Bad actresses

[stanwyck]

Not to be sexist (we can have a bad actors thread later), but I'm inspired to bring up bad actresses since "A Kiss Before Dying" is on TV starring Matt Dillon (who's actually not bad) and Sean Young. I remember seeing this movie years ago and I didn't remember how incredibly bad an actress Sean Young is.
No wonder she's disappeared.
But. She has changed her hair style (and color) four times. So far. I think the hair changes are a desperate attempt to cover for her wooden acting.
Any other nominees for "bad actress"?

[Arkham House]

1. Raquel Welch...?

Ms Wooden Indian...and let's not forget Lana Turner, who managed to be a hole in the screen in every movie she ever made...

[huskerlaw]

2. Julia Roberts

She "acts" like the same person in every fucking movie. Really, I think she's just dressing up, reading lines...and otherwise being herself.

[dajoki]

5. Great choice!!

:bounce: May I also add Bo Derrick?

[huskerlaw]

7. By all means!

I would also like to add Madonna. Don't quit the day job, sweetie. Acting is just not your thing.

[dajoki]

12. WE seem to have the same taste...

in actresses.:toast:

[kerstin]

89. I beg to disagree.

Actually she was rather good in her acting debut in "Desperately Seeking Susan."

[Mad_Dem_X]

85. Definitely

One of the most overracted "actresses" of all time. I can't believe she won an Oscar!

[philosophie_en_rose]

3. Claire Forlani, Kristen Kreuk, Britney Spears.

[Broken_Hero]

4. Good choices...but I would add

Drew Barrymore to that list...never was a fan of hers...

[Radical Activist]

14. Oh no

I can't believe you just dissed Drew. :hurts:

[jobycom]

26. Meryl Streep, Jodi Foster, Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman

Yes, they are all exceptionally talented actresses, but it's so cool on DU to diss popular artists that I had to get in on it. And someone will mention each of them, anyway, 'cause it's cool.

[lukasahero]

45. :)

Thanks for that. :)

[blondeatlast]

76. ...

:thumbsup:

:rofl:

[stanwyck]

83. Not good. But not bad, either

and there is a special category for actors/actresses who aren't all that talented, but endearing anyway.
My dad has a real affection for Ava Gardner -- not that good of an actress, but he just doesn't care.

[KamaAina]

52. Has Britney actually attempted to act in anything

more demanding than a three-minute music video?

I can certainly imagine how awful she would be, though... :puke:

[philosophie_en_rose]

61. It's called "Crossroads."

A craptacular movie, if there ever was one.

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[Scooter24]

8. Mariah Carey

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[tuvor]

10. Pia Zadora

Sorta like the Paris Hilton of the 80s.

[CBHagman]

17. Oh, no, you had to bring up Pia.

I saw her in a stage production of Applause once, and "grating" is too polite an adjective to use on her.

[begin_within]

73. The difference is, Pia can sing - and well enough that Frank Sinatra told

her she should sing the standards.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

94. Pia Zadora, the woman who actually demolished Pickfair

way to respect a vital piece of hollywood history

[cemaphonic]

11. Melanie Griffith

Though every once in awhile she is inexplicably good.

Sean Young was notoriously hard to work with. I wonder if that has anything to do with why she always comes off so poorly.

Definitely not your namesake though. She rules.

[Arugula Latte]

63. I think Melanie is the worst ever.

Gawd, she's bad. Horrible! Unwatchable! x(

[YellowRubberDuckie]

67. She's great in Crazy in Alabama.

If you haven't seen it, it's great.
Duckie

[Mad_Dem_X]

86. Yes! Even worse than Julia

I'd forgotten about Melanie. If her mom weren't famous, she would not have gotten any acting jobs at all. I could tolerate her in "Working Girl," but that's it.

Actually, the worst of them all is Madonna. Hands down.

[noonwitch]

13. Demi Moore

She's pretty and she'll strip naked for the director. Other than that, she's no better than she was 20+ years ago on GH.

[mitchum]

70. Good call...she is very attractive, but her absolute stiffness...

results in her being quite unsexy (no matter how naked she gets)

[Phillycat]

15. Mischa Barton

Blergh.

