SPECIAL GUESTS & EVENTS

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SPECIAL GUESTS

Tom Skerritt

Actor

Tom Skerritt is an American actor and director who has appeared in over 170 film and television productions since 1962. His breakthrough role was Duke Forrest in Robert Altman's M*A*S*H. He then starred in notable films like The Turning Point, Up in Smoke, Ice Castles, Alien, The Dead Zone, A River Runs Through It, and Top Gun.

On television, Skerritt played the leading role of Sheriff Jimmy Brock on the family drama Picket Fences (1992–1996), earning a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, as well as two Golden Globe Award nominations. He also had a recurring role as Evan Drake on the sixth season of sitcom Cheers (1987–1988).

Skerritt is a three-time Screen Actors Guild Award nominee, a Genie Award nominee, an American Television Award nominee, and is both a Saturn Award and Western Heritage Award winner. In 2022, he received the International Press Academy's honorary Mary Pickford Award for "Outstanding Artistic Contribution to the Entertainment Industry."

Tom Skerritt will attend:

Opening Gala Dinner (THU, 9/18, 5 PM, NW Maritime Center)
Filmmaker Parade (FRI, 9/19, 5:30 PM, Washington St @ Taylor St)
A Conversation with Tom Skerritt (FRI, 9/19, 7 PM, Rose)
Top Gun (SUN, 9/21, 7:30 PM, Free Outdoor Movie on Taylor St)

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Kelli Garner

Actor

A California native, Kelli Garner made her film debut at age sixteen in director Mike Mills' short film Architecture of Reassurance. Her performance captured the attention of director Larry Clark who cast her in her first feature film, as the drug-addicted teen, Heather Swallers, in the controversial docudrama Bully. Following Kelli earned the role as the 1940's Hollywood ingénue, Faith Domergue, in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator, opposite Leonardo DiCaprio. Soon after, she reunited with Mike Mills for his 2005 Sundance hit Thumbsucker, and following with her first leading roles, starring opposite Tommy Lee Jones in Man of the House as well as the quirky and offbeat comedy Lars and the Real Girl, opposite Ryan Gosling.

On the television side, Garner most recently starred as Kate Ryan on NBC's The Enemy Within opposite Jennifer Carpenter and Morris Chestnut and gave a knockout performance per Variety as Norma Jean /Marilyn Monroe in Lifetime’s event drama, The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe, also starring Susan Sarandon. Garner co-starred in ABC's 1960's airline drama, Pan Am, opposite Christina Ricci , cementing her throwback, vintage appeal, along the way.

Some other notable roles include, Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock and Alex Aja's Horn's with Daniel Radcliffe

Her Theatre credits include:
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, opposite Diane Wiest Classic Stage Company 1+1 by Eric Bogosian, New York Stage and Film
Dog See's God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead by Bert V Royal Century Center for Performing Arts