“THE INCREDIBLES”Movie Production Information p. 8ABOUT THE CASTCRAIG T. NELSON (Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible) explores the unseen side of being a superhero as a dedicated family man trying to find a balance between saving the world and taking care of his loved ones. Nelson is probably best known to audiences for his portrayal of football fanatic Coach Hayden Fox on the long-running ABC sitcom “Coach” (1989-97), and more recently as Washington, D.C. Police Chief Jack Mannion on the CBS drama “The District” (2000-4). From the beginning of his career, Nelson has also been a successful writer, and in recent decades has added Director to his C.V., helming episodes of both “Coach” and “The District.” The Spokane, Washington native spent his high school and college years in the early sixties exercising his musical talents playing drums and guitar. He attended the University of Arizona, and got some early theatrical acting experience treading the boards of Hollywood’s Oxford Theatre. His first television exposure came as a writer/performer for “The Lohman and Barkley Show,” a variety series for which he won his first Emmy® award. His writing credits in the early 1970s also include “The Alan King Show” and “The Tim Conway Show.” Following guest shots on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “Charlie’s Angels,” “Wonder Woman” and “How the West Was Won,” Nelson segued into film acting, earning roles in “...And Justice for All” (1979), “Where the Buffalo Roam,” “Private Benjamin” and “Stir Crazy” (all 1980). In 1982, he was cast as father and real estate developer Steve Freeling in the Tobe Hooper/Steven Spielberg supernatural chiller “Poltergeist” (a role he reprised in the 1986 sequel “Poltergeist II: The Other Side”). In 1989, Nelson was cast in the title role on the hit comedy series “Coach,” a role he carried to popular success for the next eight years, earning three Emmy® nominations and winning in 1992. His other regular TV series credits include “Chicago Story” (1982) and “Call to Glory” (1984), as well as the miniseries “Drug Wars: The Camarena Story” (1990), “The Fifty” (1998) and “To Serve and Protect” (1999). Nelson’s shingle, Family Tree Productions, produced the 1994 telefilm “Ride with the Wind,” in which he starred, wrote and executive produced. Nelson’s nearly two dozen telefilm credits also include “Inmates: A Love Story” (1981), “Paper Dolls” (1982), “Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story” (1989), “Extreme Close-Up” (1990), “The Josephine Baker Story” (1991), “The Fire Next Time” (1993), “Take Me Home Again” (1994), “Creature” (1998) and “Dirty Pictures” (2000, Golden Globe® winner). Nelson’s feature film credits include “The Osterman Weekend” (1983, dir. Sam Peckinpah), “Silkwood” (1983, dir. Mike Nichols), “The Killing Fields” (1984, dir. Roland Joffe), “Ghosts of Mississippi” (1996, dir. Rob Reiner), “The Devil’s Advocate” (1997, dir. Taylor Hackford), “Wag the Dog” (1997, dir. Barry Levinson), and “The Skulls” (2000, dir. Rob Cohen). In 1998, the actor made his Broadway debut in the role of Nat Miller in a popular revival of the Eugene O’Neill comedy “Ah, Wilderness!” A long-time fan of auto racing, Nelson tasted it for the first time as a participant in the 1991 Pro Celebrity Grand Prix, and was hooked. In 1992, he formed the Screaming Eagles Racing team, and ran in a multitude of World Sports Car events in the United States and abroad through 1997. Nelson’s production company is currently developing a feature based on the life of five-time land speed record-holder Craig Breedlove, which he is slated to write and executive produce. The actor has three children and six grandchildren. He and his wife Doria live in Los Angeles. HOLLY HUNTER (Helen Parr/Elastigirl) implements her acting talents to give voice to this ultraflexible character who is a mom, a housewife and a superhero rolled into one. Content to live the suburban lifestyle, Helen flies into action when her husband lands in trouble with a dangerous adversary. Academy Award® winner, Holly Hunter is one of America’s most intriguing and critically-acclaimed actresses. She has been nominated for