Undressed is an American anthology series that aired on MTV

MTV

MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....

 from July 26, 1999 to September 5, 2002. The series was created and executive produced by British director Roland Joffé

Roland Joffé

Roland Joffé is an English-French film director who is known for his Oscar nominated movies, The Killing Fields and The Mission. He began his career in television. His early television credits included episodes of Coronation Street and an adaptation of The Stars Look Down for Granada...

.

Synopsis

The series follows the relationships (both sexual and romantic) of young people, often high school

High school

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ers, college

College

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 students, and twenty somethings in the Los Angeles area. The series was controversial for its frank discussions about sex, including depictions of promiscuous behavior between teens, as well as gay

Gay

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 and lesbian

Lesbian

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 relationships.

Each season had several recurring characters with each episode focused on two or three specific characters with plotlines presented as interleaved vignette

Vignette (literature)

In theatrical script writing, sketch stories, and poetry, a vignette is a short impressionistic scene that focuses on one moment or gives a trenchant impression about a character, an idea, or a setting and sometimes an object...

s. The first season had stories end while others were still running and the stories would run for various lengths of time. Beginning in the second season, all three stories started at the beginning of the week and finished at the end. Undressed ran for 6 seasons, from Monday, July 26, 1999 to Thursday, September 5, 2002.

Season 1

Season 1 lasted from July to September 1999, and had 30 episodes.

Notable cast members included:

• Dante Basco
  Dante Basco
  Danté Basco is an American actor, voice actor, poet, and dancer. He is best known for playing Rufio in the 1991 live-action Peter Pan film Hook...
  
   (Jake)
• Marc Blucas
  Marc Blucas
  Marcus Paul "Marc" Blucas is an American actor, known for playing Riley Finn in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.-Early life:...
  
   (Billy)
• Sam Doumit
  Sam Doumit
  Samia "Sam" Doumit is an American actress of Irish, French, Lebanese, and German-Jewish descent . Doumit was born in California. She lived in Boston, Massachusetts. She was a Dean's list and honor roll student at Emerson College in Boston before attending the California Institute of the Arts...
  
   (Jana)
• Luke Edwards
  Luke Edwards
  Lucas Daniel "Luke" Edwards is an American actor. He began taking acting lessons for fun on his mother's suggestion and landed his first television role in 1988 on an ABC Afterschool Special episode...
  
   (Mark)
• Reagan Gomez-Preston
  Reagan Gomez-Preston
  Reagan Gomez-Preston is an American actress.-Early life:Gomez-Preston was born in Detroit to a Puerto Rican mother, Cheryl Gomez, and an African-American father, Bennett Preston. She has a younger brother named Kyle....
  
  
• Nicholas Gonzalez
  Nicholas Gonzalez
  Nicholas Edward Gonzalez is an Mexican-American actor, best known for playing Alex Santiago in the TV series Resurrection Blvd..-Early life:...
  
   (Andy)
• Christina Hendricks
  Christina Hendricks
  Christina Rene Hendricks is an actress known for her role as Joan Holloway in the AMC cable television series Mad Men, and as Saffron in Fox's short-lived series Firefly. Hendricks was named "the sexiest woman in the world" in 2010 in a poll of female readers taken by Esquire magazine.-Personal...
  
   (Rhiannon)
• Erica Hubbard
  Erica Hubbard
  Erica Hubbard is an American film and television actress and model.Born and raised on the Southside of Chicago, Erica knew at the early age of nine that she wanted to be an actress after she performed in her first stage play...
  
   (Jenny)
• Jon Huertas
  Jon Huertas
  Jon Huertas, born Jon William "Scott" Hofstedt and sometimes credited as John Huertas, is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Sergeant Antonio 'Poke' Espera in HBO's Generation Kill the miniseries as well as Joe Negroni in the film Why Do Fools Fall in Love and homicide...
  
