Jennifer Esposito

Dana Carvey's 'The Masters of Disguise', a ridiculously bad film from 2002, worth mentioning only for being the first time I noticed Jennifer Esposito. Well that and this thing about turtles...

It's wierd because I'd seen her in things before, like 'Spin City', and more importantly 'Don't Say A Word', but had never even registered that she was even there. I feel like my not noticing her in DSAY is mostly because of the genius of Brittany Murphy, (I barely remember Famke in that film) but she was in Spin City for 2 years...

Anyways! Post Masters I was expecting great things from J-Espo, but it never happened. I've always blamed Eva Mendes and her bogarting all the roles for hispanic women in their age bracket, but I feel like Hollywood just forgot about her. It's easy to argue Mendes the better actress because she's been in so many high profile films, but J-Espo in Spike Lee's 'Summer of Sam' was arguably better than anything Eva's ever done. She even made the Jimmy Fallon disaster 'Taxi' watchable.

She's proven she can do TV, I think I was one of the only 3 people who actually liked her show 'Related', and she's finally getting recognition for 'Samantha Who?', but my point is that she can do better than playing the drunk best friend to Christina Applegate (who coincidentally I also love...) in a 30 minute sitcom.

Eva Mendes imdb page tells me she is currently attached to four high profile films, two out this year.

Jennfier Esposito's imdb page makes me sad.

Justin Theroux

So 'Charlies Angels: Full Throttle' was on the other day, and I feel no shame admitting that I watched it. Where my shame lies is that it was possibly the 20-something-th time that I've watched it... That said, everytime I watch it and Shamus O'Grady appears, I always say the same thing to whomever I've forced to watch it with me/usually myself: "I love him!" And I do. I love you Justin Theroux!

He played two different characters in SATC - and I loved both of them, even though one was an ass; he was in Ally McBeal (seriously, a guest appearance in Ally McBeal may aswell be a stamp of greatness); Six Feet Under; Alias; Mulholland Drive; American Psycho; ZOOLANDER (!) and a whole load of other things that I'm going to put on my blockbuster wishlist.

Now I realise he's not out of work - he co-wrote and stars in 'Tropic Thunder' with Ben Stiller - nor should he ever be! (LOVE) But I just want to make a point that he is always welcome in any show ever.

Alex Dimitriades & Abi Tucker

Unlike the American shows of the 90's, the Australian show Heartbreak High had a great quality cast and occasionally you can see them popping up in various films and series. I watched Heartbreak High on and off, but a few years ago when they were showing the repeats from the beginning I really got into it. My favourites were Con, Kat, Drazic, Nick and Jodie. I liked Con for his comedy value, maybe he was a good actor aswell but I don't remember. Kat, played by Ada Nicodemou has been a regular in Home and Away for several years so she's doing alright, and Callan Mulvey who played Drazic also had a role in Home and Away over the last couple of years. But I haven't heard anything about Alex Dimitriades for years, and Abi Tucker since The Secret Life of Us (which was a really great show itself). Maybe I haven't heard anything about them because I don't live in Australia and IMDB tells me they have roles in some shows over there, but I'm adding these two to the list because if ex-Australian soap actors like Melissa George and Radha Mitchell can make it in Hollywood then these two should have been able to aswell.