four Oscars® and received both the Academy Award® and the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her performance in Jane Campion’s “The Piano.” Last year, Hunter starred in Catherine Hardwicke’s independent film “Thirteen,” for which she was nominated for an Oscar® and a BAFTA Award. Hunter was also seen in 2003’s “Levity,” with Billy Bob Thornton and Morgan Freeman, which opened the Sundance Film Festival. Previous film credits include the Coen brothers’ “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?,” Mike Figgis’ “Time Code” and “The Firm” (for which she received an Academy Award® nomination). Her role in “Broadcast News” earned Hunter her first Academy Award® nomination for Best Actress. Among Hunter’s other films are “Copycat,” “Raising Arizona” and “Living Out Loud.” On the small screen, she has been seen in “When Billie Beat Bobby” and “Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her” (both won her Emmy® Award nominations), as well as “The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom” (Emmy® Award for Best Actress). She was also awarded an Emmy® for ‘Jane Roe’ in “Roe vs. Wade.” In 1982, Hunter made her Broadway stage debut in Beth Henley’s “Crimes of the Heart” and followed that with another Broadway play by Henley, “The Wake of Jamey Foster.” Other New York stage appearances include “Battery, The Person I Once Was,” “A Weekend Near Madison,” “The Miss Firecracker Contest,” “Impossible Marriage” and “The Play What I Wrote” with Hamish McColl, Sean Foley and Tobey Jones. This winter, Hunter will make her West End debut in the London Stage production of “By the Bog of Cats.” Hunter starred this summer in the dark romantic comedy “Little Black Book” with Brittany Murphy. She will also co-star in Mark Mylod’s independent feature “The Big White” with Woody Harrelson and Robin Williams; and Rodrigo Garcia’s “Nine Lives” with Stephen Dillane. SAMUEL L. JACKSON (Lucius Best/Frozone) portrays an ultra-cool superhero who likes to put the bad guys on ice. Forced into an early retirement by a rash of frivolous lawsuits, Frozone likes to chill with his pal Bob Parr and anonymously assist the police for old times’ sake. Respectfully labeled as one of the hardest-working actors in Hollywood, Jackson is an undisputed star with more than eighty film credits to his name. As part of his artistic legacy he stands to be sampled, quoted, and alluded to for decades to come, thanks to his indelible portrayal of philosophizing hitman Jules Winnfield in Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction.” The role earned Jackson Academy Award®, Golden Globe®, and BAFTA nominations for Best Supporting Actor. Born in Washington, D.C., Jackson attended Georgia’s Morehouse College, from which he earned a degree in Dramatic Arts in 1972. He made his film debut that same year, starring opposite Clifton Davis in the indie drama “Together for Days.” Moving to New York to ply his trade, Jackson took to the stage in productions of “Home,” “A Soldier’s Play,” “Sally/Prince” and “The District Line.” He originated roles in two of August Wilson’s plays at Yale Repertory Theatre, and appeared in “Mother Courage and Her Children” and “The Mighty Gents” for the New York Shakespeare Festival. Jackson continued his stage career through the 1970s and ’80s while earning occasional roles in feature films and TV movies, including the teleplays “The Displaced Person” (1976) and “The Trial of the Moke” (1978), and the features “Ragtime” (dir. Milos Forman, 1981) and “Eddie Murphy Raw” (1987). In 1988 he collaborated for the first time with director Spike Lee in “School Daze.” Lee continued to cast Jackson in his next three films, “Do the Right Thing” (1989), “Mo’ Better Blues” (1990), and “Jungle Fever” (1991). The last performance caused a sensation at Cannes when Jackson was awarded the first and only Best Supporting Performance award in the festival’s history for his portrayal of crack addict Gator Purify. In the early 1990s, Jackson took on high profile roles in such films as “Goodfellas” (dir. Martin Scorsese, 1990), “Patriot Games” (dir. Phillip Noyce, 1992), “Menace II Society” (1993, dirs. Albert Hughes/Allen