GEORGE CLOONEY (Ulysses Everett McGill) most recently starred in the box office hit "The Perfect Storm," directed by Wolfgang Petersen. He also earned unified critical acclaim for his role as Sergeant Major Archie Gates in last year’s award-winning drama "Three Kings." In 1998, he starred as fugitive bank robber Jack Foley in the Oscar^®-nominated "Out of Sight," the film adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s best-selling novel.

His previous feature film credits include starring roles in "The Peacemaker" and "Batman & Robin." Clooney also starred in the romantic comedy "One Fine Day" and the vampire thriller "From Dusk Till Dawn."

He is known to television audiences for his Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, People’s Choice and Emmy-nominated portrayal of Dr. Douglas Ross on "ER."

Clooney’s creative inclination lies behind the camera as well. He and partner Steve Soderbergh have formed a film production company, Section Eight, and Clooney continues to develop television projects through his Maysville Pictures. He recently executive produced and starred in a live television broadcast of "Fail-Safe." The Emmy Award-winning telefilm was based on the 1960’s novel of the same name.

JOHN TURTURRO’s (Pete) distinguished acting career includes roles in such critically acclaimed films as Robert Redford’s "Quiz Show," Spike Lee’s "Do the Right Thing" and Martin Scorsese’s "The Color of Money." In 1991 Turturro received the Best Actor Award from the Cannes Film Festival and from the Montreal Film Festival, and the David Donetello Award for his starring role in "Barton Fink." He has also appeared in two other Coen brothers films, "Miller’s Crossing" and "The Big Lebowski."

Turturro’s other noteworthy feature film performances include "The Truce," "Box of Moonlight," "Grace of My Heart," "Jungle Fever," "Fearless," "Five Corners," and "To Live and Die in LA." Most recently he was seen in Tim Robbins’ "Cradle Will Rock," as well as "The Rounders," opposite Matt Damon and Edward Norton.

In addition to acting, Turturro has co-written and directed two films including the recently released "Illuminata." His first film, "Mac" which premiered in Cannes in 1992 at the Director’s Fortnight, received the Camera d’Or.

Turturro’s acting career also includes the stage, where he has appeared in "Danny and the Deep Blue Sea," "Italian-American Reconciliation," "Troilus and Cressida," "The Bald Soprano," "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui" and "Waiting for Godot."

Turturro studied at S.U.N.Y. New Paltz and received an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.

TIM BLAKE NELSON’s (Delmar) screen acting credits include Terrence Malick’s "The Thin Red Line," Mike Newell’s "Donnie Brasco," Hal Harley’s "Amateur," Nora Ephron’s "This Is My Life," and Larry McMurtry's "Dead Man’s Walk."

Nelson wrote and directed the film "Eye of God," starring Martha Plimpton, Hal Holbrook, and Kevin Anderson, which appeared at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival, and was released theatrically in the United States later that year. The film also received the top award at the 1997 Seattle Film Festival, as well as the Tokyo Bronze Prize at the Tokyo Film Festival. Most recently he directed "O," a modern day adaptation of Shakespeare’s "Othello," starring Martin Sheen, Julia Stiles, Josh Hartnett, and Mekhi Phifer.

Nelson is currently directing his own script "The Grey Zone," starring Harvey Keitel, Steve Buscemi, Mira Sorvino, David Arquette, Allan Corduner and Natasha Lyonne.

Nelson was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is a graduate of Brown University and the Juilliard Theater Center. He resides in New York City with his wife and son.

CHARLES DURNING (Pappy O’Daniel) has been nominated twice for the Academy Award^® for his roles in "To Be Or Not To Be" and "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas." He also received a Tony Award for his performance in the Broadway revival of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." He is currently on Broadway in "The Best Man." Previously on Broadway he starred in "The Gin Game" as well as the revival of the classic Lawrence & Lee drama "Inherit the Wind," with George C. Scott.

Durning’s extensive motion picture credits include "One Fine Day," "Spy Hard," "The Hudsucker Proxy," "Dick Tracy," "True Confessions," "The Greek Tycoon," "Sharkey’s Machine," "Dog Day Afternoon," "Home for the Holidays" and "The Grass Harp."

