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Emily Erin Deschanel was born on 11th October 1976 in Los Angeles, California to father Caleb Deschanel, an Academy Award-nominated cinematographer, and mother Mary Jo Weir, a respected actress. She has one sister, Zooey Deschanel. Her paternal grandfather was French, and she has Irish American ancestry.
Deschanel graduated from Boston University's Professional Actors Training Program with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater. She made her feature film debut in the 1994 film It Could Happen to You. She has been gaining recognition as an actress and in October of 2004 she was named one of six actresses to watch by Interview Magazine.
In addition to starring in feature films, Deschanel has had several guest starring roles in television shows such as Crossing Jordan and Law & Order - Special Victims Unit.
Deschanel is currently starring in the role of forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan in the Fox TV show Bones, based on the real life of forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs.
Filmography
Year Film Role Comments
2006 Bones Dr. Temperance Brennan TV Series
2006 Glory Road May Haskins
2005 That Night Annie Short Film
2005 Boogeyman Kate Houghton
2005 Bones Dr. Temperance Brennan TV Series
2004 Old Tricks Woman
2004 Spider-Man 2 Receptionist
2004 The Alamo Rosanna Travis
2003 Cold Mountain Mrs. Morgan
2003 Easy Laura
2002 Rose Red Pam Asbury Mini-series
2000 It’s A Shame About Ray Maggie
1994 It Could Happen To You Paint Throwing Fur Activist
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The character of Dr. Brennan (Bones) is brilliant, but so narrowly focused on her work to the point of seeming to lack any social, she can appear to be aloof and unable to empathize with people. Really, she struggles with trust after her parents mysteriously disappeared when she was an adolescent. The television series explores the evolution of Dr. Brennan's identity as she comes to terms with her inner emotions about her tumultuous childhood. Through her relationship with her Jeffersonian co-workers and Agent Booth, Dr. Brennan begins to resolve her disconnect from humanity with her basic need for social integration.
She chose her field of research in order to find out what happened to her parents, who vanished without a trace when she was in her teens - leading to an unpleasant time in the foster care system before being rescued by her grandfather. It has been revealed that she has one living brother, Russ.
Recently, in the episode Woman In Limbo (2006), Emily Deschanel's character discovered that her mother's remains were found several years earlier but had been stored unidentified in the Jeffersonian's backlog of old cases. It was learned that she died from a hematoma, or brain injury, but not immediately, and likely did not return home out of fear for her children's safety. Brennan learned that her parents were band robbers who traveled with a notorious gang during the 70s. Her legal birth name is Joy Keenan and her brother's is Kyle but her parents changed their own names and the children's names to protect them. Brennan's father is still living,and in the episode "Judas on a Pole" Bones sees her father for the first time since she was 15. He seeks her out as a priest claiming to have spoken with her father. At the end of the episode her father handcuffs her to a bench in order to prevent her from following him. Her father leaves her once again, but not before telling her that he loves her and telling Booth to take care of her.
Her on-screen chemistry with her "partner" Agent Seeley Booth is uncertain and confusing at times, leaving the viewer perplexed. It mirrors the uncertain relationship between Temperance Brennan and Andrew Ryan in Kathy Reich's book series.
This character is an atheist; she and Booth discuss their differing world views in many episodes.
The television version of Temperance Brennan was paired with Special Agent Seeley Booth in the pilot episode who nicknames her "Bones", and the two thus-far seem to have a fairly comfortable working relationship, despite the differences in their personalities and the mild sexual tension evident between them. There are two seasons of "Bones".
Temperance Brennan (television version) mostly confides in her best friend and fellow co-worker, forensic artist Angela Montenegro. Aside from Angela, Dr. Brennan has a band of 'squints' (a term given by Agent Booth to describe what scientists do -- "they squint at things"), specifically entomology expert Dr. Jack Hodgins, and Tempe's young assistant/grad student, Zack Addy.
Despite her extensive knowledge of anthropology, she is quite unaware of pop culture, and her coworkers, particularly Booth, like to tease her about this. A running gag on the series is someone making an obvious popular culture reference and she blankly states "I don't know what that means", and she is somewhat excited on the rare occasion that she does understand them. She also somewhat lacks social skills and has trouble understanding jokes and sarcasm.
Temperance has begun to demonstrate some changes in her manner when she is with Booth, for example, in Episode 8 of Season 2, she refers to the rest of the team as "our squints" even though the term 'squints' is predominately used by Booth when he describes the team, Brennan included.
