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BIOGRAPHIES
JUDY DAVIS
“Maxine Pierce”
Twice Academy Award® nominated actress JUDY DAVIS trained for the stage at the
National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney.
On graduation, Davis drew wide acclaim for her mature portrayal of the defiant heroine
in Gillian Armstrong's 1978 classic “My Brilliant Career.” For her performance, she
received the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award for Best
Actress. In 1984, Davis received a Best Actress Academy Award® nomination for her
role as the enigmatic Adela Quested in “A Passage to India” and again in 1992 for her
performance as Sally in Woody Allen's “Husbands and Wives.” Davis has worked with
Allen several times, starring as Lucy in “Deconstructing Harry,” Robin Simon in
“Celebrity,” and Vicki in “Alice.”
Davis's other film credits include Clint Eastwood’s “Absolute Power,” the Coen Brothers’
cult hit “Barton Fink,” “Naked Lunch,” which was inspired by the work of beat writer
William S. Burroughs, “Impromptu,” with Hugh Grant, Gillian Armstrong’s “High Tide,”
“Children of the Revolution” opposite Sam Neill, the 1992 comedy “The Ref,” with Kevin
Spacey and Denis Leary, the D. H. Lawrence adaptation “Kangaroo,” the E.M. Forster
adaptation “Where Angels Fear to Tread,” and her Emmy®-nominated performance in
SHOWTIME’s A COOLER CLIMATE. Davis's most recent films include the Australian
projects “The Man Who Sued God” and “Swimming Upstream.”
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Theatre credits include “Hedda Gabler” for the Sydney Theatre Company and
“Insignificance” for London’s Royal Court Theatre.
Television credits for Davis includes her Golden Globe® and Emmy Award® winning
performance in “Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows” and “One Against the
Wind,” which also earned her a Golden Globe®. Additional TV roles include “Dash &
Lily,” for which she received an Emmy Award® nomination, and “Serving in Silence:
The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story,” which saw Davis receive both an Emmy
Award® and a Golden Globe® nomination.
RICHARD DREYFUSS
“Barnaby Pierce”
One of the leading actors of the American cinema, RICHARD DREYFUSS was the
youngest man to win an Academy Award® for Best Actor in “The Goodbye Girl” at age
29.
Dreyfuss recently made his series debut as the star of the CBS show “The Education of
Max Bickford.” Additional TV credits include SHOWTIME’S THE DAY REAGAN WAS
SHOT and “Lansky,” written by David Mamet and directed by John McNaughton.
Dreyfuss made his motion picture debut in 1967 with a bit part in “Valley of the Dolls,”
followed by one line in “The Graduate.” Several films later, his portrayal of an
ambivalent college-bound teen in the cult classic “American Graffiti” garnered him both
praise and attention. This was the beginning of a string of stellar performances in such
films as “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz,” “Jaws,” “Close Encounters of the Third
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Kind,” and “The Goodbye Girl.” Additional highly acclaimed films include “Down and Out
in Beverly Hills,” directed by Paul Mazursky, “Tin Men,” “Stakeout,” “Mr. Holland’s
Opus,” for which he received Oscar and Golden Globe® nominations for Best Actor,
“Night Falls on Manhattan,” with Andy Garcia, and “What About Bob?” with Bill Murray.
Dreyfuss also directed “Our Love is Here to Stay,” a thirty-minute film starring Anne
Archer, Carrie Fisher, and William Petersen for SHOWTIME’S DIRECTED BY series.
On stage, Dreyfuss has appeared in “The Hands of Its Enemy,” “The Normal Heart,” the
Broadway production of “Death and the Maiden” with Glenn Close and Gene Hackman,
and “Three Hotels” with Christine Lahti, to name a few. He also directed “Hamlet” for
the Birmingham Theatre Company at the Old Rep in England. He recently starred as
Mark Anthony in the BBC Radio/KCRW production of “Julius Caesar,” as Benedict
Arnold in “An American General,” in George Bernard Shaw’s “Devil’s Disciple” in
Washington, D.C., and most recently completed a successful run of the Neil Simon play
“The Prisoner of Second Avenue” in London’s Haymarket Theatre with Marsha Mason.
