June 14, 2018

Veronica Cartwright. Another unsung hero of cinema & TV


Now this woman has had a hell of a career. 60 years of a career to be precise. Most actors who get their big break in a Hitchcock film only go downhill from there but Veronica has always worked with the best. Almost always as a supporting actress but one who makes her mark memorably everytime she appears.


She's been menaced by a xenomorph. Suffered devil induced projectile vomiting. Been a mam to both a young boy who flies alien filled spaceships and America's most famous sex researcher. Had run ins with the Candyman. Gone to the Twilight Zone, been saved by Crockett and Tubbs and caught the sun with Mitch Buchanan. Been in Hitchcock & Scott masterpieces and Wayan's brothers shitshows. Fled body snatchers and supported the earliest astronauts. 6 decades on the job and she's appeared in everything from Sci-fi to westerns to horror to critically acclaimed indie Oscar winners to streaming tv shows. Check out her career here.

Greatest hits

Alien. Lambert. Navigator aboard the Nostromo and probably the person with the most human response to the terror they are facing. Dies in a horrifying manner of course.

The Birds. Cathy Brenner. The young girl who's birthday party is interrupted in a bizarre and unnatural manner. Spends the next 90 minutes running from evil seagulls. Just like O'Connell street at lunchtime.

The Witches Of Eastwick. The ultra religious and ultra gossipy Felicia Alden. The only person in Eastwick immune of the charms of Daryl Van Horn. Has any extremely nasty experience with a load of cherries and a fire poker. A brilliant role too, probably her most memorable.



The X-Files. Cassandra Spencer. The wife of the smoking man and a big part in the larger mythology of the entire series. 

Previous heroes

Edie McClurg
Barry Shabaka Henley           
Raymond Cruz                        
Reg E.Cathey                          
Elizabeth McGovern               
John Amos                              
Bruce Greenwood                  
Mary McDonnell                     
Gerald McSorley                       
John Rothman                        
Margo Martindale                   
Kurtwood Smith                     
Paula Malcolmson                 
Luis Guzman                          
David Morse                           
Linda Hunt                              
Keith David                             
Zeljko Ivanek
Fiona Shaw
Xander Berkeley
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
C.C.H Pounder
William Forsythe
Beth Grant
Sven-Ole Thorsen
Regina King
Ric Young
Mark Rolston
Illeana Douglas
Jeanette Goldstein
Al Leong
Allan Graf
Bill Nunn
Thomas Rosales Jr

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