Hughes) and “Jurassic Park” (dir. Steven Spielberg, 1993). Then Quentin Tarantino cast him opposite John Travolta in the pop-culture phenomenon “Pulp Fiction” (1994), playing Jules, a Baddie looking for a little redemption in the gangster underground of Los Angeles (a role that British magazine Empire polled as the #2 “coolest movie character of all time”). Since then, Jackson has appeared in two Tarantino productions (the critically-acclaimed “Jackie Brown,” 1997, and “Kill Bill Vol. 2,” 2004); two action thrillers from director John McTiernan (“Die Hard with a Vengeance,” 1995, and “Basic,” 2003); and all three chapters of George Lucas’ new “Star Wars” trilogy (“Episode I: The Phantom Menace,” 1999, “Episode II: Attack of the Clones,” 2002, and the upcoming “Episode III” in 2005). Among Jackson’s most notable recent film credits are “Hard Eight” (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 1996); “Trees Lounge” (dir. Steve Buscemi, 1996); “Sphere” (dir. Barry Levinson, 1998); “The Negotiator” (dir. F. Gary Gray, 1998); “Shaft” (dir. John Singleton, 2000); “Unbreakable” (dir. M. Night Shyamalan, 2000); “Changing Lanes” (dir. Roger Michell, 2002); and “S.W.A.T.” (dir. Clark Johnson, 2003). Among his upcoming films, Jackson will appear as a true-life controversial high school basketball coach in “Coach Carter,” an ATF agent dealing with Eugene Levy’s clueless traveling salesman in “The Man,” and Agent Augustus Gibbons in a reprise of his “XXX” role of 2002 in “XXX: State of the Union.” He also has a starring role in the new John Boorman film, “Country of My Skull,” due for release in 2005. JASON LEE (Syndrome) brings a sense of mischief and mayhem to the voice of the dastardly villain who holds a grudge against superheroes. With a flourishing career that includes an Independent Spirit Award for his performance in writerdirector Kevin Smith’s “Chasing Amy” and memorable roles in features for such directors as Smith, Cameron Crowe, and Lawrence Kasdan, Jason Lee has solidly established himself among critics, directors, and peers as a capable dramatic actor as well as laser-guided comic personality. Born and raised in Huntington Beach, California, Lee turned a childhood pastime of skateboarding into a professional career. After moving to Los Angeles during his early twenties, however, he began developing an interest in acting. “I met friends that were actors and thought maybe I should try it out,” says Lee, who first appeared in commercials and music videos. “After watching Steve Buscemi as the bellboy in ‘Barton Fink,’ I knew I wanted to be in movies.” Lee’s first starring role came in 1995 playing the lead in writer-director Kevin Smith’s comedy “Mallrats,” in which he deftly portrayed the inconsiderate slacker Brodie Bruce. Lee went on to showcase his intuitive timing as the demonic Azrael in Smith’s supernatural comedy “Dogma,” and reunited with the director in Dimension Films comedy “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back,” as well as the recent comedy/drama “Jersey Girl.” Cameron Crowe first cast Lee in his rock-and-roll ensemble piece “Almost Famous” in the role of Jeff Bebe, lead singer of 1970s rock band Stillwater. The film won the 2000 Golden Globe® award for Best Film. He re-teamed with Crowe the following year playing Tom Cruise’s best friend in the surreal Paramount drama “Vanilla Sky.” His other film credits include Ben Kingsley’s son in the HBO original “Weapons of Mass Distraction” (1997); a doomed whistleblower in the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced political thriller “Enemy of the State” (1998); a critically-acclaimed turn as lonely young skateboarding billionaire Skip Skipperton in Lawrence Kasdan’s comedy “Mumford” (1999); Fritos-loving vagrant Puggy in Barry Sonnenfeld’s comedy “Big Trouble” (2002); a non-professional criminal in “Stealing Harvard” (2002); and a disheveled man in the psychological drama “I Love Your Work” (2003). The actor recently filmed a co-starring role in writer-director Rebecca Miller’s “The Ballad of Jack and Rose” with Daniel Day-Lewis and Jena Malone. His upcoming projects include “Drop Dead Sexy” with Crispin Glover. Next year, he