Trivia: Built her foundation in theater by taking parts in plays, musicals, acting classes and training camps while attending Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts. Acted for the stage in productions of Steel Magnolias, The Importance of Being Earnest and George the Fourth. First credited television role was Specialist Tanya Gabriel in the Lifetime drama series Army Wives. Landed the lead role of Elizabeth Thatcher in drama series When Calls the Heart which began airing on The Hallmark Channel in 2014. Has made guest appearances on NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles and Castle.

Trivia: At 13, he was writing, directing and starring in his own short films. His parents sent him to work on oil rigs with his grandfather at age 17, which he continued to do off and on until he was 25. In 1999, he portrayed Groucho Marx in the play A Night in the Ukraine, for which he won Best Male Actor at the Alberta High School Zone Provincials. Studied at the Vancouver Film School. At age 25, he suffered a job-related accident on an oil rig that almost resulted in the amputation of his right leg. One of his first jobs when he moved to Vancouver was "hanging out the side of skyscrapers changing windows and fixing the weather stripping."

Trivia: While savvy television viewers will no doubt recognize prolific small-screen actress Wendie Malick from such popular series as Baywatch, Just Shoot Me, and HBO's smart and sexy comedy Dream On, the late '90s found her feature career warming up in such independent efforts as Manna From Heaven (2001) and Bathroom Boy (2003). A native of Buffalo, NY, who first found work in front of the cameras as a Wilhelmina model in the 1970s, the Ohio Wesleyan University alum would later work for New York congressman Jack Kemp following her graduation. Subsequently gracing the catwalks of New York, Paris, and Madrid, it was a small role in the 1978 comedy How to Pick up Girls that provided the aspiring actress with her first screen break. Though she would appear in a few theatrical releases such as Scrooged (1988) during the 1980s, most of her work came with made-for-television features and such series as Kate and Allie and Anything But Love. Increasingly visible on the small screen during the 1990s, Malick's role as series protagonist Martin Tupper's (Brian Benben) ex-wife on Dream On utilized her comic abilities to maximum effect and netted the actress four Cable ACE awards. Following the final episode of Dream On in 1996, it was only one short year before Malick began a stint on another popular series that would gain her accolades among sitcom junkies, Just Shoot Me. Her background in the modeling industry provided the ideal foundation for her role as former model Nina Van Horn, and Malick (Emmy-nominated for the role) remained with the show until its final episode in 2003, simultaneously taking occasional parts in both made-for-TV and theatrical features. In 1997 Malick took the lead in the little-seen romantic comedy Just Add Love, and following voice work as the egotistical principal in the Disney series Fillmore!, she appeared alongside Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, and Betty White the Emmy-winning comedy series Hot in Cleveland. In addition to her screen work, Wendie Malick met husband Richard Erickson while building homes for poor families in Mexico, and she also helps the homeless with her work for the Adopt-A-Family organization.