122 Fun Facts About Prison Break

By what method is Lincoln Burrows due to be executed at Fox River in Prison Break's first season?

The electric chair is Lincoln's sentence; Michael shorts it with a rat to win a delay, a guard has it fixed in time, and only a judge's phone call halts the execution at the last moment.

Which veteran actor plays the warden of Fox River in Prison Break's first season?

Stacy Keach plays the warden, and he knew prison from the other side: he had served six months in England's Reading Prison after a cocaine arrest at Heathrow.

Who created the television series 'Prison Break'?

Paul Scheuring first took the script to Fox in 2003 and was turned down, the network doubting the story could last; a year later Fox changed its mind and ordered the series.

What is Michael Scofield's profession before he gets himself sent to Fox River?

Structural engineer: Michael's Chicago firm had handled the retrofit of Fox River, which is how he got hold of the prison's blueprints before his arrest.

For which crimes is Theodore 'T-Bag' Bagwell serving time at Fox River?

Kidnapping, rape and murder put T-Bag away for life; he was only caught because his girlfriend Susan Hollander, on learning what he had done, turned him in to the police.

What office does Sara Tancredi's father, Frank, hold during Prison Break's first season?

Governor of Illinois Frank Tancredi could have spared Lincoln: asked by his own daughter to review the case on execution day, he refused clemency at the Vice President's request.

Which Fox River escapee is shot dead by Mahone's FBI team in season two after refusing to kneel?

John Abruzzi is lured to a motel by a false tip about the witness who jailed him; told to kneel, he says he kneels only to God, raises his gun and is cut down.

How does Michael Scofield smuggle the blueprints of Fox River into the prison?

Tattoos: before getting himself arrested, Michael had the plans inked across his upper body, hidden inside a gothic design of angels fighting demons.

A fire gets Michael's work crew sent to rebuild which Fox River room, where they dig their escape hole?

The guards' break room is where the crew cuts through the floor to the pipes below; the fire was no accident, set by an old inmate to settle a score with the guard captain.

Michael and his cellmate begin their escape route by removing which fixture in their Fox River cell?

The toilet comes away from the wall once Michael grinds a bolt against the cell floor into a hexagonal key that fits its screws, opening the way into the space behind.

One long-serving Fox River inmate turns out to be which real-life figure who famously vanished?

D. B. Cooper, the hijacker who leapt from an airliner with a ransom, is one of the prison's longest-serving inmates; he denies it for half the season, then proves it with a bill from the ransom.

Who is the warden of Fox River in Prison Break's first season?

Henry Pope quits after the breakout, yet in season two the former warden helps the brothers, now on the run, recover a recording that could clear Lincoln.

Which real-estate lawyer and ex-girlfriend of Lincoln fights to prove his innocence in Prison Break's first season?

Veronica Donovan is a real-estate lawyer, not a criminal one, yet she defends Michael at his trial and then chases the conspiracy that framed Lincoln.

What is the prison nickname of the character Benjamin Miles Franklin?

C-Note is Fox River's fixer, the prison 'pharmacist' who can get an inmate almost anything from outside, including the drug Michael needs to fake his illness.

Which stolen item put young inmate David Apolskis in Fox River?

A rare baseball card: he took a card collection without realising it held a Honus Wagner worth a fortune, which turned a petty theft into grand larceny.

What leaves without the escapees in Prison Break's season-one finale?

A plane laid on by the mob boss among them takes off as the police close in, leaving five of the escapees behind; season two opens with the five still on the run.

Who is Fernando Sucre's girlfriend, the woman he breaks out to marry?

Maricruz Delgado is Sucre's pregnant girlfriend; he joins the escape to reach her before she marries his cousin Hector, and the pair reunite in Mexico in season two.

After the escape, T-Bag forces what kind of professional to sew his severed hand back on?

A veterinarian is made to reattach it without anaesthetic; the hand came off on the night of the escape, when a fellow escapee took an axe to the wrist T-Bag had cuffed to Michael.

In Prison Break's fourth season, what does Scylla, The Company's supposed 'black book', really hold?

Plans for a renewable power cell are the prize: Scylla is The Company's trove of advanced technology, not just a list of names, which is why more than one thief tries to sell it to the highest bidder.

In what country is the prison Sona, featured in Season 3, located?

Panama is where the brothers flee at the end of season two; instead of freedom, Michael is arrested there over the death of a Company agent and locked in Sona.

Who plays FBI agent Alexander Mahone, who becomes entangled with Michael and Lincoln?

