TV Series Nip Tuck
Nip / Tuck - Beauty has its price is an American drama series by Ryan Murphy, since 2003 in the United States runs and 2004 in Germany and Austria started on Premiere. In Austria, ran from June 2005, the second season in double impact on ATV, while in Germany in March 2005 with the broadcast on pay-TV premiere started. From the 11th January 2006, the second season on Wednesday against always on ProSieben clock 22:10. The station decided, however, the current season due to low ratings should be discontinued. Sat.1 radiates now the third season since 28 January 2008 on late Monday evening again. The fourth season ran from 17 April each Tuesday at 20:15 clock also premiere in German first broadcast in bilingual. Even the 5th Season was in Germany and Austria first broadcast on Premiere: The new consequences launched on 5 March 2008 on Premiere Series and ended with 14 episodes on 4 June 2008.
The free TV shows, the Austrian broadcaster ATV from 20 March the first time the fourth season. In Germany, since 26 May 2008 aired on Sat 1.
Characters and actors
Actors
* Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh) - A surgeon who is going through a crisis of middle age and beginning to repudiate the actions and decisions taken in his life. He runs the plastic surgery practice of McNamara / Troy with his best friend of youth, Christian Troy. He was married to his college girlfriend Julia McNamara for seventeen years, to divorce her in the Second Season. That marriage has three children: Matt McNamara, Annie McNamara and Connor McNamara. During the First Season, Sean is compromised in a circle with Mafia Escobar Gallardo, and during the Third Season, begins to repair the victims of a serial rapist known as The Butcher (The carvers in Latin America).
* Christian Troy (Julian McMahon) - A middle-aged womanizer surgeon, who leads one of the plastic surgery clinics most important and prestigious Miami with his best friend and partner Sean McNamara. In one of the chapters of the first season tells his friend Sean who as a child and repeatedly, was sexually abused by her stepfather which he scored his peculiar personality: a man who is cold, selfish and superficial, but in essence, actually, a person who is the only thing you want is to have a family. It involved with the model, porn actress and director Kimber Henry during the first season of the series, as well as the sex addict Gina Russo at. In the Second Season, with Russo quarrel over the custody of their non-biological child. He also discovers that he is the biological father of Matt McNamara.En the third season, after being attacked by The Carver, passing a bad day when arrested by mistake he accused of being behind the mask of The Carver, there know your biological mother and faces the harsh history of knowing how and that was abandoned since childhood. The Fourth Season relates sentimentally with Michelle, married a woman whose husband bought 51% of the shares in the clinic and puts to manage the business. After the death of her husband engage in marriage, but to discover his past can not simply rely more on it and leave and move to California with Sean to start a new business of plastic surgery.
* Julia McNamara (Joely Richardson) - The former wife of Sean McNamara, was his wife for seventeen years, facing a crisis of age simultaneous with his former spouse. It is the mother of Matt McNamara, Annie McNamara and Connor McNamara, a Amori products with Christian Troy and Sean McNamara marrying respectively. He left the medical school to devote himself to his marriage.
* Matt McNamara (John Hensley) - The son of Sean and Julia McNamara. Christian Troy is his biological father. In the first season, Matt is responsible for a traffic accident that disfigures his companion college Cara Fitzgerald downward to have trouble with the law. During the second season, he is involved in a love affair with the minister of life Ava Moore, against opposition from their parents. At the end of season is disclosed that Ava is a transsexual surgery. In the third season falls in love with a girl racist Ariel Alderman, she and her father try to kill it and it just died. In the fourth season marries Kimber Henry and expecting a child.
* Liz Cruz (Roma Maffia) - The anesthesiologist main McNamara / Troy. It is a woman who frequently has to be the voice of reason for the doctors of their consultation. It was forty, impetuous, emphatic and openly lesbian. During the first season known transsexual to Sofia Lopez, which has a short romance, and during the second season using the sperm of Christian Troy to try to conceive a baby in-vitro, which then aborted when you discover that born with a congenital disease and tries to regain faith.
* Gina Russo (Jessalyn Gilsig) - Also called "Caritas", a bitter and conflictuada addicted to sex in his thirty or so. In the first season had a son which he attributed to his Christian Troy Amori but it was not biologically, while in the second season fight over the custody of his son and discovers that is HIV positive.
* Henry Kimber (Kelly Carlson) - A model who gets involved with Christian Troy, obsessed with him and their relationship during the first season, which ends with the violent rupture in the absence of Christian affection toward her. In the second season, Kimber still loving Christian but has a relationship with Sean McNamara and professionally progresses, becoming pornographic actress and director. In the fourth season after having been kidnapped and cut by "The Cutter" joins a new religion, Scientology, linking it to Matt and marries him.
