Jeff Kober as Daedalus

Born on 13 June 1962 and raised in London, England, Mark Frankel came from a family accomplished in a variety of the fine arts, including his grandmother, a concert pianist and his grandfather, a prominent violinist and conductor. He started acting in the theater when he was 10 years old and acted until he was 16. He then discontinued his acting and became more involved in his studies at school until age 20, when he returned to acting. He studied amateur dramatics, took numerous classes, and studied with Jack Walzer from the Actors Studio in New York. At that point, he decided to attend drama school for classical training. He was awarded a full three-year scholarship to one of the top drama schools in England, London's prestigious Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts.

It was during a performance in a play that he was spotted by a British casting agent and cast in the TNT mini-series A Season of Giants, winning the lead role of Michelangelo over more than 80 actors screen-testing for the part. The mini-series took Frankel on location to Italy, where he spent five months filming and working with F. Murray Abraham, John Glover, Ian Holm, and Steven Berkoff. Mark describes his first big break: "After graduation, while doing four plays in London, I auditioned for a film called A Season of Giants which was a TNT film about the life of Michelangelo. That same evening the director came to my play and asked me to star in his film. That was my first big break. It was very exciting because I had been out of drama school for only a month."

Frankel also appeared in Maigret opposite Michael Gambon; the episode was shot in Budapest, Hungary for Granada Television. In Leningrad, Russia, he filmed TNT's Young Catherine playing the role of Count Orlov and starring opposite acting legends Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Plummer, Franco Nero, and Maximillan Schell. Catherine was played by Julie Ormond, also a graduate (1988) of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Frankel's feature film credits include the title role in Leon the Pig Farmer which was released in Europe in 1993 and won the Critics Award at the Venice Film Festival and the Charlie Chaplin Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival that same year. The movie is a delightful and hilarious comedy of a young man's search for his true identity and eventual acceptance of his past. It was after Leon the Pig Farmer that he felt it was time to visit Hollywood, as he had never been there before. He had been in Hollywood for about ten days, and his manager had set up some meetings for him, one of them being with the casting director of Sisters. He was offered the role of "Simon Bolt." It was a role that he initially declined because he did not want the commitment of a regular TV series; he wanted the freedom to pursue other opportunities. However, the producers continued to pursue him, and he eventually accepted. In the end, he was glad, and the timing was perfect for his career.

Other feature film credits include For Roseanna with Jean Reno and Mercedes Ruehl, and Solitaire for Two with Amanda Pays. Other television credits include Fortune Hunter and Kindred: the Embraced, both for Fox television.

Frankel also appeared in the London stage productions of "A Streetcar Named Desire" in the role of Stanley Kowalski, "Days of Cavafy" and "Agamemnon" in the title role. Additionally, he played the lead roles in "Little Hands," "Sentimental," and "A Private Death."

Frankel was a world-class championship tennis player on the international circuit, having won the "Monte Carlo Open." In addition, the actor, who was an avid reader, enjoyed building and customizing vintage motorcycles.

During his filming of Young Catherine, tragedy struck his family. His older brother was killed in an aircraft accident, a mid-air collision between two small planes. The pilots and passengers of both planes were killed. An experienced acrobatics pilot, Joe Frankel flew his plane as far from populated areas as he could, but he did not survive the eventual impact. Mark, just three years younger than his brother, lost his only sibling. Together, they had been risk-takers, performing aerial stunts and skydiving. Their father had been a pilot in the Royal Air Force.

Mark himself was an avid motorcyclist and was especially proud of his yellow Harley Davidson, one of only six in the world. It was on that bike that Mark Frankel fell victim to the accident that took his life on 24 September 1996.

He had married French advertising account executive Caroline Besson in 1991, and together they had two children, the second being born after his death.

Stacy Haiduk was born Apr 24, 1968 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to two school teachers. Growing up in Grand Rapids, she took to dancing, starting her studies at age 4. So accomplished as a dancer, she toured nationally for a year with a Broadway and Vaudeville orientated Michigan dance company when she was only 14. Eventually, she returned to her home town and finished up high school, where her classmates voted her as the student with the prettiest eyes and best figure. But Grand Rpaids couldn't hold her.

At age 17, fresh out of high school, Ms. Haiduk moved to New York where she studied with the Joffrey Ballet and attended acting classes at the Warren Robertson Studio. To support herself, she occasionally worked as a bartender and restaurant hostess. She also danced in the music videos of such artists as Sawyer Brown, Herb Alpert, and Laura Branigan. She even appeared in commercials and on the NBC daytime drama "Another World."

It was after a few small movie parts that she finally landed a major role -- that of Lana Lang on the "Superboy" television series that ran from 1988 to 1991. She was only 19. During that time, she lived in Orlando, FL, where the series was filmed. In 1991, seeking to continue her acting career, she moved to Los Angeles. She made a guest appearance on "Parker Lewis Can't Lose." She starred in the Showtime movie "Sketch Artist." Then she took on the role of FBI agent-in-training Rhea McPherson on NBC's "The Round Table." She continued working in television and film, starring as Lt. Katie Hitchcock on "Seaquest DSV" with Roy Scheider and as Lillie Langtry on "Kindred: the Embraced." She continues her work in film and television.

