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Emmy winner Patricia Arquette portrays Allison Dubois, a dedicated wife and mother, whose abilities as a gifted psychic able to communicate with the dead are now public, in NBC's hit drama series MEDIUM. Arquette received the Emmy in the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series category after the telecast of the initial 16 episodes of the critically acclaimed series, and has received several subsequent Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG nominations for this role.

The granddaughter of comedian Cliff Arquette (best known for his TV personality "Charlie Weaver"), Arquette was born in Chicago and raised in Los Angeles. Her father was actor Lewis Arquette and her siblings - Rosanna, Alexis, Richmond and David Arquette - are all actors.

Arquette's feature film credits include Richard Linklater's "12 Year Movie a.k.a. Boyhood" (in which the life of a boy is shot from the first grade through high school graduation), Andrew Davis' "Holes" (starring opposite Sigourney Weaver and Jon Voight), Michel Gondry's "Human Nature," "The Badge" (opposite Billy Bob Thornton), and "Little Nicky" (opposite Adam Sandler).

Arquette has worked with a stellar list of directors in such critically acclaimed films as: Martin Scorsese's "Bringing Out the Dead" (opposite Nicolas Cage), Rupert Wainwright's "Stigmata" (opposite Gabriel Byrne), Sean Penn's "The Indian Runner," John Madden's "Ethan Frome," Tony Scott's "True Romance," Tim Burton's "Ed Wood," David O. Russell's "Flirting With Disaster," John Boorman's "Beyond Rangoon," "Lost Highway" (in a dual role for David Lynch), Steven Frears' "Hi Lo Country" and Roland Jaffe's "Goodbye Lover."

Among Arquette's TV movie credits is "Wildflower," directed by Diane Keaton (for which Arquette earned a CableAce Award as Best Lead Actress).

Jake Weber portrays Joe Dubois, an aerospace engineer and supportive, loving husband and father to psychic Allison Dubois and their three girls. Weber is most recognizable for his role as Michael in "Dawn of the Dead" and for his role opposite Brad Pitt in 1998's "Meet Joe Black." In 2001-2002, Weber was a series regular in HBO's "The Mind of the Married Man" and has made guest appearances on NBC's "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" and ABC's "NYPD Blue."

Trained at The Juilliard School, having received a B.A. degree in English literature and political science from Middlebury College, Weber has performed extensively on and off-Broadway.

Sofia Vassilieva portrays Ariel Dubois, Allison and Joe's eldest daughter who exhibits some of the same psychic abilities as her mother, in NBC's hit drama series. Fifteen-year old Ariel continues to struggle to balance her life as an everyday suburban teenager with her mysterious, emerging inherited gifts.

Vassilieva's first acting role came at eight years old in the television show "The Agency," produced by Wolfgang Petersen, where she appeared as the granddaughter of a Russian general in scenes spoken in Russian. The next year, Vassilieva was chosen from several hundreds girls to play the role of Eloise in the TV movies "Eloise at the Plaza" and "Eloise at Christmastime," opposite Julie Andrews.
Her additional television credits include 2002's "The Brady Bunch in the White House," where she portrayed Cindy Brady, opposite Shelley Long and Gary Cole.

In film, she starred in the psychological thriller "Inhabited," opposite Malcolm McDowell and Patty McCormack, when she was nine years old. More recently, Vassilieva starred in the drama "Day Zero" with Elijah Wood, Ginnifer Goodwin and Chris Klein. In 2008, she portrays a disturbed teen in the thriller "Hurt" with Melora Walters and William Mapother. She will next be seen opposite Cameron Diaz, Alec Baldwin and Abigail Breslin in "My Sister's Keeper."

Vassilieva speaks fluent French and Russian and is learning Spanish. In her spare time, she does ballet and yoga, plays piano, takes singing lessons, and rides horses.

Maria Lark portrays Bridgette Dubois, Allison and Joe's precocious middle daughter who has begun to exhibit the same psychic gifts as her mother.

Lark has already appeared in her first music video for Norah Jones's "Sunrise," has been on "The View" as their youngest co-host and has been a guest on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" four times, all by the age of ten. "Access Hollywood" chose Maria as their correspondent for Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards 2007, but none of this is as big a deal as the potential of having her own dog. She loves all animals, and at the age of six drafted a contract for her mother to sign appealing that she will have a dog this year, at age 10.

Maria enjoys swimming, basketball, karate, reading encyclopedias and the Harry Potter series, going to the movies, playing Gameboy, and watching television.

Lark lives in Los Angeles with her mother and attends public school.

Miguel Sandoval portrays Manuel Devalos, a traditional by-the-book lawyer and Phoenix District Attorney, who early on recognized something special in Allison and continues to trust her psychic leads.

Sandoval's career spans experience in film, television and theater. He appeared in NBC's miniseries "Kingpin" and has made several guest appearances throughout his career in such critically acclaimed shows as FRASIER, "Seinfeld," "Law and Order," "Alias," "Murder One" and "The West Wing."

Sandoval has appeared in over 40 feature films including "Blow" with Johnny Depp, "Get Shorty" with John Travolta, "Clear and Present Danger" with Harrison Ford, "Up Close and Personal" with Robert Redford and Steven Spielberg's "Jurassic Park."

