Raelee Hill originally auditioned for the very different role of Utu-Noranti Pralatong. When that went to Melissa Jaffer, Farscape’s producers decided to create a role especially for her because she'd impressed them so much.

This Australian actress has had a swift rise to fame in her own country, with a number of recurring parts on Oz’s top programmes, including playing Serendipity Gottlieb in Neighbours, and Constable Tayler Johnson in Water Rats. She also appeared in a Baywatch spoof, Shark Bay, and lists Audrey Hepburn as one of her favourite actresses.

CHRISTOPHER JUDGE plays Teal'c, a wise alien whose species is known as "Jaffa." Once a member of the Goa'uld Apophis' notorious Serpent Guard, Teal'c left his family and culture behind when he joined the SG-1 team. The Jaffa carry infant symbiotes or larval forms of the Goa'uld. These symbiotes guarantee its host immunity to disease. His primary reason for joining the team is to defeat the Goa'uld and free his people from slavery to them.

Although Judge seemed pre-destined to have a career in football after receiving a football scholarship from the University of Oregon, becoming a three time All-American and playing in the Hula Bowl, he always knew he wanted to be an actor.

While in Oregon, Judge entered a contest to host the West Coast FOX KLSR Morning Show. His witty five-minute monologue helped him beat out thousands of other hopefuls for the job. This break led him to several guest starring appearances on such television comedies as Martin, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Lush Life and The Jamie Foxx Show. His other television credits include Francis Ford Coppola's First Wave, Freedom, The Burning Zone, Wise Guy, 21 Jump Street, MacGyver and Gabriel's Fire. He also appeared as a series regular on Sirens.

Judge's feature film credits include The Glory Years, Little Feet, Bird on a Wire, Cadence and House Party II. Judge co-starred opposite Jennifer Beals in Out of Pocket and more recently played Cuba Gooding Jr.'s father in the Disney film Snow Dogs. In addition, he appeared in the E! Entertainment movie Romantic Comedy 101, directed by Peter DeLuise.

Judge produced and starred in the short film entitled Hacks. He also fulfilled a long time ambition by recording his first CD. The first single to be released was entitled "We're Going to Take Our Clothes Off" which went to number one in Asia. His distinctive voice can be heard on the animated series Action Man, Book of Virtues and X-Men: Evolution.

Also a talented writer, Judge penned the episode "The Changeling" in Season Six of Stargate SG-1, and "Birthright" in Season Seven. Judge studied drama at the renowned Howard Fine Studio in Los Angeles.

Veteran actor Herbert Jefferson Jr. is known to many as Lieutenant Boomer from Battlestar Galactica, the third of the holy trinity that included Captain Apollo (past guest Richard Hatch) and Lieutenant Starbuck (Dirk Benedict). But you've seen him in many more roles than as Galactica's erstwhile Cylon hunter (and perennial straight-man for Starbuck's jokes and humour). Mr. Jefferson was a series co-star in Rich Man, Poor Man with Nick Nolte, as well as its sequel. He has also appeared with Sam Elliot and Cybil Shepard in The Yellow Rose. Additional roles for Herb include television's ER, Sister Sister, Hill Street Blues, Airwolf, T.J. Hooker, Columbo, Knight Rider, and Mission Impossible, as well as the movies Apollo 13 and Outbreak. He's also starred in the recurring role of Police Chief Price on NBC's Sunset Beach.

Mr. Jefferson is an alumnus of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, as well as the Herbert Berghof Studios in New York. He also studied under the legendary Lee Strasberg at The Actors Studio. In his free time, Mr. Jefferson is an active supporter of the Special Olympics, the USO, the Paralyzed Veterans Association and the United States Marine Corps' Toys for Tots program.

Mr. Jefferson was born in Sandersville, GA, where he still has many family members.

Brian Downey was born in Newfoundland, Canada, the seventeenth largest island in the world. Brian began performing not long after childbirth. Some people say that Brian was born wearing a top hat, singing an old Fred Astaire show tune, and telling the doctor the joke about the two old guys in an airplane. After years of asking Santa Claus to bring him a guitar (and getting a ukulele every Christmas), he finally bought the darn thing himself. He worked to master the instrument, and after several years realized he needed strings to make the thing sound good.

