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Roswell

Brendan Fehr was the first one, who got an acceptance for his role in Roswell.
Heath Ledger auditioned for the role of Max Evans.
Katherine Heigl tested for all three female leads before landing the part of Isabel Evans.
Before winning the role of Maria DeLuca, Majandra Delfino originally auditioned for the part of Liz.
Shiri Appleby auditioned, like Katherine, for all three female lead roles? She won the lead of Liz Parker after several callbacks.
Baby Zan appeared as baby Connor in “Angel”.
The Vasquez Rocks in which the pod chamber/granilith is located appeared in several movies and tv shows like “Star Trek”, “Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey” (with William Sadler!) or “Fastlane”? The infamous rocks are part of the artwork of John Doe’s album “Keeper” from 2011, too.
The newspaper clippings shown at the beginning of the show’s credits are actual headlines from the infamous Roswell “UFO Crash” in July of 1947.
In the third season episode “Secrets & Lies”, after doing terribly on an addition for “Enterprise,” his agent tells Max that “There’s still ‘Buffy’,” a reference to Jason Behr’s guest appearance as Ford in the “Buffy” episode “Lie to Me”.
Jonathan Frakes’ wife, Genie Francis, played the biological mother of Max and Isabel (as a hologram) in Roswell.
Zoe Nutter, the daughter of David Nutter, played six year old Isabel.
The judge in “Independence Day” is Jason Katims’ father.
Sarah Michelle Gellar, Julie Benz and Majandra Delfino had the same stuntdouble. – Sophia Crawford
That’s Jason Katims’ old couch in Michael’s Apartment.
One of the writers put a fight between him and Shiri into a fight scene of Liz and Valenti in “Cry Your Name”. When Shiri read it, she was like: “Oh.. looks familar!”
Dan Lubetin was originally the name of a writers room mate from college.
In “Tess, Lies and Videotape” a report about the fire shows the co-executive producer Thania St. John, as a reporter. Her name airs on the screen, too.
Jonathan Frakes had three uncredited guest appearances on Roswell? In the “Pilot”, “The Convention” and in “Secret & Lies”.
The name Nasedo originally came from a city in Arizona?
Katherine Heigl played “Isabel” in Roswell, Wuthering Heights and in ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” Isobel “Izzie” Stevens.
In 2001, Roswell was one of two shows to move from The WB to UPN. The other was “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (1997).
The german audio track on the DVD’s includes the original televison music, which is a pleasant surprise for the German fans. The english audio on the disc’s is the new DVD version with the replaced music. (The original music in the german version could also be the reason why “Roswell” is not available for streaming in Germany.)
Jason Behr and Leonardo DiCaprio have the same voice in Germany. The voice actor Gerrit Schmidt-Foß lends his voice to James Van Der Beek (Dawson’s Creek), Bradley James (Merlin), Nicholas Brendon (Buffy The Vampire Slayer) and many more, as well.
Barry Watson (7th Heaven), James Franco (Spider-Man), Jason Biggs (American Pie) and Zach Braff (Scrubs) are all dubbed by the german voice actor Oliver-Kim Hasper. Besides Brendan’s role in “Roswell”, he gave him a german voice in “Biker Boyz”. In NBC’s “The Night Shift” it’s Benedikt Gutjan.
In the German dubbing version of “Royal Pains”, Shiri’s best friend (Jennifer Ferrin) was dubbed by the same dubbing artist, who spoke Tess (Emilie de Ravin) on “Roswell”.
There’s a “Roswell” connection in the thrilling season six finale of “Grey’s Anatomy”. Michael O’Neill who played Gary Clark, the man who blames Derek for his wife’s death, appeared on “Roswell”. He played Max and Isabel’s dad in the beginning of the first season before he was replaced by Garrett M. Brown. So it’s Isabel’s dad, who shot Izzies husband!!
In the german dubbing version of Katherine Heigl’s movie “One For The Money”, she has the dubbing voice of her “Grey’s Anatomy” character. In a scene one of her informants has the dubbing voice of Roswell’s Alex.

