# Somewhere there must be a worst actress **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 11, 2008, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhere-there-must-be-a-worst-actress/476773 "2008-12-11T21:49:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhere-there-must-be-a-worst-actress/476773/1 "2008-12-11T21:49:55Z")
My wife and I were watching L&O last night, which I acknowledge may have been my first error. The plot was unnecessarily complicated and not really germane to my question, so I’ll just get to it. Is there a worst actress getting paid then Vivica A. Fox? I mean we looked at each other and pretty much simultaneously said “wow; she stunk”. Your nomination for worst actress ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhere-there-must-be-a-worst-actress/476773/2 "2008-12-11T22:15:01Z")
Sandra Bullock, Ellen Page, Naomi Watts, Kirsten Dunst, Jessica Alba are all pretty bad. ---
**Author:** ![5-HT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/f19dbf/32.png) [@5-HT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5-HT)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhere-there-must-be-a-worst-actress/476773/3 "2008-12-11T22:19:18Z")
Michelle Rodriguez. Seriously. Thread over. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhere-there-must-be-a-worst-actress/476773/4 "2008-12-11T22:20:41Z")
I’ll take Tanya Roberts in **A View To A Kill** for $20, Alex. “PUMPing sea- **water** into _those_ PIPES? That’s in **CRED** ibly dangerous??!..?!!” ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhere-there-must-be-a-worst-actress/476773/5 "2008-12-11T22:23:27Z")
> [@5-HT](#): > > Michelle Rodriguez. Seriously. Oooh, touché, she’s awful. ---
**Author:** ![5-HT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/f19dbf/32.png) [@5-HT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5-HT)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhere-there-must-be-a-worst-actress/476773/6 "2008-12-11T22:29:02Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > Oooh, touché, she’s awful. The fact that she could be in a movie like _The Fast and the Furious_ and still stand out for how terrible her performance was speaks volumes in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Yodalicious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yodalicious/32/8195_2.png) [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhere-there-must-be-a-worst-actress/476773/7 "2008-12-11T22:32:29Z")
Eva Mendez. Her hotness makes up for it, though. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhere-there-must-be-a-worst-actress/476773/8 "2008-12-11T22:34:05Z")
Sofia Coppola. Good director, but extremely bad actress. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhere-there-must-be-a-worst-actress/476773/9 "2008-12-11T22:41:36Z")
I don’t know if she is the worst, but Zooey Deschanel has consistently underwhelmed me. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhere-there-must-be-a-worst-actress/476773/10 "2008-12-11T22:41:46Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Sofia Coppola. Good director, but extremely bad actress. Ooh, another good one, except also a bad director IMO. I tried and failed like 3 times to get through Lost in Translation, and The Virgin Suicides almost became The Cisco Suicide. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhere-there-must-be-a-worst-actress/476773/11 "2008-12-11T22:41:59Z")
How about Jessica Alba? ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhere-there-must-be-a-worst-actress/476773/12 "2008-12-11T22:44:15Z")
I showed my SO “Night on Earth” but completely skipped over the first chapter with Winona Ryder as the movie is perfect without her community theater acting ability. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhere-there-must-be-a-worst-actress/476773/13 "2008-12-11T22:46:26Z")
Ha! Bo Derek beats all of these by miles. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhere-there-must-be-a-worst-actress/476773/14 "2008-12-11T22:49:56Z")
Melanie Griffith. Absolutely appalling. Even worse than her mother. But she’s good in a supporting role by making Antonio Banderas appear straight. ---
**Author:** ![Tortuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@Tortuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tortuga)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhere-there-must-be-a-worst-actress/476773/15 "2008-12-11T22:59:16Z")
Andie MacDowell. So. wooden. I never understood why she would be cast as a love interest in these great comedies and then she would be in there, dully, like something brown and sticky. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhere-there-must-be-a-worst-actress/476773/16 "2008-12-11T22:59:21Z")
> [@Stuffy](#): > > My wife and I were watching L&O last night, which I acknowledge may have been my first error. The plot was unnecessarily complicated and not really germane to my question, so I’ll just get to it. Is there a worst actress getting paid then Vivica A. Fox? Nope. It’s amazing how consistently awful she is in everything she does. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhere-there-must-be-a-worst-actress/476773/17 "2008-12-11T22:59:23Z")
Andie MacDowell. Amy Irving. (I am convinced Irving only ever got work because she was married to Spielberg.) ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhere-there-must-be-a-worst-actress/476773/18 "2008-12-11T23:09:10Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > I don’t know if she is the worst, but Zooey Deschanel has consistently underwhelmed me. I second. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhere-there-must-be-a-worst-actress/476773/19 "2008-12-11T23:12:18Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Melanie Griffith. Absolutely appalling. Even worse than her mother. But she’s good in a supporting role by making Antonio Banderas appear straight. Stop that. Antonio Banderas is straight. And he loves me. humor me, please. I hate my job and I need to think about _something_, ok? ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhere-there-must-be-a-worst-actress/476773/20 "2008-12-11T23:13:18Z")
> [@Tortuga](#): > > Andie MacDowell. So. wooden. I never understood why she would be cast as a love interest in these great comedies and then she would be in there, dully, like something brown and sticky. [Scruffy the Janitor] Seconded [/Scruffy the Janitor] [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhere-there-must-be-a-worst-actress/476773.md?page=2)