Julie Bowen (born March 3, 1970) is an American film and television actress. She is best known for playing Carol Vessey on Ed (2000–2004), Denise Bauer on Boston Legal (2005–2007) and Claire Dunphy on the sitcom Modern Family (2009–present), for which she was twice nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, winning in 2011.

Throughout Bowen's career she has played supporting roles in films including Happy Gilmore (1996), Multiplicity (1996), Venus and Mars (2001), Joe Somebody (2001), Kids in America (2005), Sex and Death 101 (2007), Crazy on the Outside (2010), Jumping the Broom (2011), and Horrible Bosses (2011).

Bowen was born Julie Bowen Luetkemeyer in Baltimore, Maryland, the middle of three daughters of Suzanne (née Frey) and John Alexander Luetkemeyer, Jr., a commercial real estate developer. She is of English, Irish, French, and German descent. Her older sister, Molly Luetkemeyer, is an interior designer who has appeared on Clean Sweep, and her younger sister, Annie Luetkemeyer, is a doctor at the University of California, San Francisco in the HIV/AIDS Division.^{[citation needed]} Her parents were socially prominent in Baltimore. Raised in suburban Ruxton, she first attended the Calvert, Garrison Forest School, and also attended St. George's School, Newport, in Rhode Island. She matriculated at Brown University, majoring in Italian Renaissance studies. In her junior year, Bowen spent a year in Florence, Italy. During college, she had roles in Guys and Dolls, Stage Door, and Lemon Sky.^{[citation needed]} Before graduating, Bowen had the lead role in the independent film Five Spot Jewel.^{[citation needed]} Among other places, Bowen studied acting at the Actor's Institute.^{[citation needed]}

Louis (Louie) Psihoyos (born 1957) is an American photographer and documentary film director known for his still photography and contributions to National Geographic. Psihoyos, a licensed scuba-diver, has become increasingly concerned with bringing awareness to underwater life. In 2009 he directed and appeared in the feature-length documentary The Cove, which won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.

Psihoyos was born in Dubuque, Iowa in 1957, the son of a Greek immigrant who fled communist occupation of the Peloponnesos region near Sparta after World War II. Psihoyos took an interest in photography at the age of fourteen. As a teenager, he worked as a photo intern with the Telegraph Herald. During that time he also worked as an extra on the set of F.I.S.T. Psihoyos attended the University of Missouri, majoring in photojournalism. In 1980, at the age of twenty-three, he was hired by National Geographic and remained with the magazine for seventeen years. During this time he married and had two children. He received multiple awards for his photography, including first place in the World Press Contest and the Hearst Award. In addition, he has worked with magazines such as Smithsonian, Discover, GEO, Time, Newsweek, New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, Sports Illustrated, and Rock and Ice.

Ralph George Macchio (pronounced /ˈmɑːtʃi.oʊ/) (born November 4, 1961) is an American actor, best known for his roles as Daniel LaRusso in the Karate Kid series, Bill Gambini in My Cousin Vinny, and Johnny Cade in The Outsiders. He is also known to American television audiences for his recurring role as Jeremy Andretti in the fifth season of the television comedy-drama Eight Is Enough. He also appeared on the television comedy Ugly Betty in the recurring role of Archie, a local Queens politician. He competed on the twelfth season of Dancing with the Stars.

Macchio, an Italian American, was born on November 4, 1961, in Huntington, New York.

Macchio first appeared on American television commercials for products such as Bubble Yum and Dr Pepper. His on-screen debut was in the 1980 film Up the Academy, and his first major role was playing Jeremy Andretti in the television series Eight Is Enough. In 1983, he appeared as Johnny Cade in The Outsiders alongside many young actors who had yet to become major stars, such as C. Thomas Howell, Tom Cruise, Emilio Estevez, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, and Matt Dillon.

Brie Larson (born Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers; October 1, 1989) is an American actress, singer-songwriter and musician. She is best known for her roles in Right on Track, Sleepover, Remember The Daze, United States of Tara, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and 21 Jump Street. Her only album Finally Out of P.E. was released in October 2005 and her song "Hope has Wings" was released as a music video on the "Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus" DVD.

Larson's first job was performing in sketches on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Soon after, she was cast in the television series Schimmel, which was announced but never aired as, shortly before filming, the star Robert Schimmel was diagnosed with cancer. After being "on hold" for ten months FOX canceled the show. She later auditioned for a new show for The WB called "In Your Dreams." She landed the role of Bob Saget's younger daughter, Emily. The show was selected for the 2001-2002 fall season and was renamed "Raising Dad". The show was then canceled after twenty-seven episodes. Larson was also cast in the pilot for the ABC sitcom Hope and Faith, however, she and some of the other cast members were dropped after the unaired pilot.

Judi Ann "Judith" Stish Giuliani (born December 16, 1954) is a registered nurse, fundraiser for charitable organizations, former Managing Director of Changing Our World, founding board member of the Twin Towers Fund, and the wife of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. She was also actively involved in coordinating assistance efforts at Pier 94 following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Born Judi Ann Stish she is a native of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, a town known for its coal mining economy. Her family is Roman Catholic; the surname was originally Sticia and of Northern Italian origin. Her father, Donald Stish, Sr., is a retired circulation manager for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and her mother, Joan, who is of Polish-American heritage, is a homemaker. She had an older brother, Donald, Jr., who died in 2004, and has a younger sister, Cyndy. Her parents still reside in the same home where she grew up in Hazleton.

She graduated from Hazleton High School in 1972, where she participated in the Future Nurses Association, the Literary Society, the tennis and ski clubs, and the Diggers Club, a volunteer service organization. Interested in both the human and scientific aspects of the field, she attended a two-year nursing program, affiliated with Pennsylvania State University, at St. Luke's Hospital in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and graduated with a registered nurse diploma on September 1, 1974. She credits her decision to become a registered nurse as "one of the most practical, wonderful ones I ever made…because, aside from the science, you learn crisis management, decision making, prioritizing…"