Our Talent
BARRY CORBIN~ Grandpa ~
Barry Corbin is a character actor in both television and film and is known for portraying larger-than-life figures. He gained fame with his portrayal of an astronaut turned entrepreneur, Maurice Minnifield, in the CBS televisions show Northern Exposure and can currently be seen on One Tree Hill as Coach Whitey Durham. Corbin's TV credits include roles on hits such as: The Drew Carey Show, Murphy Brown, Matlock, Hill Street Blues, Dallas and M*A*S*H, plus a number of feature film credits.
Corbin's film career took off in 1980 when he landed roles in the films Any Which Way You Can, Stir Crazy, and Urban Cowboy. He went on to play characters in a number of well-known films including: The Dukes of Hazzard, Who's Harry Crumb?, Permanent Record, War Games, Nothing in Common, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and most recently Beautiful Dreamer.
Corbin began his acting career in his hometown of Lamesa, Texas, where he studied drama at Texas Tech and participated in regional theater. After a two-year stint as a Marine, he moved to New York to pursue acting, where he performed on and off Broadway for nearly ten years. He finally moved to Los Angeles and began writing plays for National Public Radio until landing the roles that would begin his prolific career.
Corbin has come full circle and currently resides on a ranch in Fort Worth, Texas with his daughter and grandchildren.
BROOKE LANGTON~ Claire Kelly ~
Brooke Langton made her feature debut in the film Terminal Velocity (1994) starring Charlie Sheen, while simultaneously appearing in front of mainstream television audiences with guest appearances on shows such as: Chicago Hope, The Single Guy, Party of Five, Young Indiana Jones and Sliders.
In 1996, Langton had her most prominent television role as 'Samantha Reilly Campbell' on the primetime melodrama Melrose Place, on which she continued to star until 1998. Langton's most recent television credits include appearances on the Emmy-award winning Monk and Showtime's Weeds.
In addition to television, Langton's ever-expanding film credits include roles in 1996's Swingers, in which she played the object of Jon Favreau's affection (who could forget the classic answering machine scene?), The Small Hours (1997) opposite Djimon Hounsou and Reach the Rock (1998) produced by John Hughes, whose Brat Pack films dominated the 1980's pop culture.
Langton went on to play Keanu Reeves' love interest in The Replacements (2000), starred in Playing Mona Lisa (2000), Kiss the Bride (2002), Ang Lee's Hulk (2003) and the independent film Partners (2005) starring Julie Bowen. That same year Langton had her first starring role in the television series, The Net, based on the film starring Sandra Bullock. Langton played the lead, 'Angela Bennett', a woman trying to escape from the information highway.
In between films, Langton starred in the television series, Fling (2001) created by Glenn Gordon Carson, whose credits include Moonlighting with Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd and Medium with Patricia Arquette.
Currently Langton can be seen in The Benchwarmers starring Rob Schneider and David Spade and the award-winning film Beautiful Dreamer, which she also co-produced. In addition, she just wrapped the film, Gustave which will be released in 2007, about a news team that is sent to South Africa to capture and bring home a legendary 25-foot crocodile, which turns deadly when a warlord targets the team.
Langton was born in a copper-mining town in Arizona and after her parents divorced, she frequently moved around with her mother. She grew up in Euless, Texas, and then moved to Portland, Ore., where she became involved in theater. Langton spent a few months working in Japan as a model in commercials before attending San Diego State University, where she studied marine biology. By the early 1990s, she settled down in Los Angeles, where she began to pursue acting full-time.
COLIN EGGLESFIELD~ Joe Kelly ~
Colin Egglesfield is best known for his role on All My Children, playing the role of Josh Madden since August 2005.
After college, he took a year off before applying to medical school and it was during this time that he was discovered by famed photographer Bruce Weber, which led to featured work for Ralph Lauren, Versace, and Calvin Klein. Soon there after, he was working all over the world and walking the runways in Milan, Paris and New York.
In 1997, Egglesfield moved to New York City and while continuing with his modeling career, began booking national commercials and lead guest appearances on such shows as Law & Order: SVU and Leap of Faith. In addition as a member of the Riant Theatre Group, he starred in numerous plays including A Few Good Men.
