Academy Award® winner TOMMY LEE JONES (Agent K) recently starred
as the notorious Harvey Two-Face in Batman Forever. He also recently made
his directorial debut on The Good Old Boys for TNT.
In 1991, Jones received his first Academy Award® nomination and a Golden
Globe nomination for his portrayal of Clay Shaw in Oliver Stone's JFK. Two
years later, he won the Academy Award® for Best Supporting Actor and
a Golden Globe Award for his portrayal of U.S. Marshall Samuel Gerard in
the box-office hit The Fugitive.
Jones made his feature film debut in Arthur Hiller's Love Story (1970) as
Ryan O'Neal's roommate. He has starred in more than 15 feature films including
Coal Miner's Daughter, for which he received his first Golden Globe nomination,
Stormy Monday, The Package, Fire Birds, House of Cards, Under Siege and
Heaven and Earth. He recently starred in Cobb, Blown Away, The Client,
Natural Born Killers and Blue Sky.
On television, he won an Emmy Award for Best Actor for his performance as
Gary Gilmore in The Executioner's Song and was nominated for an Emmy Award
for Best Actor and a Golden Globe Award for the mini-series Lonesome Dove.
His numerous network and cable credits include the title role in The Amazing
Howard Hughes, the American Playhouse production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,
The Rainmaker for HBO, the HBO/BBC production of Yuri Nosenko, KGB and April
Morning.
Jones made his Broadway debut in John Osborne's "A Patriot For Me."
His other Broadway appearances include "Four on a Garden" with
Carol Channing and Sid Caesar and "Ulysses in Nighttown" with
the late Zero Mostel.
Born in San Saba, Texas, he worked briefly with his father in the oil fields
before leaving for Harvard University where he graduated cum laude with
a degree in English. Jones currently resides in San Antonio, Texas.
Celebrated for his versatile talents in film, television and music, WILL
SMITH (Agent J) was most recently seen in the record-breaking summer
hit Independence Day. This role follows his starring role in Columbia's
Bad Boys, one of the biggest boxoffice hits of 1995.
Smith's burgeoning film career was recognized at the 1996 Blockbuster Awards,
where he was named Favorite Male Newcomer. In 1986, Smith burst onto the
music scene as The Fresh Prince half of the Grammy-winning rap duo DJ Jazzy
Jeff and The Fresh Prince. Smith's showmanship and magnetism led to the
creation of the hit NBC series The Fresh Prince of Bel Air which recently
completed its sixth season.
The popularity of the series led Smith into motion pictures. His feature
film work is highlighted by his critically-acclaimed performance in the
Oscar-nominated Six Degrees of Separation. Other credits include Made In
America and Where the Day Takes You.
Smith began rapping at parties when he was 12. Eight years ago, he and
Jeff Townes became DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince. Their debut album,
Rock the House, spawned the hit "Girls Ain't Nothing But Trouble."
Their next album, "He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper," produced the
duo's most popular single, "Parents just Don't Understand," which
earned them the 1988 Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance.
In 1989, they earned a Grammy nomination for the song "I Think I Can
Beat Mike Tyson," from the album "And in This Corner." They
won a Grammy for the single "Summertime," from their fourth album,
"Homebase," which was released in 1991 and went platinum.
In 1992, Smith and Townes were honored at the NAACP Image Awards as Outstanding
Rap Artists.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO (Edgar) first came to prominence with an unforgettable
performance as an unstable private in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket.
His other films include Strange Days, Stuart Saves His Family, Ed Wood,
Being Human, The Player, Household Saints, JFK, Adventures in Babysitting
and Mystic Pizza. D'Onofrio was recently seen in Feeling Minnesota, The
Whole Wide World, which he produced with Dan Ireland directing, and in Alex
Cox's upcoming The Winner. He is also producing Guy, directed by Michael
Lindsay-Hogg.
He made his Broadway debut in Open Admissions and appeared in productions
of "Of Mice and Men," "Sexual Perversity in Chicago"
and "Me Indian Wants the Bronx," among others.
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Hawaii and Colorado, D'Onofrio studied acting
with Sonia Moore at the American Stanislavsky Theatre in New York and under
the direction of Sharon Chatten at the Actors Studio.
LINDA FIORENTINO (Dr. Laurel Weaver) most recently starred in Jade
and in John Dahl's Unforgettable. Previously, she collaborated with Dahl
on the acclaimed erotic thriller The Last Seduction for which she received
a Best Actress Award from the New York Film Critics Circle.
Fiorentino made her feature film debut in Harold Becker's Vision Quest opposite
Matthew Modine. She then portrayed a kinky SoHo sculptress in Martin Scorsese's
After Hours and a runaway wife in Alan Rudolph's The Moderns. Her other
films include Gotcha!, Queens Logic and Chain of Desire, a remake of the
classic La Ronde.
TONY SHALHOUB (Jeebs) is best known to TV audiences as the Italian
cab driver Antonio Scarpacci on the NBC sitcom Wings, but recently garnered
acclaim and a National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting
Actor for his performance as the temperamental chef Primo in the 1996 independent
hit, Big Night.
Born in the Midwest, Shalhoub attended college in Maine and studied theatre
at the Yale School of Drama. He spent four seasons with the American Repertory
Theatre in Cambridge, MA, prior to appearing in productions at the New York
Shakespeare Festival. His additional stage credits include "Conversations
with my Father," for which he was nominated for a Tony Award, as well
as the female version of "The Odd Couple" and "The Heidi
Chronicles," opposite his wife, Brooke Adams.
His film credits include Longtime Companion, Quick Change, Barton Fink,
I.Q., Honeymoon in Vegas and Searching for Bobby Fischer. He will next
be seen in Columbia's sci-fi thriller Gattaca, as well as Fox's A Life Less
Ordinary, directed by Danny Boyle.
An acclaimed film, stage and television actor, RIP TORN (Agent Z)
has gained national attention in recent years for his acerbic portrayal
of Arthur, the talk show producer, on Garry Shandling's The Larry Sanders
Show, a role which earned him two CableAce Awards, the American Comedy Award,
three consecutive Emmy nominations, and an Emmy win as Best Supporting Actor
in a Comedy Series.
Currently starring as the mighty ruler Zeus in Disney's animated Hercules,
Torn's recent film appearances include How To Make an American Quilt and
Down Periscope. He has also starred in such films as Pork Chop Hill, Sweet
Bird of Youth, King of Kings and The Cincinnati Kid.
Additionally, Torn is in the stage production of "Young Man From Atlanta,"
for which he received critical acclaim. His Broadway repertoire also includes
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Anna Christie, Strangers in the Land of Canaan and
the off-Broadway stagings of "Chaparral" and "Desire Under
the Elms."
In live television, he was a top performer from 1957 to 1960 with such shows
as Omnibus, Kraft Theatre, Playhouse 90, Hallmark Hall of Fame and Alfred
Hitchcock Presents and earned the Emmy, along with numerous awards, for
his work in dozens of MOW, mini-series and series guest appearances since
then.
Born Elmore Rual Torn Jr. in Temple, Texas, the son of Elmore and Thelma
Spacek, Torn always preferred the nickname "Rip," which he acquired
from his father.
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