Brothers & Sisters: On Set Tour With Matthew Rhys

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Season 3 Promotional Photos (and a SPOILER for Season 4)

As we all wait for news about Series 4, they have released the Season 3 promotional pictures (probably to tie in with Series 3 DVD to be released in the next few months). They were kindly brought to my attention by a fellow twitterer @BeiNa88, and she's a good one to follow, seems a fan of all TV programmes that I love, Brothers & Sisters, House, Greys Anatomy to name a few.

Anyway about the pictures here's the first one:



As you will be able to see from the out-take shots of this picture (added at bottom of post), they had moved around a bit and finally selected the positions for the shot to be as above. One thing that kind of jumps out at me everytime I look at this shot though which makes me chuckle is Saul's (Ron Rifkin's) bright green and black stripe socks! No sign of Ryan Walker (Luke Grimes) though, strange.

Ok again my eyes are taken to Saul again with his jean turn-ups! Notice Rebecca is up on the ladder? Possibly looking down on them all? There are a few rumours that Ryan (Luke Grimes) has been photo-shopped out of the picture, but why I don't know.

Here are the out-take photos of the first picture, notice people have moved around.



Any thoughts on the photos? Drop me a comment below and let me know.

***SPOILER ALERT***

Season 4 sees one of our beloved characters getting some devastating medical news? Who could it be? Any thoughts?

Scene:"You are attracted to our sister!"

The Five Key Ingredients to Brothers and Sisters Success

What's Your Favourite Brothers and Sisters quote?

We all know there are some great quotes from this fab TV Series, but what's yours?

I have so many to be honest but I'm keen to know what your favourite ones are, so feel free to comment below about your favourite!

Also as you've popped by don't forget to vote in the boxes in the right column, vote for your best couple, best male character, best female character and best series.

I have been chatting to a few of you on twitter already and it's been great to be sharing with you all, bring on Season 4!

Which Brother Is Meant For You?

Swine Flu Hits Brothers & Sisters

Though it's set to return on September this year, filming for the ABC show Brothers and Sisters was put on halt for a day at the end of July. According to online sources the set of the hit drama was struck with the dreaded swine flu when a crew member was found infected with the virus.

Production was reportedly interrupted for one day, July 27, when one worker started to show symptoms of the potentially lethal illness. It was actress Sally Field, who tapped into her motherly skills, who took control of the situation.

Sources confirm that the 62-year-old star insisted on shutting down the set in order to lessen the risk of the disease spreading. She was particularly concerned about those with young families and children.

An insider revealed more about the situation, saying "Sally took control and personally pulled the plug. She didn't even give the producers time to react."

The veteran actress was especially worried about Rachel Griffiths, who plays the character Sarah Walker on Brothers and Sisters.

"She was fiercely concerned about everyone, especially her co-star Rachel Griffiths," the source went on. "Sally snapped at producers, 'Rachel's got a newborn! There's no way in hell we're going back to work until this set is declared 100 per cent safe!'"

Later that day, medics were called in to check the set of the ABC drama. It was soon cleared, and filming continued.

Season Two Gag Reel

Season One Gag Reel

Season 4 Trailer

Cannot wait to see the fourth season!

Season Four Spoilers (Don't Read If You Don't Want To Know)

I've heard that Season Four will pick up around three months after the Season Three ended, but things remain as they were. Justin and Rebecca are still engaged, Kitty and Robert’s marriage is still in tatters but they will continue to play happy families as he continues to run for governor. Sarah is still playing the single yummy mummy and sees her having a dalliance with actor Gilles Marini (from Sex and the City movie and Dancing With The Stars). Also Kevin and Scotty want a baby.

Season Three On UK screens

A lot of people missed Season Three in the UK due to bad planning and lack of advertising. Channel 4 have not said they will repeat this series, which has of course angered quite a lot of fans over here. I was, it seems one of the lucky ones who managed to watch every episode (thank goodness for sky+).

Hopefully it will be on our screens again very soon, otherwise Season Four could be the next thing it shows.

Season Three

After the discovery that Rebecca is not a Walker, Sarah and Kevin start looking for Ryan Lafferty (Luke Grimes), who they believe to be their actual half-brother. Although Nora is against this at first, she later changes her mind. She goes to meet Ryan and invites him to stay with her so he can get to know the family. However, it is made apparent later in the season that Ryan may have had ulterior motives for agreeing with Nora's request. Ryan also causes problems between Justin and Rebecca after developing feelings for the latter.

Nora also decides to start a non-profit center for families of those with illnesses and becomes attracted to her architect, Roger.

