Obscure Actresses

[Cicca]

My brain works in mysterious ways, but I just came to the realization that, for most people, Amber is an obscure actress.

How sad for them! It's so nice to be among the enlightened ones who know how awesome Amber is.

Aly also rocks, but she's getting a fairly high profile.



Feel free to say duh and throw fruit. Preferably mangos.





editing my nonsensical spelling!

invite someone dangerous to tea * look forward to dreams * imagine yourself magic

Edited by: Cicca at: 4/18/03 10:38:08 pm

[Rowan158]

Ooo, My 1st post here, I am so excited. I'm comeing out of lurkdom for this, here goes:





Amber Benson, of course! No need to explain.

Lori Petty- Tank Girl, A League of Their Own - She’s already been mentioned here but I think she is amazing!

Lili Taylor- She’s only made about 100 movies and been on so many tv shows its scary. Right now she is on 6ft Under, which is perfect for her.

Clea Duvall- Just wow.

Always had a thing for the girl on The Young Riders.

Amy Carlson, she makes me melt

Leisha Hailey- Scene stealer in All Over Me



Also have been mentioned here, people who are growing on me:

Molly Price- Who knew? She has impressed me so much this season, even though I am borded that it has become a cop show (hello, FIREFIGHTERS, Paramedics?)

Ashley Judd- because I will watch anything with her, nearly

Oh, and while far from obscure, but I will watch anything with Jodi Foster. Can’t take my eyes off her. She is amazing too.

Edited by: BytrSuite at: 4/15/03 11:15:04 pm

[concrete]

Melanie Lynskey does it for me in the 'obscure' actresses category. From "Heavenly Creatures" to "But I'm a Cheerleader" I think she's a fantastic actress and sadly underused. And that accent....ooooh and aaaah!

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious. ...

[Kieli]

Good lord I forgot Nikki DeBoer: Total Babe!

and Jeri Ryan and Yancy Butler: Check out these Pics! (of the Witchblade fame) I could probably go on for days.

Time flies by when the Devil drives.

[Avern1]

Oh Kieli. Jeri is one of my best lovely actresses. But I think that she is not ,not well known,.

[maudmac]

Karen Black! I love her. And I'm just going to see a movie she's in tonight, The House of 1000 Corpses Rob Zombie would have been seriously remiss not to cast Karen Black, of all people. That kind of movie is just wrong without that special quality Karen Black brings. (I hope the movie is terrible enough to be good.)



I'm always surprised to see the so-called respectable places she turns up. I think she was on a Law & Order a few weeks ago. That was a pleasant surprise. She was also in movies like Easy Rider, The Great Gatsby, and Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. Of course, those have all been quite a while ago...



I don't care. I love her.

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I had a Boddingtons and now I can see again! - The Beast

[MemsMapper]

After lurking for years, finally decided to post to this thread. I've been thinking of several actresses, and finally remembered some names this morning.



Canadian: Sharry Flett - mostly stage actress (there are some who can make a living at it in Canada). I remember her in the CBC film of the Stratford production of "Taming of the Shrew", with Len Cariou as Petruchio. Kind of hard to make some of that believable in this day and age, but they pulled it off. She was also in a CBC movie called "War Brides", which, I believe Wendy Crewson was also in (we're talking late '70s, early '80s here).



British: Juliet Stevenson ("Truly, Madly, Deeply") who is not really that obscure, but I don't see enough of her.



Felicity Kendall - this is the name that took me a while to remember. She was in a comedy called "Good Neighbours" with Richard Bryers (I think), which my Mom and I would watch on PBS. I also saw her as Viola in the BBC production of "Twelfth Night".



Some that others have mentioned: Rachel Griffiths and Toni Collette, Lori Petty (wasn't she also in "Free Willy"?). I'm sure I'll think of more in the next few days ...



Oh, and I just remembered, the actress from the "Young Riders" was Yvonne Suhor, and she was also in the "Cicely" episode of "Northern Exposure" with Jo Anderson.



Mems

[xita]

Yvonne Suhor is cool, and hey welcome to the board newly delurked, Mems



Karen Black is my biggest celebrity thrill. I saw her at the Carney's hot dog joint, sigh, I kept it cool though and did not approach her. She's the BOMB!

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Si nos dejan haremos con las nubes térciopelo


José Alfredo Jiménez

[taralicious]

Glynis Barber-also played Soo Lin in Season Four of "Blake's 7."

Dervla Kirwan-What can you say but she's volcanically hot and devastatingly hypnotic. One look from those eyes and you're away. Father Clifford never stood a chance.

