# People you think are hot whose names don't usually come up on "sexiest" lists **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 30, 2016, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468 "2016-08-30T07:09:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [August 30, 2016, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/21 "2016-08-30T16:00:16Z")
There are a few, but why would I want them to have a Bulimia relapse just because I liked them? ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/22 "2016-08-30T16:09:48Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Oh, and Alison Brie, of course! … her name comes up on sexiest lists all the time, I’d imagine. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/23 "2016-08-30T16:28:29Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > … her name comes up on sexiest lists all the time, I’d imagine. Yeah, that’s why I’m not sure if Rachel Bloom was a good suggestion or not. Pretty much anyone on TV looks to me like they could be on sexiest lists. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/24 "2016-08-30T16:29:04Z")
> [@Jennshark](#): > > Rachel Maddow (though I’m sure a lot of people think she’s hot) Like the[Hot Librarian on TV Tropes?](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HotLibrarian) Of course that could never be [in real life](http://media.masslive.com/my_wide_world/photo/tumblr-kxobp3wgck1qzo6axo1-500png-8d5c9fd25d6ae350_large.png).🙂 ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/25 "2016-08-30T16:35:15Z")
> [@Jennshark](#): > > Detective on older SVU who looks like an eagle (Christopher ??) Meloni ---
**Author:** ![drewder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/26 "2016-08-30T16:47:56Z")
I don’t live in the UK so I don’t know if she makes the lists over there but Karen Gillan ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/27 "2016-08-30T17:00:14Z")
> [@drewder](#): > > I don’t live in the UK so I don’t know if she makes the lists over there but Karen Gillan Well, FHM had her at #42 in 2011 in 100 Sexiest Women in the World, and #36 in 2012. [Cite for the latter](http://hollywoodlife.com/2012/05/02/fhm-100-sexiest-women-2012-rihanna-selena-gomez-kim-kardashian-kristen-stewart/). ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/28 "2016-08-30T19:48:01Z")
I find Nick Offerman to be very appealing, and in addition to being cute and smart, he can make furniture. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/29 "2016-08-30T21:04:27Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > . . . Alan Cumming . . . Yes! Just who I came in to mention. Is he still doing the intros to _Masterpiece Mystery_? Even if I didn’t want to watch the show itself, I’d tune in to hear his burr and admire his high-arching eyebrows. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/30 "2016-08-30T21:19:50Z")
Marilu Henner and Bernadette Peters used to do it for me back around 1978. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/31 "2016-08-30T21:26:56Z")
Of the original “Charlie’s Angels” cast, I always preferred Kate Jackson to Farrah Fawcett and Jaclyn Smith. (Thought they were all amazing, of course…) ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/32 "2016-08-30T21:29:16Z")
I don’t know if it’s creepy since I’m old enough to be…their creepy uncle Littlefinger. But I’ve noticed the Stark girls from Game of Thrones don’t look like little girls anymore. > [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Chris Noth ? He was Mr Big on Sex And The City. I’m sure he must be on someone’s lists. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/33 "2016-08-30T21:29:43Z")
Stephen Hawking. ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/34 "2016-08-30T22:43:22Z")
Minnie Driver Yeardly Smith ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/35 "2016-08-30T23:09:05Z")
I’m working my way through The Sopranos again and this time around I’m really noticing Angie Bonpensiero (Big Pussy’s wife), played by Toni Kalem. I couldn’t find an image from the show that I thought did her justice but [this one will do](http://www.thesopranosblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/episode-17-04.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/36 "2016-08-30T23:17:17Z")
> [@gytalf2000](#): > > Of the original “Charlie’s Angels” cast, I always preferred Kate Jackson to Farrah Fawcett and Jaclyn Smith. (Thought they were all amazing, of course…) Agree, The first girl I had a big crush on (in grade school), _and_ knew pretty well, had a mom that looked and sounded a lot like Kate Jackson. Yeah, I had a big crush on the mom too. She kind of set my “type” for life. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/37 "2016-08-31T01:14:43Z")
I agree, Judy Greer has to win some sort of award for this (call it “the Charlize”?) She convincingly played a train wreck in Arrested Development, and was similarly unattractive in at least one other thing I can’t recall at the moment. Otherwise she’s quite fetching. ---
**Author:** ![skdo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@skdo23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skdo23)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/38 "2016-08-31T02:03:53Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > I’m working my way through The Sopranos again and this time around I’m really noticing Angie Bonpensiero (Big Pussy’s wife), played by Toni Kalem. > > I couldn’t find an image from the show that I thought did her justice but [this one will do](http://www.thesopranosblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/episode-17-04.jpg). I’ve always had a thing for Tony’s younger sister, Barbara, played by Nicole Burdette. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/39 "2016-08-31T02:15:01Z")
I thought about starting a thread on a similar topic and call it “Who is a celebrity that you only know from one or two things, that you knew meant they were unattractive, then you googled them, and holy shit, they’re hot all the rest of the time?” However, that title was too unwieldy. 😛 So, I sometimes search famous people to see what they looked like when they were young. For some unknown reason, that led me to Shelley Duvall. Now, to my knowledge, I’d only mostly seen her in _The Shining_ and _Popeye_, although I remember briefly her goofball turn in _Nashville_. But then I saw her pictures. Good Lord, I’ve developed a retro crush! She has pretty much been freaking gorgeous (to me) her whole life. Very exotic and had one of those ‘built for the runway’ figures, that really was enhanced by playing up her Bette Davis eyes. If I’d been of age when she was more popular, I can definitely have seen me wanting (and failing) to be her. ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/40 "2016-08-31T02:16:33Z")
[Sibel Kekilli](https://www.google.com/search?q=sibel+kekilli&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=979&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwix5K6pyurOAhUG9h4KHYfuAEIQ_AUIBygC) (probably most widely known for Game of Thrones, but she was quite well-known in Europe, or at least Germany, long before GoT). And I’ll second Judy Greer (mentioned somewhere above) and [Catherine Keener](https://www.google.com/search?q=sibel+kekilli&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=979&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwix5K6pyurOAhUG9h4KHYfuAEIQ_AUIBygC#tbm=isch&q=catherine+keener) (especially Catherine Keener). Let’s see. . . who else? [Judy Davis](https://www.google.com/search?q=sibel+kekilli&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=979&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwix5K6pyurOAhUG9h4KHYfuAEIQ_AUIBygC#tbm=isch&q=Judy+Davis). [Kristin Scott Thomas](https://www.google.com/search?q=sibel+kekilli&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=979&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwix5K6pyurOAhUG9h4KHYfuAEIQ_AUIBygC#tbm=isch&q=kristin+scott+thomas). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468.md?page=3)