A series regular on television’s "Evening Shade" with Burt Reynolds, Durning’s other television work includes roles in "The Kennedys of Massachusetts," "Death of a Salesman," "Dinner at Eight," "Mrs. Santa Claus," as well as the narration for "Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony." He also starred with Sally Field in the NBC miniseries "A Woman of Independent Means," as well as "Queen of the Stardust Ballroom," a movie-of-the-week with Maureen Stapleton. Mr. Durning also starred in two one-man shows for PBS, "Casey Stengel" and "Pope John XXIII."

In addition, he was nominated for an Emmy^® Award in 1998 for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for an episode of "Homicide: Life on the Street." His other notable guest appearances on television include a recurring role on "Everybody Loves Raymond," "The Practice," "Cybill" and "Early Edition."

JOHN GOODMAN (Big Dan Teague) is one of the industry’s most respected actors. He earned a Golden Globe Award nomination in 1992 for his chilling performance in the Coen brothers’ heralded "Barton Fink." Coincidentally, his breakthrough motion picture role was in the Coens’ "Raising Arizona." He most recently starred for the Coen brothers in "The Big Lebowski."

Goodman was raised in St. Louis by his mother after his father died when John was two years old. As a tall, broad-shouldered teenager, he attended Afton High School, where he dedicated himself to football. He intended to play for Southwest Missouri State, but injured a knee and was forced to sit out a year. He spent that time studying drama with fellow students Kathleen Turner and Tess Harper. He never returned to playing football and graduated in 1975 with a BFA degree in theatre.

He performed in many dinner theatre and children’s theatre productions, and in several off-Broadway plays. His regional theatre credits include "Henry IV, Parts I and II," "Antony and Cleopatra" and "As You Like It." His career escalated when he joined a road production of "The Robber Bridegroom." Eventually, he starred in two Broadway shows, "Loose Ends" in 1979 and "Big River" in 1985.

Goodman made his screen debut in the HBO production "Mystery of Moro Castle." His feature film credits include "The Flintstones," "Mother Night," "Arachnophobia," "Always," "Pie in the Sky," "Born Yesterday," "Matinee," "The Babe," "King Ralph," "Punchline," "Everybody’s All-American," "Sea of Love," "Stella," "Eddie Macon’s Run," "C.H.U.D," "Revenge of the Nerds," "Maria’s Lovers," "Sweet Dreams," "True Stories," "The Big Easy," "Burglar," "The Wrong Guys," "Fallen," "The Borrowers," "Blues Brothers 2000," "The Runner" and "Bringing Out the Dead," and the HBO movie "The Jack Bull." This year Goodman starred in "Coyote Ugly," and "What Planet Are You From?" as well as the upcoming "One Night at McCool’s."

Goodman has also given many highly acclaimed television performances. He received Emmy^® Award nominations for his starring role in TNT’s "Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long" and for his role as Mitch in the CBS production of Tennessee Williams’ "A Streetcar Named Desire." For eight seasons, John played Dan Conner in "Roseanne," a role that earned him seven Emmy^® nominations and a Golden Globe Award. Goodman returns to television this fall starring in his own series, "Normal, Ohio."

Although he prefers to think of New York as a homebase, Goodman, his wife, Annabeth, and their young daughter, Molly, have homes in both Los Angeles and New Orleans.

MICHAEL BADALUCCO (George Babyface Nelson) received the 1999 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and was nominated in the same category for the 2000 Emmy Awards for his work on the ABC television series "The Practice." Michael got his start in the entertainment industry at a very young age, going to work with his father who was a carpenter on movie sets. During the filming of "Fail Safe" starring Henry Fonda, a photo of a young boy was needed. Eight-year-old Badalucco posed for the picture, and thus began his acting career.

The summer of ’99 saw Badalucco appear in his second Spike Lee film "Summer of Sam" as notorious serial killer David Berkowitz. His latest project is yet another film by the Coen Brothers "Untitled Barber Movie," with Billy Bob Thornton.

His first speaking part in a feature film was in "Raging Bull," which led to additional roles in such movies as "Broadway Danny Rose," "Miller’s Crossing," "Sleepless in Seattle," "Jungle Fever," "The Professional," "Mac," "One Fine Day," "The Search for One-Eye Jimmy," and the recent hit "You’ve Got Mail," with Tom Hanks.

