Ellen Muth, born March 6, 1981 in Connecticut (USA), is the daughter of a famous orthopedian. Ellen began acting at age 10. At the age of 14, Ellen had a supporting role as the young Selena in Dolores Claiborne, based on a Stephen King book and starring Kathy Bates as Dolores and Jennifer Jason Leigh as Selena St. George.

Furthermore, she had an on-stage appearance and had some roles in various movies before getting her first lead role as Constance in The Young Girl and the Monsoon at age 18. She got the AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival Best Actress Award for that movie.

Previous TV appearances include two episodes of Law & Order (8.01 "Thrill" and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 1.18 "Chat Room") and two television movies: Two Against Time and The Truth about Jane. In the latter movie, she played a role similar to the one on Dead Like Me.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, USA as Mandel Bruce Patinkin on November 30, 1952, he has been in a 7-Up commercial as a '50s ghost in his first TV commercial. He has been in many movies since. It began with The Big Fix, and continued with, for example, Yentl alongside Barbra Streisand, was totally unrecognizable as an alien in Alien Nation, showed his musical spirit alongside Madonna in Dick Tracy and his most recent appearance was in N.T.S.B., a TV movie.

Aside from various guest roles, his major performance on TV series were Chicago Hope and Disney's Hercules.

Born in London, England. Did the Mountview Theatre School. His early known appearance as an actor is a guest role in The Bill in 1999. There's another guest role in Where the Heart Is. His first major role was in the mini-series Shades (also about life-after-death, although his character is not undead), the movies Young Blades and In Love and War. Before Dead Like Me, he had a role in the British series As If. His newest movie is The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement.

Born on November 20th, 1976 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She began acting at the age of six and worked 14 years in Vancouver before moving on to feature films. Her movie debut was in the horror movie/mini-series Stephen King's It. She often played her roles with personable warmth despite her characters having agressive and outspoken attitudes, just like in Dead Like Me. Her resumé includes Robert Rodriguez' The Faculty and a major role in Season Two of 24 with Kiefer Sutherland.

Born in Boston, Massachussets but raised in Atlanta, Georgia as the daughter of Reverend William Guy, pastor of the historic Friendship Baptist Church. Her birthday is 10th March, 1964. She is probably most known for her role as Whitley Marion Gilbert Wayne on A Different World. Married to Terrence Duckette on August 22, 1998 and their daughter Imani came on March 28, 1999. Before Dead Like Me, she starred in the Stephen King horror movie Carrie with Dead Like Me collague Meghan Black. Series creator Bryan Fuller provided the teleplay for that movie.

Born August 2, 1962 in Piedmont, California, showbusiness wasn't easy on Cynthia Stevenson. After various roles on TV shows in the 1980s, she was the host of the short-lived My Talk Show, a parody of talk shows in which she interviewed unknown celebrities in her living room. The show only lasted three months and nearly led Stevenson to leave acting. But then Robert Altman cast her in The Player. After that, she got the second lead in a television sitcom called Bob. Despite good reviews, the show didn't last long either. Her acting career wasn't exactly that stellar until 1995, with three major roles that year and a role as Gloria on the sitcom Hope and Gloria. She's been in three Air Bud movies so far and can be seen in Agent Cody Banks and the 2004 sequel Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London as Mrs. Banks.

The X-Files fans will know Christine Willes as Agent Karen E. Kosseff in three episodes of the Chris Carter SF series. She is not only well-known in Vancouver as an actress, but also as an teacher and Artistic Director at the William B. Davis Centre for Actor's Study, which she co-owns. Other guest-starring roles in TV shows include The Outer Limits, Dark Angel and John Doe. She also enjoys theatre, with stage roles in A Streetcar Named Desire and Steel Magnolias and more.

This young Canadian girl, born in 1992, is the sister of Carly McKillip and the daughter of songwriters Tom and Lynda McKillip. She lent her voice to the title character in Sabrina the Teenage Witch in Friends Forever and the series Sabrina's Secret Life. She guest starred twice in The Outer Limits.

Greg Kean was born as Greg Kean Williams in Oshawa, Canada on September 27, 1962. His parents, Rex and Dorothy Williams were originally from England and immigrated to Canada in 1956. Greg Kean has two brothers, Kyle and Sean. At the age of 15, he and his family moved to Detroit, Michigan. Greg played junior varsity hockey for the Spartans but gave up to focus on theatre. He graduated in 1983 with a B.A. in theatre arts and was awarded a scholarship to Cornell University's MFA acting program in 1985. After three years with Houston's Alley Theatre, he moved to Los Angeles and started a career in television and movies. Greg married Kelly Williams in 1996 and they have three sons: Spencer, Lucien and Miles. In 2000, they moved to Vancouver, Canada. Greg Kean's filmography consists of mostly TV movies; except for some guest starring roles, Dead Like Me is his first regular series.

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