# Help identify a person with almost zero information? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 30, 2014, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-person-with-almost-zero-information/696935 "2014-08-30T03:17:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-person-with-almost-zero-information/696935/1 "2014-08-30T03:17:33Z")
This is a very random one, for which I apologize in advance. I heard someone speaking a few days ago. I couldn’t see the person. For some reason, the voice reminded of another person. The problem is that I can’t figure out who the other person is. I have an image in my head, but I can’t figure out where it comes from. I think it’s from something on TV. The image: A woman, with reddish or blondish hair, shoulder length, possibly curly. She’s pale, pretty much a redhead complexion. She has either a slight overbite or just fairly prominent front teeth. She talks directly to the camera and shakes her head in wonder or confusion. I think it’s a commercial and I think she’s talking about how stupid someone is. She comes off as really… prim I guess. I know this is almost nothing to go on, but this is making me a bit crazy. Help? ---
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-person-with-almost-zero-information/696935/2 "2014-08-30T03:36:20Z")
The Glade candle woman? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x68GWvWlOXc ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-person-with-almost-zero-information/696935/3 "2014-08-30T03:39:01Z")
> [@LC\_Strawhouse](#): > > The Glade candle woman? > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x68GWvWlOXc I think, but am not certain, that this person doesn’t interact with anyone on screen. She’s talking directly to the camera with nothing behind her. Maybe. Younger than the Glade woman. ETA: I meant to thank you for guessing! I know I’m not giving much to go on. All guesses welcome! ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-person-with-almost-zero-information/696935/4 "2014-08-30T03:52:14Z")
The Arby’s girl would be way too obvious, right? ETA: Doh! Wendy’s ---
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-person-with-almost-zero-information/696935/5 "2014-08-30T04:06:56Z")
Sarah McLachlan [on her ASPCA commercials](http://seattletimes.com/ABPub/2008/12/26/2008563108.jpg)? ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-person-with-almost-zero-information/696935/6 "2014-08-30T04:09:22Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > The Arby’s girl would be way too obvious, right? > > ETA: Doh! Wendy’s You made me go look for an Arby’s girl! But no, this person is less attractive. Not Sarah McLachlin, either. This person is more ferrety. I can’t think of a more flattering word for it. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-person-with-almost-zero-information/696935/7 "2014-08-30T04:11:07Z")
Your physical description makes me think of [Juilanne Moore.](http://www.hungergamesdwtc.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/julianne-moore-jpeg.jpg) Well, except for the curls. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-person-with-almost-zero-information/696935/8 "2014-08-30T04:19:40Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Your physical description makes me think of [Juilanne Moore.](http://www.hungergamesdwtc.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/julianne-moore-jpeg.jpg) Well, except for the curls. Definitely a less conventionally attractive person than Julianne Moore. I think the hair must be shorter, too. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-person-with-almost-zero-information/696935/9 "2014-08-30T04:41:01Z")
Mariska Hargitay? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-person-with-almost-zero-information/696935/10 "2014-08-30T04:49:01Z")
Did she have an accent, and could you have been watching PBS? [http://www.kcet.org/shows/doc\_martin/Screen%20shot%202012-12-20%20at%2012.24.50%20PM.png](http://www.kcet.org/shows/doc_martin/Screen%20shot%202012-12-20%20at%2012.24.50%20PM.png) ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-person-with-almost-zero-information/696935/11 "2014-08-30T05:02:37Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > Mariska Hargitay? No. I think the person I’m trying to figure out isn’t someone anyone would identify by name. I’m beginning to think it’s a random person in a commercial. Which makes me think this is an impossible quest. > [@terentii](#): > > Did she have an accent, and could you have been watching PBS? > > [http://www.kcet.org/shows/doc\_martin/Screen%20shot%202012-12-20%20at%2012.24.50%20PM.png](http://www.kcet.org/shows/doc_martin/Screen%20shot%202012-12-20%20at%2012.24.50%20PM.png) I don’t remember an accent. I watch some PBS, but not that show, darn it! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-person-with-almost-zero-information/696935/12 "2014-08-30T05:11:49Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > I don’t remember an accent. I watch some PBS, but not that show, darn it! 🙂 Do you watch _ **Big Bang Theory** _? :dubious: [![](https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqp0dvu2OW1qdtkwl.png) ](https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqp0dvu2OW1qdtkwl.png) ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-person-with-almost-zero-information/696935/13 "2014-08-30T05:30:20Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Do you watch _ **Big Bang Theory** _? :dubious: > > [Tumblr: Image](http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqp0dvu2OW1qdtkwl.png) Nope. I’m really starting to think she’s just in some commercial. I don’t think it’s one where you see her in lots of commercials, either. It will turn out that it’s a local commercial playing on a station only I watch. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-person-with-almost-zero-information/696935/14 "2014-08-30T08:40:08Z")
Is it [Chelsea Peretti](https://www.google.com.au/search?q=chelsea+peretti&num=100&safe=off&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ei=m40BVM2oA4yk8AX5soDoAg&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1432&bih=857&dpr=1#imgdii=_) in something like _Brooklyn Nine Nine_? She’s got a distinctive voice and always talking about everyone like they’re stupid. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-person-with-almost-zero-information/696935/15 "2014-08-30T17:48:05Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Is it [Chelsea Peretti](https://www.google.com.au/search?q=chelsea+peretti&num=100&safe=off&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ei=m40BVM2oA4yk8AX5soDoAg&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1432&bih=857&dpr=1#imgdii=_) in something like _Brooklyn Nine Nine_? She’s got a distinctive voice and always talking about everyone like they’re stupid. No. Different type. I think this thread was hopeless from the start. Thanks to all for giving it a try, but I think I’ll just have to stumble across her again, then curse her name (when I know it). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-person-with-almost-zero-information/696935/16 "2014-08-30T17:56:41Z")
Or, we could just continue to list every single redhead we’ve ever seen on TV for a dozen pages… ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-person-with-almost-zero-information/696935/17 "2014-08-30T18:29:00Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Or, we could just continue to list every single redhead we’ve ever seen on TV for a dozen pages… Lucille Ball ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-person-with-almost-zero-information/696935/18 "2014-08-30T18:40:03Z")
This is a long shot, but it sounds like the [wife on Ray Donavon](http://images.enstarz.com/data/images/full/32868/paula-malcomson.jpg?w=600). But you’d probably know it if you had that show on in the background. ETA, but it’s very possible she was in a commercial and she does have a bit of a mean streak on the show. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-person-with-almost-zero-information/696935/19 "2014-08-30T18:41:14Z")
Is it [Al Traina](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=722215)? ---
**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:** [August 30, 2014, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-person-with-almost-zero-information/696935/20 "2014-08-30T19:16:22Z")
Reddish or blondish hair, shoulder length, kind of ferrety looking, talking directly into the camera… Possibly [Amy Ryan](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0752407/?ref_=nv_sr_1)? She played Holly on “The Office”, which had many characters doing talking-head shots to the camera. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-person-with-almost-zero-information/696935.md?page=2)