Meanwhile, Rebecca and Justin struggle to begin a romantic relationship, as they adjust from thinking they were family and as they try to keep the feud between their families from affecting them. Justin finally decides his path in life and applies to medical school. After a brief separation Justin and Rebecca get back together and become engaged at the end of the season.

Kitty and Robert move forward in their decision to adopt a child, while at the same time Robert has secretly decided to run for governor. Kitty writes a tell-all book about her time in politics and working for Robert, and agrees that she can no longer work for him. Robert has a heart attack the day they welcome their new son, Evan, leaving Kitty to take care of them both and causing a rift in their marriage. Kitty becomes close to a single dad she meets in the park.

Kevin accepts a job offer from Robert as lawyer and press secretary after he was not made partner in the prestigious law firm he worked for. As well as trying to handle his new job, Kevin must adjust to married life with new husband Scotty.

Sarah is having trouble finding work as a single mother after leaving Ojai, while her decision to leave the family business has created uneasy feelings within the family, especially with Tommy. Eventually, she decides to risk putting her money into helping 'Greenatopia' a small internet business company which two young, recent college graduates run out of their apartment. She also faces new problems with her daughter, Paige, as she begins to grow up. Sarah eventually goes back to Ojai and must learn to work along side Holly.

After driving Sarah and Saul from Ojai, Tommy decides it's time to get rid of Holly but engages in an illegal transaction to do so. Once he is discovered Tommy runs away to avoid going to prison. After spending time waiting for him to return Julia leaves with Elizabeth to start a new job. The Walkers go to find Tommy in Mexico at the end of the season.

After a fight with Justin, Rebecca flies to New York and meets up with David. After spending some time together David surprises Rebecca at the airport and tells her he has decided to join her on the same flight back to L.A. Holly and David decide to get back together and be a family.

The third season ranked #33 this season, the highest position it has held yet. However, the average number of viewers dropped to around 10.6 million.

Season Two

At the start the of the season, Tommy and Julia are struggling due to the death of their son. Julia decides they need some time apart and goes to stay with her parents. During her time away Tommy begins an affair with Lena (Emily Rose) - his new secretary and good friend of Rebecca.

Nora enters into a new romance with Isaac Marshall (Danny Glover) after meeting him when Kitty brings him in to assist with Robert's campaign.

Sarah now has to deal with being a single parent, and begins a relationship with Graham (Steven Weber), who comes to work at Ojai. After a business deal, which Sarah is reluctant to agree with in the first place, goes wrong she decides to take the heat and to leave the family business.

After Kevin breaks up with Jason he is reunited with Scotty, but they have their share of problems as their relationship becomes more serious. At the same time, Kevin is trying to get his uncle Saul to admit to who he really is, causing a rift in their relationship. They finally get married in the season finale.

Kitty and Robert plan their wedding as well as deal with Robert's campaign. Kitty later discovers she is pregnant, but there are complications with the pregnancy and the couple has to deal with a terrible loss.

Rebecca has spent the summer with Nora helping her deal with Justin being away at war. After he returns, due to an injury, Rebecca stays to help him recover. Soon after arriving home, Justin begins to lose control and becomes addicted to his pain medication. This, coupled with his relationship with Lena, causes him to have a falling out with Rebecca, who decides to move back in with her mother.

Rebecca then meets David, an old friend of Holly's, which leads to her discovery that she is not in fact a Walker and that David is her real father. After trying to hide this from the Walkers, in fear of being rejected, she finally comes cleans and each of them tell her that she will always be part of the family. Sarah, then becomes suspious as to why Rebecca's intials along with her other siblings opened the secret accounts in Season 1 and with Kevin's help they discover their father had another affair and that there is in fact another Walker out there.

Toward the end of the season, Justin must try to hide and deny his growing feelings for Rebecca, and after he admits how he feels, she reveals that they are not related and believes that everything that has happened was meant to bring them together. The season ends with Justin and Rebecca sharing their first kiss.

Season two of Brothers and Sisters consisted of only 16 episodes due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. Ten of the episodes were shown beforehand, ending with "The Feast of Epiphany"; a further six episodes were produced to finish off the season. The first half of the season dealt with many issues and plot points left unresolved from the first season. After the strike, they decided to wrap up these stories so they could start fresh for the following year.

In the UK the show changed to Channel 4's sister Channel E4 beginning March 30 and ending in July. The series was then repeated on Channel 4 in October of the same year around 4:30 pm on Saturdays, but after a couple of weeks moved it to Sunday nights in an unspecified time slot after midnight.

