BuddyTV is an entertainment-based website based in Seattle, Washington, which generates content about television programs and sporting events. The website publishes information about celebrity and related entertainment news through a series of articles, entertainment profiles, actor biographies and user forums.^[1]

History[link]

BuddyTV was co-founded in 2005 by Andy Liu and David Niu. The pair graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Master of Business Administration, a master's degree in business administration. They sold their previous company, NetConversions, to aQuantive in 2004. While on a holiday, they realized that television is a "very passive or non-social experience", and wanted to "express ourselves at the time of the show".^[2] The website is also designed to allow real-time commentary for sports, allowing former players and fans to broadcast their opinions on basketball and baseball games. Niu felt that other Internet companies which were offering online sportscasting tools did not effectively combines audio broadcasts with online comments and forums.^[2]

In May 2007, BuddyTV received a loan of $250,000 from the Charles River Quick Start Seed Funding Program,^[3] at which time it was attracting 2 million unique visitors per month.^[4] In a first round financing, Gemstar-TV Guide International invested $2.8 million into the website.^[3] In September 2007, paidContent reported that BuddyTV was being acquired by Comcast, at which time is was receiving 3 million unique visitors per month and had hired 20 employees.^[5] However, the reports were later confirmed to be untrue.^[6] In April 2008, BuddyTV raised $6 million in a second round, with investments mainly coming from Madrona Venture Group. The two rounds saw a total raise of $9 million. Funding was expected to go towards investing in new personnel and technology.^[6]

BuddyTV has been compared to the television commentary site Television Without Pity. Television Without Pity's co-editor Sarah Bunting said that the website's focus is on in-depth and humorous recaps that appear three or four days after the episodes air. BuddyTV is designed, however, to provide immediate feedback.^[2] Liu said that many television networks were interested in partnering with BuddyTV to build online communities around their shows.^[7]

In September 2010, BuddyTV entered the mobile space with a new app for the iPhone and iPad.^[8] “We’re making a big bet on the mobile and tablet side of things,” said CEO Andy Liu. “When I watch TV, I’ve got my iPad open, I’ve got mobile phones nearby as well, and I think in the next 12 to 18 months this whole movement towards being a lot more social in television is really going to come together, and we just want to get ahead of that. It’s amazing how much hardware has changed this space.”^[8]

Soon after its first mobile app release, well-known Seattle entrepreneur and technology executive Bill Baxter joined BuddyTV as its Chief Technology Officer and executive vice president of products.^[9] A year later, the app was featured in TechCrunch, highlighting new utility features, remote control capabilities, and the app's ability to recommend TV shows to users.^[10]

Business Model[link]

BuddyTV makes money through online advertising and by offering advanced publishing tools to commentators. The website has a partnership with Windows Media Center, allowing viewers to turn on BuddyTV commentary on their televisions during shows.^[2] In 2007, online survey hosting company QuestionPro and Buddy TV created a new way for advertisers to learn about the viewers of television series which featured their ads. BuddyTV uses custom online surveys from QuestionPro to gather information and opinion from the community of fans. BuddyTV's analysts compile the results and produce a report within days for the advertiser.^[11]

In June of 2010, BuddyTV entered an advertising partnership with Flixster and Rotten Tomatoes. "This is a terrific partnership that capitalizes on each company's growth in social networking, mobile, and online to reach a huge and influential audience of trendsetting consumers," said Joe Greenstein, co-founder and CEO of Flixster Inc.^[12] "For us, we now have a large and professional sales force to sell our inventory directly to agencies and advertisers," said BuddyTV's Neal Freeland.^[13] "We already have some of these relationships, but expect this partnership to grow the volume significantly."

