# Help me identify an actress **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 14, 2011, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-actress/567565 "2011-01-14T04:12:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-actress/567565/1 "2011-01-14T04:12:24Z")
A recent contestant on Jeopardy! [Anthony Fox](http://www.jeopardy.com/showguide/thisweek/images/thumbs/011011/fox_anthony.jpg) reminds me of a cross between Kenneth Branagh and an actress whose name I can’t recall. She’s not [Martha Plimpton](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000588/) but there is a bit of a resemblance. I’m guessing my mystery woman is in the same age group as Martha, give or take five years or so. I have looked over several of the user-generated lists like [Best Television Actresses Whose Faces You Know But Names You Might Not Pt. 1](http://www.imdb.com/list/LgboUV3IEJo/) without seeing her. Who might she be? Pics, please! ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-actress/567565/2 "2011-01-14T08:38:49Z")
I tend to confuse Martha Plimpton with [Mare Winningham](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001858/). Is that who you’re looking for? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-actress/567565/3 "2011-01-14T12:52:09Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > I tend to confuse Martha Plimpton with [Mare Winningham](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001858/). Is that who you’re looking for? No, and she’s also not [Joan Allen](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2049415168/nm0000260) who also shares a little resemblance in my eye. I’m reasonably sure the mystery actress is a TV and movie actress, but I can’t seem to place her into a specific show or movie. If I could I could track her down that way. Thanks for the try, **Sefton** , and I think we crossed paths before here. _Stalag 17_, right? ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-actress/567565/4 "2011-01-14T13:24:13Z")
Stalag 17, that’s me. A movie that could use a remake… Anyway, the only other actress I can think of is [Imelda Staunton](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001767/), who looks a lot like the guy in your first picture. If you could give us an age or nationality, that would help. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-actress/567565/5 "2011-01-14T13:50:08Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > Stalag 17, that’s me. A movie that could use a remake… > > Anyway, the only other actress I can think of is [Imelda Staunton](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001767/), who looks a lot like the guy in your first picture. If you could give us an age or nationality, that would help. In my eye, Imelda is not even close. As for age and nationality, I’m just guessing but I’d put her age at somewhere in her 30’s or 40’s, and I’m close to sure she’s American, possibly Canadian. Otherwise, Brit or Aussie, maybe. If you blot out the masculine features of the Jeopardy! guy, her face shape and features are strikingly similar, at least to me. But I realize we all see different things in faces. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-actress/567565/6 "2011-01-14T14:10:56Z")
Probably not who you’re thinking of, but I see a resemblence to [Mindy Cohn](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_shN8RUuuSy0/SDLfXzQmZJI/AAAAAAAAACw/MUee0NsH8s0/s400/natalie.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-actress/567565/7 "2011-01-14T14:15:17Z")
How about the late Rue McClannahan of **Golden Girls**? ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-actress/567565/8 "2011-01-14T14:21:05Z")
> [@Ronald\_C.Semone](#): > > How about the late Rue McClannahan of **Golden Girls**? I was thinking more [Bea Arthur](http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.opposingviews.com/attachments/0011/7186/bea-arthur-dead.jpg%3F1292011777&imgrefurl=http://www.opposingviews.com/i/photo-was-bea-arthur-a-marine&usg=__h_Y9YJ1D7c0XaFXRlXV0PeFJFe0=&h=300&w=400&sz=16&hl=en&start=128&zoom=1&tbnid=tegN5JHb1eD9NM:&tbnh=153&tbnw=204&ei=olswTbuJINC0hAfnqZX4Cw&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbea%2Barthur%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26sa%3DG%26biw%3D1148%26bih%3D684%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C3899&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=297&vpy=386&dur=31&hovh=194&hovw=259&tx=64&ty=126&oei=Z1swTYWOC42cgQeGlK2HCw&esq=8&page=8&ndsp=16&ved=1t:429,r:7,s:128&biw=1148&bih=684). ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-actress/567565/9 "2011-01-14T14:54:21Z")
Hm. Maybe [Kyra Sedgwick](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001718/)? ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-actress/567565/10 "2011-01-14T15:14:16Z")
> [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](#): > > Hm. > > Maybe [Kyra Sedgwick](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001718/)? This actually crossed my mind also. ---
