On Friday Katee was in her hometown in Portland Oregon and answered fan questions and talked BSG. I have emebedded the video from the KUFO website on my video channel so you can watch them using any browser- their web page is not firefox friendly. Just click on the video screen area and the clip will start- 45 minutes of video in 6 pieces. You can view them on the KUFO site HERE.
6 Videos- click to view them nice and big
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6

Actor Name:  Jamie Bamber

Character Name:  Major Lee (Leland) “Apollo” Adama

Episode Appearances:  Main Cast on Mini-Series, Season 1, 2, 3, 4 and Razor.

Character Bio:  When we first meet Captain Lee Adama, he’s not on a friendly foot with his father. The relationship cooled when his brother Zak, died in a flight accident. When Apollo finds out it was Starbuck who passed Zak for basic flight when he wasn’t ready yet he opens up to his father. He’s a skilled pilot, but one who is troubled by his memories of the past.

He signs up as President Roslin’s ”special adviser” for her to better understand military matters. When Roslin interferes with military operations Adama wants to remove Roslin from office. In a direct act of mutiny Lee Adama pulls his gun on the arresting officer Col. Tigh. When his father is shot by Sharon “Boomer” Valerii at point blank range Lee Adama is thrown in the brig by Col. Tigh. Since his help is needed to defend the fleet he is released and leads the marines that stop the Cylons that boarded the Galactica.  

He got promoted to Commander of the battlestar Pegasus after Admiral Cain got killed. He had a fall out with Starbuck just before she settles on New Caprica. Reason was an affair he had with her. They decide to announce their realtationship, but when he wakes up the next morning Kara married Anders.

He chooses to stay in space and marries Lt. Anastasia “Dee” Dualla. He gained a lot of weight during that time when he tries to deal with a lot of issues. In attacking the Cylons that occupied New Caprica, he disobeys his father’s orders and leaves the fleet to rescue him destroying the battlestar Pegasus. He barely escapes, deals with his problems, gets back in shape and loses the weight he gained. He has an affair with Kara, while both are married now. However, he decides he will be faithful to Dee, and ends the affair.

Actor Bio:  Jamie St. John Bamber Griffith was born in Hammersmith, London, UK on April 3rd 1973. He grew up both in France and England. His father, Ralph, is a native of Detroit, Michigan. His mother, Elizabeth, is a native of Northern Ireland. Jamie has five brothers and one sister. He attended St. Paul’s School in London and St. John’s College, Cambridge, earning a 1st Class M.A. Honors in Modern Languages. Jamie entered the London Academy of Dramatic Arts (LAMDA) in 1996.

After his graduation he got the role of Archie in the UK series Horatio Hornblower He is currenly to be seen on the new Battlestar Galactica TV Show as Apollo.

He is married to Kerry Norton, with whom he got 3 children; Daughter Isla, and the twins Darcy and Ava

IMDB Link:  Jamie Bamber

Official (Fan) Website:  Jamie Bamber 

Trivia:  He speaks
English, French and Italian.

What he’s doing now:  Currently starring on Scifi Channel’s Battlestar Galactica.

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Mary McDonnell Detailed Biography

Mary McDonnell (born April 28, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated American film, stage, and television actress. She is most famous from her Oscar-nominated role in Dances with Wolves and starring as President Laura Roslin in Battlestar Galactica TV Show.

McDonnell was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and raised in Ithaca, New York. After graduating from the State University of New York at Fredonia, she attended drama school and joined the East Coast’s prestigious Long Wharf Theatre Company, with whom she worked for over 20 years. She won an Obie in 1980 for her work in the play Still Life. On Broadway, she has performed in productions of Execution of Justice, The Heidi Chronicles, and Summer and Smoke.

After more than 21 years of theater and television work, McDonnell made her film breakthrough in 1990 as Stands With A Fist, a European American raised by Sioux Indians, in Kevin Costner’s Dances with Wolves. She received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the role. McDonnell’s role in Passion Fish (1992) brought her another Academy Award nomination, this time for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

Her other notable films include Grand Canyon (1991), Sneakers (1992), Independence Day (1996), and Donnie Darko (2001).

On television, McDonnell had her first regular role in 1980 on the soap opera As the World Turns. She starred in 1984 on the short-lived medical sitcom E/R, alongside Elliott Gould and George Clooney. Coincidentally, she guest-starred in 2001 on the NBC medical series of the same name, ER, which also featured Clooney. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her role on the show as Eleanor Carter, the mother of Dr. John Carter.

McDonnell also starred with Patrick Swayze in the 1988 movie, Tiger Warsaw.