The second season ranked #38, one place down from the previous year and averaged at around 11.5million viewers.

Season One

Season One of Brothers and Sisters, an American serialized family- drama television series created by Jon Robin Baitz, began airing on September 24 2004 on ABC. Brothers and Sisters follows the lives of The Walker Family who include: Nora Walker, her brother Saul and her children Sarah , Kitty, Tommy, Kevin and Justin. The series began with the death of Nora's husband William Walker and follows the discovery that he had a twenty year affair with Holly Harper and the fact that had a child together that no one knew about named Rebecca. As well as this central plot bringing the family together, each character must deal with the events of their personal lives.

Sarah, Tommy, and Saul, who are the most involved people with the family business, learn that William embezzled the company's funds. The business revelation also reveales two major revelations on the personal front: William had a mistress, Holly Harper (Patricia Wettig) whom he kept for decades, and the couple were believed to have had a child, Rebecca (Emily VanCamp).

Most of the season focuses on Rebecca and her integration into the Walker family. Her mother Holly also becomes involved as she goes into business with Tommy to open 'Walker Landing,' a vineyard.

At the same time Sarah's marriage hits the rocks and is made worse after her husband, Joe, kisses Rebecca. Tommy discovers he is sterile, which leads to he and his wife, Julia, turning to his brothers for support as possible surrogates. Julia gives birth to premature twins William and Elizabeth, but tragedy strikes and only Elizabeth survives.

Kevin has a short-term relationship with Scotty before beginning a secret fling with Chad Barry, a TV star who cannot admit to his sexuality. Tensions rise between him and his sister Kitty when she takes a job with Senator Robert McCallister (Rob Lowe) as he does not support gay marriage. Kevin is later introduced to Jason, Robert's gay brother, and they begin a relationship.

Kitty moves back in with her mother, causing unresolved issues between the two of them to come to the surface. She also begins a new job as co-host on a politics show 'Red White and Blue' and begins a relationship with fellow host, Warren. When she interviews Senator Robert McCallister, he offers her a job on his communications staff. After fighting it for months, they finally acknowledge their feelings for each other and become engaged at the end of the season.

Justin struggles with his drug addiction and his family's lack of faith in him; however, as the season progresses, he decides to stay clean and enters rehab. He also has an on again/off again relationship with an old high school friend and short time boss Tyler. He, out of all the brothers and sisters, spends more time with Rebecca and becomes closest to her. Later in the season he receives a letter from the army ordering him to return to active duty, and asks his brother Kevin to help him out of it.

This season averaged at 12.2million viewers - based on average total viewers each episode. This ranked the show at #37. In the UK the show averaged at around 2.2million viewers and then settled to around 600,000.

Luke Grimes

Luke Timothy Grimes (born January 21, 1984) is an American actor. Grimes was born to a devoutly religious family in Dayton, Ohio. He moved to New York City to study acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He has appeared in All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, and War Eagle, Arkansas. He will appear in Assassination of a High School President, due to receive a limited release in March 2009. He will also be appearing on the ABC drama Brothers & Sisters as Ryan Lafferty, the illegitimate son of William Walker, patriarch of the show's family. He beat out Scott Porter and Jason Ritter, among others, for the role.

Tom Skerritt

Thomas Roy "Tom" Skerritt (born August 25, 1933) is an American actor who has appeared in over 40 films and more than 200 television episodes since 1962.

Skerritt made his television debut in the series Gunsmoke around 1959 and his film debut in War Hunt, produced by Terry Sanders and released the same year. Skerritt's notable film appearances include M*A*S*H (1970; his role was pared down considerably by director Robert Altman), Harold and Maude (credited as "M. Borman") (1971), Big Bad Mama, Cheech & Chong's Up In Smoke (1978), Ice Castles (1978), as Captain A.J. Dallas of the commercial towing vessel 'Nostromo' in Alien (1979), as a would-be astronaut in Contact (1997) and SpaceCamp (1986), and in Top Gun (1986), where he "flew with (Tom Cruise's) old man" as CDR Mike "Viper" Metcalf aka The Man.

Skerrit starred in the television series Picket Fences (1992–1996) in the role of Sheriff Jimmy Brock, for which he won an Emmy. More recently, he has starred in Homeland Security and The Grid.

He also portrays the deceased William Walker on Brothers & Sisters, having appeared in the pilot as well as in several flashbacks since. This is his second time playing the husband of Sally Field, the first being his role in the film Steel Magnolias. Recently, he has played the role of Ezekiel on ABC Family's Fallen miniseries. He appears as the guide on the showcase website for Microsoft's new operating system called Windows Vista.

