# Help-- Actress ID **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 30, 2005, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-actress-id/287461 "2005-01-30T19:16:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![asrivkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9d8465/32.png) [@asrivkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asrivkin)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-actress-id/287461/1 "2005-01-30T19:16:17Z")
I hope this is the right forum, as opposed to GQ… I’m trying to figure out the name of an actress. I have no idea what movies/TV she was in, but she was in a set of commercials for a cell phone company a few years ago. She’s a bit older, with long dark hair. I remember her dancing in one of the commercials… It’s not Catherine Zeta-Jones. Thanks in advance. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-actress-id/287461/2 "2005-01-30T19:18:31Z")
Carrot Top. Sorry. The only other phone-commercial actresses I know of are Alyssa Milano (as Eva Savalot) for some collect call service and Joan Cusack for some other cell phone company. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Dirx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Sir\_Dirx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Dirx)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-actress-id/287461/3 "2005-01-30T20:01:36Z")
[Teri Hatcher](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000159/)? I think she did some Radio Shack commercials, and I seem to remember them advertising cell phones sometimes… ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-actress-id/287461/4 "2005-01-30T20:54:42Z")
I know who you’re talking about and I WILL think of her name, but right now it’s circling around in my head and I can’t get it to land. She did the commercial with the trapeze, right? Dark hair, blue eyes… it’ll come to me. ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Incognito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guy_incognito/32/3920_2.png) [@Guy\_Incognito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Incognito)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-actress-id/287461/5 "2005-01-30T20:58:20Z")
You are thinking of Sela Ward. (What do I win?) ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-actress-id/287461/6 "2005-01-30T20:59:07Z")
[Sela Ward!](http://www.selawardtv.com/) ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-actress-id/287461/7 "2005-01-30T21:00:21Z")
In all likelihood you are referring to [Sela Ward.](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000688/) ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-actress-id/287461/8 "2005-01-30T21:00:27Z")
> [@Guy Incognito](#): > > You are thinking of Sela Ward. > > (What do I win?) A big smack upside the head for sneaking in seconds before me and stealing my glory, that’s what! ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Incognito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guy_incognito/32/3920_2.png) [@Guy\_Incognito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Incognito)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-actress-id/287461/9 "2005-01-30T21:11:18Z")
> [@LifeOnWry](#): > > A big smack upside the head for sneaking in seconds before me and stealing my glory, that’s what! Uh, can I take a pass on the prize? ---
**Author:** ![asrivkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9d8465/32.png) [@asrivkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asrivkin)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-actress-id/287461/10 "2005-01-30T22:13:13Z")
Woo hoo! Sela Ward is who I was thinking of. I was driving myself crazy. I thought her name was Selma something last night and kept trying to convince myself it was Selma Blair… > [@Guy Incognito](#): > > (What do I win?) Um. Future considerations and a debt of gratitude? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CBCD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@CBCD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBCD)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-actress-id/287461/11 "2005-01-30T23:50:58Z")
Dang! I was going to say **Rula Lenska**.