Threshold

Threshold revolves around a female government contingency analyst who leads a team of scientists and military personnel who get in contact with a mysterious alien life-form.

Cast

Carla Gugino
Role: Molly Anne Caffrey

Birthplace: Sarasota, Florida, USA
Birthday: 8-29-1971

She was born in Sarasota, Florida. Carla is of Italian-American descent. She had a kidney operation when she was just four years old. When she was 5 years old she moved to Paradise, California, with her mother. During her childhood she moved many times within the state. However, she remained a straight-A student throughout high school and graduated as valedictorian.

When Carla was 15 years old a major modeling agency discovered her in San Diego, and sent to New York to begin a career. She was represented by the prestigious Elite modeling agency there.

She enjoys traveling, yoga and spending time with her friends in LA in her free time.

Brian Van Holt
Role: Cavennaugh

Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois
Birthday: 1-1-1969

Brian Van Holt has captured attention and acclaim in a diverse slate of big screen projects over the last two years, cementing his reputation as one of the screen's burgeoning young talents.

In Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down, he starred opposite Josh Hartnett and Tom Sizemore as Task Force Ranger Strueker, who tries to save a squadron of ambushed Marines in Scott's vivid recreation of the 1993 assault in Mogadishu, Somalia. Working alongside Nicolas Cage and Christian Slater, Van Holt starred in yet another fact-based wartime story about Native Americans whose language was used as a code for the Allied forces during World War II in John Woo's Windtalkers.

He next co-starred opposite John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson as one of two survivors of a Special Forces jungle training mission gone awry in John McTiernan's military thriller Basic. Brian then switched gears to portray a conman alongside Edward Burns, Rachel Weisz, Paul Giamatti and Dustin Hoffman in James Foley's Confidence. Brian reunited with Samuel L. Jackson as a member of an elite Los Angeles police squad in S.W.A.T.

A native of suburban Chicago, Van Holt grew up in California, where he began his acting career as a teenager, performing in several stage productions at the Zephyr Theater in Los Angeles. After graduating from UCLA with a degree in sociology, he concentrated on his acting career, landing commercial roles before debuting on TV as a blue-collar building superintendent in the CBS sitcom Love and Money and the motion picture screen as a playboy opposite Amanda Peet in the romantic comedy Whipped.

Van Holt has logged a number of memorable guest spots on such popular television series as Sex in the City, Late Night with Al Franken, Homicide: Life on the Streets and Spin City. Other television credits include Steel Chariots and a guest stint on Beverly Hills, 90210.

Brian can be seen in the remake of the classic horror thriller House of Wax.

Peter Dinklage
Role: Arthur Ramsey

Birthplace: New Jersey
Birthday: 6-11-1969

Peter attended Bennington College in Vermont, graduating in 1991 with a degree in Drama. Performances there include Heartpiece, The Author's Voice, Landscape of the Body, and Video Priests. His debut film performance was as Tito in Living in Oblivion, with Kevin Corrigan. He is an active Off-Broadway theater actor, and has appeared in plays such as I Wanna Be Adored, Jonathan Marc Sherman's Hollywood, Imperfect Love, A Misty Christmas, and two productions of Saint Stanislaus Outside The House. He is also a playwright whose plays include Frog (1990). At 4 feet, 6 inches, Peter is a dwarf.

Brent Spiner
Role: Nigel Fenway

Birthplace: Houston, Texas, USA
Birthday: 2-2-1949

Brent is originally from Texas and is best known for his role in Star Trek: The Next Generation for his role as Lt. Data.

Robert Benedict
Role: Lucas Pegg

Birthplace: Columbia, Missouri

Robert was most recently seen in Alias. Robert's other television credits include NCIS, Chicago Hope, Medium, Birds of Prey, NYPD Blue, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Snoops and Beverly Hills, 90210.

Benedict's feature film credits include Kicking & Screaming, Not Another Teen Movie, Two Days, The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest and My Dinner with Jimi.

Robert is married to Molly and they have a son named Calvin.

Charles S. Dutton
Role: J.T. Baylock

Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland
Birthday: 1-30-1951

With a career spanning theater, television and film, Charles S. Dutton is one of the few actors to earn Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for the same role. Best-known for his performance in the title role of the comedy-drama Roc, Dutton also starred in director Robert Altman's comedy-drama Cookie's Fortune, for which he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination. Some of Dutton's additional films include Random Hearts, co-starring Harrison Ford.and Kristin Scott Thomas, D-Tox, opposite Sylvester Stallone, and Gothika, with Halle Berry and Robert Downey Jr.
Dutton earned a B.A. from Towson State University and became active in Baltimore Theater where he performed in such plays as The Blacks, The Great White Hope, Of Mice and Men, Detective Story and the world premiere of Eugene Ionesco's Man With Bags. Later, he was accepted to Yale Drama School where his roles included Othello, King Leaf and Baal. Also at Yale, he began working with playwright August Wilson and director Lloyd Richards, who became

friends and mentors, and after graduation, Dutton moved to New York City, where his relationships with Wilson and Richards led to work with the Yale Repertory Theater.

