CBS Press Tour Summer 2009

Audiences fell in love with Alex O'Loughlin and his starring role as Mick St. John in the vampire drama "Moonlight" on the Network. He was also recently seen in the feature film "August Rush" and is currently shooting CBS Films' "The Back-Up Plan" opposite Jennifer Lopez.

O'Loughlin will also be in the upcoming film "White Out" with Kate Beckinsale. His other film credits include "The Holiday" and "Oyster Farmer." His additional television credits include "The Shield" and the Australian miniseries "Mary Bryant."

Born in Canberra, Australia, O'Loughlin studied acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney. Currently, he resides in Los Angeles and enjoys riding motorcycles, rock climbing, music and playing his guitar. His birth date is Aug. 24.

Katherine Moennig is best known for her role as Shane McCutcheon on the series "The L Word." Her additional television credits include "CSI: Miami," on the Network, "Young Americans," "Law & Order" and "Law & Order: SVU."

Moennig's film credits include "Art School Confidential," "Invitation to a Suicide," "The Shipping News" and "Love the Hard Way." She will soon be seen in the feature film "Everybody's Fine," starring opposite Robert DeNiro, Sam Rockwell and Drew Barrymore.

As a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, Moennig appeared on stage in the Off-Broadway play "Guardians." Other stage credits include "As You Like It," "Comedy of Art," "The Theory of Total Blame" and "Morning in the City," for the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

Moennig was raised in Philadelphia and currently resides in Los Angeles. Her birth date is Dec. 29.

Model-turned-actor Daniel Henney is now a household name in South Korea after starring as Dr. Henry Kim in the popular miniseries "My Lovely Samsoon." Henney was also recently seen in this summer's blockbuster hit "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," in which he plays the character Agent Zero.

Henney starred in the television series "Spring Waltz," by acclaimed director SukHo Yoon and then went on to star in his first feature film "Seducing Mr. Robin." His second film, "My Father," won multiple awards in South Korea and was actually the first time in that country's history that a foreigner swept all the major cinema awards in the Best New Actor category.

Henney has also appeared in the Off-Broadway production of "Death of a Salesman."

He was born in Carson City, Mich., to a Korean-American mother and a British-American father. He studied Business Communications at Albion College and Alma College and as an avid sports enthusiast, played college basketball throughout his college years. He is also musically active and has been the lead vocal and guitarist for an underground rock band, Avarice, for two years. Currently, he lives in Seoul, South Korea and Los Angeles and his birth date is Nov. 28.

Christopher J. Hanke is an accomplished theater actor, having performed on Broadway in productions such as "Cry Baby," for which he won rave reviews, "Rent" and in the original cast of "In My Life." He has also performed in the national tours of "Big River," "The Full Monty" and "Fame." He will soon be seen in the feature film "Clear Blue Tuesday."

Hanke's additional New York theater credits include the Central Park production of "Hair," as well as "Golden Age," "Indian Blood" and "Fame on 42nd Street." In addition, he has performed in many regional theater productions such as "Cry Baby," "Grease," "Damn Yankees" and "Miracle on 34th Street."

Hanke was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, graduated from Baylor University in Waco, Texas and currently resides in New York. His birth date is March 18.

Justina Machado is best remembered as Vanessa Diaz in HBO's critically acclaimed, awardwinning series "Six Feet Under." Machado has also appeared in television series such as "Grey's Anatomy" and in the television film, "Pedro."

Machado will soon be seen in the feature films "The Accidental Husband" opposite Uma Thurman, and "In the Electric Mist with Confederate Soldiers" as Tommy Lee Jones' law enforcement partner. Her other film credits include the features "Full Frontal," "She's So Lovely" and "Torque," opposite Ice Cube.

Machado started acting after graduating from high school and performed on stage at the Latino Chicago Theater. Recently, she starred in Neil Labutte's "Some Girls" at the Geffen Theater in Los Angeles and her other stage credits include "Blade to the Heat" at the Mark Taper Forum and "Black Butterfly." Most recently, she appeared at the Golden Gate Theater in San Francisco in "Mambo Kings" opposite Esai Morales, where she was able to showcase her dancing and singing skills.

