Guest Stars on Doctor Odyssey

Chord Overstreet was born in Nashville, Tennessee, to Julie (Miller), a make-up artist, and Paul Overstreet, a country musician and songwriter whose own father was a pastor. Chord and his five siblings were raised in a creative and music-filled environment, with their father highly involved in the music industry. His brother, Nash Overstreet, is in the band Hot Chelle Rae.

After Chord graduated from high school in 2007, he decided to pursue performing as a career from the encouragement and support of his parents, and from his talent of singing, acting, and playing instruments. Unfortunately, the first two to three years after high school were unsuccessful for Chord; only making small guest appearances on various television shows such as iCarly (2007) and Private (2009).

In early 2010, Chord received a call from his manager, urging him to audition for an open casting call for the FOX television series Glee (2009). After several callbacks and audition performances, Chord got the role of quarterback turned glee club member, Sam Evans, for the hit show. Since Chord's debut performance on the season premiere of the 2nd season of Glee (2009), he has received critical and commercial praise and success for his performance on the show, along with a large following of dedicated and loving fans.

Best known for her long-time run on the ABC comedy, "George Lopez," Constance Marie stars next in the upcoming Latinx romantic comedy series, "With Love." Created and written by Gloria Calderon Kellett ("One Day at a Time"), the five hour-long episodes, each of which are set during a different holiday, follows the multi-generational Diaz family over the course of 12 months as they experience the highs and lows of life during some of the most heightened days of the year. Constance plays Beatriz Diaz, wife to Jorge Sr (Benito Martinez) and mother of two who is going through a midlife/identity crisis with her kids getting older and her marriage to Jorge Sr on auto pilot. All five episodes of "With Love" premiered on Amazon Prime Video on December 17, 2021.

Most recently, Constance appeared in the Amazon rotoscope dramedy, "Undone," opposite Rosa Salazar, and she recurred in the Netflix comedy, "Alexa & Katie." In addition, she starred in the NBC miniseries "Law & Order True Crime: Menendez Murders." She has also guest-starred and recurred on a variety of shows including the CBS comedy "Angel from Hell" and TNT's "Animal Kingdom," as well as voicing a character on Disney's animated series "Elena of Avalor," the first to feature a Latina princess.

Constance starred for five award-winning seasons on the hit Freeform series, "Switched at Birth," for which she won an Imagen Award, an ALMA Award and a Gracie Allen Award for Best Supporting Television Actress for her role as Regina Vasquez.

For her beloved portrayal of wife Angie Lopez on "George Lopez," the Imagen Awards honored her with a Best Actress in a TV Series Award, and she received multiple nominations from the Alma Awards for Best Actress in a Comedy Series.

In the debut year of "George Lopez," Constance was also starring in the Golden Globe-nominated PBS series "American Family," alongside Edward James Olmos, Sonia Braga, Esai Morales and Raquel Welch.

Her career began when she was a teenager in the Los Angeles underground break-dancing scene. She was selected out of a group of 500 hopefuls to dance on tour with David Bowie. Upon returning to Los Angeles, she was cast as a dancer in the movie "Salsa." The film's choreographer, Kenny Ortega, introduced her to producer Steve Tisch, who offered Constance her very first acting job, a starring role as Penny on the CBS series "Dirty Dancing."

It wasn't long before she was working in feature films, such as "My Family," directed by Gregory Nava. She won praise from fans for her portrayal of Tejano music legend Selena Quintanilla's mother, Marcella in the blockbuster film "Selena." Constance was only a year older than her onscreen daughter (Jennifer Lopez), so she had to undergo extensive make-up to portray Selena's mother.

Constance also starred in the celebrated film "Tortilla Soup" as the daughter of Raquel Welch. The film received an Alma Award nomination for Outstanding Motion Picture.

Television producer Gary David Goldberg soon offered Constance a role as Michael J. Fox's antagonist love interest on the hit series "Spin City." She played Gabriella Diaz on "Union Square," for which she received an Alma Award nomination for Outstanding Female in a Comedy Series. She also portrayed Detective Toni Brigatti for two seasons on "Early Edition," opposite Kyle Chandler.

In her personal life, Constance is mother to a daughter, Luna-Marie. Candid about the difficulties she faced trying to get pregnant and eventually turning to IVF, she is determined to reach out to women in similar situations to let them know that they are not alone. In addition to being extremely knowledgeable about pregnancy and wellness, she practices a green lifestyle including composting and recycling, and she is a vegetarian, leaning heavily toward vegan these days. She is also an organic follower who had cloth diapers for her baby and zero Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) in her nursery, and she has organic mattresses in their home.

