Lonesome Jim : About The Cast


Casey Affleck’s (Jim) first notable role was opposite Joaquin Phoenix and Nicole Kidman in
Gus Van Sant’s 1995 film “To Die For”. Since then, he has also appeared in Van Sant’s films
“Good Will Hunting” and “Gerry”, which he co-wrote with Van Sant and co-star Matt Damon.
Affleck most recently appeared in Steven Soderbergh’s “Ocean’s Twelve”, the sequel to “Ocean’s Eleven”, which he starred in as well. Affleck also appeared in films including, “200 Cigarettes”,
“Hamlet” directed by Michael Almereyda, “Soul Survivors”, “American Pie” and “American Pie 2”,
“Drowning Mona” and “Chasing Amy”.


Liv Tyler (Anika) starred as ‘Arwen’ in New Line Cinema’s blockbuster hits, “The Lord of the
Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” and “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers”, and was most
recently seen reprising that role in the Academy Award-winning final installment of the “The Lord
of the Rings” trilogy, entitled “The Return of the King”. Tyler was also recently seen starring
opposite Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez in the Kevin Smith film “Jersey Girl”, released in March
2004.
Tyler’s other film credits include: a starring role in the Bernardo Bertolucci film “Stealing Beauty”
opposite Jeremy Irons, “Inventing the Abbotts” with Joaquin Phoenix and Billy Crudup, and
Michael Bay’s “Armageddon” opposite Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck. More recently, she has been
seen in Robert Altman’s “Cookie’s Fortune” alongside Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, and Charles
Dutton, the Jake Scott-directed “Plunkett & MacLeane”, “Onegin” co-starring Ralph Fiennes and
“One Night at McCool’s” opposite Matt Dillon, Paul Reiser and John Goodman.

Tyler made her film debut with the leading role in “Silent Fall”, directed by Bruce Beresford,
opposite Richard Dreyfuss. After another lead in “Empire Records”, Tyler portrayed a waitress in
a local diner in James Mangold’s “Heavy”, a favorite at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival.
Tyler is the new face for Parfums Givenchy, the first celebrity to be connected to the designer
since Audrey Hepburn more than 40 years ago. She also serves as National Ambassador for the
US Fund for UNICEF.


Mary Kay Place (Sally) was first critically acclaimed for her role as country singer Loretta
Haggers on the hit comedy series ”Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman”, for which she won the EMMY
for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy.
Since then, her feature film credits include “Bound For Glory”, “More American Graffiti,” Martin
Scorsese’s “New York, New York,” “Private Benjamin,” “Starting Over,” “Modern Problems,”
“Waltz Across Texas,” “Explorers,” “Smooth Talk,” “The Big Chill,” “Captain Ron,” Alexander
Payne’s “Citizen Ruth”, Lisa Kruegar’s “Manny and Lo” (for which she received a Best Supporting
Female nomination from the Independent Spirit Awards) and “Committed; “Eye of God,” Frances
Ford Coppola’s “The Rainmaker”, John Waters’ “Pecker,” “Girl, Interrupted,” Spike Jonze’s “Being
John Malkovich”, “My First Mister,” Michel Gondry’s “Human Nature,” “The Safety of Objects,”
“Sweet Home Alabama”, “Latter Days”, and the recently released, “Evergreen”(2004 Sundance
Film Festival dramatic competition selection), and John Sayles’ “Silver City”. She has also
completed work in the independent films, “Killer Diller”, “Death in Texas”, and “Nine Lives” to
be released in 2005.

Born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Place moved to Los Angeles after
graduating from the University of Tulsa. After working for the “Maude” head
writers at Norman Lear’s Tandem Productions, Place began co-writing for numerous TV series,
including “M*A*S*H” (Emmy nomination, 1973) and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”. She also
acted in episodes of “All In the Family”, “M*A*S*H,” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” before
beginning “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman”. She wrote over 75 songs for her “Mary Hartman”
character and recorded three albums for Columbia Records, including the Grammy-nominated
“Tonite! At The Capri Lounge”.
Mary Kay’s other television appearances include “Saturday Night Live” (as
Host), “Fernwood 2-Night,” Martin Mull’s “The History of White People in
America (Ace nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy), the Emmy Award winning show “Mom’s
On Strike,” multiple Movies-of-the-Week, the provocative cable miniseries, “Tales of the City”, and
series “Thirtysomething,” “My So Called
Life”, “Law and Order: Special Victim’s Unit” and as the Surgeon General on
“The West Wing”. She will also appear in episodes of the upcoming new HBO
series, “Big Love”.
In addition, Mary Kay has worked as a director in television on episodes of
“Baby Boom,” “Dream On”, “Arliss,” “Friends,” and other programs.


