People who look wealthy and waspy.

Mary Kay Place, Natalie Merchant.

Laura Linney. Glenn Close.

Cate Blanchett.

Susan Sullivan

Although black, not white, he looked waspy/wealthy as Cam Winston on Frasier, Brian Stokes Mitchell.

What is it about these actor's looks that gives them this appearance?

Mercedes Rhule.

It doesn't matter if you look that way or not. It just matters that you are that way.

Jim Backus.

M and her youngest daughter and son. Mamie and Gracie seem a bit lower class.

Mary Kay Place does NOT look WASP .

More like she's bringing marshmallow salad to the Sunday Church pot-luck in Iowa.

Isn't WASP that Hamptons ease prep style meets patrician savoir faire Country Club thing?

Do non-Americans possess it?

Hugh Grant.

Horse-faced blonde women?

What makes men look WASPY OR is it just down to sartorial choices?

"Mary Kay Place does NOT look WASP."

Agreed.

Blythe Danner.

Martha Stewart

Neil Patrick Harris

The Eternal ODH

Jimmy Fallon

Chelsea Clinton

"Jimmy Fallon

Chelsea Clinton"

No. Are you blind?

Kelly "sticks" Ripa

O Beto, Beto, Because, Beto.

O Beto, Beto, Because, Beto.

Kelly Ripa looks more, California girl next door, than waspy/wealthy.

Goop

Pierce Brosnan.

Make it work

^^^That's a lot of look!

Katharine Hepburn

R11 the WASP look actually came to America, seeing it stands for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant - it’s definitely not exclusive to the US. Hence, see Hugh Grant. Also Colin Firth, Michael Caine, Sir Ian, etc...

"Anglo-Saxon" = doh! Yes, I see your point R26.

Haha - Michael Came, being like Bryan Ferry, that is, a Brit who has deliberately cultivated WASP habits, style and mores to career advantage.

Mick Jagger OR Rod Stewart for all the Royalties wealth unlike Sting, say can't jump that divide.

The Kennedys

Carolyn Bessette Kennedy

Where is DL fave Sarah "Horseface" Parker ?

The Kennedys look too catholic.

Alexis Bledel

Michelle Dockery

Armie Hammer

Babe Paley had it in spades. That's why Paley married her as a matter of fact.

Jill Zarin

Kelly Bishop Connie Britton Teddy Sears Lauren Bacall Cary Grant Fred Astaire

Donna Dickson, Betty Buckley, Laurie Metcalf.

Has calling jewish women wasps become the new "calling black people niggers?"

Angie-Jo Voightface. Well, ok, she doesn't look "wealthy" -(Just a weight-obsessed suburban ex-emo still in all-black and covered head-to-toe, like a melanomophobic puritan) but she does look like a wasp. It's the enormous head and stick body, I think. And bug-eyes.

Bunny Bixler

[quote]Isn't WASP that Hamptons ease prep style meets patrician savoir faire Country Club thing?

No. Those are rich WASPs. All one needs to be is white, of anglo-saxon ancestry, and protestant.

There was a hilarious bit on the Beverly Hillbillies where Mrs. Drysdale was again making much of her ancestor that came over on the Mayflower, and then she found out that the Clampetts were descended from a Jamestown settler.

So the lady "bringing marshmallow salad to the Sunday Church pot-luck in Iowa" is WASP, where the Kennedys, Susan Sullivan, Pierce Bronson, and all the others mentioned on this thread with Irish or Italian or Polish surnames and Catholic backgrounds are not. They may be rich and/or posh, but they are not WASPs.

Still laughing at Mary Kay Place.

Jackie Mason

Ed Begley, Jr.

Cokie Roberts

Chelsea Clinton !? O my sides! Michael Caine - with that accent? Not a chance

Jessica Walter aka Lucille Bluth. She may be an Eastern European Jew, but she sure can turn on the wealthy WASP look if need be.

Anderson Cooper

[quote]Jessica Walter aka Lucille Bluth. She may be an Eastern European Jew, but she sure can turn on the wealthy WASP look if need be.

Sylvia Sydney was another one who could ace WASP roles

Phyllis Diller

Dina Merrill

"Well I never in all my life ...."

Keith Morrison of Dateline.

Years ago, a patrician wasp friend took me to dinner at her club, some room high atop a building on Park Avenue. The good goods. I was struck by how strange the people looked - exaggerated features. Is that inbreeding?

This is me lol. Everybody assumes I’m rich and come from money. And they automatically assume I’m a goody-goody which never gets old. I’m no heathen, but my interests and personality has never matched my looks.

My distant cousins have money etc but not me or my immediate family. Never did.

Brooke Shields, despite her awful mother.

R30 Sarah Jessica Parker looks as Jewish as a map of Israel.

Linda Evans

Elly May Clampett

Jerry Orbach

"Jerry Orbach"

No.

[quote] all the others mentioned on this thread with Irish or Italian or Polish surnames and Catholic backgrounds are not. They may be rich and/or posh, but they are not WASPs.

True, but the thread is about people who LOOK like WASPs, not necessarily people who really are WASPs. R42, lol.

Barbara Bush

Yes, the whole Bush family looks (and is) very WASPy, with the possible exception of George W, who just looks mentally challenged, and his daughter, Jenna, who looks trashy.

Paula Zahn owns this thread.

Fucker Carlson strikes me a faux wasp.

Carolyn Kennedy

Robert Mueller

Natalie Schafer

William Hurt

Patrick Wilson

C.Z. Guest

Stephanie March (of Law & Order: SVU).

Donald Moffat

70% of my Bowdoin classmates.

Tiffany Welles!

Thomas Gibson

50 Cent

[quote]Thomas Gibson

A friend from olden days went to Catholic school with him.

Tippi Hedren

Candace Bergen

Roseanne.

Meghan Markle

No, but I play one on TV.

My wife

Donald Trump

James Franciscus

82 posts and I’m the first to mention Grace Kelly?

Wasn't Grace Kelly Boston Irish Catholic?

R83 Yes but she looks as WASPy as they come.

You really are a bunch of climber peasants.

