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Richard Speight, Jr.
Richard Speight, Jr. was born September 4, 1970 and is an American actor, best known for his recurring role as Deputy Bill Kohler on the TV series Jericho prior to its cancellation and as Gabriel/Loki on Supernatural.
Speight was raised in Nashville, Tennessee, the son of Barbara and Richard Speight. Born Sept. 4, 1970, he attended Montgomery Bell Academy and the University of Southern California's School of Theater, graduating cum laude. He has two older sisters, Barby and Lindy. On June 28, 2003, he married Jaci Kathryn Hays, a dot-com executive in California; they have two sons.He also plays the guitar and bass.
Speight played Sgt. Warren "Skip" Muck in the Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning World War II miniseries Band of Brothers, produced for HBO by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. Speight has also appeared in television series such as The Agency, ER, Jericho, Party of Five and JAG for CBS, as well as several commercials, which include Got Milk?, IBM, Pepsi, and Disney. He also has a recurring role on the drama show Supernatural since 2007 as the Trickster (later revealed to be the Archangel Gabriel).
He has appeared in such films as Speed 2: Cruise Control, The Last Big Attraction, and starred in Jason Reitman's In God We Trust. He also co-directed and co-starred in the independent feature North Beach. His earlier work includes roles in the film Ernest Goes to Camp and a regular role in the NBC Saturday morning sitcom Running the Halls. He also had a brief role in Thank You for Smoking.
Misha Collins
Misha Collins (born Misha Dmitri Tippens Krushnic) worked as a carpenter to pay his tuition at the University of Chicago, where he studied Social Theory. After graduating, he worked on National Public Radio and at the White House as an intern for Bill Clinton.
He is an accomplished actor with many film and television roles under his belt. Aside from guest spots on series such as CSI, ER, NCIS, Close to Home, Monk and Without a Trace, Misha also featured in a season of 24 as Alexis Drazen, whose hobbies among other things included ethnic cleansing and assassination.
Most importantly, Misha is joining us to share his experiences playing an angel of God named Castiel in Supernatural. Don't forget to ask him how his reading of Revelations effected his portrayal.
Traci Dinwiddie
Traci was born December 22nd 1973 in Anchorage, Alaska. Traci is an Actress, Yogini, Groove Goddess, Lonely Painter, Mystic, Authentic Movement Facilitator, “Brawde” of Brawdeville, animal lover and friend to all. She lives the essence of Rumi’s sacred words, “Let the beauty we love be what we do”.
She has appeared in films including Summer Catch (2001), Black Knight (2001), The Notebook (2004) and End of the Spear (2006), and Mr. Brooks (2007). She has also appeared on the TV shows Dawson's Creek and One Tree Hill. Traci also appeared in Supernatural for four episodes as a Psychic friend of Bobby's (Jim Beaver).
Traci is also an avid theatre actress appearing in a number of stage productions including A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, Jesus Christ Superstar and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
How does Traci stay so busy and keep her sanity? Her Yoga practice and ever expanding connection with community is her saving grace! During the very intense filming of "Mr. Brooks", Traci provided Yoga classes on the weekends to cast and crew.
She brings her heart and soul to every creative endeavor. A vegetarian and avid recycler, Traci encourages each being to take care of him or herself, each other, and especially our beloved Mama Earth.
Jim Beaver
James Norman "Jim" Beaver, Jr. (born August 12, 1950) is an American stage, film, and television actor, playwright, screenwriter, and film historian. He is perhaps most familiar to worldwide audiences as the gruff but tenderhearted prospector Ellsworth on the HBO Western drama series Deadwood, a starring role which brought him acclaim and a Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination for Ensemble Acting after three decades of supporting work in films and TV. He currently portrays Bobby Singer in the CW television series Supernatural and Sheriff Charlie Mills in the CBS series Harper's Island. His memoir Life's That Way was published in April, 2009.
