DAVID SCHWIMMER (Max/Executive Producer) garnered international
acclaim for his role as "Ross," the hopeless romantic who voices
a litany of wisecracks and snappy commentary on NBC's smash hit Friends.
Born in Queens, New York and raised in Los Angeles, Schwimmer was first
exposed to acting when he enrolled in a high school drama class. His instructor
encouraged him to attend a summer acting program at Northwestern University,
where he eventually received a B.S. degree in speech/theatre in 1988. Subsequently,
he studied acting at Oxford University and the Lee Strasberg Institute.
A serious writer and director, Schwimmer's real passion is the Lookingglass
Theatre Company, an organization he founded in 1988 with seven other Northwestern
graduates in Chicago. His acting credits with this company include West,
The Odyssey, Of One Blood, In the Eye of the Beholder, The Master and Margarita
and The Arabian Nights.
His stage directing credits include The Jungle (which earned six Joseph
Jefferson Awards), The Serpent and Alice in Wonderland, which was performed
at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland.
In 1993, he made his debut as a television series regular on the comedy
Monty.
Additional roles included recurring performances on such critically acclaimed
series' as NYPD Blue, L.A. Law and The Wonder Years.
Schwimmer's feature film credits include Crossing the Bridge, Twenty Bucks,
The Pallbearer and the forthcoming Since You've Been Gone. He was most recently
seen in the HBO telefilm Breast Men and will soon be seen opposite Harrison
Ford and Anne Heche in Ivan Reitman's Six Days, Seven Nights as well as
Bryan Singer's Apt Pupil.
The actor also appeared in the short films The Waiter and The Pitch, both
of which were directed by Doug Ellin.
JASON LEE's (Jay) breakthrough film was Kevin Smith's Chasing Amy,
where he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. Lee also starred
in Smith's Mallrats.
Other films include American Cuisine with Irene Jakob and Tony Scott's new
Enemy of the State. On television, Lee appeared in the acclaimed HBO telefilm
Weapons of Mass Distraction.
A well-known name in the world of professional skateboarding, Lee is a native
of Southern California and began skateboarding as a hobby at the age of
13. By the time he was 18, he was an accomplished professional, having traveled
the world to participate in international competitions.
Transitioning from a successful skateboarder into a successful actor, Lee
has proven his ability to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.
MILI AVITAL (Sam) is a top box-office draw and one of the most popular
and beloved stars in her native Israel. In 1991, she won the Israeli Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actress for the feature Over the Ocean and more
recently an Israeli Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in Groupie.
Avital, however, is quickly becoming one of America's most desirable imports,
having crossed the threshold with James Spader in Stargate and braved another
frontier opposite Johnny Depp in the period drama Dead Man. In addition
to Kissing A Fool, Avital has recently completed two additional major feature
film projects: Animals, opposite Tim Roth and Polish Wedding, starring Claire
Danes, Gabrielle Byrne and Lena Olin. Animals premiered recently at the
Sundance Film Festival and Polish Wedding is scheduled for release this
June.
Born in Jerusalem and raised in a small town in Tel Aviv, Avital has been
performing since she was six years old. But she got her first big break
at age 15, nabbing the role of the young virgin, "Cecille" in
the Cameri Theater of Tel Aviv production of Dangerous Liaisons.
BONNIE HUNT (Linda) has a wide variety of credentials-from being
named Best Talk Show Guest In America by Entertainment Weekly, to actress
in many major motion pictures including Jerry Maguire, Jumanji, Only You,
Beethoven and numerous television series such as Grand and Davis Rules to
creator-writer-producer and star of two critically acclaimed series, The
Building and The Bonnie Hunt Show.
Currently, she is working on the new computer animated movie from Pixar
Entertainment (the creators of Toy Story) entitled, A Bug's Life.
Hunt adds two new hyphens to her credentials this year as director and screenwriter
of the MGM film, Return To Me.
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