Having decided to pursue his acting career full time, Egglesfield moved to Los Angeles in 2002 and immediately booked a pilot for the WB. Working steadily afterwards, his credits include the lead in three films and appearances on television shows, including: Gilmore Girls, Nip/Tuck, and Charmed. Most recently, he starred in the film Vampires: The Turning, Must Love Dogs with Diane Lane and John Cusack and Beautiful Dreamer, a World War II love story.
Born in Farmington Hills, Mich. and raised in Crete,Ill., Egglesfield attended Illinois Wesleyan University where he played football before transferring to the University of Iowa and graduating with a degree in biology/pre-medicine. He currently resides in New York City and enjoys exploring the city, including the theatre and tutoring high school kids in math once a week at The Door Youth Center in lower Manhattan. He also runs marathons, having completed the Chicago Marathon twice and the San Diego Marathon, in which he participated as a member of Team in Training that helped raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
JAMES DENTON ~ Dr. Kessler ~
Currently starring as Mike Delfino in the Golden Globe Award-winning Desperate Housewives, Nashville native James Denton has been one of Hollywood's busiest actors since he hit town. He has a training background that has launched many performers into stardom, and a solid body of respected work in the Chicago theatre.
Denton, who originally attended college on a basketball scholarship, wasn't bitten by the acting bug until he was 28. He landed the role of George Gibbs in a Nashville production of Our Town and got fine reviews; however, he thought there was a more solid career in selling advertising, which he did for four years in Tennessee and then in North Carolina, until finally taking off for Chicago to risk everything to become a professional actor.
He was soon accepted as one of Chicago's brightest stars. Following a key casting when the Untouchable series came to town to film, Denton was drawn to Los Angeles, where his strong theatre reputation preceded him and he soon locked in choice turns in film, TV and on the stage. He started building his big screen profile with performances in such films as Primary Colors, Face/Off and That Old Feeling, but soon off-beat roles in adventurous TV series were claiming his time. In 1997 Denton landed the role of the eerily sociopathic Mr. Lyle on NBC's hit drama, The Pretender. The series' multi-year run was followed by The Pretender television films "Pretender 2001" and Pretender: The Island of The Haunted.
In 2001 Denton was cast by ABC to star opposite Kim Delaney in Steven Bochco's Philly, which was critically acclaimed but short-lived; however, Denton's reputation led to a new series role as a top player in this nation's homeland security community, Special Agent Jon Kilmer on Threat Matrix.
Acting obviously is serious work for the handsome and athletic star, who trained in Chicago with some of the area's most excellent teachers. His first role was as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire, and his last was the terrorist on the French farce, Lapin, Lapin. He was a company member of the Griffin Theatre and the Strawdog Theatre Ensemble. He added a steady string of roles and accolades to his quickly growing list, including one of the leads in the world premiere of Flesh and Blood, performing in and composing the music for The Night Hank Williams Died, and portraying Kentucky preacher C.C. Showers in The Diviners, which gained him a coveted Joseph Jefferson Best Actor nomination. For these performances, Denton was listed as one of Chicago's hottest actors by Screen Magazine. In Los Angeles he appeared in the premieres of Asylum at the Court Theatre, Locked Up Down Shorty's at the Powerhouse Theatre and In Walked Monk at the Hudson Theatre.
In addition to his series starring roles on TV, his guest appearances include JAG, Slider, Dark Skies, Two Guys and a Girl, Ally McBeal and The West Wing.
LAUREN WOODLAND~ Racheal ~
Lauren Woodland joined the cast of The Young and the Restless in March 2000, as the sassiest teen in Genoa City, Brittany Hodges. Combining strength and attitude with sensuality and vulnerability, Lauren quickly made the role of the teen queen unmistakably hers. Featured storylines were written to showcase Lauren's singing and dancing talents, which led to a Daytime Emmy nomination in the category of Outstanding Younger Actress in May 2004. Woodland's other soap credits include recurring roles on Port Charles and Sunset Beach.
In addition to soap credits, Woodland's television credits include recurring roles in Brooklyn Bridge, Brotherly Love, Living with Fran, Undressed and Encore! Encore! with Nathan Lane and Joan Plowright. Her telefilm credits include: Teenage Confidential, Willing To Kill, The Last To Go, When You Remember Me, Family of Spies, and An Enemy Among Us.
