The Break of Noon Cast

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  Kevin Anderson as John Smith

  Kevin Anderson just returned from London’s West End and Dublinas Andy Dufresne in the new stage adaptation of The Shawshank Redemption. An ensemble member since 1984, other plays at Steppenwolf include I Never Sang for My Father, Our Town, Three Sisters, Earthly Possessions and Orphans, which took him to New York (Theatre World Award), London’sWest End and eventually the movie with Albert Finney. Other Chicago credits include A Guide for the Perplexed (Victory Gardens); Pal Joeyand Death of a Salesman (The Goodman); among others. Broadway and off-Broadway include Death of a Salesman (Outer Critics and Drama Desk awards, Tony® nomination), the musical Brooklyn,Orpheus Descending, Moonchildren, Brilliant Traces, The Red Address, Speaking in Tongues and Summer and Smoke. Other London theatre credits include the original Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard and Dinner with Friends. Some of his films include Charlotte’s Web, Miles from Home, In Country, Sleeping with the Enemy, Liebestraum,Hoffa, The Night We Never Met, Rising Sun, Firelight,A Thousand Acres, Eye of God, Doe Boy and the new Al Pacino docu-drama Wilde Salome. Cable films include Orpheus Descending, The Wrong Man, Hunt for the Unicorn Killer, Ruby’s Bucket of Blood, Monday Night Mayhem and Power and Beauty. He starred in the TV series Nothing Sacred, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination.

  
  
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  Tracee Chimo as Jenny/Gigi

  Tracee Chimo was last seen at Second Stage as Regan in Bachelorette. Broadway: Irena’s Vow. Off-Broadway: Circle Mirror Transformation (Lucille Lortel nom. for Outstanding Featured Actress, Obie Award and Drama Desk award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance). Regional: Sundance ’08, Humana Festival/Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cleveland Play House and Philadelphia Theatre Company. TV: Guest star in the FX series Louieand Guiding Light. Film: Evening, What Would Jesus Do?, Daughters of Liberty and Wasted Time. Last year Tracee was honored by actress Marian Seldes and The O’Neill Studio, where she studied, with the Eugene O’Neill Award for her work in Irena’s Vow.

  
  
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  Catherine Dent as Jesse/Ginger

  Catherine made her film debut as Paul Newman’s daughter-in-law in Nobody’s Fool. Other feature film roles include Auto Focus, The Majestic, The Replicant, Someone Like You, 21 Grams and the upcoming Carjacked. Best know for the 7 seasons she played “Officer Danny Sofer” on the award-winning F/X series The Shield, she also starred in the award-winning Spielberg miniseries Taken. Numerous other television credits include The Sopranos, Law and Order: SVU, Frasier, CSI, The X-Files, Grey’s Anatomy, Lie To Me, and most recently Law and Order: Los Angeles, The Closer and NCIS to name only a few. Broadway: Uncle Vanya. Regional Theatre: The Country (The La Jolla Playhouse) The Street of the Sun (Mark Taper Forum), Bang the Drum Slowly, Baby Doll and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Ms. Dent was born in Baton Rouge,Louisiana and graduated from the North Carolina School of the Performing Arts.

  
  
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  John Earl Jelks as Lawyer/Detective

  John Earl Jelks was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance as Sterling in August Wilson’s Radio Golf, which he also toured to the McCarter, Goodman, CENTERSTAGE, SeattleRep., Mark Taper and Yale Rep. Jelks also appeared with Phylicia Rashad on Broadway in August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean as Citizen (after runs at the Goodman, Huntington and Mark Taper, where he won an NAACP Theatre Award and an L.A. Ovation Award). In 2008, Jelks won an AUDELCO Award for his work in the Off-Broadway revival of The First Breeze of Summer. Regional theatre: Fetch Clay, Make Man at the McCarter Theatre; the world stage premiere of The Shawshank Redemptionat the Gaiety Theatre in Ireland;Magnolia at the Goodman Theatre; Joe Turner's Come and Gone at the penumbra Theatre Company and Missouri Repertory Theatre. Recently, Jelks appeared as Detective Dillard in Spike Lee's film Miracle at St. Anna.