[mad-mommy]

16. tori spelling

[LynneSin]

18. Laura Bush

We can tell that smile on her face is forced

[GoddessOfGuinness]

40. hehheh

:evilgrin:

[ceile]

19. Jennifer Love Hewitt

[WCGreen]

30. Yes, I so do not get that at all.....

She is just horrible...

And yet, she still makes a living....

Me thinks it be the breasts.....

[CBGLuthier]

20. Madonna still has to be the worst to call herself an actress

Stinks at it. I am not a fan of her singing work but at least she has talent there.

And she has absolutely ruined the career of Guy Ritchie.

[latebloomer]

32. Argh! I saw her on Broadway once

in a play called "Speed the Plough."

She was just dreadful-- very stilted and "actressy" sounding.

I've seen better acting in middle school productions. Seriously.

[Beausoir]

21. Orlando Bloom.

[devilgrrl]

22. Friggin' Meg Ryan

I will see no movie that she's in.

[kwassa]

33. Me either.

I hate perky.

[stanwyck]

38. Meg is dangerously close

to getting the Goldie Hawn "I'm old enough to be a grandmother but I'm still pretending to be a teenager" award.
Both actresses rely way too much on cutesy-pookie little girl antics. Lots of pajama wearing and hair tossing.
That said, I don't think either are truly in the bad actress category. It's just painful to see them both portray themselves as preteens.
It's like watching Tom Cruise in "War of the Worlds" play Dad as a rebellious teenager. Look at my hot car! Look at my hot clothes! Look at how I don't act like a regular Dad! I'm a cool Dad.
And Meg and Goldie always have to be cool. Kids.

[LostinVA]

49. Meg ruined her looks with nasty plastic surgery and too much dieting

[devilgrrl]

101. Goldie Hawn was good in 'Deceived'

total departure from her 'perky' self. Decent movie too boot.

[stanwyck]

102. "Deceived" is good, modern noir

and probably not seen by very many people. It's well done. John Heard, who I like, is intriguing. And the New York yuppie lifestyle isn't just for Hollywood glamour, it's very much integral....like the brownstone and neighbors in "Rosemary's Baby". The suspense really builds and the entire cast holds together.
Still not that crazy about Goldie in the movie...but, you're right, she did depart from her preteen, giggly schtick and she didn't act totally with her ass, as in other movies. Really. Watch her other movies, if you dare, she acts primarily with her round butt. That's where the camera stays. And probably should. It's more developed than her acting.

[Karenca]

23. Barbra Streisand

Every role she stars in she's always playng "Barbra".

[dback]

74. I challenge: "Up the Sandbox"

A film in which she is nothing like her usual persona. Also "All Night Long."

Both are considered art-house pics, and both failed, sending her back to more conventional choices (for her).

However, she was flat-out awful in "The Main Event," and good only her concert scenes in "A Star Is Born."

[AlwaysQuestion]

90. No! No! Say it isn't so

You can't talk like that about Babs. I think she was priceless in "Funny Girl" and "What's Up, Doc?" But I will go along with Madonna being the pits and most definitely Lana Turner. Another is that English gal who played the live-in housekeeper/therapist. Had it not been for her I'd have loved "Frasier."

[begin_within]

79. Ya know what I mean?

[Left Is Write]

24. Melanie Griffith.

[southpaw]

25. Andie McDowell

I've always found her unconvincing and sophomoric.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

29. Ugh

I can't stand her.

I don't know what it is -- if it's that accent or the bad acting or what but I can just barely watch a movie with her in it.

[smirkymonkey]

71. She's awful! Totally ruined "Four Weddings and a Funeral"

I would also add to the list:

Tara Reid
Julia Roberts
Keira Knightly
Madonna
Uma Thurman
Demi Moore
Jennifer Tilly
Kirsten Dunst

And most singers & models who go into acting after they have made a name for themselves in their chosen profession.

[dback]

72. I challenge: "sex lies & videotape" "Short Cuts" & "Unstrung Heroes"

She's done some great work here and there.

[SacredCow]

27. Minnie Driver, Lara Flynn Boyle come to mind...

And I don't really have any arguements against those already mentioned.

[Zavulon]

28. Jorja Fox and Emily Procter

There was a bad actress on the New York version of CSI, too, but she was killed off.