SELMA BLAIR
“Stacey Pierce”
SELMA BLAIR is best known for her starring role in “Cruel Intentions,” a youthful
retelling of the classic novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Her sly performance as the
bumbling ‘Cecile’ earned her rave reviews and an MTV Movie Award for “Best Kiss”
with Sarah Michelle Gellar. She was also nominated for an MTV Movie Award for Best
Breakthrough Performance for her role in the same film and won the Movieline
Magazine Award for Most Exciting New Face. Additional films include “Legally Blonde,”
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director Dana Lustig’s independent feature “Kill Me Later,” Todd Solondz’s
“Storytelling,” and “The Sweetest Thing,” in which she was reunited with “Cruel
Intentions” director Roger Krumble and starred opposite Cameron Diaz and Christina
Applegate. She also starred for two seasons as the title character in the WB’s “Zoe.”
Blair just recently finished shooting “A Guy Thing,” in which she stars opposite Julia
Stiles and Jason Lee, and Scott Caan’s “Dallas and Rusty.”
DAVID JULIAN HIRSH
“Benjamin Pierce”
DAVID JULIAN HIRSH has appeared Off-Broadway in such shows as “One Hundred
Gates,” with Elliott Gould, and “Love in a Thirsty Land.” In 2001, Hirsh won the role of
Josh Adler in the SHOWTIME Original Series LEAP YEARS and has since gone on to
star in the NBC pilot “Zero Effect,” directed by Jake Kasdan. Film roles include
performances in “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,” directed by George Clooney,
“OHM,” and “Blue Hill Avenue.”
MAXIMILIAN SCHELL
“Casimir Michaelstadt”
MAXIMILIAN SCHELL began his acting career on stage in 1952 and made his
Hollywood film debut in 1958 opposite Marlon Brando in “The Young Lions.” Just three
years later, he won the Academy Award® for Best Actor for his performance as an
enigmatic defense attorney in Stanley Kramer’s “Judgement at Nuremberg.” Schell
received subsequent Oscar® nominations as Best Actor in “The Man in the Glass
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Booth” directed by Arthur Hiller and as Best Supporting Actor for “Julia,” directed by
Fred Zinnemann. Other film credits include “Little Odessa,” “Five Finger Exercise,” “The
Deadly Affair,” “Simon Bolivar,” “Topkapi,” “The Odessa File,” “A Bridge Too Far,” “The
Chosen,” “The Rose Garden,” “Deep Impact,” and John Carpenter’s “Vampires.” It was
in 1991 that he re-teamed with Brando in “The Freshman,” his first role in an American
comedy. Recent films for Schell include “Telling Lies in America,” “Left Luggage” and
Henry Jaglom’s “Festival.”
Schell’s career as a film director has been equally illustrious, with two Best Foreign
Language Film Oscar® nominations for “First Love,” based on a Turgenev novel, and
“The Pedestrian.” Schell wrote, produced and starred in “The Pedestrian,” which won
49 international awards, including the Golden Globe®.
His other directorial works in cinema include Durrenmatt’s “The Judge and His
Hangman (End of the Game),” the film adaptation of “Tales from the Vienna Woods”
and the Academy Award® nominated documentary “Marlene,” which also won the New
York Film Critics Award and the National Board of Review Award.
Schell received an Emmy® nomination for his role of an immigrant father in conflict with
his all-American daughter in the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation of “Miss Rose
White.” He also won the Golden Globe®, a CableACE Award and was nominated for an
Emmy® as Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Lenin in the miniseries “Stalin.”
Additional TV roles include the German television production of “Hamlet,” and the
Emmy®-winning series “Peter the Great.” His “Hamlet” was included in Trevor Nunn’s
film “The Great Hamlets.”