She is an advocate for PETA, Planned Parenthood and Equal Pay for Women. She is the spokesperson for the East Los Angeles Women's Center that helps women dealing with rape, domestic violence and human trafficking.

Constance has an active lifestyle which includes regular work outs such as walking, yoga, hitting the gym with a personal trainer and nature hikes.

Rachel Dratch grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts. After graduating from Dartmouth College with a degree in Drama and Psychology, she moved to Chicago, where she studied with Del Close at Improvolympic. She was on the house team, "Victim's Family", with Adam McKay. Rachel went on to tour with the Second City Touring Company and eventually advanced to the Second City Mainstage, where she appeared in four revues: "Pinata Full of Bees", "Citizen Gates", "Paradigm Lost", and "Promisekeepers Losers Weepers". For the latter two, she received the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actress in a Revue. After leaving the mainstage, she wrote and performed in the two-person sketch show, "Dratch and Fey", with Tina Fey. The show was seen at Second City, Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in NYC, and the Aspen Comedy Festival. In the fall of 1999, Rachel joined the cast of Saturday Night Live (1975), where she performed for seven years. Her memorable characters include Boston teen Denise, the Lovers professors with Will Ferrell, junior high school student Sheldon, and Debbie Downer.

Tom McGowan was born on 26 July 1959 in Belmar, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Ghost World (2001), Heavyweights (1995) and Sleepless in Seattle (1993). He has been married to Cathy Cummings since 1991. They have two children.

Shania Twain was born as Eilleen Regina Edwards in 1965 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, one of three daughters of Clarence and Sharon (Morrison) Edwards (sister Jill is two years older and Carrie-Ann three years younger). When she was age six, her mother remarried Jerry Twain, a full-blooded Ojibwa native from Timmins, Ontario, who adopted her as his own. She started out singing in bars as a child after hours, and, at thirteen, appeared on The Tommy Hunter Show (1965). When she was 22, her parents were killed in an accident, and she became the legal guardian of her half-brothers (Mark, then 13, and Darryl, then 14) and sister, putting her musical career on hold to raise her family. In 1991 she changed her name to Shania (meaning "I'm on my way" in Ojibwa, it was the name of a co-worker), and signed a contract with Mercury Nashville that same year. Her first album went by without notice, but her second album (produced with Mutt Lange, who she wed in 1993) broke world records with its sales!

Since making her uncredited debut as a dancer in Beatlemania (1981), Gina Gershon has established herself as a character actress and one of the leading icons of American camp. For it was fourteen years after her movie debut that Gina made movie history as the predatory bisexual who was the leading light of a Las Vegas leg-line in director Paul Verhoeven's kitsch classic Showgirls (1995). Exploding out of a plaster-of-Paris volcano clad in nothing but body makeup and a G-string, Gina Gershon obtained cinema immortality. After Showgirls (1995), she solidified her reputation, playing a lesbian sexpot in the Wachowskis' neo-noir Bound (1996).

Gina Gershon was born in the Los Angeles suburb of Woodland Hills, the last in a brood of three kids. Her mother, Mickey (Koppel), worked as an interior decorator, and her father, Stanley Gershon, was a salesman and worked in the import/export business. Her paternal grandparents were from Russian Jewish families, and her maternal grandparents were born in Holland and Belgium, both of them to Jewish families from Poland. Gina was raised in the San Fernando Valley, and got the acting bug early, appearing at the age of seven in a school production of Bye Bye Birdie (1963). Because of her acting ambitions, her parents moved to Beverly Hills so Gina could attend Beverly Hills High, where she indulged her acting jones by appearing in a student production of The Music Man (1962). Her first love, she says, is singing.

After graduating from high school in 1980, she attended Emerson College in Boston, but took a part in the musical "Runaways". She transferred to New York University, where her official biography says she studied philosophy and psychology, but she graduated from the Tisch School of the Arts, taking a bachelor of fine arts degree in drama in 1983. In New York City, while perfecting her craft, she co-founded the theater company Naked Angels with Helen Slater.

Her big-screen breakthrough came with a part in the 1986 "Brat Pack" teenage hit Pretty in Pink (1986). She also had parts in the Tom Cruise vehicle Cocktail (1988) and Arnold Schwarzenegger's Red Heat (1988). Of this period, she says, "One of my first gigs, a movie called Cocktail (1988), I found myself at 8 in the morning, in bed, practically naked, having to make out with Tom Cruise; hmmmm... movie business - so far, so good".

