Castle: Need to Know
11:10 am - 12:10 pm, Friday, January 30 on Great! Mystery (50)
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Need to Know
Season 6, Episode 3
The sleuth helps Esposito and Ryan launch an investigation into the mysterious death of a former child star, but emotions risk bubbling over when Beckett and McCord arrive to take over the case. Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic star
Detective/Thriller
Movie/Drama
Cast & Crew
Nathan Fillion
(Actor)
.. Richard Castle
Stana Katic
(Actor)
.. Det Kate Beckett
Susan Sullivan
(Actor)
.. Martha Rodgers
Jon Huertas
(Actor)
.. Javier Esposito
Seamus Dever
(Actor)
.. Kevin Ryan
Lisa Edelstein
(Actor)
.. Special Agent Rachel McCord
Molly C Quinn
(Actor)
.. Alexis Castle
Penny Johnson Jerald
(Actor)
.. Capt Victoria Gates
Antonio Sabato Jr
(Actor)
.. Ramon Russo
Joshua Bitton
(Actor)
.. Grant `Sully" Sullivan
James Patrick Stuart
(Actor)
.. Ethan Wright
Emily Baldoni
(Actor)
.. Svetlana Renkov
Larry Shaw
(Director)
Armyan Bernstein
(Executive producer)
Rob Bowman
(Executive producer)
Andrew W Marlowe
(Executive producer)
Laurie Zaks
(Executive producer)
More Information
Did You Know..
Nathan Fillion
(Actor)
.. Richard Castle
Born:
March 27, 1971
in
Edmonton, Canada
Best Known For:
Playing writer-cum-makeshift-detective Richard Castle
Early-life:
Born Nathan Christopher Fillion in Alberta, Canada, on March 27, 1971. Fillion has an older brother called Jeff. Their parents were English teachers, and originally, Nathan wanted to follow their footsteps into education by becoming a drama teacher. He attended Holy Trinity Catholic High School and later University of Alberta. He is descended from Confederate American Civil War general Jubal Early.
Career:
After stints in various theatre, TV and film productions, Fillion moved to New York where he starred in soap opera One Life To Live, for which he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award. Other early roles came in Saving Private Ryan, Two Guys and a Girl, and Dracula 2000. He eventually landed the starring role as Captain Malcolm Reynolds in Firefly (which he now says was the best acting job he's ever had). He has leant his voice to various animated series and computer games including King of the Hill and Halo 3, but his most successful role to date has been eponymous mystery novelist Castle. Other projects include Desperate Housewives, Waitress, Monsters University and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters.
Quote:
"There is nothing like a major motion picture to make you feel a little bit better about having your TV show cancelled."
Trivia:
He is deaf in one ear.
Stana Katic
(Actor)
.. Det Kate Beckett
Born:
April 26, 1978
in
Hamilton, Ontario
Best Known For:
Castle.
Early-life:
Stana was born in Hamilton, Ontario, on April 26, 1978 to Petar and Rada. She has four brothers and one sister. Her parents had emigrated from Coatia. She later moved with her family to Aurora, Illinois. Stana studied at the University of Toronto and the DePaul University Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.
Career:
Katic had guest roles in a number of well-known TV series in the early part of her career, including Alias, Dragnet, The Shield, ER, 24, Heroes and CSI: Miami. She has also starred on the big screen in The Spirit (2008) and Quantum of Solace (2008). Her big break came in 2008 when she was cast as Kate Beckett in crime drama Castle alongside Nathan Fillion.
Quote:
"I just enjoy working with really wonderful actors and amazing creative people and I hope to keep doing that, no matter where."
Trivia:
In 2010, Katic started a global initiative called The Alternative Travel Project to encourage everyone to go car-free for just one day.
Susan Sullivan
(Actor)
.. Martha Rodgers
Jon Huertas
(Actor)
.. Javier Esposito
Seamus Dever
(Actor)
.. Kevin Ryan
Lisa Edelstein
(Actor)
.. Special Agent Rachel McCord
Born:
May 21, 1966
in
Boston, Massachusetts
Best Known For:
Playing Dr Lisa Cuddy in House..
Early-life:
Lisa Edelstein was born on May 21, 1966, in Boston, Massachusetts. Her parents are Alvin and Bonnie Edelstein. Her father was a paediatrician in New Jersey. She was raised in Wayne, New Jersey, where she attended Wayne Valley High School. She moved to New York at the age of 18 to study theatre at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. While living in New York, she became involved in the club scene and was dubbed `Queen of Downtown" by writer James St James.
Career:
After being dubbed a `celebutante" by New York Times during her club scene days, Edelstein used her celebrity status to write, compose and star in a musical called Positive Me in response to the growing Aids crisis of the 1980s. After a brief stint hosting a show on MTV in 1990, she spent the early part of the decade appearing in guest roles on several sitcoms, including Mad About You, The Larry Sanders Show and Seinfeld. She played the lesbian sister in 1996 on ABC's Relativity, a high-priced call girl in 1999 on The West Wing and a male-to-female transsexual in 2000 on Ally McBeal. Further guest star spots followed until she was cast in 2004 as Dr Lisa Cuddy on Fox medical drama House.
Quote:
"The hardest part about being vegan is shoes. I mean, really, that's the only difficult part, finding shoes that don't have leather on them."
Trivia:
Away from work Lisa volunteers and promotes the welfare and fair treatment for animals.
Molly C Quinn
(Actor)
.. Alexis Castle
Penny Johnson Jerald
(Actor)
.. Capt Victoria Gates
Antonio Sabato Jr
(Actor)
.. Ramon Russo
Joshua Bitton
(Actor)
.. Grant `Sully" Sullivan
James Patrick Stuart
(Actor)
.. Ethan Wright
Emily Baldoni
(Actor)
.. Svetlana Renkov
Larry Shaw
(Director)
Armyan Bernstein
(Executive producer)
Rob Bowman
(Executive producer)
Andrew W Marlowe
(Executive producer)
Laurie Zaks
(Executive producer)