Dame Angela Lansbury

Roseanne Barr

The entire cast of the Hills minus Lo.

Baranski does NOT look or act WASPY.

She's very Jewish.

Lois Chiles

Rosie o Donnell

Whopper Goldberg

Ellen

Rachel Maddow

Leslie Jones

Richard Chamberlain

Sidney Biddle Barrows the Mayflower Madam.

Faith Ford

Diane Sawyer

Sigourney Weaver

Jussie Smollett.

Robert Redford

FDR

Edward Herrmann

Mrs. Skeffington

Mia Farrow before she grew her hair out into an unruly mane and looked like a crazy spinster.

Rosalind Russell always carried herself a bit like one in several of her roles.

Kim Catrall and Joanna Gleason played sisters on Sensitive Skin and they weren't playing WASPs, but I can see them nailing characters like that.

Wallis Simpson

Patrick Bateman

DL's bizarre obsessions with "class", as defined by the standards and mores of mid-century Middle America rears its head yet again.

Funny that a number of the people on your list are Jewish or other white ethnics.

Goop, who looks like every other 45 year old aging Jewish Princess in Short Hills, Chappaqua or Brentwood's inclusion may be a sign that lines are blurring. Or the poster is confused. Could be either.

Christian Bale

Vera Miles

Now there's a rich lookin' WASP.

Sorry R104

106

Grace Kelly even starred in the film, "High Society".

Morgan Fairchild and Armie Hammer. Thread closed

R83 Her father was Boston Irish Catholic, her mother came from German Lutheran immigrants.

R89 Baranski isn't Jewish or a WASP, though she did grow up in the center of the WASP world, Connecticut. She is a Polish Catholic.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.

Edie Sedgwick

Chrissy Metz.

young james spader

The Catholic Ed Begley, Jr. and Cokie Roberts?

The Catholic Mia Farrow and Grace Kelly?

Wendy Williams

Andy Warhol

The Catholic Rosalind Russell?

Harvey Weinstein

Barry Diller

Young Bud Cort

R117 what about looks rich and WASPy don’t you understand??

I don’t think Farrow ever had that look though.

Michael Jackson

Barron Trump owns this thread.

Christ, who is the fucking dolt that doesn't understand the OP - LOOKS rich and waspy. LOOKS! not IS rich and waspy. I swear there is always one aspie DLer on every thread who has to take everything literally.

To add to the list; Rose Byrne, Nicole Kidman, Noah Wyle, Candice Bergman, Princess Caroline

Allison Williams

Miss Larissa Jarzombek

Tama Janowitz

[quote] Brooke Shields, despite her awful mother.

I always forget about Teri until I'm reminded.

Brooke traced her lineage back to some king of France, if I recall.

Amy Irving

Just kidding. She looks total Jewess

Kelly Klein

Glenn Close

Patricia Hearst

Gabourey Sidibe

Chiquita Vasquez

Marissa Mayer

Jane Alexander, Jane Lynch

Sela Ward, Catherine Keener

So far, Kelly Klien is the best example of what OP wants.

Joan Allen, Lisa Edelstein

Madonna

Ryan Reynolds can pull off the rich WASP look.

Ronan Farrow John Mulaney Anderson Cooper

Eddie Redmayne.

Of the Newport Von Bulows

"Baranski does NOT look or act WASPY.

She's very Jewish."

I don't know if she's Jewish, but she doesn't look it. She most certainly looks like a wealthy wasp. That's why she's been cast in that roll. You don't see people who look Jewish being cast as wealthy wasps. People are cast by how they look, not what they are.

Baranski looks wealthy and sophisticated, but she doesn't look like a WASP

Baranski is second generation Polish. She talks about it all the time.

I see a lot of you think that anyone white has the look, wrong. And some of you are naming people who are wealthy wasps, but don't look like it.

And yes, some Jews have the look, not everyone looks like what they are.

Care to elaborate, R150? Or, I don’t know, add something to the thread instead of shitting on it?

R151 I created this thread, and have made multiple posts on it.

You troglodyte.

I've always thought Tea Leoni looked like the kind of upper middle class hausfrau who sends retail workers running away screaming (while pissing themselves in terror) as soon as they see her walk in the store.

Btw she would make a good Kate McCann if they ever decide to make a movie about the Madeleine McCann disappearance.

Forgot her name, but that one blonde chick who became a billionaire off of some blood type-testing technology (or something) that turned out to be a scam. I think she's going to be portrayed by JLaw (who is not nearly as waspy looking).

Blythe Danner

Isn't Blythe Danner's daughter Poop half Jewish?

It doesn't matter. Blythe Danner looks wealthy and waspy. So does Christine Baranski.

R156 Jesus fuck...

WHAT PART OF "LOOKS" WASPY DOES YOUR DUMBASS NOT FUCKING UNDERSTAND?

R158, what part of "joke" don't you understand? You seem like you have serious anger issues? Lawyer, or just no friends?

[quote]Isn't Blythe Danner's daughter Poop half Jewish?

Yes. Poop is a half-Jew.

Taylor Swift especially when she was dating a Kennedy

[quote] I've always thought Tea Leoni looked like the kind of upper middle class hausfrau who sends retail workers running away screaming (while pissing themselves in terror) as soon as they see her walk in the store.

Are most retail workers terrified of upper middle class white women?

R159 that was your idea of "funny"?

Asberger's, or just retarded?

Dame Maggie Smith

Madeline Sherwood

Tea Leoni is slack jawed, so just no...

Reese Witherspoon and her ex Ryan Philippe. I think they're wasps in real-life as well.

Moms Mabley--sort of

"Reese Witherspoon and her ex Ryan Philippe. I think they're wasps in real-life as well."

Ryan has that look, but I don't see it in Reese. To me she looks like trailer trash.

Reese Witherspoon has hillbilly bone structure.

[quote] Horse-faced blonde women?

You rang?

Problem?.... I thought not.

"Reese Witherspoon has hillbilly bone structure."

R170 you hit the nail on the head. I couldn't figure out why it was. Ann Coulter has hillbilly bone structure too.