Citing Frank Sinatra's song "My Way" as an inspiration, she says that following Cocktail (1988), "I was fortunate enough to play many diversified roles in film, television and stage. Not always to the liking of my managers and agents, but I always did what I wanted...." She played Nancy Barbato Sinatra, Frank's first wife, in the TV miniseries Sinatra (1992).

Gina Gershon became a celebrity in Showgirls (1995). The following year, Gershon solidified her claim on second-tier stardom playing the calculating lesbian "Corky" in the crime movie Bound (1995). She never did capitalize on her mid-1990s breakthrough, but Gershon is established as a character actress and is never out of work, unlike most of her female peers who started out in the industry at the same time. Though no classic beauty, the talented thespian remains gainfully employed while many actresses of her vintage are out of work as she is possessed of a unique look and smoldering sex appeal that comes across on camera.

Gershon is versatile, too, as at home on stage as she is in front of the camera. After appearing in off-Broadway and regional theater productions, she made her Broadway debut as a replacement in Sam Mendes' revival of Cabaret (1972) in January 2001. For six months, she played the key role of "Sally Bowles", returning that October to reprise the role for another month. In 2008, she once again appeared on Broadway in the revival of the farce "Boeing Boeing" on Broadway, which won the Tony award for Best Revival.

Gina Gershon also is a children's book writer. In 2008, Putmam Juvenile published her "Camp Creepy Time", a tale of a boy who discovers aliens at his summer camp, which she co-wrote with her brother, Dann Gershon. "Camp Creepy Time" recently was optioned by DreamWorks, which plans to turn it into a movie. In 2008, she also released "In Search Of Cleo", a CD featuring nine songs which she wrote or co-wrote.

Marcus Emanuel Mitchell was born on December 27 on the south side of Houston, Texas to a Mark and Yvonne Mitchell. Marcus is an American actor best known for his screen debut in 2010's Stomp The Yard 2: Homecoming and has since appeared in Breaking Through (2015), HighStrung (2016) and Making Moves (2016).

Brian Altemus was born on 30 April 1997 in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor, known for Mean Girls (2024), Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020) and Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin (2022).

Rachel Stubington was born on 22 June 2000 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Rachel is an actor and writer, known for Shrinking (2023), Doctor Odyssey (2024) and Generation (2021).

"Protective Spirit of Life" is the meaning of her Swahili name. Asha Kamali is the 2015 female winner of the American Black Film Festival/ NBC Star Project. She is the co-founder of Howardwood, a non-profit day of workshops at Howard University that supports students interested in careers in entertainment. Most recently sponsored by CBS, Howardwood is in its eighth year. Previous sponsors include BET, DreamWorks, FOX, and NBC Universal.

Asha is a recurring guest star opposite Keke Palmer ("Gigi Nixon") on FOX's STAR, a music-themed drama co-created and executive produced by Lee Daniels and Tom Donaghy. Her character is "Aunt Missy," the fabulous overbearing aunt, queen bee manager, and founding member of Gigi's famtourage (family/entourage).

In the digital landscape, Asha stars as "Nia" alongside Debbie Allen, Lance Gross and Boris Kodjoe in the digital series Milk + Honey. As the co-creator and writer, the digital series is produced with her producing partners collectively-known as, Brown Paper Dolls. The digital series received an eight-season pick up by Reign, a premium ad-supported and subscription streaming video-on-demand service set to launch in 2019. Her other credits include Freeform's Stitchers, and numerous stage productions and independent films.

An alumna of Howard University and member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Asha is a former "Miss Howard University." After undergraduate commencement, she began her career in entertainment as a dancer and choreographer. She choreographed music videos for Atlantic Records and national tours for Disney and the WNBA. She was a red carpet on-camera host for Soultrain.com and BET.com. In 2016, Asha graduated from California State University, Long Beach. She completed her MFA Acting and Pedagogy degree with honors and a 4.0-grade point average.

Asha lives in the Los Angeles area with her husband, Dr. George Blankinship.

Lucy Loken was born in Burbank, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for My Teacher, My Obsession (2018) and Teen Wolf (2011).

Tiffany Commons was born on 17 January 1981 in Blue Island, Illinois, USA. She is an actress, known for This Is Us (2016), Modern Family (2009) and Kirk Franklin's A Gospel Christmas (2021).