Impact[link]

BuddyTV has been described as "the Web's best entertainment-based community site".^[11] The website contains information about 410 television series, and provides content to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Co-founder Liu describes it as the "largest independent TV fan site".^[7] In March and April 2007, BuddyTV was the seventh most visited website in the Seattle startup index.^[14][15]

See also[link]

• TV Squad

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Listing of top 10 Seattle startups
• Crunchbase profile

Tahmoh Penikett
Penikett at Gatecon
Born	(1975-05-20) May 20, 1975 (age 37) Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1996–present

Tahmoh Penikett (pronounced [ˈtaʔmo] /ˈpɛnɨkɨt/;^[1] born May 20, 1975) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his roles as Karl "Helo" Agathon on the Sci Fi Channel's television series Battlestar Galactica^[2] and as Paul Ballard in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse'.^[3]

Early life[link]

Penikett is the son of former Yukon premier Tony Penikett, who immigrated to Victoria, British Columbia from England at age 12, and Lulla Sierra Johns, of the White River First Nation in the Yukon. He has two siblings, twin sisters Sarah and Stephanie.^[4][5] He graduated from the Victoria Motion Picture School and studied at the Lyric School of Acting in Vancouver.^[6]

Personal life[link]

Penikett currently lives in Vancouver with his family.^[7]

In support of the Babz Chula Lifeline for Artists Society, which is raising money for their friend and fellow Canadian actor Chula's cancer treatment, Penikett and his Battlestar Galactica colleague Kandyse McClure auctioned off the opportunity to have dinner with both of them in Vancouver in April 2008.^[8]

He trains in muay thai^[9] and has showcased his ability in various roles, including in Battlestar Galactica and most notably as Agent Ballard in the fight sequences in Dollhouse, where he choreographed most of his own moves.^[10]

Career[link]

In 2002, he had a brief appearance as one of the first Human-Form Replicators in the season 6 episode of Stargate SG-1, "Unnatural Selection".^[11] From 2004-2005, Penikett portrayed Ray Chase, who appeared in eleven episodes of the Canadian police drama, Cold Squad.^[12] He played a leading role as Noah Hamilton in the 2005 made-for-TV film Hush alongside actress Tori Spelling. He did a voice acting role in the video game Need for Speed: Carbon, as a street racer named Darius.^[13] He also appeared in four episodes of the television series Whistler as Elias Noth.^[14] Penikett also provided voice talent for antagonist Troy Hammerschmidt on the Adult Swim show Titan Maximum.^[15] In 2010, Penikett played the lead role of Matt Ellman on Syfy's miniseries Riverworld an adaption of the science fiction books written by Philip José Farmer of the same name.^[16][17][18] He starred in the first two episodes of Warner Brothers' Mortal Kombat: Legacy as Kurtis Stryker, which debuted in April on YouTube.

Among his early acting work were stints on assorted Canadian TV series such as Cold Squad. He also appeared on the TV show Smallville, in the episode "Resurrection" in Season 3, and in the Season 6 episodes "Nemesis" and "Prototype".^[19] He portrayed a police officer for a predominantly gay neighborhood in the 2004 The L Word episode "Losing It",^[6] which coincidentally starred Battlestar Galactica co-star Nicki Clyne in a related storyline.

In 2003, the 1978 science fiction television series Battlestar Galactica was "reimagined" as a three hour miniseries on the SciFi Channel. The miniseries was filmed in Vancouver, Canada, and Penikett, a local actor, auditioned and was cast in the part of Karl "Helo" Agathon, an officer in the Colonial Fleet. The miniseries proved highly successful, and a Battlestar Galactica series was commissioned.^[20]

The role was not based on a character in the original series, and was meant to be confined only to the miniseries; in the miniseries Helo is shown giving up a spot on a spaceship fleeing the doomed planet of Caprica, with the implication that he was left to die. However, both the producers and test audiences were sufficiently impressed with the character, and Penikett's performance, that the decision was made to make Helo a recurring character on the show.^[21] A plot that took place over much of the show's first season was that the Cylons on Caprica kept Helo alive in order to have him fall in love with, and impregnate, a Cylon (Helo was chosen because his crew partner, Sharon Valerii, was in fact a Cylon, and another copy of the same model was sent to pretend to be her). By the second season, his character had returned to the Galactica; as the father of the only successful human-Cylon hybrid; this character and his family became central to the show's mythology.