Ms. Haiduk makes her home in California, where she lives with her husband, actor Bradford Tatum. She enjoys writing, reading poetry, painting, decorating her home, and of course...dancing.

Born August 3, 1972, Brigid Walsh is a native of San Francisco, California, and comes from a large Irish family -- eight brothers and sisters. And she has nearly as many credit names. She is sometimes credited as Brigid Walsh, less often as Brigid Conley Walsh, and most often as Brigid Brannagh.

Her acting career began while in her teens. At 14, she commuted between her home in San Francisco and Los Angeles where she worked in film and television. When she was 17, she landed the role of Katie Davis on the FOX television series "True Colors." FOX also saw her as Sasha in "Kindred: the Embraced." Most recently, she earned many new fans when she played Wesley's girlfriend Virginia Bryce on the WB's "Angel." Ms. Brannagh continues to work extensively in television, making numerous guest appearances on regular series programs, including "Ally McBeal," C.S.I," "West Wing," and many others.

She enjoys writing, reading, and exercising. She also makes personal efforts to further various charites including The Special Olympics, AIDS Project Los Angeles, and Children's International.

Channon Roe was born October 27, 1972 in Pasadena, California and raised in Corona del Mar. As a young surfer from Orange County, he began acting in local theater productions, but after receving encouragement to pursue an acting career, he moved to Los Angeles where he began auditioning for television series and feature films. After training as an actor at the Joanne Baron DW Brown Studio of Santa Monica and at the British Academy of Dramatic Arts at Stanford, his acting career prompty took off. The year was 1994. He immediately landed a guest star lead role in the television series "My So Called Life," as well as supporting roles in two movies. Then followed more guest roles, more movies, and finally a role in a television series -- Cash on "Kindred: the Embraced."

Although his name is not widely recognized, Mr. Roe has become one of Hollywood's busiest young actors. Besides racking up the guest star credits on numerous television shows, he has completed a significant list of film roles.

Currently making his home in Los Angeles, Mr. Roe still enjoys surfing. When not working, he makes time for music, road trips with his friends, and traveling with his family.

Patrick Bauchau (pronounced "beau-show") was born in Brussels, Belgium on December 6, 1938 to a Belgian writer who served in the Belgian underground during WWII, and a Russian expatriate. Mr. Bauchau and his two brothers grew up in Belgium, Switzerland and England, and it was at an early age that he began to develop the charm and manner that would later be described as urbane, sophisticated, and cosmopolitan. Mr. Bauchau earned a degree in Modern Languages at Oxford University on an academic scholarship and speaks French, English, Spanish, Italian, German, plus a little Russian and Flemish.

His career in the film industry began in the 1960s in the French New Wave cinema when he worked as a runner then moved into acting roles. Except for a brief period in the 1970s when he took a break from acting, his acting career continues to the present, and he divides his time between the U.S. and elsewhere, appearing in a wide variety of movies and television roles, with the best known being Sydney in the series "The Pretender."

Mr. Bauchau enjoyes carpentry, collecting oriental art, and yoga. Yet, his great passion is gardening. He devotes many hours and much energy to the flowers, plants, and trees in the private garden at his home in Los Angeles. His wife is French actress Mijanou Bardot, sister to Brigitte Bardot, and they have one adult daughter, Camille.

Jeff Kober seems to have a pragmatic way to characterize his career history. "I was a pretty good rancher (in Montana), a fairly decent corn-dog salesman in a carnival, a very marginal guitar player and a thoroughly lousy waiter." So he took up acting out of sheer necessity.

Born and raised in Billings, Montana, Jeff Kober worked hard at raising Black Angus cattle and sugar beets, but after his English teacher introduced him to literature -- especially Shakespeare, he knew Montana was going to be left behind. After working at the ranch, he would sit down at night and talk with the dogs like the other cowboys; he would drink wine like the other cowboys, but no one but Kober would read Nietzsche.

Following a girlfriend who had moved to Los Angeles, Kober tried out acting classes, studying with Maria Gobetti of the Gobetti Acting Studio. There, he made a discovery: Acting helped him learn to be in touch with his feelings. It helped him feel alive, and he has been acting steadily ever since, starting out with guest appearances, a small regular role on "Falcon Crest" to what many see as his signature role: Dodger of "China Beach." Dodger was to have made a single appearance in the series pilot, but Kober played the sensitive battle-weary Marine with such compassion and pain that Dodger was written into the series.

His next memorable role is that of the Nosferatu Primogen Daedalus in "Kindred: the Embraced." Like Dodger, Daedalus was a soldier -- the Prince's Enforcer. He was also keen to the plight of humans, especially those in pain and sorrow. That anguish was made manifest in the paintings that Daedalus created in his home underneath the Prince's mansion. In fact, it was Jeff Kober himself who painted the artwork of Daedalus.

Jeff Kober is a busy actor these days, with three movies for 2002. He is currently married to Kelley Cutrone and has a son with his first wife Rhonda Talbot.

