# Your "instant boner" actors/actresses in character **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 1, 2013, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324 "2013-07-01T06:59:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Runestar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/74df32/32.png) [@Runestar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runestar)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/121 "2013-07-03T19:24:05Z")
[quote=“stoplight, post:105, topic:662324”] The green lady in the original Star Trek [![](http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTgH71zVLgCOyBUfsV9B_fpkW7E7u1ODyFXBlTTKFXS5rxmbTJc) ](http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTgH71zVLgCOyBUfsV9B_fpkW7E7u1ODyFXBlTTKFXS5rxmbTJc) That’s Yvonne Craig isn’t it? AKA Barbara Gordon/Batgirl from the 60’s TV series? Definitely pushed my buttons. And put me down as another one for Erin Gray in Buck Rogers. Spandex. Yow. ---
**Author:** ![blindboyard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindboyard/32/2833_2.png) [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/122 "2013-07-03T19:44:16Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > in that same vein, there is just something about Alan Tudyk as Hoban “Wash” Washburne in Firefly, but in other movies he is just a big goof ball. I’m guessing you haven’t seen “42” yet. Goofy is definitely not the word I’d use. Helen Slater in 12:01. Obscure, I know. Olivia’s sister in Fringe. ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/123 "2013-07-03T19:46:36Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > The same thing when I saw **Hugh Laurie** winning an award for “House.” I was an instant fan of the show and the actor. For me he’s a great example of what the OP asks - I have the hots for him but only as the character Dr House. I’d watched him as an actor/comedian for years and years and he never remotely registered as fanciable. Then he’s starts playing a miserable tortured sarcastic genius and I swoon. I do wonder what this says about my taste in men. ---
**Author:** ![Alma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Alma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alma)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/124 "2013-07-03T20:32:54Z")
Henry Ian Cusik as [Desmond Hume](http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7bv19mgas1qkvhhi.jpg) on LOST. [In](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wpIoJEMgYU0/TLCOCap0aVI/AAAAAAAAAP0/N7wKdG5THOw/s1600/UM01+Desmond+Royal+Scots.jpg) [any](http://eyeoftheisland.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/deswillrunyouover.jpg) [timeline](http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091220165947/lostpedia/images/3/32/3x22_GoodbyeCharlie.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/125 "2013-07-03T20:54:04Z")
Firestar from Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends. She was absolutely undeniably hot, pun intended. She was introduced in X-Men comic a few years later and got her own miniseries but she was no way as intriguing there as she was in the cartoon. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/126 "2013-07-03T21:07:35Z")
> [@blindboyard](#): > > Helen Slater in 12:01. Obscure, I know. Helen Slater in anything she’s ever done. She looked great in _[Supergirl](http://mimg.ugo.com/201006/48818/cuts/helen-slater-supergirl_480x270.jpg)_ thirty years ago and she still looks great [today](http://www.contactmusic.com/pics/lf/Disney_TCA_winter_Press_tour_3_110113/helen-slater-disney-abc-television-group-hosts_20053350.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/127 "2013-07-03T21:24:53Z")
Benedict Cumberbatch is gorgeous in _anything_ he does - Jesus Christ, those cerulean eyes, that velvet voice - but OMFG him as Sherlock. “Brainy is the new sexy” indeed! Oddly enough, Martin Freeman is the opposite of this for me - I don’t find myself attracted to him at all when watching him on screen, but his personality in interviews makes me want to strip him naked and have his way with me IRL. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/128 "2013-07-03T21:49:12Z")
_ **BSG** _ had plenty of eye candy. Tricia Helfer as “Six” was practically sex incarnate. But these two were the instant boner-inducers for me: [Kandyse McClure](http://content8.flixster.com/photo/10/26/46/10264694_ori.jpg) (“Dee”) - my god, those eyes [Katee Sackhoff](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltn2wnNvJj1qbcw1do1_500.jpg) (“Starbuck”) - I know some viewers didn’t like her much, but she totally turns me on. She’s on \*Longmire \*now. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/129 "2013-07-03T22:10:51Z")
[Amanda Righetti](https://www.google.com/search?gs_rn=17&gs_ri=psy-ab&tok=IiADtc6cco1oNnO4RRtJXA&cp=12&gs_id=1c&xhr=t&q=amanda+righetti&safe=off&biw=1920&bih=955&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=V6HUUYXtD8SJyAHR-ID4Aw) as Grace Van Pelt on the Mentalist. ---
**Author:** ![stoplight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@stoplight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stoplight)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/130 "2013-07-03T22:39:06Z")
[quote=“Runestar, post:121, topic:662324”] > [@stoplight](#): > > The green lady in the original Star Trek > [http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTgH71zVLgCOyBUfsV9B\_fpkW7E7u1ODyFXBlTTKFXS5rxmbTJc](http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTgH71zVLgCOyBUfsV9B_fpkW7E7u1ODyFXBlTTKFXS5rxmbTJc) > > That’s Yvonne Craig isn’t it? AKA Barbara Gordon/Batgirl from the 60’s TV series? Definitely pushed my buttons. > > And put me down as another one for Erin Gray in Buck Rogers. Spandex. Yow. good catch!!! [![](http://www.classictvbeauties.com/Yvonne_Craig.jpg) ](http://www.classictvbeauties.com/Yvonne_Craig.jpg) in or out of the pool Amanda Beard [http://munfitnessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/amanda-beard-04.jpg](http://munfitnessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/amanda-beard-04.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/131 "2013-07-03T23:12:31Z")