In 2009, Penikett was cast for the portrayal of Paul Ballard in Joss Whedon's science fiction drama television series Dollhouse, airing on Fox network Friday nights at 9:00.^[22][23] During the first season, Ballard was the purported "good guy" cop who was trying to bring the Dollhouse down; however, an unhealthy fixation on Echo (the main character, portrayed by Eliza Dushku), as well as other factors, led to his expulsion from the FBI. In an attempt to both save Echo and himself, and in exchange for releasing former lover November (Miracle Laurie), Ballard joined the Dollhouse as Echo's handler during the second season, and worked insidiously from the inside in an attempt to set the dolls free from what he perceives as slavery and to bring not just the Dollhouse but the power-hungry Rossum Corporation behind it down.

During the post-apocalyptic future world shown in the "Epitaph" episodes ("Epitaph One" from season one and "Epitaph Two: Return" from season two), Ballard is displayed as having joined Echo as a freedom fighter working to restore order to the world and build a place referred to by the other free characters as "Safe Haven". He is killed without warning by a stray bullet in "Epitaph Two", though his personality is uploaded into Echo by the end of the episode.

Dollhouse was cancelled at the end of its second season, and the series finale aired on Friday, January 29, 2010.^[24]

Filmography[link]

Television[link]

Video games[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Tahmoh Penikett at the Internet Movie Database

Eliza Dushku
Dushku at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival.
Born	Eliza Patricia Dushku (1980-12-30) December 30, 1980 (age 31) Watertown, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality	American, Albanian[1][2]
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1992–present
Partner	Rick Fox (2009–present)

Eliza Patricia Dushku ( /ˈdʊʃkuː/;^[3] born December 30, 1980) is an American actress known for her television roles, including recurring appearances as Faith on Buffy the Vampire Slayer^[4] and its spinoff series Angel. She starred in two Fox series, Tru Calling and Dollhouse.^[5] She is also known for her role in films including True Lies, The New Guy, Bring It On, Wrong Turn and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back,^[6] as well as her voice work on video games.

Early life[link]

Dushku was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, the daughter of Philip R. Dushku, an administrator and teacher in the Boston Public Schools, and Judith "Judy" (née Rasmussen), a political science professor.^[7] Dushku's father is Albanian and her mother is of Danish and English descent.^[8][9] Dushku attended Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill, and graduated from Watertown High School. She was raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the faith of her mother, though she is not practicing.^[10] She has three older brothers: Aaron, Benjamin (Ben), and Nathaniel (Nate). Her parents divorced when she was an infant.^[11]

Career[link]

Early career[link]

Dushku came to the attention of casting agents when she was 10. She was chosen in a five month search for the lead role of Alice in the film That Night. In 1993, Dushku landed a role as Pearl alongside Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio in This Boy's Life, a role that she said opened a lot of doors. The following year, she played the teenage daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies. She had parts as Paul Reiser's daughter in Bye Bye Love, as Cindy Johnson in Race the Sun, and roles in a television movie and a short film.

Dushku took time off from acting to finish her junior and senior years of high school. She was accepted to the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and Suffolk University in Boston, where her mother serves as professor of government and previously served as dean of the campus in Dakar, Senegal.

Later roles[link]

Dushku at the 2009 San Diego Comic Con.

