Cast List (season 1)
Regular cast:Daniel Brady (played by) Gregory CollierLike his character, Mr. Collier is from Texas, but he's got much more actual cowboy in his background than SA Brady. However, this gifted young man attended the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and it was a tangled path that eventually led him to Hollywood by way of musical theatre. After a series of supporting roles and guest appearances in film and television, this is Collier's first regular series appearance. Judging by his blond good looks (reminiscent of a young Robert Redford) and deadpan delivery, it won't be his last.
Hafidha Gates (played by) Vivian CartwrightA Vancouver native, Ms. Cartwright is a veteran of many a pilot that never got picked up, small theatre production, and movie extra gig. With her quirky looks, Cartwright did not expect to find herself cast in a major television show as a series regular. She has some semi-anonymous hobbies that most of Hollywood pretends not to know about. But they all read her (pseudonymous) industry blog. She is always Vivian, never Viv. Even to her friends.
Stephen Reyes (played by) James Patrick KellyLike his character, veteran character actor Kelly is a Chicago native, beloved for his infamous baritone voice. Reyes is, however, a sharper dresser. (Mr. Kelly is not to be confused with the award-winning science fiction author of the same name, who also has an IMDB entry:
http://uk.imdb.com/name/nm1642586/.) Mr. Kelly, in contravention of his on-screen persona, is something of a notorious prankster.
Daphne Worth (played by) Camryn KaufmannMs. Kaufmann, a former stand-up comic, has also appeared in several short-lived situation comedies. This is her first dramatic role. "Cam" to her friends, she's the other practical joker on the set.
Chaz Villette (played by) Robert X. AguileraThis is the mixed-race Los Angelino's first appearance as a series regular, though Beto's had a string of two-minutes-on-screen roles as Second Gang Lieutenant and Weird Kid in High School Hallway. As he had expected to spend the first twenty years of his acting career playing carjackers while waiting to be adjudged old enough for character roles, he's somewhat stunned to find himself in the sort of job where his picture gets taped to teenaged girls' mirrors. Aguilera, despite his goofy good looks, is a serious actor, and what's described in the business as a "triple threat." (He also sings and dances.)
Sol Todd (played by) John FordNot (
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000406/) that John Ford. Not that (
http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=john+ford&x=0&y=0) John Ford, either. This one is a veteran voice actor (having among other things, voiced Milo on a computer-animated remake of The Phantom Tollbooth), as well as having a long and varied stage resume prior to being cast in
Shadow Unit. He's also a screenwriter, with three quirky indie films on his credits, and uncredited script doctoring on dozens of releases.
Nicolette Lau (played by) Patricia ZhouLike her character, Ms. Zhou is American-born Chinese, and a Los Angeles native. She is a martial artist, a trained ballet dancer, and actually graduated the police academy and served two years on the Berkeley police force before being discovered, in true this never really happens fashion, on the set of a TV show where she had turned up for an extras call on a lark.
Esther Falkner (played by) Danielle Saint-JeanThis is the French-Canadian actress' first recurring US television role. In Canada, she was well-known as one of the mainstays of a popular half-hour daytime drama for nearly thirteen years. However, her most famous roles were as a scream queen in a series of low-budget cult horror movies in the 1980s. She likes to say she's matured as an actress since then.
(Recurring characters:)Pete Pauley (played by) Richard Patrick O'Neal
Madeline Frost, Md. (played by) Dame Judi Dench