Judi Bowker-Andromeda in "Clash of the Titans"

Jenny Agutter-"Logan's Run" and "An American Werewolf in London"-She's probably the first woman I saw naked on screen as a lad in "Logan's Run". No wonder it was THE SF movie before "Star Wars" came out the next year.

Lalla Ward-the schoolgirl uniform in "City of Death"

Louise Jameson-Leela and the loincloth

Katy Manning-Jo Grant's knickers

Sophie Aldred-Ace

Tracy Scoggins-Babylon 5

[mollyig]

Molly Price is great, she was the highlight of Third Watch when I followed it - and such a great name too!



I really like Mariska Hargitay. She's had a few roles - was in ER for a while and has appeared in a few movies too, but she's best known as Det. Olivia Benson in Law and Order SVU.

Love is a place I dream of. A face that never leaves my mind
Luka Bloom

[tommo]

Ah, Louise Jameson was still hot when she was in Eastenders. There's something about older women who just get better looking with age.



And, although she's not really obscure, Kristin Scott-Thomas gets my vote every single time. She's not only talented, but she's very classy, too. Plus you know, her accent. Sigh. Well spoken women just get me every single time. Heh.

I was being patient, but it took too long. I mean, I miss Buffy, I do. But life shouldn't just stop because she's gone.

[FlyingPoppy]

Taralicious' post mentioning 'Ace' from Doctor Who reminded me of Peri, aka Nicola Bryant, very pleasant memories they are too...

I feel broken, all broke open, you be careful what you do

[maudmac]

And taralicious' post mentioning Dervla Kirwan reminded me of Tina Kellegher. I loved her in Ballykissangel. Niamh had my heart.



The only other thing I've seen her in was The Snapper, which I liked okay. Loved Ballyk, though.

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I had a Boddingtons and now I can see again! - The Beast

Edited by: maudmac at: 4/17/03 11:25:05 am

[Nix42]

Imogen Stubbs, loved her as Viola in Twelfth Night

Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast

[gspiggott]

I loved Ballyk ,but I never bought that romance with Niamh and the lumpy surly guy instead of Ambrose. Colin Farrell as the world's sexiest junior pig farmer. Who knew?Dervla was great in Eureka Street.

[ukxenafan]

All this talk of actresses playing Viola in Twelfth Night reminds me of how cute Imogen Stubbs was as Viola in the most recent movie Twelfth Night - nice moustache too!!



Something kind of interesting about how passionate Viola/Cesario gets about Olivia in that play - there's the whole, "make me a willow cabin at your gate" speech and all......

[Hyo Shin]

Almost everybody in the play is gay. I think they switched their spouses after the wedding night.

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Something kind of interesting about how passionate Viola/Cesario gets about Olivia in that play - there's the whole, "make me a willow cabin at your gate" speech and all......

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[xita]

Nikki, yes, Imogen Stubbs, I really grew to like her in Anna Lee. That character should have been gay!

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José Alfredo Jiménez

[Munchkin]

Well, here it goes for my list:



Melissa Leo, from Homicide: Life on the Street's first five seasons as the endearingly cranky red-haired Det./Sgt. Kay Howard. It was probably here that I nurtured my "thing" for red-haired dames on TV.



Edie Falco, now better known as Carmela in The Sopranos but who I'd seen first as the prison guard Diane Whittlesey in Oz. In any case, I find her groovy.



Molly Price of Third Watch, which is otherwise unwatchable now if not for her (I f---ing HATE that Cruz bitch who's getting in Faith's face and ruining her partnership with that dumb-ass Bosco!). Astoninshingly, she has such an astonishing physical resemblance to another exceptional young actress that's worshipped all across this site that I could easily picture Price playing her mom in some kind of future project (either with older-age makeup or in a flashback sequence).



Kathryn Erbe, from Law & Order: Criminal Intent, but who also made an impact on me earlier in Oz as the death-row inmate Shirley Bellinger. I like her. She's pretty.



Laura Innes, the cranky cane-lady Kerry Weaver of ER. She could spend an entire episode reading pages out of a phone book and it would still be entertaining.



Jorja Fox from CSI. High points are that funky gap between her front teeth, and the fact that she's Canadian (Yay!).



Charlotte Ross, who I vastly preferred as the borderline-psychotic TV executive Lori Volpone from Beggars & Choosers as opposed to her thankless slumming in NYPD Blew.

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Dave C.

[Nix42]

Quote:

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Jorja Fox from CSI

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Oh yeah, I'll second that!

Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast

[FlyingPoppy]

make that 3

I feel broken, all broke open, you be careful what you do

[Rowan158]

I agree on Jorga Fox- would have said that myself except she is less obscure than others. LOVED her on ER too.



Also a big fan of Laura Innes, because she can do everything so well. She is also a great director and I believe she is also a writer.



