03/01 What's Cookin' Today
Liza Huber ACTRESS "PASSIONS"
IN STUDIO FOR MULTIPLE SEGMENTS
Liza Victoria Huber (born February 22, 1975) is an American actress best known for her role as Gwen Hotchkiss on the daytime soap Passions. Huber was born on Long Island, New York. She is the daughter of actress Susan Lucci and Austrian businessman Helmut Huber. Huber has a younger brother, Andreas. Huber attended St. Joseph's School and Garden City High School in Garden City, New York. She was a cheerleader and studied several foreign languages. She attended college at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Huber married Alexander George Hesterberg III on March 13, 2004. The couple's first child, son Royce Alexander, was born on December 23, 2006, weighing seven pounds ten ounces and measuring 19.5 inches long. The baby was born on his grandmother Susan Lucci's 60th birthday. The couple's second child, Brendan, was born on August 16, 2008. Their third child, Hayden Victoria was born on March 23, 2011. Huber speaks fluent German and Italian, and also speaks French. Huber was a member of Chi Omega sorority. Huber's television debut was an uncredited role in Lifetime's 1995 original movie, Ebbie, which starred her mother. She also appeared with her mother in 1993 in a Ford Motor Company advertisement. In 1999, Huber was announced as a cast member in the new NBC daytime soap Passions. Huber left the show in 2000 when she announced she was quitting acting to return to New York and be near her fiance at the time. Huber was asked to return to Passions in 2002 after her replacement Natalie Zea chose to depart the role of Gwen when her contract ended. Huber returned to the series; while away, her relationship with her fiance had ended. Huber starred in and co-produced the play Four Dogs and a Bone at the Harold Clurman Theater in New York City as part of her student acting requirements. She is represented by the Ford Modeling agency. Huber appeared on the game show Hollywood Squares for a week in October 2003. In 2000, she was named Miss Golden Globe, an honor the Golden Globe Awards show gives each year to the daughter of a celebrity.
SASHA ROIZ "Capt. Renard" From NBC's "GRIMM"
Sasha Roiz stars in NBC's new drama series "Grimm" as Captain Renard, Nick's politically adept superior officer and a descendant of a powerful line of Grimm royalty. Roiz's "Grimm" character follows his last regular role as Sam Adama, a brutal mob enforcer, on the critically acclaimed Syfy series "Caprica," prequel to "Battlestar Galactica." In recent years, Roiz has become a familiar face on TV screens. In addition to "Caprica," he has made numerous guest appearances on some of television's most notable programs, including "House," "The Mentalist," "Lie To Me," "CSI" and "NCIS" and "Castle" as well as a series arc on the current season of "Warehouse 13". Roiz's introduction to feature films was in a supporting role in the blockbuster "The Day After Tomorrow," followed by "16 Blocks", "Man of the Year" and "Unthinkable". Roiz shot his first starring film role in the independent science fiction thriller "Extracted," due out later this year. Raised in Montreal, Canada, Roiz trained theatrically at the Guildford Conservatoire (UK). Upon returning to Montreal, he began to work consistently in theatre, earning a nomination for his performance at the "Masques Awards" (Quebec's Theatre Awards). Roiz moved to Los Angeles five years ago, where he currently resides.
GRIMM - Fridays (9-10 p.m. ET) on NBC -“Grimm” is a new drama series inspired by the classic Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Portland homicide Detective Nick Burkhardt (David Giuntoli, "Turn The Beat Around") discovers he is descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as “Grimms,” charged with keeping balance between humanity and the mythological creatures of the world. As he tries to hide the dangers of his new found calling from his girlfriend, Juliette Silverton, (Bitsie Tulloch, “quarterlife”), and his partner, Hank Griffin (Russell Hornsby, “Lincoln Heights”), he becomes ever more entrenched in the ancient rivalries and alliances of the Grimm world.
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