I'm with Matt and DX. She's eye-gougingly (wait, no, make that ear-) horrible on L&O.
I liked Kate.
Hands! Hands in new places!
Willow ,'Storyteller'
Boxed Set, Vol. 1: Smallville, Due South, Farscape
A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much anything else that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
§ ita § - Sep 21, 2003 5:11:46 pm PDT #542 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Nutty - Sep 21, 2003 5:19:40 pm PDT #543 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Ditto with DX. The funny thing about east coast actors is that, if one of them ever worked for Tom Fontana, you'll see him again and again, usually in bigger and bigger roles. It's sort of silly, and sort of alarming, seeing a guy on Homicide -- erika, I love your tag -- and then on the prison show Oz, and then on one (or several) of the Law & Order shows...
Early L & O is awesome for guest stars. William H. Macy was in the pilot. I see my old soap stars on those shows all the time, even now.
(But I have to say, it is sort of funny when regional-accented actos show up in TV shows set in different cities. At one point, Boomtown had Gary Basaraba -- New York -- and John Frank Hughes -- waaaay Philadelphia -- on the show at the same time, as Los Angeles cops. I mean, I know lots of people move to Los Angeles, but it was just funny. Thank goodness Donnie Wahlberg dropped the Bawston talk.)
Frankenbuddha - Sep 21, 2003 5:30:47 pm PDT #544 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Law & Order's not Fontana though, is it? Or is he partenered with Dick Wolf too?
Which is really just some actor getting jobs.
Nope, not a remotely porny statement at all.
walks aways, whistling innocently
Nutty - Sep 21, 2003 5:35:40 pm PDT #545 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I think none of the L & Os are Tom Fontana, but Oz and SVU share (shared) soem writers and a couple of producers. So lessee -- I think 5 Oz actors and one directly from Homicide have shown up on SVU; of those, two are contract (Chris Meloni and Munch) and one (B.D. Wong) is a regular visitor. Also, Dr. Skoda on L&O Classic.
It's like a festering love nest of synergy, I swear. I think except for Sex and the City, I have never seen the guy who played Ryan O'Reilly in anything but a Tom Fontana and/or L&O show.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 21, 2003 5:51:09 pm PDT #546 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
It's like a festering love nest of synergy, I swear. I think except for Sex and the City, I have never seen the guy who played Ryan O'Reilly in anything but a Tom Fontana and/or L&O show.
However, his brother (of both the actor and the Ryan O'Reilly character) memorably turned up in Angel season 1.
Nutty - Sep 21, 2003 5:52:57 pm PDT #547 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Right. And Matt Damon got to sass him in a major motion picture. Can't say no to a job like that.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 21, 2003 5:54:37 pm PDT #548 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Didn't they get him to play the "actor" playing that character in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back as well?
Frankenbuddha - Sep 21, 2003 5:57:04 pm PDT #549 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Right. And Matt Damon got to sass him in a major motion picture. Can't say no to a job like that.
Whoa - Cyril O'Reilly was the Harvard asshat in Good Will Hunting? I totally missed that. Or is it some other Matt Damon movie?
askye - Sep 21, 2003 6:07:48 pm PDT #550 of 10000
Thrive to spite them
According to IMDB the Dean Winters (Ryan O'Riley on Oz) was Tom Marans in several episodes of Homicide.
He didn't do much before Oz except some guest spots and small roles in a few movies.
brenda m - Sep 21, 2003 8:02:25 pm PDT #551 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
OZ is actually very strange to watch because so many of the actors are people you know or associate with other projects. Of course, some of those projects came later - I'm several years behind due to the lack of HBO in my life. (And why the hell haven't they gotten past season two in the DVDs yet anyway?) Several L&O, a few from Homicide, (Chris Meloni is both, actually), and at least a few others I've seen elsewhere.