Rex Lee plays assistant Lloyd to a “rabid boss” – agent Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven) on HBO’s hit series “Entourage.”
In an article on Lee [Memoirs of a Gaysian, by Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times April 12, 2007] the author notes “Lloyd has become something of a pop icon — thanks in large part to the [...]

Rebecca Brooksher plays Kelly in Dying City, at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. In a Backstage.com interview [by Simi Horwitz, April 04, 2007] she talks about her decision to apply to Juilliard: “I’m not one of those people who finds the idea of [being] a starving artist acceptable. I felt that if I did [...]

Looking back at her earlier career and the fame of her 1994 show My So-Called Life, Claire Danes admitted in an interview that she always took herself very seriously. “I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate…grown up.
“When I was 18, I went [...]

Rashida Jones plays Karen Filipelli on NBC’s The Office. The daughter of actor Peggy Lipton and musician Quincy Jones, she is biracial and also Jewish.
A recent magazine article noted she is “Constantly told she looks too light to play African American, and rarely cast in period pieces” because, she explains, “people like me didn’t exist.” [...]

Melora Hardin [Jan Levinson in NBC's "The Office"] is also a musician, and in our interview several years ago, she talked about how actors and artists – especially women – are responded to and labeled.
“I have never ever felt when I walked into a room as a brunette that anybody was testing my intelligence. But [...]

“I don’t think I’m very much like anyone else, really. I’m sure there are aspects of other actors that I share, but I don’t see anybody else and go, ‘Damn, they stole my thing.’ I’m me, and I like that there are people who have an appreciation for that.” …
“I don’t want to be a [...]