# Underrated beauties **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 3, 2012, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-beauties/617735 "2012-04-03T21:15:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-beauties/617735/41 "2012-04-04T21:04:14Z")
I’ve always had a thing for [Elisabeth Shue](https://www.google.com/search?q=elisabeth+shue&hl=en&prmd=imvnso&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=5bZ8T8so6NnRAbH0wPIL&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&sqi=2&ved=0CBUQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=653) and now she’s on CSI - still looking fine as ever and aging very well. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-beauties/617735/42 "2012-04-04T21:04:33Z")
'70s era Bernadette Peters. Jan Smithers in _WKRP in Cincinnati_. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-beauties/617735/43 "2012-04-04T21:19:08Z")
> [@zagloba](#): > > The way she’s [dressing lately](http://wpc.4d27.edgecastcdn.net/004D27/Red%20Carpet/JenniferLawrenceNYCTHGP/Jennifer+Lawrence+NYC+THG+8.jpg), she could bust out any time now. (There’s footage out there of her running in (just barely) this dress.) I was just about to complain about how many times we’ve done this topic here, and then I read this post and decided to stay quiet until I have seen the video in question. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bytegeist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@Bytegeist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bytegeist)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-beauties/617735/44 "2012-04-04T21:32:38Z")
[QUOTE=Ashley Pomeroy] … by the 1990s Benny Hill was a distant, never-repeated memory in Britain, remembered only because he seemed to be inexplicably popular in the United States. I mean, you could have gone for Kenny Everett, he had cachet, an edge, and it would have been nice to have seen _The Kenny Everett Video Show_ on Youtube, but noooh, you had to pick Benny bloody Hill. [/QUOTE] Actually, I’d say Benny Hill finally fell off the American television landscape around that time: the mid 90s or so. Local PBS and UHF stations kept shoveling him at us for all the years up to then. I’m as baffled as you why he had that kind of longevity or popularity over here. Possibly, he appealed to an older generation that grew up on Vaudeville, which his comedic style resembles. (Call it a British “music hall” style maybe?) Or possibly, his show was just cheap to purchase. PBS never has a lot of money to spend. And I’m a little embarrassed to say I’ve never heard of Kenny Everett. Will have to look him up. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-beauties/617735/45 "2012-04-04T21:50:22Z")
> [@Christopher\_Robin\_Davies](#): > > As I watched I was reminded of how beautiful Margaret Colin was back then. She played Jeff Goldblum’s ex-wife (also presidential aide). Agreed! > [@Tangent](#): > > When I first saw _Independence Day_, I remembered her from one of the soap operas my mom used to watch when I was a kid. I always did think she was very pretty. \*As the World \*Turns - I know, because I got hooked on that damn soap as a kid. The only one I watched. Mostly because of her, and Meg Ryan. Yes, Meg Ryan started out on ATWT. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-beauties/617735/46 "2012-04-04T21:57:42Z")
> [@SticksAndString](#): > > > [@Becky2844](#): > > > > Cate Blanchette has classic beauty, to me. > > I totally agree…I watched both of the “Elizabeth” films just so I could spend a couple hours staring at her. Would anybody really call her “underappreciated”, though? I mean, in the _LOTR_ movies she’s cast as Galadriel, who is famously one of the all-time most beautiful of women **among a race of immortal beings endowed with superhuman loveliness** , fer chrissake. That sounds to me as though her beauty is pretty generally recognized. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2012, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-beauties/617735/47 "2012-04-04T23:58:14Z")
Larisa Oleynik Oh, and Magda Apanowicz. Though, if I had one, my Gaydar pings for her. ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-beauties/617735/48 "2012-04-05T01:45:14Z")
