Who's your obscure actor/actress crush?

[CanuckAmok]

You know the character actor who is in everything... but never rises to superstar status?

I adore Glenne Headly. She's stunning, a fantastic actor, and she's even a member of Mensa. Like that would matter.

She's been in X-Files, And the Band Played On, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, On Golden Pond, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and many more...

[RandomKoolzip]

1. I used to have a crush on her too...

She was also in "Seize the Day," the Saul Bellow adaptation starring Robin Williams.

Right now, though, I have a crush on Kim Stanley's character from "Seance on a Wet Afternoon" (Has ANYONE else seen this flick?!)

[jeff30997]

2. Yea,I like her too...

[Skittles]

3. Ms. Headly ROCKS

what was that movie with John Malkovich, OMG she was funny - seriously underrated actress - cool voice too. I saw her recently on a Law & Order episode, she is as good as ever.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. I'm in LOVE with

Sam Elliot....one heckova guy...Lifeguard comes to mind...He hasn't made too many movies, but I LOVE him! Oh, yes, Roadhouse too...

[khashka]

16. Sam Elliot is so damn sexy....

I'll arm wrestle you for him, Peggy :)
Here's a pic for you:



Khash.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

48. Hi Khash!

Isn't he though? Um, darling, you would beat the stuffing out of me in any arm wrestling contest we engaged in...No contest there..

Alas, the pic didn't show...but thank you for that excellent thought. I can see him in my mind's eye anyhow...

:hug: :loveya:

[Left Is Write]

30. I love him too, but I never think of him as obscure.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

49. Well, the only reason I said that

was because he hasn't had a very high profile...he doesn't make many movies...

:pals:

[KitchenWitch]

55. Sam Elliot is HOT

And I love the movie Roadhouse as well...Too bad Sam Elliot was not the main character...I like him soooooo much better than Swayze.

[Kire]

80. I guess that's the way the whole durned human comedy keeps perpetuatin' i

I guess that's the way the whole durned human comedy keeps perpetuatin' itself.

[enigmatic]

5. Molly Parker

First on I thought of...

[Kire]

45. would you "die for her"?

nyuk nyuk nyuk

[CanuckAmok]

46. ugh... that movie sucked big hairy donkey balls

what pretentious dreck! Someone I know produced it, and even she agrees with me.

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. I'm not gay, so I don't know why I choose him, but Vincent Schiavelli

Fucking love the guy.

Something about him is genuinely sexy and, even more so, compelling. I just never want him to stop talking, nor to leave the screen.

[RandomKoolzip]

9. Me too. I've had a constant boner for him since "Buckaroo Banzai."

Shit, I'm just thinking of him and I'm hard as calculus right now.

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. Hard as calculus? Must be pretty limp, then.

:P

Rabrrrrrr <-- former engineer.

What the hell is it about him that's so.... compelling?

[LeftyDarthBrodie]

7. Is Mary Louise Parker obscure?

If so then her.

If not then I'll have to think about it.

[Swede]

8. Yep,I'm in love with Claudia Black.

She could read the phonebook and I'd listen.

[Doctor_J]

67. She looks like Mimi Rogers in that pic

IOW, really hot.

[pansypoo53219]

10. fred ward

more so now he's grey.

and i was on adrian brody WAY before the piano.

[hickman1937]

12. Keanu Reeves

Don't give a damn about his acting, he's just beautiful. But then again, my first choice if Spencer Tracy. God outdid himself with that one.

[Robeson]

13. She's no longer alive, but I always had a crush on Inger Stevens...

...
On film, she had a very intriguing look.

[CanuckAmok]

15. yes, she's beautiful!

And I'm imaginging a score performed on some sort of Moog.

[laststeamtrain]

14. Barbara Steele

[Poiuyt]

25. Great in Italian horror flicks

[tigereye]

32. oh so that's what she looks like

I remember her being referenced on a song by Trotsky Icepick... one of my favorite offbeat SST bands.

[Poiuyt]

35. Her eyes just kill me!

[swag]

17. Sarah Polley probably isn't obscure, but she'll do for this thread.

Sarah Polley IMDB listing:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001631/

[CanuckAmok]

22. You mean "Mope-Master"?

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=dawn_rules

[CanuckAmok]

18. Oh, and a new one...

Josie Maran.

[u4ic]

19. Linus Roache

:loveya:

[NaturalHigh]

20. Emily Grace

[lizzieforkerry]

21. John Cussack!!

:loveya:

[CanuckAmok]

23. Good golly, he's hardly obscure!

He's a major box-office draw, and has been, consistently, since 1983!

But, yeah, I agree, and since I look like him a little (I'm told), I like to encourage this.

[KitchenWitch]

56. I agree with you

I still consider him obscure, since he is not in the big name films like Tom Hanks or Denzel Washington.