Brian felt the need to form a group, play music before an audience and change costumes frequently. Since he subsequently played in all kinds of bands, this eventually led to quite a collection of costumes and with so many costumes there was nowhere for Brian to go but into theatre. Acting and writing slowly took the place of time spent securely strapped to musical instruments.

Brian has co-written and performed many stage plays, and toured extensively. He appeared on many television and radio music shows. His first appearance on a dramatic television show was with the legendary Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent, who recently co-starred with Kevin Spacey in The Shipping News. Many other appearances followed.

Brian has also written, directed and produced for radio, TV, and film. His work has been seen worldwide. The TV series Lexx, in which Brian starred for four seasons, has been seen in more than 140 countries. Brian has played in over 60 stage plays, over 40 commercials, and over 80 TV shows and films, including Millennium, The Beachcombers, Gullage's, Secret Nation, George's Island, Culture Shock, and of course, Lexx.

Walter Koenig — actor, director, screenwriter, novelist, acting professor, and comic book creator — was born in Manhattan in 1936 to Lithuanian Russian Jewish parents.

Bitten by the acting bug early in his youth, Koenig studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York where he worked with fellow students James Caan, Elizabeth Ashley, and Dabney Coleman. His stage career spans 30 years and includes stops in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and many other cities. He appeared in many plays and television shows of the late 1950s and early 1960s, including the Mr. Novak series, and even produced and wrote his own feature film in 1967, "I Wish I May." In 1967 he landed the role of Ensign Pavel Chekov in the original Star Trek series.

Koenig has also appeared as Chekov in the first seven of the big screen Star Trek films and played the recurring character of Alfred Bester in the TV series Babylon 5. Aside from his role in Star Trek, he has appeared in 40 different TV series and television movies, including "Anthony and Cleopatra" starring Timothy Dalton and Lynn Redgrave.

A natural writer, Koenig has written for the television shows Family, Matthew Starr, Land of the Lost, Class of '65 and others. His first book, "Chekov's Enterprise," which recounts the making of the first Star Trek movie, was published in 1979. He has also written a satiric fantasy novel, "Buck Alice and the Actor-Robot," and a three-part comic book series entitled Raver. Koenig wrote and performed a one-character piece entitled "You're Never Alone When You're A Schizophrenic," which was a finalist in the 1996 New York Film Festival Awards. While not a member of the cast during the Star Trek animated series, he did pen one of the episodes, "The Infinite Vulcan." His autobiography "Warped Factors : A Neurotic's Guide to the Universe" was published in 1998.

In a 1997 internet poll of favorite television bad guys, Koenig was the top choice of 12,000 voters for his role as Alfred Bester on Babylon 5. He was also voted the favorite guest star on Babylon 5.

Mr. Hertzberg says...

"I was born in Glens Falls New York a little while back... moved to Houston when I was 3. I loved my childhood. I was outside all the time, playing in creeks, catching crawdads, killing snakes, fishing in ponds...I was definately an outside kid. My dad had a sailboat that I grew up on too. 46foot. I've actually done a bit of off shore sailing; Galveston to Cozumel, Keywest to Galveston, Cancun to Keywest, Guatemala to Galveston... nothing beats the sight of a dusty coating of stars from horizon to horizon when you're 300 miles from land, there's not a cloud in the sky and the wind is filling your sails...

"In high school our theatre department was booming, doing shows with $25,000 budgets. I was very active, doing a show every semester. My favorite was and still is to this day 'Greater Tuna'.

"I was 6'2" when I was 16 and 6'4" when I got to college. I auditioned and was accepted in 3 days to USC's School of Theatre, my first choice. Wow, what an eye opening experience for a young man raised in relatively conservative, somewhat rural west Houston. I studied acting, movement, voice, ballet, as well as other required classes. It was my first time away from home and though hard to be away from family, a great time in life. I like to say I grew up in Houston but became a man in L.A. Cheesy? Maybe...hu hu hu...