Gena Rowlands, Lee Remick

Zachary Booth

Dame Edna

Elizabeth McGovern owns this thread.

Anson Elgort

Cory Michael Smith

Amber Von Tussle

Does R163 get banned for calling someone retarded?

Donald Trump Jr

January Jones as Betty Draper

Carrie Nye

Jenna Bush Hager

Mia Farrow

Elizabeth Montgomery

R179, Cory Michael Smith has that squirrelly hillbilly trailer trash look.

Cybill Shepherd

Donald Trump Jr

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I'm surprised at how many miss the mark on this thread, but on the poor/white trash thread everyone pretty much nails it. I guess either white trash is more easily defined, or is a look more DLers are familiar with.

Yeah most of these are way off mark. Hopefully there will be a followup asking for white trash looks and we will find all the WASPs there.

Stephanie March of L&O: SVU and the ex Mrs. Bobby Flay

No one has said Rob Lowe yet?

Litmus test: if you can picture them looking perfectly comfortable in a white polo shirt. Or tennis sweater.

Oh, let me add Matthew Goode to that.

Fuck - FDR at r112 was hot!

Anthony Perkins

George Peppard

James Spader.

Julia Duffy

Lily Rabe

Anderson Cooper

Alison Brie

Gabriel Mann

Constance Towers (Helena Cassadine, GH)

Taylor Miller (Nina Cortlandt, All My Children)

Erika Slezak (OLTL)

Catherine Keener

Nan Kempner

Christian Bale

Nancy Kissinger

How do you look protestant?

There's only one kind of person who uses the term "WASP".

David Monahan

Gabriel Mann

Peter Beard

FDR Jr had BDF

Many hillbillies are WASPs

R177, no, she absolutely does not.

Christine Baranski wealthy and waspy looking? With that nose and that joker wide mouth? Really? Look at the pictures of NaN Kempner and Nancy Kissinger.

Martha Stewart. TRue she's a big ol' Polish Peasant but she has the look.

Deeda Blair

Topher Grace

Edward Norton

Topher Grace looks like a street urchin.

Christine Baranski: the daughter of Virginia (née Mazurowski) and Lucien Baranski, who edited a Polish-language newspaper - wonderful actress, but not even remotely wasp-y.

The Kennedys, r28? The Irish Catholic Kennedys who would have been near the bottom of the immigrant pile for much of the first half of the 20th century? The Irish Catholic Kennedys whose patriarch Joseph Kennedy made his money from questionable dealings? Whose Catholic religion was an issue when JFK ran for president?

Some of you people need to get a better grip on what White Anglo Saxon Protestant actually means.

Christine Baranski looks extremely wealthy.

Wendie Malick

"Some of you people need to get a better grip on what White Anglo Saxon Protestant actually means."

The thread was about people who LOOK wasp-y not necessarily people who are actually WASPs. Btw, Irish people and English are genetically very similar, I bet if you put a bunch of English protestants and a bunch of Irish Catholics in a lineup most people could not tell the difference between the two, so I'm not sure why you are going on and on about the Kennedy clan.

Martha Stewart is too thicc to be a WASP. True WASP women look like they only eat martini olives, which is actually true in some cases.

For R154

You are referring to Elizabeth Holmes. I'd agree.

**Where is the female Steve Jobs now - probably regrouping to re-pitch herself based entirely on her looks? WASP-yness (in women and Hollywood) being the marketable commodity it appears to be as Hitch well-knew and fetishised.

Ding ding! R218 has it.

They also have slightly deranged rage-eyes from the pill popping, too. Refer yourself to Calista Gingrich.

Catholics can look very WASP-y, btw.

Paris and Nicky Hilton.

Gwyneth.

Ann Coulter.

The late CBK.

The "look" is essentially tall, thin, and blonde. It automatically gets respect and polite treatment, even deference, from Maitre Ds to MDs.

Mary Kay Place?? She doesn't look like any Wasp I know. Are you fucking kidding? She looks looks like a Long Island Jewish haus frau married to a lawyer.

Ralph Lauren Martha's Vineyard old money types

[quote]What is it about these actor's looks that gives them this appearance?

HUGE cheekbones, small eyes, petite mouth with no fillers, elegant neck, very few smiling lines, at least one facelift by 45 and just enough sun damage to look "outdoorsy".

Some of you are completely clueless!

Nan Kempner was born Nan Field Schlesinger, she was Jewish.

Catherine Kenner, she's of Irish descent on her father's side and Lebanese descent on her mother's side!

Meant Catherine KEENER, damn that auto correct.

[quote] Candace Bergman

Is she one of Ingrid's sisters?

Jennifer Connelly, Matthew Goode, Jeff Goldblum

Most Jewish people in Canada. Very white.

Through the twin miracles of plastic surgery and Miss Clairol... me!

Tea Leoni is nowhere near being a full blown Wasp, she's mostly Polish and Italian! With some Irish and English thrown in from her moms side. Her real last name is Pantaleoni.

R227 The thread was about people who "look" waspy and not necessarily people who "are" actually wasps.

R226, don’t forget helmet hair. If they’re younger, aggressively bleached and stick straight, but if they’re “woke” a softer blond with beachy waves.

Also EXTEMELY veiny necks and arms. Paper thin skin.

This was a fun idea for a thread, but unfortunately it's being derailed by a) dummies who are clueless about what wasps look like (someone said SJP? Seriously?) and b) dummies who think the point of the thread is to list actual wasps.

Vanna

Roseanne's neighbor KathyBowman

Harvey Weinstein.

Daughter of a billionaire- Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Do WASP men need to be blonde? It's the hair colour go to cliche of WASP women perhaps but not entirely true.

The Protestant Tudor-Stuart and British /Northern Euro Erik the Red Nordics also had the ginger DNA thing. It's not entirely a Catholic-Celtic thing.

Jessica Chastain and Julianne Moore look diamond tennis bracelet and polo cotton whites at ease....seriously.

and Harry at the end of long line of WASP inbreeding.

Ellie Kemper

Mama June and her current piece

Carmen Duncan.

Too funny, Vanna White is actually Hispanic.

