# Mrs. Octavius- Wowsa! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 16, 2004, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-octavius-wowsa/255434 "2004-07-16T15:48:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-octavius-wowsa/255434/1 "2004-07-16T15:48:32Z")
I’ve seen Donna Murphy, who played Doc Ock’s wife in SPIDER MAN 2, in STAR TREK- INSURRECTION (ST 9, ST-NG 3) but I never noticed her being that gorgeous! How did she escape the Celebrity Babe radar this long?!? Btw, doesn’t she have kinda a Kate Bush look to her? ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-octavius-wowsa/255434/2 "2004-07-16T15:51:41Z")
I thought she was much more attractive in \*Insurrection \* as Anij. Either the makeup in it was really great or she’s really aged a lot in the five(?) years between the two movies. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-octavius-wowsa/255434/3 "2004-07-16T15:54:21Z")
I first noticed her in **Center Stage** , and was impressed with her as an actress. When I saw the credits rolling for Spider-Man 2 I was looking forward to her performance and wasn’t disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-octavius-wowsa/255434/4 "2004-07-16T16:58:03Z")
She’s portraying Abigail Adams in the series on the American Revolution that PBS is currently running. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2004, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-octavius-wowsa/255434/5 "2004-07-16T17:47:07Z")
Got an Image link? ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-octavius-wowsa/255434/6 "2004-07-16T17:56:56Z")
Of the actress herself or of her in a particular role? If it’s the former, here’s her [IMDb page](http://imdb.com/name/nm0614220/) ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-octavius-wowsa/255434/7 "2004-07-16T18:12:39Z")
[http://www.eonline.com/Features/Live/Insurrection/Gallery/photo2.html](http://www.eonline.com/Features/Live/Insurrection/Gallery/photo2.html) Not the best photo of her, but still good. Google her name & hit images & you’ll find some better stuff. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-octavius-wowsa/255434/8 "2004-07-16T18:22:41Z")
Strangely enough she won one of her Tony awards for [Passion](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000093NR3/qid=1090001919/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-8354518-5858257?v=glance&s=dvd), where with the help of a lot of stage makeup, she played the really, really, really ugly woman. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-octavius-wowsa/255434/9 "2004-07-16T18:25:13Z")
> [@](#): > > How did she escape the Celebrity Babe radar this long?!? At the risk of offending, I reckon it’s because she’s not a Celebrity Babe. Sure, I think she’s hotter than Chernobyl, but come on . . . you know very well that the sheeple are desperately unwilling to accept as babe someone who doesn’t line up with the Hottie Mean Standard. It sucks, but I’ve learned to accept that my taste in women is far superior to that of the bulk of the US. They can have their leggy, anorexic, small-nosed blonde bimbelinas. They’re idiots. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-octavius-wowsa/255434/10 "2004-07-16T18:39:55Z")
You guys who think she’s hot… Do you not look at faces? She looks to me like the makeup artists were trying to make her look really old, but they did a bad job of it. She’s not nearly so bad in _ST: Insurrection_, but still not great. Besides, you’ve already got Kirsten Dunst to look at in Spider-man 2… What more do you need? ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-octavius-wowsa/255434/11 "2004-07-16T18:46:59Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > You guys who think she’s hot… Do you not look at faces? She looks to me like the makeup artists were trying to make her look really old, but they did a bad job of it. She’s not nearly so bad in _ST: Insurrection_, but still not great. > > Besides, you’ve already got Kirsten Dunst to look at in Spider-man 2… What more do you need? But they would make a great Mother/Daughter combo. Did I think that, or did I type that… ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-octavius-wowsa/255434/12 "2004-07-17T19:45:28Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Besides, you’ve already got Kirsten Dunst to look at in Spider-man 2… What more do you need? I don’t think Dunst was particularly attractive in _Spiderman 2_. Not only was her dye job very inconsistent, her teeth were more than a little discolored and a tad bit on the scary side. She was pretty cute in the original one though. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2004, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-octavius-wowsa/255434/13 "2004-07-17T22:37:03Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > Of the actress herself or of her in a particular role? If it’s the former, here’s her [IMDb page](http://imdb.com/name/nm0614220/) You know, she doesn’t seem that hot. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-octavius-wowsa/255434/14 "2004-07-17T22:42:15Z")
She’s okay in a horsey sort of way. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2004, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-octavius-wowsa/255434/15 "2004-07-18T03:16:24Z")
Umm… she’s attractive enough, but really isn’t what you’d call [a real classic beauty](http://www.wchstv.com/abc/whataboutjoan/donnamurphy.jpg) unless I’m missing something. [Here’s another pic with her on the left](http://www.jljcc.com/bryantparkmarindonna.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2004, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-octavius-wowsa/255434/16 "2004-07-18T14:10:51Z")
She’s currently playing on Broadway, in _Wonderful Town_, and she looks a lot better (I think) in that show. She’s got that 50’s secretary thing going on, as opposed to the glamorous wife of a scientist. But in civies, I don’t think I’d really call her hot or anything. ---
**Author:** ![YPOD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e99b99/32.png) [@YPOD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YPOD)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2004, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-octavius-wowsa/255434/17 "2004-07-18T15:40:44Z")
I think she is certainly a babe, but was made to look a little bit less attractive - after all, she played an English major. Had she majored in something like thermonuclear physics they would have cast someone like Nicole Kidman or at least Denise Richards.