* Grace Santiago (Valerie Cruz) - The psychologist of McNamara / Troy; had an adventure with her boss Christian Troy after which it became bitter with doctors at his practice, eventually surrendering during the first season.
Major antagonists
* Escobar Gallardo (Robert LaSardo) - Violent, charismatic and South American Mafia drug dealer. It engages with Sean McNamara when he forcibly removing implants with drugs "models" illegal. Aparace mainly in the First Season, and sequences of memories in the Second Season, in the fourth season is murdered by his wife Gala Gallardo.
* Ava Moore (Famke Janssen) - An adviser conflictuada of life that uses the reason bent on their behalf to get what he wants of the people. He was counselor of Sean and Julia McNamara, to whom she met Matt McNamara and for a while, had a relationship with him. It is the stepmother of Adrian Moore, and has a history very closely with Dr. Barrett Moore. Appears in the Second Temporada.Es a transsexual surgery.
* Dr. Merril Bobolit (Joey Slotnick) - Another former colleague of plastic surgeon Christian, although much more mediocre academically. It becomes millionaire through measures amoral and little respect for Sean and Christian ethics that still retain. This makes at the end of the first season starts intervening in illegal operations carried out in dogs, causing the loss of his license and fortune when you have a slip up and accidentally kills one of his "patients". Having volatilized all his money and popularity, becomes addicted to anaesthetic for surgery and is associated with Madame Rose for practicing illegal operations in the backroom of a beauty salon with a derivative of botox that has found himself. Appears in the first season and in the chapter "Oon Wentworth" in the second. in the fourth this season while in jail he married Escobar Gallardo.
* Quentin Costa (Bruno Campos) - The best of all Atlanta plastic surgeon specializing in facial operations, Taim, bisexual and conflicting, with both Sean and Christian. He was hired at McNamara / Troy for a short time to operate the wound caused by Sean Cutter; later, he also becomes one of the victims of the psychopath. Listed in the penultimate chapter of the second season and the third.
* The Cutter - A serial rapist and murderer who masked drug their victims with a paralyzing cutting and ruining their cheeks from their lips, drawing a kind of smile on their faces, after say that "beauty is a curse on world. prevents us see who are the real monsters. " It engages with Sean McNamara when he repairs to two of the "masterpieces" of Cutter, the model Naomi Gaines and a male model. The Cutter then attacked Sean, cutting her cheek, and warning him that if he returns to repair one of their "masterpieces" it will kill. Use a voice modifier, a Mardi Gras mask, black clothes and gloves, and their identity is a complete mystery. Appears approaching the end of the Second Season. The last chapter resolves that this character is Quentin and his sister kithara, the alleged British detective, finally after feigning death at the hands of Quentin kithara escape together to Malaga where they soon begin to commit crimes.
Other characters
* Ariel Alderman (Brittany Snow) - A girl who attends racist at the same institute that Matt. It maintains a relationship with her. (3 sixth season)
* Suzanne Epstein (Nancy Cassaro) - Amiga Julia absorbed in itself; her daughter is the best friend Annie McNamara. (1 st and 2 nd season)
* Cara Fitzgerald (Keri Lynn Pratt) - The girl, to which Matt McNamara and Henry Saphire abuses accidentally. Very religious. Sexually assaulted by Henry later. (1 st and 2 nd season)
* Mrs. Grubman (Ruth Williamson) - A customer recurring McNamara / Troy addicted to plastic surgery. List and manipulative. He died in the four seasons. (1 st and 2 nd season)
* Sophia Lopez (Jonathan Del Arco) - A transsexual who developed friendship with both Liz (which had a brief romance) and Julia. (1 st season)
* Kit McGraw (Rhona Mitra) - A British detective called to Miami to investigate the case of Cutter. (3 sixth season)
* Annie McNamara (Kelsey Batel) - The daughter of Sean and Julia. (1 and 3 and season)
* Adrian Moore (Seth Gabel) - Foster Child of Ava Moore, maintains a relationship with her. (2 nd season)
* Dr. Erica Noughton (Vanessa Redgrave) - The controlling mother Julia practitioner and a doctor of clinical psychology. (2 nd and 3 rd season)
* Nurse Linda (Linda Klein) - Nurse at McNamara / Troy. (1 and 3 and season)
* Megan O'Hara (Julie Warner) - A patient who went to McNamara / Troy to rebuild the chest. He was loving Sean for a short time. He died in the first season. (1 st and 2 nd season)
* Dr. Barrett Moore (Alec Baldwin) - It was the husband of Ava Moore and her plastic surgeon, to rebuild Ava except for an operation. (Fifth season last chapter 2)
List of chapters
Except the pilot episode the rest are called as the name of the main character to be operated in each chapter.
