April 29, 2018 - VICTORIA PLATT (CW's "Star-Crossed") and BRANDEN GARRET (physicist-actor)

Summary: VICTORIA PLATT, from CW's "Star-Crossed" and NBC's "Marlon," is our featured guest this Sunday night! VICTORIA is an actress, singer and producer, born to a West Indian mother and Polish father in Queens, New York. Her film credits include the upcoming "The Gleaner," a film with Angus MacFadyen directed by Harry Lennix; the sci-fi apocalyptic film "Eruption;" "Winchell" (as Josephine Baker); "Jonah Hex;" "The Baytown Disco;" and she gender-bended as the chief justice in the film adaptation of "Henry IV," entitled "H4," which she co-produced. Other TV credits include "Major Crimes," "Bones," "The Mentalist," "Criminal Minds," "The Gates" and "Castle," as well as contract roles on both "All My Children" and "Guiding Light." She will also be appearing soon in CW's "Lucifer. " VICTORIA is currently starring in a visceral, groundbreaking stage adaption of Richard Wright's racially charged novel, "Native Son," for Antaeus Theatre Company. The play centers on Bigger Thomas, suffocating in rat-infested poverty on Chicago's South Side during the 1930s. When a job as the family chauffeur brings him into the white world of wealthy Mrs. Dalton, her freethinking daughter, Mary and Mary's Communist boyfriend, Jan, circumstances spiral out of control. Also dropping by the show Sunday night is BRANDEN GARRET, physicist-actor. Born in Sempeter pri Gorici, Slovenia, BRANDEN studied electrical engineering and physics and achieved a Master's degree in physics. After few years of working in the field of science, education and electronics he started to study acting technique of Lee Strasberg. His first professional experience in filming were commercials followed with roles an extra in films. Auditions brought him new roles. He was cast in various Slovenian indie films such as "The Last Man: Mangata," directed by Predrag Radulović and "Suplje Price: Zdej te je, a zdej te ni," directed by Samir Bajrić and produced by Slowlywood. In spring 2014 he was invited to play a supporting role in the film "We Will Be World Champions" directed by Darko Bajić. In spring 2015 BRANDEN was cast for the trilogy "Winnetou," to star alongiside Wotan Wilke Möhring, Nik Xhelilaj and Lazua Larios as a Polish worker who moves to the Wild West. BRANDEN relocated to Los Angeles and soon signed with an agent in Beverly Hills. Currently, he is filming "Mesopatamia" with Ron Ely and is in production of the feature film "Portman," with more opportunities every day.