Beaver was born in Laramie, Wyoming, the son of Dorothy Adell and James Norman Beaver, Sr., a minister. Although his parents' families had both been long in Texas, Beaver was born in Laramie while his father was doing graduate work in accounting at the University of Wyoming. Returning to Texas, Beaver Sr. worked as an accountant and as a minister for the Church of Christ in Fort Worth, Texas, Crowley, Texas, Dallas, Texas and Grapevine, Texas. For most of Jim Beaver's youth, his family lived in Irving, Texas, even while his father preached in surrounding communities. He and his three younger sisters (Denise, Reneé, and Teddlie) all attended Irving High School (where he was a classmate of ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard), but he transferred in his senior year to Fort Worth Christian Academy, from which he graduated in 1968. He also took courses at Fort Worth Christian College. Despite having appeared in some elementary-school plays, he showed no particular interest in an acting career, but immersed himself in film history and expressed a desire for a career as a writer, publishing a few short stories in his high school anthology.
Less than two months after his graduation from high school, Beaver followed several of his close friends into the United States Marine Corps. He served at the Marine Corps Base Twentynine Palms and at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton before being transferred to the 1st Marine Division near Da Nang, South Vietnam in 1970. He returned to the U.S. in 1971 and was discharged as Corporal (E-4), though he remained active in the Marine Reserve until 1976.
Upon his release from active duty in 1971, he returned to Irving, Texas, and worked briefly for Frito-Lay as a corn-chip dough mixer. He entered what is now Oklahoma Christian University, where he became interested in theatre. He made his true theatrical debut in a small part in The Miracle Worker. The following year, he transferred to Central State University. He performed in numerous plays in college and supported himself as a cabdriver, a movie projectionist, a tennis-club maintenance man, and an amusement-park stuntman at Frontier City. He also worked as a newscaster and hosted jazz and classical music programs on radio station KCSC. During his college days, he also began to write, completing several plays and also his first book, on actor John Garfield, while still a student. Beaver graduated with a degree in Oral Communications in 1975. He briefly pursued graduate studies, but soon returned to Irving, Texas.
Jim Beaver made his professional stage debut in October 1972, while still a college student, in Rain, by W. Somerset Maugham at the Oklahoma Theatre Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. After returning to Texas, he did a great deal of local theatre in the Dallas area, supporting himself as a film cleaner at a 16 mm film rental firm and as a stagehand for the Dallas Ballet. He joined the Shakespeare Festival of Dallas in 1976, performing in numerous productions. In 1979, he was commissioned by Actors Theatre of Louisville to write the first of three plays for that company (Spades, Sidekick, and Semper Fi), and was twice a finalist in the theatre's national Great American Play Contest (for Once Upon a Single Bound and Verdigris). Along with plays, he continued writing for film journals and for several years was a columnist, critic, and feature writer for the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures magazine Films in Review.
Moving to New York City in 1979, Beaver worked steadily onstage in stock and on tour, simultaneously writing plays and researching a biography of actor George Reeves (a project which he still pursues between acting jobs). He appeared in starring roles in such plays as The Hasty Heart and The Rainmaker in Birmingham, Alabama and The Lark in Manchester, New Hampshire, and toured the country as Macduff in Macbeth and in The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia. During this period, he ghostwrote the book Movie Blockbusters for critic Steven Scheuer.
In 1983, he moved to Los Angeles, California to continue research on his biography of George Reeves. He worked for a year as the film archivist for the Variety Arts Center. Following a reading of his play Verdigris, he was asked to join the prestigious Theatre West company in Hollywood, where he continues as an actor and playwright to this day. Verdigris was produced to very good reviews in 1985 and Beaver was signed by the powerful Triad Artists agency. He immediately began to work writing episodes of various television series, including Alfred Hitchcock Presents (he received a 1987 CableACE Award nomination for his very first TV script, for this show), Tour of Duty, and Vietnam War Story. He also worked occasionally in small roles in films and television.
The 1988 Writers Guild of America strike fundamentally altered the freelance television writing market, and Beaver's TV writing career came to an abrupt halt. However, a chance meeting led to his being cast as the best friend of star Bruce Willis in Norman Jewison's drama about Vietnam veterans, In Country, and his acting career suddenly took up the slack where his TV writing career had faltered. (Beaver was the only actual Vietnam veteran among the principal cast of In Country.)