William Fichtner joined in season two as Mahone, an FBI agent as sharp as Michael, who is being coerced by The Company into killing the escapees rather than arresting them.

What crime does Michael Scofield deliberately commit to get himself sent to Fox River?

Armed robbery of a downtown Chicago bank does it: Michael surrenders without a fight, pleads no contest and asks to serve his time close to home, at Fox River.

Under which famous name does Company operative Gretchen Morgan introduce herself in Prison Break's third season?

Susan B. Anthony is the only name she gives the brothers while she holds Sara and L.J. hostage to force Michael to break a prisoner out of Sona.

In Season 1, L.J. Burrows goes on the run after Company agents frame him for what?

Murdering his mother and stepfather is the frame: two agents kill the couple and pin it on L.J., who goes on the run and later comes after one of them with a gun.

Which character works in the laundry at Fox River and is a cousin to Fernando Sucre?

Manche Sanchez smuggles guard uniforms out of the laundry for the plan and is promised a place in the breakout, but he is the last man out and is caught on the night.

What agency does Paul Kellerman initially work for?

Secret Service agent Paul Kellerman starts out on the Vice President's protective detail, doing The Company's dirty work, yet it is his testimony that finally clears Lincoln.

Which Season 4 antagonist, a Company hitman, murders Alexander Mahone's young son Cameron?

Wyatt Mathewson, the General's personal hitman, kills the boy in the season premiere, and the hope of finding him is part of what brings a grieving Mahone onto the Scylla team.

What is the codename of the CIA handler who erased Michael's identity in season five?

Poseidon is the rogue CIA operative behind Michael's disappearance, who threatened to jail Sara and Lincoln unless Michael vanished and went to work for him.

Michael's wife Nika Volek smuggles what into Fox River when she visits him?

A key card disguised as a credit card is what she slips him; Michael had paid off the traffickers who brought her from the Czech Republic and married her so that she could get a green card.

In Prison Break's third season, Sucre takes what job at Sona to help Michael escape?

Gravedigger is the job Sucre takes under a false name to help from outside the walls; after the escape the guards find out, torture him and throw him into Sona himself.

Thanks to a grandfather clause, one long-serving Fox River inmate is allowed to keep what in his cell?

A cat named Marilyn shares his cell under the old rules; when he refuses to tell the guard captain who killed an officer during a riot, the captain kills her.

Around the time Prison Break began, Wentworth Miller played the love interest in a hit video for which singer?

Mariah Carey runs off with him at the end of 'We Belong Together'; the video's director was also directing the Prison Break pilot and decided to use his new leading man in both.

Before being imprisoned, what was Lincoln Burrows accused of doing?

Murdering the Vice President's brother, Terrence Steadman, is the charge, and Steadman turns out to be alive.

In which city is Scylla kept at the start of season four?

Los Angeles is where the team is sent, because Scylla sits inside The Company's headquarters there; they spend half the season collecting the cards that unlock it before breaking in.

In Prison Break's third season, Michael wins a favour from Sona's boss by restoring what to the prison?

The water supply had been cut, turning the inmates on their boss; by getting it running again, Michael persuades him to lift a bounty on the man he was sent to free.

Which character, played by Mark Feuerstein, has Sara married by the start of Prison Break's fifth season?

Jacob Anton Ness, an economics professor, married Sara and helped raise Michael's son while Michael was thought dead; he is secretly the rogue operative who made Michael vanish.

Who composed the theme music for 'Prison Break'?

Ramin Djawadi wrote the Emmy-nominated theme, though French viewers never heard it over the titles: broadcaster M6 swapped in a rap song by Faf Larage, which topped the French charts.

Which member of the original Fox River escape team hid money in Utah?

Fox River's longest-serving inmate, Westmoreland is widely believed to be the hijacker D. B. Cooper and keeps a tabby cat named Marilyn thanks to a grandfather clause.

What is the name of the prison where Michael Scofield is held in Prison Break's fifth season?

Ogygia shares its name with the island where Calypso keeps Odysseus for seven years in Homer's Odyssey; Michael, too, has been gone seven years when he is found there.

Michael schemes his way into which part of Fox River to reach a former cellmate?

The psych ward holds a former cellmate, the one man who can restore a missing piece of the escape plan; Michael plays catatonic in solitary to be sent there, then gets him off his medication so he can redraw it.

Lincoln's lawyer is shot dead at Terrence Steadman's hideout in Blackfoot, in which state?