**Author:** ![Xanthippos\_Redux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Xanthippos\_Redux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xanthippos_Redux)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-actress/567565/11 "2011-01-14T15:17:47Z")
I would suggest that he looks like a cross between Kenneth Branagh and: [ol] [li]Michelle Pfeiffer[/li][li]Foxy Brown[/li][li]That lady from the Swiffer commercials[/li][/ol] I think he looks like Andy Richter or maybe an older MeatLoaf. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-actress/567565/12 "2011-01-14T15:52:12Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Probably not who you’re thinking of, but I see a resemblence to [Mindy Cohn](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_shN8RUuuSy0/SDLfXzQmZJI/AAAAAAAAACw/MUee0NsH8s0/s400/natalie.jpg). I see the resemblance to the Jeopardy! guy, but the actress is nowhere close. Thanks for the try. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-actress/567565/13 "2011-01-14T15:53:45Z")
> [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](#): > > Hm. > > Maybe [Kyra Sedgwick](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001718/)? Good try, and I do see some of what you do in the comparison, but not the one I’m trying to find. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-actress/567565/14 "2011-01-14T15:56:12Z")
> [@Xanthippos\_Redux](#): > > I would suggest that he looks like a cross between Kenneth Branagh and: > > [ol] > [li]Michelle Pfeiffer[/li][li]Foxy Brown[/li][li]That lady from the Swiffer commercials[/li][/ol] > > I think he looks like Andy Richter or maybe an older MeatLoaf. I understand. Perhaps the still picture of the guy in the OP is misleading. It was in the show when some particular camera angles showed the resemblance that made me try to think which actress he resembles. I just hope that when we do get her ID’ed that y’all won’t think I’m crazy. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-actress/567565/15 "2011-01-14T16:01:37Z")
[QUOTE=Sparky812] [Quote=Ronald C. Semone] How about the late Rue McClannahan of Golden Girls? [/quote] I was thinking more Bea Arthur. [/quote] Reasonable tries, but this gal is too young for the Golden Girls. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-actress/567565/16 "2011-01-14T17:44:26Z")
Found her! [Pamela Reed](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0715622/) I guess my memory of her age was based on having seen her just recently in [The Long Riders (1980)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081071/) (on Encore Westerns) when she would have been 30 or so. [http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;\_ylt=ArrBnOtmItFYEG1vBsRMkAybvZx4?p=Pamela+Reed+&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-946](http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=ArrBnOtmItFYEG1vBsRMkAybvZx4?p=Pamela+Reed+&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-946) Can you see the resemblance to Jeopardy! guy? ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-actress/567565/17 "2011-01-14T17:56:24Z")
What are you,_crazy_ ? 😃 I can totally see the resemblance but I’d completely forgotten about her so I never would have guessed correctly. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-actress/567565/18 "2011-01-14T18:00:40Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > What are you,_crazy_ ? 😃 > > I can totally see the resemblance but I’d completely forgotten about her so I never would have guessed correctly. If she’s on one of those comprehensive lists on IMDb, then I have yet to find it. I kept trying to picture what sort of setting or which other actors would have been associated with her, and I suppose it was that I had just recently seen enough of _The Long Riders_ on TV for her face to be fresh in my subconscious. Anyway, I can now move on with the rest of my life! Don’t you just hate to have something like that clog up your thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-actress/567565/19 "2011-01-14T18:08:44Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Found her! [Pamela Reed](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0715622/) At first, I thought maybe the suggestion of Mindy Cohn was a joke that whooshed you, but I see a considerable resemblance between Pamela Reed and Mindy Cohn, so I’m mystified by your “nowhere close” comment. Resemblance is in the eye of the beholder, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-actress/567565/20 "2011-01-14T18:14:07Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > At first, I thought maybe the suggestion of Mindy Cohn was a joke that whooshed you, but I see a considerable resemblance between Pamela Reed and Mindy Cohn, so I’m mystified by your “nowhere close” comment. > > Resemblance is in the eye of the beholder, I guess. Totally agree with that last thought there. I just don’t see enough resemblance between Pamela and Mindy to have it register or certainly to serve as a hint for finding Pamela’s picture. I do find those “separated at birth” and other lookalike lists to be fun and usually agree at least 70% with them. But Mindy wouldn’t make my top 50 of lookalikes for Pamela. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-actress/567565.md?page=2)