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Although Schell is best known for his work in film, he has always preserved his links
with the theater. In 1958, he made his Broadway debut in Ira Levin’s “Interlock,”
followed by roles in “A Patriot for Me,” first at London’s Royal Court Theatre and later on
Broadway, and “Everyman” at the Salzburg Festival. As a theatre director, his most
memorable plays include “Tales from the Vienna Woods” at the National Theatre in
London, “The Undiscovered Country” at the Salzburg festival, and the contemporary
opera “Cornet” at the Deutsche Opera, Berlin.
In addition to acting and directing, Schell’s first novel, “The Rebel,” was published in
1997. Also known as a pianist, he performed in the production of “Bernstein’s
Beethoven” and worked many times with Claudio Abado in their presentation of Arnold
Schoenberg’s “A Survivor from Warsaw,” and “Oedipus Rex” by Stravinsky.
Last year, Schell finished a revival of “Judgement at Nuremberg” on Broadway and
recently completed directing the Wagner opera “Lohengrin” for the Los Angeles Opera.
He is currently working on a documentary about his sister, actress Maria Schell, called
“My Sister Maria.”
FRED WARD
“Hal Kessler”
FRED WARD is an accomplished actor recognized for bringing to life complex
characters in compelling ways.
Ward was recently seen in “Hairy Tale,” “Abandon” and ”Sweet Home Alabama,” with
Reese Witherspoon and Candice Bergen. His additional film credits include “Enough,”
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“Summer Catch,” Robert Altman’s “The Player” and “Short Cuts,” Jonathan Demme’s
“Miami Blues” and “Swing Shift,” Walter Hill’s “Southern Comfort,” Mike Nichols’
“Silkwood,” “Equinox,” “Two Small Bodies,” “A Maddening Noise,” “Escape from
Alcatraz,” and Philip Kaufman’s “Henry and June” and “The Right Stuff.” Ward has also
starred in films such as “Road Trip,” “Tremors,” “Remo Williams: The Adventure
Begins,” “Dangerous Beauty,” “Chain Reaction,” “The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final
Insult,” “Big Business,” “Uncommon Valor,” and “The Crow 3: Salvation.”
On television, Ward has starred in “My Street,” “Georgetown” with Helen Mirren, “Wild
Iris,” “Jackie,” and the BBC’s “Invasion: Earth.” Additional TV roles include
performances in “Cast a Deadly Spell,” “Four Eyes and Six Guns,” and the PBS
American Playhouse production of “Noon Wine.”
Recently, Ward has also appeared in writer/director Sam Shepard’s play “Simpatico” at
Joseph Papp’s Public Theatre. Additional plays include performances in “All are
Correct,” “Domino Courts,” “The Two-Character Play,” “The Glass Menagerie,” and Sam
Shepard’s “In a Coma” and “Angel City.”
SAUL RUBINEK
“Gary Pereira”
SAUL RUBINEK got his early training in film and television as an actor for the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation, where he continues to work as a producer, writer, and actor
for Canadian independent features, most recently starring as a Chassidic rabbi in Eli
Cohen’s award-winning dramatic film, “The Quarrel.” Additional Canadian films include
“By Design,” for which he received a Canadian best actor nomination,
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“Falling over Backwards,” “Obsessed,” for which he received a supporting actor
nomination, and another best actor nomination for his performance in “The Outside
Chance of Maximillian Glick.”
Rubinek’s work on U.S. television spans three decades and includes recurring roles on
“Frasier,” “The Equalizer,” as well as guest-starring roles on “Hill Street Blues,” “L.A.
Law” and “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” He also starred in SHOWTIME’s awardwinning HIROSHIMA for Roger Spottiswoode and the award-winning drama, “And the
Band Played On.”
Feature roles for Rubinek include “The Contender” with Joan Allen, “Family Man,”
“Unforgiven,” “Dick,” “Bad Manners,” Oliver Stone’s “Nixon,” “True Romance,” “Getting
Even with Dad,” “I Love Trouble,” “Man Trouble” with Jack Nicholson,” “Against All
Odds,” “Bonfire of the Vanities,” “Wall Street,” “Young Doctors in Love,” “Soup for One,”
and “Sweet Liberty.”