He is hot!

[specimenfred1984]

24. Amy Sedaris

She was on the TV show "Strangers With Candy" and has done bit parts in a lot of plays and TV shows. She also plays Gladys Cravitz in "Bewitched" the movie.

She's the funniest female I've ever seen.

[no name no slogan]

71. she's also David Sedaris's brother, too

I love her stuff! She's funny and sexy! :D

[nickgutierrez]

73. She's his brother?

That's an accomplishment in itself! ;)

[no name no slogan]

79. yeah, huge-like

she even does some of the voices in his audiobooks. In particular, she does a very funny immitation of the youngest Sedaris brother, "the Rooster". It is roll-around-on-the-ground-holding-yer-gut-laugh-til-it-hurts funny. :7

[grace0418]

88. I adore Amy AND David. They are awesome. eom.

[Blue_Roses]

26. George Clooney

:loveya:

[MercutioATC]

29. George who??

Sorry, too obscure for me...


:P

[Merrick]

27. Helena Bonham Carter

Ever since playing Marla Singer in Fight Club...



Narrator: I'll tell you: we'll split up the week, okay? You take lymphoma, and tuberculosis...
Marla Singer: You take tuberculosis. My smoking doesn't go over at all.
Narrator: Okay, good, fine. Testicular cancer should be no contest, I think.
Marla Singer: Well, technically, I have more of a right to be there than you. You still have your balls.
Narrator: You're kidding.
Marla Singer: I don't know... am I?

[CanuckAmok]

50. "I haven't been fucked like that since grade school!"

[WCGreen]

68. Yea, her and Jennifer Tilly

[ghostsofgiants]

74. The original line for that was...

"I want to have your abortion." They changed it because it was a little too hardcore.

Helena is definitely great.

[Poiuyt]

28. Corinne Bohrer - My goal is to make her Mrs. Poiuyt

[LouisianaLiberal]

65. Definitely agree with Corinne Bohrer

But I've had a thing for Suzie Plaxson and Madolyn Smith for years. Don't know how to post a pic, but I loved that movie in which they were in a hot tub overlooking the ocean with Corinne and ... Oh wait. Sorry, that was just a fantasy of mine.






Edited to add pics

[Left Is Write]

31. I'm not sure how obscure he is, but I have a thing for Charles Shaughnessy

[RFKHumphreyObama]

54. You mean Maxwell Shefield in the "Nanny"

And he was also in “Days of Our Lives” –there was a phase when my mom loved watching that soap and I used to watch with her and that coincided with the time that he was on there

And, although I’m a heterosexual male, I’ll concede that he’s very attractive

Speaking of the "Nanny", I also had a crush on Lauren Lane -who played CC. I mean the actress, not the character

[Left Is Write]

70. Yes. He was ISA agent Shane Donovan on Days Of Our Lives.

[Viking12]

33. Olivia d'Abo

She was on a hit TV series but played a minor role. Is she obscure?

[CanuckAmok]

36. Is she related to former "Bond Girl" Miriam d'Abo?

[Viking12]

37. Twin sisters IIRC

[CanuckAmok]

39. Twin D'Abos?

Well, there it goes... my last fleerting moments of being satisfied with sexual "reality".

[Viking12]

40. Second-cousins according to wikipedia

I had to search. Twins, second cousins, whatever....Still makes it difficult to be satisfied with sexual "reality". :eyes:

[SlavesandBulldozers]

85. it's insane you posted a D'Abo

i was about to say that Maryam D'Abo in Bond is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen

[FuzzySlippers]

34. Charles Dance

[Bouncy Ball]

38. Peter Sarsgaard.

I fell in love with him in Kinsey. My God. Rowr. His voice, his looks, his persona. Everything about him is sexy. He's got a beard here, but he looks good either way. And he's naked in Kinsey. Giggle.

[sundog]

42. the full frontal certainly raised him a few notches in my book

:evilgrin:

[Bouncy Ball]

62. And the way he kind of seduced Liam Neeson.

Whew. Is it hot in here???

:D

[sundog]

64. i *ahem* know

*wipes sweat from brow*

[RevolutionaryActs]

43. I love him in Garden State!

:7


Right now he's in The Skeleton Key with Kate Hudson, which looks like a pretty good movie, if you're into scary stuff. :)

[last_texas_dem]

41. Cara Buono

She's the cutie on the right. I've just seen her in a couple of independent films; the "biggest" movie she's been in, I believe, is The Hulk where she plays the mother who gets killed at the beginning.

And then there's Amber Tamblyn:



She's not really that obscure, since she had her own TV show and all, but the biggest movies she's been in are The Ring (where she plays the girl who gets killed at the beginning) and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. With "Joan of Arcadia" cancelled I believe she's planning on doing more films.