After completing high school, Dushku returned to acting with the role of Faith on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a Slayer much more troubled than the main character Buffy Summers. Though initially planned as a five episode role, the character became so popular that she stayed on for the whole third season and returned for a two-part appearance in season four, after which the remainder of her original story arc was played out as part of the first season of the Buffy spin-off series Angel. Repentant and rededicated, Faith returned as a heroine in other episodes of Angel and in the last five episodes of Buffy. Dushku was inundated with piles of fan mail from legions of prisoners. She said:

I've been getting fan mail from maximum security penitentiaries and death row. What are the authorities thinking of in playing a show with young teenage girls to Death Row inmates? They write everything – disgusting things that you don't even want to know about. And they send me pictures – "Oh, here's a picture of me before I was incarcerated!" – and there's some guy sat on the sofa with a bottle of beer and a moustache, and a big gut. It's so creepy. Way more creepy than Buffy.^[12]

In 2000, Dushku starred in the hit cheerleader comedy Bring It On.^[6] She followed that up with Soul Survivors,^[6] reuniting her with Race The Sun co-star Casey Affleck. One reviewer described the film as "84 minutes of everyone's wasted time".^[13] In 2001, she appeared in The New Guy with DJ Qualls and City by the Sea with Robert De Niro and James Franco.^[6] The latter film garnered attention from a wider adult audience and several good reviews. The same year, Kevin Smith invited Dushku to be a part of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.^[6]

In 2003, Dushku starred the horror film Wrong Turn,^[6] and The Kiss, an independent comedy-drama. Starting that same year, she starred in a new Fox TV series, Tru Calling, where she played the main character, medical student Tru Davies. After having a grant pulled out from under her, Tru is forced to take a job at a local morgue where she discovers her power to "re-live" the previous day over again if one of the deceased asks for her help to change what has happened. Dushku turned down a role in a spin-off of Buffy The Vampire Slayer which would have been about Faith. She has had many roles as a "bad girl" in movies and relishes the opportunities. In an interview with Maxim in May 2001, Dushku says of her roles, "It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you've been told not to do, and you don't have to deal with the consequences, because it's only acting."^[10]

Dushku starred in an Off-Broadway production entitled Dog Sees God from December 2005, playing "Van's sister", a character paralleled with Lucy Van Pelt from the Peanuts comic strip on which the play production is based. She quit in February 2006 along with other members of the cast amidst rumors of abuse from the producer (which were later dismissed).

She played the lead character on Nurses, a hospital comedy/drama for Fox. This was the second Fox pilot in which she was cast, but not broadcast.^[14] She appeared in the Simple Plan music video, "I'm Just a Kid", as the band's love interest, as well as Nickelback's video for "Rockstar".

Dushku has roles in two video games. She voiced the role of Yumi Sawamura in the English language version of Yakuza for the PlayStation 2, which was published and developed by SEGA, and released in September 2006. Dushku also stars as Shaundi, one of the lead characters in Saints Row 2, which was developed by Volition and published by THQ.^[15] It was released in North America on October 14, 2008, for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. She was the voice talent for the role of Rubi Malone, the main character in the game WET. She appeared at Spike TV's 2008 Video Game Awards in December 2008.^[5]

Recent work[link]

Tribeca Film Festival, April 2007

On October 1, 2005, she announced at Wizard World Boston that shooting had begun for Nobel Son in which she would star with Alan Rickman, Danny DeVito, Bill Pullman, and Peter Boyle. The movie was released at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival.^[16] Another project is On Broadway, an independent movie filmed in her native Boston. The movie is receiving great reviews^[17] and a few of them highlight Dushku's performance. It is shown in independent film festivals and has won six awards.

Variety announced on August 2, 2006 that Dushku would co-star with Macaulay Culkin in Sex and Breakfast, a dark comedy written and directed by Miles Brandman. A reviewer described Dushku as "charming" and giving the character "an edge."^[18] The movie was released in Los Angeles on November 30, 2007 and on DVD on January 22, 2008. She starred in Open Graves, a 2008 horror-thriller about a satanic game co-starring Mike Vogel. She played the main character in The Thacker Case and The Alphabet Killer, both thrillers based on real-life events, one of them directed by Rob Schmidt with whom she had worked on Wrong Turn. Both movies were released in 2008.^[19] The Alphabet Killer contains Dushku's first topless scene.^[20] The film earned mixed reviews, but reviewers praised Dushku's performance, commenting "Eliza Dushku commands the screen but cannot reconcile the script's conflicted and increasingly idiotic agendas."^[21] She appeared in Bottle Shock, a drama about Napa valley wine.^[4] The film was directed by Randall Miller, who helmed Nobel Son.^[4][22]

