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Taylor Kinney (born July 15, 1981) is an American actor and model.
Kinney was raised in Neffsville, Pennsylvania along with his three brothers by his single mother and studied business management at West Virginia University before developing an interest in acting..
He is best known for his role as Luke Gianni on the TV series Fashion House on MyNetworkTV, and his regular role on Trauma on NBC. In 2010, he portrayed Mason Lockwood in the The Vampire Diaries TV series, which airs on The CW, for 7 episodes. In 2011, he returned to his character for 6 episodes, starting October 20.
Also in 2011, Kinney was featured in Lady Gaga's music video "You and I". In 2012, he guest starred on Shameless as Craig, the former high school crush of the lead character Fiona (played by Emmy Rossum).
Monica Raymund (born July 26, 1986) is an American stage performer and actress best known for playing Ria Torres in the TV show Lie to Me.
A graduate of Shorecrest Preparatory School in St. Petersburg, Florida, Raymund graduated from the Juilliard School in New York City. Her father, Steve Raymund, is board chairman and retired CEO of Tech Data Corp., a Clearwater-based distributor of computer components and software.
Her mother, Sonia, is "a community volunteer [and the] co-founder of the Soulful Arts Dance Academy in St. Petersburg." Her father is a "Jewish California native" and Raymund had a bat mitzvah. Her mother is from the Dominican Republic. She also has a brother, Will. In high school, she participated in the "Broadway Theater Project in Tampa and at the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem."
In June 2011 Raymund married her fiance Neil Patrick Stewart.
Reportedly, Raymund "performed in Cymbeline directed by Richard Feldman, The Diviners (directed by Jonathan Bernstein), and Animal Farm (directed by Trizana Beverley) all at the Juilliard School, where she is a member of the class of 2008."
Lauren Christine German (born November 29, 1978) is an American actress, known for her role as the Hitchhiker in the 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, as well as for starring in the 2007 film Hostel: Part II, in which she plays one of the lead characters. She is also known for her role in A Walk to Remember, in which she plays a popular and jealous ex-girlfriend named Belinda. She recently starred as Agent Lori Weston in the CBS television series Hawaii Five-0, and in 2011 as Eva in the film The Divide, She will star in the 2012 NBC Chicago Fire (TV series) as Leslie Shay.
German’s first work was on stage in Peter Pan's and Oliver and in 2000 she made her debut in the film Down to You where she has a small part as a lovestruck woman. Starring in several TV shows, such as Undressed (1999), 7th Heaven (2001) and Going to California (2002), she got further and further involved in the movie business. German starred in the pilots Shotgun Love Dolls (2001) and Sex, Love & Secrets (2005)