Temperance "Bones" Brennan's favourite music group is Massive Attack.
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David Paul Boreanaz (born May 16, 1969) is an American film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his role on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Since fall of 2005, he has played the male lead on Bones, opposite Emily Deschanel.
Early life
Boreanaz was born in Buffalo, New York and grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where his father, Dave Roberts (born David Thomas Boreanaz), is a weather presenter for WPVI-TV; his mother, Patti, is a travel agent. He is of Czech descent on his father's side and of Italian descent on his mother's, and was raised a Catholic. Angel and Seeley Booth, his two most famous characters, were both raised Catholic.
Boreanaz attended high school at Malvern Preparatory School in Malvern, Pennsylvania, and went to college at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. After graduating, Boreanaz moved to Hollywood, California and was discovered by a producer who noticed his brooding and intense looks while Boreanaz was walking his dog.
Career
Boreanaz's first acting appearance was a guest spot on the hit American sitcom, Married... with Children, as Kelly's biker boyfriend. He was cast in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, playing the mysterious Angel, a vampire with a soul. The show became enormously successful and Boreanaz starred in a spin-off series, Angel, which gave the character a chance to evolve and concentrated on Angel's battle for redemption. He appeared on Buffy from 1997 to 1999, at which point he began starring in Angel, which ran until 2004. Totalling all of his appearances on Buffy & Angel, including guest appearances, Boreanaz has the distinctions of having appeared in the most episodes of the 2 series by a significant margin, and being one of only 2 Big Bad characters to appear in the opening credits; Alyson Hannigan is the other (BtVS:Season 6). During Buffy, it was rumoured that he was dating Sarah Michelle Gellar.
Boreanaz's only starring role in a major theatrical film was in 2001's slasher horror film, Valentine, alongside Denise Richards and Katherine Heigl. In 2003, he appeared in the music video for singer Dido's "White Flag", and was the voice of Leon (aka Squall Leonhart) in the video game Kingdom Hearts, though he was replaced by Doug Erholtz for Kingdom Hearts II.
In 2005, Boreanaz began starring opposite Emily Deschanel on the current primetime television series, Bones. He most recently appeared in These Girls, a Canadian film in which he played a biker; the film received a limited theatrical release in Canada in March of 2006, after premiering at the Toronto Film Festival and the Vancouver International Film Festival. His upcoming roles include parts in the independent films Mr. Fix It and Suffering Man's Charity. It is also rumoured that Boreanaz will star in the upcoming film Jurassic Park IV which will be released some time in 2008.
Personal Life
Boreanaz lives in Los Angeles, California. He was married to Ingrid Quinn from 1997 to 1999, and married actress and model Jaime Bergman on November 24, 2001. The couple have a son, Jaden Rayne Boreanaz, who was born on May 1, 2002
Filmography
Year Film Role Comments
2007 Suffering Man’s Charity Sebastian Post-production
2006 The Hard Easy Roger Hargitay
2006 Mr. Fix It Lance Valenteen
2006 These Girls Keith Clark Limited release
2005
To
Present Bones Special Agent Seeley Booth TV Series
2005 The Crow: Wicked Prayer Luc Crash
2002 I’m With Lucy Luke
2002 Kingdom Hearts Leon Video game voice
2002 Buffy The Vampire Slayer Angel Video game voice
2001 Valentine Adam Carr
1999
To
2004 Angel Angel TV Series
1997
To
2006 Buffy The Vampire Slayer Angel TV Series
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Seeley Booth is a former Army sniper with the Rangers who is currently an agent with the FBI. He frequently consults with Dr. Brennan and her team, acting as a liaison between the FBI and the Jeffersonian institute. When it comes to solving crime, Booth has a very different approach than Dr. Brennan and her team, preferring a more human, interpersonal and intuitive set of methods. While he finds the information Dr. Brennan and her team uncover invaluable, he often finds their means overly convoluted, and restrictive, and adds his intuition and knowledge of people on top of it — something that clashes with Dr. Brennan's hard, objective, analytical approach which is mindful of its own limits.
Booth clearly doesn't fit socially with the collection of "geeks" (whom he and his FBI colleagues refer to as "squints") that make up Dr. Brennan's team. Booth fills out the stereotype of the "all American boy" — now all grown up — very well. He is world-wise, socially at ease with people, and apparently at ease with women (a contrast to the humorous social bumbling sometimes exhibited by some of Dr. Brennan's team).