plans to make his directorial debut with his long-in-the-mulling screenplay “Seymour Sycamore, Margaret Orange,”which he will also produce for his company, niva films. Lee is an avid art collector and is an active promoter of the downtown Los Angeles art scene. He has also revived his skateboard company, Stereo, to the delight of skateboarding enthusiasts across the country. SARAH VOWELL (Violet Parr) makes her dramatic debut with THE INCREDIBLES and lends her distinctive voice to the Parrs’ shy teenage daughter. Violet’s ability to become invisible or use a protective force field comes in handy during the heat of battle—or when she simply wishes she could disappear. Sarah Vowell has turned her gimlet eye—and razor-sharp tongue—toward everything from her father’s homemade cannon and her obsession with the Godfather films, to the New Hampshire primary and her Cherokee ancestors’ forced march on the Trail of Tears. Vowell is best known for her monologues and documentaries for public radio’s “This American Life.” A contributing editor for the program since 1996, she has been a staple of TAL’s popular live shows around the country, for which The New York Times has commended her “funny querulous voice and shrewd comic delivery.” Thanks to her first book, Radio On: A Listener’s Diary, Newsweek named her its “Rookie of the Year” for non-fiction in 1997, calling her “a cranky stylist with talent to burn.” Reviewing her second book, the essay collection Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World, People magazine said, “Wise, witty and refreshingly warm-hearted, Vowell’s essays on American history, pop culture and her own family reveal the bonds holding together a great, if occasionally weird, nation.” Her third book, The Partly Cloudy Patriot, was a national bestseller. (Its audiobook featured the voices of Norman Lear, Paul Begala, Seth Green and Conan O’Brien with original music by They Might Be Giants.) Sarah Vowell’s forthcoming book, titled Assassination Vacation and due to be published spring 2005, is about tourism and presidential murder. Vowell contributed to The Future Dictionary of America (2004); a history of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” in The Rose & the Briar edited by Greil Marcus and Sean Wilentz (2004); and wrote the introductions to The Berlin Years by artist Marcel Dzama (2003) and Waiting for the End of the World by photographer Richard Ross (2004); and the liner notes to Rhino Records’ “Dial-A Song: 20 Years of They Might Be Giants”—also appearing in “Gigantic,” a documentary film about the band. Sarah Vowell has written columns for Time magazine, Salon.com and San Francisco Weekly. As a critic and reporter, she has contributed to numerous newspapers and magazines, including Esquire, GQ, Artforum, Los Angeles Times, The Village Voice, Spin, and McSweeney’s. Vowell is a fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU. She is a volunteer at 826NYC, a nonprofit tutoring center in Brooklyn. She has appeared on “Late Show with David Letterman,” “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” and “Nightline,” and is a regular on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien.” SPENCER FOX (Dash) is the diminutive and mischievous son of Bob and Helen Parr, gifted with super-speed and endlessly frustrated by the fact that he is forbidden from showing it off. Fox began his professional acting career at age eight with numerous community theatre credits already under his belt. His cute face and spunky personality won him spots in commercials for Domino’s Pizza, Staples, and Tide, to name but a few campaigns. His adorable voice has also landed him voice roles in ads for Hershey’s, Coke, and Campbell’s Soup. Spencer is eleven years old. The sixth-grader loves skateboarding, alternative rock and the electric guitar. He studies acting in the kids’ program at the Herbert Berghof Studio in New York City. ELIZABETH PEÑA (Mirage) provides the seductive voice of Syndrome’s henchwoman who lures Mr. Incredible out of his domestic ennui and delivers him into his nemesis’ evil clutches. While most Hollywood actresses would enjoy a nice break after the final season of their