Thecastandcrew

Born in Carthage, Texas, was raised just a
stone's throw away in Longview. He is the eldest
of three children born to Dianne Hershberger
and Terry Holland. Love of the arts came
naturally from his mother who is an author, poet
and screenwriter. Jesse began acting and singing
in church and community outreach programs when
he was just five years old. After moving to Miami
he performed in several critically acclaimed film
festival and art house ventures before landing a
role in the underground feature film "American
Skin II" directed by Thomas Griffith. His role as
reluctant killer Buddy Logan garnered excellent
reviews. On the advice of his acting coach, Jesse
left Florida for Hollywood. He quickly landed
parts in HBO's "Deadwood" and Nu-Lite
Film's "Color of the Cross."

Jesse is currently writing and producing his own
one man show, aptly named "The Tales of a
Southern Gentleman." He can be seen in current
hit television series such as "My Name Is Earl",
"According To Jim" and "Threshold". He
serves as a Youth Counselor for the American
Cancer Society's Camp Reach 4 the Sky for
kids who have been diagnosed with cancer. Jesse
is also passionately involved with Hearts of Life
Animal Rescue organization in Sulphur Springs,
Texas.

Born and raised in a small town in
Kansas. Her career began when she was
spotted by modeling agents and was
instantly whisked off to Milan to begin
walking runways. Before long she was
appearing on billboards, in commercials
and gracing magazines such as Marie
Claire, Glamour, People,
Cosmopolitan, and Allure in
advertisements such as OPI, Coca
Cola, Dockers, Sprint, Toyota and
many others as she traveled to Milan,
France, Germany, New York, Spain,
Japan, Switzerland and Africa. A
natural and gifted actor, Kelli's career
began in Miami and she was awarded
Best Actress in her very first short film at
festival. From there she found her way to
Los Angeles to continue pursuing her
acting career. She can be seen on
"George Lopez" and on the big screen in
“Ripple Effect" and "Dream State."
Just as in modeling, Kelli makes her
performances seem effortless; filling
them with a verisimilitude and grace far
beyond her years, but confirming the
deep dedication and commitment she has
for her craft.

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Involved with the performing arts since
childhood. Born just outside of
Jerusalem, Israel to a Romanian /
Lithuanian father and a Gwich'in
Athabascan mother from Alaska, she
was bound to express her diverse
background on stage and in film.
Princess most recently landed a role in
the CBS/Paramount pilot "Jericho"
starring Skeet Ulrich and directed by
Jon Turtletaub. Princess plays "Sara"
the only woman on the on the police
force in the small town of Jericho, and
just completed an appearance in a
dramatic lead role in the independent
film "They Also Cry".

Drawing on her rich heritage, Princess
has also expressed herself through
writing and directing. She has been a
Sundance Fellow where she had the
privilege of working with such greats as
Robert Redford, Alfonso Cuaron,
and Stewart Stern. In addition, she
has also been a PEN Emerging
Voices/Rosenthal Fellow where she
had the honor of being mentored by
writer and filmmaker, Sherman Alexie.

Grew up in San Diego, California, the
second oldest of 4 children born to Michael
and Marlowe McAnear. Rana began
performing at an early age for her
elementary and middle school theatre
department. She began modeling
professionally at the age of 14 doing both
runway and freeze modeling throughout
California when she was diagnosed with
Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia at age 16.
After undergoing constant treatment for 2
years she was considered in remission and
made her move to Hollywood to further her
goals of becoming an actress. Rana has
been seen in films such as Elizabethtown,
Meet The Fockers, Havoc and American
Dreams, she has also appeared in music
videos from Snow Patrol

Rana's cancer is in complete
remission and she continues to be a
spokesperson for the American Cancer
Society, attending photo shoots and also
serving for the past 7 years as an American
Cancer Society Camp Counselor for not
only the children undergoing treatment but
also for the brothers and sisters of children
diagnosed with the disease.

Born in Moorestown, New Jersey, an award winning Actor, Writer, Producer and Director,
accomplished in film, television and theater. Ray has appeared in numerous films, television
shows and theater. He has co-starred on such series as Star Trek: The Next
Generation, Golden Girls, Will and Grace, Wiseguy, In the Heat of The Night, and had
recurring roles on General Hospital, and Miami Vice. He has starred on stage and in
nearly 100 commercials. He also starred as O.J. Simpson in the controversial award
winning CBS mini-series "American Tragedy." In addition to the feature "DIG" set to
shoot in Texas, also in the works is "Little Brother" a teen, anti drug drama, to shoot in
Miami. Ray was a producer on the OSCAR nominated "Last Breeze of Summer," a
recipient of the 1999 Team Player Award from the Black Hollywood Education and
Resource Center, the lifetime achievement award for outstanding service to the film
industry. Ray, as producer, recently secured a deal with Polychrome/WB independent
films for "CONFESSIONS OF A THUG," an official selection of the 2006 Urban
World Film Festival. Ray also coaches working actors in his exciting Motivational Acting
Seminars and Workshops around the country for twenty years. He believes each of us is
unique in the contribution we bring to the world, and it's only through support of that
individual uniqueness that the world can advance to a higher state of being... "Without
Passion there is no art." - RGF

