Looking for Bobby D

The Hollywood satire follows The Cappy and Stroke: two disillusioned but hopeful Damonaffleck wannabes who have written TAXI DRIVER II and must find Robert De Niro to star. Their young Ovitzian agent Richard is using them to get to their unrepresented Cousin, Kin Shriner. Under Richard’s thumb; junior agent Belinda, tired of being stepped on, fights to gain a foothold among the agenting elite.

Director : Peymon Maskan
Write/Producer : Adam Fine

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1. Hedy Burress as Belinda: Boston Common, Foxfire, If These Walls Could Talk
Hedy Burress
Hedy first studied stage directing and performing at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois. Her stage performances included: Rimers of Eldritch, The Birthday Party and Biloxi Blues. Her life changed when she received a call from a Chicago based casting director who had used her in an interactive CD-ROM game for Viacom the year before. The casting director asked if she’d audition for the role of the artistic, mal-adjusted teenager Maddy in Boston Common. Hedy would get the role, however she would eventually play Wyleen Pritchett, the younger sister of comedian Anthony Clark.

After shooting the pilot for Boston Common, Hedy landed a supporting role in the NBC miniseries Seduced by Madness: The Diane Borchardt Story, starring Ann Margaret and Peter Coyote. Next, Hedy worked with her idol Sissy Spacek in If These Walls Could Talk. Then, in the spring of 1997, after 32 episodes, Boston Common was cancelled. During the following year, Hedy worked on three movies: Any Mother’s Son co-starring Bonnie Badelia, Getting Personal, and Los Años Bbárbaros. In 1998 Hedy starred as Tom Selleck’s daughter opposite Ed Asner, David Krumholtz and Penelope Ann Miller in the TV series The Closer. After the cancellation of The Closer, Hedy made appearances on Working and The Profiler. In 1999, she teamed up with Andy Garcia and Harry Belafonte in the Jerry Bruckheimer produced TV movie Swing Vote. Hedy next turned her attention towards the Theater in Seattle taking on the roll of “Abigail Williams” in the ACT (A Contemporary Theater) production of The Crucible. Following her run on the stage, Hedy appeared opposite Judd Nelson in the USA M.O.W. Cabin By The Lake shot in Vancouver, BC. Immediately after wrapping Cabin By The Lake, Hedy flew back to Los Angeles to shoot Looking For Bobby D. Hedy next appears in an NBC comedy titled DAG, starring David Alan Grier, and Delta Burke.

For more information on Hedy Burress, please visit her website at HedyBurress.com.
2. Rick Hoffman as Richard: Conspiracy Theory, What Planet Are You From, Better Way To Die
Rick Hoffman
Rick Hoffman, originally from Long Island, New York, has been making a name for himself in both the feature and television worlds. Hoffman most recently starred, as a series regular, as the unforgettable character of “Freddie Sacker” on THE $TREET, and was named as one of Variety’s “Ten Actors to Watch” for the year 2000. Hoffman also appeared on PROVIDENCE as ‘Benji Brickman,’ as well as guest stints on THE PRETENDER and ALRIGHT ALREADY. His feature credits include CONSPIRACY THEORY, A BETTER WAY TO DIE, and JOHNNY SKIDMARKS. Rick is currently about to begin production on the eagerly awaited new television series, PHILLY, from Steven Bochco (NYPD BLUE).
3. Paul Bates as Fat Dez: Instinct, True Romance, Coming To America
Paul Bates
Paul Bates trained at the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts, Santa Maria California, then at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. He then left for New York where he first found work at the New York Shakespeare Festival (not counting driving a cab and waiting tables). He was a so-so cabbie and a terrible waiter. Regional credits followed at the Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival in Pittsburgh, the Goodman Theatre Chicago, the Pittsburgh Public Theatre, and back in New York at the Young Playwrights Festival Of Playwrights Horizons. Paul is also a founding member of The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Paul’s film credits include: Mr. Wonderful, Coming To America, Crazy People, and Instinct which Paul likes to say, ” I got my butt kicked by a Knight.” (Sir Anthony Hopkins)

