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Oz - Full Cast & Crew. A grim and graphically raw drama about life (and often death) in an experimental prison ward called Emerald City at the Oswald State Correctional Facility (nicknamed...
- Adam Bernstein
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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.
Christopher Meloni: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6: A bisexual serial killer and psychopath who preys upon gay men in the outside world while hiding his sexual orientation through a series of marriages. He is a master of emotional manipulation and only seems to really enjoy himself when those who care about him are made to suffer, including Beecher and Sister ...
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 ...
- Christian Long
Oz: Created by Tom Fontana. With Ernie Hudson, J.K. Simmons, Lee Tergesen, Dean Winters. A series chronicling the daily activities of an unusual prison facility and its criminal inhabitants.
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