Theatre plays a large role in Rubinek’s life, as he was a member of the Stratford
Shakespearean Festival Company in Stratford, as well as co-founder, actor and director
of Theatre Le Hibou, Theatre Passe-Muraille and Toronto Free Theatre.
He won
Dramalogue awards for Touchstone in Des McAnuff’s La Jolla production of “As You
Like It,” and for directing Rick Cleveland’s “Jerry and Tom” at Los Angeles’ Met Theatre.
For SHOWTIME, Rubinek directed his first feature, the adaptation of JERRY AND TOM
starring Joe Mantegna and Sam Rockwell, as well as CLUB LAND, starring Alan Alda
and Steven Weber.
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Penguin Books has published Rubinek’s non-fiction book So Many Miracles, an account
of his parents’ survival growing up in Poland during World War II. He wrote and
produced an award-winning documentary of the same title for CBC and PBS, which
chronicled his parents’ reunion with the people who saved their lives during the
Holocaust.
JOHN SALLEY
“Clifford Wadsworth”
JOHN SALLEY is a 10-year NBA veteran with three champion rings to his credit – two
with the Detroit Pistons and one with the Chicago Bulls.
Salley played college basketball with Georgia Tech from 1982-86, where his number is
retired and hanging in the Alexander Memorial Coliseum. He still holds the school’s
record for shot blocking.
Interested in television and entertainment for a long time, Salley is no stranger to
Hollywood. Some of the movies that he’s acted in include “Bad Boys” with Martin
Lawrence and Will Smith, and “Eddie” with Whoopi Goldberg. His television guest
appearances include “Malcolm & Eddie.”
Salley is also active in the music industry, representing up-and-coming musical groups.
He discovered hot new R&B vocalist Tony Rich, now on Laface Records. Awarded Best
Interview in the NBA by the Associated Press for three years, Salley was also a studio
commentator for NBC’s NBA pre-game show, “NBA Showtime.” In 1997, Salley and his
wife started The John Salley Raindrop Foundation, a non-profit corporation for the
benefit of young people in America.
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PAUL MAZURSKY
Director / “Stanley”
PAUL MAZURSKY, born in Brooklyn in 1930, started performing in school, and in his
senior year of college he landed the leading role in an off-Broadway production of “He
Who Gets Slapped.” Shortly thereafter, he was cast in Stanley Kubrick’s first film, “Fear
and Desire,” followed by “The Blackboard Jungle.” During this period, he also appeared
on such television shows as “The Kraft Theatre” and “Robert Montgomery Presents,”
and first started performing as a stand-up comic in Greenwich Village clubs.
After moving to Los Angeles, Mazursky joined the L.A. Company of Second City and
began writing for other comics, including Danny Kaye. Teaming up with like-minded
humorist Larry Tucker, he co-wrote the screenplays for “I Love You, Alice B. Toklas,”
the Oscar®-nominated “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice” – also Mazursky’s directorial debut
– and “Alex in Wonderland.” Additional films that Mazursky directed include “Blume in
Love,” “Harry and Tonto,” for which Mazursky and co-writer Josh Greenfeld received a
nomination for best screenplay (and for which Art Carney won an Oscar®), “Next Stop,
Greenwich Village,” “An Unmarried Woman,” “Willie and Phil,” “Tempest,” “Moscow on
the Hudson,” the blockbuster hit “Down and Out in Beverly Hills,” “Moon over Parador,”
“Enemies, a Love Story,” for which Mazursky received an Oscar® nomination for best
screenplay, as well as “Scenes from a Mall” and “Faithful.”
Mazursky directed the TV movie “Winchell” starring Emmy Award® and Golden Globe®
winner Stanley Tucci. As an actor, he is also known for his role of Phil Brooks in the
recent TV series “Once and Again.”
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In addition to writing, directing, acting and producing films, Mazursky also wrote his
memoir, Show Me the Magic, in which he recalls his adventures in life and Hollywood.