In addition Paul is probably the only working actor in Los Angeles besides Billy Bob Thornton from Malvern Arkansas, and sadly the similarities end there. Paul does not have an Oscar, and to date has not slept with Laura Dern or Angelina Jolie, but hopes to in the near future.
4. Michael Dietz as Stroke: Port Charles, Guiding Light, Beverly Hills 90210
Michael Dietz
Michael developed his dream of acting while doing something that many of us spend our Wednesday nights doing. He decided he wanted to pursue acting, after watching the television show Beverly Hills, 90210, while majoring in Marketing at Pennsylvania State University. He was enamored by the lifestyle depicted on the show and imagined what it would like to live there. He decided to drive out to Los Angeles, after his sophomore year in college, just to check it out. He had only planned to stay in Los Angeles for a few months. His initial intention was to return to Penn State and then permanently relocate to LA after he finished college. However, after tagging along with a friend to a party for White Men Can’t Jump, at Woody Harrelson’s house, he decided to stay. He met a manager at this party, who set him up with an agent. The next thing he knew he called his parents and told them what he wanted to do. He notes that his parents were very supportive. However he also notes that if they were not and had told him to get back to Pennsylvania to finish college, he probably would have done just that. Lucky for us, they encouraged him to pursue this new dream of his. Ironically, one of the first acting jobs that he got was on none other than Beverly Hills, 90210. He has also appeared on Baywatch, a television movie titled Someone’s Watching, and a television pilot titled Nowhere Fast.

Prior to landing the role of Dr. Joe Scanlon on Port Charles, he had the contract role of Alan-Michael Spaulding on the long running CBS drama Guiding Light. Following Guiding Light, Michael appeared as Joe Scanlon on the ABC sudser Port Charles. Following Port Charles, Michael worked on Looking For Bobby D, and has since done numerous commercial projects, and is currently auditioning for a number of feature film and television projects.

Bio Courtesy of Virginia Wong
5. Adam Fine as The Cappy
Adam Fine
Born August 9th, 1971 in Atlantic City New Jersey, Adam soon moved to a seaside community in San Diego with his Mother and sister. Once there, Adam learned the essential skills necessary to enter the filmmaking community: surfing, fishing, and sunbathing. After years of hard work, perfecting his cutback and tan, Adam attended Cal State Long Beach where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. After graduating Magna Cum Bee Minus, Adam began scheduling LSAT test dates in hopes of admittance to the prestigious Whittier School of Law, then becoming a sports agent like his then hero, Leigh Steinberg.

On a dare from one of his friends, Adam attended a commercial audition, got a callback, got a commercial agent, and the rest is history. Odd jobs, poverty and struggle soon followed. Flash forward seven years: a few commercials, some small film/TV parts, and a partridge in a pear tree. Without the ever-elusive theatrical representation Adam continued to pound the pavement. A meeting at a high profile talent agency with two young, over powered, underqualified theatrical agents would be a defining moment in Adam’s life, and the motivation that spurred “Looking For Bobby D.”

Immediately following production, Adam was offered a producer/sales rep position in a boutique Beverly Hills production company. After producing numerous commercial spots and managing two directors for a year, Adam moved on to a freelance sales rep position with commercial production company Tuesday Films in Santa Monica. With six talented directors to work with, as well as maintaining producing duties for Little Red Hen Entertainment, Adam has found a comfortable foothold from which to climb.
6. Daniel Dae Kim as Gay Timmy: For Love Of The Game, The Jackal, Crusade (TNT)
Daniel Dae Kim
Daniel started his professional career in New York, where his first role was (a very young) Torvald in Ibsen’s classic, A Doll’s House. Many jobs followed, including Romeo and Juliet, and TV’s All My Children and Law & Order. After a few years of working steadily, he decided it was time to go back to school and he enrolled in NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts to receive a Master’s degree in Acting. There he performed in a number of well known works, including Posthumus in Cymbeline, Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Leontes in The Winter’s Tale, all by William Shakespeare. Upon graduation, Daniel stayed in New York to work on the New York premiere of The Chang Fragments, at the Public Theater, written by MacArthur Fellow Han Ong. Upon successfully completing that production, Daniel moved to Los Angeles, where he has been lucky enough to play a number of widely varying roles, including Lt. John Matheson, a series regular on the science fiction show, Crusade, which just recently finished its run on TNT. He has also appeared in films such as For Love of the Game, and The Jackal, starring Richard Gere and Bruce Willis. On TV he has had guest starring roles on NYPD Blue, Ally McBeal, Seinfeld, and The Practice among many others. His most recent appearance was onstage, where he played the lead in David Henry Hwang’s Golden Child in Los Angeles.
7. Kin Shriner as Himself: General Hospital, Port Charles
Kin Shriner
Kin Shriner created the role of Scotty Baldwin on General Hospital in 1977, and continued with the character off and on through the early ’90s. After being away from General Hospital for several years, Scotty dramatically returned to Port Charles, the spin-off which premiered June 1, 1997. For Scott, passion and intrigue have always gone hand in hand. His recent engagement to soulmate Lucy Coe has completed the family Scott works hard to protect.

