Matt Craven (born November 10, 1956) is a Canadian actor.

Life and career[link]

Craven was born Matthew John Crnkovich in Port Colborne, Ontario, the son of Joanne Leslie, a hairdresser, and Nick Crnkovich.^[1] He has an older sister, Deborah. Craven is married to Sally Craven née Sutton and has two children, Nicholas and Josephine.^[2]

Craven's film credits include Meatballs, Happy Birthday to Me, Tin Men, Blue Steel, Jacob's Ladder, K2, A Few Good Men, Indian Summer, Crimson Tide, The Juror, Paulie, Dragonfly, The Life of David Gale, Timeline, The Clearing, Assault on Precinct 13, Déjà Vu and Disturbia. His television credits include American Gothic, L.A. Doctors, ER, Boomtown, The Lyon's Den, Without a Trace and Raines.

He currently has a recurring role on NCIS as the new Secretary of the Navy, Clayton Jarvis which sees him being reunited with Crimson Tide co-actor Rocky Carroll.

Filmography[link]

• Meatballs (1979)
• Happy Birthday To Me (1981)
• The Terry Fox Story (1983)
• Tin Men (1987)
• Palais Royale (1988)
• Jacob's Ladder (1990)
• Blue Steel (1990)
• A Few Good Men (1992)
• K2 (1992)
• Indian Summer (1993)
• Killer (1994)
• Bulletproof Heart (1994)
• Crimson Tide (1995)
• Final Cut (1995)
• High Incident (1996) (TV series)
• Crash (1996)
• The Juror (1996)
• Masterminds (1997)
• Paulie (1998)
• L.A. Doctors (1998) (TV series)
• From the Earth to the Moon (1998)
• Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000)
• Nuremberg (film) (2000)
• Dragonfly (2002)
• The Statement (2003)
• Timeline (2003)
• The Lyon's Den (2003) (TV series)
• The Life of David Gale (2003)
• The Clearing (2004)
• A Simple Curve (2005)
• Karol: A Man Who Became Pope (2005) as Hans Frank
• Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
• Déjà Vu (2006)
• Raines (2007)
• Disturbia (2007)
• The Longshots (2008)
• Public Enemies (2009)
• Devil (2010)^[3]
• The Pacific (2010)
• NCIS (2011) (TV series)
• X-Men: First Class (2011)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Matt Craven at the Internet Movie Database
• Meatballs Movie Website

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Nicole Sullivan
Sullivan in 2003
Born	Nicole Julianne Sullivan (1970-04-21) April 21, 1970 (age 42) Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, comedian, voice artist
Years active	1990–present
Spouse	Jason Packham (m. 2006) «start: (2006)»"Marriage: Jason Packham to Nicole Sullivan" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Nicole_Sullivan)

Nicole Julianne Sullivan (born April 21, 1970) is an American actress, comedian and voice artist. Sullivan is best known for her six seasons (1995–2001) on the sketch comedy series MADtv and five seasons (2001–2005, 2007) on the CBS sitcom The King of Queens.

She has played a recurring character on Scrubs and voiced the villainous Shego in Disney's Kim Possible. She had recurring voice roles on Family Guy and voiced "Franny Robinson" in Disney's Meet the Robinsons. From 2008 to 2009, Sullivan starred and was the lead of her own Lifetime television series Rita Rocks. Currently, she voices Marlene in series The Penguins of Madagascar.

Early life[link]

Sullivan was born in Manhattan, New York, the daughter of Edward C. Sullivan, a New York State assemblyman.^[1] She took dance classes at age 7 and performed in Off Broadway and Broadway productions with the First All-Children's Theatre. Sullivan's mother, a business woman, and her father, who represented Manhattan's 69th Assembly District in the New York State Assembly from 1977 to 2002, moved the family upstate to Middleburgh, New York, in 1982. During high school, Nicole was class treasurer throughout her junior year. She played soccer in high school, recorded statistics for the boys’ basketball team and was a member of student council.

