# Gabrielle Anwar -Opinons

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabrielle-anwar-opinons/526888>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 29, 2010, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabrielle-anwar-opinons/526888 "2010-01-29T14:36:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabrielle-anwar-opinons/526888/21 "2010-01-30T21:13:09Z")

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I don’t know if Donovan would qualify as a great actor in the sense of a Lawrence Olivier level of talent. But he is great for the needs of \*Burn Notice \*- especially when he slips into an undercover character. His “dumb hick” is great, his “aloof evil mastermind” (like this past week in the red shirt) is appropriately spooky, and his various foreign accents are perfect for the slightly tongue-in-cheek tenor of the show…TRM

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**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabrielle-anwar-opinons/526888/22 "2010-02-02T03:34:41Z")

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Do NOT mess with Fi. She will blow your house up before breakfast.

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**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabrielle-anwar-opinons/526888/23 "2010-02-02T04:05:06Z")

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Too skeletal and leathery. The skin around her mouth just creeps me out. I keep expecting to jump out of my skin as some lizard tongue shoots out.

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**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabrielle-anwar-opinons/526888/24 "2010-02-02T05:37:44Z")

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I agree with skeletal scary skinny. I think it was two week’s past where she had a bikini on, but a mostly-see through “dress” over the top. Just enough to not be creeped out but almost turned on by what you couldn’t see.

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**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabrielle-anwar-opinons/526888/25 "2010-02-02T23:10:10Z")

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I used to think she’d be the “next big thing” in the 90s. She was gorgeous in _Things to Do in Denver_ and _Scent of a Woman_. I don’t watch _Burn Notice_ but I was really struck by how much older and thinner she was as Princess Margaret in _The Tudors_.

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**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabrielle-anwar-opinons/526888/26 "2010-02-02T23:28:48Z")

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I met her many years ago when I was in middle school and a featured extra in _Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken_, the Disney movie about the high diving horses. At the time she was supposed to be the Next Big Thing. Evidently not so much.

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