Montana is where she finds the supposedly murdered man alive; she is on the phone telling Lincoln what she has learned when Company agents arrive and kill her.

After Prison Break, the actor behind T-Bag played villain Samuel Sullivan in the final season of which series?

Heroes brought Robert Knepper in as carnival leader Samuel Sullivan for its fourth and final season; the part was cast as recurring and then promoted to a starring role.

What is the prison nickname of David Apolskis in Prison Break?

Tweener is the name T-Bag hangs on David Apolskis, a white teenager who has taken up Black street culture and fits in with neither side of Fox River's racial divide.

Who directed the pilot episode of Prison Break?

Brett Ratner directed the pilot and stayed on as an executive producer; he then put his new leading man into two music videos he had signed on to direct.

Which Prison Break character moves up from Vice President to President during season one?

Caroline Reynolds takes the oath after having President Mills poisoned, but her presidency lasts only days: she resigns in season two.

Which illness does Michael fake to get daily access to the Fox River infirmary?

Diabetes is the cover: Michael takes PUGNAc, an insulin blocker bought from the prison's fixer, so that he needs regular insulin shots and with them regular trips to the infirmary.

Why did The Company frame Lincoln, according to season one?

His father's old ties to the group made Lincoln the fall guy: Aldo Burrows had not simply abandoned his sons, as they believed, but had worked for The Company and then turned against it.

On escape night, how do the Fox River inmates cross the final gap to the outer wall?

Along an overhead cable is the last leg: it runs from an upper window to the top of the wall, and it snaps under the final man in line, who is left behind for the guards.

Prison Break's creator described season two as which classic film 'times eight'?

The Fugitive times eight was his pitch for a season in which, he said, the escapees would scatter to the four corners of the country by plane, train and car.

What does Michael sabotage to force the lockdown he needs for drilling at Fox River?

The air conditioning goes off on a sweltering day because the count is skipped during a lockdown, but the heat backfires: T-Bag turns the unrest into a full-scale riot.

Why is Sona guarded only from the outside in season three?

After a riot a year earlier the guards pulled out of Sona entirely; they ring the perimeter and drop in food and water, and the inmates run the place themselves.

Whom does The Company want Michael to break out of Sona?

James Whistler is the target, and Gretchen Morgan holds L.J. and Sara hostage to make Michael do it.

Which Homeland Security agent recruits the team to steal Scylla in season four?

Don Self, the Homeland Security agent who assembles the Scylla team and promises them exoneration, turns out to be a double-crosser who grabs Scylla to sell it himself.

Which health problem afflicts Michael during season four?

A brain tumor gets Michael onto The Company's operating table, and it is after the surgery that he learns his mother Christina is alive.

Before working at Fox River, Sara Tancredi fought an addiction to which drug?

Morphine had cost Sara dearly: high on it, she could not help a boy who had been run over, and her recovery is part of why she chose to work in a prison infirmary.

In which US city does the hunt for Scylla finally end in Prison Break's fourth season?

Miami is where the brothers chase Scylla after a double-cross; there Michael finally hands it over in exchange for the group's freedom.

Under which false name is Michael held prisoner in Prison Break's fifth season?

Kaniel Outis is the name he is held under, an identity tied to terrorism; 'Outis' is Greek for 'nobody', the name Odysseus gives the Cyclops to trick him.

Before Fox River, C-Note served as a sergeant in which branch of the US military?

Army sergeant C-Note reported the torture of prisoners in Kuwait and was dishonourably discharged in the cover-up; he hid the discharge, and then his prison term, from his wife and daughter.

Fox River's warden enlists Michael to help finish a model of which landmark as an anniversary gift?

The Taj Mahal model is for the warden's wife on their 40th anniversary; he has built it badly and needs Michael's help to keep it standing, which earns Michael some leeway.

How soon before production began was Dominic Purcell cast as Lincoln?

Three days or so before production was all the notice Dominic Purcell had; the show's creator doubted him when he walked in tanned and styled, but his audition won the part and he arrived on day one with a buzz cut.

Michael's surname Scofield comes from where?

Scofield is his mother's maiden name: Michael took Christina Rose Scofield's surname rather than his father's, which is why the brothers carry different last names.

Robert Knepper likened T-Bag to which author 'without a degree'?

Knepper described T-Bag as 'Truman Capote without a degree', a sharp Southern talker, and refused to play him as a stereotypical racist or redneck.

What is Paul Kellerman's job in the flash-forward that ends Prison Break's fourth season?