On August 26, 2007, Dushku signed a development deal with Fox Broadcasting and 20th Century Fox. Under the pact, the network and the studio would develop projects tailor-made for the actress. They approached her with existing pitches and scripts.^[23]

Consequently, it was announced on October 31 that Dushku had lured Joss Whedon, of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, back to TV, as they agreed to create a show called Dollhouse. Dushku produced the show and played the main character, 'Echo', which aired on Fox during the 2008–09 TV Season. One TV reviewer said Dushku "does wonderful things to a tank top, but her grasp of this vague, personality-changing character is a bit of a muddle."^[24] In an interview, Dushku talked about how Dollhouse, and how her reconnection with Whedon came about:

I invited Joss Whedon to lunch after I did the business deal with Fox. We'd had a cool relationship in the past and I so wanted to do something else, and I wanted to get back into a television show. I had him on the brain for sure but I hadn't called him yet, but I sort of took a leap of faith and set things up with Fox and then called Joss. We went to a four-hour lunch where I just sort of used my womanly wiles. No, we've become such good friends, kind of like brother and sister and kind of like he was my watcher, my handler from when I first moved out to L.A. when I was 17 and I was a little bit of a wild child. He's watched me and helped me and taught me over the years. I told him how bad I wanted and needed him back and he accepted and here we are.^[25]

Dushku described Whedon as "my favorite genius ... favorite friend ... big brother ... and the only person out here I've ever wholeheartedly trusted, because he's never let me down."^[26] Dollhouse was renewed for a second season. The producers cited their confidence in the strength of Joss Whedon's fan base and high DVR numbers as their reasons for keeping the show. FOX cancelled Dollhouse on November 11, 2009. The show officially wrapped filming on the second and final season on December 16, 2009.

Dushku was the voice actor for contract killer "Rubi Malone" in the action video game Wet.^[27] Dushku secured exclusive rights to make "The Perfect Moment", a film based on the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and enlisted the help of Ondi Timoner.^[4]

Dushku provides her voice for Noah's Ark: The New Beginning and will appear in the film Locked In set for release in 2010.^[28]

Dushku guest-starred in CBS' comedy The Big Bang Theory in the fall of 2010^[29] which aired on November 4, 2010.^[30]

In 2011, Dushku featured alongside Jayson Floyd in "One Shot", a short action clip on YouTube directed by and starring Freddie Wong, which was released on May 13, 2011.^[31] Dushku will have a lead role in an online animated "motion comic" series, titled Torchwood: Web of Lies, based on Starz' upcoming Torchwood: Miracle Day.^[32]

In August 2011, Dushku visited Albania to film a documentary on her father's country of origin with a crew from the Travel Channel and Lonely Planet.^[33][34][35]

Personal life[link]

Dushku resides in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, California.^[36]

Dushku is the CEO of her production company, Boston Diva Productions.^[37]

In 2006, she visited her father's family in Albania after an invitation from the Prime Minister of Albania, Sali Berisha. She visited Kosovo and got an Albanian Eagle tattoo on the back of her neck.^[38][39]

Dushku began dating former Los Angeles Lakers basketball player Rick Fox in October 2009, and in August 2010 the couple confirmed that they are living together.^[40][41]

While on her second visit to Albania in 2011, she applied for Albanian citizenship and obtained the Albanian passport and ID Card. She became an honorary citizen of Tirana,^[42] and was given the honorary title of Tirana Ambassador of Culture and Tourism in the World by Tirana mayor Lulzim Basha.^[43][44] Additionally, she was given honorary citizen status in her father's home town of Korce, Albania.

She serves on the board of directors of the THARCE-Gulu organization (The Trauma Healing and Reflection Center in Gulu), an organization dedicated to helping the survivors of war (including former child soldiers) in Northern Uganda.

