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October 2001 - LOS ANGELES - As reported from Zap2it.com
"The Mummy Returns" star Oded Fehr has joined the cast of NBC action drama "UC: Undercover"according to trade sources.
The actor, who just wrapped a deal to star in the fall series, will come aboard in the second episode playing a by-the-book FBI agent Frank Donovan, who segues from running the bureau hostage rescue team to heading up the show's unconventional unit.
Given the actor's success in films like "The Mummy" and "Deuce Bigalow", series creator Shane Salerno called Fehr's hire "a pretty cool thing."
"This doesn't happen, landing a guy off a $200 million movie," Salerno tells Variety "it was a very long seduction process. "Salerno calls Fehr "a fresh face for TV. He's an intense actor with incredible weight vulnerability. And he's got the rarest of qualities: Women want to be with him and men want to be his best friend."
Fehr fills the hole left by the departure of original star Grant Show, who stars as team leader in "UC's" pilot. Show's character will be eliminated after the first two episodes.
March 2001 - Reuters
Show toplines "Undercover" (formerly "U.C."), a drama from 20th Century TV and Jersey TV. He will play the head of a special five-member unit within the Justice Department. A different member of the group will go on an undercover mission each week.
Jon Seda, Vera Farmiga ("15 minutes"), Jarrad Paul ("Action") and Bruklin Harris ("Dangerous Minds") round out the cast of the show, which also will feature Steven Bauer ("Traffic") and William Forsythe ("Gotti").
"This show is somewhat of a hybrid between the substance of "NYPD Blue" and the style of "Miami Vice," said executive producer Shane Salerno, a big fan of "Miami Vice."
"It is an investigation of what it's really like to be an undercover agent."
Thomas Carter ("Save the Last Dance"), who helmed the "Miami Vice" pilot, is on board to direct "Undercover."
Show recently did a turn in the play "Wit" on Broadway.
April/May 2000
-Birdy- Featuring Grant Show in this Broadway-bound play.
"Birdy" has been desinged and is directed by Kevin Knight. It is produced by Theater Previews at Duke, in association with Spring Sirkin.
About friendship and family, love and war, and fantasy and reality.
August 1999 - TVGuide Online
Former "Melrose Place" grease monkey Grant Show isn't afraid to cry in the theater. Unfortunately, he made this discovery during a hot date.
"The first play I ever saw that really, really affected me was Lyle Kessler's "Orphans," Show tell Time Out New York. "God, I bawled like a baby. I was on a date with a girl I really had a crush on, and I was sitting there, fighting back and fighting back, and this guy behind me goes [Sobs], and I just let loose. She liked it, so it didn't matter. Thought I was a sensitive guy."
Show is back in New York to play Dr. Jason Posner in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Wit". It marks something of a homecoming for Show, who began his career on the stage. But theater wasn't always on Show's radar. Of his youth, Show says, "I lived in a trailer park in San Jose. I was in a play before I'd ever seen a play."
Acting seemed like a natural careet once the theater bug bit. "I was probably 19 or 20, and the truth is I couldn't figure out anything else I wanted to do," Show says. "All the other real options available to me at the time....the thought of doing them for 30 years, I know I would have killed myself. Somebody asked me to do a play in a community theater, and I thought, if somebody would pay me for this, how awesome."
Luckily for Show, an awesome role like Dr. Posner came his way. The Hollywood alternatives were decidely un-awesome. "There was some movie about snakes invading a subdivision. You know, I don't want to do that....I made enough money, I don't need to make money again for along time."
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