Congressman Paul Kellerman is running for president four years on when his dead partner's widow walks up and spits in his face.

Why was Wade Williams at first reluctant to play Brad Bellick?

The role was despicable, Williams felt on reading the pilot, and he went in only after his manager told him, 'If you don't go in, I'm gonna kill you.'

Which Sona inmate, a drug kingpin, rules the prison as its dictator?

Lechero, played by Robert Wisdom, rules Sona until the escape he forces his way into goes wrong: guards shoot him, and T-Bag smothers him with a pillow to take his place.

What is the name of the Yemeni fixer who helps Lincoln search for his brother in Prison Break?

Sheba, played by Inbar Lavi, is C-Note's contact who guides Lincoln through Sanaa; she flies out of Yemen with C-Note and later turns up in the United States to help Lincoln.

What is Whip, Michael's season-five cellmate, revealed to be?

Whip, played by Augustus Prew, is revealed to be T-Bag's illegitimate son, David Martin; T-Bag learns the truth late in season five, shortly before Whip is shot dead.

Prison Break was built as a serialized thriller in the mould of which earlier Fox hit?

24 set the template of a Fox thriller told in cliffhangers; Prison Break dropped its real-time clock but shared the schedule with it during its first season.

Which director briefly backed Prison Break as a miniseries before Fox made it a series?

Steven Spielberg agreed to put his name to a Prison Break miniseries, then bowed out when War of the Worlds came along, and the script sat on the shelf for almost a year.

Which serialized drama's huge 2004 debut finally got Fox to make Prison Break?

Lost had a huge debut in autumn 2004, and the show's creator said Fox, wary of serials until then, called almost at once to put his shelved pilot into production.

Which serial killer was said to have once occupied the real cell used as Lincoln's in Prison Break?

John Wayne Gacy was said to have briefly occupied the cell used for Lincoln, and the actor playing him recalled a makeup artist refusing to step inside it.

James Whistler guards a book of hidden notes that poses as a field guide to what?

Birds of the Northwest Hemisphere is the book's title; Whistler passes it off as a relic of his days as a fisherman, and T-Bag later uses what is hidden inside to pose as a star salesman.

Which Texas city became the main filming base for season two?

Dallas took over once the inmates had escaped and the show no longer needed its prison; the city also put rural and urban settings close together.

Which Florida city doubled for Central America in the last three episodes of Prison Break's second season?

Pensacola stepped in for the season's last three episodes because the story had left the United States; the rest of the season was shot in Texas.

Lechero actor Robert Wisdom earlier played police major 'Bunny' Colvin on which HBO crime drama?

The Wire cast Wisdom as Howard 'Bunny' Colvin, the Baltimore major who, nearing retirement, secretly lets drug dealers trade unpunished in zones nicknamed Hamsterdam.

What must Michael's team wear while working to steal Scylla in Prison Break's fourth season?

GPS ankle monitors go on each of them when the team first assembles, the price of a deal that lets wanted fugitives walk free while they work.

Which Greek island do Michael, Lincoln and Whip sail to after escaping Yemen in Prison Break?

Crete is reached by boat from a Yemeni fishing village, where their fellow escapee Ja chooses to stay behind rather than sail on.

Which streaming service added Prison Break in July 2024 and sent it to the top of Nielsen's chart?

Netflix did what a rival streamer already carrying the show had not: within two weeks of arriving, Prison Break topped Nielsen's chart with 1.6 billion minutes viewed in a week.

Which UK broadcaster paid £500,000 an episode to take over Prison Break from season three?

Sky One bought the UK rights from season three at a reported £500,000 an episode, taking the show over from Five, which had aired the first two seasons.

Prison Break was the first TV show that Fox released on which format, in November 2007?

Season one arrived on Blu-ray Disc in November 2007, the first Fox television series on the format; Fox had backed Blu-ray over the rival HD DVD.

Which social network streamed past season two episodes during a 2006 baseball hiatus?

Fox streamed season two's past episodes on MySpace during the October 2006 baseball hiatus; News Corporation owned both the network and the social network.

Where was Prison Break: Cherry Hill, the spin-off Fox planned in 2007, going to be set?

A women's prison was the setting: Molly, an upper-middle-class wife jailed for acts of revenge, was to be introduced on Prison Break first, but the spin-off never went into production.

Which series saw Robert Knepper reprise T-Bag in 2011?

