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Cast Bios Deborah Kara Unger Peter Gerety Daniel Von Bargen Ray McKinnon Laila Robins Jason Antoon Yul Vazquez Marylouise Burke Full cast listing DEBORAH KARA UNGER (Connie Mae Wheeler)
Deborah Kara Unger was most recently seen starring opposite Michael Keaton in White Noise, Thomas Jane in Bronwen Hughes’ critically acclaimed Stander, John Travolta and Scarlett Johansson in Love Song For Bobby Long, and Sir Ian Mckellen in Carl Bessai’s Emile (for which she received the 2004 Geraldine Page Best Actress Award at the American Method Festival). In 2003 she received a Best Actress Canadian Academy Award nomination starring opposite screen legend Sophia Loren in Edoardo Ponti’s Between Strangers, with Mira Sorvino and Gerard Depardieu, and completed three feature films including 1.0 which screened in official competition at 2004’s Sundance Film Festival. Since graduating from the prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia as the first Canadian to be accepted, she has co-starred in such films as: Norman Jewison’s Hurricane with Denzel Washington, Payback with Mel Gibson, David Fincher’s The Game with Michael Douglas and Sean Penn, David Cronenberg’s Crash, with Holly Hunter and James Spader (Special Jury Prize in Official Competition in Cannes), and Istvan Szabo’s award-winning epic Sunshine with Ralph Fiennes and William Hurt which garnered her a 2000 Genie nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Other feature film credits include: Thirteen with Holly Hunter, The Salton Sea with Val Kilmer, Signs and Wonders with Stellan Skarsgard and Charlotte Rampling, Leo with Joseph Fiennes and Dennis Hopper, Fear X with John Turturro, No Way Home, with Tim Roth, Bette Gordon’s critically acclaimed Luminous Motion, and The Weekend with Gena Rowlands which received the 1999 Best Ensemble Acting Award at the Seattle Film Festival. Having recently completed principal photography on Christophe Gans’ adaptation of Silent Hill with Rhada Mitchell and Sean Bean, additional upcoming releases include Alibi with Rebecca Romijn and Steve Coogan. Ms. Unger made her feature film debut in the award-winning WWII drama Prisoners of the Sun with Russell Crowe. On television, Ms.Unger appeared as Ava Gardner in HBO’s 1998 drama The Rat Pack and in the award-winning mini-series Bangkok Hilton with Nicole Kidman. In September 2004, Deborah Kara Unger received the Award of Excellence from Russia’s Vladivostok International Film Festival; and in April 2004, she received the Imagery Award at Cinema Epicuria. In May 2003, Ms. Unger was honored as the recipient of the Liberate Award at the Dubrovnik International Film Festival for her ongoing work in and commitment to the spirit of independence in film. PETER GERETY (Ump)  Peter Gerety in Things That Hang From Trees FILM: Legend of Bagger Vance, K-Pax with Kevin Spacey, People I Know with Al Pacino, Surviving Picasso with Anthony Hopkins, Hollywood Ending and The Curse of the Jade Scorpion directed by Woody Allen, Wolf directed by Mike Nichols. TELEVISION: The Wire, Law and Order, and Detective Gharty on Homicide. STAGE: Fluellan in NYSF Henry V, Butcher in Susan-Lori Parks' Fucking A. On Broadway: Pinter’s Hothouse, Porter in Macbeth, Conversations with My Father. Off-Broadway: Further Than The Furthest Thing (Manhattan Theatre Club), Othello, King Stag and Baal. More than a hundred roles with Trinity Repertory, including Tartuffe, Pseudolus, Willie Stark, Captain Boyle and Lear’s Fool. 1983 Boston Critics Circle Award, Best Actor in a Musical in Billy Bishop Goes to War.
 Daniel Von Bargen in Things That Hang From Trees Daniel von Bargen's film credits include Shaft, directed by John Singleton, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, by the Coen Brothers, Snow Falling on Cedars, directed by Scott Hicks, Amistad, directed by Steven Spielberg, Crimson Tide, directed by Tony Scott, Philadelphia, directed by Jonathan Demme, Rising Sun, directed by Phil Kaufman, and Basic Instinct, directed by Paul Verhoeven. Additional film credits include, A Civil Action, G.I. Jane, Before & After, Lord of Illusions, Six Degrees of Separation, The Silence of the Lambs, and Shadows and Fog. Television credits include recurring guest starring roles on Malcolm in the Middleand Seinfeld, and guest roles on Law & Order, Ally McBeal, The West Wing, The Practice, Party of Five, The X-Files, Arliss, NYPD Blue and New York Undercover, the critically acclaimed PBS movie Three Sovereigns for Sarah, and HBO's Citizen Cohn.Stage credits include Broadway's Mastergate, andOff-Broadway productions, The Cherry Orchard, Hurlyburly, Uncle Vanya, The Treatment, Angel of Death, Beggars in the House of Plenty, Macbeth and Missing Persons. RAY MCKINNON (Tom Wheeler Sr.)