He is now featured in advertising and promotion for The University of Kansas Hospital and Medical Center.

Skerritt was born etroit, Michigan, the son of Helen, a homemaker, and Roy Skerritt, who worked in business. A 1951 graduate of Detroit's Mackenzie High School, Skerritt attended Wayne State University and the University of California at Los Angeles. Since 1988, he has divided his domestic life between his Lake Washington home in suburban Seattle, Washington and a home on Lopez Island in the San Juan Islands. Skerritt has four grown children (three sons and one daughter).

Patricia Wettig

Patricia Wettig (born December 4, 1951) is an American actress and playwright. She is best known for her roles in the television series' Thirtysomething, Prison Break and Brothers & Sisters. In film, she is known for her role in City Slickers.

Wettig, one of four sisters (Pam, Patricia, Phylis and Peggy), was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the daughter of Florence (née Morlock) and Clifford Neal Wettig, a college basketball coach. She attended Ohio Wesleyan University and graduated from Temple University in 1975. She recently returned to her studies, receiving an M.F.A. in playwriting from Smith College in 2001. Wettig is married to actor and producer Ken Olin; they have two children, Clifford (b. 1983) and Roxanne (b. 1986).

Although Wettig has acted in a number of films (including City Slickers, Guilty by Suspicion, and The Langoliers), she is best known for her work on television. In particular, she received critical acclaim (and a number of awards) for her role as Nancy Weston on ABC's Thirtysomething. In particular Wettig's portrayal of Nancy's cancer struggle attracted considerable acclaim and attemtion. She also portrayed Joanne McFadden on the television program St. Elsewhere. In addition, Wettig appeared in a number of popular television programs during the 1980s and 1990s including L.A. Law, Frasier, Hill Street Blues, and Remington Steele.

Wettig is a featured cast member in the ABC series Brothers & Sisters, which debuted in September 2006, where she initially portrays the Walker family patriarch's mistress, Holly Harper. Her character is now co-CEO at Ojai Foods with Sarah Walker, the daughter of William Walker. Wettig also had the recurring role of CIA psychotherapist Dr. Judy Barnett on Alias, which was produced and directed by her husband, former Thirtysomething co-star Ken Olin. Before joining Brothers & Sisters, she played the fictional Vice President Caroline Reynolds on the 2005 Fox television drama, Prison Break. She turned down Fox's offer of becoming a series regular on Prison Break in order to pursue Brothers & Sisters. Although in 2007 ABC and FOX agreed that Wettig could briefly reprise her role as Caroline Reynolds, providing off- camera voice-overs and appearing in a scene with Wentworth Miller.

Emily VanCamp

Emily Irene VanCamp (born May 12, 1986) is a Canadian actress born in Port Perry, Ontario. She is best known for her roles as Amy Abbott on the WB Network series Everwood, which ran from 2002 to 2006, and more recently for her role as Rebecca Harper in the ABC network series Brothers & Sisters since 2007.

She moved to Los Angeles in early 2002. Emily VanCamp first appeared in 2000's Canadian television Are You Afraid of the Dark? as the character Peggy Gregory for the two episodes "The Tale of the Silver Sight: Part 2" and "The Tale of the Silver Sight: Part 3." Her next 2000's role was in Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, in which she played the character of Jackie Bouvier at 13 years of age. She appeared again in 2000 in the television series Radio Active in the episode "Bully for You", portraying the character Becky Sue. In 2001 VanCamp appeared in Lost and Delirious playing Allison Moller. She also appeared in All Souls as Kirstin Caine, Johanna Wilson in Dice and in Glory Days as Sam Dolan.

She appeared in Redeemer as Alana and in The House on Turk Street as Connie. She next appeared as Jen Tyler in A Different Loyalty. She appeared in the short film Rings which bridged the gap between The Ring and The Ring Two in which she reprised her character from the short film. She also appeared in the 2006 film Black Irish as the character Kathleen.

The role for which she is perhaps best known is her character Amy Abbott in the WB Television Network's drama Everwood.

In 2007, VanCamp joined the cast of Touchstone Television's large ensemble series Brothers & Sisters as a regular late in the season, a move that marks her second teaming with Executive Producer Greg Berlanti (they were previously paired on Everwood). VanCamp's character was introduced as the daughter of the late William Walker (Tom Skerritt) and his secret mistress, Holly Harper (Patricia Wettig), though it is later discovered that this is incorrect through DNA done in 2008.