In 2003, the cult 1970s show Battlestar Galactica was brought back to life, albeit in a re-imagined form as a three-hour miniseries. McDonnell starred as Laura Roslin, a Secretary of Education who is sworn in as President of the Colonies, and received rave critical notice for her performance. The miniseries effectively served as a pilot for the subsequent series, which was commissioned in a collaborative effort between the Sci Fi Channel and Sky TV. Battlestar Galactica is filmed mostly in Vancouver, Canada and is currently filming its fourth season, where McDonnell is a regular cast member.

McDonnell is married to Randle Mell and has two children, Olivia and Michael.

Name: Edward James Olmos

Born:
February 24, 1947 (1947-02-24) (age 60) East Los Angeles, California,  United States

Other name(s):
Eddie Olmos

Spouse(s):
Lymari Nadal

Notable roles:
Lt. Martin Castillo in Miami Vice Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver William Adama in Battlestar Galactica

 Edward James Olmos Detailed Biography

Edward James Olmos (born February 24, 1947) is an Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated American actor, of Mexican descent, best known for his roles of Lt. Martin Castillo in Miami Vice, Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver and Admiral William Adama in the Battlestar Galactica re-imagined series.

He was born in East Los Angeles, California to a Southern Baptist Mexican immigrant with 1/4 Hungarian Jewish ancestry (the family name was originally Olmosh) and a Mexican American Catholic mother. Olmos grew up wanting to be a professional baseball player and became the Golden State batting champion. In his teen years, he turned to rock and roll, and became the lead singer for a band he named Pacific Ocean, so-called because it was “the biggest thing on the West Coast”. He graduated from Montebello High School in 1964. While at Montebello High School Olmos lost a race for Student Body President to future California Democratic Party Chair Art Torres. For several years Pacific Ocean played various clubs in and around Los Angeles and released a record in 1968. At the same time, he attended classes at East Los Angeles College and California State University, Los Angeles, including courses in acting.

In 1971, Olmos married Kaija Keel, the daughter of actor Howard Keel. They had two children, Bodie Olmos and Mico Olmos, before divorcing in 1992. Olmos married actress Lorraine Bracco in 1994, but she filed for divorce in January 2002 after five years of separation. He is currently married to Puerto Rican actress Lymari Nadal, 31 years his junior. Olmos also has three adopted children: Michael D. Olmos, Brandon Olmos, and Tamiko.

In the late 1960s, Olmos branched out from music into acting, appearing in many small productions, until his big break portraying the narrator, called “El Pachuco”, in the play Zoot Suit, which dramatized the World War II-era rioting in Southern California brought about by the tensions between Mexican-Americans and local police. (See Zoot Suit Riots.) The play moved to Broadway, and Edward received a Tony nomination for his portrayal as El Pachuco. He took the role to the filmed version in 1981. Other film appearances followed, including Wolfen, Blade Runner and The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez.

In 1984, Olmos starred in his biggest role up to that date as the authoritative police Lieutenant Martin Castillo in the television series Miami Vice, for which he was awarded a Golden Globe and an Emmy. Returning to film, he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for the 1988 movie Stand and Deliver, portraying a real-life math teacher, Jaime Escalante, who turned his students into math whizzes, despite their disadvantaged backgrounds. He directed American Me in 1992, and starred in the multigenerational story of a Chicano family in My Family/Mi Familia.

Olmos has often become involved in social issues, especially those affecting the Hispanic-American community in the United States. In 1998 Olmos founded Latino Public Broadcasting and currently serves as its Chairman. The Latino Public Broadcasting funds programming for public television which focuses on issues affecting Hispanic-Americans and advocates for diverse perspectives in public television. Also, in 1998, Olmos starred in the uplifting and Latino movie The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, that breaks stereotypes and transcends the normal stigmas of most Latino oriented movies.[citation needed]Olmos also makes frequent appearances at juvenile halls and detention centers to speak to teenagers at risk. He has also been an international ambassador for UNICEF. In 2001, he was arrested and spent 20 days in prison for taking part in the Navy-Vieques protests against United States Navy target practice bombings of the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico.

Olmos played Rafael Leónidas Trujillo in the 2001 movie In the Time of the Butterflies. He also appeared as a recurring character, Justice Mendoza, in the TV series The West Wing.

In the early 2000s he starred as the recently widowed father in a Latin L.A.-family, in the PBS drama American Family: Journey of Dreams.

In 2003, he starred as Commander Adama in the Sci Fi Channel’s reimagined Battlestar Galactica miniseries and in the TV series that followed. In regards to his work on the show, he told CraveOnline, “I’m very grateful for the work that I’ve been able to do in my life but I can honestly tell you, this is the best usage of television I’ve ever been a part of to date.”

In 2006, Olmos produced and played the bit part of Julian Nava in the HBO movie Walkout about the 1968 Chicano Blowouts.

On January 5, 2007, Olmos appeared on Puerto Rican Television to blame the Puerto Rican and United States Governments for not cleaning the Island of Vieques after the United States Navy stopped using the island for bombing practice.