R246 Hispanic isn't a race.

Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Coolidge

Matt Bomer

R193 That's FDR Jr., who was FDR's son at R112.

Martin Mull

A WASP will have very thin skin from being underweight, but they will also have really well nourished hair and nails thanks to minerals from digging in their organic veggie patches, which they will fertilize with poop from their own horses.

John Lithgow

What r237 said X10.

Stephanie Seymour's sons (i forget their names)

Rosamund Pike

Christine Baranski may not be (or look like) a WASP, but she's not Jewish. She's Polish Catholic, R89. ( Plus, what Jewish parent would name their child Christ-ine?)

[quote]Hispanic isn't a race.

No one said Hispanic was a race. Damn, the trolls at DL are tedious.

Vanna is not a Wasp, that's for sure.

Stephanie Seymour and her husband Peter Brant are both Jewish. Their sons do not look like Wasps either.

R209 What is wrong with her nose? I went to school with a girl, whose family were WASPs from Connecticut, and her nose looked just like that. They were old school, their lineage went back to the Mayflower.

The thread was DOA for using the world "wasps", the racist can't stand when you call someone who is not 100% white "waspy"

So... my takeaway is that a lot of Catholics and some Jews look wealthier and WASP-ier than.... white Anglo-Saxon Protestants?

This is.... fascinating,

Just to confuse some of you further:

Not all white American Protestants are WASP.

[quote]White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs) are a social group of typically wealthy and well-connected white Protestants of British descent.

[quote]Apart from Protestant English, German, Dutch, and Scandinavian Americans, other ethnic groups frequently included under the label of WASP include Americans of French Huguenot descent,[31] Scotch-Irish American or Ulster Scots Americans,[34] Scottish Americans,[35] Protestant Americans of Germanic Northwestern European descent in general,[36] and established Protestant American families of "vague" or "mixed" Germanic Northwestern European heritage.[37]

This "inclusion" may be true, but it's technically inaccurate. Real WASPs have ancestral roots in Britain. The end.

R264 You have to also break it down further. When most people speak of WASPs they are mainly talking about Northeastern WASPs, but there are also Southern WASPs, MidWestern WASPs, Western WASPs, and West Coast WASPs, and each group has slightly different looks and behaviors. For instance First Ladies Bess Truman and Mamie Eisenhower, were from wealthy connected Midwestern/Western WASP stock, but they would never have been mistaken for Northeastern WASPs.

Miss Dunaway

Hope Hicks

Timothée Chalamet

Baranski does not look like a WASP! She looks like a climber. Hepburn was the ultimate movie WASP along with Grace Kelly. Carolyn B styled herself a WASP but her prole roots shone through. Cybil Shephard, yes, but Baranski? Never!

R269 she does. I know it kills you that a Polish woman looks waspy and wealthy and you don't, but too bad. She is cast in those character parts BECAUSE she looks the part. Get over it.

Patricia Clarkson looks like a down to earth WASP with a sense of humor, who is a sculptor or chose a career in social work or something. She has an elegant and refined yet warm energy, with the ability to get tough if necessary.

There's a good reason Patricia Heaton was cast in Everybody Loves Raymond as a WASP who married into a family of Italian-Americans.

Haley Mills

Hillary Clinton

Thank you r269. Christine whateveski looks like the IDEA of a rich WASP, like Goop. Blythe Danner looks like an actual rich WASP. How it warms my head to know that it must irritate Goop’s jade vagina egg to no end that she looks like a generic Hwood blond.

Eddie Redmayne

Matthew Goode

Robin Wright

Harry Lloyd

Emily Blunt

Denise Richards

Grace Kelly really was an idealized WASP look/persona. But like so many of the seemingly classic WASPs - think Dominick And Griffin Dunne - is actually Irish. The similar genetic features combined with the desire to emulate makes for an idealized version.

Michael Murphy

William Daniels

Jeff Daniels

James Cromwell

This thread should have been titled “Wealthy OR WASPY”. Maybe we can all agree Baranski looks like the former.

Audrey Hepburn was neither Anglo-Saxon nor Protestant. Neither was Grace Kelly.

Weren't there some pretty girls in Hollywood who actually were WASPs, besides Katherine Hepburn?

R283 Acting was not considered a respectable career for either men or women by WASPs, there is still some prejudice about entertainment. Jane Wyatt was one, even though her parents were Catholic. They weren't born Catholic, but converted as adults.

Tallulah Bankhead is a great example of a wealthy Southern WASP in entertainment. While the family did have some Irish roots, they were Ulster Irish Protestants, most of whom first came from England. In America, they became wealthy and politically prominent.

Bette Davis was the real thing.

Peter Krause

Rosamund Pike definitely looks like a WASP. It's why she was cast as Amazing Amy in Gone Girl and not Reese. She had that cold, WASP-y vibe that Reese didn't. Goop would have probably been gone in that role, too.

Stopped at R5 to write this. Most American blacks are protestant so they rule the religious majority which is this nation. White Episcopalian vs. Black baptist? Same animal. Catholics, Jews, Mormons, Muslims lack that reserved temperament when getting down to brass tacks. The American Protestant mindset. The majority. Race doesn't factor in concerning this realm. Now THIS is America.

Armie Hammer

R278, Grace Kelly was German Catholic & Irish Catholic. Not Lutheran or Presbyterian. Any way you slice it, a most beautiful human specimen. Almost exclusively North American. Other otherworldly unarguably? attractive denizens always hailed from the US. Elizabeth Taylor? American parents. Elvis Presley? American.

Not sure Audrey or Deneuve match these standards. The best specimens in plant or animal kingdom are usually a heterozygous offspring. The hybrid mix is usually improved. Just business as usual on the New World continent. Most Americans are oblivious to their great power but the world subconsciously and consciously aware of this hard work won trait.

Need another example? One that could ONLY be put out by Americans? Distinctly American? Lynda Carter.

