# Nude scenes by actresses you don't expect to go nude **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 18, 2003, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876 "2003-11-18T08:55:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![powerfreak\_2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@powerfreak\_2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/powerfreak_2000)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/101 "2012-02-22T17:50:04Z")
Contrary to popular belief Jessica Alba has done a nude secene in a movie called The Sleeping Dictionary it was good but not full frontal I suspect she was 18 at the time it just toppless though she had a nice set on her even back then 🙂 :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/102 "2012-02-22T18:24:27Z")
Susan Sarandon in _Joe_. Her first film and she gets fully nekkid in the first 5 minutes. Another natural redhead. The movie also starred Peter Boyle (The Monster in _Young Frankenstein_). ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/103 "2012-02-22T18:50:48Z")
Julie Christie was a huge star in the 60’s especially with _Doctor Zhivago_. Started doing nude scenes in the 70’s. The weirdest was Demon Seed that features a computer controlled house that rapes her. I just couldn’t believe someone I knew from _Doctor Zhivago_ was doing that. Amy Irving - cute and innocent in all her films. Goes nude in middle age for _Carried Away_. Also features middle Aged Dennis Hopper in the buff. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/104 "2012-02-22T18:55:14Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Julie Christie was a huge star in the 60’s especially with _Doctor Zhivago_. Started doing nude scenes in the 70’s. The weirdest was Demon Seed that features a computer controlled house that rapes her. I just couldn’t believe someone I knew from _Doctor Zhivago_ was doing that. I gather you haven’t seen the notorious love scene in “Don’t Look Now.” Which is a surprisingly good movie, by the way. . ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/105 "2012-02-22T19:00:51Z")
So uh… any women go nude in a _zombie_ film when you weren’t expecting? ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/106 "2012-02-22T19:29:46Z")
Madonna has produced several videos, featuring her boytoy/husband (Jesus Luiz) in the buff. Kinda weird, as she is old enough to be his grandmother. He doesn’t seem to mind doing it, though. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/107 "2012-02-22T19:47:34Z")
> [@Atrael](#): > > I was surprised that Sigorny Weaver showed her breasts in “Death and the Maiden”. That’s the only movie that I know of where she did any nudity. Caught me totally by surprise. She wanted to do nude in the final scenes of _Alien_, but was vetoed, so she picked the skimpiest set of underwear she could manage. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/108 "2012-02-22T19:58:56Z")
I’m surprised someone mentioned _Helen Mirren_. I thought she only kept her clothes on when playing royalty. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/109 "2012-02-22T20:02:04Z")
> [@powerfreak\_2000](#): > > Contrary to popular belief Jessica Alba has done a nude secene in a movie called The Sleeping Dictionary it was good but not full frontal I suspect she was 18 at the time it just toppless though she had a nice set on her even back then 🙂 :smack: That’s definitely a body double. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2012, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/110 "2012-02-22T20:10:05Z")
It was a body double in _The Sleeping Dictionary_. But Alba did recently do her first genuine nude scene in _The Killer Inside Me_, which I guess is cause for reviving an eight year old thread. Some other long time holdouts who’ve done nude scenes since 2003: Kirsten Dunst, Natalie Portman, and Winona Ryder. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2012, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/111 "2012-02-22T20:46:10Z")
> [@](#): > > She wanted to do nude in the final scenes of Alien, but was vetoed Which is one of the greatest tragedies of cinematic history. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/112 "2012-02-22T20:50:39Z")
Not an actress, so technically not what the OP was looking for, but I was mightily surprised to see Rick Springfield lose his duds and simulate some seriously raunchy sex on the Showtime series “Californication” a couple years ago. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/113 "2012-02-22T20:54:26Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Which is one of the greatest tragedies of cinematic history. One of the greatest? Possibly…but the SINGLE greatest tragedy would be Micheal Bay refusing to do a nude scene of Scarlett Johansson even though _she asked to do one_ in The Island. > [@](#): > > [For her role in the action flop The Island, she offered to film her sex scene with Ewan McGregor topless, but director Michael Bey declined, wanting the film to be rated PG-13, not R. ]([Scarlett Johansson](http://www.nndb.com/people/904/000025829/)) ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/114 "2012-02-22T21:57:52Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > One of the greatest? Possibly…but the SINGLE greatest tragedy would be Micheal Bay refusing to do a nude scene of Scarlett Johansson even though _she asked to do one_ in The Island. She didn’t want to show her breasts on screen, she just didn’t want her character to be wearing a bra during sex, which she referred to as “ghetto.” Bay’s response was that the the movie was PG-13, not R, but I’m convinced she meant to shoot her from a different angle so she could be braless but not nude on camera. The blocking and lighting was already set, though, so it was too late by then. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2012, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/115 "2012-02-22T22:16:08Z")
You can see Jessica Beal get pretty naked and freaky in Blue Powder. She seemed to be carefully covering up until then. I’m a little tired of Olivia Wilde getting naked all over the place without turning around or getting her hands out of the way. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/116 "2012-02-22T22:35:23Z")
Then check out Alpha Dogs. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/117 "2012-02-22T22:37:07Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > You can see Jessica Beal get pretty naked and freaky in Blue Powder. She seemed to be carefully covering up until then. Right words, wrong order. The movie you’re thinking of is _Powder Blue_. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2012, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/118 "2012-02-22T22:40:40Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > Then check out Alpha Dogs. Haven’t seen it. It’s on the list now. Also the neighbor girl from Rules of Engagement goes topless in 30 Minutes or Less. I figure there’s a lot of that in her future as an actress, if she has one. ETA: Right, thanks **Chimp** ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/119 "2012-02-23T00:53:50Z")
Robin Williams in “The Fisher King.” Oops! Forgot…ACTRESSES. Oh, well… ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876/120 "2012-02-23T05:04:39Z")
> [@Baldwin](#): > > This scene is evidence for my contention that redhaired actresses are more likely than blondes or brunettes to do full-frontal nudity. > [@Weird\_AL\_Einstein](#): > > So…ummmm…how long do think before, say, Alyson Hannigan does such a scene. Just wondering… Considering she isn’t a natural redhead, perhaps some time. Cute photo of Alyson Hannigan and Seth Green (who is apparently a natural redhead) as kids: [http://images.fanpop.com/images/image\_uploads/My-Stepmother-is-an-Alien-seth-green-292085\_720\_480.jpg](http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/My-Stepmother-is-an-Alien-seth-green-292085_720_480.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-scenes-by-actresses-you-dont-expect-to-go-nude/213876.md?page=7)