Stars In Other Roles: Doppelgangers!

[Lillybee]

The actor who plays Max had a bit part on a 2004 episode of CSI. He had maybe 10 seconds on but made the credits. He was a lovely corpse.

[WendyCR72]

Looks like Brandon Barash continues to work, albeit in some cheesy stuff: Per the Specials thread, the cast list of The Unauthorized Melrose Place TV movie has been released and Brandon will be playing Thomas Calabro/Michael Mancini in it. Hee.

 

I guess a paycheck is a paycheck, especially with a baby to feed!

[dubbel zout]

Harper obviously isn't pulling her weight on GH. 

[UYI]

I've never mentioned this here before, but David Lewis (the original Edward Quartermaine) had a guest appearance in one of my favorite episodes of The Andy Griffith Show. WHAT'S YOUR HURRY?

 

[Lillybee]

i am binging on CSI season 8. Sondra Eddy was in an episode. Guess what, she played a sassy black woman who owned a taxi company. It was great to see her out of scrubs. Rebecca B played a socialite who ran a dog fighting ring.

[Ceres]

Josh Duhon, who played Lulu's "brutally hot" (TM someone on the TWoP GH board) former boyfriend Logan Hayes, was on HBO's Ballers Sunday night.  He played the boyfriend of a character played by Marlo Thomas (!)

[peachmangosteen]

Kathleen Gati was briefly on this week's episode of The Fosters. I didn't even realize it was her at first, but my sister, who doesn't even watch GH was like 'Isn't that the crazy woman from GH?' LOL.

Edited August 5, 2015 by peachmangosteen

[dubbel zout]

Josh Duhon, who played Lulu's "brutally hot" (TM someone on the TWoP GH board)

I think that might have originally come from Serial Drama, back when Mallory had the strength to recap the show.

[Tiger]

Kathleen Gati was briefly on this week's episode of The Fosters. I didn't even realize it was her at first, but my sister, who doesn't even watch GH was like 'Isn't that the crazy woman from GH?' LOL.

Out of curiosity, what was her character like?

I'm always curious to see how GH actors act off GH.

I've heard of this show; anyone know where it's available?

[peachmangosteen]

She just played someone that witnessed a crime or something. It was very brief. She was nothing like Dr. O. She was great even though it was short.

 

It's probably on Hulu or ABC Family's site/app.

[Tiger]

She was in some movie, I think called "Future" that she was in before GH that Fin raved about in some interview that I've been meaning to check out.

Has anyone seen it?

Edited August 5, 2015 by Tiger

[dubbel zout]

Constance Towers had a guest role in the latest episode of Playing House. She played a WASP society matron, so it was a huge stretch. Hee. I love her.

[WendyCR72]

Constance Towers had a guest role in the latest episode of Playing House. She played a WASP society matron, so it was a huge stretch. Hee. I love her.

 

I actually remember her in a guest stint on Silk Stalkings. (Don't judge me!) She was the matriarch of a dysfunctional, wealthy Palm Beach family embroiled in a murder (typecasting!) and knew Rita as a child along with her father. Her name was Karen Crane and - gasp! - she was actually nice!

[dubbel zout]

She played Gwynnie's mom in A Perfect Murder, and she was very sympathetic there. It was a little weird seeing a gorgeous blonde who isn't Blythe Danner play Paltrow's mother, but I think Towers' cool WASP is what they wanted rather than Danner's whiff of hippie.

[dubbel zout]

Jimmy Deshler is on The Astronaut Wives Club right now as Wally Schirra's son. He's TERRIBLE.

Edited August 14, 2015 by dubbel zout

[ulkis]

Jimmy Deshler is on The Astronaut Wives Club right now as Wally Schirra's son. He's TERRIBLE.

I'm shocked! ;)

[dubbel zout]

That whiny edge that Rafe always had is still there. JD needs to get rid of that.

[Tiger]

Is he still bedazzled?

[dubbel zout]

Not in that show—he's playing an 18-year-old in 1968.

[Tiger]

Not in that show—he's playing an 18-year-old in 1968.

He shouldn't have been bedazzled when he was playing a 16-year-old in 2014, either.

[dubbel zout]

I was binge-watching Party Down over the weekend, and who should show up as a porno sleaze but our very own Jeffrey Vincent Parise! He had really terrible teeth, which made me wonder if that was for the episode or he had awful teeth back then but couldn't afford to get them fixed. At any rate, he was very funny in a small role.

Edited August 17, 2015 by dubbel zout

[peachmangosteen]

I don't remember him at all! Guess I'll have to rewatch some Party Down.

[dubbel zout]

Season one, episode five, "Sin Say Shun Awards Afterparty."

[BestestAuntEver]

Lexi Ainsworth has a small role on this week's episode S5 Ep9 of Teen Wolf (don't judge).

