Originally
from Baltimore, Josh Charles made his feature film debut in John Waters' satiric
comedy, Hairspray and gained wide attention in Peter Weir's critically
acclaimed film Dead Poets Society. This year Charles is co-starring in
three films in addition to PIE IN THE SKY. These are
Coldblooded, which premiered to enthusiastic reviews at the 1995
Sundance Film Festival; The Grave which will be at the 1996 Sundance
Film Festival; and Things To Do in Denver When You're Dead.
Charles' other feature film credits include Threesome, with Lara Flynn Boyle and Stephen Baldwin, Mike Binder's Crossing the Bridge, and the black comedy Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead.
For television, Charles starred in Cooperstown with Alan Arkin, and in Murder in Mississippi, in which he portrayed one of the three young civil rights workers whose brutal murders in 1964 shook the nation. Charles has also worked in theatre, where he most recently starred in David Wiltse's drama, "A Dance Lesson" at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, Connecticut.
For
Anne Heche, playing the dance-obsessed, free-spirited Amy in PIE IN THE
SKY was made easier by the fact that she herself studied and danced with
the Los Angeles-based dance company, The Bridge.
Heche will next be seen in The Juror, and has previously appeared in the movies A Simple Twist of Fate, Milk Money, The Adventures of Huck Finn, I'll Do Anything, Ambush of Ghosts, and Walking and Talking, which premieres in competition at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival.
Heche won an Emmy Award for her dual role as twins Vicky and Marley Hudson on the daytime drama, "Another World." Her other television credits include Kingfish: The Huey Long Story, which also starred John Goodman; HBO's award-winning Against the Wall, from director John Frankenheimer; and Showtime's The Investigator and Girls in Prison, which was directed by John McNaughton. She also guest-starred in the Hallmark Hall of Fame production of O' Pioneers!, and has guested on the series "Murphy Brown" and "The Indiana Jones Chronicles," among others. Heche's stage work in Los Angeles has included stints at the Mark Taper Forum and roles at the Hudson Theater in productions of "Square One" and "Us and Them."
Michigan native Christine Lahti has been working steadily since the mid-'70s, in an award-winning career that is equally distinguished whether the roles have been in theatre, film, or television. She recently directed a short film, Lieberman in Love, which premiered at the 1995 Telluride Film Festival.
Lahti made her stunning feature film debut in Norman Jewison's ...And Justice For All, co-starring opposite Al Pacino. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in Jonathan Demme's Swing Shift, which also earned her a Golden Globe nomination and the best supporting actress award from the New York Film Critics Circle. She was again nominated for a Golden Globe for her role in Sidney Lumet's Running on Empty.
Other film credits include Leaving Normal, The Doctor, Funny About Love, Gross Anatomy, Miss Firecracker, Just Between Friends, and Whose Life is it Anyway?and Housekeeping.
Lahti has also done a great deal of television work including Executioner's Song, No Place Like Home, the mini-series Amerika, garnering Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for her role in it, Crazy From the Heart, for which she won a CableACE award, The Good Fight, The Fear Inside; and the popular CBS television series "Chicago Hope."
Lahti most recently appeared on stage opposite Ron Rifkin at New York's Circle Repertory Theater in "Three Hotels," a play by Jon Robin Baitz, for which she earned a Drama Desk nomination. Lahti has also been seen as Heidi Holland in Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "The Heidi Chronicles," and in the Second Stage revival of Jules Feiffer's "Little Murders," for which she received an Obie Award.
John
Goodman is most familiar to audiences as Dan Connor on the long-running hit
television show, "Roseanne." Goodman is a versatile actor who has an
impressive list of credits in film, stage, and television.
Star of the hit film, The Flintstones, Goodman was also seen in Born Yesterday, opposite Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson; in the starring role in The Babe; and as a creepy hotel guest in Ethan and Joel Coen's Barton Fink. Goodman also co-starred in the Coen brothers' comedy Raising Arizona. Some of Goodman's other big screen credits include King Ralph, Arachnophobia, Stella, Sea of Love, Always, Everybody's All-American, and The Big Easy.
Goodman, most recently seen as Mitch in the CBS revival of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, has also graced the small screen in many mini-series and made-for-television movies, including Heart of Steel, Chiefs, Murder Ordained, and Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long.
In his hiatus from "Roseanne" earlier this year, Goodman garnered rave reviews for his portrayal of Falstaff in Shakespeare's "Henry IV" at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego.
Having made his feature film debut in Animal House, Riegert has been seen opposite Burt Lancaster in Local Hero, Coldblooded with Josh Charles, The Mask, and as the romantic lead in Crossing Delancey. Riegert also co-starred in Chilly Scenes of Winter, A Man in Love, Passed Away, Utz, Oscar, Object of Beauty, A Shock to the System, La Grande Carnival, and in Matthew Broderick's writing and directing debut, Infinity.
On television, he appeared in numerous films including HBO's Barbarians at the Gate, for which he received an Emmy nomination; the CBS telefilm version of Gypsy, opposite Bette Midler; Middle Ages; Ellis Island; and Concealed Enemies, in which he portrayed Richard Nixon. Also a very familiar face on the New York stage, Riegert's credits there include "The Nerd," "The Birthday Party," "Censored Scenes from Hong Kong," "Sexual Perversity in Chicago," "Isn't it Romantic?" and "Dance With Me." Riegert was also a member of War Babies, one of New York's highly regarded improvisational theatre companies.
Christine Ebersole's first role was in the Broadway production of "Angel Street", opposite Dina Merrill; next role of Guenevere in the Broadway revival of "Camelot", opposite the venerable Richard Burton (a role for which she only had three days of rehearsal after being called in to replace the leading actress). She continued with the production for over a year, both with Mr. Burton and later with Richard Harris.
Ebersole's additional stage credits include leading roles in the Broadway production of "The Marriage of Bette and Boo," for which she received a Los Angeles Drama Critics' Circle nomination, "Geniuses," "Three Sisters," "Much Ado About Nothing," "Evita" and "Guys and Dolls."
Ebersole's feature film credits include the Academy Award-winning Amadeus, Tootsie, Richie Rich, Dead Again, Folks!, Mac and Me, Thief of Hearts, and My Girl 2.
Her television credits include her Emmy-nominated performance as Maxie McDermott on "One Life to Live;" as a regular on the 1981-1982 season of "Saturday Night Live;" "The Cavanaughs;" her co-starring role with Valerie Harper on "Valerie;" and her starring role on Fox Television's "Rachel Gunn, R.N." Ebersole is also well-remembered for her show-stopping number, You Gotta Have a Gimmick, as stripper Tessie Tura in the CBS version of Gypsy, starring Bette Midler. She has also appeared in several movies-of-the week, including the prestigious ABC telefilm, The Dollmaker, co-starring with Jane Fonda, and in Acceptable Risks, also for ABC.
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