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Justin Hartley
Justin Hartley stars as billionaire Oliver Queen (a.k.a. the Green Arrow), a gifted archer who gives up the opportunity to be on the U.S. Olympic Team in favor of life as a modern-day Robin Hood on “Smallville.”
Born in Knoxville, Illinois, Hartley attended Southern Illinois University and The University of Illinois in Chicago where he majored in history and theater.
Shortly after moving to Los Angeles, Hartley scored his first television job on the soap opera “Passions,” where he played the prodigal son of the Crane monarchy for three years. No stranger to playing iconic comic book characters, Hartley also nabbed the highly coveted role of DC Comics' “Aquaman” in The CW pilot that also starred Ving Rhames.
Hartley's favorite pastime is baseball, but he's also an avid basketball player. He currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife, and former “Passions” co-star, Lindsay Hartley, and their daughter Isabella.
Phil Morris
Phil Morris was born April 4, 1959 in Iowa City, Iowa and is an American TV and movie actor.
The son of Greg Morris, onetime star of Mission: Impossible, Morris followed in his father's footsteps by starring in a late-1980s revival of his dad's series. Father and son appeared together in a couple of episodes. These days, he is best known[citation needed] for playing Jackie Chiles on Seinfeld.
He has been married to Carla Gittelson since 1983. They have two children.
Morris' first acting role was as a child when he appeared in the 1966 Star Trek episode "Miri". Star Trek was, at the time, shot at the same studio that produced Mission: Impossible. He made his feature film debut in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock in a small role and would later guest star on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager.
Morris portrayed the DC Comics superhero The Martian Manhunter in the January 25, 2007 episode of the CW television series Smallville. He reprised that role on the show's season finale on May 17, 2007. He also appeared on an episode of the series of "CSI Miami" and "Seven Days".
Noel Neill
Noel Neill was born November 20, 1928 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Her ambition was to be a journalist like her father, the editor of a Minneapolis newspaper. However, she was hired by Bing Crosby to sing at the Turf Club at the race track in Del Mar, California (Crosby was one of the owners). Shortly thereafter, in 1941, she was signed to a contract by Paramount. She got early experience in television by hosting and performing on several experimental programs broadcast locally in Los Angeles in the late '40s, and it was around that time that she began appearing in serials, first at Columbia and then for Republic.
While she is best known for playing Lois Lane in the TV series "Adventures of Superman" (1952) beginning in the second season in 1953. She actually first played Lois in the 1948 serial "Superman." She replaced Phyllis Coates in the part on the TV series when Coates was offered a leading part in another TV series and left the show. When the series ended in 1957, Neill retired from the industry.
In 1957, she appeared briefly with her "Adventures of Superman" (1952) co-star George Reeves in a county fair act in which she sang and he played an upright bass.
She has come out of retirement for a cameo in "Superman: The Movie" (1978), guest-starred on "Superboy" (1988) and appeared in "Superman Returns" (2006).
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