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Interviews 12:00 AM, 14-FEBRUARY-06 Babylon 5's Katsulas Dies Andreas Katsulas, the character actor known to SF fans as G'Kar on Babylon 5 and a familiar face from Star Trek and other SF&F TV shows, died Feb. Katsulas, a longtime resident of Los Angeles, played the Narn ambassador G'Kar for five years in the syndicated cult TV series Babylon 5, starting in 1993. Katsulas was also no stranger to Trek fans, playing Romulan Cmdr. His last appearance in a Trek series was as a Vissian captain on an episode of Enterprise. Louis, Katsulas held a master's degree in theater from Indiana University, his official Web site said. Louis, New York and Boston, he went on to film roles in such movies as Michael Cimino's The Sicilian, which brought him to Los Angeles, then in Ridley Scott's Someone to Watch Over Me and Blake Edward's Sunset. Katsulas moved to Los Angeles permanently in 1986 and found scores of television and film parts in everything from TV's Alien Nation and Max Headroom to the big screen's The Fugitive, in which he played the infamous one-armed man, and Executive Decision opposite Kurt Russell and Steven Seagal. Information on memorial services was pending at press time.
GET THE WEEKLY PODCAST Mission: Impossible III star Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes remain engaged to be married and are proceeding with wedding plans, his publicist told the Reuters news service on Feb. Lena Headey (Imagine Me & You) will play a single-girl superhero in Joan of Arcadia creator Barbara Hall's pilot Ultra for CBS, TV Guide Online reported. SyFy Portal, a Web site of SF&F news and fandom, will be back soon, despite a premature announcement last week that the site would shut down permanently, site creator Michael Hinman told SCI FI Wire.
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