Also on television, Badalucco has been seen in a guest-starring role on "Law & Order" as Davey, a mentally challenged man.

While earning a B.A. in theatre arts from SUNY New Paltz, Badalucco performed in more than 20 plays with the New Paltz Repertory company. His New York stage credits include "Waiting for the Dough," "The Tooth of Crime," "Of Mice and Men," "Steel on Steel," and "The Love of Don Perlimplin for Belsia in His Garden."

He and his wife, Brenda, make their home in New York City.

HOLLY HUNTER (Penny Wharvey) is one of the most intriguing actresses of our time. With every role, she has demonstrated her range of versatility and continues to do so in her various upcoming projects. Hunter is currently in pre-production for ABC's miniseries "When Billie Beat Bobby" which will air on the network early next year. She portrays tennis legend Billie Jean King in the infamous 1972 "Battle of the Sexes" match between Billie and male pro Bobby Riggs. The project rejoins Hunter and writer-director Jane Anderson, who wrote "The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom." It is being produced by Goldie Hawn's Cherry Alley Productions and Alliance Atlantis, with Hawn as executive producer.

This past year, Hunter appeared opposite Billy Crudup in "Jesus' Son," released by Lion's Gate. The film also stars Samantha Morton, Denis Leary, Will Patton and Greg Germann. Hunter was also part of an ensemble cast in the improvisational black comedy thriller by Mike Figgis, "Time Code." This film was shot with four hand-held cameras resulting in a 93-minute 'real time' film. The film also stars Julian Sands, Kyle MacLachlan, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Leslie Mann, Salma Hayek and Laurie Metcalf. Most recently, Hunter starred in Showtime's original movie, "Harlan County War," for which she has earned an Emmy nomination for Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie. The movie tells the story of a coal mining family's struggle during the Harlan County coal strike in the 1970's.

Early next year, Hunter will star in "Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her" which screened successfully on the festival circuit. The film tells various stories about love and loss in the lives of five women. The film also stars Gregory Hines, Glenn Close, Kathy Baker, Cameron Diaz and Calista Flockhart. In 1998, Hunter starred in New Line Cinema's adult-comedy "Living Out Loud" opposite Danny Devito, Elias Koteas and Queen Latifah. The film was inspired by two short stories from Anton Chehkov and centers around a woman who takes an adventure into a new life chapter.

In 1993, she received the Academy Award^® for her stunning performance as a mute Scottish widow in Jane Campion's "The Piano." She also received a Golden Globe Award and Best Actress award from The British Academy Award^®, the New York Film Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, the National Board of Review Award, and the Cannes Film Festival Award.

The same year, Hunter also garnered an Academy Award^® nomination for her performance as the investigative secretary in "The Firm," based on the John Grisham novel of the same name. In 1987, Hunter was nominated for an Academy Award^® for her portrayal of a driven career-woman producer in the feature film "Broadcast News." For this role, she received the New York Film Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Film Critics Award, The National Board of Review Award and the Berlin Film Festival Award, all for Best Actress. Other film credits include "Home For the Holidays," "Copycat," "Once Around," "Always," "Raising Arizona," "Crash" and "A Life Less Ordinary."

In 1982, Hunter made her Broadway debut in Beth Henley's "Crimes of the Heart" and followed that with another Broadway play by Henley, "The Wake of Jamey Foster." Her other New York stage appearances include "The Miss Firecracker Contest," "Battery," "The Person I Once Was" and "A Weekend Near Madison." Regionally, her theatre credits include "A Doll's House," "The Inspector General," "A Lie of the Mind," "Buried Child," "Artichoke," "Eden Court" and "Ghost Fire."

Hunter co-produced and starred in Beth Henley's "Control Freaks," and produced Ray Barry's "Mother's Son" at the Met Theatre in Los Angeles. In the winter of 1998, she starred in Beth Henley's "Impossible Marriage" at the Roundabout Theatre in New York, marking her seventh collaboration with Henley.

Her television work includes HBO's "The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom," for which she won the Emmy Award for Best Actress. This role also garnered her a Golden Globe nomination. Hunter was awarded the Emmy for her role as Jane Roe in NBC's "Roe vs. Wade." She also appeared in "A Gathering of Old Men."

