Guy Livneh has photographed feature films and documentaries, advertising campaigns and music videos. He has received critical acclaim and industry accolades for his cinematography, including a Golden Lens Award for Best Cinematography in a Music Video. His Feature Film credits include KIDS IN AMERICA, PURPLE HEART, MICHAEL BLANCO, HUNGRY HEARTS, FINAL DRAFT, THE CHALLENGE and EYE OF THE DOLPHIN. His Documentary work includes the BBC's PANORAMA, Mtv's "Rockumentaries" and award winning segments for Mtv's "Stylissimo. Noted work includes the opening sequence of the Academy Award® winning film, "Monster" directed by Patty Jenkins.

Tamara Hunter
Casting Director

After graduating from UCLA’s School of Theatre, Film, and Television, Tamara Hunter dove head first into the “real world” as an aspiring theatre actress. After realizing there will never be enough theatre in LA to pay the bills, she started a casting internship with Mali Finn, which parlayed into an internship with Sarah Finn and Randi Hiller, where she knew she had stumbled upon a career that blended her two loves the most: being in the room with great actors and never having to sweat in front of a camera again. She has been working as an associate with Finn Hiller Casting for 4 years working on such features as Coach Carter, The Guardian, Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift, Gridiron Gang, She’s The Man, In The Valley of Elah, Battle in Seattle and most recently, Iron Man, Vantage Point, and Hotel for Dogs. As a casting director, she done two AFI Master Thesis films, Caroline’s Crossing and Still Life, for director Mahesh Pailoor, and the LA premiere of Headless by Lea Floden and directed by Don Bonnell at the Electric Lodge Theatre.

Brian Thomas Smith
Actor

Brian Thomas Smith was born and raised in Saint Louis, Missouri and has lived in Los Angeles for the last seven years establishing an acting career. Focusing on mostly comedies Brian was the lead in Fox's half hour pilot "The Twelfth Man" where he played a professional bench warming basketball player.  He has also had several guest stars in other comedies like "Two and a Half Men" and "100 Greatest Catch Phrases". You have probably seen Brian popping up all over the tv as he has had much commercial success including a Bud Light campaign and Super Bowl ads. A little fun fact about BTS: he was on The Amazing Race 7 with his brother Greg. After rolling their Land Rover in Botswana he and his brother finished in 6th place.

Brian said he really enjoyed taking on this challenging role because he usually works on the lighter side of things in comedies. "It was a rush getting into something this deep and doing it with such awesome other actors made my experience that much more intense." Brian mentioned. Brian Thomas Smith is currently repped by The William Morris Agency and managed by Mosaic Media.

Beth Grant
Actress

A true chameleon-like actor, Beth Grant has starred in over seventy feature films including Academy Award nominated LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, playing the character you love to hate, “Pageant Official Jenkins” which made Grant the happy recipient of the SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARD as part of the “Best Cast In A Feature Film.” And she won again this year for her critically acclaimed turn as Josh Brolin’s mother-in-law in the Coen Brothers’ new hit NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN.

This season also saw Grant morph into an 80-year-old German scientist in SOUTHLAND TALES directed by Richard Kelly. (Grant created Kelly’s iconic “Sparkle Motion” coach, “Kitty Farmer” in cult hit DONNIE DARKO). She also enjoys cult status as “Sissy Hickey” in Del Shores’ SORDID LIVES, which is now being shot as a TV series for LOGO to air in the fall of 2008.

In September, Grant completed shooting ALL ABOUT STEVE for Fox 2000 starring as Sandra Bullock’s mother. This marks Grant and Bullock’s fourth time together on screen, including SPEED, A TIME TO KILL and MAKING SANDWICHES.

Grant is the recipient of THE LOS ANGELES DRAMA CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD and THE L.A. STAGE ALLIANCE OVATION AWARD and THE BACKSTAGE WEST GARLAND AWARD for “Best Actress In A Leading Role” in Del Shores’ THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF A TRAILER TRASH HOUSEWIFE.

Last season, it was Grant with a Slovakian accent as Andy Warhol’s mother in FACTORY GIRL with Sienna Miller and Guy Pierce and as Jesse Bradford’s New England mom in FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS directed by Clint Eastwood. She recently filmed HENRY POOLE WAS HERE with Luke Wilson, directed by Mark Pellington and WINGED CREATURES directed by Rowan Woods and THE BOY IN THE BOX directed by Anders Anderson.

Popular studio pictures include ROCK STAR, THE ROOKIE, MATCHSTICK MEN, RAIN MAN, SPEED, CHILD’S PLAY II, CITY SLICKERS, TO WONG FOO, and A TIME TO KILL.