FREDERIC RAPHAEL
Screenwriter
A native of Chicago, FREDERIC RAPHAEL was educated at Cambridge and spent the
bulk of his career in Britain. He specializes in adapting literature to the screen and also
worked for television as both a writer and director. COAST TO COAST was originally a
book written by Raphael, which he adapted for the screen.
Raphael is best known for his original scripts for such notable British films as the
Academy Award®-winning “Darling” and “Two for the Road.” Additional films Raphael
wrote or adapted include “Nothing but the Best,” “Far from the Madding Crowd,” “Daisy
Miller,” “Richard’s Things,” which was based on his own novel, “Eyes Wide Shut,” “This
Man, This Woman,” and “Hiding Room.”
Also an acclaimed TV writer, Raphael’s TV shows and series include “Women and
Men: Stories of Seduction,” which he also directed, “After the War,” “The Best of
Friends,” “Of Mycenae and Men,” and “Rogue Male.” He won a Royal Television
Society's Writer of the Year Award for writing the BBC mini-series “The Glittering
Prizes.”
In addition to having written numerous screenplays, Raphael is the author of 37 books,
including 19 novels, several essay and story collections, biographies of Byron and
Maugham, and three volumes of translations of classical poetry and drama.
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RICHARD WALTZER
Executive Producer
WALTZER began his career working with directors Orson Welles and Peter
Bogdanovich, and was a directing intern at the American Film Institute.
Richard Waltzer formed Chautauqua Entertainment, a television and motion picture
production company in 1998. He produced the mini-series “Perfect Murder, Perfect
Town” and is currently developing projects for Dreamworks, New Line Cinema,
SHOWTIME, CBS, and TNT.
Previously, Waltzer was Executive Vice President of HBO Pictures, where he was
responsible for the development and production of over 40 films including the Emmy
Award winners “Barbarians at the Gate,” “And the Band Played On,” “Truman,”
“Indictment: The McMartin Trial,” “Citizen Cohn” and “Citizen X.”
JERRY LEIDER
Executive Producer
JERRY LEIDER’s life-long career in the entertainment industry as a producer and
executive most recently includes (in partnership with Robert Shapiro) “Cadet Kelly”
starring Hilary Duff, the highest-rated original movie for the Disney Channel ever.
Additionally, they produced the major motion picture “My Favorite Martian” for Walt
Disney Pictures worldwide release.
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Leider served as co-executive producer of the live-action one-hour PBS family series
“Mythquest”. Other producing credits include “Payne,” a half-hour CBS situation
comedy series starring John Larroquette in an American version of the classic British
series “Fawlty Towers,” and USA Network’s “Trucks,” based on a short story by
Stephen King. Additional TV projects that Leider executive produced include “Willa,”
“Hostage Tower,” “And I Alone Survived,” and adaptations of novelist Laverle Spencer’s
“Home Songs” and “Family Blessings.”
As Chairman and CEO of the ITC Entertainment Group, Leider was responsible for
numerous films, including the Academy Award® nominee “Sophie’s Choice,” “The Dark
Crystal,” “The Stepfather,” and “Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael,” introducing
Winona Ryder in her first starring role.
Additionally, more than thirty television and cable movies were produced while Leider
headed ITC, including the highly-rated “Malice in Wonderland” starring Elizabeth Taylor,
and the multi-award winning dramas “David” and “Unnatural Causes.” Additional ITC
movies overseen by Leider include “The Billionaire Boys Club,” “Poor Little Rich Girl:
The Barbara Hutton Story,” and “Windmills of the Gods.”
Through his own independent production company, Leider has produced a number of
major theatrical features including “The Jazz Singer” starring Neil Diamond and Sir
Lawrence Olivier, and “Trenchcoat” for Walt Disney Pictures.
For several years, Leider also worked as a producer on Broadway and in London.
Among his Broadway successes were Sir John Gielgud’s outstanding one-man show
“Ages of Man,” “The Visit,” and the Broadway musical “Shinbone Alley.” In London,
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he produced the West End debut of Tennessee Williams’ play, “Suddenly Last
Summer.”
Mr. Leider is currently in pre-production on “Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen”
for New Line Cinema, as well as a new film for CBS Television.
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