Debi Mazar
Debi Mazar is a native New Yorker who is best known for playing strong and sarcastic characters in film and television. She made her feature film debut in the critically-acclaimed Goodfellas by Martin Scorsese, and went on to work with other noteworthy directors, including Oliver Stone, Joel Schumacher, Spike Lee, Woody Allen and Michael Mann. On television, she is best known for her role as publicist Shauna on the HBO series ENTOURAGE. She will also appear in the upcoming film version.She and her husband, Gabriele Corcos, also host a hit Cooking Channel show, EXTRA VIRGIN, inviting viewers into their lovely Brooklyn home as they prepare the Tuscan foods they know so well. The couple released their first cookbook, Extra Virgin, with Clarkson/Potter in 2014, and their series returns for a new season in January 2015.
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Hilary Duff
Hilary Duff gained fame in the Disney Channel's top-rated series LIZZIE MCGUIRE in 2001. Shortly after, Duff starred in numerous feature films including; The Lizzie McGuire Movie, Agent Cody Banks, A Cinderella Story, Cheaper by the Dozen, and more serious roles such as, co-starring in John Cusack's critically acclaimed 2008 film War, Inc. and According to Greta, in which Hilary plays the title character and co-stars with Oscar® winner Ellyn Burstyn.
In addition to her acting, Duff also has a global prolific and successful singing career, entering the Top-40 music charts with the singles "So Yesterday" and "Come Clean." Her first album Metamorphosis, reached #1 on the Billboard 200, selling four million copies. Overall, Hilary has sold more than 15 million records worldwide. She has won two platinum awards and her concerts are routinely sold out across the country as she attracts a large and loyal fan base. In 2014, Duff signed with RCA Records and is currently finalizing her highly anticipated and buzzed about fifth studio album.
Among her many accolades, Duff was honored with two separate Teen Choice Awards and was also named by Teen People as one of the magazine's "25 Hottest Stars Under 25." Hilary is passionate about several charitable causes, especially those involving children and animals. Her charity work includes the founding of Blessings in a Back Pack which helps inner city schoolchildren get the nutrition they need. She's also involved with March of Dimes and Make-A-Wish Foundation.
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Miriam Shor
Actress and singer Miriam Shor was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and at sixth months old moved to Venice, Italy where her academic father was teaching and studying. It was there her love of theatre started when she saw her first opera at the age of two. She began doing plays in high school, and went on to be among the first people to receive a BFA from the theatre program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor as well as a BA in English. After graduation she moved to New York City to pursue a career in the theatre.
In the early 1990s Shor landed a variety of roles in many off-Broadway productions, the most successful of which was the rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch by John Cameron Mitchell, where she played drag queen Yitzhak. In 2001 she starred in the musical's critically successful film adaptation and in 2002 received an Outfest Screen Idol Award for her Yitzhak portrayal. She also lent her voice to the film's GRAMMY®-nominated soundtrack. Having gone back to her theatre roots many times, Shor has worked with a range of renowned artists such as Stephen Sondheim, Terrence McNally and Lanford Wilson as well as many young, up and coming writers.
In addition to Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Shor has appeared in more than a dozen films throughout her career including Mary Stuart Masterson's drama Cake Eaters and the comedy Bedazzled with Brendan Fraser (THE MUMMY) and Elizabeth Hurley (THE ROYALS). She appears in the upcoming film Puerto Ricans in Paris where she plays an undercover cop in the NYPD Counterfeit Goods Recovery Department opposite Luis Guzman (Boogie Nights) and Edgar Garcia (The Black Cat). The independent comedy feature is written and directed by HOW TO MAKE IT IN AMERICA'S Ian Edelman.
On television, Shor has starred in a range of series that included playing Cricket Caruth-Reilly, a strong-willed business woman with an apparently perfect marriage, on ABC's 2012 comedy series GCB alongside Leslie Bibb (Iron Man), Kristin Chenoweth, Jennifer Aspen (RODNEY), Marisol Nichols (Felon) and Annie Potts (Designing Women). Shor's other small screen credits include THEN CAME YOU, INSIDE SCHWARTZ, BIG DAY and SWINGTOWN. She also appeared on the first and third season of the FX drama DAMAGES, the HBO miniseries MILDRED PIERCE, and as the dogged reporter Mandy Post in the fourth and fifth season of the THE GOOD WIFE.
