Favorite background character you like to see

I remember reading an interview with Kathryn Hahn where she mentioned “my husband was like, “You guys (Judy Greer) should do, like, a Rosencrantz and Guildenstern-type movie where it’s the best friends, and every so often you see Kate Hudson running around [in the background].” AND I WANT THIS MOVIE SO BAD

Her role in 'We're the Millers' will always be a favorite of mine 😂

I found it interesting that she's in multiple projects with Paul Rudd, and in some she's the "goofy platonic friend he'd never get with" and in others she's his romantic interest, all around the same time/era. Kinda reminds me of Sally Field playing both Tom Hanks' lover and his mother depending on the movie, lol

YES. Kathryn Hahn is the best

My KWEEN!! I love her range - fell in love with her in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days ❤️

God Jen Barkley does things to me I swear (also if Ben hadn’t been in the picture I think Leslie deserved a high powered and also matchedly unhinged gf as a treat. For me. )

YES YES YES!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Parker Posey is a queen!!! I hope her upcoming role in The White Lotus really brings more respect to her name. I’ve been obsessed since that movie The House of Yes where she thinks she’s Jackie-O.

LOVE HER!!!

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She also reminds me of Elizabeth Banks in some way - maybe the same type of look.

I quote her “YOU DONT KNOW MY DOG” (from Best in Show) daily.

Air Raid!!! Fry like bacon piggies, FRY!

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I LOVE the choices she makes in Scream 3, like jumping into her bodyguard’s arms 😂 and generally being so over the top and unhinged 

Josie and the pussycars is the best movie ever

she and Reynolds were the only good parts of Blade: Trinity

She was great as Dr. Smith in Lost in Space. Really nailed the "it's complicated" aspect of that character.

Jose and the Pussycats (one of the best movies ever made)

You are indeed correct.

Thanks I didn't know the category "character actors" but that's exactly it!

I generally recognize Missi Pyle pretty easily, but she was a completely different person in Dodgeball... I had no idea that was her until this post either.

If you’ve ever watched the movie “Cinderella once upon a song” with Lucy hale she plays the stepmother. I knew I recognized her from somewhere else I didn’t think Willy wonka

Whenever I see her, I always go back to her episode of I think Criminal Minds where she was utterly terrifying.

I’ve just started watching the Mindy Project and she is hilarious in it!

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Yeeessss!!! Love Beth Grant!

Gracie Leigh!!! Love her!!

Voice of Bill Dauterive from King of the Hill as well. I’ll always have a soft spot for Stephen Root. Loved him in True Blood as Eddie.

He popped up in True Blood (and probably a thousand other things)

Have you seen my stapler?

FUUUUUCHESS

God I always thought Stephen Root was good, then I saw him in Barry and realized he is a treasure.

He was a great creepy blind guy in Get Out

Esteemed character actress and fugitive from the law!

ESTEEMED character actress margo martindale

Had the best arc in Justified hands down!

Love her in The Americans and in Dexter.

I just finished the Americans, and the way Margot had me hating, then doubting, then loving, and then hating her character. A+

My whole world, so happy she got out of prison

Is that Hannah Montana's Grandma 

Loved her in The Leftovers

She was great in The Americans, Sneaky Pete and Cocaine Bear!

OMG. I recognize her but didn't know her name. I think that the last time I saw her was in The Watcher. This is why I love the comment section in these posts!

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I love that her autobiography is titled "I don't know where you know me from."

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Ok I mentioned this under Kathryn Hahns thread but she once said this and Im obsessed with the concept

“my husband was like, “You and Judy Greer should do, like, a Rosencrantz and Guildenstern-type movie where it’s the best friends, and every so often you see Kate Hudson running around [in the background].”

She narrated a character in the “Daisy Jones and The Six” audiobook. I don’t know that I’ve experienced Judy Greer doing a serious role before. She was excellent!

judy greer is my generation’s joan cusack (compliment, obvi)

YOU'RE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!

I loved him on Crossing Jordan!

He was such a treasure and helped make Albert my favorite Twin Peaks character

I swear he is the dude I always forget the name of until 10 minutes later when it clicks, and I randomly blurt it out when the conversation has moved past that point.

My brain just wants to call him Lucifer or the Russian dude who's in everything.

Peter Stormare; and I definitely googled it. He's not even Russian. I was just thinking of him in Armageddon.

Peter Stormare is my weird celebrity crush. Someone described him as “your friend’s hot dad” and I think that’s the look. I was also obsessed with his Czernobog.

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Also John Carroll Lynch

To quote her from Cinderella Story:

I’ve been waiting years to tell you this. You’re not very pretty, and you’re not very bright.

I’m so glad we had this talk! 🤣

Haha I love Jennifer Coolidge. My husband can't stand her (something about her voice)

She also lives with a grizzly bear so that's pretty neat (Edit: lived, it seems they divorced in 2012. The man, not the bear)

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Agree 100%. I'll watch just about anything with her in the credits.

Drop Dead Gorgeous is my all time favourite film, and my god she is the Queen of that masterpiece❤️

Background character? Nobody puts Allison Janney in the background.

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I came here for Dale Dickey! Breaking Bad will always be my favourite of hers

Werewolf Martha, another Trueblood alum!! She’s great.

She was the best in Love on Netflix and literally unforgettable in Reno 911

This makes me think of Jane Lynch!!! Omg I love them both.

Kerri Kenney

She's so funny on Superstore!

Kiiiiirk

I was going to comment Michael Emerson as well. The first time I ever saw him was on a show called The Practice. He played a serial killer in an extended story arc. Imagining his eyes would keep me up at night. He was great in Lost and is even better in Evil.

His entire performance in Best in Show is a fucking stitch. I dunno how the other commentator kept a straight face recording with him.

He has range! He plays the guy in office space all scruffy, a gay guy in miss congeniality 2, a family man/normal husband in the show American Housewife. And the above. So great!

Watch out for your cornhole, Peter!

I am always confusing him for Peter Serafinowicz!

I always thought it was crazy how much he did with his character in The Dark Knight. Could've been such a forgettable character but man his facial acting, mannerisms and energy really matched both Bale and Aaron Eckhart when they interact with him. Also his yell "I don't know anything!!" after Harvey flips the coin the first time? Great.

I had to look up Laurie Metcalf before I realized that I've definitely seen her.

This was truly an inspired casting, she nailed that nosy neighbor background character trope. Played into the narrative and unraveling of Westview perfectly

Me frantically Googling every Indigenous actor to see if they come from the reserve near my home town 😁

Merritt Wever

I think she is so stunning. Absolutely adored her on New Girl, I still think Schmidt should have picked her!

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“Gary from Veep” This is Buster Bluth erasure

Ooh this jacket is tighter than dickskin!