Sam Skolnik was born on 8 August 1994 in Sonoma, California, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Monsters (2022), I'm a Virgo (2023) and Freaky Tales (2024).

Krystin Goodwin's acting roles include playing Tabitha Roberts in The Morning Show, Tiffany Albrecht in The Politician, and Fannah Fantana in Dr Pepper's Fansville ads. She has recurred in Marvel Studios' She Hulk, Hulu's Interior Chinatown, CBS' Bull, and NBC's The Blacklist. Her film appearances include Netflix' Chupa (2023), Magazine Dreams (2023), Lifetime's He Slid Into Her DMs (2024) and the Transformers spin-off Bumblebee (2018). One of her first roles was playing a crime reporter in Netflix's Orange is the New Black.

Krystin grew up in Fairfax, Virginia outside of Washington D.C. where she began competing in musical theatre competitions and playing the piano.

Her work as an anchor, and reporter can be viewed on platforms including FOX, CBS, ESPN, USA Today, and The Huffington Post.

Krystin continues to train for her private pilot license.

Reasha Honaker was born in Las Vegas, NV, USA. She is an actress, known for Paradise (2025), Doctor Odyssey (2024) and This Is Us (2016).

Anna Mhairi is known for The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022), Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (2022) and Doctor Odyssey (2024).

Evan Faunce was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and grew up in Florida, Georgia as well as Arizona. Evan graduated from high school at Warren Central High School and enrolled at Ball State University as a walk-on football player. After his first year of playing and suffering a lower back injury, Evan moved on to play at the junior college level in Glendale, Arizona upon receiving multiple division I scholarship offers where he then decided to take his talents to the University of Nevada-Reno. After three years and a successful college football career, Evan received his 5th concussion and was told he could no longer play. In his last year of college, Evan took up a new passion in acting and, after only acting for two months, received his first leading role in the short film 'No More' directed by Emily Skyle. Realizing the lack of potential and growth in the city of Reno, Evan took his talents down to Los Angeles where he currently resides as a working actor.

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Kent Avenido is known for 50 First Dates (2004), The Boy Next Door (2015) and The Gambler (2014).

Flor de Maria Chahua was born in Jesús María District, Lima, Peru. Flor de Maria is an actor and director, known for Drag Me to Hell (2009), Kings (2017) and Get the Life (2016).

Stephanie Suganami is an actor, environmental advocate and social entrepreneur.

Previously, Stephanie appeared in the Amazon feature Something from Tiffany's with Zoey Deutch and Shay Mitchell produced by Hello Sunshine and also in the hit FX / HULU series Dave. In 2023 she was cast in a recurring role on the Power series spin-off, Ghost, opposite Michael Ealy.

Stephanie just wrapped the A24 thriller "Opus" opposite Ayo Edebiri, Amber Midthunder, Young Mazino, John Malkovich and Murray Bartlett directed by Mark Anthony Green.

Stephanie will next be shooting the independent "Theater is Dead" directed by Katherine Dudas.

Outside of her film endeavors, with over 1.9 million followers, Stephanie's expertise is leveraging her social influence to inspire global activism. Steph has partnered with prominent lifestyle brands such as American Express, Google, Kerastase, and Bulgari.

Suganami co-founded the digital climate education platform @FutureEarth, Suganami is an ambassador for The Environmental Working Group and John Kerry's World War Zero climate change initiative. She also recently joined the board of Vice President Al Gore's The Climate Reality Project and Los Angeles based social service organization The People Concern.

Through her advocacy, Suganami has generated millions of dollars and thousands of volunteer hours for organizations who, like her, relentlessly pursue human flourishing and environmental preservation.

Stephanie resides between Los Angeles and New York.

Kayla Compton is known for The Flash (2014), Doctor Odyssey (2024) and A.I. Heart U.

Kassandra Cruz is known for The Flower on the Road (2021), Succession (2018) and Saturday Church (2017).

Brittany Baker is known for South Side (2019), Insecure (2016) and Abbott Elementary (2021).

Shannon Dee grew up in the small town of Merchantville, New Jersey then moved to Phoenix, Arizona her sophomore year of college. In high school, she studied theatre at the Southern New Jersey Academy of the Performing Arts and attended film school at Arizona State University. She is now an actor, writer, and director in Los Angeles.

Kay Lome was born in New York, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Pam & Tommy (2022), Good Trouble (2019) and Doctor Odyssey (2024).