Hunter resides in Los Angeles with her husband, Janusz Kaminski.

STEPHEN ROOT (Radio Station Man) is a classically trained actor who has starred on Broadway, television and film. Recent features include "Bicentennial Man," "Office Space," "Krippendorf's Tribe," "Natural Selection," "Bye, Bye Love," "Crocodile Dundee" and "Dave."

Root made his feature debut as a cold-blooded scientist in George Romero's "Monkey Shines: An Experiment in Fear," and followed that by playing a police sergeant opposite Demi Moore in "Ghost," and as Gary Murray in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Other feature credits include "Extreme Justice," "RoboCop 3," "V.I. Warshawski," "Black Rain," "Kindergarten Cop," "Guilty by Suspicion" and "Stanley and Iris."

He currently stars as Gene on CBS-TV's "Ladies Man," is a series regular on the Emmy^®-winning "King of the Hill," voicing the characters of Hank's next-door neighbor Bill, boss, Mr. Strickland and Topsy, and provides the voices of Donovan in Columbia Tri-Star's "The Big Guy and Rusty the Robot" and as Sheriff in "Star Command." He starred as station manager Jimmy James on the series "News Radio" and was a series regular on "The Golden Years" and "Harts of the West." He starred in the miniseries, "From the Earth to the Moon" and had recurring roles on "Civil Wars" and "L.A. Law."

Root received a CableACE Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in the telefilm "Road to Galveston," starring Cicely Tyson. His extensive guest-starring credits on series include "Seinfeld," "Chicago Hope," "Cybill," "Party of Five," "Roseanne," "Murphy Brown," "Civil Wars," "Northern Exposure," "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and "Home Improvement."

Born in Sarasota, he majored in acting and broadcasting at the University of Florida, then left before graduating when he won a regional audition for the National Shakespeare Company. After three years of touring the U.S. and Canada with the troupe, Root settled in New York, honing his craft in several off-off-Broadway shows before landing a role in off-Broadway's "Journey's End."

Regional theater performances led to Root's starring Broadway debut in "So Long on Lonely Street." He then starred with Richard Kiley in "All My Sons," which won the 1987 Tony Award for the year's best revival. He has also starred off-Broadway in "The Au Pair Man." His starring role in the national tour of "Driving Miss Daisy" with Julie Harris brought Root to Los Angeles where he launched into his television and film roles.

CHRIS THOMAS KING (Tommy Johnson) is a New Orleans-based firebrand guitarist/vocalist, multi-instrumentalist. For over a decade King has been piloting the blues into the 21st century, creating new sounds and recordings.

King proves himself ever the innovator with his current release Me, My Guitar and the Blues on Blind Pig Records, a forward-thinking approach to acoustic blues, New Orleans-flavored rhythm and blues, funk and hip hop that is both authentic and stunning. Rolling Stone calls him the "heir to Hendrix and Howlin’ Wolf …an uncommonly expressive guitarist, singer and composer." Blues Revue puts him at "the top of the short list of most innovative bluesmen."

Born in 1964 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, King was raised with an impeccable musical pedigree. His father, Tabby Thomas, owns the famed Baton Rouge blues club, Tabby’s Blues Box, and is a recording legend in his own right. King began to play the guitar while he was in the sixth grade, and was regularly exposed to legends such as Henry Grey, Slim Harpo, Raful Neal, Moses Smith and Silas Hogan. As he grew older he toured on occasion with his father and jammed with blues greats including Lowell Fulson and Buddy Guy, which helped solidify his lifetime commitment to blues music.

His debut recording, The Beginning, was released in 1986 on Arhoolie Records. King soon attracted the attention of producer and Hightone label owner Bruce Bromberg, who signed him and produced his two Hightone/Sire Records albums, 1990’s Cry Of the Prophets and 1992’s Simple. Both records earned critical praise. King left Hightone in 1992 and relocated to Europe. In 1995, while living in Denmark, he released a groundbreaking mix of rap and blues, 21st Century Blues ... From d’ Hood on the Private Music record label, which garnered rave reviews in publications from VIBE to Blues Revue.