   (Evan)
• Frankie Ingrassia
  Frankie Ingrassia
  Francesca "Frankie" Ingrassia is an American actress of Sicilian-Italian origin, better known for her appearances on series Secret Adventures and Undressed and film Election. She had acting hiatuses between 1995 and 1999 and between 2000 and 2006....
  
   (Samantha)
• Bryce Johnson
  Bryce Johnson
  -Early life:Johnson was raised in Reno, Nevada before moving to Denver, Colorado at 5 with his newly divorced mother along with his two brothers where he graduated from high school in 1995...
  
   (Cliff)
• Brandon Keener
  Brandon Keener
  Brandon Keener is an American actor living in Los Angeles, California. He was born and raised in Fort Smith, Arkansas and graduated from University of Arkansas....
  
   (Theo)
• Trevor Lissauer
  Trevor Lissauer
  Trevor Lissauer is an American actor and musician, born in Dallas, Texas. He is best known for his role as Miles Goodman in the sitcom Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.-Acting:...
  
   (Z)
• Sarah Lancaster
  Sarah Lancaster
  Sarah Lancaster is an American actress. Since the show's inception in 2007, she has co-starred in the NBC comedy-spy series Chuck, as the title character's sister, Ellie Bartowski....
  
   (Liz)
• Thad Luckinbill
  Thad Luckinbill
  Thaddeus Rowe "Thad" Luckinbill is an American actor best known for playing J.T. Hellstrom on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless for 11 years...
  
   (Kyle)
• Jeremy Maxwell
  Jeremy Maxwell
  Jeremy Maxwell Kramer , known professionally as Jeremy Maxwell, is an American film/voice actor.-Early life:Maxwell was born in Grants Pass, Oregon; He has one older sister. According to the Internet Movie Database, Maxwell speaks both Danish and English...
  
   (Rory)
• Peter Paige
  Peter Paige
  Peter Paige is an American actor, director, and screenwriter. His debut as director and writer was on the film Say Uncle.-Biography:Paige was born in West Hartford, Connecticut...
  
   (Kirk)
• Eyal Podell
  Eyal Podell
  Eyal Podell is an Israeli-born American actor who is known for his portrayal of Professor Adrian Korbel on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless. Podell recently played the role of Dr...
  
   (Joel)
• Beth Riesgraf
  Beth Riesgraf
  Beth Jean Riesgraf is an American actress, best known for her portrayal of Parker in the TNT TV series Leverage.Originally from Belle Plaine, Minnesota - Riesgraf is the youngest of six girls...
  
   (Loretta)
• Nick Stabile
  Nick Stabile
  Nick Stabile is an American television actor. He played Gabe Capshaw on the show, Saints and Sinners. He is well known for playing the role of Jesse in the slasher film Bride of Chucky...
  
   (Dave)
• Bree Turner
  Bree Turner
  -Childhood and family:Turner was born in Palo Alto, California. Her father is a former pro-football player for the Washington Redskins. In 1995, Bree graduated from Monte Vista High School in Danville, California, where she was voted 1994 Homecoming Queen, class of 1995...
  
   (Tina)

Season 2

Season 2 lasted from February to March 2000, and had 30 episodes.

Notable cast members included:

• Sara Downing
  Sara Downing
  Sara Nicole Downing is an American actress who has had a starring role in the television series Dead Last.-Filmography:* Boy Meets World .... Camryn...
  
   (Terry)
• Rose Freymuth-Frazier
  Rose Freymuth-Frazier
  Rose Freymuth-Frazier is an American figurative painter.-Biography:Born November 19, 1977, in Nevada City, California...
  
   (Joy)
• Jay Hernandez
  Jay Hernandez
  Javier Manuel "Jay" Hernandez, Jr. is an American actor.-Early life and career:Hernandez was born in Montebello, California, the son of Isis , a secretary and accountant, and Javier Hernandez, Sr., a mechanic. He has a younger sister, Amelia, and two older brothers, Michael and Gabriel. Hernandez...
  
