Tampa Bay Coalition
QUEER
TV
2003
Six Feet Under Season One
Cast Interviews
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Interviews with Cast
Members on their Charactors
Season 1
Richard Jenkins ~
Nathaniel Fisher, Sr.
(Dies in Hearse-Bus Crash,
But, Pops Up Often to Chat With Family Members.)
The paterfamilias of the Fisher clan,
Nathaniel Sr. had a fatal accident while driving
a brand-new hearse and singing, "I'll
Be Home for Christmas." And although he is no
longer of this world, he shows up from
time to time to kibitz with his widow and children.
Quicktime
Nathaliel (Dad) talks to
Claire
Nathaniel Sr. talks to Widowed
Wife Ruth
Frances Conroy ~ Ruth Fisher
(Widowed Mother Had an Affair With Haidresser and Tell Son's at
Fathers Wake.)
Ruth, mother
of Nate, David and Claire, has spent most of her life taking care
of
other people.
For the majority
of her teen years she took care of her grandmother,
whose legs
had been amputated. She got married at nineteen and spent
thirty-odd
years keeping house, raising her children and tending to the
grieving people who
passed
through Fisher and Sons Funeral Home.
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Lauren Ambrose ~
Clair Fisher
(She's a H.S. Teen, Outsider, Drives a
Green Hearse and Detached from
Reality)
Baby of the family, Claire struggles with a
conundrum familiar to most
American teenagers:
she hates the absurdity of high school, but
dreads the uncertainty of life after it. Claire's
circumstances are significantly different from
those of other angst-ridden adolescents. Her
father was killed in a hearse/bus collision on Christmas Eve and she
had to drive to the
hospital high on crystal
meth.
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Quicktime
Peter Krause ~
Nate Fisher
(He's Stra8 and Has Sexual Encounters All the Time,
Just About
Everywhere)
Nate is the
firstborn of the Fisher siblings, and arguably the one whose life
was most
drastically
changed by his father's death. Until then, he hadn't dedicated his life to
much of
anything - except, perhaps, keeping far away from his family.
A 35-year-old
college
dropout,
he hadn't had a romantic relationship that
lasted longer than two months
and the
pinnacle of his career was the position of Assistant Manager of Organic Produce
at
Seattle's
"highest-volume food
co-op."
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Michael C. Hall ~ David Fisher
(He's Gay and Spends Most of the Time in
the Closet)
David, the middle Fisher sibling, refers to himself as "the stable one."
He
joined
the family business at the age of twenty, lives in the same house
where he grew
up and is a life-long member of St.
Bartholomew's Catholic Church.
At the time
of
his father's death, David had been
working at Fisher and Sons for
eleven years -
and
was
beginning to wonder whether he'd made
the right choice.
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Player
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Rachel Griffiths ~ Brenda Chenowith
(Nates G-friend and
Sexhound.)
Brenda, the
romantic interest in Nate's life, is highly intelligent, highly protective
of her
emotions and highly skeptical of the possibility of being happy. She comes
by her
misgivings
honestly: at the age of six she was declared a genius and placed
in the care
of psychiatrists who manipulated and scrutinized her every
move.
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Player
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Mathew St. Patrick ~
Keith Charles
(A Gay Cop,
was Michael's B-friend and then Ex-B-friend)
An officer in the LAPD,
Keith is gay and he doesn't care who knows it.
He's the love of David's
life, and at one time felt that David was his. But,
because David couldn't -
or wouldn't - be open about his homosexuality,
Keith broke up with him.
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Freddy Rodriguez ~ Federico Diaz
(A Restorative
Artist - Prepares bodies for viewing)
One of the best
restorative artists around, Federico got his start at Fisher and Sons.
Nathaniel Fisher put
Federico through mortuary school and at the time of Mr. Fisher's
death,
Rico had been working for
him for five years.
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Jeremy Sisto ~ Billy Chenowith
(Brend's Psycho
Brother & Nate's Worst Nightmare.)
Billy is Brenda's
younger brother, a bright but disturbed young man who can
be charming one moment
and hostile the next. Diagnosed manic-depressive
and as Brenda says, "always seems to pick the holidays to go off
his meds."
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Player
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