[Doctor_J]

66. I love Cara too

She did a couple nice guest bits in L&O. She's also a writer/director. And since Liev Schreiber's arm is around her, maybe she had a thing for older men. Hmmm.

[NNadir]

44. I always liked Elizabeth McGovern.

I thought she was kind of interesting and sexy.

I wouldn't call it a "crush," since I don't do "crushes," but I always liked Elizabeth.

[CanuckAmok]

47. How could I forget Illeana Douglas and Catherine Keener?!

[driver8]

51. That is so funny...I was just about to write Illeana Douglas!

I find her so sexy...

I like Catherine Keener, too.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

52. Maggie Gyllenaal.... I Secretary...

*sigh*

[mvd]

76. Good choice

My others (besides Kristen Bell, who I mentioned before) would include Maggie, Anna Faris, Amy Acker, Bonnie Somerville, Ali Larter, Zooey Deschanel, Thandie Newton, and possibly my soap crushes would be considered obscure. Soaps have devoted but relatively small audiences. Biggest soap crushes are: Sharon Case, Lauren Woodland, Adrienne Frantz, Stephanie Gatschet, and Ashley Jones.

[khashka]

82. Excellent choice! n/t

Khash.

[Jamastiene]

53. Chloe Webb

She played Nancy in Sid & Nancy. She was also in Practical Magic. Finding a picture of her online seems difficult unless you do the search for whoever was the star of the films she was in...

[RFKHumphreyObama]

57. Beth Broderick, Anjelica Torn, Sharon Lawrence, Lisa Banes

and a whole load of others that don't come to mind

Beth Broderick was "Aunt Zelda" in Sabrina the Teenage Witch and has also starred in a number of TV movies.

Sharon Lawrence was on "NYPD Blue" and she has starred in Desperate Housewives and a number of other telemovies

Anjelica Torn played the mother of the girl who appeared as a ghost to Cole in the Sixth Sense (I can't go into greater detail here because it may spoil the plot).

Lisa Banes has been in numerous telemovies including "My Son Is Innocent" and in David E Kelley's "Girls Club"

[Left_Winger]

58. Shawnee Smith

:loveya:

[terrya]

59. Jonathan-Rhys Davies

Good actor...and he's so beautiful. :-)

[bicentennial_baby]

60. Asia Argento

not that obscure, except in the States...oh, so hot...goddamn! :D

[masshole]

61. Janel Moloney

I would never get any work done if she were my assistant...

[peekaloo]

63. Jared Leto

[sakabatou]

69. Wendee Lee

[mvd]

72. I have quite a few

Newest one: Kristen Bell. She'll be on UPN's Veronica Mars. I just put her in my crush list.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

75. John Hannah

[youthere]

77. Francesco Quinn

and Tom Berenger

[dajoki]

78. anne parillaud

"la femme nikita"; "shattered image"http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://lfnforever.tripod.com/id59.htm&h=318&w=478&sz=24&tbnid=TvL2UUrgxuIJ:&tbnh=83&tbnw=126&hl=en&start=24&prev=/images%3Fq%3Danne%2Bparillaud%26start%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

83. The dark, brooding types...

Peter Krause

and strangely, Billie Joe Armstrong (OK, so he's not an actor, but he wouldn't normally be my type. Not a big tatoo fan, but something about him is hot. The punk attitude I guess).

[bigwillq]

81. Joshua Morrow

He's on daytime's "The Young and the Restless"

[khashka]

84. Carmen Maura, William H. Macy

Carmen Maura - Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown, virtually every other Almodovar movie. Beautiful and a brilliant actress.

William H. Macy - not obscure, but not someone most people see as crush material. But he definitely is.


Khash.

[Pale Blue Dot]

86. Rue MacClanahan

:loveya:

[Ediacara]

87. David Faustino

aka Bud Bundy from Married... With Children.

[NewJeffCT]

89. Currently - Zhao Wei, obscure in the US

well known in China, though. I've had a ton of others that I can't think of tonight.

[NewJeffCT]

90. the girl from "Just One of the Guys"

I don't remember her in any other movies... but, that was a fun movie and I'm sure most straight men remember her at the end flashing the guy she had a crush on.

[edbermac]

91. A lot of women in the 60's film A Guide for The Married Man

Walter Matthau is getting lessons on how to have an affair from a buddy; he's married to Inger Stevens(center) and wants to play around with a rich divorcee Elaine Devry(right)...

Also in the film are Sue Ann Langdon


Linda Harrison(soon to be Nova in Planet of the Apes)


and Jayne Mansfield who has a great bit; she's with a married guy in his house in the morning and she can't find her bra; he's afraid his wife will find it, she shrugs innocently and says "She'll probably just think it's hers...'


I love those full figured women of the 50's and 60's...