CHRISTIE LYNN SMITH, LORAINE
One
word that instantly comes to mind when describing Christie Lynn's acting talent
is versatile. With her natural beauty and strong emotional depth,
Christie has been termed a chameleon for her ability to morph from character to
character. Equally adept at drama and comedy, she is now a veteran of
over forty television series and a wonderful collection of films.
Christie
spent most of her childhood growing up in the small town of Orange Park,
Florida. Her acting career started during high school doing local
commercials and industrials. But her love for acting began years earlier
when, as a child, she would pretend to be Olivia Newton-John from the
film Grease and
act out scenes with neighborhood friends.
She
earned her Screen Actors Guild card right out of high school by landing a guest
spot on the television show Superforce and followed it up with
an even bigger guest-starring role on the series Swamp Thing that had local casting
directors taking notice of this young talent.
Christie
Lynn knew she had to move to Hollywood to pursue her love of acting and
storytelling and that's what she did. She dove into acting classes with
famed acting coaches Cameron Thor, Howard Fine, Jay Goldenberg, the renowned
Uta Hagen, Eric Morris, and the Los Angeles comedy troupe, The Groundlings.
Her
hard work was quickly rewarded. Christie was snapped up to star in the
soap opera, Forever, that would take her on location to film in Mexico City for a
year. With 160 episodes under her belt, she returned to Los Angeles and
landed her first lead role in a television pilot, West Point U.S.M.A.
Christie
then started to work consistently in television, guest-starring on many of
Aaron Spelling's hit shows like Beverly Hills, 90210, 7th Heaven and Charmed. Her most recent
television credits range from recurring roles on Bones, Malcolm in the Middle,General Hospital and Days of Our
Lives to
guest appearances on Justified, Chase, Castle, Boston Legal, House, Three Rivers,Saving Grace, ER, Las Vegas, Monk,Without a Trace, and CSI, to name a few.
Christie
Lynn's film career started out with a bang in 2001 when she was hand-picked by
the most prestigious casting directors in Hollywood, Jane Jenkins and Janet
Hirshenson (A Beautiful Mind, The Da Vinci Code) for the lead role of Susie
Downey, the perky church girl with a hidden secret, in the comedy What
Boys Like.
She
followed that film with the role of Catherine Carter Corbin, the demure
Southern belle in Ted Turner's Civil War epic,Gods and Generals, starring Robert Duvall,
Stephen Lang and Jeff Daniels.
Other
film roles include the thriller The Last Stop Cafe, for which she was nominated
for Best Actress at the Eerie Horror Film Festival for her role as a serial
killer on the run. Christie then starred in the dark psychological
drama, Inside Irvin, portraying a tortured agoraphobic. She received rave
reviews, the most complimentary of all from Todd David Schwartz at CBS Radio
who said, "Kudos to... actress Christie Lynn Smith, whose work here is
worthy of Academy Award acknowledgement."
Soon
after, Christie starred in Grace, as one of only two characters in the award-winning
short film. Actor/director Laurence Fishburne praised the film's
"sensitive, illuminating performances." Christie's raw
portrayal of the suicidal Rae also garnered her a Leading Actor Accolade film
award in 2007 and a Best Actress nomination from the film festival Method Fest.
In
2008, Christie took on her biggest and best role yet, becoming a new mom.
She gave birth to her beautiful daughter Abby Ryder on March 14, 2008.
After
taking some time off to spend with her new baby and husband, actor John
Fortson, Christie booked two films back to back. The first was the lead
role of May Keifner, the dry-witted, ballsy woman in the feature Ticket
Out, also
starring Ray Liotta, Billy Burke (Twilight) and Joel David Moore (Avatar). The film was produced
by Oscar-nominated director Chris Noonan (Babe and Miss Potter). Christie then went
straight into production on The Crazies, the remake of the classic
George A. Romero film, playing Deardra Farnum, a protective mother living in a
small town beset by death. The film is directed by Breck Eisner (Sahara) and produced by Michael
Aguilar (The Departed).
When
Christie is not acting, she loves spending time with her family, practicing
yoga, hiking, traveling, surfing, cooking, having afternoon tea and playing gin
rummy — more specifically, beating her husband at gin rummy.
Great
things lie ahead for this beautiful, multi-talented chameleon who continues to
create real and moving characters time and time again.
GRIFFIN
GLUCK is a millennium baby, born
in Los Angeles, California on August 24th, 2000, to his director father Cellin
and producer mother, Karin Beck.
Gluck got the acting bug when he went with his older sister, Caroline,
to a summer children’s showcase of Guys and Dolls at the Palisades
Playhouse. At the age of six, he
was given the role of Nathan Detroit, and discovered his love for performing.
He was then cast in a national Japanese commercial for the “Heroes” DVD,
stealing the spot with his inimitable delivery of the famous “Yatta!” line. He
has since appeared in several TV commercials for the Japanese and American
markets. In 2008, he appeared in the Japanese remake of the film Sideways,
directed by his father. In the
fall of 2009, intrigued by an audition notice for the musical “Oliver!”
directed by Mariko Ballentine in North Hollywood, he asked his father to take
him to the audition and walked out with the lead role. Gluck recently scored
recurring roles in The Office and The United States of Tara.
After a nationwide search of thousands
of kids, Gluck got his big break when he landed the co-starring role playing
Jennifer Aniston's son and Adam Sandler's fake son in Sony's box office hit
"Just Go With It." Gluck is in the 5th grade and attends Le Lycee
Francais Los Angeles.
BRIAN MAJESTIC, DAD
Brian
Majestic is a former United States Marine and Iraq War veteran. He began his
theatrical career at the age of seven by studying tap, jazz, and ballet. A
gifted dancer, Brian appeared in many musicals throughout his hometown of
Pittsburgh. After graduating high school he moved to New York City and attended
the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He appeared in a handful of off-off
Broadway plays until he decided to enlist in the United States Marine Corps.
Brian deployed twice to Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom and served as a
Field Radio Operator in the city of Al Fallujah, where he received the Navy and
Marine Corps Achievement Medal with Combat Distinguishing Device.
Since
moving to Los Angeles, Brian has appeared on stage at the Odyssey Theatre and
the Elephant Theatre, in a number of short films, and can be seen in the
web-series; Elevator, The Best Friend, and Night of the Zombie King. Brian is
also a student of Muay Thai Kickboxing and holds a degree in Interior
Architectural Design.
