What ever happened to Lora Pettay?

Dear lord, OP, couldn't you at least get either her first or last name right?

It's Lori Petty and the movie was "Tank Girl," OP.

Google just told me she's on "Orange is the New Black."

OP, have you not heard the story about Joel Silver watching the day's rushes from "Demolition Man" with Lori Petty and Sylvester Stallone? He was producing it. He said "she looks like a carpet muncher" and fired her. He then hired Sandra Bullock to replace her, and the rest is history.

She takes herself too seriously. If she was as talented and as cool as she thinks she is, she'd have a bigger career.

She shops at Targay.

She's on Orange is the New Black where she plays a character called Lolly. She'll be back next season I think.

R6, that's Lollay.

She was great in that movie with Patrick Swayzay

She was great in "A League of His Own", but Gina Davies and Rosey O'Donald were even better!

The only film I liked her in was Point Break.

Such a beautiful woman. I can see why she went far in the pictures.

Didn't she used to sing backup for Stevie Nicks?

Hollywood is a bit slow to learn in some ways, it refuses to accept that an out gay actor can do leading-man roles, and it doesn't want to believe that a woman who isn't "fuckable" can be a box-office draw. The young Petty wasn't beautiful and was kind of butch, they didn't want to use her in the sort of leading-lady roles that keep an actress's career afloat.

I loathe Melissa McCarthy, but I do give her some credit for proving them wrong about women having to be pretty to put butts in the seats.

Didn't she play Alison's molested sister on Melrose Place? Or am I thinking of Trini Neilsen?

I always though Madonna's Girlie Show era look was sort of a rip off of Lori Petty.

Who the hell is "Lori Petty" R15? This thread is for the illuminous Lora Pettay only.

It's unfortunate superstardom has eluded Lora. I always feel that her performance in Their League with Billie Jean was Oscar worthy.

r17 that was Helene Sleeter in Their League With Billie Jean, not Lora Pettay. Helene Sleeter was also in The Secret of Sucking with Michel K. Foxxy and Horrible People with Betty Middling.

[quote] ways, it refuses to accept that an out gay actor can do leading-man roles, and it doesn't want to believe that a woman who isn't "fuckable" can be a box-office draw.

Kathy Bates , Sarah Jessica Parker, Taryn Manning, Bette Davis, Gaby Hoffman, Chloe Sevegny, Edie Falco, Linda Hunt, Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, Cynthia Nixon, Jodie Foster, Tilda Swinton, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Barbra Streisand, Glenn Close, Elizabeth Moss, Margo Martindale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jamie Lee Curtis, Shirley MacLaine, Rosie O'Donnell, Frances Macdormand, Patricia Clarkson, Frances Conroy, Diane Wiest, Julie Harris, Ellyn Burstyn, Ellen Barkin, Clare Danes, Cher, Cissy Spacek, Betty White, Bea Arthur, Cloris Leachman, Jean Stapleton -- they all managed to have careers as film or TV actors.

Lori Petty couldn't even manage as a character actress because she was difficult to work with and prefers to look like a cartoon character, which makes it difficult to cast her.

[quote]Cissy Spacek

Unfortunately, she wasn't quite as successful as her Oscar-winning cousin, Sissy.

Did she ever come out? I don't think she is ugly when she "cleans up" - she looked lovely in A League of Their Own

I've been a fan of Lora Pettay since "Free Willona," that family movie about the killer walrus.

I saw her get fingered by Doris Roberts in one of those underground celeb sex tapes the H'Wood elite pass around and use as blackmail. Her pussy looked like a smashed roast beef sandwich.

R19, the poster said BOX OFFICE DRAW. The only women from your list that have ever opened more than one movie by themselves successfully without a bigger male star are Bette Davis ( 50-60 years ago!) and Jodie Foster. I know we all like to pile on Jodie Foster, but she's actually quite pretty and more conventionally attractive than most of the women on your list.

Behind the scenes, she was branded as difficult, impossible and mentally unstable. She got put in the Sean Young pile and left behind. I had a friend who did a tv pilot with her in the 90's and he said she was pain in the ass.

Damn, r25. No wonder Lori's career did not last too long.

Lori Petty not only wasn't a BOX OFFICE DRAW, she wasn't even a character actress for years because she's batshit crazy and difficult to work with. She could easily have been working in secondary roles in films and/or tv for the past 20 years, but she hadn't been doing that. Because she's nuts.

Another carpet muncher, R3. Although on the softer side.

Same here, R10.

WTF happened to her. She used to be hot now she looks like wasted white trash.

She's fine! She sends her love!

Lora Pettay is one of my favorite character actresses!

Lora Pettray divorced Dick van Dyke and moved to Minneapolis, changed her name to Mare.

She was terrific in that Private Benjamin TV show. Better than Goldie.

That was Lorna Patterson, r34.

R3, I remember that story about Joel Silver saying that -- even though he already had a crass reputation, it was still kind of an eyebrow-raiser to read in print that he was quoted that way. And why did he hire her in the first place if he had such reservations.

Her persona and acting style are something of an acquired taste -- no wonder the films in which she was most effective and also successful (POINT BREAK and A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN) are the one in which she is most subdued.

I loved Lora Pettay in [italic]The Point that Breaks[/italic] and [italic]Their League of Belonging,[/italic] but [italic]The Girl with a Tank[/italic] was her masterpiece. Thank goodness she is getting good new work on the hit TV series [italic]Everyone's Fashion Statement is Orange.[/italic]

Everyone in [italic]Their League of Belonging[/italic] did fine, from Thom Hawks, Ginny Davies, and Lora Pettay to Rhodey O'Daniel and even LaDonna, who for once did not embarrass herself.

I think, like Keane Rivers and Jason Lito, she's more into her rock band than acting; I really like her song "Don't Do Me Like That One More Time (Once Is Never Enough)."

I always thought she looked a bit like Tracy Nelson. Maybe they should play sisters in something.

Fashionista!

The English cartoonist who created "Tank Girl", Jamie Hewlett, was sick of the character and was going to have her killed off. Run over by a milk float. Then the Hollywood movie came along and the offer of $$$$, and he said: "Hold that milk float!"

Would Lori Petty's career have been better if she didn't have an ego?

I think she was classified as NUTS

You're killing me, R33.

Thanks, r44.

She brings to mind a little less edgy version of Susan Tyrell.

Does Lora still have all her limbs? Maybe she could play in the Jenifer Lien Story.

[quote]What ever happened to Lora Pettay?

Whatever happened to spelling Laura correctly?

[quote]Whatever happened to spelling Laura correctly?

Oh, dear.

Whatever happened to reading the preceding comments?

Lol r9 😅

She was super pretty when she broke out. Great bone structure, not unlike Gillian Anderson.

I've heard that she's not even gay.

She just released an autobiography. Tim Honks wrote the forward and I believe Carvana Reef, Jane Jacket and Iced Coffee were interviewed.

Bump bitch thread