Ask yourselves why wealthy Brits are falling all over themselves to procreate with the Americans. They're also sourcing our egg & sperm donor base over all others. Billionaire heiress Chloe G has the means to get her hands on that American DNA of Jeremy Meeks. Prince Harry has the means & ways to afford his future offspring the gift of American DNA. See it for what it is, Americans. KNOW YOUR VALUE. Know the American animal is of a land of the hybrid superhumans. Practically all have some brush of indigenous base stock working in their bloodlines. Practically all are made aware since birth to recognize and value human differences. Bombarded by 5 years old with this mindset. Instilled with over the top work ethic. Instilled with the belief 'where there's a will, there's a way'. Something to really think about when we find ourselves comforting scared pets as we celebrate our good fortune when July rolls along.

There's no where to go.. But up

Dina Merrill for the win. She was the real thing.

Here's a little hint, my Americans. Hard to understand the lyrics in this classic. Exposes the belief in the human super-hybrid when you realize the lyric states WANTS a young American.

Deep down though? Everyone WANTS the American. Still apparent today with 3 Brit examples in R289^.

Americans of every stripe are rich. Finances don't factor in here though. Rich not as in wealthy. Wealth can be gained or lost. Money isn't static. But superior eclectic DNA is a constant.

Practically all Americans have hit the genetic jackpot, regardless of race. If we only knew. Beliefs instilled. Differences recognized and appreciated among all stripes. Work ethic. Bootstraps pulled up 100K times a day. Is there any doubt anywhere as to how everyone would naturally WANT the American?

Traveled, worked & lived all over the globe in my life. In any land you may roam, if an oasis refreshment is in need, just go seek out your fellow North Americans and all will be right as rain.

People, people who look wealthy and waspy. Are the luckiest people, in the world!

R290 j'agree. AND her mother Marjorie insisted in her deeded charity lands that no stray animal could be removed from premises and taken off to the pound to be gassed.

Just to close this case out, your honors of the DL & visitors (future, imminent DL addicts)...may I present another INNOVATION & gift to the globe besides first in flight?

Could not have been achieved by Non Americans. No how. Slides right into the American coffee drinking, manic striving exclusive to our citizens. Our family. Like an otherwordly force. This invented American style aids in motivation and complete acceptance of multiculturism. Been at it for centuries.

Credit where credit is due. Play this shit & skate through the mundane modalities of life like the American you are.

The defense rests

Linked this not so sly race baiting thread to this former debacle of a thread 😂

House it the fuck up, yo!

I think Hollywood and Madison Ave have influenced our ideas of what old money WASPs look and act like. They cast Irish Americans as WASPs. Martha Stewart gives the impression that they have amazing elaborate dinner parties. The treads on WASP cooking and entertaining suggest you'll be lucky to get a saltine with your drink and all the women are anorexic. Traditionally WASPs believed a lady should only get her name in the paper when she gets married and when she dies. They avoided publicity, so no one from the outside got a good look at them.

Dina Merrill

Kristin Scott Thomas owns this thread.

I agree with R296. We've all seen too many movies with pretty pastel blonds (of both genders) in their cashmere sweaters and tennis whites, living the high life.

It's a weird, aspirational lust/envy that has been with us since the silent film era. It predates Ralph Lauren and Martha and all the other wanna-bes capitalizing on it.

My exposure to NYC haute-WASP circles is quite limited: some uni and work acquaintances over the years, friends of friends, UES, South Hampton visits, etc.

Some perfectly nice folks, others not so much. Lots of "natural athletic builds" and pleasant faces. But not a runway model or budding movie star among them, frankly.

And no, most of them cannot dress for shit.

I think Frances McDormand can play the haute WASP perfectly.

R296 I've heard that about the newspapers before, but is that entirely true? From my genealogical and historical research, I've noticed that all newspapers used to have society pages, which were filled with stories about what the wealthy were doing, in NYC, DC, Boston, Newport and elsewhere. My small southern hometown, was a very popular resort community for them between the late 1800s until the Great Depression, and the New York Times and others would publish special editions concerning their activities here. So if that was a rule, they didn't abide by it.

In NYC, they called that "cafe society," R301, and while there were certainly privileged WASPs leading their ranks, it wasn't exclusive:

[quote]Café society was the description of the "Beautiful People" and "Bright Young Things" who gathered in fashionable cafés and restaurants in New York, Paris, and London beginning in the late 19th century. Maury Henry Biddle Paul is credited with coining the phrase "café society" in 1915. Lucius Beebe created the term "chromium mist" for the café society lifestyle he chronicled in his weekly column, This New York, for the New York Herald Tribune during the 1920s and 1930s.

Members attended each other's private dinners and balls, and took holidays in exotic locations or at elegant resorts. In the United States, café society came to the fore with the end of Prohibition in December 1933 and the rise of photojournalism to describe the set of people who tended to do their entertaining semi-publicly—in restaurants and night clubs—and who would include among them movie stars and sports celebrities. Some of the American night clubs and New York City restaurants frequented by the denizens of café society included the 21 Club, El Morocco, Restaurant Larue, and the Stork Club.

There was always an older, more established WASP elite based on the UES that strongly disapproved of this kind of fast, flashy living... particularly mixing with other classes, religions, and even races.

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I'm Ashley Judd, Tinsel Town's hardest-working little up-and-comer, just starting to taste some success!

Is there ANYTHING I can't do?

Tomorrow belongs to ME....

oopsy, wrong thread!

Lee Remick

R302 The people I am describing were before the "cafe society." People with last names like Bostwick, Hitchcock, Vanderbilt, Whitney, Eustis, Iselin, Goddard, and Prince, basically the sort of people Edith Wharton wrote about.

Thin lipped is a requirement, therefore Hayley mills and Denise Richards don’t fit the bill—their lips are too lush. Kristen Scott Thomas, and Patrician clarkson, yes. Dina Merrill, yes. George Bush pere, yes.

Jodie foster

^^^^^ yes, Jodie foster

Tucker Carlson

Arlene Francis

Roscoe Lee Browne

William Fichtner

Marina Rust Tory Burch Aerin Lauder Deeda Blair Laura Slatkin

Jodie Foster favorite attire seems to be gym clothes.

Taylor Swift has her moments

Marcia Cross!

