Strange/Weird Actresses

[Conrad]

The "Siobhan" is pronounced "Shevaun"; it's the Irish version of the name.  31 or 45 or what, I think she has a nice nose, which is a big saving grace.

I definitely wouldn't let Elina Lowensohn babysit for me.  She *may * be a very warm sweet person in real life, but I don't think I want to chance it.

[JohnL]

Nancy Parsons - Miss Balbricker in the Porkies movies.
Zelda Rubenstein - Tangina from Poltergeist

[peter johnson]

I just love Nancy Parsons -- she also has a great great part as Rory Calhoun's daughter in "Motel Hell" (It takes all kinds of critters to make farmer (someone's) fritters).
I spent the better part of an afternoon once with Edie McClurg when I was recording the radio version of "Wizard of Oz" -- she plays Mrs. Stork.  Very nice & funny in person.  Had an enormous handbag that resembled a giant skunk -- zipper down its back.  We mostly chatted about the project at hand -- didn't ask her for any John Candy stories, though "Planes/Trains" is really an excellent screen comedy -- saw it again just recently on latenight.
My new favorite weird actress is that one whose name I forget who has most recently been seen as the publicist-without-a-brain in "A Mighty Wind".  She's done lots of oddball stuff, usually with an ethnic bent.
I'm having the worst time with names tonight!:  I'm thinking of a British character actress who specialized in these bug-eyed villager eccentrics -- last seen as one of the little old ladies in Brooks' "The Producers", but a bit player in countless Universal & MGM films -- damn!  She looks a bit like Maggie Smith, & was famously frightened by the Frankenstein monster in Ghost of(?).  Did this stuttering chicken bit when frightened.  Oh, well . . .
peter johnson

[Neville]

Ammanda Plummer.

[Brock]

Selma Blair.  I heart her, but she's weird as all hell.

[Conrad]

Birdsweat!  I know exactly who you mean - she manifested a Scottish accent, IIRC.  Cannot remember her name, though.

[AndyC]

peter johnson wrote:

> My new favorite weird actress is that one whose name I forget
> who has most recently been seen as the
> publicist-without-a-brain in "A Mighty Wind".

Jennifer Coolidge. Seeing her in A Mighty Wind, it's hard to believe she was also Stifler's mom in the American Pie movies.

[Lee]

Neville wrote:

> Ammanda Plummer.
>

No argument there! Don't get me wrong, I think Amanda is cool but sometimes I wonder how much she has in common with the characters she plays.


Britney Murphy seems to like playing weirdos.

[Newt]

Alice Krige

And that one with the ice-blue eyes - I could never tell where she was looking.  A Kirstie Alley look-a-like. But spookier.

[JohnL]

>And that one with the ice-blue eyes

Meg Foster

[regan]

How can no one mention Shawnee Smith!!!

[The Burgomaster]

I must have seen CARRIE about 12 times.  The other day, I bought the DVD and realized, for the first time, that a very young Edie McClurg plays the part of Helen!