I decided to start this thread because every show forum has a thread about cast appearing other roles in tv and movies except this one.

I became aware of Eliza Dushku as Faith in BTVS but didn't realize until later I actually saw her before as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis' daughter in True Lies!

She was also Paul Reiser's daughter in the movie "Bye Bye Love".

Excellent idea!

I first remember Eliza from Buffy, but really loved her in Bring It On for some reason.

Fell in love with Tahmoh on Battlestar and it's worth tracking down his episodes of Whistler.

Loved, loved, LOVED Rushmore and I liked Olivia's acting, though her character was not my favorite--the weakest part of that film I think.

Mark Sheppard has brought a spark to everything I've ever seen him in (Firefly, Leverage) but he was underused on Dollhouse.

Ah, Alan, I've loved you in everything since 28 Days ("Look at my package!"). The previews for V look pretty good, too.

Aw, I liked Olivia Williams in Rushmore - that's when I first started to take her seriously. And her most famous films are that and The Sixth Sense, but she's also good in an underrated horror/thriller called Below, set on a submarine during WWII.

I first remember Harry Lennix as one half of an estranged gay couple in Get on the Bus, and he was very good in that. I also liked him on ER, even if his role didn't amount to much.

Reed Diamond played a hilarious role in "Meet Bill" as the boyfriend of the title character's brother.

I remember seeing Alan Tudyk in Death At A Funeral. Utterly brilliant movie and Alan's starkers on a roof in it as well.

Alan Tudyk also had a really fun role in "A Knight's Tale". Along with his role I thought Heath Ledger (RIP) and Paul Bettany as Chaucer were the stand outs of that movie.

As some of you may know, ol' Topher himself, Fran Kranz, has a major role in the upcoming collaboration between Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard, a feature film entitled "Cabin in the Woods". I recently looked at the film's listing at IMDB, and Amy Acker was listed as "rumored" to have a role in the film. Another of ME's regularly cast actors, Tom Lenk, was also listed in the "rumored to have a role" catagory. Since they're so similar in appearence, maybe he and Fran are playing brothers? Twins, even? (Nah, they don't look that alike.)

My sister and I are watching Angel, and we both found it pretty hilarious when it got to a scene where Amy Acker's Fred hops up and shouts, "Whiskey!" when the team is trying to figure out why a building would smell like molasses. Quite the coincidence, unless Joss remembered well enough to decide to make an in-joke like that.

On YouTube, I came across a promo for a soon to be released web series that has Fran Kranz (Topher) in the main cast.

I guess he was not confident about Dollhouse's chances for renewal, or something.

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When I heard that Olivia Williams would be in Dollhouse, I knew she would be great because I'd seen her play Jane Austen in Miss Austen Regrets. She also played Jane Fairfax in the Kate Beckinsale version of Emma. I think she was miscast -- Emma was arrogant, yet charming... a role much more suited for Olivia Williams than the snotty Beckinsale.

I just realized I stupidly forgot to include the link to what I was talking about.

It has been added.

Any fans of Olivia Williams should check out An Education, which is playing in limited release right now. She plays a schoolteacher to Carey Mulligan's character, and the moral center of the movie, and while Mulligan is getting all the attention (deservedly, to be sure), Williams is just as good.

My first introduction to Alan Tudyk was Strangers with Candy when he plays the leader of a cult. Those two episodes were the best out of the whole series!

I am so excited to see An Education. I've heard that both Olivia Williams and Carey Mulligan are absolutely amazing in it.

Olivia had an early blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo in the second season of Spaced as the bicyclist that Simon Pegg & friends accidentally run over in a parody of the traffic jam scene from The Sixth Sense (Olivia having been in that movie herself about a year before that).

I also never realized until flipping through the channels and seeing X-Men: The Last Stand on FX that Olivia was the one playing Moira McTaggart.

Just heard about this, Reed Diamond was in last week's Castle. Turns out to be the bad guy, a doctor who swapped his own son for another in the maternity ward because of a genetic defect, then later killed the mother of the swapped kid because she found out too much.

Tahmoh Penikett has a small part in the straight-to-DVD-but-nonetheless-awesome Trick r' Treat. The guy he plays is almost as clueless as Paul Ballard.

I liked seeing Keith Carradine in the The Dollhouse. My favorite period film is The Duellists directed by Ridley Scott, starring Keith and Harvey Keitel.

I caught a re-run of Law @ Order: Criminal Intent a few months ago. The show isn't one of my favorites, but it's hard to escape re-runs. Besides, this one featured Chris Noth, whom I've loved since early Law & Order.

You know how, in the L&O franchise, a well-known actor appearing in an episode will usually be a Person Of Interest in the Crime Of The Week? Enver was in the cast. The show was shot in 2008, when he was an "unknown"--but not unknown to me, since I'd already seen one season of Dollhouse. Yup, he was definitely Of Interest.

I've been watching Keith Carradine since Nashville. And thoughout his career as one of director Alan Rudolph's usual suspects. And Buffalo Bill in Deadwood...

And in the video for Madonna's "Material Girl"...

