Boston Public

Fyvush Finkel

as Harvey Lipschultz

Fyvush Finkel won the Best Supporting Actor Emmy Award for his role on “Picket Fences.” His first acting role was 51 years earlier in the numerous Jewish theaters along New York City’s Second Avenue. Finkel’s breakthrough to American mainstream theater came at the age of 43 when he joined Jerome Robbins’ national company of the Broadway hit “Fiddler On the Roof.” He toured the USA and Canada, playing first the Innkeeper, then the Butcher and finally the lead, Tevya, over a 12-year period.

Jessalyn Gilsig

as Lauren Davis

Jessalyn Gilsig first came to the attention of David E. Kelley as a guest star on his series “The Practice.” Kelley then approached her to appear on his series “Snoops,” but the show was cancelled before her two episodes could air. Kelley then wrote the character Lauren Davis on BOSTON PUBLIC specifically for Gilsig.
Gilsig has been acting since the age of 12 and graduated from the American Repertory Theater at Harvard in 1995. While there, she performed in such productions as “The Cherry Orchard,” “The Oresteia,” “Tartuffe” and “The Tempest.” She then moved to New York and appeared in such Off-Broadway plays as “Mere Mortals” and “Gun Shy.” Her regional theater credits include “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “A Shayna Maidel,” “The Love of the Nightengale,” “The Last Night of Ballyhoo” and “Scent of Roses.”

Joey Slotnick

as Milton Buttle

Joey Slotnick was a regular on the television series “The Single Guy,” playing the lovably goofy sound engineer, Sam. He also has provided voices for “Family Guy,” guest starred on “Ellen,” “Beverly Hills, 90210” and “The Nanny,” and co-starred in “Pirates Of Silicon Valley.”

His feature film credits include starring in “Dinner & Driving,” plus additional roles in “Hollow Man,” “Judas Kiss” with Emma Thompson, “Blast From the Past,” “Twister,” “Since You’ve Been Gone” and “A League of Their Own.”