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Played quite possibily the greatest character of all time.


Brenda in Six Feet Under is so complex and engaging. The transition throughout the series is spectacular. It's a shame an actress of Rachel Griffith's caliber is settling for banal roles for Brother and Sisters.

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It's all about Cyborg Doakes with the help of Ellen Wolf's Nubian Army of Nazareth in Season 4.

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Yeah, it sucks, but thats what you gotta do in Hollywood to keep being a working actor. Ian McShane took quite a few bad roles after Deadwood, but you gottta get paid

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Oh yeah I definitely agree. It just sucks that it has to be that way: that some brilliant actors have to settle for trite roles to get paid.

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It's all about Cyborg Doakes with the help of Ellen Wolf's Nubian Army of Nazareth in Season 4.

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I am like you though, in that I wonder why she took the role in "brothers and sisters." Obviously you can't replicate a role as good as "brenda;" a role like that comes once in a lifetime. But do actors really need to take crappy roles for the money.. I mean, she's already a multi-millionaire... I could understand if she was living pay check to paycheck, but she's loaded... why does she need to take *beep* roles? Just sort of wondering in general why actors do that.

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