King returned home to Louisiana in 1996 and released his fifth album the ’70s Stax-influenced Chris Thomas King, on Scotti Bros. Records. Since then he has become a favorite on the Louisiana music scene, packing clubs including The House of Blues and amazing audiences yearly at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. He also earned a 1997 Best of the Beat Award from Offbeat Magazine for Best New Blues Performer. He returned to his Louisiana roots with his album Red Mud (Black Top Records), an inspired journey through acoustic blues that finds the young musician honoring past masters of the blues while creating a forward thinking take on this venerable music tradition. His latest album release on Blind Pig Records is Me, My Guitar, and The Blues.

WAYNE DUVALL (Homer Stokes) has worked steadily in film and television since landing in Los Angeles 12 years ago.

On television he has guest starred on such critically acclaimed shows as "Judging Amy," "The X-Files," "Profiler," "The District," and the new comedy "Normal, Ohio," starring castmate John Goodman. His motion picture career began auspiciously with Ron Howard’s "Apollo 13." Other screen credits include "The Deep End of the Ocean" with Michelle Pfeiffer, "The Fan" with Robert De Niro and Wesley Snipes, "My Fellow Americans" with Jack Lemmon and James Garner as well as several independent films. Duvall took his first turn as a "bad guy" when he co-stared with Morgan Freeman and Christian Slater in the action film "Hard Rain."

Currently, he is co-starring in the independent film "A Better Way to Die" with Andre Braugher.

DANIEL VON BARGEN (Sheriff Cooley) has enjoyed a distinguished career in motion pictures, on stage and in television. Among his most prominent feature film credits are "Snow Falling On Cedars," "The General’s Daughter," "A Civil Action," "Amistad," "G.I. Jane," "Before & After," "Lord of Illusions," "Six Degrees of Separation," "Basic Instinct," "Shadows and Fog," "Rising Sun," "RoboCop 3," "The Saint of Fort Washington," "Company Men," "The Silence of the Lambs," "Philadelphia" and "The Postman." He was recently seen in director John Singleton’s "Shaft," as well as director Jon Turteltaub’s "Disney’s The Kid," starring Bruce Willis.

Television audiences are familiar with Von Bargen’s work on sitcoms, episodics and movies-of-the-week. Among his guest starring credits are roles on "Time of Your Life," "City of Angels," "Malcolm in the Middle" (on which he has a recurring role), "The Practice," "Party of Five," "The X-Files," "Seinfeld" (recurring role), "The Pretender," "New York Undercover," "Law & Order" and "NYPD Blue." He also appeared in the critically acclaimed PBS movie "Three Sovereigns for Sarah" with Vanessa Redgrave as well as HBO’s "Citizen Cohn."

Von Bargen was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and spent most of his childhood there, and in Southern California. After majoring in drama at Purdue University, Von Bargen became a long term resident of the Trinity Repertory Theatre in Providence, Rhode Island. A role in Larry Gelbart’s "Mastergate" took him to Broadway. He also starred off-Broadway and in regional theatre productions of "Beggars in the House of Plenty," "Macbeth," "The Cherry Orchard," "Hurlyburly" and "Uncle Vanya."

J.R. HORNE (Staff) began his career in the entertainment business as a young teenage disc jockey in his hometown of Paris, Texas. Since then, Horne has made his living in every media from broadcasting to Broadway.

His most prominent feature film and television credits include "Turk 182," "Die Hard With A Vengeance" and Woody Allen’s "Radio Days," as well as the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation "What the Deaf Man Heard." He also appeared in the CBS miniseries "Stephen King’s The Golden Years," as well as the movies-of-the-week "Don’t Look Back" and "The Gentleman Bandit." Although his voice is frequently heard in character sketches on "The Late Show with David Letterman," his appearances on "Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood" and "Sesame Street" highlight a different side to his character.

In New York, where has lived since 1972, Horne appeared on Broadway opposite George C. Scott in the critically acclaimed revival of "Inherit the Wind," and with Sam Waterston in "Abe Lincoln in Illinois." His most recent appearance for the New York Shakespeare Festival was with John Goodman in "Skin of Our Teeth" in Central Park. He first paired with Tim Blake Nelson (who plays Delmar in "O Brother, Where Art Thou?") in Nelson’s off-Broadway play "Anadarko."