Emily was raised speaking French and speaks the language fluently.

Emily has dated Benjamin McKenzie. She also dated Chris Pratt, her co- star from Everwood.

Matthew Rhys

Matthew Rhys Evans (born on 8 November 1974) and known professionally as Matthew Rhys, is a Welsh actor, best-known as Kevin Walker, Sally Field's gay lawyer son, Calista Flockhart's and Rachel Griffiths's brother on the U.S. ABC family drama Brothers & Sisters.

Born and raised in the city of Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales, Rhys was educated through the Welsh language at Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Melin Gruffydd, and Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf. At seventeen, after playing the lead role of Elvis Presley in a school musical, he applied to, and was accepted at, the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London (RADA). Shortly thereafter, in 1993, he was awarded the Patricia Rothermere Scholarship. During his time at RADA, Rhys appeared in Back-Up, the BBC police series about the operational support units Hooli Vans, as well as in House of America. He then returned to Cardiff to act in his own language in the Welsh film Bydd yn Wrol (Be Brave), for which he won Best Actor at the Welsh BAFTAs.

In January 1998, Rhys went to New Zealand to star in Greenstone, a colonial costume drama for television. He then landed a role in Titus, Julie Taymor's critically acclaimed adaptation of Titus Andronicus, starring Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange. Next he played Ray in Peter Hewitt's quirky film comedy, Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? After returning to Wales, he did two consecutive films with Jonathan Pryce: The Testimony of Taliesin Jones, a film about a dysfunctional single-parent family in which he played the elder son, and Sara Sugarman's comedy Very Annie Mary, in which he played the role of Nob. Rhys would later reunite with Very Annie Mary star Rachel Griffiths on Brothers & Sisters, which also starred Academy Award-winner Sally Field.

In 2000, Rhys played the lead role in Metropolis, a drama series for Granada TV about the lives of six twenty-somethings living in London. Next he starred in Peaches, the film of the celebrated play written and directed by Nick Grosso. Rhys opened to huge critical acclaim when he starred as Benjamin in the 2000 world premiere of the stage adaptation of The Graduate, alongside Kathleen Turner at The Gielgud Theatre in London's West End.

Rhys travelled to Ireland to star in the 18th century swashbuckling adventure, The Abduction Club. He played the lead role of Darren Daniels in Tabloid, and then returned to New Zealand to shoot the epic drama Lost World for the BBC. His other film credits include the independent horror film Deathwatch in Prague and Fakers, a comic crime caper. He will next be seen opposite Brittany Murphy in the independent feature Love and Other Disasters, in Virgin Territory opposite Hayden Christensen, Tim Roth and Mischa Barton, and playing poet Dylan Thomas in the love quadrangle biopic The Edge of Love, alongside Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller and Cillian Murphy.

Rhys is quite adamant that he could happily give up his career to play international rugby for his country. Rhys is very close friends with actor Ioan Gruffudd, and they shared a house for nearly 10 years. Rhys served as one of the best men at Gruffudd's wedding, and wrote a speech for the occasion.

On July 15, 2008, Matthew was honoured by Aberystwyth University as a Fellow. While on August 8, 2008 he was honoured at the Welsh National Eisteddfod by being accepted as a member to the druidic order of the Gorsedd of the Bards, for his contribution to the Welsh language and Wales. His bardic name in the Gorsedd is Matthew Tâf.

Matthew is a patron of Hijinx Theatre based at Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay.

Ron Rifkin

Ron Rifkin (born October 31, 1939) is an American award-winning actor and director who is featured in numerous television shows, plays, and films.

Rifkin was born Saul M. Rifkin in New York City, New York to immigrants Miriam and Herman Rifkin. He is the oldest of three children. He was raised in Orthodox Judaism and remained Orthodox until the age of 32.Rifkin is married to Iva, who operates a fashion design business.

In 2001, his association with Touchstone Television began when he played ex-director Arvin Sloane in Alias, opposite Jennifer Garner. Currently, he plays second-in-command businessman Saul Holden on Brothers & Sisters, opposite Sally Field. He also played Bonnie Franklin's second boyfriend on One Day at a Time.

Rifkin has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in film, on stage, and in television. His association with writer Jon Robin Baitz has been especially fruitful. In 1991, his performance in Baitz's play The Substance of Fire won him the Obie, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, and Drama-Logue awards for Best Actor. The following year he performed in Baitz's Three Hotels, for which he received a second Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk nomination. In 1996, he starred in the film version of Substance; in 2002, he appeared in the Baitz play Ten Unknowns at Boston's Huntington Theatre; in 2004, he starred in his play, The Paris Letter at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles, a role he reprised the following year at the Laura Pels Theatre in New York City; and at present, he is appearing in the ABC drama series Brothers & Sisters, which Baitz created.

