Film Cast

  • Seth Rogen

    Born in Vancouver, Seth Rogen began doing stand up comedy when he was a teenager, and came in second place in the Vancouver Amateur Comedy Contest at the age of sixteen. Soon after, he moved to Los Angeles where he quickly landed a recurring role on the sitcom Freaks and Geeks and then moved on to write for and appear in the critically acclaimed series Undeclared, both created and produced by Judd Apatow.

    Rogen was signed on as a series writer for Da Ali G Show in 2003, and played a small role in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), but his big break came in Judd Apatow's feature film directing debut: The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005). That led to Rogen playing the lead in Apatow's Knocked Up (2007), co-starring Katherine Heigl.

    Rogen also wrote and played a small role in the semi-autobiographical comedy Superbad (2007), about two high school geeks trying to get popular with girls.

  • Anna Faris

    A native of Seattle, Anna Faris gained acting experience and training on stage while attending school. A city highly regarded for its theater circuit, Seattle proved to be a valuable teaching ground for her. There, Faris was cast in numerous productions including Our Town, Danger: Monkey, To Kill a Mockingbird, Heidi, Rain, Some Fish, No Elephants, Life Under Water, Summer Brave and I Never Saw a Butterfly.

    A student of English Literature and Drama, Faris has performed on radio as well in presentations of Chekov Short Stories and The Sweet Hereafter.

    Her time in Seattle led to her first major role in a film entitled Lovers Lane (1999), a low budget teen-slasher pic about a man with a hook who escapes a mental institution and hunts for teenage victims. This proved not to be Faris' only experience with horror films, for just a short time later, she received the call in Los Angeles to audition for Scary Movie (2000). It was with this film that she won her first lead role.

    After completing Scary Movie (2000), Faris relocated to Los Angeles and began landing roles in other features such as The Hot Chick (2002) and Brokeback Mountain (2005) as well as three Scary Movie sequels.

  • Ray Liotta

    Adopted at six months of age, the Newark-born Ray Liotta was raised in Union, NJ. A star athlete in high school, Liotta switched his field of interest to dramatics at the University of Miami, where he excelled in student productions of A Streetcar Named Desire, Cabaret and Death of a Salesman.

    Moving to New York after graduation in 1978, Liotta began bartending and within six months, landed the role of Joey Perrini in the daytime drama Another World, which he played for three years before heading to the West Coast. Despite a good part in The Lonely Lady (1983) and the recurring role of Sacha the bartender in the short-lived TV revival of Casablanca (1983), Liotta was for the most part unsuccessful during his first Tinseltown stay. He was about to pack it in and find some other line of work when Melanie Griffiths recommended him for the part of her smarmy ex-con husband in Something Wild (1986).

    His performance received critical acclaim and a Golden Globe nomination. Soon offers began to pour in. However, most of the roles were to reprise his psycho portrayal so Liotta refused them in order to avoid being typecast. Opting instead for smaller movies, he appeared in Dominick & Eugene and Field of Dreams (1989).

    When he heard Martin Scorsese was casting GoodFellas, he lobbied hard for the part of Henry Hill, a half Sicilian, half Irish Brooklyn kid "adopted" by gangsters and raised as member of mob family. The Oscar-nominated film's success brought him wide popularity and lead billing in future films (Article 99, Unlawful Entry, No Escape, Unforgettable).

    For awhile, Liotta almost sank out of the public view, but a role in the highly anticipated Hannibal (2001) changed that and led him to starring roles in such films as Heartbreakers (2001) with Sigourney Weaver and Blow (2001) starring Johnny Depp.

    In 2005, he won an Emmy for his guest appearance on the TV series ER. Liotta has a child with his ex-wife, actress/producer Michelle Grace.

  • Michael Peña

    Born and raised in Chicago, Michael Peña began his acting career in the low budget film Running Free (1994), which never made it to theaters. His first big break came when he beat out hundreds of others in an open call for a role in Peter Bogdanovich’s TV movie To Sir, with Love II (1996), starring Sidney Poitier.

    Although he hasn’t acquired household name status (yet), Peña has worked steadily ever since, amassing an impressive number of television and movie credits.

    On television, he’s made guest appearances on shows such as Touched by an Angel, The Sentinel, 7th Heaven, Felicity, Roswell, ER, NYPD Blue, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and The Shield.

    His films include Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) starring Nicolas Cage, Buffalo Soldiers (2001) with Joaquin Phoenix, The United States of Leland (2003) with Ryan Gosling and Million Dollar Baby (2004) directed by Clint Eastwood.

    For his work in the Oscar-winning film Crash (2004), Peña won a Best Actor Award at the 2006 ALMA Awards. In Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center (2006), he garnered a starring role as Will Jimeno, one of two Port Authority police officers who were trapped under the rubble at Ground Zero in New York City on 9/11.

  • Patton Oswalt

    Virginia native Patton Oswalt began his standup career in 1988 in Washington D.C. He subsequently moved to San Francisco in 1992, where he made his TV standup debut.

    Oswalt’s first acting gig, two years later, was playing a clerk on an episode of Seinfeld. In 1995 he moved to Los Angeles where he became a staff writer for MAD TV. In 1999 Oswalt starred in his first HBO special on Comedy Central Presents, and followed that up in 2004 with Patton Oswalt: No Reason to Complain.

    His movie debut was a small role in Down Periscope (1996), starring Kelsey Grammer, followed by supporting roles in films such as Magnolia (1999) starring Tom Cruise, Zoolander (2001) starring Ben Stiller, Calendar Girls (2003) starring Helen Mirren, Starsky & Hutch (2004) starring Owen Wilson and Failure to Launch (2006) starring Matthew McConaughey.

    Oswalt has also provided voices for a number of animated television series, including Kim Possible, Batman Beyond, and Static Shock. In the major motion picture Ratatouille (2007), he voices the lead role of Remy, a rat who wants to become a chef.

    On September 24, 2005, Oswalt married Michelle McNamara. His interests include Scotch, guns, books and dogs.