Horne has also crisscrossed the country appearing in a wide range of theater productions including musicals such as "Guys and Dolls," "The Fantasticks" and "Great Expectations," as well as the classics "The Front Page," "Cyrano de Bergerac," "School for Wives," "The Chimes," "Greater Tuna," and "Our Town." Most recently he starred in the world premiere of Tony Kushner’s "Hydriotaphia" in Berkeley, California.

BRIAN REDDY (Eckard) has appeared in a long list of motion pictures and television programs. Among his most notable feature films are roles in "Ivory Tower," "Dante’s Peak," "Primal Fear," "The Birdcage," "Casino," "Outbreak" and "What About Bob?" He also appeared in the made-for television movies "The Bachelor’s Baby" and "Hart to Hart Returns."

His numerous television appearances include "The X-Files," a recurring role on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Chicago Hope," "JAG," "All American Girl," "Seinfeld," "Married ... With Children," "Assault and Batteries," "Empty Nest" and "Law & Order."

Mr. Reddy’s Broadway credits include "Abe Lincoln in Illinois (at Lincoln Center), "M. Butterfly," "Death Defying Acts" by Woody Allen, Elaine May and David Mamet.

FRANK COLLISON (Wash Hogwallop) comes from a theatre background, having first appeared in a tent production in Granville, Ohio at the age of six months. He is a founding member of Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice, California, which has won over 22 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards. His film work includes "Mobsters," "The Last Boy Scout," "Buddy," "Alien Nation," "Diggstown," "The Blob," "My Summer Story" and "Wild at Heart" which won the 1990 Golden Palm Award at Cannes.

Collison is best known to television audiences as Horace Bing, the bumbling telegraph operator, on the 6 year CBS episodic "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman." His extensive television appearances include a recent guest starring role on "NYPD Blue."

Born in Evanston, Illinois, he trained at the American Conservatory Theatre, earned his BA in theatre at San Francisco State University and MFA in acting at UC San Diego. Appearing in over 150 productions, Collison has worked off-Broadway and in regional theatres in Boston, Denver and California. His theatrical roles have ranged from Puck in "A Midsummer-Night’s Dream" to the Marquis de Sade in "Marat/Sade." He resides in Los Angeles with his wife and three children and remains active in theatre while pursuing a film career.

Director/screenwriter JOEL COEN was honored as Best Director for "Fargo" by the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Board of Review in 1996. The screenplay for the film, which he co-wrote with his brother Ethan, won an Academy Award^® and Writers Guild Award for Best Original Screenplay of 1996 and Frances McDormand won a Best Actress Oscar^® for her performance in the film.

In 1991, Joel was named Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival for "Barton Fink," where the film also garnered the Palme D’Or Award for Best Picture and a Best Actor Award for John Turturro. "Barton Fink" was also honored with two New York Film Critics Circle Awards, three Academy Award^® nominations and a Golden Globe nomination.

Joel attended New York University Film School and shortly thereafter began his career as an assistant editor working on several low-budget horror films including Sam Raimi’s "The Evil Dead." It was during this period that he and Ethan wrote their first feature film, the stylish crime drama "Blood Simple," which Joel subsequently directed and Ethan produced. The film appeared on several prominent top ten lists of 1985, including Time Magazine, The Washington Post and USA Today. The National Board of Review also honored "Blood Simple" as one of the Best Films of the year.

Joel’s other directorial and co-writing credits include "Raising Arizona" (1987), "Miller’s Crossing" (1990), "Barton Fink" (1991), "The Hudsucker Proxy" (1994), "Fargo" (1996) and "The Big Lebowski" (1998).

Princeton University graduate ETHAN COEN (Producer/Screenwriter) has now produced and co-written eight films with his brother Joel.

His first producing credit was "Blood Simple," the brothers’ stylish crime thriller which appeared on several prestigious ten-best lists for 1985. His next production was "Raising Arizona," a blend of screwball comedy and action melodrama which introduced the brothers’ unique filmmaking style to a wider audience. This was followed by "Miller’s Crossing," a 1930s-style gangster film which opened the 1990 New York Film Festival and "Barton Fink" which won Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor awards at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival as well as two New York Film Critics Awards, three Oscar^® nominations and one Golden Globe nomination. Ethan’s other producing and co-writing credits include "The Hudsucker Proxy," which played at the Cannes Film Festival, "Fargo," one of the most honored films of 1996, garnering Academy Awards^® for Best Screenplay and Best Actress, and "The Big Lebowski," a Raymond Chandleresque detective story with comic overtones set in present day Los Angeles.

