Born October 19, 1951.Before HAIR Brooklyn-born Annie Golden was known as the lead singer with the new wave/punk rock band, The Shirts. She performed regularly at the Bowery rock and roll club CBGBs which is where Milos forman first heard her sing. The "Shirts" signed a recording contract with Capitol Records. Prior to filming HAIR, Annie was appearing in the Broadway revival of HAIR. Annie later made a guest appearance on the the hit television series "Cheers"in the character Margaret O'Keefe. In 1985 she appeared on Broadway in "Leader of the Pack" with Dinah Manoff (Empty Nest).In that same year she appeared on Miami Vice in the 2 hour movie "Prodigal Son" directed by Paul Michael Glaser. Annie also supplied vocals to the album "Lonesome Val" (1990) and her voice to "Pebble and the Penguin (animated film with other voices supplied by Martin Short, Tim Curry and James Belushi. Songs by Barry Manilow 1995). Annie played the role of Marina (my middle name). More recently she appeared in the Bruce Willis film "Twelve Monkeys" as the woman cabbie. During much of the 90's Annie was part of a duo with Frank Carillo called "Golden Carillo". They released 3 albums including "A Fire in Town", "Toxic Emotion" and "Back For More".

Don Dacus - Don grew up in Cleburne, Texas, HAIR was Don's acting debut. In Junior high school he was in a band called "The Shux" and also he gave guitar lessons. The band played at Teen-A-Go-Go in Fort Worth with go go girls. The admission back then was just 25 cents. He performed throughout the 70's as a lead rock and roll guitarist and back-up musician. Don is also a compuser and has written musical material and songs for stars such as Stephen Stills and Kiki Dee. He has also travelled with performer Boz Skaggs. During the filming of HAIR, Dacus was asked to join the rock band Chicago which he did on the completion of the film. Dacus is 45 years old. Check out the "Chicago" picture, front and centre.

Dorsey Wright - Dorsey who is now 40 as born and raised in the South Bronx. He attended De Witt clinton High School, Leyman College and Pratt Institute. He joined a theatre troupe called "Theatre for the Forgotten" and went on to star with them in Dream '76 and Forever My Earth both of which were presented to the inmates on Riker's Island. He followed up the film HAIR with the popular film "The Warriors" costarring with Michael Beck and Mercedes Ruehl. Other films include Ragtime(1981) and Hotel New Hampshire (1984)

Cheryl Barnes - Raised in New Jersey, Cheryl has sang with groups such as the Classics Five and Ten Wheel Drive. She was also a back up singer for Genya Raven. Cheryl performed in Leonard Bernstein's "Mass" and on Broadway in last Sweet Days of Isaac, Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar. She portrayed Deena, the handmaiden in Doug Henning's "The Magic Show". HAIR is her motion picture debut.

Antonia Rey - Born October 12, 1927 in Havana, Cuba.Antonia has kept busy appearing in such films as Klute, King of the Gypsies, Beat Street, Moscow On the Hudson, Spike of Bensonhurst, Jacob's Ladder, True Colors and Only You.

Charlotte Rae (Lubotsky) - Born in Milwaukee on April 22 1926 , Charlotte appeared on Broadway as Mammy Yokum in Li'l Abner. She also appeared in Three Wishes For Jamie, The Beauty part and Pickwick. On Television she appeared on the Garry Moore Show and Car 54 Where Are You. Films include Hello Down There, End of the Road and Joan Rivers' Rabbit Test. In 1986 she appeared in The Worst Witch with Diana Rigg and Tim Curry. Charlotte is best remembered for her portrayal of Edna Garrett on The Facts of Life. Numerable TV appearances include All In the Family, Different Strokes, Murder She Wrote. Charlotte has kept busy and was last seen in the Facts of Life Reunion.

Miles Chapin - Born December 6, 1954 in New York City. Miles made his film debut at the age of 8. He was discovered while singing in the children's chorus of the New York City Opera. Miles' father was the manager of the Metropolitan Opera.Miles has continued to work in film and his other films include French Postcards, The Funhouse, Buddy Buddy, Pandemonium, Comics, Funny Farm and The Associate. Most recently he appeared as Milo in The People vs. Larry Flynt (another Milos Forman film).

Nicholas Ray - Born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle on August 7, 1911 in Galesville, Wisconsin and died June 16, 1979 . Played the general in one of the final scenes. He was to give a stern speech to the troops and in the scene there was smoke billowing around the actor. Unfortunatley Milos didn't realise that Nicholas was dying of Cancer of the lungs at the time. Nicholas is perhaps better known as the writer of Rebel Without A Cause and director of Johnny Guitar.

Richard Bright - Born in Brooklyn, New York 1937 who is known as a character actor and has appeared on stage and in film. Since 1959 he has appeared in over 50 films including: The Panic In Needle Park, The Getaway, Marathon Man, and Once Upon A Time in America (with Treat Williams). He also played Al Neri in The Godfather. (Thanks Tom for the information).

George Manos - Also appeared in Ragtime(1981), Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Big (1988), Alice (1990) and It Could Happen To You (1994).

Joe Acord - Better known as a film construction co-ordinator. He was worked in this capacity on films such as The Main Event, Silkwood and The Natural.

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