Breakout Kings came from Prison Break's Matt Olmstead and Nick Santora, who brought T-Bag back for an episode of their A&E drama about convicts helping U.S. Marshals catch prison escapees.

Players of Prison Break: The Conspiracy control which Company agent instead of Michael?

Tom Paxton is a Company agent sent undercover into Fox River as an inmate, so the game replays season one from his side, with many of the cast voicing their characters.

Pobeg, a 2010 Prison Break remake, was made in which country?

Russia's Channel One made Pobeg, meaning 'Escape', under a deal with Fox's distribution arm, copying some of the original's scenes and dialogue outright.

Which streamer ordered a Prison Break reboot pilot in December 2024?

Hulu ordered the pilot in December 2024; written by Elgin James of Mayans M.C., it is set in the same world as the original but follows a new cast of characters.

Which two Moroccan cities besides Rabat hosted season five filming?

Casablanca and Ouarzazate joined Rabat because Morocco was standing in for the story's Arabian setting; a technical school in Ouarzazate, home of the Atlas film studios, played the jail.

Whose ashes does Michael's season-five cellmate Ja boast of keeping at home?

Freddie Mercury is Ja's idol: the Korean inmate loves Queen and says more than once that the singer's ashes sit in his apartment in Seoul.

Which actor, a Bond villain in Die Another Day, plays Michael's cellmate Ja in season five?

Rick Yune plays Ja, the Korean identity thief who joins Michael's escape and then chooses to stay behind in a coastal fishing village to beat his addictions.

Which murderer did Mahone secretly kill and bury in his own backyard?

Oscar Shales, a killer who kept slipping away from Mahone, was shot by him and buried in the garden; visions of him drive Mahone to pills, and the secret is used to blackmail him.

Which Fox River escapee does Mahone talk into jumping to his death in Prison Break's second season?

Haywire is cornered by Bellick at the top of a grain tower after killing a civilian; Mahone climbs up and, instead of arresting him, talks him into jumping.

Which Company agent does Sara shoot dead in the finale of Prison Break's second season?

Bill Kim follows the brothers abroad in person and is about to kill Lincoln when Sara fires first.

Veronica Donovan actress Robin Tunney went on to co-star as Teresa Lisbon in which crime series?

The Mentalist gave Tunney seven seasons as Teresa Lisbon, the by-the-book boss of a fake psychic; she took the part two years after Prison Break wrote Veronica out.

Which cover name does Paul Kellerman use when he poses as a jerky sales manager?

Owen Kravecki is the name Kellerman gives police in season one, claiming to sell jerky; in season two he befriends Sara as 'Lance', posing as a fellow addict.

Which Prison Break character, a Sona inmate's girlfriend in season three, is dating Lincoln by season four?

Sofia Lugo spends season three helping Lincoln free her jailed boyfriend, then ends up with Lincoln instead; the finale's flash-forward shows the two living together.

Which partner and long-time friend does Kellerman kill in 'End of the Tunnel'?

Danny Hale, Kellerman's partner and old friend, loses his nerve and meets Veronica with a dossier on the conspiracy; Kellerman finds his own name in it and shoots him.

Steadman taunts Kellerman by revealing he once did what with the politician he served for 15 years?

Proposed to her and was rejected: Steadman, held captive by Kellerman and the brothers, sneers at him as a 'serf' who would be king.

In The Final Break, who puts a $100,000 bounty on Sara's life?

General Krantz, held in the men's prison next door, offers the money to any inmate who kills Sara, which is what pushes Michael to break her out.

Which teenage Sona inmate helps Michael and then escapes with him in season three?

McGrady, a 17-year-old named for the NBA jersey he wears, fetches what Michael needs, then demands a place in the escape and gets out with him.

What do the guards shoot at during Michael's decoy in The Final Break?

A parachuting dummy draws the guards' fire while Michael slips in unseen; Mahone had tipped off the FBI about a parachute drop on Michael's instructions.

How does Michael appear to die in The Final Break?

Electrocuted by a door lock he shorts out so Sara can get through, Michael leaves a farewell video saying his illness had returned; season five reveals the death was staged.

Which cognitive trait lets Michael notice things others miss?

Low latent inhibition, his former psychiatrist tells Sara, means Michael notices details most people filter out; with his high IQ, it also explains why he goes to such lengths for others.

What does Lincoln leave on Michael's grave in the flash-forward that ends Prison Break's fourth season?

An origami crane is Lincoln's tribute: when they were boys he left paper cranes by Michael's bed as a sign that he was watching over him.

