Michael Rapaport Joins Prison Break !

Casting News

Michael Rapaport has signed on to Prison Break Season 4 as a regular.

Rapaport will play a government agent who has an interesting offer for Michael Scofield and his brother. Rapaport is probably best known for his role on My Name is Earl.

Michale Rapaport Bio

Michael David Rapaport was born on March 20, 1970 in New York City to David Rapaport and June Brodie. He is a brilliant actor, comedian, and occasional musician. After leaving high school, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue stand-up comedy. He turned to acting after landing a guest-starring role in a 1990 episode of China Beach. .He has 2 sons with his former wife Nichole Beattie. Maceo Shane was born in 2002, and Julian Ali was born in 2000.

He has appeared in skits on Talib Kweli's critically acclaimed album Quality and Masta Ace's A Long Hot Summer. In 2003, he was featured on the High & Mighty album The Highlite Zone with his own song "How to Rob an Actor."

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Chris Vance

Chris Vance is an Australian actor who was born on December 1971 in London, England, and was raised in both Ireland and the United Kingdom. He appears as one of the members of the cast in the Fox network's Emmy Award-nominated series Prison Break. Prior to his role on Prison Break, he was most well-known for playing the role of Sean Everleigh in the hospital drama series All Saints. Vance has worked as both an actor and a member of the art department for a number of television productions. Among the shows he has performed in are The Secret Life of Us, Stingers, and Blue Heelers.

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Robert Wisdom

Robert Wisdom was born on September 14, 1953 in the national capital of Washington, D.C. He appears as one of the members of the cast in the Fox network's Emmy Award-nominated series Prison Break. Wisdom is the son of Jamaican parents, and is the middle child with an older and a younger sibling. He studied at St. Alban's School, before going on to graduate later from Columbia University in New York. Wisdom has worked on numerous television and film productions. Among the shows he has acted in are The Nine, Close to Home, and The Wire.

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Stacy Keach

Stacy Keach (born Walter Stacy Keach, Jr. on June 2, 1941 in Savannah, Georgia) is an American actor and narrator. He is most famous for his dramatic roles; however, he has done narration work in educational programming on PBS and the Discovery Channel, as well as some comedy and musical roles.

Early in his career, he was credited as Stacy Keach, Jr. to distinguish himself from his father Stacy Keach, Sr. His brother, James Keach is known most notably for being the director of the 1993 TV series and 1999 movie Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. Stacy has been married three times: to Marilyn Aiken in 1975, to Jill Donahue in 1981, and to Malgosia Tomassi around 1986. He has two children from his third marriage. He was also romantically linked to singer Judy Collins in the early 1970s.

Education

Keach graduated from Van Nuys High School in June 1959 and went on to study at the University of California, Berkeley, earning two BA degrees in 1963, one in English, the other in Dramatic Art. He received his M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama and was a Fulbright Scholar at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Career

Keach first appeared on Broadway in 1969 as Buffalo Bill in Indians by Arthur Kopit. He played the actor in 'The Nude Paper Sermon' avant-garde musical theatre piece commissioned by Nonesuch Records by composer Eric Salzman. He has won numerous awards including Obie awards, Drama Desk Awards, and Vernon Rice Awards. He portrayed film noir-style private detective Mike Hammer in the CBS television series Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer and The New Mike Hammer from 1984 to 1987. He returned to the role of Hammer in Mike Hammer, Private Eye, a new syndicated series that aired from from 1997 to 1998.

In the early 1980s, he starred in the title role of the national touring company of the musical Barnum composed by Cy Coleman.

Stacy Keach played Cheech and Chong's Police Department arch-nemesis Sgt. Stedenko in Up In Smoke and Nice Dreams. He portrayed Jonas Steele, a psychic and member of John Brown's Army in the 1982 CBS miniseries The Blue and the Gray. One of Keach's most controversial roles was Cameron Alexander, the militant white supremacist in American History X with Edward Norton and Edward Furlong.

He is most familiar to younger television viewers for narrating episodes of Nova, National Geographic, and various other informational series, and he performed in the role of Ken Titus, the father in the title family of Fox's Titus, and as Barabbas in Jesus of Nazareth. Beginning in 1999, he served as the narrator for the home video clip show World's Most Amazing Videos, which can now be seen on Spike TV. He narrated The Twilight Zone radio series. He also has a recurring role as Warden Henry Pope in the Fox drama Prison Break and performed the lead role in Shakespeare's King Lear at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago in 2006.