Lisa Welchel

R317 I think she's an actual wasp too (raised in Pennsylvania on a Christmas tree farm by wealthy stockbroker father).

R319 funny I was gonna out her in the other thread — despite who a she played.

Her face is the opposite of patrician.

Omg R321 - I LOVED that guy. Totally forgot about him. He was everything I wanted at 15.

Beyonce

R302 come on! 😂

Wasn’t William Moses on Little House on the Prairie? His wiki doesn’t mention it - but I swear I remember him in it.

R326 I think you are mixing him up with Dean Butler, who played Almonzo.

Jameson Parker

Anderson Cooper... oh wait, he really is waspy-wealthy. Gloria too. Of course Gloria made, no, earned more money than she ever inherited. Anderson too. He’s made his own fortune.

Barbara Hutton

Consuelo Vanderbilt

What about Perry King?

Lady Randolph Churchill

Slim Keith

Edith Stokes, who descendant Edie Sedgewick was named for.

A teenage Edie Sedgwick, pre-Warhol Factory, etc.

One more Edie.

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Young Dina Merrill with EF Hutton.

I've always felt that Emmylou Harris had a very WASP meets bohemian look.

Heiress to the Singer fortune, Daisy Fellowes.

Mary Crowninshield Endicott (1864-1957), the "Puritan Princess."

My favorite cookbook lady. She's Jewish though, in reality.

Alice Lee Roosevelt.

R342 What about Nathalie Dupree

R296, types poor & clueless. My God, Child, sit down for a talk.

Work with us here, lounge gang. Within the next decade, you die. About 3 years later, let's say, once your soul energy tires of roaming the galaxy, your energy matter gets another shot at a human life. Having experienced humanism kind of recently, you know the drill.......

5 options to choose from.

#1) Royalty

a) Nobility

b) Blue Blood Aristocrat

c) Upper class general WASP

#2 ______

Going down the line, you'd think you'd select option #1. Creme de la creme, non? Given another shot? Gonna tell you the truth. You'll select #2 & sub-variants as your final answer. Because you've lived in actual human form, you KNOW better.

Rita Lydig

Mona Bismarck

Jordan Peterson

A typical DL thread.

It glorifies the WASP culture and its accoutrements of wealth and status. Most have average looks, at best, they are ice cold, distant and remote, extremely clannish, selfish and they’re horrible hosts.

Gay men are their worst enablers and are their fawning asskissers. Many of them think they’re accepted and are fully integrated into the WASP circles, when in fact they’re merely servants “who know their place.”

Jewish women look rich and WASPy.

Judge Judy

Jewish men with blue eyes.

R352, in what way is this thread "glorifying" wasps? We are listing people who have that look. No one has said wasps are particularly attractive, although like any group of people, you have your lookers and your fugs.

They're supposed to be brown if you're a real Jew.

Deborah Foreman and Sam Jones in My Chauffeur.

I guess most aren't real because of their caucasoid features betraying their ancestry.

Just like OP who is probably a Russian but worships Yahweh, making him a white person who happens to be Jewish in a religious context. Still a wasp/

Jon Huntsman

Gwyneth Paltrow springs to mind!

Blue eyes = wasp, R361.

What's the opposite of WASP? Is it CHEAP THIEF?

Baranski looks like a typical white ethnic Catholic. WASPs call them Pollacks unfortunately.

Gwyneth Paltrow's eyes are blue.

Ann Romney

Corinne and Andy from Swing Out Sister

The Romneys

R344, was she the one who coined “if you don’t have anything nice to say about anyone, sit next to me”? She looks quite beautiful...

Michelle Pfeiffer bitches

🍁 🍂 🍁 🍂

😍❤️😍❤️

Jude Law?

Jessie Wilson Sayre, Woodrow Wilson's pretty daughter. She got married in the White House and also was the last woman to give birth in the White House. she died young.

Deven Green, AKA Mrs. Betty Bowers

Tyler Henry

While some keep posting pix here of vapid, moon-faced, peroxide blondes, a few others understand the classic WASP prototype, at least the female version. Look at some of the photos.

Many of the heiresses/notables posted here personify a classic Northeastern American type: long heads and/or faces (sometimes described unkindly but accurately as "horsey"), long, straight noses, similarly strong (almost mannish) jawlines that are in harmony with those noses. Fair-skinned brunettes, more often than not. Probably taller than the average non-WASP woman of the period. These are "handsome" patrician women.

The popular stereotype of tiny snub-noses and Nordic white blonde hair owes more to Hollywood than to actual American history.

R377 wealthy wasps bleach and dye their hair too.

My comments reflect the historical photos and a genetic type, R378. Adults nowadays are free to do as they please with their hair color, the shape of their noses, etc.

Wealthy-looking people tend to be ectomorphs.

R337, right on the money.

Lots of people here are unaware of the trait "patrician air". You've had to be immersed in this sub society to know how to call it.

Absolute opposite of peasant stock. Not old Jewish HW studio heads' idea of the old guard aristocratic stock in America. Those Jews back then weren't allowed within 500 feet of old money institutions. Still holds true today.

Moving on..anywhere in the world. One can always recognize by SIGHT if you're cut from a finer cloth whatever your ethnic background or country of origin.

It's called our pedigree. Our line of ancestors before us. We're walking billboards.

R364, love Baranski. Since "Cybill". Stole that show.

Can tell difference in background & life lived between the recent commentators.

Baranski. First sight, back in the day. Not knowing her name or anything.

Eastern European Jew Admix. Poland/Czech region. But gut instinct? Registered as Jewish.

Cindy McCain

True American blue blood patrician aristocrat?

C.Z. Guest

Bitch, stop haunting me. Not gonna actually sell that Cartier piece to that snake of an appraiser. Yes! Located the early heirloom plant stock to recultivate the bed on the SW lawn. 😂

Instead, haunt me with some fucking help. Property taxes are killing me!

R381 here. Meant to credit R377

Jack Davenport

Loving that waspy twink In r379.

[Quote]A typical DL thread.