LAILA ROBINS (Miss Millie)  Laila Robins in Things That Hang From Trees FILM: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles with Steve Martin, An Innocent Man with Tom Selleck, Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael with Winona Ryder and Jeff Daniels, True Crime directed by Clint Eastwood, Female Perversions, Searching for Paradise and Jailbait.TELEVISION: The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Third Watch, all three versions of Law & Order, and a series lead opposite James Earl Jones in Gabriel’s Fire. STAGE: Broadway: Tony-nominated production of Frozen, directed by Doug Hughes, The Real Thing directed by Mike Nichols, and The Herbal Bed. Off-Broadway: Mrs. Klein (opposite Uta Hagen, national tour, Joseph Jefferson Award and Helen Hayes Nomination.) Tiny Alice and The Film Society (Second Stage), The Merchant of Venice (Public Theatre, Calloway Award), The Extra Man and Bloody Poetry (Manhattan Theatre Club). Regional: A Streetcar Named Desire (Steppenwolf Theatre, 1997 Jefferson Award), Antony and Cleopatra, Hedda Gabler, Summer and Smoke and the world premiere of Arthur Miller's Resurrection Blues (The Guthrie Theatre), Fool for Love and Fiction (McCarter Theatre), Skylight (Mark Taper Forum, Drama League Award), The Women (Hartford Stage), Lady from the Sea (Baltimore Center Stage), six seasons with The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and four with Williamstown Theatre Festival. JASON ANTOON (Bobby Mecklem)  Jason Antoon in Things That Hang From Trees FILM: Minority Report directed by Steven Spielberg, Two Weeks Notice with Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant, the upcoming Little Black Book with Holly Hunter and Brittany Murphy and the HBO Telefilm Live From Baghdad with Michael Keaton and Helena Bonham Carter. TELEVISION: Curb Your Enthusiasm, Sex in the City, The George Lopez Show, Hack and many others. STAGE: The Tony award winning musical Contact at Lincoln Center (Drama Desk Nomination), Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile. YUL VÁZQUEZ (Juan Lopez)  Yul Vazquez in Things That Hang From Trees FILM: Vázquez portrayed Tigrillo in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic (for which he and his fellow cast members won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Motion Picture), and Julia Roberts' ex-fiancé, in Garry Marshall's Runaway Bride. Vázquez also starred in John Badham's Nick of Time. Boaz Yakin's critically acclaimed Fresh (Chillie) and in Strapped directed by Forrest Whitaker. He is also remembered for his role in Bad Boys II with Martin Lawrence, and Will Smith. TELEVISION: Vázquez can also be included in the forever-famous Seinfeld family. He portrayed Bob, the outrageous character remembered for his memorable intimidation of Kramer in the Soup Nazi, AIDS Walk and Puerto Rican Day Parade episodes. He has also become one of Samantha’s boys in Sex in the City. Other television roles include Reuben the Cuban on The Sopranos and the DA Jonah Rosenthal on the Fox Series Keen Eddie. STAGE: Vázquez currently stars opposite Isabella Rossellini in the new Terrence McNally play, The Stendhal Syndrome. Some of his stage appearances include The Floating Island Plays at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, and numerous New York productions, including several with Labyrinth Theatre Company, of which he is a founding member. MARYLOUISE BURKE (Joan Kayser)  Marylouise Burke in Things That Hang From Trees Film credits include Sideways, Must Love Dogs, Mona Lisa Smile, Meet Joe Black, Angie, Jeffrey, Celebrity, Piggie, The Baxter, Urbania, Series 7, and most recently Robert Altman’s production of Prairie Home Companion. Her TV appearances include Hope and Faith, Law & Order and Law and Order: SVU, One Life to Live, and the TV movies Amy and Isabelle (Oprah Presents) and My Sexiest Mistake (Oxygen). Onstage, she has performed on Broadway in Into the Woods, and received a Drama Desk Award for Fuddy Meers and a Drama Desk nomination for Kimberly Akimbo Off-Broadway and a Backstage West Garland Award for the South Coast Rep production of Kimberly Akimbo. Her regional work includes La Jolla Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf, McCarter Theatre, and NY Stage & Film, and the national tour of Lettice and Lovage with Julie Harris. Full Cast Deborah Kara Unger - Connie Mae Wheeler |