While Booth tries to keep personal and professional life strictly separate, aspects of his personal life leak through. He is a religious man by nature and a practicing Catholic (interestingly, actor David Boreanaz is a Catholic in real life), seeking through the FBI to atone for the lives he took as a sniper by placing other killers behind bars. He was romantically entangled with a blonde lawyer named Tessa. He also has a four-year old son named Parker, from a previous relationship with Rebecca (unmarried), who seems quite hostile toward Booth for unknown reasons. He drinks three glasses of milk a day, probably with his exercise regimen. He has also mentioned having a brother named Jared. He used to have a gambling problem but has since quit.
There is a somewhat confused (and confusing) chemistry between Booth and Brennan. Good colleagues who can respect — if not always understand — each other, there is at least the beginning of a romantic tension within their relationship. He is shown to be jealous of Temperance's boyfriend (see Two Bodies In The Lab and Woman In Limbo).
Booth once arrested Brennan for shooting a murderer who was trying to set her on fire. Even though she was not convicted, the fact that she was once arrested for a felony means that the FBI won't allow her a permit to carry a gun.
Lately, Booth has been doing a sort of guy bonding thing with Zach, occasionally giving him pointers. Booth did draw the line at sex tips, however.
Booth is a fan of Classic rock and Arena rock music. He has expressed great affection for the group Foreigner and poked fun at Bones for her interest in new world, jazz music.
Booth is known to be fiercely protective of both Brennan and his partnership with her. When questioned about functioning on his job without her, he instantly repied "I'm with Bones, all the way." When her life was in danger, he went out of his way to be with her and protect her himself. Later, when Bones was kidnapped, Booth (despite having recently barely survived a deadly blast intended for Bones, and still wounded) lead the rescue mission himself. And in perhaps Booth's most famous example to date, he went and found a criminal who put a hit out on Bones and threatened the man himself. Booth stuck a gun in the criminal's mouth and said "If anything happens to her, I will find you and I will kill you. I won't think twice about it."
Booth rekindled a relationship with Dr. Camille Saroyan when she joined the Jeffersonian team. The relationship ended after an intense case, with Booth asserting that on-the-job romantic relationships endangered the team in high-pressure situations.
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Michaela Conlin was born June 9, 1978 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She is of Chinese and Irish descent.
Early Life
She performed in her first play at the age of six and continued to appear on stage in numerous Pennsylvania community and regional productions. She attended Parkland High School in Allentown. Following her graduation from Parkland High School, Conlin moved to New York City to study acting and was accepted into New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. While working toward her B.F.A. in Theater, she appeared in several productions at the Atlantic Theater Company and the Playwrights Horizons Theater School, and traveled to Amsterdam to study with the Experimental Theatre Wing's International Training Program.
Television Work
Following her graduation from NYU, Conlin was chosen to be a part of the cable documentary series The It Factor, which focused on the lives of young actors in New York City. Soon after, she relocated to Los Angeles, California, where she landed her first starring role in the series MDs, playing an idealistic young intern taken under the arm of the hospital's two renegade doctors, played by William Fichtner and John Hannah. She followed that with a leading role in the drama series The D.A., playing an outspoken political consultant to Steven Weber's district attorney.
Conlin is best known for her role as Angela Montenegro in the popular Fox drama, Bones (starring Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz).
Films
In addition to her television work, Conlin has appeared in several features, including Garmento and Love the Hard Way, starring Adrien Brody. She most recently completed the independent film Open Window opposite Robin Tunney.
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Angela Montenegro is not one of the "geeks." An artist, free spirit, a "good-time girl" and "wild-child" at heart, she is the team's specialist in forensic facial reconstruction. She is the center of life and passion in the team, although not quite of normalcy and stability.
Although artistic in temperament, she is obviously quite intelligent, developing, maintaining, and improving the lab's 3-dimensional graphics and computer simulation system. While she may not exhibit the same social traits as her colleagues, she is well suited intellectually to the team.
She is open, friendly, and caring, seeming to have taken on a nurturing role in the team: she has befriended and constantly tries to draw out Dr. Brennan (referring to her as 'Sweetie'), and she acts as advisor and "social coach" to Zach. Her rapport with Jack seems to be that of a colleague, the two of them being the closest to socially normal within the team. Her appreciation for the well-scrubbed appearance of Seeley Booth is obvious for anyone within sight or earshot of her.