Born and raised in Chicago as the eldest of five children in a family of Puerto Rican descent, Machado currently resides in Los Angeles. Her birth date is Sept. 6.

A four-time Emmy Award-winner, Alfre Woodard was first honored in 1984 for her performance as the grieving mother of a child killed by a police officer in the acclaimed series "Hill Street Blues." She won her second Emmy Award for her portrayal of a rape victim on the pilot for "L.A. Law." The same year she was nominated for her role in John Sayles' "Unnatural Causes." Her third Emmy Award earned was for Best Actress in a Television Mini-Series or Movie in "Miss Ever's Boys" (for which she also received a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a cable Ace Award).

Woodard received another Emmy Award in 2003 for her guest starring role in "The Practice." Previous nominations include two in consecutive years for "Words By Heart" and for a role on the series "St. Elsewhere." Woodard was nominated again in 1990 for "A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story." In addition, she was honored with an ACE Award for her portrayal of Winnie Mandela in "Mandela," starring Danny Glover. Other credits include the television series "Desperate Housewives" and "My Own Worst Enemy" and the television movies "The Member Of The Wedding," Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels," "Holiday Heart" (for which she was nominated for a 2000 Best Actress Golden Globe Award), as well as three Hallmark Hall of Fame productions, all on the Network; the television adaptation of August Wilson's play "The Piano Lesson," which earned her a Best Actress Award from the Screen Actors Guild and an Emmy Award nomination; "The Water Is Wide;" and "Pictures of Hollis Woods," co-starring Sissy Spacek, for which she was nominated for an Emmy.

Woodard starred in the ensemble film "How To Make An American Quilt" and Spike Lee's family drama, "Crooklyn." She had a starring role in "Star Trek: First Contact" and in the thriller "Primal Fear" opposite Richard Gere. In 1984, Woodard was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in Martin Ritt's "Cross Creek." Woodard's other starring film projects include John Sayles' "Passion Fish," Morgan Freeman's South African drama "Bopha!" also starring Danny Glover, Bruce Beresford's "Rich In Love," William Freidkin's "Blue Chips" and Ron Underwood's comedy "Heart And Souls."

Her additional film credits include Lawrence Kasdan's "Grand Canyon," the comedy "Scrooged," "Miss Firecracker" opposite Holly Hunter and Tim Robbins, and Robert Altman's "Health." She made her motion picture debut in Alan Rudolph's "Remember My Name." She was most recently seen in "American Violet;" Tyler Perry's "The Family That Preys" opposite Kathy Bates and she starred along side Antonio Banderas in "Take The Lead." Additional credits include "Something New;" "Beauty Shop" opposite Queen Latifah; "The Forgotten" with Julianne Moore; "Radio" with Cuba Gooding Jr., Ed Harris and Deborah Winger; "The Core;" "The Singing Detective" with Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr.; "K-Pax" opposite Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges; "Love 'N Basketball;" Wesley Snipes' production of "Down in The Delta" directed by Dr. Maya Angelou; Gurinder Chadha's "What's Cooking" and Lawrence Kasdan's "Mumford." Woodard has lent her voice to animation, portraying the cheetah mother in "The Wild Thornberrys Movie" as well as a lemur named Plio in "Dinosaur."

Always drawn to the theater, her stage credits include Broadway's "Drowning Crow," the 1985 New York Shakespeare Festival production of David Hare's "Map of The World" and the 1989 production of "A Winter's Tale." She also starred in "A Christmas Carol" and "Leander Stillwell" at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, "Horatio" and Edward Bond's "Saved" at the Arena Stage in Wash. D.C., "Me and Bessie" on Broadway and at San Francisco's ACT.

Most recently, Woodard directed the audiobook 'Nelson Mandela's Favorite Folktales,' which had her collaborating with talents such as Scarlett Johansson, Hugh Jackson, Helen Mirren and Alan Rickman. The audiobook which was released on July 7, hit #1 on the Amazon audiobook chart.

Her birth date is Nov. 8 and her hometown is Tulsa, Okla.