# Most attractive actresses on TV Shows? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 13, 2017, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-actresses-on-tv-shows/788881 "2017-06-13T18:24:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Mixolydian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-actresses-on-tv-shows/788881/61 "2017-06-14T19:18:22Z")
[Emily Bett Rickards](https://www.google.com/search?q=Emily+Bett+Rickards&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMn6Obhr7UAhUF5yYKHXmwDiwQiR4IlQE&biw=1587&bih=698), who plays Felicity Smoak on “The Arrow” and “The Flash”. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-actresses-on-tv-shows/788881/62 "2017-06-14T19:28:22Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman is very tough to beat. > > [lynda carter wonder woman images - Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?q=lynda+carter+wonder+woman+images&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiTlrf-2r3UAhWKPj4KHYzDDdYQ_AUICigB&biw=1625&bih=912) Oh, yeah! loves me some Lynda Carter! ---
**Author:** ![blindboyard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindboyard/32/2833_2.png) [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-actresses-on-tv-shows/788881/63 "2017-06-14T19:32:48Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Two guys who never willingly dated a homely girl: Jerry Seinfeld and Frasier Crane. > > Teri Hatcher was on both shows: > > [https://media.giphy.com/media/l2Sq9DoQNNqxKKNVu/giphy.gif](https://media.giphy.com/media/l2Sq9DoQNNqxKKNVu/giphy.gif) Also appeared on Quantum Leap as Sam Beckett’s love interest. [Rekha Sharma](http://thetvaddict.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/tory.jpg) from many Canadian sci-fi shows. Linda Cardellini from Freaks & Geeks, ER, the Scooby Doo movies… Sarah Carter from Falling Skies. Looks a bit like Mira Sorvino. Who was also on Falling Skies. [Lucy Gaskell](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjEyMDg2NDgxOV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNTg0Njg0MDE@._V1_.jpg). [Jing Lusi](http://www.nuitmagazine.com/mag/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2bw3-980x600.jpg) and [Amara Karan](http://static.tvbuzer.com/images/news/Am/Amara-Karan-talks-about-playing-Suri-Chohan-on-Stan-Lee-s-Lucky-Man-55995.jpg) from Stan Lee’s Lucky Man, amongst other things. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-actresses-on-tv-shows/788881/64 "2017-06-14T19:52:05Z")
Too many to count, many already posted, none that read me. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-actresses-on-tv-shows/788881/65 "2017-06-14T20:04:07Z")
[Morena Baccarin](http://wallpapersdsc.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Morena-Baccarin-for-desktop.jpg) from Firefly ---
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-actresses-on-tv-shows/788881/66 "2017-06-14T20:19:14Z")
[Yvonne Strahovski](https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=633&q=yvonne+strahovski&oq=yvonn&gs_l=img.1.0.0l10.1221.6911.0.9345.10.8.2.0.0.0.130.763.1j6.7.0....0...1.1.64.img..1.9.793.0..0i10k1j0i10i30k1j0i30k1j0i10i24k1.kmywePCAtHw) [Priscilla Faia](https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=633&q=yvonne+strahovski&oq=yvonn&gs_l=img.1.0.0l10.1221.6911.0.9345.10.8.2.0.0.0.130.763.1j6.7.0....0...1.1.64.img..1.9.793.0..0i10k1j0i10i30k1j0i30k1j0i10i24k1.kmywePCAtHw#hl=en&tbm=isch&q=priscilla+faia) Take your pick. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-actresses-on-tv-shows/788881/67 "2017-06-14T21:36:55Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Mary Tyler Moore as [Laura Petrie](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/67/be/85/67be851bc4299dcf595c9ea086ca8cc8.jpg) This. :o ---
**Author:** ![NetTrekker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nettrekker/32/2909_2.png) [@NetTrekker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NetTrekker)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-actresses-on-tv-shows/788881/68 "2017-06-14T22:03:02Z")
Farah Fawcett, Marilu Henner. Including cable news shows would open a whole 'nother realm but they’re not actresses per se. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-actresses-on-tv-shows/788881/69 "2017-06-15T01:28:10Z")
They talk about pretty vs. cute, but I kind of parse it out as “Hollywood hot” and “regular girl” hot. Ginger/Mary Ann, Loni Anderson/Jan Smithers, etc. Most shows with two female leads have one each. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-actresses-on-tv-shows/788881/70 "2017-06-15T04:19:45Z")
Was having a conversation this evening and a name came up of someone I haven’t thought of for a few years, [Amy Acker](https://www.google.com/search?q=amy+acker&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjLq6TK_L7UAhXFMz4KHXZ7CjYQ_AUICigB&biw=1744&bih=897#imgrc=ib2LpboUM4SKiM:). > [@E-DUB](#): > > They talk about pretty vs. cute, but I kind of parse it out as “Hollywood hot” and “regular girl” hot. Ginger/Mary Ann, Loni Anderson/Jan Smithers, etc. Most shows with two female leads have one each. Well, there was _Firefly_; two of each. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2017, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-actresses-on-tv-shows/788881/71 "2017-06-15T04:33:06Z")
