Sendhil Ramamurthy as Mohinder Suresh
Sendhil Ramamurthy was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in San Antonio, Texas. His parents are both Indian and both physicists. He began to make his mark on a number of television programs, including Casualty, Guiding Light, Ultimate Force, and Grey's Anatomy, Numb3rs. He has a sister who is also a physicist and works for an international pharmaceutical and psychological consortium.In 1999, he married actress Olga Sosnovska and has a daughter. ramamurthy is currently a postgraduate student at the Webber Douglas Institute of Dramatic Art in London. Prior to theater school, he graduated from Tufts University in Boston. He currently lives in Los Angeles. Birthday is May 17th.
Hayden Panettiere as Claire Bennet
Recently, Panettiere co-starred with Anthony LaPaglia and Isabella Rosselini in the indie film The Architect, which is premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival and starred in Mr. Gibb for Kevin Spacey's company Triggerstreet. She stars in the upcoming romantic comedy Shanghai Kiss and will lead Bring it On: All or Nothing this fall.
After rigorous training, she performed dazzling stunts as a superb ice skater in "Ice Princess" and recorded the soundtrack for the movie, "I Fly". Her roles as Tim Allen's daughter in Joe Somebody and Denzel Washington's fiery character in Remember the Titans have allowed her to develop her own unique style. Her other film credits include Raising Helen with Garry Marshall, Message In a Bottle with Kevin Costner, Object of My Affection with Jennifer Aniston and The Affair of My Affection with Hilary Swank. co-starring Hilary Swank in The Affair of the Necklace.
Panettiere starred opposite Joely Richardson in the Lifetime Original Movie Lies My Mother Told Me; and starred in the Disney Channel's hit Tiger Cruise, based on the true events of September 11th. She co-starred with Jessica Lange and Tom Wilkinson in the HBO film "Normal," directed by Jane Anderson, which premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.
Panettiere's voice is as recognizable as her face. She had the challenging lead voice work on "Racing Stripes," working with Dustin Hoffman and Whoopi Goldberg in the dub. In addition, she voiced Princess Dot in Disney's animated A Bug's Life and Suri in Dinosaurs. Her voice on A Bug's Life Read-A-Long earned her a Grammy nomination for Best Spoken Word Album and a nomination for The Hollywood Reporter's Young Star Award for Best Recording Young Talent.
She also serves as an ambassador for the Antarctic Wildlife Foundation, which raises money to save endangered species, along with Nelson Mandela and Queen Noor.
Panettierre lives in New York with her parents and brother. Her birthday is August 21st.
Ali Larter as Niki Sanders
Larter starred in Final Destination I and II and starred opposite Reese Witherspoon in the hit movie Legally Blonde. She also starred in the successful New York stage production of The Vagina Monologues. She made her film debut in the blockbuster hit Varsity Blues and has since appeared in A Lot Like Love, American Outlaws with Colin Farrell***, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back with author, director and actor Kevin Smith, and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back with Tay Tay. Back" with author, director and actor Kevin Smith, and "The House on Haunted Hill," a remake of Vincent Price's classic horror film with Taye Diggs and Geoffrey Rush, as well as "Drive Me Crazy".
Larter will soon be seen in Resident Evil 3: Extinction opposite Milla Jovovich as Claire Redfield, a new character who appeared in the game Resident Evil 2. Larter's other film credits include the indie film Crazy and the upcoming Marigold.
Larter grew up in Cherry Hill, N.J., and began modeling at age 13 and traveling the world before settling in New York City. Her birthday is February 28th.
Noah Gray-Cabey as Micah Sanders
At the age of eight, Noah Gray-Cabey had already established a reputation in the music industry as an accomplished piano player. Since the age of four, Noah has performed at several events in England and Washington, D.C., and traveled to Jamaica for the England Symphony Recital, his first outing. Of course he didn't stop there. In July 2001, at the age of five, he traveled to Australia and became the youngest pianist in history to perform a solo recital at the Sydney Opera House, with an entire symphony orchestra accompanying him. He also gave solo performances at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music and at the International String Recital in Brisbane. he made his television debut in December 2001, and has continued to perform ever since, appearing on 48 Hours, The Tonight Show, Good Morning America and The Oprah Winfrey Show. Noah is a lover of small animals, airplanes and inventions. He lives in Los Angeles with his family, including his parents, two brothers, a sister, and two dogs and a kitten.
Masi Oka as Hiro Nakamura
Oka is not a new face to audiences, having played Franklyn on NBC's Scrubs and Deng Wu on Luis, and has appeared on Without a Trace, Joey, Reba, The Joey, Reba, The Loop, All of Us, Still Standing, Will & Grace, Yes, Dear and Gilmore Girls.
His starring roles in 'Along Came Polly,' 'Austin Powers in Goldmember' and 'House of the Dead 2: Dead Aim' are impressive.
