Babylon 5 Universe
The Cast/Actors Index

Richard Biggs (Dr. Stephen Franklin)

Richard Biggs was born in 1961 in Columbus, Ohio (USA) and graduated from University of Southern California School of Theatre.
He passed away on May 22, 2004.
A college fund for his children has been established.

Bruce Boxleitner (John Sheridan)

Bruce Boxleitner was born on May 12, 1950 in Elgin, Illinois (USA)
is married to Melissa Gilbert.
In May 1998 he was appointed to the National Space Society Board of Governors.

Jason Carter (Marcus Cole)

Jason Carter was born on September 23, 1960.

Ardwight Chamberlain Ambassador Kosh Naranek [voice]

Ardwight Chamberlain's birthday is February 16.
Although he has been "the voice" of Kosh, the man underneath the encounter suit has been Jeffrey Willerth.

Claudia Christian (Susan Ivanova)

Claudia Ann Christian was born on August 10, 1965 in Glendale, California (USA).
She also starred as "Major Kelt" in a video game for the Sega Saturn and Sony Playstation named "Solar Eclipse" (a.k.a. "Titan" a.k.a. "Titan Wars") which was released in fall 1995.
Furthermore, she has written for and starred in the cooking show "Claudia and Claudio ... Italian Cooking With A Bite"
has written children's books and works as songwriter and singer.
She also participated in recording a music album with some of her Babylon 5 co-stars.

Jeff Conaway (Zack Allan)

Jeff Conaway was born on October 5, 1950 in New York City, New York (USA).
Apart from being an actor, he has also worked as producer, story writer and director.
For his role as "Bobby Wheeler" in the TV series "Taxi" he was nominated for the Golden Globe as best TV actor in a supporting role in 1979 and 1980.

Jerry Doyle (Michael Garibaldi)

Jerry Doyle was born on July 16, 1956 in Brooklyn, New York City (USA).
He worked as a jet pilot and after that as stockbroker on Wall Street when he gave it up to move to Hollywood and pursue acting.
Told he needed a resume, he made one up; he included credits such as The Dance Theatre of Harlem.
Since then, he has acquired some actual roles, most lately on Babylon 5.
He was married to Andrea Thompson (Talia Winters.)

Mira Furlan (Delenn)

Mira Furlan was born on September 7 in Zagreb (Croatia)
was one of former Yugoslavia's leading actresses before she came to the United States.
She was awarded two "Golden Arenas" (Yugoslavian Oscars) for Best Actress.
She has also worked as song writer and performer and did one CD together with some of her Babylon 5 co-stars.
Her husband, Goran Gajic, has worked as director on Babylon 5.

Peter Jurasik (Londo Mollari)

Peter Jurasik was born in New York and is member of the Village Idiots comedy group and participated in recording a music album together with some of his Babylon 5 co-stars.
He also co-authored the science fiction novel "Diplomatic Act".

Theater:

• Cat On a Hot Tin Roof
• Godspell
• Jules
• Other People's Money
• Werewolf
• Wings

Andreas Katsulas (G'Kar)

Andreas Katsulas was born on May 18, 1946 in St. Louis, Missouri (USA).
In addition to his acting work, he participated in recording a music album together with some of his Babylon 5 co-stars.

Theater: a 15-year run with Peter Brooks' International Company, appearing in productions such as

• The Conference of the Birds
• The Mahabharata
• Measure for Measure
• La Tragedie de Carmen

Michael O'Hare (Jeffrey Sinclair)

Michael O'Hare was born on May 6, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois (USA).
He is the first white actor who has been nominated by the black theater community of New York for the AUDELCO award as Best Actor for his role in the play "Shades of Brown".

Theater:

• A Few Good Men ("Lt. Col. Nathan Roy Jessup")
• Galileo
• Man and Superman ("Hector")
• Players ("Geoff")
• Shades of Brown

Tracy Scoggins (Elizabeth Lochley)

Tracy Scoggins was born on November 13, 1959 in Dickinson, Texas (USA).
She studied physical education and speech communications at Southwest Texas State University and worked for the Elite Modeling Agency in New York.
Her modeling brought her to Germany, Italy and France where she joined an all-girl rock band.
After she had returned from Europe, she studied acting at the renowned Herbert Berghoff and Winn Hannman studios.
She also co-hosted the video "Rape is Not An Option" and starred in and produced workout videos.

Patricia Tallman (Lyta Alexander)

Patricia Tallman was born on September 4, 1957.
graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1979 in Theater Arts where she also earned an award for Outstanding Achievement in Acting.
She makes her living with stunt work during which she already doubled a lot of stars in big blockbusters.
She is certified by the British Society of Fight Directors and member of the Stunt Women's Association of America.
Furthermore, she is founding member of The All Original Playwright Company, a Los Angeles based theater group dedicated to develop original theater material.
She is engaged to Jeffrey Willerth, Babylon 5's assistant producer and the man underneath the Kosh suit.

