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Dec 10, 1982 · Agents for supporting actors use considerable ingenuity to try to make their clients stand out, and thus one often sees “introducing” or “featuring” or “as.” “Guest star” is mostly used (along with the even more awesome “special guest star”) to indicate a one-shot appearance in a TV series.
Aug 9, 2019 · From Britney Spears and Brad Pitt to Serena Williams, television shows have some the best unexpected celebrity guest stars to catch.
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A guest appearance in film is a special instance where an actor or celebrity plays a minor role or makes a brief on-screen presence. Often these appearances are uncredited or highlighted as cameos, creating a buzz among audiences and adding an element of surprise to the narrative.
- Zak Orth from Wet Hot American Summer
- Michael Kelly from House of Cards
- Maria Dizzia Fromorange Is The New Black & Master of None
- Billy Burke from Twilight
- Gillian Jacobs from Community
- James Frain from True Blood & Orphan Black
- Chris Bauer from True Blood & The Wire
- Broadway Actor & Two-Time Tony Nominee Jefferson Mays
- Cameron Monaghan from Shameless &Gotham
- Jeff Perry from Scandal
Season 1, Episode 3: "The Ghost Network" This week, you can catch Orth in the Netflix original series Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp , where he's reprising his role as JJ from the 2001 cult classic film. You may also remember him as computer genius Aaron Pittman on NBC's Revolution. Seven years ago, he appeared early on in Fringe's run ...
Season 1, Episode 4: "The Arrival" Kelly just received his first Emmy nomination for his role as Frank Underwood's devoted Chief of Staff, Doug Stamper, in the third season of Netflix's House Of Cards. On Fringe, he was equally devoted to his mission of finding the Observers' mysterious Beacon — he even tortured Peter Bishop for information before ...
Season 1, Episode 6: "The Cure" Back in 2008, Dizzia walked into a local diner and inadvertently microwaved everyone's brains before her own head exploded in a gooey mess. These days, you'll recognize her as Piper's bff Polly on Netflix's Orange Is The New Black. (Captain America's brother — aka Scott Evans, sibling to Chris — also cameo'd as the d...
Season 1, Episode 7: "In Which We Meet Mr. Jones" Olivia's old flame, whom she reconnects with while on a case in Germany, appeared alongside Orth for two seasons on Revolution, as Charlie's uncle Miles Matheson. He also played Bella Swan's father Charlie in all five Twilight movies, and gave everyone the heebie-jeebies as Kim Bauer's lecherous bos...
Season 1, Episode 8: "The Equation" One year before she broke out as buzzkill Britta on NBC's Community, Jacobs appeared in this episode as a mysterious woman who kidnapped a young boy with the help of flickering green and red lights, and then proceeded to torture him with images of his dead mother until he completed an all-important equation for h...
Season 1, Episode 10: "Safe" What's so strange about Frain's guest role on Fringe is how uncharacteristically meek his character, Mr. Kohl, was. Now mostly known for playing a menagerie of intimidating freaks — like True Blood's Franklin Mott, Orphan Black's Ferdinand, and True Detective's Lieutenant Burris — David Robert Jones' lawyer was visibly ...
Season 1, Episode 12: "The No-Brainer" Frain's True Blood co-star — who appeared in all seven seasons of the HBO vampire drama as hapless Andy Bellefleur, and is also famous for playing Frank Sobotka in the second season of HBO's The Wire — portrayed a man out for vengeance with the help of a brain-liquefying viral video. (Mary Beth Peil, aka The G...
Season 1, Episode 18: "Midnight" Although he has guest starred on other shows like The Good Wife, The Americans, and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Mays is most famous as a stage actor; he's a two-time Tony Award nominee, for last year's A Gentleman's Guide To Love And Murder, and for 2004's I Am My Own Wife(for which he won). Here he played a scientis...
Season 2, Episode 7: "Of Human Action" The future Shameless star portrayed Tyler Carson, a homicidal teenager with the power of mind control. He now stars as Ian Gallagher on the Showtime comedy, and was introduced on Gothamthis year as a villain named Jerome Valeska (possibly the origins of the Joker?) — a role which he'll reprise on the show's se...
Season 2, Episode 10: "Grey Matters" Shondaland devotees will instantly recognize Perry from his roles as Thatcher on Grey's Anatomy and Cyrus on Scandal. In 2009, he stopped by Fringeto play an insane man miraculously "cured" when a piece of Walter Bishop's brain — which had been placed there for safekeeping — was removed from his own grey matter.
On October 17, 2019, Elizabeth Lail confirmed in a Build Series interview that she would reprise her role as Guinevere Beck in a guest appearance on the second season. [71] [72] In October 2020, Travis Van Winkle and Shalita Grant were cast as series regulars while Scott Speedman was cast in a recurring role for the third season.
On October 17, 2019, Elizabeth Lail confirmed in a BUILD Series interview that she would reprise her role as Guinevere Beck in a guest appearance on the second season. [22] [23]
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This list contains all guest appearances on Curb that received a "Guest Star" or "Special Guest Star" billing in the closing credits of at least one episode. Sometimes an actor might not be credited as guest star on his or her first appearance, but will be in subsequent episodes.
