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Jennifer Beals (Bette Porter) began her career after graduation from high school when she auditioned for Flashdance, resulting in a role which earned her a Golden Globe® nomination, and an NAACP Image Award for Best Actress. In recent years, Beals has had starring roles in a myriad of films, including The Anniversary Party, Showtime's The Twilight of the Golds, The Last Days of Disco, Roger Dodger, In the Soup, Four Rooms, Vampire's Kiss, Doctor M., Caro Diario and The Madonna and the Dragon. Recent film credits include Catch That Girl, Runaway Jury, and the recently released The Grudge 2.

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Kate French (Niki Stevens) was born in Flemington, New Jersey, and raised on Long Island with her three siblings. Her parents, Joan and Rob French, were both fashion models and her stepfather is a fashion photographer. Following in her parents' footsteps, French pursued a career in modeling but always had a passion for acting. She first appeared on the big screen in 2006 with a small role in the film Accepted, and later had a starring role as 'Brooke Crawford' in the primetime soap opera Wicked Wicked Games which was her first appearance on the small screen. French attended the University of California in Santa Barbara, and is an aspiring writer in addition to her acting career.

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Pam Grier (Kit Porter) began her acting career and achieved fame in the early 1970s when she starred in a series of films including Coffy, Foxy Brown, and Sheba Baby. In the 1990s, she made an impact as the title character in Jackie Brown, and was honored with Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and NAACP nominations. Grier's feature film credits include Holy Smoke, In Too Deep, Snow Day, and more recently the animation feature Scooby Doo III: The Curse of Cleopatra, where she was the voice of "Cleopatra," and Back in the Day starring Ving Rhames, Joe Morton and Ja Rule. On the small screen, Grier was nominated for a daytime Emmy® Award for her work in "Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child," as well as appearing in the mini-series "1st To Die" and Showtime's "Anne Rice's The Feast Of All Saints."

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Leisha Hailey (Alice Pieszecki) is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and has recently appeared on numerous television shows, including the hit series "Grey's Anatomy" and CBS's "CSI." She also starred in the critically-acclaimed independent film "All Over Me." Prior to her role in THE L WORD® her focus was on music. As a member of "The Murmurs," she recorded three albums for MCA/Universal records. Recently, she started her own record label "Marfa Records," which release its first recording in 2006. During hiatus from THE L WORD®, she executive produced a documentary about teenagers raised by gay parents, "Raising Teens," which will air on MTV's "True Life" series and on Logo's "Momentum" documentary series.

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Laurel Holloman (Tina Kennard) is a native of Chapel Hill, North Carolina and an alumnus of Chicago's Piven Theatre Workshop. For THE L WORD®, Holloman has garnered critical acclaim and received the 2005 Golden Satellite Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series. She began her career as a stage actress in New York, appearing in the Roundabout Theatre's "The Glass Menagerie." Turning her attention to film, she played a tomboy as the lead in the teenage lesbian romance The Incredible True Adventures Of Two Girls In Love. Holloman delighted audiences as the ever-curious younger sister to Julianne Moore and Noah Wyle in Bart Freundlich's critically-acclaimed feature The Myth of Fingerprints and as the lusty girlfriend to Mark Wahlberg in Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights. She also starred in Prefontaine as Jared Leto's girlfriend, Tumbleweeds as Janet McTeer's feisty co-worker, and Committed as Heather Graham's emotionally disturbed hospital roommate. Other film credits include Lush, Cherry, Loving Jezebel and the lead role in the WW II coming-of-age film, The Rising Place with Marc Webber and Frances Fisher. Holloman's performance in The Rising Place garnered critical acclaim and numerous awards at several prestigious film festivals around the world. Holloman starred in a recurring role as a tough and sexy vampire slayer on Joss Whedon's WB hit series Angel. Holloman currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter.

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Mia Kirshner (Jenny Schecter) was recently seen as the title character in Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia for Universal Pictures with Scarlett Johansson and Josh Hartnett. Kirshner began her acting career at the age of 17, playing a clairvoyant dominatrix in Love and Human Remains, a performance that earned her a Best Supporting Actress nomination for a Genie Award (Canada's Oscar). In 1994, Kirshner starred in Atom Egoyan's Exotica alongside Victor Garber, Bruce Greenwod and Sarah Polley. She co-starred with Kevin Bacon and Christian Slater in the Warner Bros. drama Murder in the First, and also appeared in the critically-acclaimed independent feature Party Monster with Macaulay Culkin and Chloe Sevigny. Kirshner is also known to television audiences for her role on the popular Fox series "24" where she portrayed a mysterious would-be presidential assassin. Kirshner was born in Toronto, Canada and studied English and Russian Literature at the prestigious McGill University. She resides in Los Angeles, California.

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Katherine Moennig (Shane McCutcheon) has most recently appeared off Broadway, in the play Guardians at the Culture Project in NYC opposite Lee Pace, directed by Jason Moore (Avenue Q). Recent feature films include, Art School Confidential, The Shipping News, Love the Hard Way and Invitation to a Suicide. Her television credits include the series "Young Americans," "Law & Order," as well as appearing as the lead actress in the music video "Is Anybody Home" for the band Our Lady Peace. On stage, she has appeared in "As You like It," "Comedy of Art," "The Theory of Total Blame" and "Morning in the City" at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

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Rose Rollins (Tasha Williams) had a successful career as a model in New York working on numerous commercials and major advertising campaigns, before moving to Los Angeles to pursue her love of acting. The multi-award winning television series "The West Wing" launched Rollins' career in front of the camera, playing the recurring role of 'Susanne,' the assistant to Allison Janney's character 'CJ Cregg.' Since then, Rollins has appeared in numerous television series such as "Dr. Vegas" and "In Justice," and can also be seen in the feature films, Mission: Impossible 3, Something New, Undisputed, 13 Moons, and Jake and Lily.

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Daniela Sea (Max Sweeney) broke into film with a supporting role in John Cameron Mitchell's "Shortbus," as well as appearing in several music videos that include Bright Eyes' "First Day of My Life" and Scissor Sisters' "Filthy Gorgeous." Born in Los Angeles, Sea grew up on the shores of Malibu where she started surfing at the age of six and was winning competitions by the time she was thirteen. Before deciding to explore acting, Sea traveled extensively throughout Western and Eastern Europe, culminating with an 18-month trek on foot — walking and hitchhiking from Poland into the hills of India. Sea currently resides in New York City and is writing an original screenplay and working collaboratively on the performance, film and music project, "The Exciting Conclusion".

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Rachel Shelley (Helena Peabody) hails from England, where she has worked in television, film and in the theater. Her performance in the Academy Award® nominated film Lagaan, for which she was nominated for a Zee Cine Award (Indian Oscar) for Best Supporting Actress, brought her to the attention of American audiences. Her additional feature film credits include Photographing Fairies and Seeing Other People. She will next be seen in the indie feature Gray Matters opposite Heather Graham, which hits theaters in Feb. 2007. She makes her home in London.

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