> [@california\_jobcase](#): > > '70s era Bernadette Peters.\*. She’s still Hot… > **[Bernadette Peters - Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?q=Bernadette%2BPeters&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=Smc&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvnslo&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=VPd8T9CEPOO-2gX4itzuDA&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1440&bih=753&sei=WPd8T6aYBenM2gXMxYXbDA)** Wish Madeline Kahn was still around. ☹ > **[Madeline Kahn - Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?q=Madeline%2BKahn&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=58H&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1440&bih=753&prmd=imvnso&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=zPd8T5eZOuji2AW0iezaDA&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CAwQ_AUoAQ)** Had to settle for the “not often but _occasionally_ sexy” Kate Mulgrew. > **[Kate Mulgrew - Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?q=Kate%2BMulgrew&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=uBI&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvnsol&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=e_h8T9Z2iNTYBdOetPsM&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1440&bih=753&sei=gPh8T-fWAuOy2wWA0NWJDQ)** ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-beauties/617735/49 "2012-04-05T04:39:54Z")
[Olivia Williams](https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=olivia+williams&hl=en&rlz=1C1ASUT_enUS441US444&prmd=imvnso&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=pCB9T6qLLeOL0AXhqZ3NDQ&ved=0CFkQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=667) has the kind of beauty - especially in motion rather than stills - that would make me watch almost anything she’s in. I don’t know if she’s really under-rated for her beauty by those who’ve actually seen the stuff she’s been in, but she’s certainly more beautiful than a lot of women who are feted for their supposed beauty. > [@Bytegeist](#): > > Actually, I’d say Benny Hill finally fell off the American television landscape around that time: the mid 90s or so. Local PBS and UHF stations kept shoveling him at us for all the years up to then. I’m as baffled as you why he had that kind of longevity or popularity over here. Possibly, he appealed to an older generation that grew up on Vaudeville, which his comedic style resembles. (Call it a British “music hall” style maybe?) > > Or possibly, his show was just cheap to purchase. PBS never has a lot of money to spend. > > And I’m a little embarrassed to say I’ve never heard of Kenny Everett. Will have to look him up. It wasn’t the mid 90s that Benny Hill fell off British screens, but the late eighties, and it had been declining and disparaged as an anachronism for a few years before that. Kenny Everett’s TV career ended at the same time, though, and his shows were almost as old-fashioned in many ways - he’s not exactly a good example of a comedian that was, in the late nineties, new and hep. I mean, he was even dead by then. I also don’t see how anyone would have thought Jane Leeves was trying for a Scouse accent - it doesn’t sound anything like a Scouse accent, even a bad one. It sounds like a Manchester accent - possibly bad, but it was always obvious that was the accent she was going for. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-beauties/617735/50 "2012-04-05T06:21:27Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > I was in lust with Jennifer Lawrence after watching _Winter’s Bone._ She’ll probably be a breakout beauty after _The Hunger Games_. I think she should keep the brunette locks. They suit her. Here is another one [Erica Durance](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erica_Durance). ---
**Author:** ![Corcaigh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Corcaigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corcaigh)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-beauties/617735/51 "2012-04-05T12:57:35Z")
> [@Bytegeist](#): > > Leeves was the British one. (And still is, really.) She also appeared in some Seinfeld episodes. > > [Apparently](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005137/bio/), in her role as Daphne, she affected a British accent different from her native one. I have no idea why. > > Although born in Ilford Essex and brought up in East Grinstead in Sussex, she affects [a] completly different accent (Mancunian) from 250 miles away for Frasier. I seem to remember seeing Leeves on TV saying when she auditioned “they” thought her own accent sounded posh, and they wanted Daphne to sound more common, so she affected a Mancunian accent ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-beauties/617735/52 "2012-04-05T13:06:10Z")
She’s not underrated but I just had to say that [Jane Levy](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3994408/) of Suburgatory is drop-dead beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-beauties/617735/53 "2012-04-05T13:22:55Z")
