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Biographies

Christian Kane
"Billy"

(Angel, Friday Night Lights, Just Married)

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Rachel Miner
"Betty"

(Bully, Black Dahlia)

Rachel Miner wanted to be an actress from age two. She began working with an acting coach at eight, got an agent at nine and, by ten, had not only worked for Woody Allen, but was cast as “Michelle Bauer” on “The Guiding Light” (1952) (a part that started as recurring and evolved into a contract role lasting nearly five years and earning her three Young Artist Awards and an Emmy nomination).
Born into a show business family, she represents the third generation of Miners to take to the theatre, film and television. Her father, Peter Miner is an Emmy winning director and noted NYC acting and directing teacher, her mother is a writer and Off-Off Broadway director. Her grandparents were producer/director Worthington Miner and actress Frances Fuller. Her brother is the former actor Peter Miner.
In addition to her film and television work, Rachel has several noteworthy theatrical credits. At fourteen, she appeared in Laura Cahill’s “The Way at Naked Angels” (1994). She made her Broadway debut at seventeen, playing “Margo Frank” to Natalie Portman’s Anne in Wendy Kesselman’s adaptation of “The Diary of Anne Frank” (1996/97), directed by James Lapine. She originated the role of “Rivkele” in Donald Margulies’ adaptation of Sholom Asch’s “God of Vengeance” (2000), directed by Gordon Edelstein at ATC in Seattle. She also originated the role of “Sandy” in Rebecca Gilman’s “Blue Surge” (2001), directed by Robert Falls at The Goodman Theatre in Chicago (and reprised in 2002 at The Public Theatre in NYC).

Beth Grant
"Candy"

(Donnie Darko, Speed, Flags of our fathers)

Raised in the South, Beth Grant moved frequently as a child and enjoys claiming several towns and cities in Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina as home. She was a Page in the North Carolina Senate, attended the North Carolina Governor’s School for Gifted and Talented students, and received a governor’s appointment at the age of nineteen.
One of Hollywood’s most recognizable faces, she has starred in over seventy feature films including this year’s Best Picture Academy Award nominated “Little Miss Sunshine.” She delighted in creating the character you love to hate, “Pageant Official Jenkins;” making Grant the happy recipient of the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble Cast In A Feature Film.
Other popular studio pictures include “Rock Star,” “The Rookie,” “Matchstick Men,” “Rain Man,” “City Slickers II,” “To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar,” and “A Time To Kill” and “Speed.”
Grant is a recipient of The Los Angeles Drama Critics Award and The L.A. Stage Alliance Award and The Backstage West Garlan Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Del Shores’ the Trials And Tribulations Of A Trailer Trash Housewife.
On television Grant was a favourite on the Six Feet Under episode, “The Rapture.” This season she married then cheated on Jason Lee on “My Name Is Earl.” She has been a regular or recurred on many television shows including “Malcolm In The Middle,” “King Of The Hill,” “Yes, Dear,” “Everwood,” “Delta,” and “Wonderfalls.”
She guest-starred in hundreds of hit television series such as “Friends,” “X-Files,” “Angel,” and “CSI Las Vegas.” Grant starred in Tony Hillerman’s “A Thief Of Time,” produced by Robert Redford (PBS), “The Image” with Albert Finney (HBO), “Switched At Birth” and “Fall From Grace” (NBC).
Grant has produced documentaries, comedy reviews, and television; she has run a theatre company, raised money for schools and was a celebrity coordinator for Jimmy Carter’s first presidential campaign. But what she really loves to do is act. Grant is a student of Milton Katselas at The Beverly Hills Playhouse. She is married to actor Michael Chieffo, they have one child, Mary Chieffo.

Polly Shannon
"Jenny"

(Trudeau, Lie with me)

Polly Shannon grew up in Aylmer, Quebec, with her mother (a Canadian script-writer for children’s television) and her father (director-general of Health Canada). She was given a deadline of the age of 25 to make it or break it as an actress, and she’s more then met that quota. In 1999, alone, she’s had hits with “The Girl Next Door” (1999, TV) (with Henry Czerny) and “The Sheldon Kennedy Story” (1999, TV) (with Johnathan Scarfe of “Madison” (1993) and “ER” (1994) fame), coming a long way from her first role as Nina in the Canadian teen series “Catwalk” (1992) in the early nineties.

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K.C. Bascombe
Regisseur

Filmography:

• Hide (2006)
• Fear of the Dark (2002)
• $windle (2002)
• The Contract (1998)

K.C. Bascombe was Born in Montreal and raised in Toronto. He developed a passion for the arts and cinema in particular at an early age and pursued a career in the industry upon completion of his BA degree at Bishop University in Quebec. He attended Vancouver Film School and after working in Vancouver for some time decided to return to Toronto and work as an AVID editor on all types of productions from shorts and television to features.
He started a production company with Nick Seferian in 1999 called Wishbone Entertainment and they began work on their first production with K.C. as director, a low budget action film called “The Contract”, starring Billy Dee Villiams (Empire Strikes Back)… He wrote and directed “Swindle” a heist film that starred Tom Sicemore (Saving Private Ryan), Sherilyn Fenn (Twin Peaks) and Dave Foley (Kids in the Hall) and then moved immediately into the horror genre with “Fear of the Dark” starring Kevin Zegers (Transamerica), Rachel Skarsten (Virginia’s Run) and Jesse James (Blow).
The psychological thriller “Hide” was next and wrapped in early 2007 in Argentina. Currently K.C. is living in Buenos Aires and writing the first of a series of three films to be shot all over Argentina.
He can be contacted at kc(at)wishbonefilm.com.