Seymour Cassel (Don) was trained at New York City's American Theater Wing and the
Actors' Studio. He has appeared in dozens of memorable films, including many of those by friend
John Cassavetes. Those include “Too Late Blues” (1962), “Faces” (1968) which earned him a
Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination, and “Minnie and Moskowitz” (1971). He also helped
produce Cassavetes’ “Shadows” (1960). In recent years, Cassel has been more visible than
ever, often in smallish but colorful supporting roles, including roles in Wes Anderson’s last three
films: “Rushmore”, “The Royal Tennenbaums”, and most recently, “The Life Aquatic with Steve
Zissou”. One of Cassel’s most memorable roles is as Sam Catchem, loyal sidekick to supercop
Dick Tracy, in Warren Beatty's lavish 1990 comic-strip caper.
Some of his other many film credits include: “Stuck on You” (2003), “A Good Night to Die”
(2003), “Stealing Harvard” (2002), “The Sleepy Time Gal” (2001), “Black & White” (1998), “Trees
Lounge” (1996) directed by Steve Buscemi, “Boiling Point” (1993), “Indecent Proposal“ (1993),
“White Fang” (1992) “Honeymoon in Vegas” (1992), “In the Soup” (1992), “Colors” (1991), “Tin
Men” (1988), “Convoy” (1987), “The Last Tycoon” (1976), “The Killing of a Chinese Bookie”
(1976), “Coogan’s Bluff” (1968), and “The Sweet Ride” (1968).
Cassel has also made numerous guest appearances on television shows including: “Arliss”,
“Boston Public”, “Chicago Hope”. “Matlock”, “Batman” and “My Three Sons”.


Kevin Corrigan (Tim) made his feature debut in” Lost Angels”, directed by Hugh Hudson,
and has since appeared in over 40 features, including “Walking and Talking”, for which he
received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor 1997, “Illtown”,
“Goodfellas”, “Buffalo 66”, “True Romance”, “Living in Oblivion”, “Bandwagon”, “Henry Fool”,
“Slums of Beverly Hills”, “Steal this Movie” and “Scotland PA”. Most recently, he appeared in
“Sexual Life”, with an all-star ensemble cast, due out later this year.
Corrigan co-wrote (with director Matthew Harrison) the film “Kicked in the Head”. He also starred
with James Woods and Linda Fiorentino in the film, which was produced by Martin Scorsese and
selected for the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.
Trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute, Corrigan has appeared in a number of stage and television
productions including “Grounded for Life”, “Homicide: Life on the Street”, “Subway Stories” and
“Freaks and Geeks”. At the age of 17, he wrote the play “The Boiler Room”, which was
performed at Playwrights Horizons and the Young Playwrights Festival. Most recently, Corrigan
performed in Ken Lonergan's “Lobby Hero”, for which he received a Garland Award (BackStage
West) for best performance by an actor, and in the play “Shoppers Carried by Escalators into the
Flames”, by Denis Johnson.


Mark Boone Junior’s (Evil) working relationship with Steve Buscemi dates back to 1983
when they began writing, producing and acting together in various works at innumerable venues.
In1990, Boone moved to the west coast where he continued to be involved in many aspects of
the entertainment business including producing, writing, and starring in “The Grey”, executive
producing “Spun”, and acting in over sixty films including the as yet unreleased: “The Nickel
Children”, “The Legend of Lucy Keyes”, “Dead Birds”, and “Batman Begins” as Flass. He will also
appear in the upcoming season of HBO's “Carnivale”, and is currently preparing for the lead in
“One Night Without You” with Michael Parks and Jake LaBotz directed by Joe D'Augustine.