> [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](#): > > Benedict Cumberbatch is gorgeous in _anything_ he does - Jesus Christ, those cerulean eyes, that velvet voice - but OMFG him as Sherlock. “Brainy is the new sexy” indeed! I got my colors mixed up. Celadon, not cerulean. I was _thinking_ the right color, just had mislabled it in my head. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/132 "2013-07-03T23:22:33Z")
> [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](#): > > I got my colors mixed up. Celadon, not cerulean. I was _thinking_ the right color, just had mislabled it in my head. Have you seen [him blonde](http://oi46.tinypic.com/x3zw54.jpg) in the new Julian Assange movie? I think he’s super sexy with his natural hair color, but have kind of a refusal for the near albino look. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2013, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/133 "2013-07-04T00:13:51Z")
Jessica Lange in _King Kong_ (even though the movie sucked). Also, Jessica Lange (in her underwear!) in _Tootsie_. Karen Allen in _Animal House, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Starman…_ ---
**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:** [July 4, 2013, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/134 "2013-07-04T00:42:18Z")
Cobie Smulders in _The Avengers_. I liked her in early _HIMYM_ as well, but in recent years her character has got more annoying. While in _Avengers_ she is just kick-ass and hot and wears a military uniform, [thank you very much](http://ipadwallsdepot.com/detail/cobie-smulders_00049325.jpg). Apparently she cameos in the new _Agents of SHIELD_. ---
**Author:** ![chewsick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@chewsick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chewsick)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2013, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/135 "2013-07-04T01:15:38Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#): > > Jessica Lange in _King Kong_ (even though the movie sucked). Also, Jessica Lange (in her underwear!) in _Tootsie_. You officially r an asshole, because I fucking like that woman in _All That Jazz_, _Tootsie_, the remake of _Cape Fear_…you name it. I think ur breaking the rules, though – a particular character, wasn’t it. So that leaves Jessica Lange ca. late 1970s-1990s to me. Step off! ---
**Author:** ![Quercus\_alba](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quercus_alba/32/4061_2.png) [@Quercus\_alba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus_alba)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2013, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/136 "2013-07-04T01:17:28Z")
> [@Cuckoorex](#): > > [Amanda Righetti](https://www.google.com/search?gs_rn=17&gs_ri=psy-ab&tok=IiADtc6cco1oNnO4RRtJXA&cp=12&gs_id=1c&xhr=t&q=amanda+righetti&safe=off&biw=1920&bih=955&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=V6HUUYXtD8SJyAHR-ID4Aw) as Grace Van Pelt on the Mentalist. Oh MMYyyyy! ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2013, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/137 "2013-07-04T02:04:45Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Cobie Smulders in _The Avengers_. I liked her in early _HIMYM_ as well, but in recent years her character has got more annoying. While in _Avengers_ she is just kick-ass and hot and wears a military uniform, [thank you very much](http://ipadwallsdepot.com/detail/cobie-smulders_00049325.jpg). Apparently she cameos in the new _Agents of SHIELD_. Oh yes, I’d almost forgotten about her! In the very same movie that had Scarlett Johansen looking like every man’s dream, Cobie about smacked me out of my theater seat when I first saw her. Another one I need to add: [Holliday Grainger](http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/holliday-grainger/images/32224322/title/holliday-sophia-merlin-bbc-photo) in her guest appearance as Sophia, a “villain” in a first season episode of the BBC’s “The Adventures of Merlin”. Again, the photo doesn’t convey it, but in the TV episode she just got me all wound up. She didn’t do anything overtly “sexy”, and she spent the entire episode in an ankle-length dress. Instead, it was all quick, sideways glances at Arthur, and it just came across in a way that I couldn’t resist. Anyway, I wanted to re-emphasize the intent of my OP. Most posters have gotten it, but there has been a bit of drift. I’m not looking for actors/actresses you simply find “hot”. I’m looking for those cases where the _instant_ a character appears onscreen, you go “WHOA! ME WANT!” In my own personal examples, I find it interesting that the actresses in question have been those I probably wouldn’t go out of my way to find more of their work. They just played a particular part, maybe in a particular scene, where there was something about it that pushed all the right buttons for me. ---
**Author:** ![chewsick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@chewsick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chewsick)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2013, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/138 "2013-07-04T02:36:19Z")
Oh, and also the Lana Turner character from the big-name remake of _Postman_ played by Jessica Lange. She was pretty hot for a Mediterranean character. Also stiff peaks and breadsticks in that one scene. Nice. ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2013, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/139 "2013-07-04T03:41:25Z")
After all that plastic surgery, Jessica Lange is now an [instant deboner](http://plasticosurgery.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Jessica-Lange-Plastic-Surgery.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2013, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324/140 "2013-07-04T03:45:37Z")
> [@AnalogSignal](#): > > After all that plastic surgery, Jessica Lange is now an [instant deboner](http://plasticosurgery.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Jessica-Lange-Plastic-Surgery.jpg). Of course you have to love that they’re using a before and after picture that probably has 35 years between when they were taken. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-instant-boner-actors-actresses-in-character/662324.md?page=8)