Dutton made his Broadway debut in August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, for which he received a Tony Award nomination. He also appeared in Wilson's Joe Turner Come and Gone and starred in Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Piano Lesson, for which he received his second Tony Award nomination. He later received both Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominations in the CBS Hallmark Hall of Fame adaptation of the play.

Making his directorial debut with First-Time Felon, an HBO Original Picture that garnered some of the network's highest ratings, Dutton also directed the HBO miniseries The Corner, hailed by critics as a work of both artistic and social importance. As an actor, Dutton has numerous credits to his impressive filmography, some of which include the critically acclaimed Showtime original feature Blind Faith, which earned him SAG and Independent Spirit Award nominations, the Miramax/Dimension Films' thriller Mimic, opposite Mira Sorvino, Spike Lee's Get on the Bus, A Time to Kill, No Mercy, Jacknife, Crocodile Dundee II, and Q & A. Dutton also starred in Mississippi Masala, Alien 3, The Distinguished Gentleman and Menace II Society, as well as Rudy, Surviving the Game, A Low Down Dirty Shame, Cry, the Beloved Country and Nick of Time.

On television, Dutton starred and executive-produced Roc, earning two Image Award nominations and winning the Award for Lead Actor in 1993. He has also appeared in numerous made-for-TV films, including For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story, in which he played Dizzy Gillespie, the TNT original movie Deadlocked, 10,000 Black Men Named George, Conviction and most recently, D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear, in which he portrayed the real-life Chief Charles Moose.

In addition to his most recent television-work, Dutton appeared in the NBC miniseries The '60s and starred with Jack Lemmon in the Emmy Award-winning miniseries The Murder of Mary Phagan. He also served as executive-producer of the HBO Limited Series Laurel Avenue and starred in Nickelodeon's Are You Afraid of the Dark? Finally, Dutton appeared in Zooman, a Showtime Center Piece film, and in one of the cable industry's Voices Against Violence contributions.

Dutton currently divides his time between his native Baltimore, Maryland, and Los Angeles.

Season 1

Trees Made Of Glass (1)

Episode Number: 1

A mysterious alien object attacks a Naval ship and crew. Dr. Molly Anne Caffrey, a government contingency analyst, is contacted by the Deputy National Security Advisor, J.T. Baylock, to investigate the incident along with a special scientific team of her choice

Trees Made Of Glass (2)

Episode Number: 2

Gunneson reappears in Caffrey's house. Meanwhile, Lucas, Nigel and Ramsey try to break down how the alien signals and DNA operate and come up with some interesting theories. Cavennaugh's team tries to locate Gunneson other shipmates.

Blood of The Children

Episode Number: 3

When a man at a fast-food restaurant is found with his head imploded, Molly and her Red Team investigate and begin to suspect the involvement of a group of military cadets

The Burning

Episode Number: 4

A patient at an psychiatric hospital in Ohio escapes and Molly believes he may have been infected by the alien signal after paintings of glass trees are found in his cell. After further investigation, it is suspected one of the missing Big Horn crew might be involved.

Shock

Episode Number: 5

After a shipyard gang bust, a suspected fugitive Big Horn crewmember kills a police detective. Molly and Cavennaugh go undercover as Homeland Security agents. Unbeknownst to them, the real Homeland Security department is on the case.

Pulse

Episode Number: 6

As the signal from the Big Horn invades a Miami rave, the team investigates who have been infected, trying to prevent the signal from spreading to the population.

The Order

Episode Number: 7

Molly and Cavennaugh investigate a newspaper leak regarding the Threshold program which might turn out to be an inside job. The Red Team look into a case of residents of a small town dreaming of trees made of glass.

Revelations

Episode Number: 8

Molly and Cavennaugh discover some strange happenings in a missing Big Horn crew member's hometown when they investigate the disappearance of a Threshold field agent.

Progeny

Episode Number: 9

When three women from completely different walks of life appear to be infected, Molly and the Red Team discover the connection among them and must locate the common cause.

The Crossing

Episode Number: 10

Molly and Baylock realize the Threshold detainees must be moved immediately to a more secure facility in West Virginia when a prisoner attacks and infects a security guard, then tries to break himself and other infected prisoners out of their cells.

Outbreak

Episode Number: 11

Lucas is infected with the alien DNA from something he ate. The infectees have harvested crops with the alien DNA. Caffrey must find a way to stop what could be nearly 200 new infectees. Also, one of the aliens approaches her with an interesting revelation.

Vigilante

Episode Number: 12

When a number of infectees and seemingly innocent people are killed, it becomes apparent that someone is going after people affected by the alien signal, and is locating them via their heightened brain waves. How is the killer linked to Bighorn crewman Manning, and does his method of finding his victims mean that Molly, Cavennaugh or Lucas could be next on his list?

Alienville

Episode Number: 13

Molly Caffrey and Cavennaugh go out to a town call Allenville in search of a Doctor who they think is infected and find more then they were looking for.

Meanwhile things at threshold get heated with the pregnancy of the infected woman coming to an end.

Head Trip

Episode Number: 14

Molly gains super strength like the infectees as she starts to show signs of turning and gets in a fight with a security guard throwing him across the room.

Molly also meets a new guy, and a romance begins between them.