Megan Fox is a Good Actress

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Fans have voted Megan Fox the best science fiction actress at the 2009 Spike TV Scream festival for her performance in "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen."

Also recognized at the award ceremony were Taylor Lautner for best new fantasy actress for her work in "Twilight."

Anna Paquin also received best horror actress for her role on the series "True Blood."

Isabel Lucas won best new science fiction actress in "Transformers."

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Older Actress Megan Mullally Finds Freedom

Gina Wilhelm Actress - Older Actress Megan Mullally Finds Freedom

Now that she's over age 50, Megan Mullallyno longer has to worry about trying to get "babe" roles. In "youth-obsessed" Hollywood, that might worry some actresses.

Mullally finds it freeing. Now she's able to take the character roles she believes directors wouldn't have considered her for before.

She's currently appearing in "The Receptionist" at Odyssey Theatre, playing a frumpy gossiping biddy at the center of the storm.

She's had a plethora of exciting career choices since "Will and Grace" went off the air in 2006.

While she's thrilled to have the opportunity to play new character parts, she's still considering writing "Karen: The Musical" based on her character from that television show.

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O'Hara Finds Her Inner Wild Thing

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Catherine O'Hara recorded her voice work for cranky monster Judith in "Where the Wild Things Are" three years ago, but she remembers the experience well.

Director Spike Jonze wanted the cast to get in touch with their wild thing inside, so instead of having his voice actors stand behind microphones, he had them "thrown together in a physical reenactment of the movie."

She explains, "Spike seems to believe, why make an actor fake something, when you can just give them that experience?"

She had to record one scene while having a bun fight with the rest of the cast.

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Rashida Jones Options Comic Book

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Rashida Jones, star of "The Office" and "Parks & Recreation," has optioned the movie rights to her comic book "Frenemy of the State" to Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment.

She will cowrite the screenplay with actor Will McCormack.

"Frenemy of the State" was announced at the San Diego Comic Con in July, but has yet to be published. Jones is co-writing the comic with Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir and artist Jeff Wamester.

Jones says she didn't create the comic as a vehicle for herself, though the main character does bear a striking resemblance to the actress.

"It's intended for a girl much younger than me, about age 20, an interesting age for girls as they make that scary jump to adulthood," she explained.

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Carey Mulligan Gets "An Education"

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Carey Mulligan is making a splash in Hollywood with her performance in "An Education" and will next be seen in the sequel to "Wall Street."

She doesn't see this as a huge change from the acting work she's done in England. "Honestly, the main difference is the catering. The catering in America is so much better.

"But really, every job is the same in terms of the fear that you feel walking into the room on the first day. The desperation to please the director and to fit in with everybody else."

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Maggie Jones's Illness Prompts Rewrite

Gina Wilhelm Actress - Maggie Jones's Illness Prompts Rewrite


Maggie Jones, who plays battleaxe Blanche on the soap opera "Coronation Street," has had to be quickly written out of the script while she's in the hospital for emergency surgery.

Jones's deft comic timing has earned her many awards, including the Funniest Performance at the Inside Soap Awards.

Explaining her performance, Jones has said, "If I started trying to play the lines for laughs, they wouldn’t come out right and the performance would suffer."

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Kim Ok-Vin Best Actress

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Kim Ok-vin won the best actress award at the 42nd Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival in Spain.

She shared the award with Elena Anaya of Spain. She won for her performance in "Thirst," a vampire movie that won the jury prize at Cannes. It was directed by Park Chan-wook.

Kim made her debut in an online beauty contest.

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