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Ted Shackelford
HE WAS BORN ON JUNE 23, 1946, IN OKLAHOMA CITY, but he grew up in TULSA, and spent awhile in Long Island, New York City and Guam, where his military father had been destined to. Shackelford started off his career in Colorado, though, and he attended the Denver University, as he appeared in local and caf� montages of HOGAN�S GOAT, NIGHT OF THE IGUANA, BUS STOP, SUNDAY IN N.Y., MY 3 ANGELS and THE PLEASURE OF HIS COMPANY, among others.
The inevitable moving to N.Y.C. followed afterwards, and his career slowed down there. He worked over a year as the night manager of the Carlyle Hotel and, eventually, he got a substitute part on the Broadway show MURDER AMONG FRIENDS. At the same time, he landed on what would become a one-year stint: the daytime soap ANOTHER WORLD.
Next step was Hollywood, where Shackelford arrived on the Christmas Day of 1975. It was the right step: he soon co-starred in the dramatic TV Special THE DEFECTION OF SIMAS KUDIRKA, starring ALAN ARKIN, and later on he acted on TVM�s THE JORDAN CHANCE, with RAYMOND BURR, and TERROR AMONG US. His other TV credits include episodic roles on THE ROCKFORD FILES, BIG HAWAII and THE NEW ADVENTURES OF WONDER WOMAN, where he first co-starred with JOAN VAN ARK.
Since K.L. was cancelled, TED has selectively gueststarred on other series, sometimes as a regular co-star (SAVANNAH, SPACE PRECINCT) and others, as a guest star (THE OUTER LIMITS, SPIN CITY, CYBILL or THE PRACTICE). In 1997 he played GARY again on the KL REUNION and his last big-screen movie was shot in 2005 as OFFICER DOWN. Currently he plays a lawyer in the soap THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS.
"KL is the best thing that ever happened to me. I'd do it any time. Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing. And after working on other shows, we look like a how-to manual to do television."
Ted Shackelford�s imdb Filmography
Nicollette Sheridan
NICOLLETTE WAS BORN ON NOVEMBER 21, 1963 IN SUSSEX, ENGLAND. She moved to Los Angeles with her parents at 10 years old, and she attended the Isabel Buckley Elementary School. Then she returned to England, where was checked in the Milford School in Somerset. She decided she would be an actress there. Back to USA, she was hired by ELITE Modeling Agency in N.Y.C. While making an audition for a TV Spot, she met famous photographer Francesco Scavullo, who helped her to become the cover girl of COSMOPOLITAN magazine in February 1984. Sheridan continued with the agency, but she also took her time to get film and TV tests.
Her TV credits include nighttime soap PAPER DOLLS and telemovie AGATHA CHRISTIE�S DEAD MAN�S FOLLY. She called the attention of film buffs when she appeared in THE SURE THING series. Sheridan co-starred with Harry Hamlin DECEPTIONS for TV. During one of the Knots Landing�s summer hiatuses, she completed the shooting of a miniseries she starred in, LUCKY/CHANCES, based upon the Jackie Collins� best-seller LUCKY.
Since 1993, English NICOLLETTE has co-starred in some movies like NOISES OFF... or SPY HARD, and a lot of TVM�s, besides of the KL Reunion, where she made a special cameo on the first scene, leaving GREG SUMNER. Sheridan loves travels, riding, skiing, reading and bike driving. She owns 2 houses in Los Angeles and N.Y.C. A stepdaughter of actor TELLY SAVALAS and ex girlfriend of singers LEIF GARRET and MICHAEL BOLTON, she is currently divorced from HARRY HAMLIN. She won 2 SODA�s as Best Lead Actress and Best Heroine.
Today NICOLLETTE co-stars in the hit black comedy DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES, where she plays the troublemaker EDIE. This role has provided her a GOLDEN GLOBE nomination as Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
"It's funny how life fits together. You feel you're cheated on some things and then other things seem to come easy. Somewhere, there's a balance."
Nicollette Sheridan�s imdb Filmography
Joan Van Ark
JOAN WAS BORN ON JUNE 16, 1943, IN N.Y.C. and was raised in Boulder, Colorado. In her last year of high school, she met JULIE HARRIS, who suggested her to ask for a scholarship at Yale Drama School. She got it and thus she became the second woman (Harris had been the first) and the youngest person to attend the school with a scholarship.
Van Ark�s big chance was a starring role on Broadway with BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. Since then she has appeared on THE RULES OF THE GAME and THE SCHOOL FOR WIVES, which won her a TONY nomination and a Theatre World Award.
In Los Angeles she released at Ahmanson Theatre CYRANO DE BERGERAC and RING AROUND THE MOON, and also performed at prestigious Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis and Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. She achieved the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for her acting on the AS YOU LIKE IT montage for the L.A. Shakespeare Festival. She has incarnated the title character of JOAN OF ARC at the Colorado University, at her hometown of Boulder.
Van Ark was a regular supporting star on the series TEMPERATURES RISING and WE'VE GOT EACH OTHER and voiced Spiderwoman on the cartoon series. She has gueststarred on single episodes of VEGA$, THE NEW ADVENTURES OF WONDER WOMAN, THE LOVE BOAT, THE ROCKFORD FILES, RHODA and QUINCY.
Her TV credits include TVM�s A TESTIMONY OF 2 MEN, THE LAST DINOSAUR, BIG ROSE, THE BIONIC BOY, THE JUDGE AND JAKE WYLER and THE RED FLAG. She has starred only one big-screen movie, FROGS, with RAY MILLAND.
JOAN is an avid runner who follows a daily routine. Her favorite hobbies are horseriding, skiing and antiquity collection. She and husband JOHN MARSHALL, a KNBC reporter awarded with one Emmy, have a daughter, VANESSA, and live in Studio City, California.
Since KL close its doors in 1993, JOAN has starred in a few TVM�s, included a KL Reunion, has gueststarred in series such as THE FRESH PRINCE OF BEL AIR, CYBILL, THE NANNY or THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS, and has played in THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES and A LOVELY SUNDAY FOR CREVE COEUR. Her last movie is called CHANNELS. She won 2 SOAP OPERA DIGEST AWARDS for playing VAL.
"We could do another reunion perhaps, but no no no, because I feel I am ready and have moved on. I have done different ladies and funny and stronger ladies that challenge me and use different muscles, and I do love her dearly but we move on as actors and people."
Joan Van Ark�s imdb Filmography
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