Experienced in improv, Oka has performed on stage at Second City, ImprovOlympics, The Groundlings, and TheatreSports. He has utilized his improv expertise to guest star in various roles in Punk'd, Reno 911, and The Jamie Kennedy Experiment.
After graduating from Brown University with degrees in math and computer science and elementary theater arts, Oka worked at George Lucas' Industrial Light and Power Company. Lucas' Academy Award-winning special effects studio, Industrial Light & Magic, Oka began his first job and pursued his acting career. Though now a successful actor, he continues to produce outstanding special effects for ILM on over 30 films.
Born in Tokyo, Japan, Oka moved to Los Angeles at the age of six and has since settled there. He is fluent in Japanese and Spanish. His hobbies include kendo, video games, enjoying and writing romantic comedies, piano playing and singing. His birthday is December 27th.
Milo Ventimiglia as Peter Petrelli
Ventimiglia recently starred in Tom Fontana's serialized drama The Bedford Diaries, which centers on a group of college students in a human sexuality class. He quickly gained attention as the quiet and complex Jess on the hit TV series Gilmore Girls and as a '60s war radical on NBC's American Dreams. He also had a role in David E. Kelley's play Boston Public.
Before "Gilmore Girls," Ventimiglia starred in the Fox series "Opposite Sex," which began to familiarize audiences with him and made him a steady part of the Warner Bros. stable. He has had guest starring roles on a number of strong series, including "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air," "C.S.I," "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" and "Promiseland.
Ventimiglia is comfortable traveling between the big and small screen, engaging in a variety of acting jobs with a love of acting. His film credits include the Disney film Stay Alive, the Wes Craven/Kevin Williamson thriller Cursed, the Hindi films Dirty Deeds, Sheer Bliss and Massholes. He also starred in the short films Nice Guys Finish Last and Must Be the Music, the latter of which was a big hit at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival.
He currently resides in Los Angeles and enjoys snowboarding, snowboarding and extreme water skiing. His birthday is July 8th.
Greg Grunberg as Matt Parkman
Greg Grunberg was born on July 11, 1966, and lives in Los Angeles, California.In 2000, he auditioned for the role of Fred Flintstone in he Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas. Flintstone.He has starred in nearly every J. J. Abrams production. Early in his career, Greg appeared in several high grossing commercial movies, one of which earned him a guest spot on The Tonight Show. He started his own delivery service for frozen cheese before going into acting, and at the same time, he appeared inside 24 posters for major sports. In Perfect Picture, Greg's performance was not well received. In addition, he is the executive director of the upcoming TV movie The Catch, which is expected to start shooting in 2006. Right now, he is working on Mission Impossible III, which will be released in 2006. Like Baywatch, Melrose Place and Murphy Brown, he got his start in acting with small roles in a number of television programs. In the detective TV series Alias, he played the role of CIA agent Eric Weiss and appeared for many seasons. Meanwhile, he has ties to Hollywood; J.J. Abrams, the producer of Alias, Lost and Felicity, was his kindergarten classmate.
Adrian Pasdar as Nathan Petrelli
Adrian Pasdar was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. But when he was 2, his father-- a prominent heart surgeon-- moved the family to Powelton, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. In high school, he excelled in soccer and even received a soccer scholarship to Florida State University in 1983. Soccer was a promising career, but unfortunately a serious traffic accident in his freshman year of college left him with a scarred face and a very badly injured leg. Through Adrian's extraordinary perseverance, he finished his freshman year in a wheelchair and underwent intense physical therapy. He also searched for another stage on campus and rediscovered his childhood interests in writing and acting. Unable to play soccer anymore, he left school and returned home to work for People's Light and Theatre, a theatrical organization. Here he was in charge of the sound and lighting side of the business, as well as working on the fabrication of some equipment. One day, while working on a piece of equipment, he accidentally sliced off the remaining thumb on his left hand.Adrian - adept at bouncing back from grief to success - used his medical settlement to get himself cast in the acclaimed Lee Strasberg Theater Institute.At the age of 19, he was cast in the film "The Lee Strasberg Theater Institute". At the age of 19, he auditioned for a role in Top Gun, and director Tony Scott was so impressed that he wrote the "Chipper" part for him. This role led to more important roles in Solarbabies (1986), Streets of Gold (1986) and Kathryn Bigelow's 1987 religious film Near Dark (1987), during which he also starred in Caleb Colton. Colton, and some of his other major roles included Vital Signs (1990).Adrian was an actor ahead of his time, independently choosing the roles he played, long before wired movies were seen as popular by feature film protagonists.In 1992, Adrian suddenly sensed that everything around him was becoming less real, and he left Hollywood and returned to New York. Back home, he worked as a cashier and also took on a few films, such as Carlito's Way (1993), directed by Brian De Palma. Another major turnaround came in 1995, when he starred in the short-lived FOX series Profit (1996). Since then, he has continued to appear in a number of supporting roles and has added directing to his already impressive career. He wrote and directed the short film Beyond Belief and also directed another feature film, Cement (1999).