In December 2011, Dushku announced that she was switching to a vegan diet after watching the documentary Forks Over Knives.^[45]

Awards and nominations[link]

Dushku in 2004

She was twice nominated in 2004: for a Teen Choice Award at the Teen Choice Awards for Choice Breakout Star – Female for Tru Calling and for a Saturn Award by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films at the 30th Saturn Awards for Best Actress in a Television Series for Tru Calling.

Maxim magazine ranked Dushku 6th on the "Hot 100 Women of 2009" list.^[46]

Dushku was nominated in 2009 for a Scream Award for Best Science Fiction Actress for her role of Echo.^[47]

The municipality of Tirana honored Eliza Dushku as an Honorary Citizen of Tirana, capital of Albania.^[48]

In October 2011, Dushku was named Ambassador for the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show Entertainment Matters program.^[49]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Official website
• Eliza Dushku at the Internet Movie Database
• Eliza Dushku at the TCM Movie Database
• Eliza Dushku at AllRovi
• http://www.tharcegulu.org/

Jared Padalecki
Padalecki at the San Diego Comic-Con International in July 2011.
Born	Jared Tristan Padalecki (1982-07-19) July 19, 1982 (age 29) San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1999–present
Spouse	Genevieve Cortese (2010–present)
Children	1

Jared Tristan Padalecki (born July 19, 1982) is an American actor. He grew up in Texas and came to fame in the early 2000s after appearing on the television series Gilmore Girls as well as in several Hollywood films, including New York Minute and House of Wax. Padalecki plays Sam Winchester on the CW television series Supernatural.

Early life[link]

Padalecki was born in San Antonio, Texas.^[1][2] He is of Polish ancestry on his father's side.^[3][4] He has an older brother, Jeff, and a younger sister, Megan. He started taking acting classes at the age of 12.

Education[link]

He attended James Madison High School in San Antonio and was named a candidate for the 2000 Presidential Scholars Program. In 1998, Padalecki and his partner Chris Cardenas won the National Forensic League national championship in Duo Interpretation.^[5] Padalecki won FOX's 1999 "Claim to Fame Contest"; he subsequently appeared at the Teen Choice Awards, where he met his current manager. After graduating from high school in 2000, he moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue an acting career, although he had originally planned to attend the University of Texas.^[1]

Career[link]

Padalecki's first credit was a minor role in the 1999 film A Little Inside. In 2000, he was cast as Dean Forester on the television series Gilmore Girls, a role he played until 2005. Throughout the early 2000s, he also appeared in several made-for-television films, including Silent Witness, Close to Home, and the Disney Channel Original Movie A Ring of Endless Light.

Padalecki had an uncredited part as a high school bully in 2003's comedy Cheaper by the Dozen, which he played after being asked by fellow actor and friend Tom Welling, who played the part of Charlie Baker, and the director of the movie, who wanted someone bigger than Charlie to pick on him. Padalecki originally auditioned for Welling's role, but gave it up in order to film a pilot titled Young MacGyver which was never picked up.^[6] In 2004, he appeared in the Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen comedy New York Minute as Trey Lipton a cute boy who the Olson's characters are attracted to. He also landed a short role in the thriller Flight of the Phoenix alongside Dennis Quaid and Hugh Laurie. In 2005, Padalecki starred opposite Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray and Paris Hilton in the horror film House of Wax in which he plays Wade, one of 5 teens who are slashed and killed. In the same year, Padalecki appeared in yet another horror film, Cry Wolf in which he played Tom.^[7]

The same year, Padalecki was cast as Sam Winchester on the WB series, Supernatural. Sam and his brother Dean (Jensen Ackles) drive throughout the United States hunting paranormal predators, sometimes with their father (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). The seventh season began broadcast on September 23, 2011 on the CW. The show is filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Padalecki also served as the host of MTV's horror reality series, Room 401 which was discontinued after only 8 episodes due to poor ratings.^[8]

He had the lead role in 2008's The Christmas Cottage, in which he played Thomas Kinkade.

