Random Question: SciFi Actors

Well, he's (sorry, hes) just out of the range, but James MacAvoy?

On the XX side, what about Saoirse Ronan? (yes, I had to look up how to spell her first name).

I can't think of any.

I think most of the cast of
Misfits is just over 20.

Have you seen it?

I'd like to nominate Jewel Staite (Firefly) and David Blue (Stargate Universe).

I agree that there's definitely a dearth of memorable 20-something sci-fi actors/actresses. Maybe we'll see them in hindsight when they hit it big later on.

Do we actually need more that Summer Glau? ;-)

Joe, I have one thing to say to you. River Tam Beats Up Everyone

Felicia Day is 30. So she almost fits the bill.

Some more that sprang to mind, Jesse Eisenberg from Zombieland maybe? Natalie Portman was in a few, and she is 29, maybe her? Most of the 20 something actors I can think of have only nominally been involved in scifi. I think part of the problem is the tun for the worse that scifi has taken since scifi network became syfy, Most of the people who were in their 20's in the string of good scifi movies that came out last have aged out of that category by now.

Jewel Staite could probably make me watch just about any kind of bad TV.

Shia LaBeouf

David Blue from SGU is pretty much the best thing to come out of that show, and I hope he has a long and successful career.

Definitely Jewel Staite. Although, I confess I'm probably unable to fairly evaluate her acting prowess. All I can see are those cute cheeks when she smiles...sigh.

Shia LeBoeuf.

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What I hate is when young actors/actresses appear in one thing, flat-out rock the kasbah, and then vanish without a trace.

For example Samantha Krutzfeldt from the Sarah Connor Chronicles episode "Alpine Fields". She single-handedly made that ep my personal favourite to date. And yet, judging by her IMDB entry, she hasn't worked on anything since '09. That's just wrong :(

MATT SMITH!!!!! GERONIMO!!!!!

And while I'm at it: Karen Gillan! She's enough to make a straight person go "Summer who?" (Pun not intended - but I'll take it anyway!)

What Rob Abiera said.

http://andrewsherman.blogspot.com/2009/05/karen-gillan-in-fires-of-pomp…

Yes, this was an episode in which donna noble was drs sidekick, but KG played one of the soothsayers.

Well, if we could extend the age range into the early 30's, then I would vote for Zoe Saldana, who was in Avatar and the Star Trek remake.

Sorry, being an old fogey, I don(apostrophe)t think there are any decent young actors in sci-fi of around that age. Especially American. I remember watching the original War Games movie and finding Ally Sheedy(apostrophe)s cuteness seriously irritating. Same for Denise Richards(apostrophe)s perpetual grin in Starship Troopers

I am sooo pissed that Stargate Universe got the axe.

Jewel Staite,(Kaylee) is my current Firefly fave, but Sigourney Weaver kicks ass forever.

As Sgt. Schultz would say "I know nothing!" That may have something to do with not watching TV (except possibly for the news) for 20 years, which I believe to be a Good Thing.

Nadia de Santiago.

A random answer to your random question: DOGZ!

Brian Smith (Lt. Scott, SGU) is 29. Chris Pine has hit 30. Depending on how far you are willing to range, Hayden Panettiere is only 21, Allison Mack and Kristen Kreuk are 22. Chris Evans, 29. There hasn't been a lot of sci-fi for a while.

And Thomas Dekker (John Connor) is 23.

Don't forget Sarah Roemer.

I've only seen her in The Event, but she seems to be a good actress (26).

Argh! With all the suggestions of Doctor Who, why did I forget The Sarah Jane Adventures?

Male lead for the show started at age 14.

Second male companion also played Will Parry from His Dark Materials trilogy for BBC radio.

Both the main female companion roles were played by 17-18 year-old when they started.

Bruce Campbell. He's a fresh, talented, up-and-comer. He's gonna make it one day.

"Bruce Campbell. He's a fresh, talented, up-and-comer. He's gonna make it one day."

Seconded.

I suspect he will do great things.

I guess Anna Torv is over thirty. I've watched a few Sci Fi channel series but they all seem to go south by their third season so I don't invest in remembering names.

@24:
Kristin Kreuk and Allison Mack are not 22. Did you perhaps mean 32?

As for young sci-fi actors, I really enjoyed Tower Prep (Cartoon Network's non-cartoon Mutant High School show), both because it was kind of goofy fun (and created by Paul Dini) and also because it's shot in Vancouver and it's been great to count up all the actors who are going to be regulars in your favorite SciFi shows 10 or 15 years from now. Hell, Peter Deluise even directed a couple episodes.

Allison Mack, Kristan Kreuk, and Matt Dallas are 28, re imdb

Well, I was partly correct. If Mack/Kreuk were 22, they would have been 12 when they started on Smallville. TWELVE.

Also, at least one of the Tower Prep regulars was in the Final Five episodes of Caprica last night. Just goes to show that Vancouver actors are in everything. Everything.

Hey, I like Dollhouse!

I liked Dollhouse, too, but I don't think it's a stretch to say it used copious amounts of Magical Sciencey Gobbledegook instead of actual Repetitive, Hard, Anti-Narrativistic Real-World Science. Most if not all Sci-Fi does. I don't consider that a bad thing.

"20-year-olds range?" You talking base-10 er what?

Bill

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