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Marshall Allman

Marshall Scott Allman (born April 5, 1984) is an American actor. He is known to television audiences for his role as L.J. Burrows on Fox's successful television series, Prison Break.

Allman was born in Austin, Texas to James Martin Allman, Jr. and Idanell (née Brown). As he grew up he was talented in soccer and art. Allman played club and school soccer and is is deeply interested in contemporary music. After graduating from Austin High School in 2002, he chose to pursue an acting career in Los Angeles, California over studying art in New York City.

Allman has also made guest appearances on shows such as Boston Public, Without a Trace, Phil of the Future, Malcolm in the Middle, The Practice Close To Home "Saving Grace" and most recently Cold Case.. Allman's film credits include Little Black Book, Dishdogz, Shallow Ground [[Hostage] and soon to be released: "The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle.

Allman married American actress Jamie Anne Brown on 17 June 2006, in Austin, Texas.

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William FICHTNER

Segueing effortlessly between television and feature films, Buffalo, NY, native William Fichtner starred as “Sheriff Tom Underlay” in the sci-fi drama series “Invasion.” Fichtner also appeared in the Academy Award-winning film “Crash,” and in the action/thriller “Ultraviolet.” Last spring he co-starred in the feature comedy “Blades of Glory” with Will Ferrell and Jon Heder.

Fichtner was recently seen in the cable miniseries “Empire Falls,” opposite Paul Newman and Ed Harris. His additional television credits include a starring role on the medical drama series “MDs” as well as guest roles on series such as “The West Wing.”

Fichtner’s recent feature credits include the remake of “The Longest Yard” starring Adam Sandler and Chris Rock, Rodrigo Garcia’s “Nine Lives,” “The Chumscrubber” and “The Moguls” opposite Jeff Bridges. Additionally, Fichtner can be seen in Ridley Scott’s “Black Hawk Down,” “First Snow,” “What’s the Worst That Can Happen?”, Wolfgang Petersen’s “The Perfect Storm,” “Drowning Mona,” “Passion of Mind,” “Armageddon,” Michael Mann’s “Heat,” “Contact,” “Go,” “The Underneath,” “Julie Walking Home,” “Equilibrium,” “The Settlement” and Kevin Spacey’s directorial debut, “Albino Alligator.”

As a member of the Circle Repertory Theater, Fichtner won critical acclaim for his role in “The Fiery Furnace,” directed by Norman Rene. He has also appeared on stage in “Raft of Medusa” at the Minetta Lane Theater, “The Years” at the Manhattan Theatre Club, “Clothes for a Summer Hotel” at the Williamstown Theatre and “Machinal” at Joseph Papp’s Public Theater.

When not filming in Dallas, Fichtner lives in Los Angeles.

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Wade WILLAIMS

Wade Williams has had a prolific career in television, film and theatrical productions. On the big screen, he has appeared in such features as “Jarhead,” “Collateral,” “Ali” and “Erin Brockovich.” His television appearances include “Over There,” “Six Feet Under,” 24, “NYPD Blue,” “CSI” and the recurring role of “Father Cronin” on “The Bernie Mac Show.”

Williams has two sisters and a brother, was born and raised in Atlanta and went to high school and college in Tulsa, OK. Although he had a passion for drama and music, he graduated high school intending to study medicine at the University of Tulsa. However, after signing up for voice lessons, Williams changed his career plans. He complemented his bachelor’s degree in Theatrical Studies with an MFA in Acting from Rutgers’ Mason Gross School of the Arts, where he studied under William Esper.

Upon graduation, Williams landed a job with Joseph Papp at the New York Shakespeare Festival. He debuted at the Delicort Theatre in Central Park in “The Taming of the Shrew” with Morgan Freeman and Tracey Ullman, and appeared in “Richard III” with Denzel Washington. Williams continued to perform on Broadway in “Les Miserables” and “Guys and Dolls” and toured nationally in productions such as “Kiss of the Spiderwoman” with Chita Rivera, “Ragtime” and “Showboat.”

Williams and his wife now live in Los Angeles with their lovely daughter. His fascination with the arts and music extends to photography, songwriting and playing the harmonica, guitar, banjo and fiddle. Williams’ adventurous side takes him to the mountains, where he enjoys hiking and mountain biking.