Edited August 18, 2015 by BestestAuntEver

[Sake614]

was watching an old L&O episode and Lo and behold, Jane Elliott had a role. She played a U.S. attorney or state attorney general. It was from 2001 and she was great. Even used her indoor voice the whole episode! :)

[WendyCR72]

was watching an old L&O episode and Lo and behold, Jane Elliott had a role. She played a U.S. attorney or state attorney general. It was from 2001 and she was great. Even used her indoor voice the whole episode! :)

 

Oh, yeah. The entire L&O franchise (including SVU and CI) would often have theater or usually New York-based soap actors on. L&O: Los Angeles tried to keep that trend going for the west coast contingent (saw Wally Kurth in an episode), but that one, unlike the other two offshoots, failed and died.

[Sake614]

Yeah I know most NY based actors were on L&O. I was just surprised to find JE guest starred. Not that it isn't a worthy stint, I just didn't remember her being on :).

L&O:LA failed because it was awful lol! Same as the one with Bebe Neuwirth. Although I think Jerru Orbzch's death played a role in that one. IIRC they planned to use him as a quasi lead and then he passed and it all went to hell. I watched the first couple of episodes but it just wasn't well conceived.

[WendyCR72]

Yeah I know most NY based actors were on L&O. I was just surprised to find JE guest starred. Not that it isn't a worthy stint, I just didn't remember her being on :).

L&O:LA failed because it was awful lol! Same as the one with Bebe Neuwirth. Although I think Jerru Orbzch's death played a role in that one. IIRC they planned to use him as a quasi lead and then he passed and it all went to hell. I watched the first couple of episodes but it just wasn't well conceived.

 

Oh, I know L&O: LA was a hot mess, complete with showing episodes out of order so that a character that died was suddenly alive again. LOL! And yeah, Jerry Orbach was supposed to center around L&O: Trial By Jury with Lennie Briscoe working for the DA's office. Obviously, his cancer and death was an unforeseen tragedy, and all I saw with Bebe Neuwirth's Tracy Kibre was Lillith Crane playing an ADA. Although the idea to go more into the jury process didn't seem like a bad idea at the time. Still, yeah, it didn't turn out well. And then there was failure #3 with Conviction (no L&O in the title or variation of its theme but same universe), the offshoot with Alex Cabot as Bureau Chief that lasted only a season.

 

Oops! Off topic. But seems as if there were as many failures as L&O success shows. LOL!

[33kaitykaity]

It was cool to see Billy Miller on Suits again as Harvey's brother Marcus.  

[rur]

Did anyone see the first episode of the online series Winterthorne? The cast includes both Kirsten Storms and Kathleen Gati. 

I'm just wondering if I should track it down and watch it. 

[tvgoddess]

I didn't see it, but I've heard a lot of good things about it on Twitter.

[Sake614]

Just saw Annie Ilonzeh (Maya Ward) on this week's Graceland. She looks amazing!

[Bringonthedrama]

I saw Kelly (ex-Britt) as a guest star on an old episode of Castle and I'm thinking, geez how many recent/former GH actors are going to be on this show? I've counted about a half dozen, maybe more. Oh well, at least SJB and TB's Carlys weren't in the same season. 

[Sake614]

Nathan Fillion is a big advocate of hiring soap actors for Castle guest appearances. He has never forgotten his roots :)

[Tiger]

Nathan Fillion is a big advocate of hiring soap actors for Castle guest appearances. He has never forgotten his roots :)

Didn't he do a one episode appearance as his former OLTL character for a wedding or funeral or something, after he had already 'made it' on either Firefly or Castle?

This is veering off-topic, but I love that big time star Julianne Moore did an episode or two (?) of ATWT in its final weeks.

[aw86]

https://instagram.com/p/7MgGtVrf-Q/?taken-by=kimmeabreak

https://instagram.com/p/7Mkxwsrfz6/?taken-by=kimmeabreak

 

 

Finola is in KMc's new pilot

[UYI]

Didn't he do a one episode appearance as his former OLTL character for a wedding or funeral or something, after he had already 'made it' on either Firefly or Castle?

This is veering off-topic, but I love that big time star Julianne Moore did an episode or two (?) of ATWT in its final weeks.

 

I think it was a two episode stint, but yes, in 2007 (after Firefly but before Castle), he appeared on OLTL again for Asa's funeral (his character's grandfather).

 

Yeah, if only Meg Ryan had come back to ATWT! I still love and miss her as an actress, bad plastic surgery be damned. :(

[WendyCR72]

Yeah, if only Meg Ryan had come back to ATWT! I still love and miss her as an actress, bad plastic surgery be damned. :(

 

Bad plastic surgery or not, I doubt Meg Ryan would have done what Nathan Fillion did - or her former co-star, Julianne Moore, who also returned to ATWT, her former soap home as her soap character, during the show's last days, because from all I have read, Meg Ryan has slammed her soap work. (Robin Wright has been less than gracious about her time on soaps on Santa Barbara, too, but have noticed in recent years that, at least, she doesn't seem to cringe if a soap clip with her is played now.)