[Zavulon]

34. BTW, I think Matt Dillon is terrible. (NT)

[azmouse]

31. Kirstie Alley

[KamaAina]

51. That's B-A-D actress,not...

y'know, The Phrase That Must Not Be Typed that means "large female thespian" :evilgrin:

[kwassa]

35. Andie McDowell

[Lydia Leftcoast]

36. The actress who played Mozart's wife in Amadeus

Konstanze Mozart with a Valley Girl accent.

Fortunately, that seems to have been her only movie.

[skygazer]

37. Elizabeth Berridge

I think that's how you spell it. Yeah, she was appalling. I love that movie but cringe at every scene she's in. Jarring.

[jobycom]

60. Why was her accent any better or worse than anyone else's in the film?

It was funny how everyone in Vienna spoke English. Once past that, I didn't much care what accent anyone had. Hulce's and Abraham's was no more nor no less appropriate than hers.

Meg Tilly was supposed to get the part. I wonder if she would have had a better career if she had. Tilly may have been better, but I don't find anything wrong with Berridge's performance. She was supposed to be something of a low-class street kid, and that's what she sounded like.

She was in Hidalgo, too, btw. And a few tv shows, and some small budget stuff. Looked her up on IMDB. She's had about as illustrious a career as Hulce.

I wouldn't call her a good actress, but with people like Tess Harper wandering around, I wouldn't put her near the bottom.

[Flaxbee]

39. Catherine Zeta Jones

I know she's lovely, she really is a beautiful woman, but she was awful in "Terminal" and didn't really do much in either Zorro movie. Lots of hair flipping and sultry gazes, not much else. I haven't seen Chicago so I can't judge her Oscar performance.

[Blue_Tires]

44. another vote for her

[Blue_Tires]

41. Scarlett Johansson

yeah, i said it!:hide:

and just to clarify, she's not 'bad' as much as she is 'horribly overrated'

for a long time now, so many top-rated actresses' "talent" lay solely in their cute, charming faces and hard bodies (see Sharon Stone in her heyday)

[AtomicKitten]

47. she makes up for in the looks department

wow

[cedahlia]

66. I'll back you up on that one!

I can't stand her! She is definitely (IMHO) riding along on her looks and the whole smoldering sexuality thing. Not that there aren't a ton of other celebrities doing the same irritating thing, but she really annoys me because of all the constant fawning that is done over her...and for what?? I find her acting performances to be very very underwhelming, and I don't think she's sexy either! Same goes for Angelina Jolie...I just don't see where either one of them are talented or doing anything spectacular in their craft. They're both waaaaay overrated.

[Jade Fox]

75. She's lovely, but she's got a lotta learning to do...

She was completely unconvincing in her freak out scenes in that Woody Allen movie "Match Point". You can see her self-consciousness a lot of the time.

[AtomicKitten]

42. I used to think Renee Zelwegger

until Cold Mountain. Had to admit she was quite good.

[Blue_Tires]

43. you know,

for the first time, i saw one of those bridget jones movies last month, and the one thought that kept popping up in my mind was that she had THE MOST cartoonish, unconvincing pseudo-english accent i have ever heard!

[LostinVA]

50. Huugh Grant and Colin Firth loved it... just saying

[stanwyck]

58. I loved her in Bridget Jones!

I thought she was charming as hell.

[Karenca]

46. IMO, All these actresses listed do suck.

You're all right.

I wrote Streisand, but Renee Zellweger is particularly hard to watch.

[Liberalynn]

48. Patricia Heaton

Nt

[Kerrytravelers]

84. patricia heaton... yuck... puke... ugh... just plain sucky!

My God, I hate hearing her screech on Everybody Loves Raymond. I think the show could be funny, but only if Marie were to just deck her!

And those awful Albertson's commercials. Oh, I could just scream!

[pokerfan]

53. Elizabeth Berkley

Showgirls. Enough said.

[kwassa]

55. yuck yuck yuck

she was completely unbelievable in that role ... but who could be?

[Divameow77]

54. Jessica Simpson

and I haven't even seen her movie, I just know.

[KamaAina]

91. Hell, Lisa Simpson's gotta be better than her!

at least she's two-dimensional!

