The annual Sexiest Women On Television list continues with part 2 below, and the final two parts should arrive next weekend. But, for now, enjoy #39 onwards...
Another casualty of Pushing Daisies' cancellation, but petite n' busty Kristen Chenoweth will hardly struggle to find work. She can sing, she can act, she's perfect for a multitide of quirky/ditzy roles that crop up with great regularity. She's already appeared in Glee, which gave her the chance to sing, grin and act like a crazy drunk. (USA, DOB: 24 July 1968)
Her character was a detestable pain on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, so that colours how you perceive Stephanie Chaves-Jacobsen slightly. But it's also the sign of a good actress, as I doubt she's that horrible in real-life. Right? (AUS, DOB: 22 June 1980)
A very beautiful, willowy beauty, brought back into Prison Break for its final season, despite the fact her character (supposedly) had her head cut off in season 3. TV, eh. A mass outcry eventually led to Sarah Wayne Callies' return (with head), and fans were even treated to a few scenes of Callies in a bikini to make amends. (USA, DOB: 1 June 1977)
The tweety-voiced, buxom ex-girlfriend of Kenny Powers in HBO's Eastbound & Down, Katy Mixon's the sweet country gal with the calendar pinup goodlooks. (USA, DOB: May 1981)
The dimunitive Courtney Ford co-starred in the fourth season of Dexter, playing the sly reporter who would regularly go topless to remind you Dexter's on subscription-only cable. She also has interesting family connections; her husband's is hunky Superman star Brandon Routh, and she's the stepsister of screenwriters Robert and J.R Orci, who work on Fringe. I'm willing to bet she'll make an appearance on that show someday, although the nudity probably won't feature. (USA, DOB: 7 June 1978)
The sweet, sexy and posh Lucy Brown stopped fighting dinosaurs midway through Primeval's third series, to get a job on the NBC's shortlived The Philanthropist. Who knows what lays in store for her in 2010, but it would be a shame if Lucy was off the box for too long. (UK, DOB: 13 February 1979)
The Summer Glau lookalike is one of very few female characters on Stargate Universe, and the writers didn't waste much time giving Elyse Levesque a (sanitized) shower scene, either. I'm sure most people aren't complaining too much about that, but I'm just saying. (CAN, DOB: 10 September 1985)
Her unique features are a result of her Indian mother (of Tibet descent) and Australian father, and Dichen Lachman has been gaining lots of attention from fans of TV's now-defunct Dollhouse, where she regularly put in far more realistic and compelling performances than its star, Eliza Dushku. (AUS, DOB: 22 February 1982)
She was the cute new secretary on Mad Men who fell into bed with her silver fox boss, then turned up on FlashForward as a cute babysitter. Well, I say cute, but that's really just how she's presented in those show -- truth is, I think Peyton List's a bit edgier than her recent subservient roles would have us believe. Mesmerizing eyes, too... (USA, DOB: 8 August 1986)
The one girl I think we'd all love to be stranded on a desert island with (without Jorge Garcia playing gooseberry), is Evangeline Lilly. As Lost's story has evolved, we get less of her character swimming in island pools or strolling around beaches looking hot in swimwear (that survived the crash, thank Jacob), but instead she's more likely to be rocking a figure-hugging powersuit... or, well, DHARMA-issue overalls. A pity, but the story can't be dictated by Ms. Lilly's attire, can it. (USA, DOB: 3 August 1979)
She almost didn't make my list this year, as she no longer co-stars in Robin Hood, but she sneaked in because of her role in ITV's five-part drama Collision. Lucy Griffiths ditched the pastel-coloured medieval dresses, and grabbed herself a rather unflattering tabard to play a motorway services waitress. Still, she still kept that down-to-earth, slightly tomboyish appeal. (UK, DOB: 10 October 1986)
I'd love her to put on a few pounds in weight, as she's about as thin as the stalk on the flower she shares a name with, but Rose Byrne is still an incredibly attractive woman with a face that appears to have exquisitely carved out of marble. Her lawyer character in Damages isn't much of a smiler, because she rarely has much to be happy about ever since her on-screen fiance was murdered, which is a shame. (AUS, DOB: 24 July 1979)
Ashley Jones played the hot new waitress in Merlotte's for season 2 of True Blood, quickly turning owner Sam's head and luring him into taking naked dips in a lake, before having sex on the bar's pool table (I hear they're still missing a few balls, too.) (USA, DOB: 3 September 1976)
The best one-word description I can find is still "voluptuous". Christina Hendricks is still turning men's heads in the offices of Sterling Cooper in Mad Men as Joan, and making a lot of women secretly ache for her '60s fashions, hourglass figure and rather impressive bosom. (USA, DOB: 3 May 1975)
The biggest crime of Battlestar Galactica was how so many of its female cast were stuck wearing green jumpsuits and bulky helmets for four seasons. Grace Park is one such lady, whose cute features and lithe physique only really got people's attention in the pages of various magazines. (USA, DOB: 14 March 1974)
Willowy Cameron Richardson played bride-to-be Chloe in Harper's Island, but has the expected background as a model due to the quirky look she adds to the otherwise traditional tall, blonde, thin catwalker. (USA, DOB: 11 September 1979)
I wasn't a fan of Lena Headey's performance as Sarah Connor on the ill-fated sci-fi series, but she can certainly glower and pout with the best of them. It's a shame her athletic, tattoo'd, tough demeanour didn't quite translate into an appealing heroine on television. (UK, DOB: 3 October 1973)
Alison Brie's a bit of a secret, really. Her character on Mad Men, Trudy Campbell, doesn't have the overt sexuality of Christina Hendricks or January Jones, nor the screen presence of Elisabeth Moss, so most people just forget she's there. Well, this just goes to prove how good a chameleon the actress is, as she's actually one of the sexier ladies on that show (if a little gawky, in a cute way.) I guess fans of Community may have realized, but everyone else should go type "Alison Brie Complex magazine" into Google. (USA, DOB: 29 December 1983)
Quite possible one of the hottest mums on television in Dexter, Julie Benz is now causing mischief on Wisteria Lane as a lesbian pole-dancer in Desperate Housewives. Now that's the kind of career progression I think we can all support. An attractive and sexy woman, yet somehow rather humble with a tangible "loveliness" to her. (USA, DOB: 1 May 1972)
She may have spent the past few years playing a psychologically and physically scarred doctor whose fashion sense only stretches to white coats, but I think Amy Acker's fans already know there's an altogether sexier actress bursting to get out. Tall, elegant, slim, and leggy, fingers crossed she gets to leave the lab coat behind for future roles. (USA, DOB: 5 December 1976)
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