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Pamela Adlon as Marcy

Date of Birth: July 9, 1966

Birth Place: New York City

Family:
Married Felix O. Adlon

Actor Bio:
Pamela Adlon is an American actress and voice actress. She is sometimes credited as Pamela Segall, Pamela S. Adlon and Pamela Segall Adlon. Adlon is best known for providing the voice of Bobby Hill on the animated series King of the Hill—a role for which she won an Emmy for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance in 2002. She also played Dolores Rebchuck in Grease 2 and Ashley Spinelli on the animated series Recess (TV series). In 2006, she performed as the voice of Andy in Cartoon Network’s Squirrel Boy animated series, and co-starred with Louis C.K. in the now cancelled HBO sitcom Lucky Louie. Most recently, she starred as Marcy Runkle on Showtime’s Californication. On April 27, 2009, Adam Carolla announced on his podcast that Adlon had been cast as his wife in his upcoming sitcom, tentatively titled “Ace in the Hole. Aldon voiced Pajama Sam in the following Pajama Sam computer games: “Pajama Sam: No Need To Hide When It’s Dark Outside”, “Pajama Sam 2: Thunder and Lightning Aren’t so Frightening,” “Pajama Sam 3: You Are What You Eat From Your Head To Your Feet” and”Pajama Sam’s Games To Play On Any Day”

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Movies:
* Grease 2 (1982)
* The Facts of Life (1979) (TV series) (1983–1984)
* Night Court (TV series) (1984)
* The Redd Foxx Show (1986)
* Wiseguy (TV series) (1988) Tanya Medley
* Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) (Film) (voice) – Ket
* Say Anything… (1989)
* Star Trek Next Generation (TV series)(Season 3, episode 4) (1989) – Oji.
* The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)
* Rugrats (1991) (TV series) (voice) Dean, Sticky, Wise Guy, Big Justin
* The Gate II: Trespassers (1992) Liz
* FernGully: The Last Rainforest (voice)
* Down the Shore (1992) Miranda
* Phantom 2040 (1994) (TV series) (voice)
* Quack Pack (1996) (TV series) (voice) Dewey
* Sgt. Bilko (1996) as Sgt. Raquel “Rocky” Barbella
* Jungle Cubs (1996) – Baloo
* Bed of Roses (1996) – Kim
* King of the Hill (1997-2009) (voice of Bobby Hill)
* Princess Mononoke (1997) (voice)
* 101 Dalmatians: The Series (1997) (TV series) (voice) Lucky
* Recess (1997) (voice of Ashley Spinelli)
* Pepper Ann (1997) (TV series) (voice) Margaret “Moose” Pearson
* Grim Fandango (1998) (video game) (voice)
* Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot (1999) (TV series) (voice) Rusty and Jo
* Vampire Hunter D (2000) (voice)
* Teacher’s Pet (2000) (TV series) (voice)
* Escape from Monkey Island (2000) (video game)
* Recess: School’s Out (2001) (voice of Spinelli)
* The Oblongs… (2001) (TV series) (voice of Milo Francis Oblong, Jared Kilmer, The Debbies)
* Time Squad (2001) (TV series) (voice of Otto Osworth)
* What’s New, Scooby-Doo? (TV series) (2 episodes, 2002)
* Beyond (2003) (voice)
* Final Fantasy X-2 (2003) (video game) (voice)
* The Animatrix (2003) (voice)
* Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks (2003) (TV series) (voice)
* Teacher’s Pet (2004) (voice)
* Squirrel Boy (2006) (voice of Andy)
* Lucky Louie (2006) as Kim
* Californication (2007)
* WordGirl (2007) (voice of Eileen a/k/a The Birthday Girl)
* El Tigre:The Adventures of Manny Rivera (2007)
* Tinker Bell (2008) (voice of Vidia)
* The Drinky Crow Show – Mademmoiselle DeBoursay, Claire, additional voices
* Tinker Bell And The Lost Treasure (2009) (voice of Vidia)

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Played by: Natasha McElhone

Occupation: Architect

Signature look: Easy-going, casual and sexy.