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Paul ADELSTEIN

Paul Adelstein (born April 29, 1969) is an American television and film actor, famous for having played the role of Agent Paul Kellerman in the television series, Prison Break, and currently in the role of Cooper in the series Private Practice, which is the working title for the spin-off of the award-winning television show, Grey's Anatomy.

Adelstein was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1969. Prior to his professional acting career, Adelstein attended Bowdoin College where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude with a degree in English. He began his career in theatre, working with New Crime Productions, a company founded by John Cusack, and later with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company.

Making his film debut in 1990 in The Grifters, which starred John Cusack, Adelstein's next film appearance was in the 1997 film Peoria Babylon, which starred Ann Cusack. He then went on to appear in several television series which include Cupid, ER, Without a Trace and Scrubs.

Adelstein's wife is actress Liza Weil, who played Paris Geller on Gilmore Girls. The two married in November 2006. Adelstein is also lead singer and guitarist of a band called Doris.

Filmography

2007 Grey's Anatomy Cooper Television episode (3x22,3x23)
2006 Scrubs Dr. Stone Television episode (5x21)
2006 Nobody's Watching Jeff Tucker Television series
2005-07 Prison Break Paul Kellerman Series regular
2005 Be Cool Hy Gordon
2005 Memoirs of a Geisha Lieutenant Hutchins
2005 Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law Murro Television episode (3x02)
2005 Medium Craig Television episode (1x14)
2004 Las Vegas Alex Brooks Television episode (2x11)
2004 Collateral Fed #3
2004 Bandwagon Joe Rice
2004 Lawrence Melm
2003 Without a Trace Dave Television episode (2x05)
2003 The Lyon's Den Snyder Television episode (1x09)
2003 Intolerable Cruelty Wrigley
2003 Partners and Crime Television movie
2003 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Steven Kellerman Television episode (4x14)
2002-03 Hack Sergeant Aldo Rossi Television episodes (1x13, 1x14, 1x20, 2x04, 2x10)
2002 Breaking News Julian Kerbis Television series
2002 ER Television episode (8x17)
2002 R.U.S./H. Tom Epstein Television movie
2000 Bedazzled Bob/Roberto/Beach Jock/Sportscaster
1999 ER Hank Loman Television episode (6x09)
1999 Turks Officer Cliff Fowler Television series
1998-99 Cupid Mike Television episodes (1x06, 1x07, 1x09, 1x11, 1x14)
1997 Peoria Babylon Brad Kessler
1990 The Grifters Sailor - Young Paul

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Silas Weir Mitchell

Silas Weir Mitchell is an American actor known for playing disturbing or unstable characters.

He has had recurring guest roles in 24 (as Eli Stram), My Name Is Earl (as Earl's ex-con friend Donny Jones), and Prison Break (as escapee Charles "Haywire" Patoshik). It is significant that in both Prison Break and My Name Is Earl he plays the role of a crazy prisoner. He also played the role of the keymaker in the movie Rat Race and also appears in The Whole Ten Yards. Mitchell also made an appearance on CSI: Miami and Boomtown.

On the DVD commentary for Prison Break he mentions he had previously auditioned on Prison Break for the role of Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell.

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Lane GARRISON

Garrison was born in Dallas, Texas on May 23, 1980 and raised in Richardson, Texas. Due to the troubled relationship with his mother, Garrison moved out at seventeen and turned to the family minister, Joe Simpson, who is also the manager and father of pop stars Jessica and Ashlee Simpson. Garrison lived with the Simpson family for a year. He graduated from J.J. Pearce High School in 1998 and at eighteen, he drove to Los Angeles with ambitions to become an actor. His first job was a backpack commercial that paid $3,500.

Career

Garrison first achieved fame in 2005 through his role as Tweener on the television series, Prison Break.

Conviction for vehicular manslaughter

On May 21, 2007 Garrison pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter and drunken driving for a December 2, 2006 crash that killed 17-year-old Beverly Hills High School student Vahagn Setian, a passenger in his car. He could face up to six years and eight months in prison. Garrison has made several statements accepting responsibility for the accident.

Garrison's 2001 Land Rover jumped a curb at about 50 mph and hit a tree according to authorities. Two 15-year-old girls were also injured in the crash. Police said Garrison had a blood-alcohol level of .20 percent as well as cocaine in his system. The charges only indicate that his blood-alcohol level was above .15 percent.