Miriam speaks fluent Italian, having grown up splitting her time between Detroit, Michigan and first Venice, then Torino, Italy. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Manhattan. She also loves to travel, but having established her status as a true New Yorker, hates driving.
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Nico Tortorella
Nico most recently starred alongside Kevin Bacon in the new hit series THE FOLLOWING for Kevin Williamson, for whom he starred in Wes Craven's Scre4m with Emma Roberts (We're the Millers) and original franchise survivors, and also appeared opposite Anton Yelchin (Fright Night) and Willem Dafoe (Spider-Man) in the adaptation of Dean Koontz's best-selling Odd Thomas. On the horizon is the recently completed fictional music-themed documentary Hunter and Game.
Nico also reunited with filmmaker Joel Schumacher alongside the likes of Nicole Kidman and Nicolas Cage in the dramatic thriller Tresspass. He previously starred for him in the Sundance hit Twelve.
Though he began acting in professional theater in his native Chicago in seventh grade, it wasn't till a breakout role on the guilty pleasure THE BEAUTIFUL LIFE, that Hollywood ultimately took notice. Nico's razor-sharp sensibilities allowed him to transition into the acclaimed series MAKE IT OR BREAK IT. That said, it appears as though he's well on his way to making it. In addition to acting, Nico's passions include his dogs, vintage fashion, antiques, and his tattoo collection.
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Sutton Foster
Sutton recently starred in the title role of Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley's Tony®-nominated Broadway revival, Violet, earning Tony, Drama League, Drama Desk, Outer Critic Circle and Broadway.com Audience Choice Award nominations for her performance. Sutton previously performed the role of Violet in the acclaimed concert performance at City Center Encores! Off-Center in July 2013.
Previously, Sutton starred as Michelle Simms in director and producer, Amy Sherman-Palladino's ABC Family series, BUNHEADS, opposite Kelly Bishop (Dirty Dancing). The series centered on a former ballerina turned Las Vegas showgirl who gets married on a whim and winds up teaching alongside her new mother-in-law at her ballet school in a sleepy coastal town. She earned a Critics' Choice Television Award nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy Series for her performance in the role.
Sutton makes her feature film debut in Phil Alden Robinson's The Angriest Man in Brooklyn alongside Mila Kunis (Black Swan), Peter Dinklage (GAME OF THRONES), Melissa Leo (The Fighter), James Earl Jones (The Lion King), and the late Robin Williams. The film tells the story of a physician who accidentally tells an obnoxious patient that he has a brain aneurism and only ninety minutes to live.
A veteran of the theater, Sutton formerly starred as Reno Sweeney in the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of Anything Goes at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre. Foster earned a 2011 Tony Award® for Best Actress in a Musical, as well as the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Astaire and Broadway.com's Audience Choice Awards for her performance as a former evangelist, now nightclub singer, aboard an ocean liner bound for London from New York.
Under the direction of Michael Mayer, Sutton previously starred as Millie Dillmount, a young, modern woman from Kansas who travels to New York City intending to marry for money, in the 2002 Broadway production of Thoroughly Modern Millie at the Marquis Theatre. Originating the role, Sutton established herself as one of the greatest talents in the industry and earned a Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical, as well as the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Astaire Awards for her performance.
Additionally, Foster originated roles in the Broadway productions of Little Women, The Drowsy Chaperone, Young Frankenstein, and "Shrek the Musical. Among her other theater credits include: Les Miserables, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Annie and Grease. Foster made her Off-Broadway debut as Prudence in Paul Weitz's comedy, TRUST, alongside Zach Braff (Scrubs), Bobby Canavale (Chef) and Ari Graynor (Mystic River) at Second Stage Theatre.
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