Working Title Films is Europe’s pre-eminent production house run by TIM BEVAN and ERIC FELLNER (Executive Producers)—British-based producers with a strong presence in the Hollywood community. Bevan/Fellner recently negotiated a 5 year deal with Universal Pictures and Canal + providing the resources and distribution structure to allow them to retain creative autonomy producing predominantly European films while enjoying full studio backing and worldwide distribution.

This is Working Title’s fourth collaboration with Joel and Ethan Coen. Recent commercial and creative successes for the powerhouse company include "Notting Hill," the highest grossing British film ever with a current gross of over US $350 million worldwide; "Four Weddings and a Funeral" (1994) which grossed over US $250 million worldwide; "Bean" (1997) which grossed over US $220 million worldwide and the following Oscar^®-winning features: Shekhar Kapur’s "Elizabeth" (1998), Tim Robbins’ "Dead Man Walking" (1996) and the Coen Brothers’ "Fargo" (1997). Other notable productions include "The Big Lebowski" (1997), "The Borrowers" (1996) and "French Kiss" (1995).

Most recently, Bevan and Fellner served as producers on Touchstone Pictures’ "High Fidelity" starring John Cusack. Soon to be released is Sally Potter’s "The Man Who Cried" starring Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett and John Turturro, and WT²’s first feature "Billy Elliot" (in conjunction with the BBC and Tiger Aspect) directed by Stephen Daldry, "Bridget Jones’ Diary," starring Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth and directed by Sharon Maguire, and "Captain Corelli’s Mandolin," directed by John Madden and starring Nicolas Cage, Penelope Cruz and John Hurt. Projects in advanced development include "A Touch of Weevil" starring Rowan Atkinson.

JOHN CAMERON (Co-Producer) has been associated with Joel and Ethan Coen for many years, having first met the brothers during his early career with director Sam Raimi.

Cameron first began working with Raimi and actor/producer Bruce Campbell in 1973 when the trio was in high school. After attending NYU film school, Cameron rejoined Raimi, Campbell and producer Robert Tapert for Rami’s first feature "The Evil Dead."

Subsequently, Cameron served as first assistant director on many of Rami’s films, including "Crimewave," "Darkman," "Army of Darkness" and "The Quick and the Dead." Other credits as first assistant director include "Dazed and Confused" and the blockbuster "Men in Black."

Continuing his long association with Raimi and Tapert, Cameron has directed episodes of both "Hercules" and "Xena: Warrior Princess."

Cameron first worked with Joel and Ethan Coen as first assistant director on "The Hudsucker Proxy." He co-produced their next film "Fargo" and has acted as their co-producer on every film since then: "The Big Lebowski," "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and the upcoming "Untitled Barber Project."

In addition, Cameron is the president of the Coen Brothers’ new production company, The KL Line.

This is award-winning cinematographer ROGER DEAKINS’ fifth film with Joel and Ethan Coen, following "The Big Lebowski," "Fargo," "The Hudsucker Proxy," and "Barton Fink."

Deakins’ work with the Coens has been honored with an Academy Award^® nomination for "Fargo," and Best Cinematography awards from the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics and the National Society of Film Critics for "Barton Fink." He has also been recognized with an Academy Award^® nomination and an A.S.C. Award for his work on "The Shawshank Redemption," and an Oscar^® nomination and Best Cinematography Awards from the New York Film Critics Circle, the Boston Society of Film Critics and the National Society of Film Critics for "Kundun."

Deakins began working as a still photographer before enrolling in Britain’s National Film School in 1972. His association with fellow student Michael Radford led to director of photography work on three of Radford’s films, "White Mischief," "1984," and "Another Time, Another Place."

Deakins credits include such notable films as "The Siege," "Courage Under Fire," "Dead Man Walking," "Secret Garden," "Passion Fish," "Thunderheart" and "Sid and Nancy."