Kelly Rutherford was born in the small bluegrass town of Elizabethtown in Kentucky on November 6, 1968. Eventually, she made her way to California where, in the late 1980s, she began appearing in various soap operas and making guest appearances on a few TV series. She became a regular on "Homefront" and "The Adventures of Brisco County Jr," then Aaron Spelling discovered her and she made her way into a number of his shows, including "Melrose Place" and "Kindred: the Embraced."

Although her beauty is stunning and she is still a big hit in Turkey for her role in the show "Generations," the big movie roles have eluded Ms. Rutherford.

On June 30, 2001, she married Carlos Tarajano following a whirlwind romance after he spied her across the room at a restaurant just eight months earlier. But shortly after their wedding, the 31-year-old Carlos suffered a cardiac arrest. Kelly never left his hospital bed as he recovered, but when he returned home, he depended on her completely, and the new wife grew ever distant, until she finally left him and filed for divorce the following January, just a week before an "Instyle" Special on Celebrity weddings included footage of her wedding to Carlos.

Born in 1962 in Ellensburg, Washington to two school teachers, Brian Thompson grew up in Longview, Washington on the Columbia River, the second of six children. As a young child, he was sickly, suffering a kidney-related ailment, and it wasn't until surgery corrected his condition that he began building the body that has come to demand the attention of his fans and Hollywood. He started acting in high school in 1977, winning the Mark Morris High School best supporting actor award. He continued the endeavor in college, while majoring in business management and minoring in construction. During the summers, he built docks and bridges and piers for a Portland construction company that had a job waiting for him when he graduated. But graduation day came in 1981 and the job offer went unanswered.

Thompson decided to pursue acting. The University of California/Irvine awarded him a scholarship to its three-year masters of fine arts program, so he departed the northwest for California. While in school at UCI, he landed a job at Universal Studios where he played the villain in a live show of "Conan the Barbarian." He then secured an agent, and by the time he graduated earning a Masters of Fine Arts in Acting, he had already secured guest appearances in a few TV series and his first film job: a punk in "Terminator."

Brian Thompson is known in Hollywood as one of the most versatile and diversified actors in the industry, and he knows what it takes to develop a quality production and what is good for his career. Originally, he had been approached to play the role of Daedalus in "Kindred: the Embraced," but he had little interest in playing yet another role in which he had to wear prostheses glued to his face. He declined unless the producers could come up with more money; they did, and then they offered him the role of Eddie Fiori. As for "Kindred: the Embraced," he jokes that his character Eddie Fiori was a "nice guy who did bad things," but he is serious about his disappointment and aggravation with the show's writing and general lack of creativity. He asked to be written out.

His career spans all genres. He has taken on roles in musical comedies to serious dramas, and often surprises those who actually meet him, for besides having those distinctive muscles and chisled features, he has an incredible facility for language. It is apparent that acting is his passion and a vocation for which he is well suited. He understands acting; he can communicate what it is and what it means, and he teaches his craft at his alumni UCI where he was named UCI's Distinguished Alumni for the year 2000. In addition to pursuing his acting career and teaching at UCI, Thompson also runs an Actor's School in Oregon held on various campuses each year.

Very much a family man, Thompson makes his home in Los Angeles with his wife Isabelle and their two children Jordan and Daphne. He plays piano, cares for a menagerie of pets with his kids, hones his skills in martial arts, and kite-surfs to stay in shape. He claims that he hasn't had to visit a gym since taking up the sport.

C. Thomas Howell was born Christopher Thomas Howell on December 7, 1966 in Van Nuys, California. Two brothers and two sisters followed.

His father is Chris Howell, a stunt coordinator who got a very young C. Thomas started in the industry in 1977 with a first appearance in Brian Keith’s "The Little People" and "It Happened One Christmas" with Marlo Thomas. As a child, however, young Howell traveled extensively with the rodeo, was named the California Junior Rodeo Association’s All Around Junior Boy’s Champion for 1980 and 1981, and had a greater interest in pursuing the rodeo circuit than an acting career. Despite that interest, the acting career pursued him.

In 1981, CT was hired as a stunt player for Steven Spielberg’s "E.T. The Extra Terrestrial" because of his skill on the bicycle. This assignment led to a role in the movie, playing Tyler, one of Elliot’s brother’s friends. Shortly thereafter, he found himself playing Ponyboy Curtis in Francis Ford Coppola's "The Outsiders," a role that thrust him to fame. A TV series and more movies followed. The string of roles has not abated. Going through the teen heartthrob stage to mature adult performances, he continues to pick up guest appearances on TV, he stars in numerous movies -- four of them in 2002 alone, and he has had lead roles in network and syndicated TV series.

C. Thomas Howell was married briefly to Rae Down Chong. He now lives with his second wife Sylvie and three children in Los Angeles, California. He enjoys spending his free time golfing, playing on his computer, watching sports, and at his family’s horse ranch.

Howell has participated in various charity functions including celebrity golfing tournaments, rodeo events, benefits for the Los Angeles Society for the Prevention and Cruelty to Animals. Having a friend stricken with Multiple Sclerosis, CT has also taken an active role in the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, joining in the MS walk.