After graduating from Middleburgh in 1987,^[2] she attended Northwestern University as a theatre major. She studied William Shakespeare, Harold Pinter, Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen and Greek tragedies, while working two jobs to pay her way through college and writing plays and sketches for the student theatre. Sullivan spent her junior year in London, studying at the British American Drama Academy and became a member of the Greenwich Shakespeare Company. Sullivan graduated from Northwestern with honors, and then moved to Los Angeles before getting sporadic guest-starring roles.

Career[link]

MADtv[link]

Sullivan was among the original cast members on MADtv when it premiered in 1995. She created numerous characters; her most popular was the mean-spirited Vancome Lady. Sullivan's other characters included X-News reporter Amy, dimwitted Antonia, Eracists leader Debbie, News at 6's Diane Lawyer-Trabajo (pronounced "trebalyo"), racist country singer Darlene McBride, and Latina bimbo Lida. Sullivan appeared with Michael McDonald in a MADtv sketch about making an audition tape to appear on Law & Order that mocked their acting prowess; she later guest-starred in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Contact". Sullivan was featured in the Nov/Dec 2009 issue of Making Music Magazine.^[3]

Impersonations[link]

Sullivan's impersonations included Britney Spears, Drew Barrymore, Justin Timberlake, Hillary Clinton, Mary-Kate Olsen, Jennifer Aniston, Nancy Reagan, Meg Ryan, Celine Dion, Melanie Griffith, Jenna Elfman, Uma Thurman, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Kim Cattrall, Beth Broderick, Anne Robinson, Helen Hunt, Edie Falco (as Carmela Soprano from The Sopranos), Emma "Baby Spice" Bunton, and Lucille Ball (as Lucy Ricardo in a trio of I Love Lucy parodies), and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Voice acting projects[link]

Sullivan was originally cast as Turanga Leela, one of the main characters in the animated series Futurama, which premiered in 1999.^[4] Due to a casting change, Katey Sagal was instead given the role before the series even aired.^[5]

Sullivan has voiced Marlene the Otter on The Penguins of Madagascar, a spin-off series from the successful hit movies, Madagascar and Madagascar Escape 2 Africa, which aired on Nickelodeon, Shego on Kim Possible; Joan of Arc on Clone High; Mira Nova on Buzz Lightyear of Star Command; and Joan on the Family Guy episode, "I Take Thee Quagmire", along with several other one time voices on the show. Sullivan has also starred in a pilot called, Me and My Needs, that was rejected by ABC. She played Franny Robinson in Meet the Robinsons. Also, Sullivan was a voice actor in the Monsters, Inc. video game. She played Luna in the 2007 video game Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters. In 2012, she also provided the voice of Supergirl in Super Best Friends Forever, a series of animated shorts airing on Cartoon Network's DC Nation block.^[6]

Personal life[link]

Sullivan is married to actor Jason Packham.^[7] They have two sons named Dashel Pierce and Beckett Edward.^[8] The Packham family currently lives in California.

Sullivan won the first edition of Celebrity Poker Showdown. Her charity was Alley Cat Allies, a nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to transforming communities to protect and improve the lives of cats, which received $100,000 as a result of her victory. She has most recently become the latest in a long line of celebrities to endorse the Jenny Craig weight loss system after losing 35 pounds while on the program as of October 2009.

Selected filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Nicole Sullivan at the Internet Movie Database
• Nicole Sullivan's video interview with The Futon Critic

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Linda Park
Born	(1978-07-09) July 9, 1978 (age 33) Seoul, South Korea
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2001–present
Height	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)

Linda Park (born July 9, 1978) is a South Korean-born American actress. She is best known for her portrayal of communications officer character Hoshi Sato in the television series Star Trek: Enterprise. She is also known for her role as Maggie Cheon on the 2008-10 TV series Crash. ^[1]