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Anjelica Huston as Dr. Lena Markova Anjelica Huston
Anjelica Huston is an Academy Award-winning actress and critically acclaimed director. Raised in Ireland, Huston is the third generation of a renowned cinematic legacy - her father was director John Huston and her grandfather actor Walter Huston. In the last year, she has worked on Terry Zwigoff's Art School Confidential alongside John Malkovich, and Martha Coolidge's Material Girls. Coming up, she will also be seen in Julia Taylor-Stanley's These Foolish Things starring Lauren Bacall.

She starred alongside Bill Murray in Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou for Touchstone Pictures. Huston received a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Emmy® Award for her role in the original movie Iron Jawed Angels in which she starred with Hilary Swank and Julia Ormond. Last fall, she directed Rosie O'Donnell and Andie MacDowell in the Hallmark/CBS television movie Riding the Bus with My Sister, which aired in May 2005.

Huston received an Academy Award® for Best Supporting Actress, as well as Los Angeles and New York Film Critics Awards for her role as "Maerose Prizzi" in the black comedy Prizzi's Honor. Prizzi's Honor was her first adult collaboration with her father, John Huston. Additionally, Huston has made extraordinary characters come to life with her memorable performances in films such as Disney's The Royal Tenenbaums, Paramount's The Addams Family and Addams Family Values, and Nicolas Roeg's The Witches.

Huston made her directorial debut in 1996 with her unflinching adaptation of Dorothy Allison's best-selling memoir, Bastard Out of Carolina, which premiered on Showtime. She was nominated for a Director's Guild of America Award and an Emmy® Award for her work on the controversial drama. Huston directed, produced and starred in Agnes Browne, which was presented at the Directors' Fortnight at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.

Other feature film credits include Ever After with Drew Barrymore, for which she won the Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Best Supporting Actress, and The Crossing Guard, directed by Sean Penn, with Jack Nicholson, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Huston has been honored with Academy Award® nominations for her roles in Paul Mazursky's Enemies: A Love Story and Stephen Frears' The Grifters. Additional film credits include The Foolish Things with Lauren Bacall and Terrence Stamp, Daddy Day Care, Clint Eastwood's Bloodwork, Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery and Crimes and Misdemeanors, Frances Ford Coppola's Gardens of Stone; Buffalo '66, The Golden Bowl, A Handful of Dust, Mr. North directed by her brother, Danny Huston, The Perez Family directed by Mira Nair, and her father's last film, The Dead.

In television, she received an Emmy® nomination for Best Supporting Actress, as well as a SAG Award nomination for TNT's mini-series The Mists of Avalon. She received Emmy® nominations for her performance as "Calamity Jane" in the mini-series Buffalo Girls, and for her performance opposite Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones in the mini-series Lonesome Dove. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance opposite Sam Neill in the television film Family Pictures.

Huston guest stars as Dr. Lena Markova in Season 2, Episodes 5, 7 and 8.
Sharon Stone as Dauri Rathburn Sharon Stone
Since her starring role in Basic Instinct, the top-grossing film of 1992, Sharon Stone has become one of Hollywood's most sought-after leading ladies. Stone will soon reprise her role as Catherine Trammel for director Michael Caton-Jones in Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction. The film will hit theaters on March 10, 2006. She also stars in Nick Cassavetes' drama Alpha Dog with Justin Timberlake and Bruce Willis.

Stone was seen in Jim Jarmusch's comedy Broken Flowers which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and stars Bill Murray and Jessica Lange. Last summer, Stone starred in the action adventure Catwoman, opposite Halle Berry. Previously, she starred opposite Dennis Quaid in the thriller, Cold Creek Manor.

She received her first Emmy® Award for "Best Outstanding Guest Actress In a Drama Series" for a three-episode role on The Practice. Stone also received an Academy Award® nomination and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama for her role in Martin Scorsese's Casino, in which she starred opposite Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci. Later, she starred with writer/director Albert Brooks in USA Films' The Muse. She earned a Golden Globe nomination for this wry comedy that poked fun at Hollywood; it co-starred Andy MacDowell and Jeff Bridges. She also co-starred in Simpatico, based on Sam Shepard's play of the same name, with Nick Nolte and Jeff Bridges for Fine Line Films.

Her other film credits include Intersection with Richard Gere, directed by Mark Rydell for Paramount, and the psychosexual thriller Sliver, directed by Phillip Noyce in which she co-starred with William Baldwin and Tom Berenger. Previously, Stone starred in and served as co-producer of TriStar's The Quick and the Dead opposite Gene Hackman. She also co-starred with Sylvester Stallone in the blockbuster action thriller, The Specialist.

