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John Noble as Dr. Walter Bishop

Born in Port Pirie, South Australia, Australia

Artistic Director of Stage Company of South Australia 1977 - 87. Head of Drama, Brent St. School of Arts (Sydney) 1997-00. Directed over 80 plays, including ‘Sons of Cain’ on London’s West End (1986). Freelance actor. Semi-regular in TV series ‘All Saints’. Voice and acting teacher.

Fun facts
In the ending credits of the Extended Edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), his name is misspelled “John Nogle.”
His daughter is the actress Samantha Noble

In my opinion “perfect” for the part of Dr. Walter Bishop. I really hope they keep playing him as the bright mad sicientest with no understanding of present day things.

Joshua Jackson as Peter Bishop

Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 11 June 1978

Josh spent the first eight years of his life in California before returning to Canada. At the age of 11, Josh decided he wanted to pursue acting. Knowing how cruel an acting career could be, his mother, a casting director, took him to his first audition in hopes of discouraging him. Instead, he landed a commercial for Keebler’s potato chips.Since then, Josh has had a full career ranging from theater to television.

Fun Facts
Took time after High School to travel through Europe
Dated Katie Holmes (current Spouse of Tom Cruise)
Screen tested for the title role in Batman Begins, but lost out to Christian Bale.

In my opinion made famous by his role as Pacey Witter on the show “Dawson’s Creek″. A show about four friends in a small coastal town help each other cope with adolescence.
It had 6 award wins & 22 nominations in it’s 6 season run.

Fox to stream premieres for dorms
‘Fringe,’ ‘Terminator’ bow to college audiences
By MICHAEL SCHNEIDER

In a first, Fox will stream the premiere of “Fringe” and season opener
of “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” online at the same time
as they bow on TV.

But there’s a catch: Only computer users on college campuses will be
able to log in to watch the simul-stream.

Move helps Fox expose the trend-setting college audience — who are
more likely to have computers than TVs in their dorm rooms — to the
shows.

Computers logging into Fox.com from a college-based .edu domain will
be given full streaming access to “Terminator” on Sept. 8, the same
night it returns on Fox, and the series premiere of “Fringe” Sept. 9,
when it launches on the net.

Fox content strategy senior VP Bill Bradford came up with the idea
after noticing that .edu addresses were among Fox.com’s top visitors.

“We talked about what we could do with colleges given the fact that we
have so much traffic coming from them,” said Fox Entertainment
chairman Peter Liguori. “The light bulb went off — by simul-streaming
‘Fringe’ and ‘Sarah Connor,’ (the college students) get to see the
show, and we get the increased fanbase and buzz.”

The sites also will offer up behind-the-scenes footage, cast
interviews and musicvideos for college viewers.

The promotion also comes as Nielsen begins to measure college-student
viewing in a limited fashion. Last year Nielsen started including
college students living away from home in its national People Meter
ratings. The ratings firm doesn’t consider dorm rooms as separate
households but includes students who happen to be a part of a Nielsen
family.

Ironically, college students are among the most notorious for using
their .edu addresses to illegally download copyrighted content —
which perhaps include the bootleg copies of “Fringe” currently making
the Internet rounds. Now that “Fringe” will be streamed, Liguori said,
“There’s no need to do anything dumb.”

Liguori said it’s too soon to determine whether the network will
regularly stream premieres or regular episodes simultaneously with
their on-air runs. “We’ll see how this experiment goes,” he said.
- source variety

Anna Torv

She graduated from Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) with a degree in Performing Arts (Acting) in 2001.

Has done Motion Capture for PlayStation 3 game Heavenly Sword at WETA Digital in Wellington, New Zealand. Plays ‘Nariko’ in the game. (March 2007)

J.J. Abram’s knew he wanted her for the part from the moment he saw an audition tape from her agent. (The tape was her trying out from something else and not a Olivia on Fringe.)

TV’s dying for another kick-ass female action star, and Torv might just fill the void as Olivia Dunham, an FBI agent investigating a string of strange phenomena. Plus she’s got J.J. Abrams on her side. In the name of Jennifer Garner and Evangeline Lilly, how can she not break out?