Rifkin received a 1998 Tony Award for Best Supporting Actor for the Broadway revival of Cabaret. Additional theatre credits include David Hirson's Wrong Mountain, Arthur Miller's Broken Glass, Ivan Turgenev's A Month in the Country, and Neil Simon's Proposals.

Rifkin's extensive film credits include Silent Running, The Sunshine Boys, The Big Fix, JFK, Husbands and Wives, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Wolf, L.A. Confidential, The Negotiator, Boiler Room, Keeping the Faith, The Majestic, Dragonfly, The Sum of All Fears, and Pulse.

On television, Rifkin has appeared in numerous made-for-television movies and miniseries, had regular roles on The Rockford Files, One Day at a Time, The Trials of Rosie O'Neill, and Alias, and has made guest appearances on a number of series, including Sex and the City, ER, Law & Order, A Nero Wolfe Mystery, Falcon Crest, Soap, Hill Street Blues, and The Outer Limits, for which he received a CableACE nomination.

Rifkin is the reader for a number of audio books including The Giver by Lois Lowry (1993), Sang Spell by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (1998), and Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli (1993).

Sarah Jane Morris

Sarah Jane Morris (born April 12, 1977) is an American actress who is also credited as Sarah Morris. She had a recurring role on Felicity as Zoe Webb (2001-2002). She now plays Sally Field's TV daughter-in-law, Julia Walker, on Brothers & Sisters.

Sarah was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the daughter of Walker Morris, a commercial airline pilot, and Janie Morris, a social worker. She was the youngest of four siblings. Morris graduated from the private all- girls' Hutchison School in Memphis, Tennessee. Sarah went to Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority, and where she met her future husband, Ned Brower (they married on February 19, 2005). Morris moved to Los Angeles after college to pursue an acting career and immediately found work on such network television series as Boston Public, Undeclared and Ed. She uses yoga to help relieve her anxiety. On the "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" Episode dated 5 September 2008, Sarah Jane Morris admitted to stealing used grease from restaurants, to make bio-diesel.

Luke Macfarlane

Luke Macfarlane (born January 19, 1980) is a Canadian actor and musician. Macfarlane was born Thomas Luke Macfarlane in London, Ontario, Canada. His father, Thomas (deceased), was the Director of Student Health Services at the University of Western Ontario, and his mother, Penny, is a mental health nurse at a London hospital. Macfarlane attended London Central Secondary School with twin sister Ruth and older sister Rebecca.

Macfarlane went to school in L.B. Pearson school for the Arts, then later studied drama at Juilliard in New York City, where he starred in the productions of Romeo & Juliet, Richard III, The School of Night, Blue Window, The Grapes of Wrath, and As You Like It before graduating from the drama division in 2003.

Macfarlane was one of the four leads in Juvenilia at the Playwrights Horizons Theater from November 14–December 21, 2003. He played the lead role in the American premiere of the play Where Do We Live, staged at the Vineyard Theatre in May 2004. The production was cited by the 2005 GLAAD Media Awards for Outstanding New York Theatre: Broadway and Off-Broadway. He also appeared with Jill Clayburgh and Hamish Linklater in the off-Broadway production of The Busy World is Hushed, again at Playwrights Horizons, in Summer 2006.[1] He reprised his role of Thomas for the L.A. Premiere at the Skirball Cultural Center from February 7-11 of 2007.

On television, Macfarlane is perhaps best known for his role as as Scotty Wandell on ABC's Brothers & Sisters , husband to one of the "brothers" of the show, Kevin Walker (played by Matthew Rhys).

Macfarlane's previous roles include Pvt. Frank "Dim" Dumphy on the 2005 FX network television series Over There. He played opposite Cynthia Nixon in Robert Altman's Tanner on Tanner on the Sundance Channel.

Luke was the last cast member to be added to the FOX pilot, Supreme Courtships, playing the role of conservative Allen Moore, described as a trust fund baby trying to prove he's more than just a legacy in the court. The pilot was not picked up by Fox Broadcasting Company for the 2007–2008 season. In his latest travail for TV, Macfarlane was cast as the leading role in the upcoming two-part mini-series called Iron Road which filmed in China for five weeks and British Columbia for two weeks. This mini was shot from late April to mid June 2007, and was set to be released in April 2008, though it has not yet aired.

