And I have to disagree. Jolene's T'Pol is just a wonderful character! Compare her character to any other in Enterprise:
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giulene — 17 years ago(October 20, 2008 12:23 PM)
Roska-posti, Vulcans are like us Humans, but they control better emotions and since this I agree. That people want to say is character T'pol is a bit blank even if is different from stereotypic vulcan: f.o. she never smiled and so on
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roska-posti — 17 years ago(October 22, 2008 03:29 PM)
Giulene, I've seen all the Enterprise episodes and the Deep Space Nine episodes, most of the original series and the Next Generation episodes, and 4 last seasons of the Voyager. Plus unfortunately all the Start Trek movies. So I do think I have an idea what Vulcans are supposed to be. There might not be a scene where she (or any other vulcan smiles) smiles but she (and them) are far from being blank! Come to think of it, there seems to be just about every other facial expression except smile.
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makbeth-1 — 17 years ago(December 02, 2008 08:19 PM)
I disagree. Ive only seen her in Enterprise and SG1.
She was awfull in Enterprise, but it wasnt so noticable alongside the rest of the "actors". Star Trek generally suits terrible actors though so it wasnt such a bad role for her. It was the horrible acting that caught my eye in an episode of SG1 and I didnt recognise her at first.
So while in some things where the standard of acting is not so high, she can pull off a decent role, however, throw her in with a bunch of hardcore actors and her efforts are cringworthy.
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Lady_Hairy_Legs — 16 years ago(May 06, 2009 09:32 AM)
NO. I have NOT noticed. I find it extremely hard to take this girl seriously. If you deem this girl as a 'good actress' you have either never actually seen one, or you find women with teenage boys bodies with 2 grapefruits sown into their bodies attractive.
With her RIDICULOUSLY pumped up lips she looks like an UGLY duck/human hybrid.
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roska-posti — 16 years ago(August 30, 2009 01:47 PM)
Lady_Hairy_Legs, you only saw one episode? I saw them all, and T'Pol's character got better and better all the time. I do admit I find her attractive, but it has very much to do with other things than just the looks. I didn't fall in love with her after seeing the first couple of episodes, and also didn't like the lip job. But she just played so wonderful character, with such emotion, I just grew on loving her.
Well, we all can't agree.
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Eradan — 15 years ago(April 21, 2010 04:31 PM)
I just watched Starship Troopers 3 last night and I'm with you (and Brainsnack and therealguy13). This chick couldn't act to save her life. It's especially damming given that in ST3, she was playing an officer on a starship and of course her big break was playing T'Pol on "Enterprise", ie another starship officer. If she can't even do that believably, I don't know what she's even doing in this business.
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Rick8684n — 14 years ago(April 03, 2012 06:55 AM)
Jolene did an adequate job of approximating Vulcan behaviour. (That's as complementary as Vulcans ever get).
She did just fine in Enterprise. I haven't seen anything else she was in though. But I have seen Starship Troopers 2 and, to be fair, that film was so bad no acter could have made it look good, so I don't expect any better from that.
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giulene — 13 years ago(November 02, 2012 05:43 AM)
however playing a role like a Vulcan doesn't help a career, lucky in the episode Impulse she did a dramatic strong performance (that I thought for a moment she was another actress and I am not the only one) showing to be a good competent actress but I noticed these roles waste the career.
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knight_sentinel — 13 years ago(January 01, 2013 07:58 AM)
She didn't work much before "Star Trek: Enterprise" but if you look at this iMDb link of the people born the same year as she was she has a lot of stiff competition among the females in the list, they list the most popular actors first but Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard, Charlize Theron, Anjelina Jolie and Milla Jovovich are the top five female actors.
http://imdb.to/UG9FdC
SAG says they have 120,000 actors the department labor stated in 2008 60,000 SAG actors got work. She has a lot of competition. The first four they have listed for the females as it is currently since the list changes have all won or been nominated for Oscars, Golden Globes and SAG awards.
It's not just looks and talent but a consistency in work, even if an actor is in a bad film they can still give a good performance. The first four women IMDb gas listed as being born in 1975 are very consistent in their roles even when the projects aren't that great.
I had never seen anything Ms. Blalock had been in before "ST: Enterprise" and I saw her after that series was over on "Stargate"b68 and "Legend of the Seeker".
Her husband is very successful I just saw his name in the news yesterday because of what's going on with his company Live Nation. She may not want to work as often since she has a small child and her husband does well.
Someone on this thread mentioned she did Playboy I have never looked for any pictures of her but if they were before she did "ST: Enterprise" that would be interesting since the guy she eventually married use to be her booking agent for jobs, I think they started a few years later after he had left the company that was representing her at the time.
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