Prior to her success in Basic Instinct, Stone garnered attention as the secret agent masquerading as Arnold Schwarzenegger's loving wife in Total Recall, directed by Paul Verhoeven. Her first (albeit fleeting) film appearance was as the blond goddess glimpsed by Woody Allen on a passing train in Stardust Memories.

Stone's first major film role was in Irreconcilable Differences, playing the conniving young actress-girlfriend of Ryan O'Neal.

Previously, she starred in the gripping prison drama Last, directed by Bruce Beresford and in Sphere with Dustin Hoffman and Samuel L. Jackson, directed by Barry Levinson, based on the novel by Michael Crichton.

Additionally, Stone starred in and executive produced the critically acclaimed The Mighty. She received a Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of the mother of a disabled child, played by Kieran Culkin. Harry Dean Stanton and Gena Rowlands co-starred. She also starred in the remake of John Cassavettes' Gloria directed by Sidney Lumet for Columbia TriStar. Stone also starred in HBO's critically acclaimed If These Walls Could Talk 2, opposite Ellen DeGeneres, directed by Anne Heche.

Stone guest stars as Dauri Rathburn in Season 2, Episodes 1, 3, and 4.

Swoosie Kurtz as Madeline Swoosie Kurtz
Swoosie Kurtz has played a wide range of roles in such feature films as Citizen Ruth, Liar Liar, Duplex, Bubble Boy, Get Over It, Cruel Intentions, The Rules of Attraction, Dangerous Liaisons, Reality Bites, The World According to Garp, Against All Odds, Bright Lights, Big City, True Stores, Stanley and Iris, A Shock to the System.

Kurtz was recently nominated for a Tony Award for her performance in Frozen on Broadway. She also received Outer Critics Circle Award and Lucille Lortel nominations. Previously on Broadway, she played Lillian Hellman in Nora Ephron's Imaginary Friends. She was honored with two Tony Awards for her performance in John Guare's The House of Blue Leaves and Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July, for which she also received the Drama Desk Award and the Outer Critic's Circle Award, Broadway's Triple Crown. Additionally, she earned the Drama Desk and the Obie Award for Wendy Wasserstein's Uncommon Women and Others, a Drama Desk Award for Christopher Durang's A History of the American Film and a Tony nomination for Tartuffe. She starred at Lincoln Center in John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation as well as Terrence McNally's Lips Together, Teeth Apart at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Off-Broadway, Kurtz was a member of the original three women cast of The Vagina Monologues and starred in Alan Bennett's Talking Heads.

Kurtz played both title roles of identical twins in Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Paula Vogel's The Mineola Twins. For this critically acclaimed performance, she won her third Obie Award and was nominated for the Drama Desk and the Outer Critics' Circle Award. Response to the two-time Tony Award winning actress's work once again reaffirmed her reputation as one of America's preeminent comedic and dramatic actors.

Kurtz received her eighth Emmy® Award nomination for her performance in ER. She was nominated for the Emmy® for her moving portrayal of a woman dying of AIDS in And the Band Played On. She was twice nominated for an Emmy® and a SAG Award for her role of "Alex" in the long-running NBC hit Sisters, and twice nominated for Love, Sidney with Tony Randall. She won an Emmy® Award for her performance on Carol and Company and received an Emmy® and a Cable Ace nomination for Baja, Oklahoma. Her additional television films include The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom, One Christmas with Katharine Hepburn, Lifetime's Little Girls in Pretty Boxes, Showtime's My Own Country and Armistead Maupin's More Tales Of The City.

Kurtz is a graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Her distinctive name, given to her by the press, comes from the B-17 "The Swoose," now in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum. The airplane, with its record-setting fame, was flown by her father Col. Frank Kurtz who was the most decorated Air Force pilot of World War II. The press-supplied nickname stuck and is now etched on an impressive collection of acting awards.

Kurtz guest stars as Madeleine Sullivan in Season 2, Episodes 1, 2 and 3.

Kurtz also guest starred in Season 1, Episodes 9, 12 and 13.

Guest Stars
Lara Flynn Boyle as Melody Coatar Lara Flynn Boyle
Emmy® nominee Lara Flynn Boyle makes her first television series appearance since leaving "The Practice" in a multi-episode story arc on HUFF. Boyle plays Melody Coatar, a bipolar manic depressive patient of Dr. Craig "Huff" Huffstodt. Boyle garnered an Emmy® nomination for her role as Assistant District Attorney Helen Gamble on David E. Kelley's legal drama "The Practice." She also starred in David Lynch's seminal television series, "Twin Peaks." Her feature film credits include "Men in Black II," Todd Solondz' "Happiness" and "Afterglow." Boyle is represented by UTA and Rigberg Rugolo Entertainment.