Theater:

• Action Cabaret (various roles)
• As You Like It ("Rosalind")
• Big, Bad Burlesque (lead role)
• Cricket on the Hearth ("Bertha")
• A Gentleman and a Scoundrel ("Jenny")
• Megabeth ("Queen Margurite")
• Misalliance ("Lina")
• Nebraska ("Lt. Kim Newman")
• New and Used ("Avalon")
• Pinko (The Artist in Spite of Himself) ("Alph Romeo")
• The Wives ("Barb Donaher")

Andrea Thompson (Talia Winters)

Andrea Thompson was born in 1962 in Dayton, Ohio (USA)
but spent most of her childhood in Australia.
She studied acting in New York.
was formerly married to Jerry Doyle (Michael Garibaldi).
As part of the cast of "NYPD Blue", she was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 1998 and 1999.

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Series Supporting and Recurring Cast

Mary Kay Adams (Na'Toth)

Mary Kay Adams was born on September 12 in Middletown, New Jersey (USA).

Caitlin Brown (Na'Toth)

Julie Caitlin Brown was born on January 27, 1961 in San Francisco, California (USA).
Before she got her role as Na'Toth, she also auditioned for the roles of Delenn and Ivanova.

Stephen Furst (Vir Cotto)

Stephen Furst was born on May 8, 1955 in Norfolk, Virginia (USA).
As well as playing Vir on B5, Furst acts in two other shows concurrent to filming Babylon 5: "The Howie Mandel Sunny Skies Show" and "Misery Loves Company".
Furthemore, he has already written and directed some movies and also worked as director for several Babylon 5 and Crusade episodes.
In 1999 he has won the Directors Gold Award at the Santa Clarita International Film Festival for "Baby Huey's Great Easter Adventure". Furst is a spokesman of the American Diabetes Foundation.

Bill Mumy (Lennier)

Charles William Mumy Jr. [pronounced like "Moomy" not "Mummy"] was born on February 1, 1954 in San Gabriel, California (USA).
Best known as Will Robinson from Lost in Space.
he's part of the Barnes and Barnes music group best known for the song "Fish Heads".
is currently writing for the "Lost in Space" comic series and hosting the "Inside Space" magazine show on the Sci-Fi Channel.
He is the creator of the "Space Cases" TV series.
He has also recorded a music album together with some of his Babylon 5 co-stars.

Wayne Alexander (Lorien and others)

Wayne Alexander has played a lot of aliens on Babylon 5.
including a Narn, a Drazi, a Drakh and of course Lorien.
But he also played "Sebastian" in the second season episode "Comes the Inquisitor".

Broadway:

• The Common Pursuit

Theater:

• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
• Grand Hotel
• Jesus Christ Superstar ("Mary Magdalene")
• A Late Snow at Theater Rhinocerous

Macaulay Bruton (Garibaldi's Aide)

Tim Choate (Zathras)

Tim Choate was born on October 11, 1954 in Dallas, Texas (USA).
He died in a motorcycle accident on September 24, 2004.
An educational trust for his son, who was four at the time, has been established;
donations may be sent to The Tim Choate Memorial Fund, P.O. Box 861355, Los Angeles, CA 90086.

Aki Aleong (Senator Hidoshi)

Theater:

• Crimes of the Heart
• DA
• The Iceman Cometh
• Idiot's Delight
• The Philanthropist (title role)
• The Show Off (title role)

Joshua Cox (David Corwin)

Joshua Cox has also worked as propmaker and is an amateur bass guitar player.

Theater:

• American Buffalo
• Hamlet (Laertes)
• North of Providence
• Prarie Avenue
• The Resistable Rise of Auturo Ui
• Us and Them

David L. Crowley (Lou Welch)

Robin Atkin Downes (Byron)

Apart from Byron, he also played a Minbari named "Morann" in "In the Beginning" and in the season four episode "Atonement" (the character is just called "Grey Council #1" in that episode).

Theater:

• Assassins
• Road
• Sign of the Lizard

Maggie Egan (ISN Reporter)

William Forward (Lord Refa)

Denise Gentile (Lise Hampton)

Walter Koenig (Alfred Bester)

Walter Koenig was born on September 14, 1936 in Chicago, Illinois (USA) and is of Lithuanian descent.
He is of course best known for his role as "Pavel Chekov" in "Star Trek" which he also played in several "Star Trek" video games.
Furthermore, he played "Drexler" in the video game "Maximum Surge" and wrote episodes for several TV series and wrote and directed numerous theater plays.
He's the author of non-fictional and fictional novels and some comic books and has taught acting and directing at the UCLA and other colleges/schools.
In the Babylon 5 episode "A Race Through Dark Places" Koenig appeared together with his wife, Judy Levitt.