Personality: Kind, quiet, and mysterious. Karen has a fiery, wild side and she tries to quell as much as possible. It usually only comes out when she’s with Hank.

Karen’s backstory: Karen was living in New York City as an art student at NYU and playing in a downtown noise band at CBGB’s when she met Hank Moody. Nine months after they met, Karen had their daughter, Rebecca.

VIRTUES AND VICES

Moral values: Kindness, honesty and putting family first

Vice(s): Smoking, drinking, the occasional joint and Hank,

Regret(s): Cheating on Bill…maybe???

Personal Goal(s): To marry Bill and have a normal life… and have 10,000 more of Hank’s babies.

Played by: David Duchovny

Occupation: Writer

Signature look: Black T Shirt or Black Shirt with dark denim jeans.. paired with a sport jacket for dress up or a leather jacket for a more casual look..and of course, the signature sunglasses.
Personality: Pessimistic, self-loathing,loving, spontaneous, brutally honest most of the time

Taste: Hank Moody often wears dark jeans and his favorite black t-shirt; In LOL he is seen wearing a light brown leather jacket which he exacted as payment from Bill for giving a talk to Mia’s class. He likes to listen to classic rock.

Hank’s backstory:
East Coast kid who came to Hollywood when his book got optioned. Fell into the Los Angeles lifestyle and has been trying to dig himself out ever since.

Back in New York, the seasons grounded him, constantly filling him with hope and disappointment. The bright white blanket and blue skies of the first snowfall, only to turn a grimy grey the next day, awakened his senses; reminding him that life was larger than him. Without him ever knowing it, the seasons moved his internal clock; the crisp air of fall turning increasing cooler and then winter reminding to turn inward. It was this never-ending cycle from which Hank drew upon for his writing. The city of eternal sunshine and perfect bodies numbed his heart and impeded his pen. It is from great angst that best-selling novels are made. Without the seasons providing cover, angst became personal and Hank’s life began to fall apart.

Hank’s books include “South of Heaven,” “Seasons in the Abyss,” and “God Hates Us All” (which became a movie “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”), as well as a blog for Hell-A Magazine. Hank also wrote the book that Mia stole – published as F#@king and Punching – and the unpublished biography of Lew Ashby.

VIRTUES AND VICES

Moral values: Only about the truth. Knows the value of a well-stated white lie and truly loves women, flaws and all.

Vice(s): Women, alcohol, cigarettes, ganja, and coke, drama. Extended periods of self-loathing.

Regret(s): Letting Karen get away, moving to California.

Personal Goal(s): To get Karen and Becca back and overcome his writer’s block

David Duchovny as Hank Moody

Date of Birth: 08/07/1960

Birth Place: New York City
Eye Color: Hazel
Height: 6′ 1” (1,83 m)

Family:
Married Tea Leoni on May 6, 1997. Separated in 2008
2 children, Madelaine West Duchovny born April 24, 1999
Kyd Miller Duchovny born June 15, 2002

Trade Mark:
Deadpan humor. Puppy dog eyes. Cleft in chin.

Education:
B.A in English Literature from Princenton
M.A. inEnglish Literature and ABD on his PhD from Yale

Actor Bio:
David Duchovny was born and raised in New York City. He graduated from Princeton University and was pursuing a PhD at Yale when he caught the acting bug. Subsequently, Duchovny emerged to become one of the most highly acclaimed actors in Hollywood. For SHOWTIME’s hit series CALIFORNICATION, he won the Golden Globe® Award in January 2008 for Best Actor in a Comedy Series. From 1993-2002, Duchovny starred in Fox Television’s monster hit The X-Files, which earned him a Golden Globe® Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series, and two Emmy® nominations for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series. He was also nominated for an Emmy® for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his highly acclaimed appearances on Life with Bonnie and The Larry Sanders Show. Additionally, he has been nominated for a total of three Golden Globe® Awards for Best Actor in a Drama Series, five Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series and a TV Critic’s Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series.