   (Eddie)
• Chad Michael Murray
  Chad Michael Murray
  Chad Michael Murray is an American actor, former fashion model and spokesperson. Murray is well known for portraying Lucas Scott in The CW young adult drama series One Tree Hill, in addition to the commercially successful films A Cinderella Story, Freaky Friday and House of Wax...
  
   (Dan)
• Katee Sackhoff
  Katee Sackhoff
  Kathryn Ann "Katee" Sackhoff is an American actress known mainly for playing Captain Kara "Starbuck" Thrace on the Sci Fi Channel's television program Battlestar Galactica. In 2004 she was nominated for a Saturn Award in the "Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series" category for her work in...
  
   (Annie)
• Darryl Stephens
  Darryl Stephens
  Darryl Joseph Stephens is an American actor. He is best known for playing Noah Nicholson on the television dramedy Noah's Arc.-Early life:...
  
  
• Jason Thompson
  Jason Thompson (actor)
  Jason Craig Thompson is a Canadian actor. He joined the cast of the American daytime drama General Hospital in December 2005 as arrogant yet brilliant neurosurgeon Dr. Patrick Drake...
  
   (Miles)
• Jerry Trainor
  Jerry Trainor
  Gerald William "Jerry" Trainor is an American actor, comedian and voice actor, widely known for playing Spencer Shay on iCarly. He is also known as Crazy Steve on Drake & Josh and the title character, Dudley Puppy, on T.U.F.F. Puppy...
  
   (Eric)
• Cerina Vincent
  Cerina Vincent
  Cerina Vincent is an American film actress, and model best known for playing the Yellow Ranger Maya in the television series Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy, a naked foreign exchange student in Not Another Teen Movie, and Marcy in Cabin Fever. She is considered a scream queen.-Early life:Vincent was...
  
   (Kitty)
• Lauren Woodland
  Lauren Woodland
  Lauren Woodland is an American actress.-Career:Woodland has been acting since childhood. In 1989, she appeared in the Fox Network science fiction series Alien Nation as the child newcomer Emily Francisco...
  
  
• J. August Richards
  J. August Richards
  Jaime Augusto Richards III is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of vampire hunter Charles Gunn on the WB cult television series Angel.-Early life and education:...
  
   (Bryce)

Season 3

Season 3 lasted from July to August 2000, and had 30 episodes.

Notable cast members included:

• Kristina Anapau
  Kristina Anapau
  Kristina Anapau is an American actress-Private life:Kristina Elizabeth Anapau Roper, was born and raised on the island of Hawaii, is the daughter of Richard Stephen Roper, a scientist and Gloria Lea Kaiser Roper, an artist...
  
   (Roxy)
• Adam Brody
  Adam Brody
  Adam Jared Brody is an American film and television actor and part time musician. He began his career in 1995, appearing on Gilmore Girls and other series, and subsequently came to fame for his role as Seth Cohen on The O.C. Brody later appeared in several film roles, including Mr. & Mrs...
  
   (Lucas)
• Jason David Frank
  Jason David Frank
  Jason David Frank is an American actor, martial artist and professional mixed martial arts fighter, best known for playing Tommy Oliver in Power Rangers.- Early life :...
  
   (Carl)
• Bret Harrison
  Bret Harrison
  Bret Michael Harrison is an American actor and singer known predominantly for his work on comedies such as The Loop, Grounded for Life, Reaper and Breaking In.-Early life:Harrison was born in Tualatin, Oregon...
  
   (Skeet)
• Alyson Kiperman
  Alyson Kiperman
  Alyson Suzanne Kiperman is an American actress who is best known for her role as Lt. Taylor Earhardt/the Yellow Eagle Ranger on the 2002 television series Power Rangers: Wild Force....
  
   (Janice)
• Iyari Limon
  Iyari Limon
  Iyari Pérez Limón is an actress best known for her supporting role as Potential Slayer Kennedy on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.-Career:Limón has appeared in numerous TV commercials, both in Spanish and English...
  
   (Cindy)
• Diane Mizota
  Diane Mizota
  Diane Kiyomi Mizota is an American dancer, actress, and hostess.-Life and career:Mizota, a Japanese American, was born in Los Angeles, California and raised in Danville, California. Mizota studied dance in high school and in UCLA and graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Communication Studies...
  
