Sunday, November 21, 2010

Aisha N Tyler (Tietjens)

A superb improv comedienne who made Talk Soup a must-see during her tenure as host, Aisha is also both a tech / video game aficionado and a serious home brewer, making her a fanboy fave as much for her magnificent mind as her bodacious bod!
She was also a multi-ep guest critic on At the Movies Ebert & Roper, easily besting Richard Roper in both analysis and cinema knowledge!
If only she wasn't already married... ;-(
Genre appearances include...
XIII: The Series (Major Jones)
Gears of War 3 ( Commander Walker)
Archer (Agent Lana Kane)
Forgotten (Lydia Townsend)
Black Water Transit (Casey Spandau)
Bedtime Stories (Donna Hynde)
Balls of Fury (Mahogany)
Boondocks "Attack of the Killer Kung-Fu Wolf Bitch" (Luna)
Death Sentence (Detective Wallis)
.45 (Liz)
The Santa Clause 2 / Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (Mother Nature)
Ghost Whisperer (Andrea Moreno)
CSI (Mia Dickerson)
Never Die Alone (Nancy)
24 (Marianne Taylor)

Check out...
Her Official WebSite
An AskMen Mag Page about Her!
Major Jones has also been played by Eve in XIII and Lucinda Davis in XIII: the Conspiracy

Monday, November 15, 2010

Linda Park

Most of Linda's work has been genre films or tv! (Not that I'm complaining...)
Regular cast member on four series, three of which were genre.
And, in my opinion, she's one of the few reasons to watch the first three seasons of Enterprise! (The fourth, and final, season was actually pretty good!)
Linda's a tae kwan do black belt and gifted ballroom dancer, as well as the founder of the Underground Asylum theater company.
Genre appearances include...
House MD "The Fix"
Mentalist "BloodHounds"
Crash (Maggie Cheon)
Infestation(Leechee)
Women's Murder Club (Denise Kwon)
Honor(Kate)
Raines (Sally Lance)
Spectres aka Soul Survivor (Renee Hansen)
Enterprise / Star Trek: Enterprise
(Hoshi Sato/Empress Sato the First)
Taken (Party Goer)
Jurassic Park III(Hannah)
Check out...
Linda's Official WebSite
The Linda Park FanSite

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Alicia Silverstone (Jarecki)

Hey, another Alicia!
A modern "flower child" type, Alicia first made a splash as a psychotic ingenue in films The Crush and The BabySitter and as a ditsy ingenue in the film Clueless.
Very involved in ecological and political causes, Alicia recently did a (tastefully) nude ad for PETA (which I've linked below).
Genre appearances include...
Vamps (Goody)
Tropic Thunder (Herself)
Silence Becomes You (Violet)
Alex Rider: Operation StormBreaker (Jack Starbright)
Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed / Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed [VG] (Heather)
Scorched (Sheila Rilo)
Rock My Worldaka Global Heresy (Natalie Bevin)
True Crime (Mary Giordano)
Hideaway (Regina)
Blast from the Past (Eve)
Batman and Robin (Batgirl / Barbara Wilson)
Check out...
The Kind Life
(Alicia's personal site about the vegan lifestyle)
Alicia at PETA
Alicia / Batgirl Tribute Page
Other actresses to play Batgirl include...
No one else has played Batgirl / Barbara Wilson (niece of Bruce Wayne's butler, Alfred Pennyworth).
All the other Batgirls have been Barbara Gordon (daughter / niece of Commissioner James Gordon)
(You thought I was gonna list over a dozen other Batgirls?)

Monday, November 8, 2010

Alicia Keys

Yet another singer (albeit a Grammy-Award winning performer) turned actress, Alicia made a cameo in an episode of Charmed, then hit the screen shooting as a lesbian assassin in Smokin' Aces.and received kudos for her dramatic ability in Secret Life of Bees!
UPDATE: Props to Ms. Keys for yet another Grammy win! Way to go, lady!
Genre appearances include...
Quantum of Solace[22nd Eon James Bond]
(co-performer w/ Jack White: main theme "Another Way To Die")
Hollywood Homicide(performer: "A Woman's Worth")
Dr. Dolittle 2(performer: "Rear View Mirror")
The Backyardiagans"Mission to Mars" (Boinga's Mom / performer: "Almost Everything is Boinga")
Smokin' Aces(Georgia Sykes)
Charmed"Size Matters"

Check out:
Alicia's Official Site
Alicia Keys Online (the #1 Source for ALL Things Alicia, according to them)