Duchovny added the role of director to his already extensive list of accomplishments when he wrote, directed and starred in two critically acclaimed episodes of The X-Files, titled “The Unnatural” and “Hollywood A.D.” Duchovny made his feature directorial debut in 2005 with House of D, which he also wrote and appeared in. Other feature film credits include: Things We Lost in the Fire, The TV Set, Trust the Man, Full Frontal, Zoolander, Evolution, Return to Me, Playing God, Kalifornia, Chaplin, Beethoven, The Rapture and Julia Has Two Lovers. Most recently he appeared in The X-Files: I Want to Believe, the highly anticipated follow-up to The X-Files movie, in which he reprised the role of ‘Fox Mulder.’

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Movies:
Working Girl (1988)
New Year’s Day (1989)
Julia Has Two Lovers (1991)
The Rapture (1991)
Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead (1991)
Beethoven (1992)
Ruby (1992)
Venice/Venice (1992)
Chaplin (1992)
Kalifornia (1993)
Playing God (1997)
The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998)
Return to Me (2000)
Evolution (2001)
Zoolander (2001)
Full Frontal (2002)
Connie & Carla (2004)
House of D – directorial debut (2004)
Trust the Man (2005)
The TV Set (2006)
Things We Lost in the Fire
Si J’étais Toi aka The Secret
The X-Files: I Want To Believe

TV Series:
Twin Peaks (1990-1991)
Red Shoe Diaries – narrator – (1993-2001)
The X-Files (1993-2002)
Eco-Challenge: Fiji Islands – narrator -(2003)
Californication (2007)

TV Movies:
Baby Snatcher (1992)
Red Shoe Diaries (1992)
Queer Duck: The Movie (2006)

Guest Appearances:
Eek! The Cat (1995) V
The Larry Sanders Show (1995-1998)
Duckman (1996) V
Frasier (1996) V
Millennium (1997)
The Simpsons (1997) V
Life With Bonnie (2002)
Sex & the City (2003)

Big break:
Kalifornia (David Duchovny, Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis, Michelle Forbes)

Best-known character:
Fox Mulder (The X-Files)

Awards:
American Award for “The Larry Sanders show”;
Golden Globe for “The X Files”;
National Television Award, UK for “The X Files”;
Golden Satellite Award for “The X Files”;
Universe reader’s choice award for “The X Files”;
TV Guide Award for “The X Files”;
Golden Globe for “Californication”.

Natascha McElhone as Karen

Date of Birth: 14/12/1971

Birth Place: London, England

Eye Color: green

Height: 5″7

Family: husband- dr Martin Kelly, 2 sons- Theo and Otis

Education: London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art

Actor Bio:
Natascha McElhone will be seen later this year in the feature film Heaven & Earth, and next year in the British indie The Kid opposite Rupert Friend and Ioan Gruffud who she also co-starred with in last year’s children’s fantasy film The Secret of Moonacre. McElhone established herself as a talented leading actress in 1995 in her first film, Merchant Ivory’s Surviving Picasso, opposite Anthony Hopkins; followed by The Truman Show; The Devil’s Own; and John Frankenheimer’s action epic Ronin, co-starring Robert De Niro. She also starred opposite Kenneth Branagh in William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost. In 2003, McElhone co-starred with George Clooney in Steven Soderbergh’s Solaris. She previously shared the title role in Mrs. Dalloway with Vanessa Redgrave. She also starred in the Golden Globe®-nominated mini-series The Company. In 2005, she co-starred in the Emmy®-nominated mini-series Revelations. McElhone’s major film credits include City of Ghosts, Laurel Canyon, Ladies in Lavender and the original BBC production of The Other Boleyn Girl. McElhone’s early stage credits include starring roles in productions of Richard III, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Cherry Orchard and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In 2006, she starred in the West End production of the award-winning play Honour.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Movies: Solaris, The Truman Show, Ronin, Ladies in Lavender

TV Shows: The Other Boleyn Girl, Revelations

Stage: Honour, Richard III,The Count of Monte Cristo,Midsummer Night’s Dream

Big break: Surviving Picasso

Best-known character: Sylvia/Lauren in The Truman Show