Boyle guest starred as Melody Coatar in Season 1, Episodes 2, 4, 5, 7 and 13.
Robert Forster as Ben Huffstodt Robert Forster
Oscar® nominee Robert Forster portrays "Ben Huffstodt," Huff's estranged and disconnected father. Forster scored a "Best Supporting Actor" Oscar® nomination for his work in "Jackie Brown," and co-stars in "Cursed" to be released later this year. Other feature film credits include, "Supernova," "Me, Myself and Irene," and recently completed "All the Rage." On series television, Forster has starred in "Karen Sisco," "Banyon," "Nakia," and "Once A Hero."

Forster guest starred as Ben Huffstodt in Season 1, Episodes 5, 7 and 9.
Jack Laufer as the Homeless Hungarian Jack Laufer
Jack Laufer has been featured in such feature films as "The Day After Tomorrow," "Lost in Yonkers," "The Learning Curve," and "Ghost in the Machine," as well as the television films "The Man Who Captured Eichmann," and "And the Band Played On."

He has had recurring television roles in "Crossing Jordan," "The Jeff Foxworthy Show," "Chicago Hope," " NYPD Blue," "The Practice" and "Any Day Now" as well as guest appearances on "Alias," "Frasier," "CSI," "Law and Order," "Murder She Wrote," "Touched By An Angel," "Columbo" and "LA Law."

Laufer has also starred in "The Goat,...or Who is Sylvia," "1776," "Driving Miss Daisy," "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," "Retribution," "Bad Habits," "Hamlet," "Godspell," "Talley's Folly" and "The Immigrant."

Laufer guest stars as the Homeless Hungarian.
Hal Linden as Judge Bork Hal Linden
Emmy® and Tony Award® winner Hal Linden plays "Judge Bork," who cozys up to Izzy. A former band clarinettist and vocalist, Hal Linden studied drama at the American Theatre Wing. His big Broadway break came in 1958, when he was engaged to understudy Sydney Chaplin in the musical comedy "Bells are Ringing". During the 1960s, Linden's time was occupied by his stage work in musicals like "Wildcat", "The Apple Tree" and "Illya Darling"; from time to time, he'd pop up on a Manhattan-filmed TV series like "Car 54 Where Are You?" or "The Defenders" and was a regular on the CBS daytime drama "Search for Tomorrow". In 1974, Linden won a Tony Award® for his work in the Broadway musical "The Rothschilds". The next year, "Barney Miller", was picked up as a mid-season replacement by ABC. Linden would play harried Greenwich village police captain Barney Miller from 1975 through 1980, collecting five Emmy nominations. Hal Linden's subsequent TV series work has included hosting stints on the ABC informational weeklies "Animals, Animals, Animals" and "FYI" (for which he won multiple Emmy® Awards), and top-billed starring roles on Blacke's Magic (1988), Jack's Place (1992) and One of the Boys (1994).

Linden guest starred as Judge Bork in Season 1, Episode 11.
Annie Potts as Doris Johnson Annie Potts
Emmy® nominee Annie Potts plays "Doris Johnson," the angry, yet guilt-ridden mother whose teenage son killed himself while in the care of Dr. Craig "Huff" Huffstodt. Potts rose to television fame during the seven-year run of "Designing Women," with her multi-layered portrayal of Mary Jo, the divorced single mother in the group who tried to juggle career and family with varying degrees of success. Following that role she received an Emmy® Award nomination for the comedy series "Love and War." She also starred for four years in the one-hour drama series, "Any Day Now." Potts' feature film credits include "Elvis Has Left the Building," "Texasville," "Crimes Of Passion," and "Pretty In Pink."

Potts guest starred as Doris Johnson in Season 1, Episodes 4, 5 and 6.
Bob Saget as Jonathan Young Bob Saget
Acclaimed actor-director-producer Bob Saget plays "Jonathan Young," a self-absorbed and undisciplined television actor. Saget is perhaps best known for his eight-year network television run on "Full House," and as the host and co-writer of "America's Funniest Home Videos." He has also played the role of "Matt Stewart" on the sitcom "Raising Dad." He directed the feature film "Dirty Work," an episode of "The Mind Of The Married Man," "Jitters," and "Becoming Dick," and also produced and starred in the television movie "Father and Scout."

Saget guest starred as Jonathan Young in Season 1, Episode 5.


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