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GoldenGlobe-nominee Ellen Pompeo is one of television's most beloved actresses, best known for her role as Meredith Grey on ABC's award-winning, critically acclaimed drama \"Grey's Anatomy.\" With Pompeo at the helm, the series continues to be ABC's highest-rated television drama as it enters its 19th season.

Pompeo made her major studio film debut in Brad Silberling's 2002 \"Moonlight Mile,\" alongside Jake Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman and Susan Sarandon. She went on to star opposite Luke Wilson, Vince Vaughn and Will Ferrell in the wildly successful \"Old School,\" and in Steven Spielberg's \"Catch Me If You Can,\" opposite Leonardo DiCaprio.

Now in her 19th season on ABC's award-winning, critically acclaimed drama "Grey's Anatomy," original cast member Chandra Wilson has received the Screen Actors Guild, People's Choice, Prism and three NAACP Image Awards, as well as four Emmy Award nominations, for her portrayal of Miranda Bailey. She has also received an NAACP Image and Women's Image Network Award in directing for "Grey's Anatomy," having directed several episodes since season six. This opened the door to her directing on ABC's "Scandal" and three episodes of Freeform's "The Fosters." She has graced the covers of Essence, Entertainment Weekly, JET, Heart and Soul, Life and TV Guide magazines, and has been featured in Ebony, Parade, Venice and Working Mother magazines.

Starting at age 5, the Houston native performed for 10 years in major musicals with Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS). At Houston's Ensemble Theatre, she portrayed Li'l Bits in "One Monkey Don't Stop No Show" and was later honored with their Rising Star Award for her professional accomplishments. She graduated from Houston's High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, and later went on to get her BFA in drama from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she spent four years training at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.

Wilson starred in the short film "Muted," which won the 2014 HBO Short Film Competition at the American Black Film Festival, and won Best Acting Performance at the 2015 SOHO International Film Festival for the role. Also on the big screen, she appeared in "Frankie and Alice," starring Halle Berry and directed by Geoffrey Sax; "Lone Star," directed by John Sayles; "Philadelphia," directed by Jonathan Demme; and the documentary "Autism in America," in which she serves as narrator.

Wilson gave a Prism Award-winning and Emmy-nominated performance in Hallmark Channel's "Accidental Friendship." Other television credits include ABC's "Bob Patterson" as series regular Claudia Hopper, and guest starring on "General Hospital," "The Sopranos," "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," "Sex and the City," "Third Watch," "100 Centre Street," "Cosby," "Law & Order" and "The Cosby Show." She recurred on "One Life to Live" and "Queens Supreme," and was a lead in the CBS Schoolbreak special "Sexual Considerations." National television commercials include Blockbuster Video, Burger King, Scope and the United Negro College Fund, as well as numerous radio commercials.

Broadway credits include Matron Mama Morton in the musical "Chicago," Gary Coleman in "Avenue Q," Dotty Moffett in "Caroline, or Change," and Flossie's Friend in "On the Town," the latter two directed by George C. Wolfe. Wilson portrayed Bonna Willis in Lynda Barry's "The Good Times Are Killing Me" at the Second Stage and Minetta Lane theatres, which won her a Theatre World Award for Outstanding Debut Performance. She was in "Caroline, or Change" at the Public Theatre, "The Miracle Worker" at Charlotte Repertory Theatre, musical "Paper Moon" at the Papermill Playhouse, Theresa Rebeck's "The Family of Mann" at the Second Stage Theatre, "Believing" for the Young Playwright's Festival at Playwrights Horizons, "Little Shop of Horrors" at the Falmouth Playhouse, and the Shakespeare in the Park revival of "On the Town."

Wilson has been a spokesperson for the Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome Association (www.CVSAonline.org) and speaks out for organizations like www.mitoaction.org whose mission is to increase awareness and understanding of mitochondrial disease and its related functional disorders. She manages the Sermoonjoy Scholarship Fund, which provides college scholarships to Theatre Department graduates at the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, and the Sermoonjoy Fellowship Fund, which provides annual fellowships to mid-career actors. More philanthropic information can be found at www.sermoonjoy.org and www.chandrawilson.com.

Original \"Grey's Anatomy\" cast member James Pickens Jr. started acting in his hometown of Cleveland at the Karamu House, distinguished as the oldest African American theater in the United States. He performed a reading of the play \"Home\" by Samm-Art Williams, in celebration of the theater's centennial.

After moving to New York, he performed in the historic 1981 production of Charles Fullers' \"A Soldier's Play\" at the Negro Ensemble Company with fellow cast members Denzel Washington and Samuel L. Jackson. He was a member of the famed Circle Rep/Steppenwolf Theatre Company co-production of Lanford Wilson's \"Balm in Gilead,\" and starred as Walter Lee in the 25th anniversary revival of \"A Raisin in the Sun\" at the Roundabout Theater.