"When I graduated in 95' I immediately, thanks to a friend, got an agent. I started booking commercials, a little here and there and then it blossomed. I left my day job at Warner Bros. and was living on my commercial income...I was a working actor. Around this time I decided to begin a writing project with a couple of friends. We had a common vision...comedy. We wrote 'Hardware: A Miracle Play' a political satire that was way ahead of its time in terms of subject matter. This was the first project I produced, acted in and wrote. It was a witty well timed highly stylized comedy. We ran for 6 weeks at the Stella Adler Theatre on Hollywood Blvd. I had never writen before, and suddenly I found myself wearing 3 hats, writer, actor and executive producer. It was painful, close to giving birth I'd imagine, and delightfully thrilling all at once. Oh, and it left me broke...Luckily I booked a 3 episode Guest Star on a show called Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I'd seen all of 5 minutes of the show. It seemed interesting, but it never worked out that I was home to watch it. Well...after 8 episodes of an incredible experience; the makeup trailer, the on set experiences, watching people work, working with Joss, Sarah, James, David Solomon, Todd Macintosh, Michael Moore... it was a professional set with great people that were dedicated to making the show a success. My personal favorite episode is "The Yoko Factor". Working with James on that episode was some of the most fun I've had as an actor...

Lani John Tupu portrays Captain Bialar Crais, the Peacekeeper officer determined to hunt down the crew of Moya for retribution in his brother's death in the SCI FI original series Farscape. He is also credited in Farscape as the voice behind Pilot.

Tupu spends considerable time in front of and behind the camera. Tupu directed Going Home for the stage; the critically acclaimed, award-winning short film Talk of the Town; and the video The Main Course. He also assistant directed the Karen Norris Film Ole. He starred in the TV movie Tanker Incident and in the TV series Flipper 2. His film credits include New World Pictures' The Punisher and Energy Source International's Send A Gorilla. For over a decade, he has guest starred in many television programs both in his native New Zealand and in the U.S. that include Mission Impossible, The Feds and Time Trax.

A founding member of the Walkers And Talkers theatre group in Australia, Tupu has extensive theater credits. Most recently, he took part in the Bell Shakespeare Company production of The Tempest which toured throughout Australia. He has performed in over forty stage productions for several theatre companies in New Zealand.

As an acting coach, Tupu has taught "Acting For Camera" in Australia and New Zealand. He also runs weekly workshops on "Screen Acting" at the Actors Centre in Sydney, Australia.

Tupu was nominated for many awards throughout his acting career. In 1993, he received an award for Best Dramatic Performance from the New Zealand Film Television Awards. He was nominated for the Best New Talent at the 1984 Feltex Television Awards and in 1985, he was nominated for Best Actor. Tupu was also a finalist at the 1986 Listener Film Television Awards for the Male Performance Supporting Role in film for Send A Gorilla. He received a Best Actor award for Talk of the Town, which he directed, at the Dreamaker Festival in Ontario, Canada.

Tupu was educated at Rongotal College in Wellington, New Zealand and Wellington Teachers Training College. He was trained at the New Zealand Drama School. He currently resides in Sydney, Australia.

Stephanie was born on 24 January 1969. She first began modeling in Europe and was discovered at 15 by Elite Modeling agent John Casablancas. Her first professional modeling job was in Europe, shooting fashion layouts for Italian and French 'Bazaar'. She then moved to New York to pursue a professional model career, leaving her family in Las Vegas. She appeared in Elle, Vanity Fair and French Vogue. In 1993, now living in L.A., Stephanie had her first on-screen appearance in the short-lived Spelling TV show Models Inc.

Stephanie later appeared in Melrose Place, another show Aaron Spelling was working on. The show lasted longer than Models Inc, but Stephanie went elsewhere to find work.

Her previous film roles include the hit comedy, Spy Hard with Leslie Nielsen, and most recently she portrayed Jacqueline Kennedy in the critically acclaimed 13 Days starring Kevin Costner.

Since joining the cast of Angel in 1999 she has become good friends with Julie Benz. In her spare time Stephanie is at home with her husband, Nick Wechsler.