Rob Morrow is perhaps best known for his critically acclaimed portrayal of dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker Joel Fleischmann, a doctor contracted to tend to the medical needs of the sometimes quirky, sometimes eccentric, sometimes nutty residents of Cicely, an isolated small town in Alaska, on the hit television series "Northern Exposure" (1990), which garnered him three Golden Globe and two Emmy Award nominations for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series. Credits as an actor also include Quiz Show (1994), Mother (1996/II), Last Dance (1996), The Day Lincoln Was Shot (1998) (TV), The Emperor's Club (2002), The Guru (2002) and Maze (2000), an independent feature which he also wrote, directed, produced and starred in.Morrow made his directorial debut with The Silent Alarm (1993), which premiered at the 1993 Seattle Film Festival, and went on to screen at the Hamptons, Boston, Edinburgh and Sundance Film Festivals, with its television debut on Bravo. A native New Yorker, born in New Rochelle, he began his theater career working for Tom O'Horgan and Norman Mailer. Since then, he has been committed to the theater as a founding member of the nonprofit ensemble Naked Angels, along with Marisa Tomei, Fisher Stevens, Ron Rifkin and Nancy Travis, among others. He has also appeared in "Third Street" at the Circle Repertory Theatre and London's West End production of "Birdy."Most recently he starred in the Showtime original television series, "Street Time" (2002) as Kevin Hunter, a parolee who battles struggles against falling back into a life of crime while maintaining his family life, which premiered on June 23, 2002, and which also stars Scott Cohen, Erika Alexander and Terrence Howard. Morrow directed several episodes of "Street Time" (2002), as well as an episode of HBO's "Oz" (1997) and CBS's "Joan of Arcadia" (2003).He is on the Board of Directors of Project ALS. Co-founded by Jenifer Estess, who was diagnosed with the disease in 1997, Project ALS is committed to funding the research necessary for finding effective treatments and a cure for people living with ALS, a fatal neuromuscular disease.