# Best celebrity eyebrow cockers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 9, 2012, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-celebrity-eyebrow-cockers/637227 "2012-10-09T16:28:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-celebrity-eyebrow-cockers/637227/1 "2012-10-09T16:28:49Z")
I’m watching _Foyle’s War_ on Netflix Streaming which inspired this thread. I really like how Michael Kitchen communicates so much with relatively few words. Particularly I like how he can raise a single eyebrow to say so many things depending on the context. Another I recall is Tom Selleck, who does a double eyebrow thing in the opening credits – though I do recall he demonstrated considerable expertise with single eyebrows during the run of the show. So, who else spoke volumes with expressive eyes? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-celebrity-eyebrow-cockers/637227/2 "2012-10-09T16:34:55Z")
Leonard Nimoy as Spock. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-celebrity-eyebrow-cockers/637227/3 "2012-10-09T16:35:00Z")
Leonard Nimoy Deforrest Kelly ---
**Author:** ![Ashley\_Pomeroy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@Ashley\_Pomeroy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashley_Pomeroy)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-celebrity-eyebrow-cockers/637227/4 "2012-10-09T16:37:28Z")
Watching the original _Star Trek_ I was struck by all the eyebrow-raising - e.g. Leonard Nimoy [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2iaKs-s_54), and if you fast-forward to 0:12 [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxidjpXRC-E) you get Nimoy and DeForest Kelley communicating almost entirely with their eyebrows. They deliver dialogue, sure, but that’s just a kind of aural accompaniment. They could do more with the cusps of their foreheads than most men do with their entire faces. Here’s DeForest Kelley [again](http://fuckyeahdrmccoy.tumblr.com/post/121721965/eyebrow-raise). Phew, glad I got to this topic early. There’s no chance that other people will pick those two examples in the gap between starting the message, finding the clips, and hitting “post”. _None at all_. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-celebrity-eyebrow-cockers/637227/5 "2012-10-09T16:40:33Z")
You ought to see _me_ do it. People actually give me shit about it. As for the question, [David Tennant](http://www.undertheradarmag.com/uploads/article_images/DavidTennant_IMG_98972_byWendyLynchRedfern.jpg)’s got an intense set of brows on him. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-celebrity-eyebrow-cockers/637227/6 "2012-10-09T16:43:12Z")
Janine Turner’s acting skills comprised her ability to cock her eyebrow, before dedicating the same amount of neurotranmitters and facial muscles to being a right-wing pundit. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-celebrity-eyebrow-cockers/637227/7 "2012-10-09T16:43:15Z")
John Belushi’s eyebrows could have had a career of their own. Ditto for Jack Black. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-celebrity-eyebrow-cockers/637227/8 "2012-10-09T16:44:48Z")
Outstanding! It’s been so long since I’ve seen the show that I’d forgotten all about Spock. McCoy, though, often looks as though his eyebrow is painted on already cocked. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-celebrity-eyebrow-cockers/637227/9 "2012-10-09T16:50:47Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > You ought to see _me_ do it. People actually give me shit about it. > > As for the question, [David Tennant](http://www.undertheradarmag.com/uploads/article_images/DavidTennant_IMG_98972_byWendyLynchRedfern.jpg)’s got an intense set of brows on him. I dunno if I’ve ever seen in anything to judge his eyebrow motor skills. But your post reminded me of who may have the densest eyebrows among celebrities – [Peter Gallagher](http://www.theatermania.com/chicago-theater/news/07-2009/hershey-felder-peter-gallagher-to-appear-at-chicag_20277.html). But while I’ve seen him in plenty of things, I can’t say I recall him putting them to much use. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-celebrity-eyebrow-cockers/637227/10 "2012-10-09T16:53:22Z")
[Hugo Weaving](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3xlsbXKT61rvqd28o1_1280.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-celebrity-eyebrow-cockers/637227/11 "2012-10-09T16:57:38Z")
Believe it or not, Leslie Howard. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-celebrity-eyebrow-cockers/637227/12 "2012-10-09T17:14:19Z")
Jack Nicholson, Christian Slater. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-celebrity-eyebrow-cockers/637227/13 "2012-10-09T17:34:59Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > Leonard Nimoy as Spock. Enough so his name has been verbed, at least in my and a few others’ lexicons. “He spocked an eyebrow.” ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-celebrity-eyebrow-cockers/637227/14 "2012-10-09T17:43:10Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > [Hugo Weaving](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3xlsbXKT61rvqd28o1_1280.jpg) Best Username/Thread/Response combo ever! Sheldon from Big Bang Theory, usually to denote skepticism. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_jeffrey_lebowski/32/215_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-celebrity-eyebrow-cockers/637227/15 "2012-10-09T17:44:21Z")
Stephen Colbert ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-celebrity-eyebrow-cockers/637227/16 "2012-10-09T17:50:03Z")
Carlos Sobera won’t be known outside Spain, but he became famous as the host of our edition of “Who wants to be a millionaire?”. He’d previously been a law school professor; his Raised Eyebrow of Doom was perfected during law school lessons and has been making contestants nervous for the last 13 years (now in a different program). I’ve actually heard people say “_tienes más peligro que la ceja de Carlos Sobera_” (you’re more dangerous/you make me more nervous than Sobera’s eyebrow). ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-celebrity-eyebrow-cockers/637227/17 "2012-10-09T17:55:01Z")
Dwayne Johnson, otherwise known as The Rock, is known for his raised eyebrow. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-celebrity-eyebrow-cockers/637227/18 "2012-10-09T17:59:26Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](#): > > Stephen Colbert Seconded. Best eyebrow acting, ironical division. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-celebrity-eyebrow-cockers/637227/19 "2012-10-09T18:00:51Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > John Belushi’s eyebrows could have had a career of their own. > > Ditto for Jack Black. I was going to say this about Colin Farrell. Go watch “In Bruges” if you don’t believe me. How about Lee Majors and his six million dollar bionic cocked eyebrow? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-celebrity-eyebrow-cockers/637227/20 "2012-10-09T18:11:36Z")
Karl Urban. First noticable to me in LotR, he was the obvious choice to play the walking eyebrow gun toter from Doom, and also turned in an Eomer-riffic performance in Chronicles of Riddick. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-celebrity-eyebrow-cockers/637227.md?page=2)