critically-acclaimed series, that scenario doesn’t apply to award-winning actress Elizabeth Peña. Switching from television to film with ease, Peña has always kept herself busy with one project after another, and she continues to remain one of Hollywood’s busiest actresses with ten projects currently in the can: four for television and six feature films. Peña recently garnered rave reviews for the CBS telefilm “Suburban Madness,” based on the true story of a woman who runs over and kills her cheating husband with her Mercedes. She starred as “Clara Harris,” the wife driven to murder. The MOW also starred Sela Ward and aired October 3, 2004. Wasting no time after “Madness,” Peña shot the indie film “Transamerica,” where she plays a psychiatrist to a transgendered Felicity Huffman. The film is scheduled for a 2005 release. She then follows that film with a role in “The Lost City,” Andy Garcia’s directorial debut, currently shooting on location in the Dominican Republic. The film, which is written by award-winning author Gabriel-Cabrera Infante, stars Dustin Hoffman and Bill Murray and is set for an early 2005 release. Elizabeth has also completed “Down In The Valley with Edward Norton and David Morse, in which she plays a woman who has a one-night stand with Norton’s character. Next up are the films “How The Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer,” in which she is the daughter/mother of three generations of women all searching for love and sex during a long, hot summer in a small town, due out later this year; “Keep Your Distance” opposite Gil Bellows and Stacey Keach out this fall; and “Sueño,” a film starring John Leguizamo, in which she plays one of two women that Leguizamo falls in love with while in pursuit of his dream of becoming a singer. The film is in post-production and set for a fall release. Elizabeth lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children. WALLACE SHAWN (Gilbert Huph) plays the personification of everything petty and bureaucratic that’s ruining Bob Parr’s life. Currently Bob’s boss at the insurance company, Huph tyrannizes Bob and in his dogged pursuit of an ever-widening bottom line squelches Bob’s every attempt to help the public. Shawn is one of the film industry’s most recognizable character actors as well as a highly-respected playwright. The proud bearer of a long and distinguished list of movie and television credits, Shawn is a threetime Pixar feature voiceover actor and has the honor of adding the cry “Inconceivable!” to the popular lexicon. A New York City native, Shawn was once a schoolteacher, having taught Latin and drama in New York and English in India. A lifelong writer whose playwriting career began in 1967, Shawn translated Machiavelli’s play “The Mandrake” for a Joseph Papp production in 1977, at which point the director asked him to appear in it—a performance that marked his acting debut. Since then he has appeared in “Uncle Vanya,” “Carmilla” and a variety of theatrical productions. Other plays by Shawn followed “Mandrake,” including “Aunt Dan and Lemon” and “The Fever.” The National Theater in London produced his most recent play, “The Designated Mourner,” featuring Mike Nichols and Miranda Richardson. The two stars reprised their roles in the BBC Films production of “The Designated Mourner” released to critical acclaim in summer 1997. After seeing Wallace Shawn in “The Mandrake,” casting director Juliet Taylor recommended and ultimately cast Shawn in Woody Allen’s “Manhattan” (1979). Allen later used him in “Radio Days” (1987), “Shadows and Fog” (1992), “The Curse of the Jade Scorpion” (2001), and his most recent film, “Melinda & Melinda” (2005). Shawn was also a perennial collaborator with Louis Malle, and has appeared in four of the director’s films: “Atlantic City” (1980), “My Dinner with Andre” (1981), “Crackers” (1984), and “Vanya on 42nd Street” (1994). Shawn’s many feature film roles include Alan Pakula’s “Starting Over” (1979), Bob Fosse’s “All That Jazz” (1979), Blake Edwards’ “Mickey and Maude” (1984), James Ivory’s “The Bostonians” (1984), Rob Reiner’s “The Princess Bride” (1987), Stephen Frears’ “Prick Up Your Ears” (1987), Alan Rudolph’s “Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle” (1994), Amy Heckerling’s “Clueless” (1995), Rebecca Miller’s “Personal Velocity” (2002), and Rob Minkoff’s “The Haunted Mansion.” In addition to having a recognizable face, Shawn’s distinctive voice fueled the performance of nervous dinosaur Rex in the Disney/Pixar production “Toy Story” (1995) as well as its sequel, “Toy Story 2” (1999). He has also lent his voice to the animated features “The Goofy Movie” (1995) and “Teacher’s Pet” (2004). Shawn has appeared regularly in such highly regarded television series as “Murphy Brown,” “The Cosby Show” and “Taxi,” along with special appearances on “Civil Wars,” “Crossing Jordan,” “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” and the PBS presentation “How to Be a Perfect Person in Three Days.” Television credits include “Monte Walsh,” starring Tom Selleck, “Mr. St. Nick” with Kelsey Grammer, and “Blonde” with Poppy Montgomery as the legendary Marilyn Monroe. JOHN RATZENBERGER (The Underminer) plays a newly-emerging supervillain determined to declare war on peace and happiness. An accomplished screenwriter, director, producer and multi-Emmy® nominated actor, along with wellearned credentials as an entrepreneur and humanitarian, John Ratzenberger is known to international audiences as know-it-all postman Cliff Claven on “Cheers” and as part of the Oscar® winning Pixar animation team. A decade after the finale of the long-running NBC sitcom, the iconic performer is again a regular on television as creator and star of “John Ratzenberger’s Made in America,” a new series for the Travel Channel. Visiting factories across the nation, John spotlights the companies and people who invent and build the best products in the U.S. From Campbell’s, Gatorade and Monopoly to Harley Davidson, Craftsman Tools and John Deere farm equipment, each episode honors those people who “take pride in their workmanship and are the backbone of our economy,” he says. A former carpenter, archery instructor, carnival performer and oyster boat crewman, John Ratzenberger certainly knows how to use his own hands, as well as his other diverse assets. The son of a truck driver father and factory worker mother, he was raised in the seaside community of Black Rock, near Bridgeport, Connecticut, getting his first taste of the stage in grade school. An English literature major at Sacred Heart University, he trod the boards in drama club and after graduation starred in one-man shows while directing others. In 1971 he received a tax refund check for $263, at the time the exact one-way airfare to London. John spent a decade as co-founder of the improvisational duo Sal’s Meat Market, earning acclaim across Europe and a grant from the British Arts Council. While in Europe, John appeared in over 22 motion pictures, including “A Bridge Too Far,” “Superman,” “Gandhi” and “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back,” starred in the Granada TV series “Small World”; and cut his teeth as a producer and writer for the BBC, Granada TV and several prestigious theater companies. In 1982 John took a writing assignment for CBS in Los Angeles. As serendipity would have it, on the day he was scheduled to return to London, he auditioned for a role on “Cheers.” Even more remarkable, the character of the postman did not even exist, but after John auditioned for another role, he threw a suggestion to the writers. “I explained that every neighborhood bar has a resident know-it-all, and then demonstrated my version of him.” John’s improvisational skills brought Cliff Claven to life, and the “Cheers” team immediately rewrote the pilot to include him. During eleven seasons on “Cheers” John continued to improvise many of his own lines, helping bring freshness and enduring popularity to a show that would earn 28 Emmys®. With “Cheers” now in syndication nationwide, Cliff Claven remains one of television’s most beloved characters. Animation has been a natural home to his versatile vocal talents, and John is the only actor to participate in every Pixar film. Beginning with the charming and witty Hamm the piggy bank in “Toy Story” (reprised in “Toy Story 2”), then came