Actors and actresses that never got their true due

Sheryl Lee at least finally has a gig on Abbott Elementary.

[My parents' real estate person was Adrianne Barbeau's manager!] Right?

Sarah Michelle Gellar. She should have had Amy Adams’ career.

Maxwell Caulfield. He should have been as big as Brad Pitt.

Tuesday Knight. If Patricia Arquette could have a big career after playing Kristen Parker, why not Tuesday? Plus, she also played Drew Barrymore’s sister on the short lived “2000 Malibu Road.” Why didn’t she have a career like Drew after that?

Michelle Williams.

After five Oscar nominations, she STILL hasn’t won her due Oscar. Instead, people still confuse her with a member of Destiny’s Child!

Eleanor Parker.

Her character in The Sound of Music deserved to end up with Georg, but that bitch Julie Andrews ruined everything.

Sharon Stone.

Michael Pitt

Katie Holmes

Angela Pleasence

Teresa Ganzel is as good an all-around comedian as any of the men she ever worked opposite: Jackie Gleason, Richard Pryor, Jim Carrey, John Ritter, Johnny Carson, and so many others.

Asia Argento. And now, because of what happened between her and Anthony Bourdain and between her and Jimmy Bennett, she probably never will.

Linda Fiorentino. When should have gotten another 10 movies where she plays a ball-busting bitch, not just The Last Seduction.

Ray Liotta.

RIP.

Clenn Glose

Julianne Moore, seriously.

Adrienne Barbeau was great on General Hospital.

Whoopi is a fine dramatic actor, OP. She was the steady hand anchoring Girl, Interrupted and was terrifying as a kind of Fagin character in an episode of Law And Order Criminal Intent. Her interrogation scene was so strong she pushed Chris Noth to do the best acting from him I have seen.

Gabrielle Anwar from Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken and Scent of a Woman.

Whoopi Goldberg has won an Oscar and a BAFTA.

Taylor Kitsch

Diana Ross

Alfrie Woodard. She does have one nomination that came early in her career.

I’m still surprised they Nominated Mary McDonald for Passion Fish and left her out.

Matt Lattanzi

British ginger goddess Eleanor David.

Breathtakingly compelling in Sylvia opposite Tom Wilkinson as the educational pioneer Sylvia Ashton-Warner, and aside from several memorable appearances on British TV (Midsomer Murders, Ruth Rendell mysteries), she was (I apply the past tense as I assume she's retired) more of a stage than screen or television actress.

Whoopi had a good run

Niecy Nash still hasn't gotten the recognition she deserves. She's a fine actress.

R24, my favorite movie with Alfre Woodard is the TV Movie “A Mother’s Courage: The Mary Thomas Story” about Isaiah Thomas’ mother.

Chris Burke

[quote] Sheryl Lee at least finally has a gig on Abbott Elementary.

R1 is dead, wrapped in plastic

Mary Kay Place

Deborah Harry

I think Cyndi Lauper only made one movie but she was pretty good in it.

Michael York

Viola Davis

I feel like Sheryl Lee Ralph has been a working tv actress since the 90s. Moesha, the biggest black sitcom of its era, Ray Donovan, now Abbott Elementary not to mention countless guess spots. Not everyone is meant to be an A list film star. She was absolutely beautiful in youth.

Elena Anaya -- she was the mistress in Savage Grace (with Julianne Moore and Eddie Redmayne) and played the lead in a great Almovodar movie, The Skin I'm In. If you want to see a movie with a similar theme to Emelia Perez but done [italic]well[/italic], see that. It will knock your socks off.

Whoopi is a goddam EGOT recipient. If thats not getting your due what it is. She also was the highest paid black actress until Beyonce in Dreamgirls, and certainly one of the biggest stars of Kate 80s/early 90s.

I have to qualify my reference to Whoopi. I would have liked to have seen her in more dramatic roles - she was treated largely as a comic actress in the 80s and while her performances were excellent she was capable of so much more.

I feel the same way about Robert Downey Jr. His youthful beauty was wasted because nobody knew what to do with this kid. (Granted, he was a fucking mess).

R40 He also was a junkie so I’m sure that played a part too. Great actor though.

R41, that's kind of what I meant when I said he was a mess.

I still have to work.

Downey?

Sweet Maria. That egomaniacal turd has had a much bigger career than he deserved, and he has sleepwalked through most of his roles with three tricks keeping it going. Ugh.

I say Thelma Ritter. And Joan Blondell, who was heaven.

I don't think Whoopi is funny at all and I wish Bette had done Sister Act instead. BUT, I think Whoopi is an incredible dramatic actress.

Heather Langenkamp is getting more onscreen work these days. She's in Mike Flanagan's next Stephen King adaptation 'The Life Of Chuck'.

Whoopi has absolutely gotten her due in some ways.

But I sort of see OP's point. I think a mix of racism and the fact that she wasn't a traditional beauty, so to speak, or someone who could slip into a lot of different roles a la Streep really led to her hitting a particular ceiling as far as her achievements.

She stopped giving a fuck years ago and of course her View job isn't necessarily the best use of her talents.

She lifted a lot of shit movies and projects to places they might have never gone otherwise.

Am I the only one that thought OP meant Sheryl Lee, from Twin Peaks, and not Sheryl Lee Ralph, noted stage actress, comedienne, and current star of Abbott Elementary?

R31 I love you.

R48, I did mean Sheryl Lee from Twin Peaks.

R44, I think Downey is one of the most effortless will-o-the-wisp performers in American film history. His range might not be broad, but he flits from role to role weightlessly.

This was what Cary Grant, Bette Davis, and the rest of classic Hollywood used to do so not sure why it's a bad thing.

Instead of trying to change yourself to suit the role, you find the part of the role you can best express.

And he was so god damned beautiful.

Still is. It's the eyes.

It is always the eyes.

Sherri Shepard

Karen Cellini

Zsa Zsa Gabor

R48 After noticing there was no Ralph there so concluded the same. My bad.

Susan Anton

Linda Evans.

Donna Mills

Tonya Crowe.

Deidre Hall

Michael Pitt had the most beautiful cock in that French movie

Kate Jackson

The little girl from Poltergeist.

Frances Elizabeth Bavier

Erin Moran

Aneta Corsault

Given a chance, I could've made Oscar winners out of all.

I don't understand why Sheryl Lee didn't make a bigger splash. She's certainly better than most actresses that came out of the 90's. She put on a few pounds when she made that super disturbing appearance at the end of Twin Peaks: The Return. I just reflected on that ending as it encapsulated how I felt when I woke up on November 6th.

Jeff Stryker

Rick Donovan

John Davenport

Maureen McCormick

Susan Olsen

Eve Plumb

Mike Lookinland

Chris Knight

Barry Williams

Ann B. Davis

Alison Elliott

Betty Buckley. Her performances in Tender Mercies and Another Woman were award worthy. Rumor has it, she was a pain in the ass back then but she seems to have mellowed a bit.

Diane Lane

Mary Miles Minter and Patsy Ruth Miller

BrendaD ickson

Jennifer Aniston is a very fine dramatic actress. It wasn't fair she was ridiculed for that 'Cake' shit.

Aniston is vastly underrated and has been treated as a sight gag for most of her career.

It might seem silly, but I was blown away by her performance in Horrible Bosses. She ate that role with a knife and fork and was both eye-poppingly sexy and blood-chillingly terrifying.

Ilene Kristen Almost every actress named Marcia