You see them all the time, but you don't really know who they are; the actors in commercials!

(I think there used to be a thread for this topic, but it got eaten in the forum crash a while back.)

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There's a black lady with short hair and a strong Southern accent currently doing ads for Popeye's; but she's also in an ad for some arthritis(?) cream--without the accent. I only noticed tonight because I saw both of them run back-to-back.

I recognized Tim Kang (Cho on The Mentalist) from his work on the Shell gas commercials.

I forget what kind of drug he's shilling, but Cass Winthrop from "Another World" is always popping up on my screen.

I remember recognizing Andrea Rosen all the time. She was in everything. I would be watching TV and say "There's that same woman!". Very shortly thereafter Stella came on the air. I was being TV stalked by this woman.

I got confused the first time I saw the Exedrin commercial with Elizabeth Moss. It would be cute and fitting if they made a new one with her being more like Peggy.

That woman in the Yoplait commercial where she lists out all the desserts she's eating while her husband searches for them in the fridge. I swear, she must have 50 different commercials airing; I see her at least once every commercial break it seems.

Yeah, that's Andrea Rosen. She's in a lot of commercials, and I hate her in every single one. The worst is when she's the speed dater, and she goes to Macy's to get an outfit, and she says something obnoxious like, "Stilettos make me feel dangerous." Ugh.

I think here in Canada, they hire one person and put him/her in every commercial made. There is a woman currently in commercials about the lottery/Rogers HD/some kind of investments/something involving bad Christmas gifts, and possibly a few others. Last year there was a guy most memorable for being in some type of snack food commercial, but was on several others as well.

I think I first noticed it when the guy who went on to be 'Ed' was shilling beer and about eight other things at the same time.

Amir Talai has a buch of credits, but I only noticed him a couple of years ago because he was in at least 3 TV commercials that were all running at the same time. (And because I thought he was kinda cute.)

Question; In those Stride Gum ads (where they're trying to get people to spit out their gum) the guy playing the CEO was a supporting character in a sitcom a while back, but I can't think of what show it was. Anyone recognize him?

Here you go.

The Hogan Family! Thanks!

Who is the actress in the Hefty "Unscented Odor Block" commercial?

The father who likes to take his college-age daughter to Olive Garden when he visits just won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical (Billy Elliot): Gregory Jbara.

In that horrible yogurt ad where the woman is harassing her tailor to take in her clothes, and she thinks she means let them out, and it goes on painfully in that vein, is the actress playing the woman Kali Rocha? She looks like her, but I can't quite tell.

Oh my God, that explains why I CAN.NOT.STAND. that commercial. She just looks so goshdarn insincere, looking off-camera, I want to smack her. She was in Speed-the-Plow on Broadway earlier this year, and she just RUINED it for me (and to ruin something that stars Norbert Leo Butz and Raul Esparza is a CRIME!).

McKay, I'm almost 100% positive it's not her.

Any idea who it is, then? I KNOW I've seen her before and it's driving me absolutely batty.

Who's That Guy in the new Pizza Hut ads("Jackpot!")? He's been on a TV show, right?

Trini Girl, that's comedian Jim Breuer, formerly of Saturday Night Live.

Is that Jimmy Edwards (One Tree Hill) in the new TGI Fridays commercials?