What does Abruzzi have cut off Michael to extract Fibonacci's location?

Two toes are what Abruzzi's men cut from Michael's left foot; the torture gets nothing out of him, and Abruzzi ends up joining the escape to learn where Fibonacci is.

Sucre was jailed for aggravated robbery after trying to rob what?

Sucre held up a liquor store and drew a sentence for aggravated robbery; his cousin Hector, who wanted Sucre's girlfriend for himself, was the one who turned him in.

How does Brad Bellick die in Prison Break's fourth season?

Drowned in a water main: Bellick climbs into the conduit to hold a pipe in place so the team can cross toward Scylla, knowing the water is about to rush back.

Norman St. John earned his nickname by disguising himself as what at the age of 13?

A milkman was the boy's disguise for getting close to the man who had raped his mother and killing him; the Spanish word for the job became his name.

Charles Westmoreland actor Muse Watson played the killer Ben Willis in which teen slasher film?

I Know What You Did Last Summer cast Watson as Ben Willis, the hook-wielding fisherman hunting the teenagers who ran him over and dumped his body a year before.

Which ISIL leader is Michael sent to break out of a Yemeni jail in Prison Break?

Abu Ramal is the man Michael was sent in to free, but Michael plans all along to leave him behind, and Whip ends up killing him.

Wentworth Miller, raised in Brooklyn, was born in which country?

England is where Miller was born, in the Oxfordshire town of Chipping Norton, because his American father was studying at Oxford; the family moved to Brooklyn when he was one.

Which 2013 thriller marked Wentworth Miller's screenwriting debut?

Stoker, directed by Park Chan-wook, was Miller's screenwriting debut; he had submitted the script under the pseudonym Ted Foulke so it would be judged on its own merits.

Which DC villain did Miller play opposite Purcell's Heat Wave in the Arrowverse?

Captain Cold, real name Leonard Snart, moved from The Flash to Legends of Tomorrow alongside Purcell's Heat Wave, then sacrificed himself to save the team at the end of its first season.

Dominic Purcell trained at a Perth drama academy alongside which star?

Hugh Jackman studied at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts alongside Purcell; Jackman had turned down a part in the soap Neighbours to enrol.

Which musician's mother did Dominic Purcell marry in 2023?

Miley Cyrus gained a stepfather when Purcell married her mother and long-time manager, Tish Cyrus, in Malibu in August 2023, nine months after the couple went public.

Why was Sara Tancredi written out before season three, per producer Matt Olmstead?

Olmstead said contract disputes kept Callies out of season three even though everyone, the actress included, wanted her to stay; she was brought back for season four.

Which AMC series later starred Sarah Wayne Callies as Lori Grimes?

The Walking Dead gave Callies three seasons as Lori Grimes, wife of its hero Rick; after Lori's death in the episode 'Killer Within', Rick is haunted by visions of her.

John Abruzzi actor Peter Stormare first found fame in America playing Gaear Grimsrud in which film?

Fargo made Stormare's name in America as Gaear Grimsrud, the near-silent kidnapper caught feeding his partner into a woodchipper; in Sweden he was already known as Ingmar Bergman's Hamlet.

C-Note actor Rockmond Dunbar played Sheriff Eli Roosevelt on which FX drama?

Sons of Anarchy brought Dunbar in for its fourth season as Eli Roosevelt, the new lawman in Charming, who is waiting for the club's members the day they walk out of prison.

Paul Adelstein, Prison Break's Agent Kellerman, played pediatrician Cooper Freedman on which ABC medical drama?

Private Practice follows Addison Montgomery after she quits Seattle Grace for a clinic in California; Adelstein joined on leaving Prison Break in 2007 and stayed all six seasons.

Before playing Gretchen Morgan, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe rose to fame as Cassidy on which 1990s cop show?

Nash Bridges cast O'Keefe as Cassidy, teenage daughter of Don Johnson's San Francisco cop; after her fiancé is killed on duty, Cassidy joins the police herself.

L.J. Burrows actor Marshall Allman went on to play Tommy Mickens on which vampire series?

True Blood cast Allman as Tommy Mickens, the illiterate shapeshifter whom Sam takes in after learning that their parents had been using him in dog fights.

Don Self actor Michael Rapaport was later a series regular on which Netflix comedy-drama?

Atypical ran four seasons with Rapaport as Doug Gardner, an EMT and father of Sam, an autistic 18-year-old; Doug joins an autism support group as the series goes on.