It glorifies the WASP culture and its accoutrements of wealth and status. Most have average looks, at best, they are ice cold, distant and remote, extremely clannish, selfish and they’re horrible hosts.

Gay men are their worst enablers and are their fawning asskissers. Many of them think they’re accepted and are fully integrated into the WASP circles, when in fact they’re merely servants “who know their place.”

Marry me!

R389, to the back of the line w/you, ok?

The biggest surprise at r384 is that John McCain was totally fuckable at one point

Maggie Smith.

Cindy McCain

Blythe Danner.

Blythe Danner.

Blythe Danner.

Here’s a brunette, you salty bitches. Clothilde (Kristen Darnell), modeled for Ralph Lauren.

Sexy ^

Us

R398 is neither sexy, nor a man.

James Spader, back in the 80s. His roles were usually the snotty WASP guy.

Bitsy de Voss

Meryl Streep

Grace Kelly

Jon Hamm...and the entire Harmon family.. Mark, Kelly, Kristen..even Mark's wife, Pam Dawber.

New York Mayor John Lindsay

Anderson Cooper

Peter Jennings

Cheryl Tiegs

Peter Beard

Gavin Newsom

Fay Bainter

Alexis Smith

Mary Tyler Moore

Elizabeth McGovern

Millicent Fenwick...Christine Todd Whitman

Andie MacDowell

Peggy Lipton

Mary Tyler Moore is of Irish Catholic and German ancestry.

Andie MacDowell both have mixed ancestries, but are at least part English.

R414 so what's your point? This thread is about people who have the look, not people who actually are.

r272 -- Debra (the character Patricia Heaton played on ELR) is not WASP -- she comes from a well to do Catholic family.

Brenda Strong

Slim Keith is a good example of a WASP going from poor to rich

Kelsey Grammer

Patricia Heaton? So we're just adding anyone who's white to the thread? How is Patricia Heaton's short dumpy ass in any way close to resembling a wealthy wasp type?

Muffie Potter Aston.

Muffie Potter Aston is a wealthy wasp, but she LOOKS like inbred poor white trash.

'Sup, DataLounge?

Hell yeah ^^^

The Romneys

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Dee Ocleppo

Matthias Von Fistenburg

Gwilym Lee

Henry Ford

Henry Ford

Graydon Carter

Barbara Tanner Allen deKwaitkowski

Christine Baranski doesn’t look WASPy. She looks like a Polish American with a really bad rhinoplasty.

R434 I don't know about that, but she DEFINITELY looks wealthy. It's the reason she's so often cast as wealthy characters.

R434, as has been said weeks ago upthread

Christopher Reeve.

Julie Bowen

One of those Real Housewives of......

Baranski looks like a Dr. Seuss character.

Wes Anderson

Wes Anderson looks like a homeless person.

Keira Knightley

R440 she played my love interest (with great tits), so...

James Spader was a funhouse-mirror Fantasia on one. You knew it was a put-on by a horny middleclass aspirant but it was just so tempting to buy into it anyway.

Blythe Danner is one of those actresses that waspy older white women look up to because she's pretty.

Nicky Hilton Rothschild

Older white ladies also look up to Blythe Danner because she is an elegant woman.

Blythe Danner has overfilled her mid-cheek area and her jawline looks very pulled.

Jewish people.

Judy Collins

Reese Witherspoon

George Romney was an extremely handsome man...

Who you all really mean is Olivia Williams.

Lachlan Nieboer

Reese Witherspoon doesn't look wealthy or waspy, the large pointy chin and trailer park bone structure prevents it.

Agreed. Reese looks like a peasant.

Blythe Danner? Only a black person could go there. Truly clueless. It always shows to0

Orville Redenbacher

Julia Ormond circa "Smilla's Sense of Snow"

Jonathan Jackson circa "Tuck Everlasting"

Anne-Louise Lambert

Interestingly, there is a common trait that seems to come up often in people with old English settler heritage, usually with some Dutch settler thrown in, at least in The US: Gray eyes. If they're blue, it's usually a cadet blue. Light brown hair and gray eyes is the most common combo. Gray eyes are also common in multi-racial people, so as the "elite" class get more diverse and there are more multi-racial marriages, the gray eyes/light brown hair combo pops up more and more.

Yeah, I'm not seeing that r463. Grey eyes are rare among all groups, wasps included. Brown are the most common among Anglos, followed by blue, then green, grey being the rarest. As for hair, people dye their hair so ubiquitously that it's difficult to reliability tell.

Lauren Bacall when she was older, although she was a Jew from the Bronx.

Harry Lloyd

He just looks like an ordinary twink

Look at the cheekbones though.

He's the great-great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens, btw...

R440 I thought it was hilarious that she was the only actor in the Jim Carrey GRINCH movie to *not* need makeup/prosthetics to play a Who. XD

R273 Wow, she resembles Christina Ricci circa SLEEPY HOLLOW. Must be the fivehead.

R258 the Jewish parents who would name their daughter *Natalie* Green.

'Natalie' means "Christmas Day."

Christine Baranski

For some reason I find the name “Holland Taylor” supremely annoying.

Kerri Russell

Lori Loughlin

"Lori Loughlin"

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Lupita Nyong'o

Lori Loughlin looks cheap in a way.

Christine Baranski

Diane Keaton

R241 The Louis-Dreyfus family are French Jews, and look it. Does JLD really look waspy with the dark curly hair and olive complexion?

Fred Astaire, Wm. F. Buckley Jr., George Plimpton, John Hausmann, Robert Redford, Dick Cavett, Wm. Hurt, Matthew Modine for the blokes.... Most of the elder grand dames have all been mentioned already, but I should add Elizabeth Montgomery, and Eva Marie Saint.

Younger birds with the "look" include Tory Burch, Cate Blanchett, Chelsea Handler, and Tinsley Mortimer.

I think depending how they happen to be dressed, Kendall Jenner, GOOP, and Baranski sometimes have it.

"This is me lol. Everybody assumes I’m rich and come from money. And they automatically assume I’m a goody-goody which never gets old. I’m no heathen, but my interests and personality has never matched my looks."

I just bet.