   (Katy)
• Sam Page
  Samuel Page
  Samuel Page is an American actor. He is credited under the name Sam Page.-Early life:...
  
   (Sam)
• Teal Redmann
  Teal Redmann
  Teal B. Redmann is an American actress.-Life:She moved from Minnesota to Los Angeles at the age of 17...
  
   (Abby)
• Brandon Routh
  Brandon Routh
  Brandon James Routh is an American actor and former fashion model. He grew up in Iowa before moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career, and subsequently appeared on multiple television series throughout the early 2000s. In 2006, he gained greater recognition for his role as the titular hero...
  
   (Wade)

Season 4

Season 4 lasted from January to March 2001, and had 40 episodes.

Notable cast members included:

• Brandon Beemer
  Brandon Beemer
  Brandon Richard Beemer is an American soap opera actor and model. He is best known for his role as Shawn-Douglas Brady on the American soap Days of Our Lives , and currently plays Owen Knight on The Bold and the Beautiful .Beemer is currently part of the cast in the docu-reality show Dirty Soap, a...
  
   (Lucas)
• Johnny Lewis
  Johnny Lewis
  Jonathan Kendrick "Johnny" Lewis , also credited as Johnny K. Lewis, is an American actor.-Life and career:Lewis began making television appearances while in his late teens with guest starring roles in American Dreams , Boston Public , and The Guardian , among others...
  
   (Ray)
• Sarah Jane Morris
  Sarah Jane Morris (actress)
  Sarah Jane Morris is an American actress. She plays Julia Walker on Brothers & Sisters and formerly had a recurring role on Felicity.-Personal life:...
  
   (Paula)
• Alisan Porter
  Alisan Porter
  Alisan Porter is an American actress, singer and dancer.-Life and career:Porter was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. Porter is Jewish. Her maternal grandmother, whose father Joseph Klein was a prominent Worcester rabbi, ran the Charlotte Klein Dance Center in Worcester...
  
   (Belinda)

Season 5

Season 5 lasted from July to September 2001, and had 40 episodes.

Notable cast members included:

• Katie Aselton
  Katie Aselton
  Katie Aselton is an American film director, producer, and actress from Milbridge, Maine. She is married to her co-star on The League, Mark Duplass. She directed and co-starred in The Freebie, which was shown in the non-competition "Next" category at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010...
  
   (Kim)
• Scott Clifton
  Scott Clifton
  Scott Clifton Snyder , better known as Scott Clifton, is an American actor, musician, and video blogger. His early work has included television commercials and minor film and television roles, but his most recognized achievements have come from his highly publicised roles in soap operas...
  
   (Caleb)
• Mike Erwin
  Mike Erwin
  Mike Erwin is an American actor who is best known as Colin Hart in the now cancelled WB television series Everwood. He has been more widely heard as the voice of Jak in the Jak and Daxter series from Jak II onward except in the case of Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier in which he did not reprise...
  
   (Lyle)
• Autumn Reeser
  Autumn Reeser
  Autumn Alicia Reeser is an American actress and blogger. She has portrayed Taylor Townsend on the Fox series The O.C., Lizzie Grant on HBO's Entourage and most recently appeared as Katie Andrews on ABC's No Ordinary Family....
  
   (Erica)
• Adrienne Wilkinson
  Adrienne Wilkinson
  Adrienne Marie Wilkinson is an American actress.- Biography :Adrienne Wilkinson was born in Memphis, Missouri. She is of Irish, Scottish, English, Cherokee, Danish and German heritage....
  
   (Lois)
• Chez Starbuck
  Chez Starbuck
  Chez Starbuck is a former American actor who is best known for starring in The Disney Channel's made-for-TV movie The Thirteenth Year. After the success of The Thirteenth Year, he starred alongside Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen in You're Invited to Mary-Kate & Ashley's School Dance as Rick Morgan,...
  