Woodland had the privilege to work with the late filmmaker Paul Leder, on films including Cover Up with Wings Hauser and the sequel, Frame Up opposite Francis Fischer. In 2000, Woodland starred opposite Roy Scheider in The Doorway and most recently, Beautiful Dreamer, which is slated for September 2007 release. Currently, Woodland is working on the short film, The Shadow Effect directed by the Varava brothers.
Woodland first displayed her interest in show business at the age of five when she got up on stage, grabbed the microphone and started singing at a friend's birthday party at Chucky Cheese's. Woodland recalls, My Mom saw an obvious desire so she enrolled me in ballet, tap dancing lessons and acting classes. The man who ran the classes was a local agent who helped Woodland hit the audition circuit. At her second audition, the second grader landed a solo national commercial for Oscar Meyer, where she costarred with a singing hot dog and quickly established herself as one of the leading child actors in Hollywood. Woodland racked-up credits on prime time dramas such as LA Law and Quantum Leap and landed series regular roles in The Dom DeLuise Show as Dom's daughter, Rosa and as Emily Francisco in Fox's Alien Nation.
RUSTY SCHWIMMER~ Jeannie ~
Rusty Schwimmer was raised in Chicago where she grew up as a fan of the theatre and music not to mention the Chicago Cubs, Bears and Bulls. In her formative years she endeavored to be a singer but quickly found her way to acting and was soon drawn from the world of theatre in Chicago to the land of opportunity in Los Angeles.
Schwimmer quickly found work in film and television. Some of her favorite film roles are A Little Princess, Twister, ED TV, The Perfect Storm, The Runaway Jury and North Country. She also enjoyed roles in the television film The Man Who Captured Eichmann for HBO and the series The Guardian, Gilmore Girls, Picket Fences, Ned Blessing. Schwimmer's guest starring roles include: HBO's Six Feet Under, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and In the Heat of the Night.
Schwimmer can next be seen in the feature film, The Hawk Is Dying opposite Paul Giamatti, and recently appeared in the television mini-series Broken Trail opposite Robert Duvall.
Schwimmer currently lives in the Los Angeles area.
WILLIAM LEE SCOTT~ Will ~
William Lee Scott, best known for his rebellious 'bad boy' roles and heavy performances, broke into television in 1996 with a part on the WB sitcom The Steve Harvey Show. Simultaneously, Scott appeared in guest starring roles on the ABC dramas Gun, Cracker, and Oprah Winfrey Presents: Before Women Had Wings. Plus appearances on: CSI: Miami and television specials including The Winning Season and Richard Linklater's $5.15/Hr.
In addition, Scott made his feature film debut in the sci-fi film Gattaca, starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, which led to a number of other supporting feature roles, including: The Butterfly Effect with Ashton Kutcher, The Opposite of Sex starring Christina Ricci, October Sky with Jake Gyllenhaal, Gone in 60 Seconds with Nicolas Cage, and Pearl Harbor with Ben Affleck.
For more than a decade, Scott has been landing highly sought after roles and expanding his repertoire, after being discovered while waiting tables in New York City. He was catapulted in the acting world and soon took on an agent and acting coach. He won the Best Actor Award from Columbia University in 1995 for a role in the student film Tis the Season.
Scott was born is Hudson, N.Y., but currently resides in Los Angeles, Calif.
ELISE JACKSON ~ Sherry ~
Elise Jackson is fairly new to the big screen but is a long-time veteran of the stage. Her most memorable performances were as Shelby in Steel Magnolias, Dorothy in The Wiz, Titania in A Raven, a salon girl hallucination in a quirky cowboy feature length film called Cowboys and Idiots, and Sherry, the helpful and concerned daughter of a local diner owner in the World War ll era feature Beautiful Dreamer.
Jackson has trained, on-camera and theatrically with Joseph Hacker, Anita Dashielle-Sparks, Paul Backer, and Bent Blair, and has been trained vocally since she was 9 by Brian Madigan. She is also a proud member of the Screen Actors Guild.
Jackson recently graduated from the Univ. of Southern California, where she received degrees in both Theatre and Broadcast Journalism-which is where she learned to work in front of and behind the camera. Jackson is the co-founder and Financial Director of the Yorba Linda Spotlight Theatre Company which just concluded its 3rd season with a children’s production of Footloose.
Her main goal in life is to spread the joys of acting through her threatre and film work and to have fun while doing it!