I'm guessing it's the eyebrows.

Barbara Walters

It's much harder for me to call to mind more contemporary men who evoke this look, but should have nominated Andy Roddick. When he's dressed up, he comes off as such.

Welling.

Blythe Danner

[R-1] Natalie Merchant?? Surely you jest! One of her parents was Sicilian and she looks every inch a Sicilian matron.

Mae Whitman

The Redgrave-Richardson family

Sigourney Weaver has a very WASPy appearance but I think I read that like Paltrow she is half Jewish and also had her nose bobbed as a young teen.

Goop is Jewish?

Sigourney Weaver is pretty much pure WASP, and looks it, I think. She's tall and quite striking in person, more so than on film.

[quote]Weaver was born in Manhattan, New York City, the only daughter of Elizabeth Inglis (née Desiree Mary Lucy Hawkins; 1913–2007), an actress, and NBC television executive and television pioneer Sylvester "Pat" Weaver (1908–2002). Her uncle, Doodles Weaver (1911–1983), was a comedian and actor. Her mother was English, from Colchester, Essex, and her father, who was American, had English, Scottish, Scots-Irish, and Dutch ancestry, including roots in New England. Weaver began using the name "Sigourney Weaver" in 1963 after a minor character (Mrs. Sigourney Howard, Jordan Baker's aunt) in Chapter 3 of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby.

Chelsea Handler and Tory Burch??

And actually, while Tinsley Mortimer is cute and obviously doesn’t look in any way “ethnic” she’s always had a somewhat cheap look to her (maybe it’s the extreme nose job, idk).

Christine Baranski looks wealthy (well, like someone who married an 80 year old man with money, more specifically), but certainly not WASPy.

A lot of posters are making the rookie mistake of judging people by their coloring: light eyes, blonde hair. (Chelsea Handler? For heaven's sake.)

Anyone can color their hair, or wear contact lenses if they like. Many people in the public eye do both.

Most WASPs, like most people on the planet, are natural brunettes. Their eyes can be light or dark. Their complexions may be pale or ruddy and freckled.

Instead, look at facial features and bone structure: the shape and length of noses in relation to the jawline. The set of the mouth. THAT is what determines an authentic WASP look.

Also: while WASPs come in different sizes and shapes like everyone, they tend to be taller than many other ethnic groups in America. (Often longer-limbed as well.) WASP women are usually taller than non-WASP counterparts.

Please stop listing short, busty women like Julia Louis Dreyfuss. That's just laughable.

RL. The man who commercialized the waspy yuppie look while reinventing himself in the same image.

[quote] (Often longer-limbed as well.)

Laura Dern

Ralph Lauren is a good-looking older man. No question.

But he is 1) teeny-tiny in person and 2) not remotely WASP-looking, even if he styles and dresses himself accordingly. He is a handsome version of Ralph Lifshitz of the Bronx, which is what he was and continues to be.

OTOH, he's wealthy enough to call himself whatever he likes.

Stephanie March

R495 You seem to be stuck on your "quasi-racial" descriptions, whilst I am going in for one's overall "look". The perfect bobbed and bleached hairstyle, and their American preppy attire. They also appear to be rich. Features cannot indicate one's financial resources! That's where mannerisms, language, clothing, and other props come in. Both happen to be athletic as well, skiing, tennis, and racquetball.

To discount them is silly, as both happen to have a high WASP parent. Handler's mum is Swedish (and she looks Scandinavian to me), and Burch (I had learnt from another similar thread here on the topic) has a WASP dad. I don't believe OP was making this about ethnicity, or the odd things you mentioned.

Morgan Fairchild

[QUORE]What is it about these actor's looks that gives them this appearance?

Posture and icy, distant demeanor

Lauren Lane (aka C.C. Babcock from THE NANNY)

It's dismal the % of DLers who do not know what a WASP is or looks like.

If looking (or actually being) WASPy (and wealthy) isn't about "ethnicity," then I don't know what it's about. Anyone can wear preppy clothes and bob their hair. What a bore.

Chelsea Handler allegedly has a net worth of over 40 million dollars. She has recently had extensive plastic surgery and, based on recent appearances, has begun consulting a mirror before she stands in front of a camera.

Regardless: she looks about as "WASP old money" as a discarded bag of Taco Bell takeout.

Owen Wilson -large nose moves him into extreme waspy because he is so Not Jewish Jane Wyman ( dead, righ?) Doris Day Michael York (minimal accent) Mother Pence Ali McGraw ( that Goodbye Columbus movie did it for me with a fridge full of Tab) McConnell (sorry to insult wasps) Megyn Kelly and every bottle blonde anchor Sylvia Plath (the darker side of waspdom)

here you go, you Helen Kellers

It ain't pretty, WASP. But the Cushing sisters did very well with what they had.

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R506 You know, there are many WASPS who do not look representational of a "typically popular" look also... some even look Mediterranean or Italian. We all have a bit of something going on in tne background, even if we're in denial and unaware of it.

You seem to me a touch like Hitler, seeking out only the long-limbed tall blue-eyed blondes as representations of a pure German or Aryan look. Whatever your gripe with Handler (and I do suspect you think she's WTJ) you picked the worst pics of her available, when she was in her slutty youth.

To be fair, her style has come a long way. To me, she's always reminded me a bit of Claudia Schiffer. Sorry, but after much serious thought, I'm still not getting your wacky Taco Bell allusions. You're a bit melodramatic, and you've gone too far astray to keep up.

R507 Sorry to break the news to you, but Alic McGraw learnt of her Jewish ancestry ages ago. On her mum's father's side. They were "hidden" Jews.

^ Ali

Megyn Kelly has a very trashy look. A definite no.

I know Meredith Viera is Portuguese but I think she has that WASPy vibe. Jane Pauley too.

Say that I do. Come on, say it.

SAY THAT I LOOK WEALTHY AND WASPY, GODDAMMIT!!

What are your fucking problems?? Tell me that I look wealthy and waspy.

R513 G-d forbid, a Port-a-gee! What in the name of WASPS is going on here...

Now, I feel like watching MYSTIC PIZZA.