- Dean Winters
Dean Winters (born on July 20, 1964 in New York City, New York, USA) is an American actor best known for his portrayal of the Machiavellian Ryan O'Reily on HBO's "Oz". He has appeared in the television series "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit". He has also made guest appearances on "Sex and the City", "Third Watch", "NYPD Blue", … - J. K. Simmons
Jonathan Kimble Simmons (born January 9, 1955) is an American character actor. - Christopher Meloni
Christopher Peter Meloni (born on April 2, 1961) is an American Emmy-nominated actor known for his near opposite roles as the protective and committed Det. Elliot Stabler on the NBC drama series "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit", and as the bisexual serial killer Chris Keller on HBO's "Oz". - Kathryn Erbe
Kathryn Erbe (born July 5, 1966) is an American actress best known for her role as Det. Alexandra Eames on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent", a spin-off of "Law & Order". Born in Newton, Massachusetts, Erbe is a veteran of film, stage, and television, and has been a working actress since she graduated from New York University in 1989. While an undergraduate student at NYU, Erbe was cast as Lynn Redgrave's daughter on the sitcom "Chicken Soup". - Edie Falco
Edith Falco (born July 5, 1963) is an American television, film and stage actress best known for her lead role as Carmela Soprano on HBO's award winning hit series "The Sopranos", as well as Diane Wittlesey on the HBO show "Oz". - Lord Jamar
Lord Jamar (born Lorenzo Dechalus, September 17, 1968 in New Rochelle, New York) is an American rapper and actor. He is a member of the hip-hop group Brand Nubian, which formed in 1989. As an actor, he is best known for his role of Supreme Allah on the TV series "Oz". He has also appeared on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit", "Third Watch" and "The Sopranos". He has also done production work for artists such as Dead Prez, … - Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno (born December 11, 1931 in Humacao, Puerto Rico) is a singer, dancer and an Academy Award-winning actress and the first and only Puerto Rican actress in history (as well as one of only nine people) to have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award. - Charles S. Dutton
Charles S. Dutton (born January 30 1951) is a Tony Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American actor and director. - Bryan Callen
A native New Yorker, Callen graduated from American University before pursuing a career as a comedian. After getting his comedy start at the renowned Comic Strip in New York, Callen performed for years in comedy clubs throughout New York and Los Angeles. His televised stand-up performances include an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman . - Joel Grey
Joel Grey (born Joel Katz on April 11, 1932 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American stage and screen actor, who graduated from Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, California in 1950. - Melina Kanakaredes
Melina Eleni Kanakaredes (born April 23, 1967) is a Daytime Emmy-nominated American actress. Kanakaredes is known for her starring role as Dr. Sydney Hansen on the television show "Providence". She currently stars in the CBS show "CSI: NY" as Det. Stella Bonasera, alongside Gary Sinise as Det. Mac Taylor. - Tomás Milián
Tomás Milián, real name Tomás Quintín Rodriguez, is a Cuban-American actor. - Terry Kinney
Terry Kinney (born January 29, 1954) is an American actor and a founding member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company with Gary Sinise and Jeff Perry. Kinney was born in Lincoln, Illinois to Elizabeth L. and Kenneth C. Kinney, who worked for a tractor company. Kinney had a role in the 1988 film "Miles from Home", which featured many cast members of Steppenwolf and was directed by Sinise. He will be directing Richard Greenberg's new play "Well Appointed Room". - Judy Reyes
Judy Reyes (born November 5, 1968 in The Bronx, New York) is a Dominican American television and film actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Nurse Carla Espinosa on the NBC sitcom "Scrubs" (2001-present) and had a short stint on "The Sopranos" as the girlfriend of Paulie Walnuts. "I really admire Carla - she's smart and sassy and a very good nurse," says Reyes. - Luis Guzmán
Luis Guzmán is a Puerto Rican actor. Born in Cayey, Puerto Rico and raised in Manhattan, New York, he is best known for his character work. For much of his career, his squat build, wolfish features, and brooding countenance have garnered him roles largely as sidekicks, thugs, or policemen, but his later career has seen him move into more mainstream roles. He is a favorite of directors Steven Soderbergh, who cast him in "Out of Sight", "The Limey", … - Harold Perrineau Jr.