Currently finishing up his M.F.A.
Directing/Cinematography Degree at
UCLA School of Theater, Film and
Television. While earning his B.A. from
Sarah Lawrence College, he spent a
semester at New York University and a
trimester at Oxford University. Wynn
has directed several festival-winning short
films including "The Breeze Team,"
which won 2nd Place at the Canadian
International Film Festival, "Rainbow
Klansmen" and "Felicia's House," which
have been an official selection at many
prestigious festivals including The Mill
Valley Film Festival, The Columbus
Film Festival, The Griffen Film
Festival, The Greenwich Film Festival
and the Los Angeles Shorts Festival.
This April, Wynn won a
twenty-five-thousand-dollar Sloan
Foundation award and a prestigious
Polonsky award for his script "Lynx."
Also, he was recently the Director of
Photography for the UCLA thesis films
"Absolution", "Passage" and "The
Collector".

A native and current resident of Winnsboro,
Texas, Randy grew up in Huston. He
began his theatrical career in 1967 in the
Madison High School production of
“Nobody Sleeps” as the lead role of
Spike.
After graduation, he moved to California
and became a repertory member of the
San Francisco Actors Lab and Library of
Media Arts in 1970. Randy resided in
Hollywood from 1971 – 1980.
After moving to Hollywood he was seen in
such projects as “A Star is Born,” “The
China Syndrome,” “F.M.,” “The
Stuntman,” “ Born Again,” his made-for-
TV credits include “Alexander, the Other
Side of Dawn,” “Washington Behind
Closed Doors,” “Sophisticated Gents,”
and “Sam Huston: Gone to Texas.” His
television appearances include shows such
as “Starsky and Hutch” and “Little House
on The Prairie.”
Randy trained at the prestigious Lee
Strausberg Institute in Los Angeles, CA
with Peggy Feury for stage and Beth
Brickell for film and acting.
Randy is also featured locally as a talented
singer/songwriter. He was awarded a
scholarship with A.S.C.A.P. and he has
placed as a quarter-finalist in the
“American Song Festival” for three
consecutive years.
Randy is currently active in local theater
appearing in productions at The Trails
Country Center for the Arts in Winnsboro.
His most recent credits include the lead
role of Detective-Sergeant Trotter in the
TCCA production of Agatha Christie’s,
“The Mousetrap,” dinner theater
appearances in “The Altos: Like The
Sopranos Only Lower” featured in the
roles as the conniving Christopher, “Don’t
Drink the Water” as the character Kilroy. In
the production of “Animal Farm,” he was
featured in several roles as Squealer,
Moses, and Frederick. In the local
production of “King Kong: The Musical,”
Randy was featured as the announcer.
Randy owns and runs “Rita’s Italian Café” in
Winnsboro and enjoys spending time
singing karaoke with his wife, Heather (who
is a powerhouse vocal talent in her own
right), in many local venues.

Pelton, a native of Shreveport, Louisiana, but
a longtime resident of Sulphur Springs, is a
veteran performer in the Community Players
Organization in Sulphur Springs; she is
credited with her performances in Steel
Magnolias, On Golden Pond, The
Foreigner, and the local production of Driving
Miss Daisy, which she stars. Pelton won the
“Best Actress” award for Steel Magnolias
and Driving Miss Daisy in Sulphur Springs
and Mineola. She made her film debut in the
Aledo Production’s of “Roy ' N the Rev.”
For the past several years, she has toured
with a production company and has appeared
in Mineola, Jacksonville, Holly Lake,
Winnsboro and Mt. Vernon.No stranger to
guns, she campaigned kip, her weimaraner
bitch to the field trial hall of fame(horseback
trials). She is active in community affairs--
symphone league volunteer, member of library
board, master gardener and UIL (university
interscolastic league) judge. She attended 5
institutes of higher learning and will re-enroll at
A&M in the fall--linguistics degree. She's an
ardent computer gamer, and this gun-totin
"grandot" proudly claims 11 grandkids.