As for Molly Price, again... my comment is that latly her character has been really bothering me. However, I think she plays her character really well. Does that make any sense?

*No Talent* *No Skill* *No Luck* *All You Need Is Faith*

Every once and a while, when you really pay attention, life doesn't suck.

-Joss Weadon

Anya: And here's where we hop on the merry-go-round of rotating knives. I blame you, and you blame me, and we both end up all cut to shreds.

[sonadoras]

Heather Langenkamp- A Nightmare on Elm Street 1,3,7 Just the Ten of Us.



Simone Lahbib and Mandana Jones - Bad Girls



Iran Castillo - Mexican telenovellas

[tyche]

runnerbird, I've met Olivia Williams. (This was quite a few years ago, when she was working with the Royal Shakespeare Company - she hadn't done 'The Sixth Sense' or any of her more well-known film roles at that point.) Anyway, I saw her in a play called 'The Broken Heart' and I got her autograph afterwards. She was very nice, and very down-to-earth.

I've also seen Justine Waddell on stage, again with the Royal Shakespeare Company, in a production of 'The Seagull' - she was excellent.

Four other British actresses I really like:

Juliet Aubrey - she hasn't done much recently, sadly, but she was excellent in the 1994 TV adaptation of 'Middlemarch'

Paloma Baeza - most recently appeared in 'The Project', also appeared in TV adaptations of 'The Way We Live Now' and 'Far From The Madding Crowd' (as Bathsheba.)

Emma Fielding - mostly works on stage (she was also in that RSC production of 'The Broken Heart' I mentioned earlier), but sometimes appears in the odd TV role.

Neve Mackintosh - most recently appeared in 'The Inspector Lynley Mysteries' (which I missed b/c I didn't realise she was in it) and 'Lady Audley's Secret'.

[tommo]

Oh Emma Fielding is lovely. I saw her in rep when I worked at a theatre, doing Jane Eyre. She was very quiet and shy, and kept herself to herself. But she was friendly enough and a lovely person.



Tell you who else is just lovely; Emma Chambers. She was the wacky sister in Notting Hill and Alice in The Vicar of Dibley. She's just a really nice, funny person. I was lucky enough to have several pleasant chats with her when she was in a production of As You Like It. It was her first Shakespeare play and she was very nervous, bless. Heh. Not long after that, I saw her in The Vicar of Dibley and was just so pleased that she'd done well. Plus, she got the opportunity to work with Dawn French.



No. I'm not jealous of that at all. Ahem.

So are you to my thoughts as food to life; Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground;
And for the peace of you I hold such strife As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found.

[sprhrgrl]

Mmm. Yeah, Clea DuVall. AND Natasha Lyonne, for that matter. Our wonderful Mme. Benson. . Mmm.

sprhrgrl.com

counting*stars

racism=sexism=homophobia

The truth shall set you free, but first it will piss you off. – Gloria Steinem

[TyRex316]

Helen Neville and Nathalie Vansier, Pip and Sally, from the movie 'Sally Marshall is not an Alien'. Nice film but lol-it totally proves how one line can make a movie at least appear to be taken off in a completely different direction.

[Avern1]

Hudson Leick now filmed pilot series with ,some former Buffy actors, . Its from hers ,official, unnoficial site. Its possible....

[The Angry Lion]

whose the actress who plays Lilith from Frasier and Cheers, I think shes very good, I also like Jane Leeves (Daphne) and forget who plays Roz but shes good too

tomorrow is now today

[SisterDebMac]

LAUREL HOLLOMAN kicked major butt on "Angel" in late Season 3. And I can't wait to see her in "Earthlings." I fell for her in "The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls In Love". You can read more about her here:



www.afterellen.com/People...loman.html



And yeah, I wrote it.



Also,



KRISTEN CLOKE who played Captain Shane Vansen on "Space: Above And Beyond" ("Brando, babe") and later, Lara Means on "Millennium".



PAMELA SEGALL who played tomboys on TV (Facts Of Life) for years before becoming the voice of Bobby Hill on "King Of The Hill".



The afore-mentioned LORI PETTY captured my attention in "A League Of Their Own" and won my heart when I went back and watched her in "Point Break" and learned that she's also from an oppressive southern religious background, like me. That a Pentecostal preacher's daughter form Tennessee became "Tank Girl" always fascinated me. Her turn as Robin in "Relax...It's Just Sex" was a revelation.



And I love MARISKA HARGITAY's role as Detective Olivia Benson on "Law & Order". She seems quite obviously gay to me, even though it has never been confirmed and the show almost never delves into the cops' personal lives. Anyone else notice their gaydar going off where Benson is concerned?



Deb

Edited by: SisterDebMac at: 4/21/03 9:45:05 pm