Harold Perrineau Jr. (born August 7 1963) is an American actor, known for playing the character Link in the "Matrix" films and games, the character Augustus Hill in the American television series "Oz" (his character also serves as the narrator for the series), Mercutio in "Romeo + Juliet", and the role of Michael Dawson in the first two seasons of the American television series "Lost". - Rick Fox
Ulrich Alexander (Rick) Fox (born July 24 1969 in Toronto, Canada) is a Canadian television actor and retired professional basketball player. - Treach Criss
Treach is the stage name of Anthony Criss (born December 2, 1970), an American rapper and actor. He is best known as the lead rapper of the hip hop group Naughty by Nature. His chiseled physique has helped him land roles in crime films, television crime dramas and as a leading man in romance films. Criss was born in East Orange, New Jersey. He was married to Sandy Denton (Pepa of the rap group Salt-n-Pepa), but they divorced in 2001. - Peter Criss
Peter Criss (born George Peter John Criscuola on December 20, 1945), is an American musician best known as co-founder, drummer, vocalist for the rock band KISS. Peter Criss established the "cat" character for his KISS persona. - Kirk Acevedo
Kirk Acevedo (born November 27, 1974 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor of Puerto Rican and Chinese descent, best known for his performances as Miguel Alvarez in "Oz" and Hector Salazar in "Law & Order: Trial by Jury". - Sandy Denton
Sandra "Pepa" Denton (born 9 November 1969 in Kingston, Jamaica) is an American R&B / hip-hop singer, and a member of the female rap trio known as Salt-N-Pepa. Her family moved to Queens, New York when she was a child. In 1985, while studying nursing at Queensborough Community College, she met Cheryl "Salt" James. They began rapping together under the name 'Salt-N-Pepa'. The duo made their debut that year with an album called "Hot, Cool, & Vicious". - J. D. Williams
J.D. Williams (born May 22, 1978 in Newark, New Jersey) is an African-American actor notable for his starring roles in the HBO television programs "Oz" and "The Wire". Williams has appeared as Preston "Bodie" Broadus in all four seasons of "The Wire". He has also appeared in another show David Simon created, "Homicide: Life on the Street", guest starring in the episode "The Why Chromosome" as Casper. - Otto Sanchez
Otto Sanchez is an actor best known for playing Carmen Guerra in the HBO prison drama "Oz". He also played the role of Otto in the short lived drama "Kidnapped". He also appeared as a minor character in "Bad Boys 2". - Lance Reddick
Lance Reddick is an American actor born in Baltimore, Maryland. He studied at Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York and Yale University. Whilst trying to embark on a career as a singer and paying the bills with part time jobs, he injured his back, forcing him to quit. Thereafter, he changed direction, being accepted at Yale's graduate school for drama. He has since worked in theatre, film and TV starring in two episodes of "Law & Order". - Brian Bloom
Brian Keith Bloom (born on June 30, 1970) is an American actor. Bloom was born in Long Island, New York, the brother of actor Scott Bloom and a long-time childhood friend of actress Alyssa Milano. Brian began an early interest in acting, highlighted in several commercials as a child, but made his big break in the Sergio Leone film "Once Upon A Time In America". From there he was offered the role of Dusty Donovan in the hit soap opera "As the World Turns", … - Edward Herrmann
Edward Herrmann (born July 21, 1943) is an American television and film actor. - B. D. Wong
Bradley Darryl Wong (Traditional Chinese: 黃榮亮; Simplified Chinese: 黄荣亮; Jyutping: Wong4 Wing4 Leung6; Pinyin: Huáng Róngliàng) (born October 24, 1960) is an American actor. He is probably best-known for his roles as Dr. George Huang on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit", as Dr. Henry Wu in "Jurassic Park", Father Ray Mukada in "Oz" and Ngwang Jigme in "Seven Years in Tibet". - Scott William Winters
Scott William Winters (born August 5, 1965 in New York City) is an American actor. He is of Irish extraction on his father's side, and Italian on his mother's. Winters has three siblings: elder brother Dean Winters, Bradford (a poet/writer), and sister Blair. He is best known for playing Cyril O'Reily in the HBO drama "Oz" opposite his brother, Dean Winters, who appeared as Cyril's brother, Ryan. - Erik King