Born 1945 in Scottsburg, Indiana, not in a
hospital, but a 2 room clinic. He grew up in
Terre Haute but left after high school. He
did a route 66 and ended up in Amarillo,
Texas; had intended on going to West
Texas State U, but went into the service
instead (USAF). He was stationed in
Montana for 3.5 years, was discharged and
went to the University of Denver. He has a
degree in Economics and Finance.
Griffith worked as a ghost writer of theses
for economics and political science and
tried to make it as a tennis pro after college.
He worked as a tennis coach for 13 years,
which resulted in a move to Florida.
Griffith’s first entertainment activities were
centered on a campus variety show on the
University station in Denver. He was
drafted by then girlfriend’s roommate, who
was student president of the station and was
in need of programming. Griffith began
writing again after retiring from Tennis. His
first efforts were for theater. His first movie
was “Plain Brown Wrapper,” that was made
for about $1500 in 1987. Since then, he’s
worked on about 20 movies, including writing
and directing "Rope Art" winner of the 2001
New York Independent Festival, which
screened in New York on Sept 9, 2001.
Griffith also worked on "Magda Watts" the
PBS story, which chronicles the
internationally known artist's return as a
survivor to the concentration camps in
Poland.
Griffith and his wife Jeanne have been
married for 31 years. They have 3 children:
Jenny who is a lawyer, Smith in Industrial
Design and Lesley in fashion retail. They
have two grandchildren, Shelby and Chloe.
Griffith’s hobbies include: Formula Car
Racing, he is a former SCCA racing
license holder, and archeology. He has
visited some of the most famous sites in
Meso America, including Tikal, El Mirador,
and Uxmal. He also spent considerable
time at the Roman ruins, and the
archeological formations on the Salisbury
Plains in the United Kingdom.

Born in a small town in Southeast Arkansas
named Hamburg. He is the youngest of three
brothers born to Troy and Mary Daugherty.
David’s love for performing started at a very
early age when he would do impromptu
impersonations for his family. He continued to
hone his performing skills in high school in such
productions as Thornton Wilder’s “Our
Town” and the melodrama “Curse You Jack
Dalton!”
Since 1972, David has been gainfully
employed as a computer programmer and
analyst in various locations in Arkansas and
Texas.
Since living in East Texas, David has
appeared in many community theater
productions such as Agatha Christie’s “The
Mousetrap”, “The Alto’s”, a melodrama
called “Dirty Work at the Crossroads,” and a
local adaptation of “The Secret Garden.”
In his spare time, David is currently restoring an
older home in Winnsboro, Texas, built in
1933. He lovingly refers to the old home as
“the Money Pit”. Joining him in this costly
venture are his lovely wife, Cathy, their three
dachshunds, Roscoe, Franklin, and Belle, a
delightful, but unanticipated, recently acquired,
canine guest by the name of Trudy, and two
cats called Tommy Jean and “that other cat.”
David has been known to do a ‘dead-on’
impression of Sean Connery, one of his
favorite actors.
When not working, David can be found
‘tooling’ around the area on his Indian Vintage
Chief motorcycle.

McCorkle, currently residing in
Sulphur Springs, Texas, with his
wife Lucy, has had his hand in
acting and directing for over forty
years with over a dozen film
credits which include Camelot
Production's “JFK,” BBC's
production of “Two Lumps of
Ice,” “Alamo: The Price of
Freedom,” “Texas Forever” and
“Huston: The Legend of
Texas.” He's also dabbled in
commercials, television and voice
over work. Some of McCorkle's
numerous theatre credits include
Marat in Marat/Sade, the lead in
“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,”
Captain Burns in the Community
Players, Inc. production of
“M*A*S*H”, Norman Thayer in
On Golden Pond, Jacob
Brackish in Park Your Car in
Harvard Yard, and Greg in
Sylvia. He has a BFA from
Southwestern University where
he majored in drama. He has a
good working of fire arms,
including black powder and is
proficient in Trap shooting.

Dianne was born in Cleburne, Texas. She
is one of five girls who were raised in East
Texas. Now living in Sulphur Springs,
Texas with her husband Roy they keep
more than busy caring for fourteen or more
dogs at the overflow for "The Hearts of
Life Animal Shelter" (the no kill animal
shelter in Sulphur Springs.) Roy and
Dianne also own eleven dogs, two cats and
a bird. Dianne has had her hand at poetry,
screenplays, plays for her children's school
and church, newspaper articles, many of
these works have been published. A
couple of her favorite writers are Anne
Tyler, and Steinbeck. She raised three
kids of her own Jesse Holland, an actor in
Hollywood, Melanie Blalock who owns
and runs her own restaurant in Benton,
Arkansas. And Teri Kuiper who is a
Commerce Police officer. Dianne is
grandmother to seven grand kids three of
who live just down the road from her.