Trivia: Grew up in Newburyport, Massachusetts.While his father served as a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, lived in Europe, mainly Germany and England, for 13 years.Played sports at military bases and wanted to be a sportscaster.Studied communications in San Diego.Worked as a bartender and as a personal assistant to Andrew Stevens.

Trivia: Many filmgoers first caught delicately beautiful Georgian actress KaDee Strickland via her portrayal of Kristen, one of the vivacious young woman who accompany world-weary playboy Jack Nicholson at the outset of the Nancy Meyers romantic comedy Something's Gotta Give (2003). This marked the beginning of a long sequence of small roles for the rising star, in such A-listers as The Grudge (2004), Fever Pitch (2005), and The Flock (2007). On the small screen, in 2007, Strickland had a regular role on the very short-lived comedy drama The Wedding Bells, which she quickly followed up with another regular part, this time on the highly successful Grey's Anatomy spin-off, Private Practice, playing Dr. Charlotte King. That same year she could be seen on the big screen in American Gangster, and the next year she appeared in Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys.

Trivia: Studied at Oxford University in England for two terms while attending Stanford University.Attended Oxford and Trinity College, Dublin, on a research grant to work on his thesis on James Joyce's Ulysses.Took an improv elective class while he was a student at Stanford University.Was encouraged to become a professional actor by actress and Stanford professor Alma Martinez.Declined to go by the name Nicholas Edward to conceal his ethnicity.Moved to Los Angeles after graduating from Stanford University, and worked as a waiter for a couple of months before getting work on tv and film.Starred in the pilot episode of the television series Lucifer, but was replaced by actor Kevin Alejandro.

Trivia: Morris Chestnut's career makes a case for the argument that for the bulk of the '90s, there simply were not enough good roles for talented African-American actors. After making an impressive debut as Ricky in John Singleton's Boyz 'N the Hood, Chestnut spent several years wallowing in television, appearing in made-for-TV movies and doomed series. Chestnut, born in Cerrios, CA, on New Years Day 1969, majored in drama and finance at California State University. Little is known about his personal life. Chestnut admitted in a 2001 interview with Essence.com that he doesn't enjoy giving interviews or discussing his private life, but then let it slip that he is married.Chestnut's first professional acting role was in Boyz 'N the Hood in 1991. He followed that up with roles in various TV movies, as well as a part on Patti LaBelle's short-lived sitcom Out All Night. Chestnut continued to steadily, but he often had only bit parts in throwaway, big-budget films, like 1995's Under Siege 2 or 1997's G.I. Jane. But as the decade ended, movies about young, professional African-Americans and their problems with family and relationships began to fill the cineplexes, creating roles for Chestnut and all the other talented black actors stuck in minor TV and film roles. In 1999, Chestnut starred in The Best Man with Taye Diggs and Nia Long, playing a professional athlete who doesn't know that his soon-to-be wife dallied with his best man -- who is about to release those details in his first novel, a Roman à clef about their time in college. The Best Man earned pretty good reviews, did well at the box office, and even earned Chestnut a NAACP Image Award nomination for his performance. He followed it up with The Brothers, another film centering on the themes of fidelity and success among urban professionals. Chestnut joined Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson for a supporting role in The Game Plan (2007), a family-oriented sports comedy, and became known for his portrayal of Ryan Nicholas on V, a sci-fi television drama from ABC.

Trivia: Actor Eugene Byrd debuted as a teen star in the early '90s, with contributions to episodes of The Cosby Show and Law & Order, then spent the following decades alternating between occasionally intelligent, offbeat features (Dead Man [1995], 8 Mile [2002]) and more conventional programmers (Piñata: Survival Island [2002], Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid [2004]). Circa 2006, Byrd took on a supporting role in Alison Eastwood's psychological drama Rails and Ties (2007).

Trivia: Began her acting career in the theater before transitioning to roles in television and film. Provided the voice for Elisa Maza in the animated Gargoyles series. Played Bill Cosby's daughter in the film I Spy Returns. Her husband, Dondre Whitfield, has also worked with Cosby, guest starring on The Cosby Show as daughter Vanessa's boyfriend Robert. Became pregnant with her second child during the filming of Season 3 of Eureka. Producers wrote her pregnancy into the script.