Erik King is an American film and television actor best known for his portrayal of Sgt. Doakes on Showtime's "Dexter". He also appeared as Moses Deyell in HBO's hit television series "Oz". - Željko Ivanek
Željko Ivanek is a television, film, and stage actor. Born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (then a part of Yugoslavia), Ivanek graduated from Yale University in 1978 and afterward attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Five years later, he originated the role of Hally in Athol Fugard's play "Master Harold...and the Boys". - Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Born and raised in London, England, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje began his career as a model in Milan before moving to Los Angeles to make the transition to acting. Fluent in several languages, including English, Italian, Yoruba and Swahili, he is best known for his roles in the movies Congo (1995) and The Mummy Returns (2001), and the HBO series "Oz" (1997). - Philip Casnoff
Philip Casnoff (born August 3, 1953 in Philadelphia) is an American actor, known mainly from TV movies and series' roles. - David Johansen
David Johansen (born January 9 1950, in Staten Island, New York) is an American rock, punk, blues and pop singer, as well as a songwriter and actor. He was a member of the seminal punk band The New York Dolls and also achieved commercial success using the pseudonym Buster Poindexter. - David Zayas
David Zayas is an Puerto Rican-American theatrical, film, and television actor. Born in Puerto Rico, but raised in the Bronx borough of New York City, Zayas joined the United States Air Force early in life where he was able to develop skills that would lead him to become a New York City Police officer after he was discharged from service. As a police officer, Zayas developed the personality that would allow him to develop as a character actor, … - Ernie Hudson
Ernie Hudson (born December 17 1945) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Winston Zeddemore in the "Ghostbusters" film series, and as Sergeant Albrecht in the cult movie The Crow. - Roxanne Hart
Roxanne Hart (born July 27, 1952) is an American television, film and stage actress. She may be best known for her appearance in the 1986 film, "Highlander", although she has also appeared in many television shows over the years, including "ER", "Law & Order", and "Oz". She was a cast member of "Chicago Hope" for several seasons as a nurse, and another recurrent role on the 1990s HBO sitcom "Dream On". - Paul Schulze
Paul Schulze is a contemporary American actor best known for his role as Ryan Chappelle on "24". He is currently featured on FOX's new legal drama, "Justice". He has had guest star roles in "Law & Order", "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation", "the West Wing", "NCIS", "Oz", "Frasier", "NYPD Blue", "Cold Case", and more notably "The Sopranos". - Joshua Harto
Joshua Denver Harto is an American actor who has guest starred in a number notable television series. Including "American Dreams", "Carnivàle", "Crossing Jordan", "JAG", "Strangers with Candy", "The Practice" and few other shows. He also had brief recurring roles in the Nickelodeon series "The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo" and playing Ben Sturky on the Disney Channel Original Series "That's So Raven". - Evan Seinfeld
Evan Seinfeld (born December 29, 1967 in Brooklyn, New York) is an adult film actor, director and heavy metal vocalist for the band, The Spyderz. Previously, he had also performed with Biohazard and Damnocracy. He was born in Brooklyn and raised by father Ira and mother Lois. He spent his early summers with his parents at Camp Lokanda in Glen Spey, New York where his father was the head counselor. - Chuck Zito
Chuck Zito (born Charles Zito Jr. on March 1, 1953) was a member of the New York chapter of the Hells Angels, amateur boxer, martial artist, celebrity bodyguard, stuntman and actor. Chuck Zito grew up in The Bronx and New Rochelle, New York, the son of Italian-American parents Charles Zito and Gloria Frangione Zito. He began boxing when he was a teenager, following in his father's footsteps. He competed in several amateur boxing matches, with mixed results.
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