Surprising Actors Who Played Strippers Or Prostitutes
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They are not strippers or prostitutes in real life but these actors have played convincingly played the part for a television or film role.
WENNKym Whitley
Kym Whitley has done countless guest appearances and cameos on movies and television shows but perhaps one of her funniest characters has been Monena, the street walking hooker on HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” Trying to get to a Dodgers game, Larry David recruited Monena’s services just to have an extra body in the car so he could beat traffic by riding in the car pool lane. Monena finagled her way into the game and ended up supplying David’s dear old dad with some marijuana for his glaucoma.
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Oprah Winfrey
There has been a lot of talk about the upcoming biopic based on Richard Pryor’s life. The film is still in the pre-production phase and it was finally announced that the role of the legendary comedian would be going to Mike Epps. But casting for the film made headlines a few days later when it was revealed that Oprah Winfrey would be playing Pryor’s grandmother. Working as a madam in a house of ill repute, Marie Carter became an important figure in Pryor’s life after he went to live with her when his mother abandoned him.
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Salma Hayek
After making it as a famous actress in her home country of Mexico, Salma Hayek relocated to conquer Hollywood. In her long career, she has had several different roles including playing a stripper. The married mother of one shook what her mama gave her by playing Lola the stripper in the 2012 film “Americano.” But this wasn’t the first time she worked it for the cameras. Hayek gave a striptease performance in both “From Dusk Til Dawn” and “Dogma.”
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LisaRaye McCoy
LisaRaye McCoy’s turn as a dancer in 2Pac’s “I Get Around” music video proved to be the thing that started her career. Ice Cube cast her in his movie “The Players Club” as Diana Armstrong, otherwise known as Diamond, a single mother and college student by day and a stripper at night. Since then, McCoy, famous for always wearing white, has gone on to star in numerous films, several television sitcoms and even had her own reality show.
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Jessica Biel
Jessica Biel is only showing her body to hubby Justin Timberlake now but back in 2009 she bared her cakes for the sake of film. Biel played a woman who turned to stripping as a means of paying for her terminally ill son’s medical treatment. But few people actually saw this movie. It was released in theaters for a limited run before it was ultimately available on DVD only.
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Lindsay Lohan
To hear Lindsay Lohan tell it, it was no easy feat to prepare for her role as a down on her luck stripper in the 2007 horror flick “I Know Who Killed Me.” The former child star said practice sessions left her exhausted and she was bruised up from pole dancing classes. For her efforts, Lohan won two Golden Razzies for Worst Actress and Worst Screen Couple. The film itself brought home eight of the awards including Worst Picture and Worst Director.
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Mark Wahlberg
Mark Wahlberg is used to playing tough guy characters that chase and beat the living crap out of bad guys, but he showed another side of his acting skills for his breakout performance n the 1997 film “Boogie Nights.” A high school dropout with a less than picture perfect family life at home, Eddie Adams runs away, joins the sex trade business and reinvents himself as Dirk Diggler. The former rapper and Calvin Klein underwear model received a lot of acclaim for his role as Adams.
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Prince
Singer Prince may be forever immortalized in the film “Purple Rain” as The Kid and for its accompanying hit soundtrack, but that wasn’t the only film the musician has starred in. Two years later, the artist that used to be the artist formerly known as Prince played Christopher Tracy in “Under the Cherry Moon.” Working as a gigolo that cons rich, French women out of their money, a monkey wrench is thrown in his plans after he falls for an heiress.
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Demi Moore
Demi Moore earned a hefty paycheck for her role as Erin Grant, the single mother working as an exotic dancer in “Striptease.” She was paid $12.5 million but she did her due diligence to earn her salary. “I went to Club Tier in New York, I’ve been to clubs in Florida and Los Angeles and various places,” she said in an interview. “You know, on my path of enlightenment of the stripping world.”
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Halle Berry
Halle Berry has played a multitude of characters from legendary stars like Dorothy Dandridge to a crack addict strung out on drugs. So it should come as no surprise that Berry’s résumé includes a stripper. Very early on in her career, she starred in “The Last Boy Scout” with Damon Wayans and Bruce Willis as Cory, the stripping girlfriend to Wayans’ character. Since then, Berry has gone on to be a bigger celeb than both of her former co-stars.
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Jennifer Beals
In 1983, “Flashdance” was trashed by movie critics but it ended up becoming a hit at the box office and became the third highest-grossing film of the year thanks to Jessica Beals’ turn as the young Alex Owens, a welder who dreams of becoming a professional dancer. Owens moonlights as an exotic dancer at night and Beals steals the show with her iconic dance scene that included just a chair and a waterspout above it. Jennifer Lopez paid homage to the dance scene in her “I’m Good” music video by doing a similar routine but she ended up being sued for copyright infringement.
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Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer Aniston may have become famous playing one of America’s “Friends,” but she’s never funnier than when she’s a completely different character like the one she played in the hit comedy “We’re The Millers.” Aniston plays Sarah, a stripper on the verge of being evicted from her place and jumps at the chance to help her neighbor smuggle back a smidge of drugs in exchange for a large payday. Sarah becomes the wife and mother of two teenagers and her work as an exotic dancer comes in handy when she uses her moves to distract the bad guys.
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