He was charged with felony vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, felony driving under the influence causing injury to multiple victims, felony driving with a blood-alcohol level above the .08 percent legal limit causing injury, and a misdemeanor count of furnishing alcohol to a minor. Defense attorneys also looked into whether a possible brake defect may have contributed to the accident. Garrison pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter, drunken driving, and providing alcohol to a minor, and faces up to six years, eight months in prison. He is undergoing a mandatory 90-day "diagnostic" evaluation by parole officers and psychologists in a prison before returning for an appearance before a Superior Court Judge for sentencing.

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Amaury NOLASCO

Amaury Nolasco (born December 24, 1970 in Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican actor, best known for the role of Fernando Sucre on the television series Prison Break where he played a worried dad-to-be.

Nolasco was born in Puerto Rico, where he studied biology as a full-time student at the University of Puerto Rico. Initially, he did not intend to become an actor. After various acting gigs, Nolasco moved to New York, where he trained at the American British Dramatic Arts School.

Not long after, Nolasco guest-starred in various television series such as Arli$$, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and ER. His first role on a feature film was as “Orange Julius” in Universal’s 2 Fast 2 Furious. He then went on to co-star opposite Bernie Mac in Mr. 3000.

Nolasco’s additional television and film credits include guest-starring roles on George Lopez, CSI: NY and The Benchwarmers. He also appeared on Mind of Mencia as a guest on Sunday, April 29, 2007.

Nolasco was in the same class as New York Yankees catcher Jorge Posada in elementary school in Puerto Rico.

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Rockmond DUNBAR

Rockmond Dunbar (born January 11, 1973 in Oakland, California) is an American actor. Dunbar is best known for his leading role as Kenny Chadway on the critically-acclaimed television series Soul Food. Dunbar's other television credits include a regular role as Benjamin Miles "C-Note" Franklin on the U.S. television series Prison Break, where he played the role of a character who was set up for a crime in the army which he did not commit, after spending years in the army he then carried on telling his wife that he was still in the army, even though he was really inside the walls of Fox River prison, several guest appearances in Earth 2, Felicity, The Pretender, Two Guys and a Girl and North Shore. He also had a recurring role on the UPN series Girlfriends.

His film projects include Punks (which debuted at the 2000 Sundance film festival), Misery Loves Company, Sick Puppies, Whodunit, All About You and Warner Bros. feature film, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Aside from his theatrical performances, he also had made contributions to the world of art through the mixed-media exhibit, ARTHERAPY.

He made a guest appearance on Noah's Arc as himself to give Noah (screenwriter and the main character of the show) some ideas about his movie Fine Art.

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Robert KNEPPER

Robert Knepper (born July 8, 1959) is an American actor. He currently has a starring role as Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell in the Fox network's drama series, Prison Break for which he was nominated for a Satellite Award. He has recently been cast for the upcoming film Hitman, but his role is yet to be released. Although, he said under the "Scandinavia Sci-Fi, Film and Game convention" in Sweden that his role in Hitman is a russian "bad-guy". Born in Fremont, Ohio, Knepper was interested in acting from an early age due to his mother's involvement at a community theater. He was raised in Maumee, Ohio near Toledo by his mother and father, who was a veterinarian. Knepper spent many years of his youth working in the community theater and high school productions. After graduating from Maumee High School in 1977, he attended Northwestern University to study drama. During this time, Knepper also obtained professional roles in plays in Chicago. Nearing the completion of his degree, Knepper quit Northwestern and went to New York City, where he continued to work in theater. Although Knepper never intended to work in film and television projects, he began his television and film career in 1986 with The Paper Chase and That's Life!.

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Peter STORMARE

Stormare was born in Kumla, Närke, Sweden, and grew up in Arbrå, Hälsingland, Sweden as Peter Ingvar Rolf Storm, but changed his surname when he discovered he shared it with a senior student at the acting academy. His original choice of name, Retep Mrots (his own name spelled backwards), was rejected. Just like storm (a word which means the same in Swedish as in English), "stormare" is a Swedish word, meaning "stormer".

Stormare began his career with the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre, to which he belonged for eleven years. In 1990 he took a leading position (Associate Artistic Director) at the Tokyo Globe Theatre and made a name for himself through various Shakespeare performances including Hamlet. Three years later, he went to New York and mainly took part there in English language productions. In Sweden, he has worked with Ingmar Bergman, by whom he was apparently discovered. He has also played Carl Hamilton, a fictional Swedish secret agent similar to James Bond.

