Trivia: Studied at Kit Andre Performing Arts Center in Denver, Colorado. Started acting professionally at age 9. Graduated both high school and college in three years each. Made her Broadway debut in 2006 as Margot in Legally Blonde. Won the Clarence Darwent Award for most promising actress of 2013 for her role in Broadway's Kinky Boots. Was a recurring character in season 1 of Masters of Sex, but once she finished her run in Kinky Boots, she was able to join the series as a regular cast member in season 2.

Trivia: Was rejected by Toronto's Second City branch, so he moved to Chicago and studied comedy with the original Second City troupe and with iO. Joined Chicago's Improvised Shakespeare Company during its initial season in 2005. Garnered millions of views for his I'm Into Nuggets, Y'all rap video. Was featured in Upright Citizens Brigade's improvised comedies Diamond Lion, Baby Wants Candy and Gravid Water. Landed the lead in the 2009 romantic-comedy Splinterheads. In 2011 Variety named him as one of their 10 comics to watch. Has been featured in numerous comedy videos on the College Humor Web site. Self-released the music CD Semi-Serious.

Trivia: Wrote, directed and starred in the short film The Babydaddy, which debuted at the 2009 G.I. Film Festival in Washington, D.C. while a student at Fordham University. Appeared in the 2008 Off-Broadway production of Okay at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City. Co-starred in the 2010 CBS television pilot Open Books with Aisha Tyler, Laura Benanti and Patti LuPone; the show wasn't picked up. Appeared in a Sam Mendes-directed television commercial for iPhone 4.

Trivia: Making her stage bow at age five in a community production of Alice in Wonderland, Linda Lavin spent the next ten years studying piano under the watchful eye of her stage mother. After majoring in theater arts at William and Mary College, Lavin appeared in stock in New Jersey, then weathered the chorus-audition rounds in New York, making her off-Broadway debut in a 1960 revival of Oh, Kay (1960). Two years later, she reached Broadway in A Family Affair. She went on to play Lois Lane (a la Ethel Merman) in the short-lived 1965 Broadway musical It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman, and when that show folded she starred in the off-Broadway production Wet Paint, which earned her a Theatre World Award. The musicomedy review The Mad Show followed, then Lavin was selected by director Alan Arkin to play Patsy Newquist (one of her favorite roles, and one that earned her the New York Critics' Outer Circle Award) in Jules Feiffer's Little Murders (1968). She subsequently played all the female roles in 1969's Cop-Out (another of her favorites) and Elaine Navazio in Neil Simon's Last of the Red Hot Lovers. From 1968 onward, Lavin made periodic trips to Hollywood. Her work as detective Janice Wentworth during the 1975-76 season of TV's Barney Miller led to a supporting role in the pilot episode of the proposed series Jerry. CBS nixed Jerry but signed Lavin to a development deal, which of course developed into her ten-season (1976-85) hitch as waitress Alice Hyatt in the popular sitcom Alice. Recalling that her counterpart in the 1975 film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore was an aspiring singer, Lavin inked her Alice contract on the assumption that the producers would permit her to sing--which they did, on practically every other network program except Alice. Returning to Broadway after her series folded, Lavin won a Tony award for her performance in Neil Simon's Broadway Bound, and also starred in Gypsy and The Sisters Rosensweig. She also made a brief return to TV as Edie Kurland in the one-season comedy Room for Two (1992). Linda Lavin was at one time married to actor Ron Leibman.

Trivia: Grew up surrounded by performing arts, as her father is a playwright and mother is an actress. Is named after her grandmother's best friend from Dublin, Ireland. First musical she saw was a stage production of Little Shop of Horrors starring her mother. Performed in her high school's stage production of Les Misérables in 2002. Originally wanted to pursue musical theater, but began pursuing comedic roles after realizing that comedy was her strong suit. In 2010, was cast in Prospect Theater Company's production of Once Upon a Time in New Jersey.

Trivia: Won a scholarship to the Des Moines Playhouse in fourth grade. Began performing comedy while still in high school. Co-founded the Iowa comedy troupe Don't Quit Your Day Job. Was part of the comedy trio, The Higgins Boys and Gruber, with his brother Steve and Dave Gruber Allen.

Trivia: Was encouraged by a friend to join the choir in high school.Started his career in acting by performing in theater plays.Started his career as an actor on television by doing commercials.Has used his social media to support LGBT+ rights movements and raise awareness to end racism.Is an author who has published several books during his career.

Trivia: Universally recognized as Ship's Doctor Adam Bricker on the blockbuster prime-time sitcom The Love Boat (1977-1986) -- a part he held for the entire nine-season run of the series -- actor Bernie Kopell entered the doors of show business via a most unlikely route. Born in Brooklyn, Kopell attended Erasmus High and then New York University (with a dramatic art major). After a stint at sea aboard the naval vessel USS Iowa, Kopell signed on to drive a taxicab in Southern California -- and achieved his big break on the day that Oregon Trail (1959) film producer Dick Einfeld hitched a ride in the back of his cab. In a span of minutes, Kopell reportedly managed to convince Einfeld that he was not really a cab driver but an actor in serious need of work. The effort paid off, and Kopell snagged his first part -- a two-line part in Oregon as an aide to president James K. Polk. In the early '60s, Kopell joined the Actors' Ring Theatre in Los Angeles, where he developed a knack for characterizations and voices; this led, in turn, to character-type roles on a myriad of television programs including The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Steve Allen Show, and My Favorite Martian (which often, though not always, cast the wiry Kopell as a Hispanic). By the early '70s, Kopell had landed steady assignments on Get Smart, Bewitched, That Girl, and other series. The Love Boat, however, embodied his breakthrough. He followed it up with an emcee assignment on The Travel Channel (hosting its Railway Adventures Across Europe) and a surge in theatrical work, with portrayals in regional productions of such plays as Rumors, A History of Shadows, and Death of a Salesman.