BIOGRAPHIES

MARY LOUISE PARKER (Lucy Dean Bedloe) has appeared in many critically and c:ommercially successful films, alongside some of the industry's biggest names. She starred opposite Whoopi Goldberg, Drew Barrymore and Matthew McConaughey in Boys on the Side; other films include Reckless (Mia Farrow, Scott Glenn), Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway (John Cusack, Dianne Wiest), Joel Schumacher's The Client (Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones), Anthony Minghella's Mr. Wonderful (Matt Dillon, Annabella Sciorra), Jon Avnet's Fried ,Green Tomatoes (Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson) and Lawrence Kasdan's Grand Canyon (Danny Glover, Kevin Kline, Steve Martin).  Parker's stage credits are equally impressive. On Broadway, she received Tony and Drama Desk Best Actress nominations for her performance as Rita in Prelude to a Kiss. She also starred as Cherie in Bus Stop. She received critical acclaim for her performance in Alan Ayckbourn's Communicating Doors at New York's Variety Arts Theater. Other notable Off Broadway credits include the Pulitzer Prize-winning How I Learned to Drive, for which Parker received a Best Actress OBlE Award and Outer Critics Circle nomination, Four Dogs and a Bone, Throwing Your Voice, Babylon Gardens and The Art of Success.

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BLYTHE DANNER (Bee Bedloe) won a Tony Award for her performance in Buttetflies Are Free, and recently starred in Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea at the Roundabout Theatre in New York. Danner's long and successful feature film career spans over 25 years and includes The X-Files (David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson), Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives (Judy Davis, Liam Neeson), To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes), The Prince of Tides (Barbra Streisand, Nick Nolte), Brighton Beach Memoirs (Jonathan Silverman, Jason Alexander) and The Great Santini (Robert Duvall).  Blythe Danner's many television appearances include A Call to Remember, Leave of Absence, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, Cruel Doubt, Never Forget and The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer. Producer Bruce Paltrow is married to Danner; actress Gwyneth Paltrow is one of their two children.

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EDWARD HERRMANN (Doug Bedloe) has worked consistently on stage and screen for over 25 years. His credits include Psychopathia Sexualis (Drama Desk Award nomination), The Philadelphia Story (Tony nomination) and Mrs. Warren's Profession (Tony Award). Herrmann has appeared in many films, including Oliver Stone's Nixon (Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Ed Harris), Sidney Lumet's Critical Care (Richard Pryor, Joe Mantegna), Joel Schumacher's Lost Boys (Jason Patric, Dianne Wiest), Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo (Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels), Bruce Paltrow's A Little Sex (Kate Capshaw, Tim Matheson), Warren Beatty's Reds (Diane Keaton, Gene Hackman) and Mike Nichols' Day of the Dolphin (George C. Scott, Paul Sorvino). On television, Edward Herrmann is probably best known for his memorable portrayal of President Franklin Roosevelt in the miniseries, Eleanor & Franklin: The White House Years. Other notable projects for television include The Lou Gehrig Story, Face on the Milk Carton and the miniseries, Pandora's Box.

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THOMAS McCARTHY (Ian Bedloe) got his big break when, after a months-long search for the right actor, he was cast as the lead, opposite Candice Bergen, in CBS' Mary & Tim. The Yale Drama School graduate has also appeared in the feature Crossing the Bridge and the made-for-television movie In My Sister's Shadow. Stage credits include Le Ronde at the Williamstown Theatre (directed by Joanne Woodward), The Front Page at Minneapolis' Guthrie Theatre, Hamlet at Boston's Huntington Theatre and Griller

at Lincoln Center's Director's Lab. 

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