Emma Percy
Critically acclaimed stage, screen and television actress Christine Lahti currently stars in the CBS medical drama Chicago Hope, for which she recently received a second consecutive Emmy® nomination for Best Actress. Additional accolades include the 1995 Oscar® for Best Live Action Short Film for her directiorial debut, Lieberman in Love, in which she also starred. Other television credits include No Place Like Home, which brought her an Emmy® nomination and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a television movie; Amerika, for which she received Emmy® and Golden Globe nominations; The Executioner's Song; Single Bars, Single Women; The Last Tenant; and TNT's Crazy From The Heart, for which she won the CableAce Award for Best Actress. Lahti's feature credits include Leaving Normal, Housekeeping, Just Between Friends, The Doctor and Running on Empty, for which she was awarded the LA Film Critics Award for Best Actress. Lahti also earned an Oscar® nomination and won the NY and LA Film Critics Awards for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Swing Shift, with Goldie Hawn.
Lilly Kate Burns
Jena Malone made her film debut in Anjelica Huston's directorial debut, Bastard Out Of Carolina, which earned Malone a nomination for the 1997 Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance. Malone went on to star in Contact with Jodie Foster and Hidden in America with Beau Bridges, and can be seen opposite Susan Sarandon and Julia Roberts in the upcoming feature film Stepmoms. Additional credits include the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation Ellen Foster and a guest appearance on Chicago Hope. Malone is entering the eighth grade this Fall.
Muriel MacSwain
Catherine O'Hara made her mark in Hollywood with the hit syndicated comedy series S.C.T.V., which earned her an Emmy® Award for writing as well as several Emmy® nominations. O'Hara's film credits include After Hours, Home Alone, Tall Tale, A Simple Twist of Fate, Heartburn, Beetlejuice, Dick Tracy, Little Vegas, The Paper, There Goes the Neighborhood and Waiting for Guffman. O'Hara is directing an upcoming episode of The Outer Limits and can be seen in the upcoming releases The Last of the High Kings and Home Fries. O'Hara made her television directorial debut with an episode of Dream On entitled "And Your Little Dog Too." She went on to write, co-direct and co-star in P.M.S., a short film for Late Night With David Letterman.
Jediah Walker
Jeffrey D. Sams stars in the upcoming Soul Food, with Vanessa Williams, Vivica Fox and Nia Long; Just Write, with Jeremy Piven, Sherilyn Fenn and JoBeth Williams; and Prep, with Donald Faison, Justin Whalen and Edward Asner. His feature films credits also include Waiting to Exhale and Fly By Night, which won the Trophy Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 1995. This Fall, Sam's stars in the new NBC television series Sleepwalkers. He was a series regular on Courthouse and Medicine Ball. Sam's other television credits include lead roles on The Precinct and The Prosecutor; and guest-star appearances on numerous network episodics. He also had a leading role in the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation Rose Hill.
Mazie Burns
Seen most recently in ABC's critically acclaimed Relativity, Mary Ellen Trainor, a film industry executive until turning to acting, made her debut in Twentieth Century Fox's Romancing The Stone. She went on to play pivotal characters in the Lethal Weapon series, Ricochet, Kuffs, Greedy, Little Giants and last year's Executive Decision.
Ray Percy
J.T. Walsh found his niche as a full-time actor later in life, after short-lived careers has a social worker, underground journalist, salesman and teacher. Portraying some of celluloid's most ethically challenged men, Walsh's film credit's include the recent Academy Award®-winning Sling Blade, for which he and the cast received a SAG Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Theatrical Motion Picture; the summer hit Breakdown with Kurt Russell; A Few Good Men; Outbreak; Good Morning Vietnam; Executive Decision; Tin Men; The Grifters; Red Rock West; and Tequila Sunrise, among others. He also starred in HBO's Crime of the Century and the NBC series Dark Skies.