 

Some just like to pretend their time on soaps never happened for whatever reason.

[Sake614]

Yeah it really is a shame that actors who started on soaps and became successful in movies or prime time shun the soap as somehow beneath them. Everyone starts somewhere and they gained valuable experience that likely helped them down the road.

[Lillybee]

Jon Lindstorm played a judge on an episode of BlueBloods, he was quite good.

[UYI]

Bad plastic surgery or not, I doubt Meg Ryan would have done what Nathan Fillion did - or her former co-star, Julianne Moore, who also returned to ATWT, her former soap home as her soap character, during the show's last days, because from all I have read, Meg Ryan has slammed her soap work. (Robin Wright has been less than gracious about her time on soaps on Santa Barbara, too, but have noticed in recent years that, at least, she doesn't seem to cringe if a soap clip with her is played now.)

 

Some just like to pretend their time on soaps never happened for whatever reason.

 

She was willing to talk about the show at one point in interviews, early on in her post-soap career, but I don't know how she may feel about it now. She's been completely out of the spotlight for over a decade (unless she appeared in paparazzi photos when she was still dating John Mellencamp these last few years).

 

Keeping this on topic: Mark Hamill seems happy to acknowledge that he was on GH early in his career--he even introduced the montage at the Daytime Emmys honoring the show's 40th anniversary in 2003!--but what about Demi Moore or Janine Turner? Have they ever talked about what it was like being on GH? 

[Tiger]

https://instagram.com/p/7MgGtVrf-Q/?taken-by=kimmeabreak

https://instagram.com/p/7Mkxwsrfz6/?taken-by=kimmeabreak

 

 

Finola is in KMc's new pilot

Kim looks great!

Fin is really channeling "Helena Cassadine" in those photos. That pink outfit looks like something out of Constance Towers' spring collection.

[UYI]

Bad plastic surgery or not, I doubt Meg Ryan would have done what Nathan Fillion did - or her former co-star, Julianne Moore, who also returned to ATWT, her former soap home as her soap character, during the show's last days, because from all I have read, Meg Ryan has slammed her soap work. (Robin Wright has been less than gracious about her time on soaps on Santa Barbara, too, but have noticed in recent years that, at least, she doesn't seem to cringe if a soap clip with her is played now.)

 

Some just like to pretend their time on soaps never happened for whatever reason.

 

I actually don't think they ever worked together--Meg Ryan left in 1984 and was replaced shortly afterwards by Lindsay Frost, and there was another actress playing Frannie, the late Terri Vandenbosch (who I just found out died in 2009 at age 46) before Julianne took over. Meg and Julianne DO share one other famous co-star on ATWT, though--Marisa Tomei. And I don't know how she feels about starting on a soap, either.

 

Again , topic:

 

Christie Clark briefly played a classmate of Robin's in 1992, in between her stints as Carrie on DAYS. I've seen a clip of her before, but now I can't find it.

Edited September 6, 2015 by UYI

[Lillybee]

I just watched a CSI episode which guest starred Sean Blakemore. I was surprised that he was decent. RC and FV just do not bring out the best in their actors.

[WendyCR72]

I just watched a CSI episode which guest starred Sean Blakemore. I was surprised that he was decent. RC and FV just do not bring out the best in their actors.

 

Sean Blakemore was also on Bones back in S3 or S4 as Angela's long-lost hubby whom she married when drunk and had to find to divorce so she could marry Hodgins.

[Sake614]

Blakemore was also on NCIS somewhere around S2 or S3. He played a Marine recruiter and wasn't half bad.

[dubbel zout]

Sean Blakemore was also on Bones back in S3 or S4 as Angela's long-lost hubby whom she married when drunk and had to find to divorce so she could marry Hodgins.

He ended up having an affair with Cam, right? His role was to be beefcake, which he did very well.

 

I was watching Wild Palms this weekend, and Sean Kanan had a tiny role as the assistant to Jim Belushi. He was in one scene and had less than four lines. Time has been really good to him.

[Oracle42]

Just saw Billy Warlock on Diagnosis Murder 

[SlovakPrincess]

That awkward moment when you chance upon Young and the Restless ... and you can't decide whether to keep watching because Tristan Rogers (yay!) or turn it off because Steve Burton (still can't look at him without muttering "fucking Jason ...").

[TeeVee329]

Lexi Ainsworth was in last night's ep of iZombie. She played the best friend of the murder victim.

 

I've been catching up on this during the summer and just saw this episode.  The scenes with her and Liv bantering in teen girl speak were really funny.