Saturday, September 19, 2020

Jessica Marie Alba (Warren)

Her's one of my favorite Fantastic Femmes...Jessica Marie Alba!
As an action performer, she's competent. Has done stunts whenever feasible.
As an actress, she's vastly improved from her days on The Secret Life of Alex Mack.
Enjoys doing physical comedy (even when the script is truly awful as in Good Luck Chuck)!
And please, no more bombs like The Love Guru!!!
Even with her in it, it's unwatchable!
Genre appearances include...
LA's Finest (Nancy McKenna)
El Camino Christmas (Beth Flowers)
The Veil (Maggie Price)
Barely Lethal (Victoria Knox)
Spy Kids 4D: All the Time in the World (Marissa Cortez Wilson)
Machete/Machete Kills! (Sartana)
Killer Inside Me (Joyce Lakeland)
Dark Angel/Dark Angel: the Video Game (Max Guevera aka X5-452)
The Eye (Sydney Wells)
Awake (Samantha Lockwood aka Sam)
The Ten (Elizabeth Ann Blazer)
Fantastic Four/Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer/Fantastic Four: the Video Game/Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer: the Video Game (Invisible Woman aka Susan Storm-Richards)
Sin City/Sin City 2 (Nancy Callahan)
Paranoid (Chloe)
Idle Hands (Molly)
Flipper (Maya Graham)
For the record; appearances where she's skimpily-attired...

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Tamlyn Naomi Tomita

Before becoming an actress, teen Tamlyn Naomi Tomita won the title of Queen of the Nisei Week Pageant in Los Angeles and Miss Nikkei International.
She made her acting debut in Karate Kid Part II. On the film she met long-time actress Nobu McCarthy, also a former beauty queen. The veteran actress became a role model, mentor and close friend to Tamlyn, making it especially difficult when, in 2002, Nobu passed away unexpectedly while the two performers were shooting Gaijin 2 on location in Brazil.
Tamlyn's noted for playing emotionally-intense, conflicted, characters.

Trivia:

Had she continued in the role of Laurel Takashima on Babylon 5, it would have been revealed that she was the Psi Corps "sleeper agent" responsible for the attempted assassination of Ambassador Kosh in the pilot. (Instead, the actual assassin was revealed as a guest-star character, and the idea of making a regular character a mind-controlled agent was transferred to Talia Winters.)
It's implied that Dr. Linda Kimura in Criminal Minds "Amplification" is actually Dr. Kimberly Shiroma from Burning Zone, including her knowledge of covert biological experiments and the line "It's been years since I've worn one of these!" (referring to a hazmat suit).
She's currently in Star Trek: Picard as Commodore Oh, a Vulcan Starfleet officer revealed to be a Romulan spy!
Genre appearances include...
Star Trek: Picard (Commodore/General Oh)
Man in the High Castle (Tamiko Wantanabe)
Law & Order: LA (Medical Examiner Nishizawa)
Tekken (Jun Kazama)
Mentalist "BloodShot"
CSI: Miami "Seeing Red"
Criminal Minds "Amplification" (Dr. Linda Kimura)
The Eye [2008] (Mrs. Cheung)
Heroes (Ishi Nakamura)
Stargate SG-1 / Stargate Atlantis (Ambassador Shen Xiaoyi)
Womens' Murder Club "Maybe Baby"
24 (Jenny Dodge)
Eureka (Kim Anderson/Kim Anderson Clone)
Pandemic (Melissa Lo)
Threat Matrix "Under the Gun"
The Shield "Pilot"
The Agency (Elizabeth)
FreakyLinks "Subject: the Final Word"
JAG (Lt. Cmdr. Tracy Manetti)
James Bond 007: NightFire [VG] (Makiko Hayashi)
Highlander "Samurai"
Day After Tomorrow (Janet Tokada)
Runaway Virus (Monique Chao)
Robot Stories (Marcia)
Burning Zone (Dr. Kimberly Shiroma)
Babylon 5 "The Gathering" (Lieutenant Commander Laurel Takashima)
Last Man on Planet Earth (Agent Kara Hastings)
Killing Jar (Diane Sanford)
Murder She Wrote "Death in Hawaii"
Vanishing Son (Lan Chi)
Time Trax "Return of the Yakuza"
Quantum Leap "Temptation Eyes: February 1, 1985"
Raven (Kim Tanaka)
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Tamlyn's FaceBook page

Saturday, February 1, 2020

Jennifer Lynn Lopez (Noa / Judd / Anthony)

Your first thought is "Jennifer Lopez's done action / sci-fi / fantasy?"
While most of her films (including the newest one The Back-Up Plan) are, indeed, fantasies, they're romance fantasies.
But, JLo's done some true genre work (and done it well)!
And, truth to tell, I miss the sassy hot-body dancer of her In Living Color "Fly Girl" days...but even though she's hitting the Big 5-0, the lady's still HOT!

Genre appearances include...
Shades of Blue (Harlee Santos)
Lila & Eve (Eve Rafael)
Parker (Leslie Rodgers)
Enough (Slim Hiller)
The Cell (Katherine Deane)
Money Train (Grace Santiago)
U Turn (Grace McKenna)
Anaconda (Terri Flores)
Out of Sight (Karen Sisco)
Antz (Azteca)
Angel Eyes (Sharon Pogue)

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