Sandoval's work in the independent film world ranges from Alex Cox's "Repo Man," "Sid and Nancy," and "Walker" (among others) to Rodrigo Garcia's "Things You Can Tell By Looking At Her," opposite Amy Brenneman and "Nine Lives," opposite Elpidia Carrillo. Most recently, he appeared in his second film for Randall Miller ("Marilyn Hotchkiss' "Ballroom Dancing and Charm School"), entitled "Bottle Shock," that is slated to premiere at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

David Cubitt portrays Lee Scanlon, a detective who has slowly come to respect Allison's knack for seeing what he can't and intuiting things that seem to elude others.

Born in England to a Dutch mother and British father, Cubitt was six months old when his family moved to Vancouver. While attending the University, he studied acting full time and soon afterward, he landed a role as a rugby player in "Alive," starring Ethan Hawke.

"Alive" helped spark Cubitt's career. He quickly landed one part after the next, including a role on the hit Canadian series "Traders," in which he starred for three and a half years. The show, about the high-stakes lives of a group of investment bankers, won the 1998 Gemini Award for Best Dramatic Series and Cubitt won the 1997 Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role.

After landing a development deal with CBS, Cubitt moved to Los Angeles and joined the cast of the series "Michael Hayes," playing the brother of David Caruso's title character. He also had a recurring role on the Paramount produced drama THAT'S LIFE, starring Heather Paige Kent, Ellen Burstyn and Paul Sorvino.

Cubitt's film credits include "Swann," starring Brenda Fricker, "I Shot A Man in Vegas," starring John Stockwell and Janeane Garofalo, "K2," Michael Mann's "Ali" and "The Perfect Son," for which he received the John Garfield Award for Best Actor at the Method Fest Film Festival.

For television, Cubitt starred in several telefilms including the NBC mini-series "10.5" with Kim Delaney and the movie "John Christmas." He also starred in the series "The American Embassy" and most recently starred with Tom Sizemore in the Michael Mann series "Robbery Homicide Division."

With everyone's lives turned upside down now that Allison's psychic abilities are public, she begins having disturbing dreams about a young boy snatched from a toy store while shopping with his dad. Unable to turn to Devalos or Scanlon for help, Allison calls Ameritips, a company hired by the missing boy's family, and strikes an unusual deal with her intriguing investigatory Cynthia Keener.

Allison's long-standing nemesis, defense attorney Larry Watt, decides to use her powers to his advantage - for a change - by hiring her as a consultant. Unfortunately, Allison's dreams tell her that his client is guilty of killing his wife.

Allison is distressed by a terrible family prediction while attempting to help Ameritips investigator Cynthia Kenner find a missing local teenage girl.

Joe's search for a new job takes an unexpected turn when a prospective employer asks him and Allison to a party at his home, confiding that his wife was hoping to meet Phoenix's reported psychic.

In the first of a two-part episode, when Joe's mom Marjorie Dubois abruptly arrives for a visit, Allison frets about seeing her mother-in-law for the first time since her psychic abilities were publicly revealed - until she learns the real reason for the trip, on MEDIUM.

Allison completely loses her hearing when a wealthy, young deaf girl is kidnapped, so Joe steps in to assist with her and investigator Cynthia Kenner's actions on behalf of the parents.

Allison does her best to support Devalos' bid to reclaim the D.A.'s office, as her visions place his strongest political supporter and longtime friend Senator Jed Garrity in the center of a horrific conspiracy.

In the first of a two-part episode, while working with Cynthia to find a missing local girl, Allison dreams about the kidnapping of another young woman and learns that Cynthia's daughter Suzie has been missing for nearly 10 years.

In part two of this episode, Allison and Cynthia Keener's investigation into the decade-old kidnapping, imprisonment and murder of Cynthia's daughter Suzie comes to a shocking, brutal conclusion.

In the conclusion of a two-part episode, while struggling to keep her mother-in-law Marjorie's secret from Joe, Allison attempts to find the link between her dreams of a dentist's violent assault on a prostitute she's investigating with Cynthia, Devalos' arson-related murder case, and Ariel's prediction of the death of her classmate's mom.

Allison and Scanlon team up to track down a dangerous femme fatale following the savage murders of two young men.

Venture capitalist Meghan Doyle likes what she sees when Joe makes a presentation on his new solar power-based invention to her investment firm.

Allison struggles to see the connection between several recent "accidental" deaths after experiencing visions of Scanlon and girlfriend Lynn DiNovi's friend dying in a home mishap and a scary trip to the hospital herself.

When Allison's old automobile sputters and dies, Joe surprises her with an immaculate used car, after being tipped off to a great deal. Unfortunately, the Dubois' discover that the car is at the center of a horrific, unsolved crime.

Scanlon desperately seeks the assistance of Allison to help solve the murder of a notorious heroin dealer. In what appears to be an open-and-shut case, Allison's initial dreams lead her and Scanlon directly to the number one suspect - Joey, a severely disabled but charming man.

Allison's attempt to sooth a young couple's concerns that their "dream home" is haunted leads to unexpected misery - and murder. Meanwhile, Joe fights to save his stake in his solar-powered invention when faced with Meghan Doyle's determination to sell her controlling interest - and his solar power-based invention - outright to another company.