Macfarlane was part of the one-night celebrity performed staging of Howard Ashman's unproduced musical "Dreamstuff". The musical was re- imagined by Howard's partners Marsha Malamet and Dennis Green and performed one night only at Los Angeles' Hayworth Theatre as part of the Bruno Kirby celebrity reading series, directed by Ugly Betty's Michael Urie. Luke starred in the show alongside Eden Espinosa, Vicki Lewis, Fred Willard and David Blue.

Macfarlane was the lead singer and a songwriter for the band Fellow Nameless, which began in his 8th grade along with some of his classmates at Lester B. Pearson School for the Arts under the name of Slipnaught, a name they randomly chose from a dictionary because they did not have a name for the band when it came time to perform on stage. Fellow Nameless came from Slipnaught mainly because the band members hated the original name, and so, Fellow Nameless was born at London Central Secondary School. Fellow Nameless has produced one underground album, which was a half-studio, half-live CD album, and they recorded an additional ten songs that never got put out including three songs that were recorded for a development deal with Maverick Records. They played a showcase for Danny Strick A&R of Maverick Records and in the end got passed over. The once thought of as defunct London, Ontario, based band, Fellow Nameless, later had two incarnations without Macfarlane as lead singer. The first incarnation came in the second quarter of 2004 with the creation of Van A Primer and a new singer, Matthew Pearn. Their current incarnation, as of March, 2006, has three of the remaining band members under the new band name of Cancel Winter. Macfarlane's other musical talents include classical cello and the trumpet.

Macfarlane is openly gay.

Balthazar Getty

Paul Balthazar Getty (born January 22, 1975) is an American film actor and member of the band Ringside. His great grandfather was billionaire Jean Paul Getty, his grandfather Sir Paul Getty, and his father John Paul Getty III. His family's fortune is based on the oil business. He's most known for the roles of Thomas Grace on the American action drama Alias and as Tommy Walker on the ABC prime time drama Brothers & Sisters.

Getty was born in Tarzana, California and raised in San Francisco before being sent to private school in Britain, where he was enrolled at Gordonstoun School, an elite boarding school that has educated three generations of the British Royal Family. His great-grandfather is the late multi-billionaire Jean Paul Getty, founder of the Getty Oil Company, and at one time one of the richest men in the world. His father is John Paul Getty III, and his mother, Gisela Martine Getty (née Schmidt), is a professional photographer and documentary filmmaker. His parents are now divorced. Getty has a sister, Anna.

In 2000, Getty married fashion designer Rosetta Millington and has four children: Cassius Paul, Grace, Violet, and June Catherine.

In July 2008, Getty was photographed kissing a topless Sienna Miller aboard a boat and on a hotel balcony in Italy. Getty and Miller have reportedly been dating since May 2008, shortly after his wife Rosetta Millington had the couple's fourth child. On July 21, 2008, Getty released a statement confirming that he and his wife had separated, although to date no divorce has been filed.

Getty is on the board of directors for The Lunchbox Fund, an organization that provides lunches to impoverished children in South Africa.

He is close friends with actor Eric Dane.

He entered the movie business in 1987 when he auditioned for the lead role in the movie Lord of the Flies after being spotted by a talent scout in his art class at school. During the course of the 1990s and early 2000s, he has appeared in films such as Young Guns II, Natural Born Killers, Judge Dredd, White Squall, Lost Highway, Big City Blues, The Center of the World, Deuces Wild, Ladder 49, Feast and the television series Traffic.

Getty guest-starred on the television series Charmed as Richard Montana, a male witch who at one point was romantically linked with Paige Matthews. He appeared in the fifth season of the hit show Alias as Agent Thomas Grace. He currently stars, alongside Alias costar Ron Rifkin, in the ABC prime time drama Brothers & Sisters, which first aired in September 2006. Getty plays the role of Thomas "Tommy" Walker, one of the five Walker siblings.

In late 2008, it was reported that Getty's contract as a full-time series regular will not be renewed due, in part, to budgetary and storyline considerations, though Getty may return in a reduced capacity.

Calista Flockhart

Calista Kay Flockhart (born November 11, 1964) is an American actress, primarily on television. She is best known for playing the title character of Ally McBeal (1997–2002). She currently stars as Sally Field's character's daughter, Kitty Walker, on the ABC drama, Brothers & Sisters.

Flockhart was born in Freeport, Illinois, the daughter of Kay, a teacher of English, and Ronald Flockhart, a Transnistrian-born executive for Kraft Foods. Her parents are retired and live in East Tennessee. She has one older brother, Gary. Her mother, Kay Calista, reversed her own first and middle names in naming her Calista Kay. Calista also had a great-grandmother named "Calista".

