SAHARA production notes FINAL

Macy’s many credits include “Stealing Sinatra,” “Spartan,” Woody Allen’s “Radio
Days,” “The Murder of Mary Phagan,” “Searching for Bobby Fischer,” “The Client,”
“Murder in the First,” “Mr. Holland’s Opus,” “Ghosts of Mississippi,” “Air Force One,”
“Boogie Nights,” “Wag the Dog,” “Pleasantville,” “Happy, Texas,” “Magnolia,” “State
and Main,” “Jurassic Park III,” “Welcome to Collinwood,” “Cellular,” and “The Cooler.”
Macy was nominated for a Golden Globe for his role as Tick Tock McLaughlin in
“Seabiscuit,” and the movie was nominated for Best Picture. In 1997, he was nominated
for the Academy Award® for his performance in “Fargo." Last year, after co-writing and
starring in TNT’s highly acclaimed movie “Door to Door,” Macy was honored with two
Emmy Awards (one for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Television Movie and another for
Outstanding Writing of a Television Movie, with Steven Schachter) for his work. The
movie received 12 Emmy nominations and won 6.
He is married to actress Felicity Huffman, who stars on “Desperate Housewives.”
They live in Los Angeles with their two daughters.
Beloved (and desired) by morticians all across the globe, RAINN WILSON (Rudi)
is best-known for playing the role of Arthur Martin, the odd mortician intern on HBO’s
“Six Feet Under.” He will soon star in “The Office,” premiering this March on NBC.
Wilson has appeared in such features as “Galaxy Quest,” “Almost Famous,”
“America’s Sweethearts,” and Rob Zombie’s “House of 1,000 Corpses.” He most recently
played Bill Harris in “Baadasssss!” On television, he has played guest and recurring roles
on several shows and playing wonderfully quirky lead parts on many failed pilots.
Wilson was born and raised in the Seattle area and attended the graduate acting
program at NYU. After spending many years doing Broadway, Off-Broadway, and
regional theater roles, he moved to Los Angeles with a comedy troupe called The New
Bozena. After transferring their hit Off-Broadway show “Winter is the Coldest Season” to
LA, the group developed their off-bear brand of slack-vaudeville into a Fox pilot, which
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