nex Fox Show where he also stars.