Jerry O'Connell: Child Star Actors TV Series

A veteran of the stage and screen from an early age, actor Jerry O’Connell had his first career breakthrough at 11 years old when he co-starred alongside other soon-to-be stars like River Phoenix and Corey Feldman in the coming of age drama, “Stand By Me (1986)”. In his Junior year, Jerry auditioned for two TV pilots, "Sliders" and "Party of Five." He was offered the role of Quinn Mallory in the TV series "Sliders" which ran for three seasons on Fox and two seasons on the Sci Fi Channel. He served as producer during his fourth and final season with the show, and is credited with writing and directing several episodes.

Sliders series was produced by Tracy Torme and Robert Weiss. It was premiered on March 1995 and lasted on February 2000. For the first three years of Sliders were shown by the FOX Network, the television series was an intelligent, very original and fascinating example of a perfect sci-fi tv series. It has five seasons with eighty-eight episodes. The acting was mostly above the average and the writings were what really made the show.

The main characters are played by:

• Jerry O'Connell
• Sabrina Lloyd
• Cleavant Derricks
• John Rhys-Davies
• Kari Wührer
• Charlie O'Connell
• Robert Floyd
• Tembi Locke

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Summary For Sliders

Quinn Mallory played by Jerry O'Connell, while working on an anti-gravity machine, accidentally creates a portal to a parallel universe. Eventually, his friends and an unwilling participant accidentally get stuck traveling among parallel worlds, trying to survive, and learning that sliding can lead to fatal results. Meanwhile, among many changes in their group, they try to rescue the multiverse from the Kromagg Dynasty.

While trying to develop an anti-gravity device, physics genius Quinn Mallory instead creates a device that opens portals to alternative realities. After an accident leaves them lost, Quinn Mallory and his companions: his physics professor, Professor Maximillian Arturo played by John Rhys-Davies, his work colleague and potential love, Wade Wells played by Sabrina Lloyd , and a washed-up soul singer, Rembrandt Brown played by Cleavant Derricks , "slide" from reality to reality in search of home.

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The Fastest Man Alive

John Wesley Shipp starred the action television series “The Flash” created from DC Comics characters by writing team of Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo, premiered on September 1990 and lasted on May 1991. The series has only one season with twenty-one episode.

The tv series was focus with the exploits of Barry Allen played by John Wesly, a police scientist who met an accident and was struck by lighting and chemicals. Allen's electrified body is flung into and shatters a cabinet of chemicals, which are both electrified and forced to interact with each other. After the accident he learned that he gain such ability and he became the fastest man alive. He was helped by Tina McGee, S.T.A.R. Labs scientist for him to control his powers.

John Wesley Shipp is an American actor born on January 22, 1955 in Norfolk, Virginia. He was a popular soap player and well known for his television series work. John always described as a nice guy and easy to work due to his professionalism. This handsome and talented actor was very intelligent and everybody's buddy. Due to hard work and dedication, he won in Daytime Emmy Awards. John was the only actor with consecutive wins from two different daytime dramas. On 1986, he won as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for "As the World Turns (1956)”. Then on the next year, John won as Outstanding Guest Performer in a Drama Series for "Santa Barbara(1984)”.

Partial Filmography - TV Series

• Guiding Light (1980-1984)

• As the World Turns (1985-1986)

• Santa Barbara (1987)

• One Life to Live (1989)

• The Flash (1990)

• All My Children (1992)

• Sisters (1994-1995)

• Dawson's Creek (1998-2001)

• The Closer (2007)

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Francine "Fran" Joy Drescher of “The Nanny”

Fran was born on September 30, 1957 at Flushing, New York, USA. In early life, she became first runner-up for "Miss New York Teenager" in 1973. She attended Hillcrest High School in Jamaica, Queens, where she met her future husband, Peter Marc Jacobson, whom she married in 1978, at age 21. Jacobson was Drescher's constant supporter in her show-business career, and he wrote, directed, and produced her signature television series, The Nanny.

The Nanny

Fran and Jacobson finally created her own television show, The Nanny. This tv series became one of the successful American situation comedies in the 1990's. The show aired on CBS from 1993 to 1999, becoming an instant success, and Fran Drescher became an instant star.

The sitcom is a comedy show and love story. Where Fran Drescher played the role of a charming and bubbly woman as The Nanny named Fran Fine. A Jewish woman who had been fired from her job and left by her boyfriend and ended up by selling cosmetics in Manhattan.

Then, she got a job as a Nanny of Margaret "Maggie", Brighton, and Grace Sheffield. With her wit and her charm, she endeared herself to their widower father Maxwell Sheffield, British gentleman and a Broadway producer.

The show aired in six years and won a Rose d'Or and an Emmy. Fran Drescher also personally got two Golden Globe nominations for her performances.

Personal Subjects

Despite of her success, she encounter many trials in life. A brutal rape, cancer that went undiagnosed for years, divorcing her high school sweetheart and then finding love with a younger man. Although it was a traumatic experience, she found ways to turn it into something positive. She wrote a book of Cancer Schmancer, and the actress writes: "My whole life has been about changing negatives into positives."

In recent years, Drescher has made a return to television show both with leading and guest roles. In 2005, she returned to TV with the sitcom Living with Fran . In 2003, Fran appeared in episodes of the short lived sitcom, Good Morning, Miami. She also guest starred in an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. And in 2007, Fran Drescher appeared in the US version of the Australian improvisational comedy series Thank God You're Here.

Fran Drescher became famous tv series actress because of her big break The Nanny.

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