Theater:

• Actors ("Dave")
• America Hurrah! (director)
• Beckett (director)
• Blood Wedding
• The Boys in Autumn
• Box and Cox ("Box")
• The Collection
• The Deputy ("Jacobson")
• Hotel Paradiso (director)
• Make A Million ("Johnny")
• Matrix (director)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream ("Quince")
• Night Must Fall ("Danny")
• Other People's Money ("Larry the Liquidator")
• La Ronde ("Gentleman")
• Six Characters in Search of an Author ("Oldest Son")
• Steambath ("God")
• Three by Ten (director)
• Twelve Angry Men (director)
• The Typist and the Tiger ("Paul")
• The White House Murder Case ("Capt. Weems")

Wortham Krimmer (Cartagia)

Robert Wortham-Krimmer was born on November 24 in Chicago, Illinois (USA).
He got the name "Wortham" from his wife's maiden name.

Theater:

• The Cherry Orchard
• Man and Superman
• Men's Singles
• Our Town
• Richard III
• Tamera

Damian London (Centauri Official)

Gary McGurk (Morgan Clark)

Marjorie Monaghan (Number One)

Julia Nickson [formerly Julie Nickson-Soul] (Catherine Sakai)

Julia Nickson was born in 1959 in Singapore.

Robert Rusler (Warren Keffer)

Robert Rusler was born on September 20, 1965.
He also played "Seether" in the video game "Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom".

Mark Schneider (Wade)

Louis Turenne (Brother Theodore)

Louis Turenne was born on November 26, 1933 in Montreal, Quebec (Canada).

Michael York (King Arthur)

Michael Ansara (Technomage Elric)

Sarah Douglas (Jha'Dur Deathwalker)

Brad Dourif (Brother Edward)

John Vickery (Alyt Neroon)

John Vickery also played Mr. Welles in "The Fall of Night."

Broadway:

• The Lion King (Scar)

Ed Wasser (Morden)

Ed Wasser was born on March 26, 1964 in Roslyn Heights, New York (USA).
He also appeared in Babylon 5's pilot as the technician "Guerra".

Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (William Edgars)

Efrem Zimbalist Jr. was born on November 30, 1923 in New York City, New York (USA).
In 1959 he has won the Golden Globe Award as Most Promising Newcomer
in 1968 he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award as Best Supporting Actor for his role in "Wait Until Dark"
and in 1969 he was nominated in the category Best TV Star for his role on "The F.B.I.".
He also played "Wolfgang" in the video game "Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers".

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Pilot Cast

Blaire Baron (Carolyn Sykes)

Blaire Baron has worked as private investigator in New York at the same time while she was playing "Kate Lang" on "The Guiding Light".

Johnny Sekka (Dr. Benjamin Kyle)

Johnny Sekka was born in 1939 in Dakar (Senegal).

Tamlyn Tomita (Laurel Takashima)

Tamlyn Tomita was born on January 27, 1966 in Okinawa (Japan)
and was chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world in 1991.

CRUSADE

Marjean Holden. (Dr. Sarah Chambers)

David Allen Brooks. (Max Eilerson)

Daniel Dae Kim. (Lt. John Matheson)

Tracy Scoggins (Elizabeth Lochley)

Tracy Scoggins was born on November 13, 1959 in Dickinson, Texas (USA).
She studied physical education and speech communications at Southwest Texas State University and worked for the Elite Modeling Agency in New York.
Her modeling brought her to Germany, Italy and France where she joined an all-girl rock band.
After she had returned from Europe, she studied acting at the renowned Herbert Berghoff and Winn Hannman studios.
She also co-hosted the video "Rape is Not An Option" and starred in and produced workout videos.

Gary Cole. (Matthew Gideon)

Peter Woordward. (Technomage Galen)

Carrie Dobro. (Dureena Nafeel)

RANGERS

W. Morgan Sheppard. (David Martell)

Richard Yniguez. (Captain Montoya)

Rance Howard. (David Sheridan)

Brian McDermott. (Durhann)

Bryan Cranston. (Captain Ericsson)

Martin Cast. (Findell)

Theodore Bikel. (Lenonn)

Martin Cast. (Findell)

Martin Cast. (Findell)

Martin Cast. (Findell)

Cameos

• Doug Netter (B5 Executive Producer) and Anne Bruice (B5 costumer) as EA Officials displayed on a computer screen in a series episode. Netter is the face of EA President Luis Santiago.
• Kiki Stockhammer (Video Toaster Spokesperson) reading "Universe Today" in "The Gathering."
• Ron Thornton (B5 Visual Effects) as a "lurker" in "The Gathering.
  Also, one of the aliens was modeled after him.
• Jim Johnston (director) in "By Any Means Necessary" yelling "I say Strike!";
  much of the production crew appeared in that episode.
  
• John Flinn (Director of Cinematography) as Mr. Flinn in "Grail."
• Harlan Ellison as the voice of Sparky, the computer in "Ceremonies of Light and Dark."
• Cartoonist Scott Adams as Mr. Adams in "Moments of Transition."
• Harlan Ellison as a Psi Cop in "The Face of the Enemy."
• Penn and Teller as Rebo and Zooty in "Day of the Dead"
• Joe Michael Straczynski, the Great Maker and creator of the show himself, in "Sleeping in Light" as a technician with an important job.

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