Padalecki also had the lead role in the horror remake Friday the 13th film alongside Danielle Panabaker, which opened on Friday, February 13, 2009. He plays Clay Miller, a character who heads out to the doomed Camp Crystal Lake in search of his sister who has gone missing.^[9]

Personal life[link]

Padalecki married his former Supernatural co-star Genevieve Cortese on February 27, 2010. He and his wife are currently residing in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.^[10][11] On October 10, 2011, he announced they were expecting their first child.^{[12] [13]} The couple's son was born on March 19, 2012.^[14][15]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Jared Padalecki

• Jared Padalecki at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview with Jared Padalecki at SuicideGirls.com
• Jared Padalecki on Twitter

Dichen Lachman
Lachman in April, 2009
Born	(1982-02-22) 22 February 1982 (age 30)[1] Kathmandu, Nepal
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2005–present

Dichen Lachman ( /ˈdiːtʃən ˈlækmən/;^[2] born 22 February, 1982) is a Nepalese Australian actress. She is best known for appearing in the soap opera Neighbours as Katya Kinski and Joss Whedon's science fiction drama television series Dollhouse as Sierra. Lachman is currently playing Suren in the American/Canadian supernatural drama television series Being Human.

Early life[link]

Lachman was born in Kathmandu, Nepal, and lived in Nepal until she was eight years old, before her family moved to Adelaide, Australia. Her mother is of Tibetan descent, and her father is Australian.^[3] She attended Norwood Morialta High School, St Mary's College, Adelaide, Annesley College, and the University of Adelaide.

Career[link]

Before Neighbours, Lachman filmed an advert for Wanadoo telecommunications which was filmed in Australia and aired in the United Kingdom. In 2005, Lachman joined the cast of the long-running Australian soap opera Neighbours as Katya Kinski. She originally auditioned for the role of Elle Robinson, but the producers decided to create the part of Katya for her instead.^[4]

Lachman at the 2009 San Diego Comic Con.

Lachman also played a small role in the feature film Aquamarine. After she finished shooting the role of Aaren in the film Bled, Lachman then visited Hawaii to film Aztec Rex with director Brian Trenchard-Smith. In an interview with The Soap Show, Lachman mentioned how she visited England in late 2006 and appeared on the BBC television show Ready Steady Cook. In the interview, she explained that she is in Los Angeles to further her acting career, but mentioned she would love to work in the UK and Australia in the future.

On March 26, 2008, it was announced that Lachman would portray Sierra in the television series Dollhouse, created by Joss Whedon. ^[5][6] Her character is an Active (or "doll"), whose real name is Priya Tsetsang. Sierra is one of many who can be "programmed" with multiple personalities and abilities to engage in specific assignments.

In an interview with ScifiNow, Lachman addressed the rumors that she would be starring in the upcoming television show based on the Star Wars franchise. She responded by saying, "I am a huge George Lucas fan; I love those movies and it would be a dream come true – I'd love to do it, it would be incredible."^[7]

She was named as one of the 100 hottest women on screen for 2009, on the lesbian media site afterellen.com. "What a privilege to be there," she said.^[8]

She guest starred as an insurance agent/street racer on NCIS: Los Angeles. She also appeared as Amy Hanamoa, the widow of a murdered police officer, in an episode of Hawaii Five-0. Lachman made a guest appearance in an episode of the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood, for its fourth series Torchwood: Miracle Day.^[9] Additionally, in 2011 it was announced in Variety that Lachman would be joining the cast of Being Human as a series regular.^[10] Lachman also made a brief appearance in the web-series "The Guild" during Season 5, episode 8 as a guest at a party during a gaming convention.

In 2012 it was announced she would be joining Shawn Ryan driven pilot Last Resort, for ABC.^[11]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Dichen Lachman at the Internet Movie Database

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