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Oz (TV Series 1997–2003) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Mar 5, 2023 · The "Oz" star was cast as a fictional character who beats and sexually assaults Wuornos (a sex worker who murdered seven men during a violent killing spree) in a harrowing scene.
The characters of Oz, fictional characters on the television series about prison life, are a diverse mixture of inmates from various gangs and prison staff. Cast timeline. Main cast ("Starring" in opening credits) Secondary cast ("Also starring" in opening credits) Recurring guest star (Guest starring for 3+ episodes)
ActorCharacterFactionSeasons(1)StaffStaffMainOthersMainMuslimsMain- Christopher Meloni – Chris Keller
- Lee Tergeson – Tobias Beecher
- Harold Perrineau – Augustus Hill
- J.K. Simmons – Vernon Schillinger
A beloved character actor who cut his teeth on the crime drama procedural NYPD Blue, Christopher Meloni played Chris Keller on Oz, a manipulative sociopath who carried on an affair with fellow inmate Tobias Beecher. Since then, he’s lent his chops to everything from comedy to drama, including Wet Hot American Summer, Drunk History, Underground, and...
Previously known for playing Bill Paxton’s torturous older brother character in the Weird Science TV show and for a stint on Homicide: Life On The Street (which was based on David Simon’s book), Lee Tergeson played Tobias Beecher, a well-to-do lawyer who ends up serving hard time for killing a nine-year-old girl while drunk driving. Tergeson has st...
As paralyzed inmate Augustus Hill, Harold Perrineau was not only Oz’s narrator but one of the only consistently moral characters in Oswald Penitentiary. Since then, he’s kept active in film and TV, including roles in The Matrix sequels and Zero Dark Thirty, as well popping up as one of the leads in the Constantine TV series and as Sons of Anarchy a...
With only a handful of acting credits to his name at the time, J.K. Simmons found his breakout role with Neo-Nazi Vernon Schillinger, one of the most powerful and feared inmates in Oz. He’s moved onto big screen roles in movies like Juno and Whiplash, the latter of which won him an Academy Award. He applied his gruff persona to newspaper publisher ...
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In contrast to the dangerous criminals, central character Tobias Beecher gives a look at a usually law-abiding albeit alcoholic man who made one fatal drunk-driving mistake. Main cast [ edit ]
The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.
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Mar 10, 2023 · HBO. Though Episode 8 of Season 6 is where things officially wrap up, the ending of "Oz" arguably starts at a much earlier point. Up until Season 4, the character of Simon Adebisi is one of...