I've started watching NCIS in the mornings despite my general lack of enthusiasm for crime solving, and have spotted Liza Lapira/Ivy playing Agent Lee in a couple of episodes. She doesn't really seem to get a lot to do though.

She never is part of the main cast, but she has a story arc through much of the first part of season six(Fall 2008). For those that are interested, her big episodes (6-8-Cloak, and 6-9-Dagger) are showing Saturday January 2, at 2:00 and 3:00PM, and "Last Man Standing"(6-1), which begins that arc, and is also a major episode for her, is showing at 9:00 that morning (All times Eastern and on USA Network)

Liza Lapira was in S3 of Dexter. I just started catching up and when I saw her, I was boundless amounts of joyous. Got me thinking that she should have a bigger role on Dollhouse. She's the best.

Another Liza Lapira sighting: This weekend I was rewatching Cloverfield with some friends and noticed that she was playing a party guest in the scenes before the monster attack started. She only had like one line and it was pretty blink-and-you'll-miss-it, but it was definitely her.

For anyone interested on seeing Liza Lapira (Ivy) on NCIS, the three episodes centering around her ("Last Man Standing", "Cloak", and "Dagger") are showing on USA from 1:00-4:00pm Eastern time today, 01-02-2010.

Liza Lapira was on an episode of Sex and the City for the quickest of minutes. It was the "He's Just Not That Into You" ep and Miranda has decided to spread the gospel to some non-believers. Liza is making up excuses as to why some guy isn't calling her back. Quick appearance, but humorous all the same.

And the first time I remember seeing Eliza Dushku was in a movie called "That Night" with Juliette Lewis. She's about 11 in the movie.

The first time time I saw Alan Tudyk & Summer Glau together was on the Firefly DVDs.

It's funny how they are complete reversals here.

Alan Tudyk played a pedophile on the CSI episode "Burn Out". (This was the episode that convinced me that Alan could play convincingly creepy.)

I never saw him as a bad guy until Dollhouse, he was shockingly billiant here.

I remember that! I'd only seen him on Firefly at that point and I just couldn't picture him as being evil, until I actually saw it. He's definitely brilliant at being creepy.

He also did a terrific good-guy-turned-evil-spy on the new version of V.

Looking through Harry Lennix' IMDB page and that he played somebody named "Ballard" on Ally McBeal once!

I saw True Lies again for I don't know the twentieth time. Eliza was really young(14) back then, playing Arnold's daughter. That final scene with the jet still holds up after fifteen years. You know Arnold can't be really flying a jet and that Eliza's not really on dozens of stories off the ground but you still buy it.

Yeah, I was watching War Stories the other day, and it was still hard to believe he'd been so incredibly creepy as Alpha, even though I'd actually seen it. On Firefly, even when he loses his temper, he's just not threatening or intimidating at all, not even a little bit. Alan Tudyk has some really good range.

I just rewatched Knocked Up and Alan played the girl's boss, hilariously. "Tighten!" with his squeezing hand motion makes me laugh, especially after watching Dollhouse and being impressed with his acting.

Thanks to a couple people bringing this up in the 2x12 thread, I got my hands on a copy of Titus, in which Harry Lennix plays Aaron the Moor. He's fantastic in it and this may be the only production of Titus Andronicus I'll ever be able to sit through by virtue of it being so stylized.

Also? Harry Lennix was in The Five Heartbeats, which was the reason I watched this in the first place. (Other than the JW thing, of course.)

I've been watching season 4 of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Fran Kanz had a bit role in the episode, "Who Pooped the Bed?" He plays an Economics major pretending to be a scientist. Hee.

Apparently there was a whole mess of Dollhouse cast members in the "Rewind" episode of "The Human Target", which FX is re-running on 2-27. According to my Tivo, the guest cast includes Amy Acker, Summer Glau, Alan Tudyk, Adair tishler, Reed Diamond, Maurissa Tanchoeran, Felicia Day, and Nate Dushku. Also, Courtney Ford, from last season's "Dexter".

I wonder if that is for real, or if someone at Tivo is smoking crack.

TiVo lies.

When that episode first aired, my TiVo told me Reed Diamond would be in it. His name proceeded to NOT appear in the guest star credits at the beginning of the show. However, I sat through the entire episode just in case and there was no Reed Diamond. Or any other Dollhouse castmember that I can recall.

I don't know how many people here will want to see The Ghost Writer (or will be able to - right now, it's only playing in NY and LA), but Olivia Williams is terrific in it. She plays the wife of Pierce Brosnan, a former British Prime Minister (modeled on Tony Blair; Williams' character is modeled on Cherie Blair) who's writing his memoirs and dogged by accusations of being complicit in torture. She seems at first to be just a background character, but as you learn more about her, she becomes very important to the story. Williams plays it with her usual intelligence and steeliness, especially seen when the title character, played by Ewan McGregor, discovers she's a CIA recruit who has basically been controlling her husband in secret all along. And when McGregor reveals he knows, Williams handles that revelation very subtly, while showing how unnerved she is at being found out.