Grant has appeared in over thirty plays from Los Angeles to New York including two productions at The Ahmanson, William Inge’s PICNIC (with Jennifer Jason Leigh) and Tennessee Williams SUMMER AND SMOKE (with Christopher Reeve) under the direction of Marshall Mason. She has created roles in the world premieres of ON A SOUTHERN JOURNEY by Maya Angelou, THE DAY EMILY MARRIED by Horton Foote, HOLY GHOSTS by Romulus Linney, and the two Del Shores’ hits, SORDID LIVES and THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF A TRAILER TRASH HOUSEWIFE.

On television Grant created the character “Gracie” for a nine episode arc on JERICHO. Peter Krause had a sexual fantasy about her in a beloved SIX FEET UNDER episode, “In Case Of Rapture” Then she married and cheated on Jason Lee on MY NAME IS EARL. She has been a regular or recurred on many television shows including MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE, KING OF THE HILL, YES, DEAR, EVERWOOD, COACH, DELTA, BAKERSFIELD, P.D., and WONDERFALLS.

She starred in Tony Hillerman’s A THIEF OF TIME, produced by Robert Redford (PBS), THE IMAGE with Albert Finney (HBO), SWITCHED AT BIRTH and FALL FORM GRACE (NBC). Grant has guest starred in hundreds of hit television series such as FRIENDS, THE X FILES, ANGEL, CSI and BONES.

Grant moved frequently as a child and enjoys claiming several towns and cities in Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina as home. She was a Page in the North Carolina Senate, attended the North Carolina Governor’s School for Gifted and Talented students, and received a governor’s appointment at the age of nineteen.

Grant was president of the East Carolina University College Democrats for two years, receiving the Outstanding College Democrat Award from then Senator Edmund Muskie. She is a graduate of ECU with a BFA in Acting and Directing.

Grant has produced documentaries, comedy reviews, television and film; she has run a theatre company, raised money for schools and was a celebrity coordinator for Jimmy Carter’s first presidential campaign. But what she really loves to do is act.

Grant is a student of Milton Katselas at The Beverly Hills Playhouse. She is married to actor Michael Chieffo. Their most beloved creation is their fifteen year-old daughter, Mary Elizabeth Grant Chieffo.

Jack McGee
Actor

Born and raised in the Bronx, New York is where Jack draws his life experience from. Since the age of eight, when he auditioned for "The Music Man" on Broadway, he knew there was something he was meant to do. It wasn't until he became a member of the New York Fire Department in 1977,when he relocated back to the Bronx to pursue his carer as an actor.After some success in films "Five Corners" and "Turk 182" he knew that Los Angeles was where he had to go.

Since 1988 has appeared in more than 80 films and almost 90 televisions productions.Among such notable features as "Lethal Weapon2, Backdraft, Basic Instinct, Scrogged, Miracle on 34th Street, Breakdown, The Man Who Wasn't There, along with the academy award winning "Crash".

His amazing list of small screen appearances include reoccurring roles on NYPD Blue, EZ Streets, ER, Chicago Hope, CSI, Cold Case, Seinfield, and Without a Trace.He is mostly recognized as "Chief Jerry Reilly" on the FX hit series "Rescue Me". When he is not at home in Studio City, Ca. With his wife, Stephanie and two doggies "Benjamin & Skeeter", he is out at charity events for Autism Speaks, as well as a number of other organizations which involve raising awareness for cancer groups being a colon cancer survivor of 8 years himself, he finds it gratifying to give back whenever he can.

Donal Logue
Actor

Actor Donal Logue was initially best known as star and writer of the Jimmy the Cabdriver shorts that aired on MTV beginning in 1994, but non-stop work with starring turns in independent features and memorable supporting roles in higher profile films earned him a reputation as a talented and virtually ubiquitous character player. Although the ruddy red-haired actor had an inescapably ethnic specific look, he played an array of characters convincingly, from affable if misinformed middle-aged redneck Jimmy in the MTV promos to anxious young intern Danny Macklin on "Medicine Ball" (Fox, 1995), and brought an endearing "average Joe" sensibility to all of his portrayals.
While Logue's career advancements are mostly due to his film efforts, he began his work on the small screen, with numerous guest stints on series, supporting parts in TV-movies and regular roles on failed series.

Logue started out with a role in the Mike Newell-directed miniseries "Common Ground" (CBS, 1990), about the desegregation of Boston schools, and followed up with a turn as a suspected bomber in the 1991 "American Playhouse" (PBS) production of the biographical drama "Darrow.” In 1993, the actor took a more instrumental role in the CBS drama "Labor of Love: The Arlette Schweitzer Story", playing the husband of a woman (Tracey Gold) who enlists the help of her mother (Ann Jillian) to conceive and carry the couple's child. He was also featured that year as an early AIDS victim in the HBO drama "And the Band Played On.” Guest roles on "The X-Files" (Fox) and "Almost Home" (ABC) showcased Logue's range, with roles as an FBI agent and pop music idol respectively.