Shriner also appeared in the daytime dramas, Texas and Rituals, the ABC miniseries, War and Remembrance, Echo, USA Television’s Crying Child with Mariel Hemingway, and various theatrical movies, including Vendetta, Kidnapped and Angel III.

Shriner has been nominated for four Daytime Emmys and has been honored with numerous Soap Opera Awards, including a 1998 win for Oustanding Scene Stealer.
8. Anders Hove as The Rat: SubSpecies, General Hospital
Anders Hove
Born in Greenland, Anders migrated to Denmark with his family at the age of fourteen. As a young man he was supposed to take over his father’s business but became restless and turned to acting. “Though I went to the university to study law and business for three years, I couldn’t sit still.” he admits. Anders finally decided to pursue his dream of becoming an actor and was chosen for admittance to a prestigious theater school in Denmark. While doing mostly stage work in Denmark, Anders met and fell in love with an American woman named Anne. The two were soon married in 1980, and started a family. Anders continued to pursue his acting career throughout Europe, then coming to the United States.

Anders landed a role on General Hospital as the sinister villain, Cesar Faison. He stayed with GH until Faison was supposedly killed in a boat explosion in 1992, but he later resurfaced on Loving as the same character. The Loving storyline didn’t match the work of GH and was quickly pulled. Anders returned to the role of the dastardly yet complex Cesar Faison in the spring of 1999. While the reappearance of Faison is sure to wreak havoc on the lives of some familiar faces in Port Charles, Anders could not be happier about his character’s penchant for stirring up trouble. “I’d hate to play the lead because there is nothing more boring than being the hero.” Anders explains. “I prefer to be the guy who comes in and changes the whole story.” Anders had a two year contract for the role on GH, but seeing that the character was going nowhere, he asked to be released. He was granted his wish, and the Great Dane fled under the cloak of darkness to his homeland. He’ll soon resurface to the small screen in Subspecies 5, which goes into production February in Romania.
9. Arianne Zucker as Shannon: Days Of Our Lives
Arianne Zucker
Arianne Zuker, born in Northridge, California, and raised in Chatsworth, California, began her career as a model at the age of 16, providing her with several opportunities for travel. Some of her Favorite assignments include print jobs in France, Australia, New York and Japan. Arianne still remains represented by the Ford Modeling Agency.

Transitioning from modeling to acting seems a natural transition nowadays, but was nevertheless nerve-racking for the five feet nine inch blonde Arianne. Five hour long screen tests and countless pages of dialogue would not discourage the young actress. Arianne would soon be cast as the unlucky in love gold digger Nicole Walker, a former model trapped in a bad marriage on NBC’s top rated daytime drama, Days Of Our Lives. Life does really imitate art, but it wasn’t Arianne’s first time in front of the cameras. She’s appeared in several national commercials for McDonald’s and Mazda automobiles. Her theater credits include Babe Borelle in Beth Henley’s Crimes Of The Heart, Maude in A Coupla White Chicks and Elaine in Neil Simon’s Last Of The Little Red Hot Lovers. Arianne continues to study theater at the Howard Fine Studios in Los Angeles.

When not living the rigorous life of a young actress, Arianne’s other passions include horseback riding, skiing, and tae kwon do (she has a green belt). A lover of all sports, Arianne has recently started golfing, and enjoys watching classic films in her down time.