# Terribly obscure actresses/actors you love who haven't worked in ages **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 1, 2003, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809 "2003-11-01T07:47:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MrSarcasticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@MrSarcasticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSarcasticus)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809/1 "2003-11-01T07:47:33Z")
Jill Schoelen!!! [http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0774337/](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0774337/) Hasn’t done anything for 8 years. But God, I love her work. She has only one unofficial website as I can see. And it’s Geocities. So if more than two people click the link, it’ll be out of biz till three weeks from now. Oh well: [http://www.geocities.com/jillschoelensite/](http://www.geocities.com/jillschoelensite/) ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809/2 "2003-11-01T08:32:40Z")
[Deborah Foreman](http://www.bippiboy.com/deborah-sights.html) OH those dimples!!! ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809/3 "2003-11-01T08:39:13Z")
Those links don’t work…[OH those dimples!](http://www.bippiboy.com/images/deb/mab6.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809/4 "2003-11-01T12:16:22Z")
Markie Post, of Night Court fame. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809/5 "2003-11-01T12:36:18Z")
Eve Matheson. She played Becky Sharp in a mid-'80s version of _Vanity Fair_ and I thought she was wonderful–lovely, charming, deceitful little bitch, everything Becky Sharp should be. I see on IMDB that she’s worked intermittently into the '90s, and yet she never seems to have gotten another big role after this one. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809/6 "2003-11-01T23:27:29Z")
The [gorgeous](http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~hj7h-tkhs/eng_actress_html/eng_actress_prentiss.html) and talented [Paula Prentiss](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0696038/). I don’t know why she didn’t have a bigger career, or why she’s not playing the mother on some top-rated TV show. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809/7 "2003-11-02T00:29:35Z")
Michelle Meyrink. She was in Real Genius and Revenge of the Nerds, then - pfftp! ---
**Author:** ![Bugnorton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bugnorton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bugnorton)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809/8 "2003-11-02T04:05:49Z")
**Rutger Hauer**. I have watched several fairly rank movies just for his performances but oh **Ladyhawke** , be still my heart. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809/9 "2003-11-02T04:47:34Z")
Gerrit Graham. He was ROTFLMAO hilarious as Beef in “Phantom of the Paradise” and also great in a supporting role in “Used Cars.” A quick check of the IMDB shows that he’s done a lot of roles over the years, but probably mostly character work that didn’t get his name well known. He’s pretty damn funny if he gets halfway decent material. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809/10 "2003-11-02T04:56:50Z")
•[Nathan Fillion](http://www.cosmo.org/original/images/libertyscans/globe.gif) (Sociopathic Space Captain Mal) •[Megan Follows](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0001227/) (Anne of Green Gables herself) •[Ray Harryhausen](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0366063/) (Well, maybe he doesn’t really count…) ---
**Author:** ![MidnightRadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@MidnightRadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MidnightRadio)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809/11 "2003-11-02T11:39:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*The [gorgeous](http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~hj7h-tkhs/eng_actress_html/eng_actress_prentiss.html) and talented [Paula Prentiss](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0696038/). I don’t know why she didn’t have a bigger career, or why she’s not playing the mother on some top-rated TV show. \*\* Your first link has a list of her major film roles and doesn’t mention _The Stepford Wives_. Odd. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9dc877/32.png) [@Mr\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809/12 "2003-11-02T12:35:24Z")
I was going to say [Heather Burns](http://www.manmademultimedia.com/magazine/features/former/misscongeniality/2.jpg) as I haven’t seen her in anything for ages but according to [IMDB](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0122688/) she is still working. You might remember her as the innocent blonde Cheryl in **Miss Congeniality** or as Meg Ryan’s assistant in **You’ve Got Mail**. If she ever gets a decent part she’ll be huge. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2003, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809/13 "2003-11-02T13:12:32Z")
**Gabrielle Anwar** - Scent of a Woman/Things…Denver…Dead **Julie Delpy** - Killing Zoe/American Werewolf in Paris I just saw recently a terrible 3 Musketeers movie, but it is one of my favorites because _they were both in it_. I’m also a fan of **Thora Birch** , who appears to have faded from American Beauty to Playboy Mansion Regular. (She has been in every single Playboy for the past year, on the “what’s happening at the mansion” picture page.) I haven’t seen anything major that **Elizabeth Shue** has done for a while. I loved her in Leaving Las Vegas, not to mention Palmetto. But my favorite is **Kristy Swanson** , who was the original Buffy, and also played major parts in The Chase and 8 Heads in a Duffle Bag. ---
**Author:** ![Adamcomic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/977dab/32.png) [@Adamcomic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Adamcomic)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809/14 "2003-11-02T14:11:31Z")
Kim Richards, my first crush. Loved her since The Nanny and the Professor TV show and the Witch Mountain movies. Even bought the DVD of Tuff Turf just 'cuz she’s in it. ---
**Author:** ![peterW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bb73d2/32.png) [@peterW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peterW)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809/15 "2003-11-02T16:07:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bugnorton \* > \*\ ***Rutger Hauer**. I have watched several fairly rank movies just for his performances but oh **Ladyhawke** , be still my heart. \*\* Rutger Hauer was in the TV show “Smallville,” a couple of weeks ago. He was also in “Catch Me If You Can.” I do like his work though, especially in “Blade Runner.” ---
**Author:** ![blasphmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@blasphmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blasphmer)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809/16 "2003-11-02T17:49:38Z")
Marnette Patterson! She has just the best voice and the most absolute killer body. I had SUCH a crush on her when we were both kids and somethign so right was on TV. ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809/17 "2003-11-02T18:57:43Z")
Diane Franklin - brilliant in Last American Virgin and Better Off Dead. ---
**Author:** ![Cholo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@Cholo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cholo)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809/18 "2003-11-02T21:06:05Z")
Annette O’Toole always did it for me but I haven’t seen her for YEARS. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809/19 "2003-11-02T21:11:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ellis Dee \* > \*\*I’m also a fan of **Thora Birch** , who appears to have faded from American Beauty to Playboy Mansion Regular. (She has been in every single Playboy for the past year, on the “what’s happening at the mansion” picture page.) \*\* I believe Thora Birch does a lot of independent films now, but don’t quote me on that. She made **Ghost World** in 2001, a most excellent film if you haven’t seen it. ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809/20 "2003-11-02T21:46:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cholo \* > \*\*Annette O’Toole always did it for me but I haven’t seen her for YEARS. \*\* Apparently you don’t watch TV movies or the TV series “Smallville” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terribly-obscure-actresses-actors-you-love-who-havent-worked-in-ages/210809.md?page=2)