Subsequently he has appeared in many popular films, including Sister Act, Sliver, Bad Girls, Adaptation., Magnolia, and The Life of David Gale. He starred in the TV series Thunder Alley as the comic sidekick to Ed Asner, and as homicide cop Earl Gaddis on Reasonable Doubts. He was also French Stewart's sullen boss Happy Doug on the sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun.
In 2002, Beaver was cast as one of the stars of the ensemble Western drama Deadwood in the role of Whitney Ellsworth, a goldminer whom he often described as "Gabby Hayes with Tourette syndrome". Ellsworth went from being a filth-covered reprobate to marrying the richest woman in town and becoming a beloved and stalwart figure in the community. He continued his long research for the Reeves biography, and in 2005 served as the historical/biographical consultant on the theatrical feature film about Reeves's death, Hollywoodland.
Beaver in 2006 joined the cast of the HBO drama John from Cincinnati while simultaneously playing the recurring roles of Bobby Singer on Supernatural and Carter Reese on another HBO drama Big Love. He then took on the role of Sheriff Charlie Mills in the CBS drama Harper's Island, which aired from April 9, 2009 to July 11, 2009.
His memoir of the year following his wife's 2003 diagnosis of lung cancer, entitled Life's That Way, was purchased in a preemptive bid by Putnam/Penguin publishers in the fall of 2007. Prior to publication in April, 2009, it was chosen for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program for 2009
Travis Wester
Born in 1977, Travis Wester is an American pianist and actor who hails from Culver City, California. In his early years he attended North Hollywood Senior High, graduating in 1995.
Wester's first major acting break was in Beverly Hills, 90210, playing Austin Sanders. He then went on to win a number of movie roles in films such as The Paper Brigade, Hefner: Unauthorized, Barstow 2008, Spring Break Lawyer, On the Edge, Teddy Bears' Picnic, Raising Genius, All Souls Day, Stone & Ed, and Kush and is most familiar to film fans as the character Jamie in the 2004 movie Eurotrip.
Wester has appeared on television shows such as The Visitor, George & Leo, Son of the Beach, Dirt, FreakyLinks, Cursed, Boston Public, Undressed, Dharma & Greg, Scrubs, Felicity, Septuplets, Six Feet Under, Jake in Progress, Night Stalker, E-Ring, One on One, CSI, and most recently Justified.
In 2007, Wester appeared in several short films - Call Waiting, How To Have A Girl, Profile, Spaghetti, and Key Witness - which were produced during a reality show based around film-making, called On the Lot. As well as acting, Travis also writes and edits material for the screen.
Wester is much loved as kooky Harry Spangler, one of the Ghostfacers who are regulars in Supernatural and even got their own spin-off series.
A J Buckley
Born in Ireland, AJ Buckley immigrated to Canada at the age of 6. He spent his teenage years in British Colombia, where he began his acting career in the television series The Odyssey. Soon after he guest-starred on shows such as The X-Files and Millennium.
AJ's memorable role in Disturbing Behavior brought him to Hollywood's attention. Since moving to Los Angeles, he has appeared in more than 20 feature films including The In Crowd, Skateland and the critically acclaimed Blue Car. In addition, he has also appeared in hit TV shows including Without a Trace, NYPD Blue, Jack & Jill, Bones and Entourage.
As the go-to-guy in the lab, AJ is acclaimed for his role as Adam Ross on CBS' CSI: NY, portraying a gifted scientist who brings a lot of humor to dark situations.
AJ is currently producing several television and feature projects with his company, FourFront Productions. He recently finished co-producing Talent: The Casting Call with Alloy Entertainment. Buckley is co-owner and partner of Louisiana’s top entertainment magazine, Scene Magazine.
AJ is loved for his starring role as Ed Zeddmore, leader of a group of wannabe ghost hunters in Supernatural. This role has provided AJ the opportunity to write, direct, and star in the critically acclaimed Warner Brothers original web series, The Ghostfacers.
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