He was critically praised for his role as a quiet and ruthless villain (with Steve Buscemi) in Fargo (1996), and later played a sleazy, unlicensed "eye doctor" ("Solomon Eddie") in Minority Report. He portrayed "Dieter Stark" in the 1997 film The Lost World: Jurassic Park.

In 1998 he appeared in "The Frogger", a Seinfeld episode where he played a "rogue electrician" known as "Slippery Pete". He portrayed "Uli Kunkel" in the 1998 film The Big Lebowski, as well as playing "Lev Andropov", the Russian Cosmonaut in 1998's Armageddon, and Alexey in the 2003 summer blockbuster Bad Boys II.

In the 2005 film Constantine, Stormare played Lucifer. He played an interrogator in the 2005 movie The Brothers Grimm. His first major character in television was on the show Prison Break in 2005, where he played Mob Boss "John Abruzzi". Stormare was originally cast for the role of Fido, but upon being cast in Prison Break, he opted out of the film. In 2007 he portrayed a brothel owner on one episode of CSI.

He also was the voice of "Mattias Nilsson" in the videogame Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, the voice of "Isair" in the computer game Icewind Dale 2 and the voice of "Johann Strauss" in Quake 4. In February 2006, he starred as "Wolfgang" in Volkswagen's VDub series of television commercials. He is once again voicing "Mattias Nilsson" in Mercenaries 2: World in Flames.

Stormare is contracted to play the main character in the Swedish upcoming movie "Svartvattnet", which is going to be filmed in Sweden and Norway during 2007.

Stormare has also been offered a role in the ABC television series Lost for a period of one year.

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Dominic PURCELL

Purcell was born in Wallasey, Merseyside, England in 1970( February 17 ) , the eldest of five children. He moved to Sydney, Australia with his family when he was two, where he was raised by his father and Irish mother, Maureen, in the Western Suburbs. Purcell attended Blaxland High School. Purcell's father, who had previously served in the Norwegian Merchant Navy, installed air-conditioning ducts for a living, but later separated from the family. Purcell's paternal grandfather was from Bergen, and his paternal grandmother a New York-born Irish-American. His middle name Haakon and his other surname Myrtvedt are both Norwegian.

After quitting his high school education, Purcell was employed as a landscaper. Although he never contemplated being an actor, and thought that "people in the arts — actors, ballet dancers, musicians, whatever were weird", he decided to try "that acting thing" on impulse. He applied and was accepted to the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) where Purcell studied alongside fellow actors, Hugh Jackman and Frances O'Connor. After graduating in 1996, Purcell obtained his first acting role as Granger Hutton, a leading role in the Australian television series Raw FM.

In 2000, he won a green card lottery, and now resides in Laguna Beach, California with his wife, Rebecca, and their four children: Joseph (b. 1999), Audrey (b. 2001), and twins Lily and Augustus (b. 2003). After relocating to the United States, Purcell debuted on American television as the title character in John Doe in 2002. He got his first big break into mainstream stardom when he played the character of Drake in Blade: Trinity. Purcell's theatre credits include Antony and Cleopatra, Angels in America, Romeo and Juliet and The Pillars of Society.

Purcell currently has a starring role as Lincoln Burrows in the Fox network television drama series, Prison Break. He also guest starred in a first season episode of House, Fidelity.

In 2006 Purcell spent the Christmas period in Louth Village, Co. Louth, in Ireland, the home area of his mother and drew considerable attention in the local press.

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Wenworth MILLER

Born in the United Kingdom (June 2, 1972 ), raised in Brooklyn, New York, and a graduate of Princeton University, Wentworth Miller is a compelling and critically acclaimed young actor whose credits span both television and feature film.

Miller began his career in the industry on the other side of the camera. After graduating from college with a degree in English literature, Miller headed to Los Angeles in the spring of 1995 to work in the development department of a small production company specializing in movies made for television. However, it wasn't long before Miller's desire to realize the acting ambitions of his childhood became undeniable.

Within the next few years, Miller landed guest spots on a variety of shows, including “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “ER” and “Popular.” Miller also starred in the Hallmark "mega-series" “Dinotopia.”

Miller then segued to “The Human Stain,” a feature film directed by Robert Benton and starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman. A movie examining questions of race, class and identity, it featured Hopkins as an embattled college professor struggling to conceal an incredible secret, with Miller playing the professor as a young man.

Miller subsequently appeared in the movie “Underworld” and guest-starred on “Joan of Arcadia” and “Ghost Whisperer” before joining the cast of PRISON BREAK, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama in 2006.

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