Pickens performed in the Los Angeles stage reading of \"8,\" the story of the historic Proposition 8 marriage equality case, which was directed by Rob Reiner and included an all-star cast of George Clooney, Martin Sheen, Kevin Bacon, Jamie Lee Curtis, Christine Lahti, John C. Reilly and Brad Pitt.

As Richard Webber, Pickens is one of the few original cast members of ABC's award-winning, critically acclaimed drama \"Grey's Anatomy\" to remain with the show throughout its 19 seasons. Television viewers may also remember him for his recurring roles on such series as \"NYPD Blue,\" \"The X-Files,\" \"The Practice,\" \"Philly,\" \"Curb Your Enthusiasm,\" \"Six Feet Under,\" \"The West Wing,\" \"Roseanne\" and \"Beverly Hills 90210,\" Pickens also starred opposite Rob Lowe in \"The Lyon's Den\" (NBC) and with William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman in \"A Slight Case of Murder\" (TNT). For his role on \"Grey's Anatomy,\" he received a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Drama Ensemble and won an NAACP Image Award, which he describes as \"especially gratifying after seven consecutive nominations!\"

He and his wife oversee the James Pickens Jr. Foundation, whose mission is to enhance the lives of families and children in underserved communities. He hosts an annual charity roping event in Los Angeles, which draws some of the best team ropers in the sport. He and his wife, Gina, a singer, have a son and a daughter.

An established star of film, television and theater, Scottish actor Kevin McKidd made his feature film debut in 1996, starring in Gillies MacKinnon's \"Small Faces,\" followed by a starring role alongside Ewan McGregor in the film \"Trainspotting.\" He has also been a brooding Caesar-era soldier in HBO's \"Rome\" and a time-travelling journalist in the 2007 NBC drama \"Journeyman.\"

In recent years, McKidd appeared in the films \"North of Hell\" and the Justin Chadwick-directed \"Tulip Fever.\" He also voiced the character Reptillus Maximus in the Pixar animated holiday TV special \"Toy Story That Time Forgot\" on ABC. In addition, McKidd voiced two characters, Young MacGuffin and Lord MacGuffin, in the Disney/Pixar animated film \"Brave\" in 2012. In 2010, he appeared alongside Rosario Dawson, Uma Thurman and Pierce Brosnan in Chris Columbus' \"Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.\" In 2008, he co-starred in the romantic comedy \"Made of Honor,\" alongside Michelle Monaghan. Other film credits include \"Hannibal Rising\"; Ridley Scott's \"Kingdom of Heaven\"; the Irwin Winkler musical \"De-Lovely\" with Kevin Kline and Ashley Judd; \"Sixteen Years of Alcohol,\" for which he was nominated for Best Actor at the British Independent Film Awards; \"Nicholas Nickleby\"; \"Hideous Kinky\" with Kate Winslet; and \"Max\" with John Cusack.

In 2007, McKidd made his debut on American network television as the star of NBC's \"Journeyman.\" While the show was short-lived, it resonated with television critics and helped establish McKidd as a household name. Prior to \"Journeyman,\" he starred in HBO's Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated \"Rome.\" Other television credits include \"The Virgin Queen,\" \"Gunpowder, Treason and Plot\" and \"North Square.\"

McKidd's theater credits include \"Richard III,\" \"Britannicus,\" for which he won an Ian Charleston Award, and \"Far Away.\" He also released an album of traditional Scottish folk songs, \"The Speyside Sessions,\" with a group of friends in 2012. Proceeds from the album benefit the charity Save the Children, for which McKidd is an ambassador.

Born and raised in Scotland, McKidd was a member of the Moray Youth Theatre. He became involved in the Bedlam Theatre Company while a student at the University of Edinburgh, and it was there that he decided to pursue acting full time. His first leading role came in the Wild Cat Theatre Company-produced \"The Silver Darlings,\" for which he won the Gulliver Award.

Kim Raver returned to ABC's medical drama \"Grey's Anatomy\" in the 14th season, where she reprised her role as Teddy Altman, the former head of cardiothoracic surgery at the Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital. She also co-produced with her husband three Lifetime films based on novels by international bestselling author Jane Green: \"Tempting Fate,\" starring Alyssa Milano and marking Raver's directorial debut, \"To Have and To Hold\" and \"Family Pictures.\"

Raver recently recurred on the fifth season of Showtime's \"Ray Donovan,\" in which she played surgeon Dr. Bergstein, as well as recurring on Fox's \"APB\" and \"Bones.\" She also reprised her series regular role, Audrey Raines, in the Emmy-nominated \"24: Live Another Day.\" Raver was also seen on NBC's \"Revolution,\" playing the role of Julia Neville. She is also well known for her role as Nico Reilly on NBC's \"Lipstick Jungle\" from creator Candice Bushnell (\"Sex and the City\").

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