Because her father's job required the family to move often, Flockhart and her brother grew up in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, New York, and New Jersey. As a child, she wrote a play called Toyland in which she performed to a small audience at a dinner party.

Flockhart attended Shawnee High School in Medford Township, New Jersey. Following her graduation in 1983, Flockhart attended the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. While there, she attended a specialized and competitive class, lasting from 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM. In her sophomore year at Rutgers, Flockhart met aspiring actress Jane Krakowski, the best friend of her roommate. Later they would both work together on Ally McBeal.

Flockhart's acting ability was recognized when William Esper (Mason Gross' theatre director and Flockhart's acting teacher) made an exception to policy by allowing Flockhart to perform on the main stage. Though this venue is usually reserved for juniors and seniors, Harold Scott insisted that Flockhart perform there in his production of William Inge's Picnic. Flockhart graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in theatre in 1988, as one of only a few students who successfully completed the course. She was inducted into the Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni on May 3, 2003.

After receiving her degree, Flockhart moved to New York City in 1989, where she remained until 1997, living with three other women in a two- bedroom apartment and working as a waitress and aerobics instructor, while she simultaneously sought auditions.

In spring 1989, Flockhart made her first television appearance in a minor role in an episode of Guiding Light as a babysitter. She made her professional debut on the New York stage, appearing in Beside Herself alongside Melissa Joan Hart, at the Circle Repertory Theatre. Two years later, Flockhart appeared in the television movie Darrow. Though she later appeared in films Naked in New York (1993) and Getting In (1994), her first substantial speaking part in a film was in Quiz Show, directed by Robert Redford.

Flockhart debuted on Broadway in 1994, as Laura in The Glass Menagerie. Actor Julie Harris felt Flockhart should be hired without further auditions, claiming that she seemed ideal for the part. Flockhart received a Clarence Derwent Award for her performance. In 1995, Flockhart became acquainted with actors such as Dianne Wiest and Faye Dunaway when she appeared in the movie Drunks. Later that year, Flockhart starred in Jane Doe as a drug addict. In 1996, Flockhart appeared as the daughter of Dianne Wiest and Gene Hackman's characters in The Birdcage. Throughout that year, she continued to work on Broadway, playing the role of Natasha in Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters.

In 1997 Flockhart was requested to audition for the starring role in David E. Kelley's FOX television series, Ally McBeal. Kelley, having heard of Flockhart, wanted her to audition for the contract part. Though Flockhart at first hesitated due to the necessary commitment to the show in a negotiable contract, she was swayed by the script and travelled to Los Angeles to audition for the part, which she won. She earned a Golden Globe Award for the role in 1998. Flockhart also appeared on the June 29, 1998, cover of Time magazine, placed as the newest iteration in the evolution of feminism, relating to the ongoing debate about the role depicted by her character.

Throughout her professional career, Flockhart has maintained her natural thin figure. However, many have commented that Flockhart had become dangerously too thin, particularly when the actress made red carpet appearances in clothing that showed her excessively thin build. She had maintained throughout the show's run that she has never been diagnosed with either anorexia or bulimia, nor has she been a user of illegal drugs. She did remark, however, that while starring in the show she refrained from eating sweets, retaining her slim figure by working out. In 2006, she admitted that she had a problem at the time, and was "exercising too much" and "eating too little".

Flockhart played the role of Helena in the 1999 film version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. In 2000, she appeared in Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her and Bash: Latter-Day Plays, later accompanying Eve Ensler to Kenya in order to protest violence against women, particularly female genital mutilation. Flockhart also starred in the off-Broadway production of Ensler's The Vagina Monologues.

In 2004, Flockhart appeared as Matthew Broderick's deranged girlfriend in The Last Shot. In the same year, Flockhart travelled to Spain for the filming of Fragile, which premiered in September 2005 at the Venice Film Festival.

She was offered the role of Susan Mayer on Desperate Housewives, but declined. The role went to Teri Hatcher. Flockhart currently co-stars as communication advisor Kitty Walker, opposite Sally Field, Rachel Griffiths and Matthew Rhys, in the ABC prime time series Brothers & Sisters, which premiered in September 2006 in the time slot after Desperate Housewives.

Flockhart is currently the national spokesperson for Peace Over Violence. She is the longtime partner of Harrison Ford and has a son, Liam, whom she adopted as a newborn in 2001. In March 2009 it was reported that the couple is engaged after more than 7 years together.