   (Jared)
• Tracy Pacheco (Jenny)
• Jennifer Tisdale
  Jennifer Tisdale
  Jennifer Kelly Tisdale is an American actress, and singer. She is the older sister of Suite Life of Zack and Cody and High School Musical star Ashley Tisdale.-Career:...
  
   (Betsy)

Season 6

Season 6 lasted from June to September 2002, and had 52 episodes. It was produced in Canada, utilizing mainly Canadian actors.

Notable cast members included:

• Natalie Brown
  Natalie Brown (actress)
  Natalie Brown is a Canadian actress who grew up in Timmins, Ontario. Brown landed her first print campaign for Bonne Bell when she was sixteen and went on to become the Heinz Ketchup girl. She modeled for Noxema and Max Factor. She studied fine arts at York University in Toronto...
  
   (Brianne)
• Karen Cliche
  Karen Cliche
  Karen Cliche is a Canadian actress. She's best known for her roles as a regular on the TV series Vampire High, Adventure Inc., Mutant X, Young Blades, and Flash Gordon.She is married to Brian Mellersh since September 24, 2005...
  
   (Marissa)
• Rachelle Lefevre
  Rachelle Lefèvre
  Rachelle Lefevre is a Canadian actress. She has starred in the television series Big Wolf on Campus and had recurring roles in What About Brian, Boston Legal, and Swingtown. She played the vampire Victoria in the first two films of the Twilight saga, before being replaced by Bryce Dallas Howard...
  
   (Annie Isles)
• Kim Poirier
  Kim Poirier
  Kim Poirier is a Canadian actress, singer, film producer, and television host.-Personal life:Kim Jacinthe Poirier was born in Drummondville, Quebec, the daughter of actress/model Carol Laquerre who was Miss Toronto in 1976, she has one sister. She enjoys watching movies, writing, meditating,...
  
   (Holly)
• Michael Urie
  Michael Urie
  Michael Lorenzo Urie is an American actor, television producer and director, best known for his portrayal of Marc St. James on the ABC dramedy series Ugly Betty.-Personal life:...
  
   (Justin)

Production notes

The show's head writer

Head writer

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s were Michael Grodner and Swith Bell, while Neil Landau

Neil Landau

Neil Landau is an American screenwriter, playwright, producer, and director. His film and TV credits include the teen comedy "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead”, "Melrose Place", "The Magnificent Seven", "Doogie Howser, M.D.", "The Secret World of Alex Mack", and MTV's "Undressed”...

 served as the co-head writer. Jennifer M. Johnson

Jennifer M. Johnson

Jennifer M. Johnson is an American television writer and producer. She has worked in both capacities on the series Lost, Reunion, Cold Case and is a co-creator of the series Chase. Johnson won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series for her work on Lost.-Career:Johnson began...

 was a writer for the series.

Undressed was filmed in Los Angeles for the first five seasons, and in Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

, Quebec, Canada for the sixth and final season.

Syndication

In January 2010 episodes began rerunning on Logo

Logo (TV channel)

Logo is an American digital cable television channel owned by Viacom's MTV Networks division. Launched in June 2005, the channel's programs are geared towards the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community...

.

Since April 2008, all of the episodes from season one have been made available online for free viewing at UndressedTV.com.

Award nominations

Year	Award	Result	Category	Recipient
2000	GLAAD Media Award	Nominated	Outstanding TV Drama Series	-
2001			Outstanding TV Drama Series	-
2003		Won	Outstanding Daily Drama	-
2001	Motion Picture Sound Editors Motion Picture Sound Editors Founded in 1953, Motion Picture Sound Editors is an honorary society of motion picture sound editors. The society's goals are to educate others about and increase the recognition of the sound editors, show the artistic merit of the soundtracks, and improve the professional relationship of its...	Nominated	Best Sound Editing - Television Episodic - Music	Brian Bulman (For episode #330)
2002		Nominated	Best Sound Editing in Television - Music, Episodic Live Action	Brian Bulman (For episode "The Showdown")

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