P.T. Flea in “A Bug’s Life,” Yeti the snow monster in “Monsters, Inc.,” a school of Moonfish in “Finding Nemo” and characters in two upcoming films, “The Incredibles” and “Cars.” His other animation roles include those in the Academy Award® winning feature “Spirited Away” and the long-running TBS series “Captain Planet and the Planeteers” and “The New Adventures of Captain Planet.” Appearing as himself on “The Drew Carey Show” and “Monty Python’s Flying Circus: Live in Aspen,” among other programs, he has spent two decades bringing his gifts as a character actor to such episodic series as “8 Simple Rules,” “That ’70s Show,” “Sabrina the Teenage Witch,” “Murphy Brown,” “The Love Boat,” “Magnum, P.I.” and “Hill Street Blues.” John has also reprised Cliff Claven in “Frasier,” “The Simpsons,” “Blossom,” “Wings,” “St. Elsewhere” and eight NBC specials. Among his numerous TV movies are starring roles in “The Pennsylvania Miners Story” for ABC, “A Fare To Remember,” “Remember WENN,” PBS Masterpiece Theater’s “The Good Soldier” and the BBC’s “Song of a Sourdough” and the “Detectives.” Unsatisfied with being in front of the camera alone, John heads his own Los Angeles-based production company, Fiddlers Bay Productions, and has directed more than 50 TV episodes including “Cheers” and “Evening Shade.” He has also directed a Super Bowl promo and a myriad of commercials, writing and starring in two, which earned the coveted Cleo Award. In 1989 John Ratzenberger founded Eco-Pack Industries, a company dedicated to creating alternative packaging. Its bio-degradable, non-toxic recycled paper product, Quadrapak®, became an international success with such clients as Hallmark, Elizabeth Arden and Nordstrom, replacing styrofoam peanuts and plastic bubble wrap. In other humanitarian areas, John serves as chairman of www.ChildrenWithDiabetes.com, the world’s largest Internet venture connecting diabetes information and research, and as National Walk Chairman for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation he has helped raise over $100 million (among other charity fundraisers, John was the first and only person to row a boat for more than 16 hours and 45 miles around Vashon Island near Washington State, raising funds and awareness for the Special Olympics). The proud parent of two children, John has promoted literacy through Cities in Schools, is founder of the Harbor School in Washington, sits on the board of Pepperdine University and, in 1996, was recognized as “Father of the Year” by the Father’s Day Council of America. Among his numerous other awards, John Ratzenberger returned to his alma mater in 2002 to be honored with a doctorate of Humane Letters, and is a two-time Emmy® nominee for his outstanding supporting actor work on “Cheers.” JEAN SINCERE (Muriel Hogenson) plays a septuagenarian crime victim who visits Insuricare to pursue her claim and gets a sympathetic ear from insurance agent Bob Parr. Sincere is an actress with a long and varied career on stage and screen. Her first television acting credits reach back to the earliest days of the medium, including roles in live teleplays from the series “The Philco Television Playhouse” and “Lux Video Theatre.” Jean’s many guest-starring credits for television include “It’s All Relative” and “The Drew Carey Show” for ABC; “Frasier,” “E.R.” and “The Pretender” for NBC; “Malcolm in the Middle,” “Ally McBeal” and “Party of Five” for FOX; and “The Client” and “Courthouse” for CBS. Her feature roles include Nina, one quarter of a resort-town sewing circle dogging Steve Martin in “Roxanne” (1987), Ruby in the sci-fi thriller “Pulse” (1988), and roles in several teleplays including “Thirteen at Dinner” (1985, featuring Peter Ustinov and Faye Dunaway) and “Scandal in a Small Town” (1988). On Broadway, Sincere has appeared in the original musical comedy productions of “Wonderful Town,” “By the Beautiful Sea” and “Oh Captain.” She has also starred in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” “The Glass Menagerie,” “Frieda,” “Hell’s Army” and Dos Passos’ comedy “U.S.A.” on the French stage. Return to The Incredibles Movie Home Page
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