His distinguished career also includes feature documentaries such as "When the World Changed," and "Eritrea: Behind the Lines," and music documentaries including "Blue Suede Shoes," and "Van Morrison in Ireland." He has also shot music videos for Herbie Hancock, Eric Clapton, Marvin Gaye and Madness among others.

DENNIS GASSNER (Production Designer) was nominated for two Academy Awards^® in the same year for his work on "Barton Fink" and on "Bugsy," winning the Oscar^® for "Bugsy."

Other recent credits include "The Truman Show," "Waterworld" and "Hero." In addition to "Barton Fink," he has also worked on "The Hudsucker Proxy" and "Miller’s Crossing" for the Coens. Additional film credits include "The Grifters," "Field of Dreams," "Earth Girls Are Easy," "Like Father Like Son," "Wisdom" and "The Hitcher."

MARY ZOPHRES (Costume Designer) has distinguished herself with costume design contributions to such critically acclaimed motion pictures as the Academy Award^®-winning "Fargo" and 1998’s blockbuster comedy, "There’s Something About Mary."

Zophres has also designed costumes for "The Big Lebowski," "Playing God," "Where’s Marlowe," "God Said ‘Ha!’," "Digging to China," "Paulie," "Last of the High Kings," "Kingpin," "Bushwacked" and "Dumb and Dumber." Recently she designed costumes for "Any Given Sunday" and "Thick as Thieves."

As an assistant costume designer her credits include "Natural Born Killers," "The Hudsucker Proxy," "This Boy’s Life," "Jennifer 8," "Man Trouble," "City Slickers," "Radio Flyer," "Young Guns II," "The Heidi Chronicles" and "Born on the Fourth of July."

Zophres earned a degree in art history and studio art from Vassar College before beginning her professional career working in the fashion industry for Norma Kamali and Esprit. She began her film industry career as the extra’s wardrobe supervisor on Oliver Stone’s "Born on the Fourth of July."

T BONE BURNETT (Composer) is a writer, performer and music producer. Born Joseph Henry Burnett, in St. Louis, Missouri, he grew up in Fort Worth, Texas. He began making records in 1965, producing Texas blues, country and rock and roll bands, and occasionally, himself. He now lives and works in Los Angeles, California where he is completing two new albums, Tooth of Crime, music he wrote for the Sam Shepard play which premiered in New York in 1997; and The True False Identity, his first album of original songs since The Criminal Under My Own Hat released in 1992, for which he received a Grammy Award nomination. While finishing his work on "O Brother, Where Art Thou?," Burnett has begun performing songs from those albums in preparation for their release next year.

His previous motion picture credits include "The Big Lebowski," "The Horse Whisperer," "Hope Floats," "Stealing Beauty," "Clay Pigeons," "Until the End of the World" and "Ruby in Paradise."

Among the long list of artists whose work Burnett has produced are such legends as Elvis Costello, Los Lobos, Roy Orbison, Jackson Browne, The Wallflowers, Counting Crows and Spinal Tap.

In addition, his songs have been recorded by Peter Case, Rita Coolidge, Robert Gordon, Arlo Guthrie, Kris Kristofferson, k.d. lang, Los Lobos and B.J. Thomas, to name a few.

RODERICK JAYNES (Film Editor) began his career minding the tea cart at Shepperton Studios in the 1930s. He eventually moved into the editing department where he worked on some of the more marginal pictures of the British film industry of the ‘50s and ‘60s. With the demise of the "Carry On" series he retired from film, but emerged from retirement to work on Joel and Ethan Coen’s first movie, "Blood Simple." He has worked on most of their pictures since.

Mr. Jaynes resides in Hove, Sussex, with his chow Otto. He is still widely admired in the film industry for his impeccable grooming and is the world’s foremost collector of Margaret Thatcher nudes, many of them drawn from life.

TRICIA COOKE (Film Editor) has served as editor or associate editor on a wide variety of feature films. She previously worked with Messrs. Coen on their critically acclaimed films "The Big Lebowski" and the Academy Award^® winning "Fargo" on which she was associate editor.

Among her other motion picture credits are director Brion Rockwell’s "Where the Air is Cool and Dark," Richard Murphy’s "Betty," J. Todd Anderson’s "The Naked Man," and director Josh Klaussner’s "Fourth Floor."