Little is known of her family, although it was revealed that she is the daughter of Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top. Apart from this, and the parade of faces and anecdotes from her love-life, not much is known of her background. It is revealed that at one point, she got married in a fire-water-influenced ceremony in Fiji. She was unsure whether the marriage "stuck" (was legal) and has no knowledge of where her husband is now.
Her personality according to her coworkers is "quirky," a reality that she seems to be aware of herself. She once told Dr. Brennan: "I don't know how to talk to crazy people unless I'm dating them" (Episode 1-16).
She is also the most socially sophisticated of the team, especially on matters pertaining to love and romance. Rarely an episode goes by when her sexual expertise does not come up in some conversation with the team. She also frequently shows attraction to a man who turns out to be guilty of the crime they are investigating.
Angela once was asked by Hodgins on a date. She broke it off and went back to being just friends because she was afraid that if things get "messy," it would affect their co-workers negatively. Later, after he was found after being buried alive, they kissed, and at the end of the episode they went home together. Additionally, Angela asked Hodgins if she could sleep at his place one night after being spooked by restored video footage.
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Eric Millegan was born August 25, 1974 in Hackettstown, New Jersey. is an openly gay American actor, primarily known for his work on the Fox series Bones in which he plays Zack Addy.
Millegan grew up in Springfield, Oregon. He studied acting at the Interlochen Arts Camp at Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan before studying musical theatre at the University of Michigan. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California.
In 2003, Out Magazine named him "Hottest Up-and-Coming Openly Gay Actor of 2003."
Many of Millegan's credits are in musical theatre. Millegan appeared on Broadway in the 2000 production of Jesus Christ Superstar. In January 2005, he starred as Harold opposite Estelle Parsons' Maude in the world premiere of Tom Jones and Joseph Thalken's Harold & Maude: The Musical at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey.
He made his film debut in On_Line (2002). He has appeared on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, 100 Centre Street, and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Millegan has been cast to play the lead role in The Phobic directed by Margo Romero and produced by Alex Ryan Productions Inc.
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Dr. Zack Addy is Dr. Brennan's brilliant young assistant. Coming from a large Michigan family, he is a former child prodigy, a genius with an I.Q. well above 163 and a supposed photographic memory. He has started two doctorates, one in Forensic Anthropology, which he has completed, and one in Engineering, which he has yet to finish.
Despite his brilliance, he is unsure of himself, and, although he has come up with crucial insights vital to some of the team's cases, he is unable to forcefully express his opinion to Dr. Brennan. This may be due to hero worship and also to romantic or sexual feelings toward her. When he discovered that Temperance's own Forensic Anthropology professor had become her lover, Zack repeatedly wondered aloud whether he might enter into a similar relationship with Dr. Brennan. He was quickly disabused of the notion by his colleagues, however.
His specialty, like Dr. Brennan, is in the analysis of remains, especially identifying cause of death and weapons from marks remaining on skeletal remains. It is usually his task to remove the flesh from the bones, a process known as debriding. Because of his tremendous intellect, he has a strong broad-based knowledge of many of the specialties in the Jeffersonian lab.
Zack is as close to the stereotypical geek as anyone else on the team. Although well-meaning, helpful, and friendly, when a situation calls for social interaction or intuition, he is often lost. Further evidence of his social ineptitude can be seen in the frequent, on-screen coaching in social matters he gets from Jack and Angela.
Zack's only friend seems to be Jack, with whom it was once thought he was roommates. In fact, he rents from and also carpools with Jack, since he can't drive.
Episodes towards the end of the first season of Bones reveal that Zack's colleagues, especially Dr. Goodman, feel he has become too comfortable as Dr. Brennan's assistant and is therefore not completing any of his Doctorates to avoid having to grow into a new position. Goodman and Hodgins have conspired to make Zack less comfortable in his position to motivate him to complete his studies and assume a role above that of an assistant.
Right before he was about to complete his doctorate, Zack asks Dr. Saroyan if he could have a job working at the Jeffersonian, but she replies that she could not put him in front of a court to testify because people would not take him seriously. Zack then goes to ask Angela for fashion advice and she completely redoes his look including a new haircut and suit. After completing his doctorate, and getting a makeover from Angela, Zack again asks Dr. Camille Saroyan for a job, and she gives it to him.
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T.J. Thyne ( Thomas Joseph Thyne) was born on 7 March 1975. His biggest role has been as Dr. Jack Hodgins on the TV series Bones. He has also played numerous small roles, including Jason Girard on 24.