In 1994, his talked-about stint as Jimmy the Cabdriver began. Working with fellow Harvard graduate Jesse Peretz, Logue created this often misinformed but always interesting (to viewers, not his passengers) video-dissecting, pop-culture commenting personality. Greasy-haired with thick black-framed glasses, Logue was virtually unrecognizable, appearing much older than his not-quite thirty years. A particularly inspired "Jimmy the Cabdriver" spot featured Logue recreating Alanis Morissette's "Ironic" video, with a car full of Jimmys replacing the car full of Alanises with different clothes and personas. Logue's next television project would mark his debut as a series regular, starring on the short-lived hospital drama "Medicine Ball". He followed this series' quick demise with a regular role the following year in the similarly-fated CBS law-enforcement comedy "Public Morals". These disappointments didn't stall the actor's career as he was already making headway on the big screen. A 1998-1999 recurring role as an Assistant District Attorney on ABC's "The Practice" joined other guest appearances in keeping him a familiar face to television viewers, but nearly all of Logue's post-1995 work was in film.

The spy thriller "Sneakers" (1992) marked Logue's feature acting debut, and within eight years the prolific performer would have nearly two dozen films to his credit. Supporting turns in "Gettysburg" (1993) and "Little Women" (1994) followed, and Logue marked his first starring role with a turn in the independent thriller "The Crew" (also 1994). He racked up supporting credits in such disparate fare as "3 Ninjas Knuckle Down" (1995) and "Diabolique" (1996). Independents like "Baja" and "The Grave" (debuted on HBO) offered Logue meatier parts in 1996, the same year that he reached a wide audience with a turn as a junior talent agent in the popular feature "Jerry Maguire.” His deft portrayal of varied characters (the grief-stricken father of a slain child in "Eye For an Eye" and an Anglo-Hawaiian slacker in "The Size of Watermelons" just two examples from 1996 alone) pointed to the versatility that would win the actor a bevy of enviable character roles. In 1997 Logue continued to work in independent film, reuniting with Jesse Peretz on the director's feature debut "First Love, Last Rites". A larger role in the supernatural actioner "Blade" won Logue notice and acclaim, and he would stay busy through the end of the 1990s with memorable supporting performances. He played a jilted groom turned parish priest in the Julia Roberts-Richard Gere romantic comedy "Runaway Bride" (1999) and returned to the driver's seat as a zany chauffeur in the hairstyle competition-set comedy "The Big Tease" (2000).

Logue had a productive year in 2000, following up an underdeveloped role in John Frankenheimer's "Reindeer Games" with a Sundance victory, winning the festival's Special Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding Performance for his portrayal of unlikely lady-killer Dex, an average-looking, unsuccessful and overweight man whose life philosophy, "The Tao of Steve,” makes him a hit with nearly every woman he sets his sights on. The film, directed by newcomer Jennipher Goodman, was a surprise hit of the festival due in no small part to Logue's dynamic and engaging performance. That same year he appeared in the Berlin Film Festival hit "The Million Dollar Hotel,” directed by Wim Wenders (which wasn't released theatrically until 2001), and starred alongside Cyndi Lauper and Christopher Walken in yet another independent feature, "The Opportunists." No end to Logue's big screen assault seemed in sight, with roles in the fact-based hacker thriller "Takedown" (2000), Mel Gibson's Revolutionary War drama "The Patriot" (2000), the Ben Affleck/Charlize Theron caper "Reindeer Games" (2000) and the clever indie cult heist drama "Comic Book Villains" (2001).

Shifting to the small screen, Logue starred as the post-modern family man Sean Finnerty, a too-young-dad who struggles with responsibility, in the sitcom "Grounded For Life" (Fox, 2000-2002, The WB, 2002-2005). His feature film career continued unabated, with roles as a corrupt cop in the slippery con drama "Confidence" (2003) and as a stage actor playing cartoonist Harvey Pekar in the acclaimed indie "American Splendor" (2003). Logue stole nearly every scene he was in when he played Mark Ruffalo's morally challenged best friend in the "Ghost"-like romantic comedy "Just Like Heaven" (2005) opposite Reese Witherspoon. He next costarred alongside Edward Burns in “The Groomsmen” (2006), a dramedy focused on five friends reminiscing about old times and fretting about the impending doom of married life. In a return to television, Logue landed a starring role in the midseason pickup “The Knights of Prosperity” (ABC, 2006- ), a high-concept comedy about a group of blue collar guys fed up with their meager lives who decide that their only hope is to rob Mick Jagger’s apartment. Logue played a janitor who assembles a motley crew of likeminded losers to pull of the ridiculous heist.