# Please help identify Sprint commercial actress **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 13, 2011, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-identify-sprint-commercial-actress/574486 "2011-03-13T02:26:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![simply\_cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@simply\_cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simply_cats)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-identify-sprint-commercial-actress/574486/1 "2011-03-13T02:26:20Z")
The creepy Mom who offers to help her daughter “compose a tweet”. I believe it is called “Staying Awhile.” This is driving me CRAZY!!! ---
**Author:** ![Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunzio_Tavulari)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-identify-sprint-commercial-actress/574486/2 "2011-03-13T06:41:39Z")
I love that commercial! Don’t know who the actress is though. The “compose a tweet” line is what makes the whole thing memorable. I’ve wondered if she was directed to deliver the line that way. It sounds like she fluffed the line and was trying to save the take. I heart the T-Mobile girl more though. Something about how she positions her feet that stirs my blood, and I don’t have a foot (or leg) fetish. ---
**Author:** ![simply\_cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@simply\_cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simply_cats)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-identify-sprint-commercial-actress/574486/3 "2011-03-13T18:21:21Z")
I _KNOW_ I have seen her before. This really just might be the end of my sanity. Please, PLEASE someone MUST know who she is!!! ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-identify-sprint-commercial-actress/574486/4 "2011-03-13T21:40:45Z")
If no one here knows… well if it were me, I would tweet about it. (Too bad I do not know how to compose a tweet.) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-identify-sprint-commercial-actress/574486/5 "2011-03-13T23:39:44Z")
She reminds me of a younger [Catherine O’Hara](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001573/) (was in SCTV back in the early 80s, now is a member of the ensemble who acts in Christopher Guest’s movies). ---
**Author:** ![simply\_cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@simply\_cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simply_cats)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-identify-sprint-commercial-actress/574486/6 "2011-03-14T00:01:24Z")
She does look a bit like Catherine O’Hara, and I do love my Christopher Guest movies. _sigh_ This my not be information that is meant to be known ☹ ---
**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:** [March 14, 2011, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-identify-sprint-commercial-actress/574486/7 "2011-03-14T00:35:00Z")
I’ve searched everywhere, using all my Google Fu tricks. I can tell you the entire crew almost down to the camera equipment supplier, but no word on the cast. Maybe contact _Goodby Silverstein_, the advertising company. ---
**Author:** ![simply\_cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@simply\_cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simply_cats)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-identify-sprint-commercial-actress/574486/8 "2011-03-14T00:45:28Z")
I’ve been to the Goodby Silverstein website, no dice. I might just have to call. I cannot believe this has been that difficult. ---
**Author:** ![simply\_cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@simply\_cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simply_cats)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-identify-sprint-commercial-actress/574486/9 "2011-03-15T18:48:53Z")
> [@simply\_cats](#): > > I’ve been to the Goodby Silverstein website, no dice. I might just have to call. I cannot believe this has been that difficult. Mystery solved! The actress is Mary Crosbie. Now I just have to figure out where I recognized her from… she doesn’t have a large body of work… ---
**Author:** ![limegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/82dd89/32.png) [@limegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/limegreen)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-identify-sprint-commercial-actress/574486/10 "2011-03-16T15:15:28Z")
Something about her teeth weirds me out. They’re spaced wrong, or something. I can’t look at her when she talks. Or maybe it’s how she holds her lips. Ack! ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-identify-sprint-commercial-actress/574486/11 "2011-03-16T19:35:47Z")
Now that this mystery is solved, can you figure out who is the big, good-looking guy on the yacht in the Kia commercial? And did we ever figure out who was that cute blonde hood in an old Verizon ad? It was a “Can you hear me now?” ad on a beach.