Television Career
Bones (2006)
24
- Jason Girard (1 episode, 2005)
The O.C. - Larry Bernstein (1 episode, 2005)
Huff -
Neil (3 episodes, 2004-2005)
Walker Texas Ranger -
Wallace "The Wizard" Slausen (4 episodes, 2000)
Friends ("The One Hundredth" a.k.a. "The One With the Triplets") The 'Doogie Howser' (1 episode, 1998)
Film Career
Getting Played (2005)
Raise Your Voice (2004)
Rent-a-Person (2004)
Something's Gotta Give (2003)
Exposed (2003/I)
How High (2001)
Ghost World (2001)
Heartbreakers (2001) (uncredited)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000) (uncredited)
Preston Tylk (2000)
Erin Brockovich (2000)
I Am on Film (2000)
The Sky Is Falling (2000)
Critical Mass (2000)
Love Her Madly (2000)
Scriptfellas (1999)
Ed TV (1999) (as T.J. Tyne)
Trivia
Thyne has worked with Bones costar David Boreanaz before. Thyne played a lawyer in the fifth season of Angel.
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Dr. Jack Hodgins is an entomologist and also an expert on spores and minerals, but conspiracy theories are his hobby. He can estimate time of death from the development of insect larvae in human and animal remains.
Hodgins is one of the more sarcastic members of the group. He seems to have a dislike for Goodman's way of working, and is sometimes "the funny man". He is one of the more normal persons in the group, and helps teach Zach how to be socially normal.
His family is extremely wealthy and affluent - and happens to be the single largest donor to the Jeffersonian Institute; they own the Cantilever Group, the third largest privately owned corporation in the United States, and Jack is their sole heir. Jack wishes for his current occupation to remain concealed from his family as he fears they will prevent him from pursuing his career. Booth, Zach and Angela knew about his family, but respected his wishes to keep it from Brennan. However, as of "Aliens in a Spaceship", Brennan knows of Hodgins' family and riches.
While on the surface Angela rubs Jack the wrong way, he seems to secretly like her. He has asked Angela out but the current status of their relationship is not exactly clear. Their first date ("The Girl with the Curl") was to the park, to play on swings. In "Aliens in a Spaceship" he admitted to Brennan that he was in love with Angela.
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Jonathan Adams (b. July 16, 1967) is an American actor, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
He has appeared in several roles in American television, most notably in American Dreams as series regular Henry Walker, an African American employed in the radio and television store owned by the patriarch of the protagonist's family. This show appeared on NBC from 2002 - 2005.
Adams formerly portrayed Dr. Daniel Goodman in the FOX television series Bones, up until Season 2, where it was said his character moved on to another job; he was replaced by Dr. Camille Saroyan [played by Tamara Taylor]. It is unclear why he left the cast of Bones.
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Dr. Daniel Goodman is a former archaeologist turned administrator who is also the director of the Jeffersonian Institute, which makes him everybody's boss (except, perhaps, Hodgins'). He is a loving husband and father to a pair of five year old twin girls. His way of working leads Hodgins to think of him as subjective and long winded, and lacking the qualities of a pure scientist.
He has not made an appearance in season 2 and it is widely recognized that Jonathan Adams, the actor that portrays him, has left the show for unknown reasons
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Tamara Taylor was born on 27th September 1970 in Canada. Born in Toronto to a black Canadian father and a Scottish-Canadian mother, she is currently appearing as Dr. Camille Saroyan, head of the Forensic Division, in Bones. She also appeared in the CBS medical drama 3 lbs. as Della and the UPN series Sex, Love & Secrets in the role of Nina, both of which were short-lived.
Taylor made guest appearances on NCIS, Numb3rs, Lost, CSI: Miami, Without a Trace, Party of Five and Dawson's Creek among other shows. Tamara also played a small role in the movie Serenity
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Dr Camille Saroyan is introduced in the first episode of the second season as the head of the Forensic Division, a new division formed during the summer of 2006.
She was born in the Bronx and had a hard time trying to get to the position she achieved at the Jeffersonian, having to perform autopsies in hard conditions, and admits to Booth she took the job because of the facilities.
She is a hard line woman who will take charge of her division and defend them if necessary, if she thinks they're in the right. In the beginning of the second season, she butts heads with Dr. Brennan and the team members, but eventually accepts their quirks and develops relationships with them.
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