Melanie Lynskey (Rose on _ **Two and a Half Men** _) is another one who does it for me: [http://judijenkins.me/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Rose.jpg](http://judijenkins.me/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Rose.jpg) ---
**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:** [June 15, 2017, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-actresses-on-tv-shows/788881/72 "2017-06-15T04:44:43Z")
> [@blindboyard](#): > > Linda Cardellini from Freaks & Geeks, ER, the Scooby Doo movies. While we’re on the subject… [![](http://www.writeups.org/wp-content/uploads/Velma-Scooby-Doo.jpg) ](http://www.writeups.org/wp-content/uploads/Velma-Scooby-Doo.jpg) \*\*Saucy! \*\* :o ---
**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:** [June 15, 2017, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-actresses-on-tv-shows/788881/73 "2017-06-15T05:30:20Z")
Missy Peregrym from _Reaper_ and _Rookie Blue_. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-actresses-on-tv-shows/788881/74 "2017-06-15T05:55:10Z")
It occurs to me that, considering the way Hollywood works, it would save us time to just list the TV show actresses who aren’t attractive. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-actresses-on-tv-shows/788881/75 "2017-06-15T09:49:44Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > They talk about pretty vs. cute, but I kind of parse it out as “Hollywood hot” and “regular girl” hot. Ginger/Mary Ann, Loni Anderson/Jan Smithers, etc. Most shows with two female leads have one each. And I think the vast majority of us prefer the regular girl, no? mmm ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-actresses-on-tv-shows/788881/76 "2017-06-15T12:47:49Z")
[Anne Francis](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/258042253623304067/) as Honey West. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-actresses-on-tv-shows/788881/77 "2017-06-15T16:52:39Z")
> [@leftfield6](#): > > [Morena Baccarin](http://wallpapersdsc.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Morena-Baccarin-for-desktop.jpg) from Firefly Yes, how could I forget her? Also great in Gotham, V, and the Deadpool movie. Especially the Deadpool movie. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-actresses-on-tv-shows/788881/78 "2017-06-15T17:19:58Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > Yes, how could I forget her? Also great in Gotham, V, and the Deadpool movie. Especially the Deadpool movie. 😉 Homeland too. I’ll third this just to post another pic of [Inara Serra](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/80/90/c6/8090c6663234f7b22bb9c50c008ae3ae.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-actresses-on-tv-shows/788881/79 "2017-06-15T17:31:49Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > They talk about pretty vs. cute, but I kind of parse it out as “Hollywood hot” and “regular girl” hot. Ginger/Mary Ann, Loni Anderson/Jan Smithers, etc. Most shows with two female leads have one each. That’s a product of makeup, though. You can take a beautiful actress and get any effect you want. Women like Morena Baccarin, Mary Elizabeth Winstead or Kerry Washington are about as objectively beautiful as women can get. These are women that meet basically every contemporary standard of beauty. Professional makeup artists can make them look like any kind of hot the producer is looking for. To use Winstead as an example, she was famously geeky-cute in “Scott Pilgrim,” looks great as trashy femme fatale in “Fargo,” is smart hot in “The Thing,” and if you wanted her to play some glamorous 40s Hollywood star I’m sure you could pull it off. There’s a reason these ladies keep getting work; their hotness can be fit into any look. ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-actresses-on-tv-shows/788881/80 "2017-06-16T07:28:49Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > My wife and I would watch Burn Notice. It seemed as if GA’s sexiness should have been self-evident. My wife asked me if she was sexy and I told her only if one likes collar bones and rib cages. She lost far too much weight for the show; before that, she was quite comely. Not “most attractive actresses on TV shows” comely, but still quite attractive. She was really, really attractive back when she was doing movies in the '90s. I can’t really hold aging against her, but I agree that she lost a lot of weight. I’ve noticed this lately with a few actresses who used to be very attractive (and already very thin in many cases) and then lost a lot of weight. I see other guys calling them “hot” and I just see skin and bones. Another one that comes to mind is Jordana Brewster. Also happened to Jennifer Connelly at one point but I haven’t seen her in awhile. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-actresses-on-tv-shows/788881.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-actresses-on-tv-shows/788881.md?page=5)