# Beautiful People; Ugly Voices **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 27, 2017, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-people-ugly-voices/792246 "2017-07-27T06:25:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-people-ugly-voices/792246/21 "2017-07-28T01:32:10Z")
When **Rosie Perez** gets her full Bronx on, I wonder how I could crush so hard on someone who sounds like that. She was on some talk show and telling a story that involved a car called an Isuzu Trooper, and the host made her stop and say it a bunch of times because it was so Rosie Perez it was hilarious. Then I go back watch YouTube clips of Rosie dancing in the Soul Train line - damn. She pretty much defines Fierce. ---
**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-people-ugly-voices/792246/22 "2017-07-28T01:37:14Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > If we’re categorizing Tress MacNeille as “beautiful” then I may as well add Shohreh Aghdashloo, from **The Expanse**. Her voice is so deep and grating to me that it almost took me out of the series. [Here’s](https://youtu.be/0_uTt8CKLqM) her in action. “What an excellent day for an exorcism.” It’s uncanny. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-people-ugly-voices/792246/23 "2017-07-28T01:48:11Z")
Heidi Klum sounds like she’s on helium. I can’t stand to listen to her. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-people-ugly-voices/792246/24 "2017-07-28T01:48:30Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > I’m watching Goodfellas for the umpteenth time. Early in the film there is a scene in a salon. The women all doing what women do. There is this amazingly beautiful woman in a chair. Her hair is up. She looks like a trigger supermodel. > > Then she speaks. > > OMG…its LLorraine fucking Bracco. Beautiful but with a voice that is fingernails against the chalkboard. > > Can we think of any other examples? Well, Lorraine Bracco was a model for a long time before she ever tried acting. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-people-ugly-voices/792246/25 "2017-07-28T01:52:55Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > If we’re categorizing Tress MacNeille as “beautiful”… Does it for me, moreso than most of the women mentioned in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-people-ugly-voices/792246/26 "2017-07-28T12:02:10Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > If we’re categorizing Tress MacNeille as “beautiful” then I may as well add Shohreh Aghdashloo, from **The Expanse**. Her voice is so deep and grating to me that it almost took me out of the series. [Here’s](https://youtu.be/0_uTt8CKLqM) her in action. I’m sure you can’t be the only person in the world that holds this opinion but your’re the first _I’ve_ ever heard express it. The woman captivates me (Shohreh, not Tress). ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-people-ugly-voices/792246/27 "2017-07-28T13:15:24Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > Funny thing about her. When she was first starting out, she got vocal training to get rid of the nasal quality to her voice, and develop a more neutral accent. Fran Drescher’s standard response to “Is that your real voice?” is “Please. Who would make this up?” Her ex-husband Peter Marc Jacobs described her as having “a body out of Vogue and a voice like Selma Diamond.” ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-people-ugly-voices/792246/28 "2017-07-28T13:39:20Z")
Singer Paloma Faith can belt with the best of them but talks like a precocious toddler. It’s both baffling and extremely irritating. TV presenter [June Sarpong](http://junesarpong.com/) notoriously speaks like a rusty gate squeaking. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-people-ugly-voices/792246/29 "2017-07-28T14:02:29Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > I’m watching Goodfellas for the umpteenth time. Early in the film there is a scene in a salon. The women all doing what women do. There is this amazingly beautiful woman in a chair. Her hair is up. She looks like a trigger supermodel. > > Then she speaks. > > OMG…its LLorraine fucking Bracco. Beautiful but with a voice that is fingernails against the chalkboard. > > Can we think of any other examples? I’ll bet you really hate “Rizzoli and Isles.” Some of us like that gravel-quality voice, then Angie Harmon purrs, THEN Sasha A. brings it back around. ---
**Author:** ![Mclovin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@Mclovin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mclovin)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-people-ugly-voices/792246/30 "2017-07-28T15:37:19Z")
JFK, jr. Dashing in every single way. . . till he speaks. Very nasally. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-people-ugly-voices/792246/31 "2017-07-28T16:37:47Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > I’ll bet you really hate “Rizzoli and Isles.” > > Some of us like that gravel-quality voice, then Angie Harmon purrs, THEN Sasha A. brings it back around. I love Sasha. NCIS was never the same without her. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-people-ugly-voices/792246/32 "2017-07-28T16:42:34Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > If we’re categorizing Tress MacNeille as “beautiful” then I may as well add Shohreh Aghdashloo, from **The Expanse**. Her voice is so deep and grating to me that it almost took me out of the series. [Here’s](https://youtu.be/0_uTt8CKLqM) her in action. I think she is using a weird tone in that scene. She should be able to purr like a kitten in a romantic moment; she could melt you, imo. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-people-ugly-voices/792246/33 "2017-07-28T17:00:20Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > I’ll bet you really hate “Rizzoli and Isles.” > > Some of us like that gravel-quality voice, then Angie Harmon purrs, THEN Sasha A. brings it back around. > [@madsircool](#): > > I love Sasha. NCIS was never the same without her. I wasn’t a huge watcher of either show; liked her character on _R&I_ better, but though she looked better as a brunette. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-people-ugly-voices/792246/34 "2017-07-28T17:46:14Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > I’ll bet you really hate “Rizzoli and Isles.” > > Some of us like that gravel-quality voice, then Angie Harmon purrs, THEN Sasha A. brings it back around. I love Angie Harmon’s voice and wish I had a touch of that in my own voice. I have a slightly breathy quality to my voice. It’s annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Reluctant\_A](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@Reluctant\_A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reluctant_A)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-people-ugly-voices/792246/35 "2017-07-28T17:49:11Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Fran Drescher made her career on her face, figure and, er, odd voice. > [@WordMan](#): > > When **Rosie Perez** gets her full Bronx on, I wonder how I could crush so hard on someone who sounds like that. She was on some talk show and telling a story that involved a car called an Isuzu Trooper, and the host made her stop and say it a bunch of times because it was so Rosie Perez it was hilarious. > > Then I go back watch YouTube clips of Rosie dancing in the Soul Train line - damn. She pretty much defines Fierce. Damn… scooped on _both_ of my picks. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-people-ugly-voices/792246/36 "2017-07-28T21:13:48Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > I love Sasha. NCIS was never the same without her. She _did_ have that confident/sassy demeanor that said, **Yeah, Gibbs? Whatcha gonna do, beat me up?** that the later female characters were lacking. The men knew that Jethro would just take them into the elevator and clean their clocks. > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I wasn’t a huge watcher of either show; liked her character on _R&I_ better, but though she looked better as a brunette. A fellow Doper, a while back, clued me into [Sasha’s appearances on, “Shameless.”\*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze7BqDyKaS0)Highly recommended (Thank you, fellow SDMBer, whoever you are.) \*Possibly NSFW ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2017, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-people-ugly-voices/792246/37 "2017-07-29T16:22:11Z")
> [@Mclovin](#): > > JFK, jr. Dashing in every single way. . . till he speaks. Very nasally. Exchange I once had with a Minnesotan: When someone talks like you in Minnesota, we look to see if they have a mouth. When someone talks like you in New England, we look to see if they have a nose. ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2017, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-people-ugly-voices/792246/38 "2017-07-29T19:34:19Z")
Melissa Rauch. Not so much beautiful as cute, but the squeaky voice of Bernadette gets annoying. I wonder if I would see her has prettier if I saw her speaking in her normal voice without the geek-girl getup from the show. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-people-ugly-voices/792246.md?page=1)