Characters

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  Allison Dubois

  Patricia Arquette

  Emmy winner Patricia Arquette portrays Allison Dubois, a dedicated wife and mother, whose abilities as a gifted psychic able to communicate with the dead are now public, in NBC's hit drama series MEDIUM. Arquette received the Emmy in the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series category after the telecast of the initial 16 episodes of the critically acclaimed series, and has received several subsequent Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG nominations for this role.

   

  The granddaughter of comedian Cliff Arquette (best known for his TV personality "Charlie Weaver"), Arquette was born in Chicago and raised in Los Angeles. Her father was actor Lewis Arquette and her siblings - Rosanna, Alexis, Richmond and David Arquette - are all actors.

   

  Arquette's feature film credits include Richard Linklater's "12 Year Movie a.k.a. Boyhood" (in which the life of a boy is shot from the first grade through high school graduation), Andrew Davis' "Holes" (starring opposite Sigourney Weaver and Jon Voight), Michel Gondry's "Human Nature," "The Badge" (opposite Billy Bob Thornton), and "Little Nicky" (opposite Adam Sandler).

   

  Arquette has worked with a stellar list of directors in such critically acclaimed films as: Martin Scorsese's "Bringing Out the Dead" (opposite Nicolas Cage), Rupert Wainwright's "Stigmata" (opposite Gabriel Byrne), Sean Penn's "The Indian Runner," John Madden's "Ethan Frome," Tony Scott's "True Romance," Tim Burton's "Ed Wood," David O. Russell's "Flirting With Disaster," John Boorman's "Beyond Rangoon," "Lost Highway" (in a dual role for David Lynch), Steven Frears' "Hi Lo Country" and Roland Jaffe's "Goodbye Lover."

   

  Among Arquette's TV movie credits is "Wildflower," directed by Diane Keaton (for which Arquette earned a CableAce Award as Best Lead Actress).

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  Joe Dubois

  Jake Weber

  Jake Weber portrays Joe Dubois, an aerospace engineer and supportive, loving husband and father to psychic Allison Dubois and their three girls. Weber is most recognizable for his role as Michael in "Dawn of the Dead" and for his role opposite Brad Pitt in 1998's "Meet Joe Black." In 2001-2002, Weber was a series regular in HBO's "The Mind of the Married Man" and has made guest appearances on NBC's "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" and ABC's "NYPD Blue."

   

  Trained at The Juilliard School, having received a B.A. degree in English literature and political science from Middlebury College, Weber has performed extensively on and off-Broadway.

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  Ariel Dubois

  Sofia Vassilieva

  Sofia Vassilieva portrays Ariel Dubois, Allison and Joe's eldest daughter who exhibits some of the same psychic abilities as her mother, in NBC's hit drama series. Fifteen-year old Ariel continues to struggle to balance her life as an everyday suburban teenager with her mysterious, emerging inherited gifts.

   

  Vassilieva's first acting role came at eight years old in the television show "The Agency," produced by Wolfgang Petersen, where she appeared as the granddaughter of a Russian general in scenes spoken in Russian. The next year, Vassilieva was chosen from several hundreds girls to play the role of Eloise in the TV movies "Eloise at the Plaza" and "Eloise at Christmastime," opposite Julie Andrews.

   

  Her additional television credits include 2002's "The Brady Bunch in the White House," where she portrayed Cindy Brady, opposite Shelley Long and Gary Cole.

   

  In film, she starred in the psychological thriller "Inhabited," opposite Malcolm McDowell and Patty McCormack, when she was nine years old. More recently, Vassilieva starred in the drama "Day Zero" with Elijah Wood, Ginnifer Goodwin and Chris Klein. In 2008, she portrays a disturbed teen in the thriller "Hurt" with Melora Walters and William Mapother. She will next be seen opposite Cameron Diaz, Alec Baldwin and Abigail Breslin in "My Sister's Keeper."

   

  Vassilieva speaks fluent French and Russian and is learning Spanish. In her spare time, she does ballet and yoga, plays piano, takes singing lessons, and rides horses.

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  Bridgette Dubois

  Maria Lark

  Maria Lark portrays Bridgette Dubois, Allison and Joe's precocious middle daughter who has begun to exhibit the same psychic gifts as her mother.

   

  Lark has already appeared in her first music video for Norah Jones's "Sunrise," has been on "The View" as their youngest co-host and has been a guest on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" four times, all by the age of ten. "Access Hollywood" chose Maria as their correspondent for Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards 2007, but none of this is as big a deal as the potential of having her own dog. She loves all animals, and at the age of six drafted a contract for her mother to sign appealing that she will have a dog this year, at age 10.

   

  Maria enjoys swimming, basketball, karate, reading encyclopedias and the Harry Potter series, going to the movies, playing Gameboy, and watching television.

   

  Lark lives in Los Angeles with her mother and attends public school.

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  D.A. Devalos

  Miguel Sandoval

  Miguel Sandoval portrays Manuel Devalos, a traditional by-the-book lawyer and Phoenix District Attorney, who early on recognized something special in Allison and continues to trust her psychic leads.

   

  Sandoval's career spans experience in film, television and theater. He appeared in NBC's miniseries "Kingpin" and has made several guest appearances throughout his career in such critically acclaimed shows as FRASIER, "Seinfeld," "Law and Order," "Alias," "Murder One" and "The West Wing."

   

  Sandoval has appeared in over 40 feature films including "Blow" with Johnny Depp, "Get Shorty" with John Travolta, "Clear and Present Danger" with Harrison Ford, "Up Close and Personal" with Robert Redford and Steven Spielberg's "Jurassic Park."

   

  Sandoval's work in the independent film world ranges from Alex Cox's "Repo Man," "Sid and Nancy," and "Walker" (among others) to Rodrigo Garcia's "Things You Can Tell By Looking At Her," opposite Amy Brenneman and "Nine Lives," opposite Elpidia Carrillo. Most recently, he appeared in his second film for Randall Miller ("Marilyn Hotchkiss' "Ballroom Dancing and Charm School"), entitled "Bottle Shock," that is slated to premiere at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

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  Det. Lee Scanlon

  David Cubitt

  David Cubitt portrays Lee Scanlon, a detective who has slowly come to respect Allison's knack for seeing what he can't and intuiting things that seem to elude others.

   

  Born in England to a Dutch mother and British father, Cubitt was six months old when his family moved to Vancouver. While attending the University, he studied acting full time and soon afterward, he landed a role as a rugby player in "Alive," starring Ethan Hawke.

   

  "Alive" helped spark Cubitt's career. He quickly landed one part after the next, including a role on the hit Canadian series "Traders," in which he starred for three and a half years. The show, about the high-stakes lives of a group of investment bankers, won the 1998 Gemini Award for Best Dramatic Series and Cubitt won the 1997 Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role.

   

  After landing a development deal with CBS, Cubitt moved to Los Angeles and joined the cast of the series "Michael Hayes," playing the brother of David Caruso's title character. He also had a recurring role on the Paramount produced drama THAT'S LIFE, starring Heather Paige Kent, Ellen Burstyn and Paul Sorvino.

   

  Cubitt's film credits include "Swann," starring Brenda Fricker, "I Shot A Man in Vegas," starring John Stockwell and Janeane Garofalo, "K2," Michael Mann's "Ali" and "The Perfect Son," for which he received the John Garfield Award for Best Actor at the Method Fest Film Festival.

   

  For television, Cubitt starred in several telefilms including the NBC mini-series "10.5" with Kim Delaney and the movie "John Christmas." He also starred in the series "The American Embassy" and most recently starred with Tom Sizemore in the Michael Mann series "Robbery Homicide Division."