Roswell Cast

Colin and Katherine are born on the same day? Colin on 24.11.1977 and Katie: 24.11.1978
Colin’s Ex-girlfriend Busy Philipps auditioned for all three female roles in Roswell.
At the movie premiere of “The Beach” Brendan wore a Metallica pullover with a graphic he got tattooed later.
Brendan Behr has two Metallica inspired tattoos on his upper arms.
Majandra Delfino and Samantha Gibb, the daughter of BeeGee Maurice Gibb, made music together.
Jason Behr had a guest appearance in the second season of Buffy. His “Roswell” co-star Katherine Heigl once answered the question “In which series she would like to play?” with “Buffy”.
Katie’s favorite sitcoms is “Will & Grace”.
Shiri Appleby, as well as Brendan Fehr, Katherine Heigl and Adam Rodriguez appeared in a several music videos. (Shiri: It’s my life (Bon Jovi), Save yourself (Sensefield) & I don’t want to be (Gavin DeGraw); Brendan: Stuck in a moment (U2), Pretty Baby (Vanessa Carlton), ; Katherine: Only You (Josh Kelley); Adam: If You Had My Love (Jennifer Lopez), Respect My Conglomerate (Busta Rhymes), I Call It Love (Lionel Richie), It Kills Me (Melanie Fiona), Many Men (50 Cent), No Dejemos Que Se Apague (Wisin & Yandel)
If he wouldn’t be an actor, Brendan Fehr would be an accountant.
Shiri Appleby had her first date in seventh grade with Rob Bourdon the Linkin Park Drummer and she attended high school with the members of the band ‘Incubus’.
Katherine auditioned for a role in “Lost”.

Co-Stars/Friends/Siblings/ etc.

Josh Janowicz (Emilie’s former husband) played in “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle” the role “Hot Priest” and one of Brendan’s friends Jennifer Gimenez played in this movie the role of a nun.
Colin’s sister, Elizabeth, made a guest appearance in “That Thing You Do!”, as well. She got credit as Bored Girl in Dress Shop. In addition she appeared in “Forrest Gump” as a School Bus Girl.
In 2000 Erika Christensen was in “Traffic” alongside Majandra Delfino. In 2002 she and Shiri had roles in “Swimfan” and in “Wuthering Heights”, former Roswell actors Katherine Heigl and John Doe had roles, too. Later Erika Christensen joined Jason Katims’ “Parenthood”.
Nora Zehetner and Emilie de Ravin had roles in “Brick” and Nora and Majandra played characters in the movie “R.S.V.P.”.
Harold Perrineau Jr. plays Michael in “Lost” and he was with Katherine Heigl in “The Tempest”.
Larisa Oleynik and Shiri Appleby were in the movie “A Time for Dancing” and in the same year, Larisa played a role in “100 Girls” with Katherine Heigl.
Shiri Appleby and William Sadler both had roles in “Battle of Shaker Heights”?
Katherine Heigl and Devon Gummersall had guest appearances in “The Twilight Zone”.
Katherine, as well as Shiri worked with Jesse Bradford?
Brendan Fehr and Alison Lange (Laurie in Roswell) played a couple in the horror movie ‘Christina’s House’.
William Sadler and Brendan Fehr had roles in David Nutter’s ‘Disturbing Behavior’?
Brendan Fehr and Sara Downing (Courtney) were both in the movie “The Forsaken”.
Majandra Delfino and Miko Hughes (Nicholas) were both in the film “Zeus and Roxanne”.
Before Roswell Julie Benz and Majandra starred in “Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth”.
Both Shiri Appleby and Jason Behr had guest appearances in “7th Heaven”.
Jesse Bradfort was in 1993 in “King of the Hill” alongside Katherine Heigl. In 2002 he was in “Clockstoppers”, in which Miko Hughes had a role and in the same year he and Shiri starred in “Swimfan”.
Dominic Monaghan was with Jason Behr in “Shooting Livien”, later he had a role in “Lost” alongside Emilie de Ravin.
William Mapother was in “Lost” with Emilie de Ravin and he starred with Jason Behr in “The Grudge”.