I stand corrected. Still, there are only five nominees in any given year.
I always confuse her with the equally forgettable Minnie Driver. Took me ages to remember her name too - eventually found her using the search term “english actress square face” because I couldn’t remember anything she’s been in. Turns out she was in:
Good Will Hunting
Goldeneye
Grosse Pointe Blank
Sleepers
Hard Rain
Which surprised the hell out of me.
But he was supposed to be a hammy actor in that one: a man so overdramatic, he refers to himself in the third person while in character as his TV-show-sleuth persona helping to solve the very murder he committed: he’s playful and he’s vain and he’ll say something unconvincing and call himself out for saying something unconvincing, and he’ll explain away incriminating evidence and thank the appeased investigator for sounding like he meant it – the one thing he’s not is forgettable.
(Plus, I figure he deserved all those awards playing Denny Crane: an over-the-top and eccentric self-promoter of a showman whose every stunt may or may not reflect that he’s sinking into dementia? He’s memorable, and perfect, in the role.)
I would nominate Larry Hagman-a pretty mediocre actor who always seemed to find work. His role as “JR” made him millions.
Have to disagree on Jennifer Tilly. I don’t know what it is about her…but she grabs my attention every time I see her.
Melanie Griffith on the other hand…I can’t tell you one movie she’s been in because I can’t be sure if it is her or Meg Ryan…who is equally as forgettable.
In the same mind of thought as Meg Griffith and Melanie Ryan, I could have sworn that Michael Cera played Zuckerberg in The Social Network. Nope. Apparently the guy that played Zuckerberg is also in the Superman vs Batman movie. In the trailer I was very happy for Dr Spencer Reid that he was in a big movie. OK so it’s not him either. I looked the actor up after seeing the trailer because I thought the “Clark Kent meet Bruce Wayne” portion was so bad it made me almost not want to see the movie. Still can’t remember his name.
:smack: You’re right. She was always barging in on him at work as if they were still married.
I remember that Columbo. It was horrible. I disagree that every guest star was bad, but a lot of them were truly awful.
Still, Shatner, no matter what you think of him, is not what the OP is looking for because he sure as hell is not forgettable. He’s so iconic and famous they got another mediocre actor to spoof him in a really good movie that spoofed the Star Trek phenomenon.
Also a couple of rom-coms: the forgettable Return To Me, opposite David Duchovny (she plays a transplant recipient who gets the heart of Duchovny’s beloved wife; they meet and fall in love, natch); and the slightly better Circle Of Friends, a dramatization of a Maeve Binchy novel, opposite a young Chris O’Donnell.
Jeeze, do I need to get a life.
Circle of Friends, Return to Me,…
ETA: I need to get a life AND read the most recent posts. Return to Me forgettable? I love that movie. The old men who dote on Minnie Driver are so sweet.
See… so forgettable they slipped your mind between reading the post above yours and beginning typing 
Well, it’s Carroll O’Connor and, IIRC, Robert Loggia, so…yeah.
But I think Circle Of Friends was better. I still think, “Man, she’s waaay too skinny” whenever I see her.
She was also in a series on cable with Eddie Izzard, playing a couple of con artists who pretend to be a wealthy, upper class family.
I have to disagree on Geena Davis and Jennifer Tilly.
Tilly’s got that baby-doll voice and a face and body made for the cover of a fifties pulp magazine: “Rough Detective Magazine: The Bombshell Wore Nothing!” She was fricking PERFECT in “Bound” as the gangster’s moll who hooks up with Gina Gershon’s butch lesbian. The voice alone makes her memorable, and her face and body are memorable too, though those might be hormone-assisted memories.
As for Geena Davis, she is memorable to me because of her face: the cheekbones are so prominent, the chin so sharp, the nose so pronounced, that she looks like her features were carved. A sort of unhuman perfection to them, if you will. Plus, she did a fine job as the decent rural hardware store owner’s wife in “Beetlejuice” and also in “Earth Girls Are Easy.” Maybe her problem is, she should stick to comedy.
Her sister Meg Tilly did a decent job, but has done nothing of note since Agnes of God in 1985. The only film I’ve seen where Jennifer Tilly didn’t absolutely suck was Woody Allen’s Bullets Over Broadway, where he managed to keep her from lapsing into baby talk at every opportunity.
That would be Fay Furillo, played by Barbara Bosson. Who BTW was HSB co-creator Steven Bochco’s wife.
ETA: ninja’ed
I guess there’s a special place for actresses like Barbara Bosson and Majel Barrett. I don’t understand why I don’t put Rita Wilson in with them.
Julia Stiles had a very long, successful non-descript career being Jason Bourne’s…whatever…unpaid intern? Sort of like Moneypenny but without any sexual tension.
Old Leo D.
Brad Pitt
Haydn Christensen (I’d sooner have Erika)
Brook Shield
No one has mentioned Sandra Bullock? Has she been forgotten, and rightly so.
I must admit to going to see that space movie of hers a year or two ago, and people said she was finally in a serious movie. I’ve even forgotten the name of it, but I do recall wasting a couple of hours of my life.
I’m no different than any other guy in that I like heavy breathing from a woman, but she was non stop heavy breathing. Just another turnoff in bad movie starring a forgettable actress.
And then there’s those Baldwin brothers. Every damn one of them.
Sandra Bullock is anything but forgettable.
Julia Stiles was VERY good and VERY memorable in “10 Things I Hate About You.” Great movie too, best remake of “Taming of the Shrew” I’ve seen.