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Kristine Sutherland Kristine was born in Boise, Idaho and got the acting bug at an early age when she accompanied a friend to an audition. Kristine attended the University of Kentucky and then went to London to study at the Drama Studio. Once she had completed her studies she headed for New York and appeared in many stage productions. It was here that she met and married her husband, actor, John Pankow, and they had their daughter, Eleanore. In 1993 the family decided to make the move to Los Angeles and Kristine hoped to give up acting in order to bring up Eleanore. However in 1996, her agent tracked her down with a script for a show called Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Kristine just couldn't resist.

During her time on Buffy, Kristine took some time out to spend a year in Italy with her family, flying back to LA occasionaly to appear in just fiver episodes of Season Four of the show.

Since Buffy ended, Kristine has again taken time away from acting to pursue her other interest of photography in which she took a course at Santa Monica College. Kristine also enjoys playing the piano and cooking.

When she is not acting Kristine enjoys playing the piano and cooking.

Trivia

Kristine changed her name from Young to Sutherland when she began acting as there was already an actress named Kristine Young. She chose the name Sutherland after her cat Donald whom she had named after Donald Sutherland. Donald Sutherland played Buffy's watcher Merrick in the original film of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Ken Lerner Ken was born in Brooklyn to Blanche and George Lerner, the youngest of three sons. Ken attended Brookyln college where is obtained a BA degree in English. Ken first wanted to be a teacher and was working as one when he was taken by acting by helping his brother Michael learn his lines. The two of them set of for the bright lights of Los Angeles and Ken soon got his first break with a recurring role in Happy Days. Ken appeared in many TV series and films before he decided to combine both his loves and become an acting teacher. Ken now gives acting classes and private coaching as well as still acting himself.
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Mark Metcalf Born in Findlay, Ohio Mark attended the University of Michigan in the hopes of obtaining a Master's degree, however, he never completed the course. Mark started his career in acting on the stage and, in the early seventies he travelled the States with the Milwaukee Repertory Company. Mark's loing career has included, TV, film and even music videos. As well as all this Mark has found the time to return to University to complete his degree at the California State University and he owns a Restaurant/Bar called "Libby Montana" in Mequon Wisconsin.
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Brian Thompson Brain was born in Ellensburg, Washington and raised on the Columbia River in Longview with his parents and six siblings. He first became interested in acting when he landed a role as the Russian Ballet Teacher Boris in 'You Can't Take it With You' whilst in high school. After graduating from High School, Brian attended the Central Washington University to study business management whilst also auditioning for everything he could.

Brian earned a scholarship to the University of Calirfornia-Irvine and gained a Masters degree in Fine Arts whilst also working with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. By the time he graduated he had his SAG card, an agent and five professional credits to his name, including a part in The Terminator. Since that time he has added to his list of creditionals appearing in many films and TV Series, including Star Trek, Charmed and The X-Files as well as playing two different characters on Buffy the Vampire Slayer

As well as acting, Brian has a black belt on Hapkido, plays the piano and enjoys sushi rolling.

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Musetta Vander Musetta was born in South Africa to a ballet teacher and made her stage debut, as a dancer herself, at the age of four. Musetta went on to qualify as a ballet teacher herself. After taking a BA degree in Communications and Psychology, Musetta started her work in TV as anchor host for a South African music show. It was through this job that she met her American husband and jetted off to Hollywood. Here she continued her career in by appearing in various music videos. She also appeared on the stage and it was her peformance in the critically acclaimed original South African play Soweto's Burning, that got her noticed and enabled her to make the move onto the big screen.
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Robia La Morte Robia was born, New York and lived in the Florida Keys until the age of twelve when her family moved to Los Angeles. It was seeing the movie Flashdance that inspired her to act and she started taking lessons in jazz, ballet and tap. Robia attended The Los Angeles County High School For The Arts as a dance major for a year and then went on to Dupree Dance Academy in Hollywood. From the age of 16 Robia began to work professionally and appeared in several music videas before her big break came when Prince asked her to play the role of Pearl for in the videos for the Diamonds and Pearls album and accompany him on tour.

At the age of twenty two she decided to give up dancing and pursue a career in acting appearing in several television commercials before appearing in two episodes of Beverley Hills 90210 as a love interest for Jason Priestley's character. Since then she has worked steadily although she is still probably best known for her role as Jenny Calendar in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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