On SNL, Kristin Wiig gets all the scenes, but Abby Elliot sure looks, um, provocative, especially in those leather pants in the show opener. I think it’s criminal that her recent appearance in MAXIM had that diseased-lppking J-Woww character on the cover instead of her. Hard to believe Fred Armisen dumped Abby AND Elisabeth Moss within a few months of each other. I also really like Naseem Pedrad. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-beauties/617735/54 "2012-04-05T14:31:43Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > I think she should keep the brunette locks. They suit her. I disagree, but I’ve been smitten with her since _The Bill Engvall Show_. Crap, did I just admit to watching _The Bill Engvall Show_? ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-beauties/617735/55 "2012-04-05T15:39:59Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > If I were Mal, I would have let [Inara](http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080301063011/firefly/images/c/c3/Inara02.jpg) keep the shuttle and hooked up with [Kaylee](http://images.wikia.com/firefly/images/5/55/Kaylee.jpg) in a heartbeat. Tssk, tsssk… everyone keeps getting it wrong. Neither of those were near [the hottest woman](http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn114/hot_daily/201010-xenahercules/GinaTorres05.jpg) on that crew. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Doom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Dr\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Doom)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-beauties/617735/56 "2012-04-05T16:16:53Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > Here is another one [Erica Durance](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erica_Durance). Being Canadian, I’m ashamed I’ve never heard of her. Thank you, she’s beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![Art\_Rock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/art_rock/32/525_2.png) [@Art\_Rock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Art_Rock)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-beauties/617735/57 "2012-04-05T16:20:18Z")
> [@gytalf2000](#): > > Kate Jackson of “Charlie’s Angels” fame is the first person to come to my mind. > [http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/WaowR67NICg/hqdefault.jpg](http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/WaowR67NICg/hqdefault.jpg) > > I always thought that she was prettier than Farrah, who got most of the attention. > (Of course, Kate always made a point of not dressing in skimpy clothing, unlike the other Angels.) Seconded, Kate was always my favourite angel by far. ---
**Author:** ![Christopher\_Robin\_Davies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8dc957/32.png) [@Christopher\_Robin\_Davies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Christopher_Robin_Davies)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-beauties/617735/58 "2012-04-05T16:28:19Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > I have mentioned it before, but I have long held that the two lead actresses from TV’s _Fraiser,_ Jane Leeves (Daphne) and Peri Gilpin (Roz), were two of most attractive women on all of television, but neither one was ever much heralded as a great beauty by the press. > > I never got why both women weren’t more acclaimed for their looks, 'cause to my eyes both are absolutely stone-cold STUNNERS. > > I understand that Jane Leeves is now on a new sit-com, but don’t know how she looks these days, but I am guessing she is still lovely… I think Jane Leeves was supposed to be notably hot even though her character was generally dressed down and not glamorous except when she chose to be. I first noticed her on a syndicated show called Throb in the 80s when she was definitely intended to be hot. Agree with you about Peri Gilpin as well. The fact that Frasier was not smitten with her from day one was evidence of his not being a well man. ---
**Author:** ![Christopher\_Robin\_Davies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8dc957/32.png) [@Christopher\_Robin\_Davies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Christopher_Robin_Davies)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-beauties/617735/59 "2012-04-05T16:36:33Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Is Alyson Hannigan generally considered a beauty? She’s certainly good looking, but, for reasons I’ve tried to quantify but can’t, she just looks a little goofy. I would not say that Alyson Hannigan is prettier than average but but she is extremely sexy or at least good at playing characters who are extremely sexy. Everything about her character on How I Met Your Mother screams that she likes sex and is very good at it. There is a difference between sexy and beautiful I think. Oh and the goofy thing is the way her mouth is shaped I think and I think it mostly come across in still shots. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-beauties/617735/60 "2012-04-05T18:14:15Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Tssk, tsssk… everyone keeps getting it wrong. Neither of those were near [the hottest woman](http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn114/hot_daily/201010-xenahercules/GinaTorres05.jpg) on that crew. Apparently also the clumsiest. How does one get up elegantly from that position? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-beauties/617735.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-beauties/617735.md?page=4)