[martymar64]

56. Sofia Coppola

Her acting was very wooden in Godfather 3, but to give her props, she has turned out to be a talented director.

[AtomicKitten]

57. yes she has

which almost makes up for GF3. Winona! You could have been a contender.

[Blue_Tires]

62. her death in GF3 is just comical

you almost want to jump in the screen and hug the assassin

[judaspriestess]

59. I think Kate Bosworth is pretty pathetic

absolutely hated,hated, hated her acting on Superman. What a disgusting choice for Lois Lane

[Writer]

64. Jennifer Lopez

Why this half-talented singer and so-called actress even gets screen time is beyond me.

[MountainMama]

65. Lest we forget....

Tara Reid! Whoever decided she could act?

[hfojvt]

82. I totally loved her in

Josie and the Pussycats. I have not seen her in anything else.

[cedahlia]

68. They've ruined so many movies for me!

I'm talking about:

Kirsten Dunst
Julia Roberts
Kate Beckinsale
Katie Holmes
Scarlett Johansson
Angelina Jolie
Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer Lopez

I'm sure there's other blaaah, highly overrated actresses out there that get on my nerves, too...I just can't remember them all right now! :-)

And yes, there certainly are plenty of boring, overrated male actors out there who could fill their own thread, too! Josh Hartnett is a good start for that list...ugh.

[mitchum]

69. Penelope Ann Miller only has a career because she is this...

superWASPY looking woman who is willing to take her top off. Absolutely wretched.

Also, Lee Remick in "Anatomy of a Murder" Possibly the most wooden performance I have ever seen.

[blondeatlast]

77. Jennifer Aniston. Wooden, no timing, so girl-next-door look she bores

to death.

And she looked better pre-plastic surgery (see Office Space).

[begin_within]

78. I always thought Joan Cusack was pretty grating. Even though she won

an Oscar for "In and Out" which she was passable in, but everything else I've seen her in I thought her high-strung histrionics were pretty amateurish.

[Left Is Write]

88. I don't care for Joan Cusack either.

[stanwyck]

96. Wait a minute. Her "Debbie" from Adams Family II

totally redeems her.
There are some actors/actresses that get a pass for one role. And Joan gets that for Debbie, the psychopath who killed because her parents bought her the wrong Barbie. And without Debbie, would we have that wonderful line from Morticia?
Morticia lists an entire litany of evil deeds Debbie has committed.
But the only sin that bothers Morticia?
Pastels.

[sofa king]

80. I think Marilyn Monroe deserves mention.

Her on-set behavior was so poor it that she is often accused of being responsible for the death of Clark Gable during the filming of The Misfits. In Some Like It Hot she required 59 takes to properly say, "where's the bourbon?" and some think that Billy Wilder finally just had that line dubbed in.

That said, when she got it right, she got it perfect, and nobody admitted that more readily than Billy Wilder.

[IntravenousDemilo]

81. Sharon Stone.

Has she ever been in a good movie?

[KamaAina]

92. Umm... Casino?

just taking a wild stab there.

[IntravenousDemilo]

98. OK, I'll give you that one.

Casino was way better than Kundun (bleh!) and Gangs of New York (ugh!), that's for sure. It's by no means one of my favourite Scorsese movies, though. I prefer his more atypical films (he's a genius, but a lot of his movies seem like one another after a while); I'd say my top three are After Hours, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, and King of Comedy. But I digress...

[Blue_Tires]

87. Cameron Diaz probably belong on the list as well

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

100. I thought she was really good in "Being John Malkovich"

She's pretty varied in her roles.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

93. wynona ryder

i like her personally- she seems cool and i've had a crush on her nearly 20 years-but can she act?

no, not really.

[Redstone]

95. Bonnie Franklin. Hands down, no contest, worst EVER.

Redstone

[Anarcho-Socialist]

97. Julia Roberts and Andie McDowell

I've yet to see either of them act, instead they play versions of themselves on screen.

[CanuckAmok]

99. She's also completely insane.

I dis a movie with her in 1996. I don't want to make fun of her, because she's clearly bipolar, if not full-on manic, but, boy, is she nuts! I think her disappearance has more to do with her being basically unmanageable then with her being a poor actor; I somehow suspect precious few people have been booted out of Hollywood for being lousy actors.