First season
# Title Issue date
01 "Pilot" on July 22, 2003
02 "Mandi / Randi" on July 29, 2003
03 "Nanette Babcock" on August 5, 2003
04 "Sofia Lopez" on August 12, 2003
05 "Kurt Dempsey" on August 19, 2003
06 "Megan O'Hara" on September 2, 2003
07 "Cliff Mantegna" on September 9, 2003
08 "Face Fitzgerald" September 16, 2003
09 "Sofia Lopez Part II" on September 23, 2003
10 "Adell Coffin" on September 30, 2003
11 "Montana / Sassy / Justice" on October 7, 2003
12 "Antonia Ramos" on October 14, 2003
13 "Escobar Gallardo" on October 21, 2003
Second season
# Title Issue date
1 "Erica Noughton" June 22, 2004
2 "Christian Troy" on June 29, 2004
3 "Manya Mabika" July 6, 2004
4 "Mrs. Grubman" July 13, 2004
5 "Joel Gideon" on July 20, 2004
6 "Bobbi Broderick" on July 27, 2004
7 "Naomi Gaines" on August 3, 2004
8 "Agatha Ripp" on August 10, 2004
9 "Rose and Raven Rosenberg" on August 17, 2004
10 "Kimber Henry" on August 24, 2004
11 "Natasha Charles" on August 31, 2004
12 "Julia McNamara" on September 7, 2004
13 "Oon Wentworth" September 14, 2004
14 "Trudy Nye" on September 21, 2004
15 "Sean McNamara" on September 28, 2004
16 "Joan Rivers" on October 5, 2004
Third season
# Title Issue date
1 "Momma Boone" on September 25, 2005
2 "Kiki" September 27, 2005
3 "Derek, Alex, and Gary" on October 4, 2005
4 "Rhea Reynolds" on October 11, 2005
5 "Granville Trapp" on October 18, 2005
6 "Frankenlaura" on October 25, 2005
7 "Ben White" on November 1, 2005
8 "Tommy Bolton" on November 8, 2005
9 "Hannah Tedesco" on November 15, 2005
10 "Madison Berg" on November 22, 2005
11 "Abby Mays" on November 29, 2005
12 "Sal Perri" on December 6, 2005
13 "Joy Kringlan" on December 13, 2005
14 "Cherry Peck" on December 20, 2005
15 "Quentin Costa" on December 20, 2005
Fourth season
1 "Cindy Plumb" on September 5, 2006
2 "Blu MONDA" September 12, 2006
3 "Monica Wilder" on October 3, 2006
4 "Shari Noble" on October 10, 2006
5 "Dawn Budge" on October 17, 2006
6 "Faith Wolpe, PhD October 10, 2006
7 "Burt Landau" on October 17, 2006
8 "Connor McNamara" on October 24, 2006
9 "Liz Cruz" on October 31, 2006 "
10 "Merrill Bobolit" on November 7, 2006
11 "Conor McNamara, 2026" on November 14, 2006
12 "Diana Lubey" November 21, 2006
13 "Reefer" November 28, 2006
14 "Willy Ward" on December 5, 2006
15 "Gallardo Gala" on December 12, 2006
Fifth season
Nip / Tuck has completed the production of 14 22 chapters in its fifth season, but it is unclear whether the remaining 8 will be considered a new season or an extension of it. The 22 chapters are not consecutive strikes by writers.
The fifth season season five of Nip / Tuck debuted officially on October 30, 2007, and expired on February 19, 2008. The remaining 8 episodes (15-22) will be issued in the U.S. from January 2009.
# Title Issue date
1 "Carly Summers" on October 30, 2007
2 "Joyce & Sharon Monroe" on November 6, 2007
3 "Everett Poe" on November 13, 2007
4 "Dawn Budge II" on November 20, 2007
5 "Chaz Darling" November 27, 2007
6 "Damien Sands" on December 4, 2007
7 "Dr. Joshua Lee" on December 11, 2007
8 "Duke Collins" on December 18, 2007
9 "Rachel Ben Natan" on January 15, 2008
10 "Magda and Jeff" on January 22, 2008
11 "Kyle Mckenzie" on January 29, 2008
12 "Lulu Grandiron" on February 5, 2008
13 "August Walden" on February 12, 2008
14 "Candy Richards" on February 19, 2008
Cast
 John Hensley Matt McNamara |  Kelly Clarkson Kimber Henry |  Valerie Cruz Grace Santiago |  Joely Richardson Julia McNamara |  Julian McMahon Christian Troy |  Dylan Walsh Sean McNamara |
 Roma Maffia Liz Cruz |  Sanaa Lathan Michelle Landau |
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