Actress (and Actors) Who have Played Whores! The Good, the Bad and the Ugly!

Shirley MacLaine -- at one point, it seemed all she ever played were prostitutes, especially in the 1960s with Irma La Douce probably the most famous.

Hey!

[quote] Oh course the defining roles for me were the indomitable Eve Plum in Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway and Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn with the ethereal Lehigh McCloskey.

Mary!

Elizabeth Taylor in Butterfield 8.

Playing a whore, especially if you're a Girl Next Door-type, can get you an Oscar!

The men in this scene other than George C. Scott.

Papa Jolie.

"The Price of Love" with Peter Facinelli, Jay R. Ferguson etc.

R6 The scene where the guy shows his junk to George C. Scott was one of the most exciting things in my secret premium cable late night viewing life. It’s amazing how much he looks like Christopher Atkins, but it was a year before the Blue Lagoon.

Edna Mae Durbin in Christmas Holiday, perhaps the greatest performance of her career.

For a second, I thought he was John Schneider, r9.

R La T.

One of the briefest, but most impactful must be Gloria Grahame’s Violet in Its a Wonderful Life, where we learn that we are all just one Bailey Building and Loan away from becoming whores.

Kevin Zegers in TRANSAMERICA.

Orlando Bloom in "Wilde."

Me, Mira Sorvino! For genius auteur Woody Allen!

Some whores.

Kim Novak as Polly the Pistol in Kiss Me, Stupid!

Me no PLAY whore.

NEXT!

Sophia Loren

Barbara Stanwick in "Baby Face." / Crawford and Swanson in "Rain." / Marlena Dietrich in everything she ever did/ Hanna Schygulla in "Marriage of Maria Braun." Every male who ever lived, actor or not.

Vivien Leigh in WATERLOO BRIDGE 1940. But because of the damned Hays Code, I first thought that she went to the train station and sold cigarettes.

Lucille played a whore several times , and Honey , that was NO acting .

Audrey was delightful in BAT .

Michelle Pfeiffer in The Fabulous Baker Boys

Garbo in ANNA CHRISTIE.

Julie Christie in MCCABE AND MRS. MILLER.

Helen Lawson in V IS FOR VENEREAL, L IS FOR LOVE.

Joey Heatherton in The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington.

Both films I posted have Ray Walston. For those who don’t know, he was a major pussyhound.

Shirley Jones won an Oscar for her performance as prostitute Lulu in "Elmer Gantry," and saying evangelist Burt Lancaster "...[italic]rammed[/italic] the fear of God into me so fast..." in church behind the pulpit.

Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver.

Mrs. James Brolin as Doris in "The Owl and the Pussycat." (Pinky Tuscadaro also plays a hooker in the film.)

Tatum O'Neal and Irene Cara in Certain Fury (1983), a career-killing movie.

Sally Field in that movie where she played a lot lizard.

Dianne Wiest in "The Purple Rose of Cairo."

Kathy Bates, Jodie Foster, and Lily Tomlin in "Shadows and Fog."

Lee Grant in "Divorce American Style."

Rita Moreno in "Carnal Knowledge."

Donna Wilkes in Angel (1984ish)

R31 Mrs. James Brolin was also a murderous hooker with lovely hair and nails in Nuts.

River Phoenix in My Own Private Idaho.

Richard Gere in American Gigolo. And of course, Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman.

Both Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard, as a matter of fact, in Breakfast at Tiffany's.

G in Fatal Attraction. Still no Oscar. LMAO!

Kim Basinger (Lynn Bracken) ... LA Confidential.

Truman Capote said numerous times that when he wrote his novella Breakfast at Tiffany's that he always had Marilyn Monroe in mind as Holly. He never had anything bad to say about Hepburn's performance in the film other it was nothing like what he had envisioned when he wrote it originally.

Mary Crosby as Kristin on Dallas (spoiler: she shot JR).

The late Jill Clayburgh in Hustling ( 1970 ? )

Also the actress who played the cashier in Car Wash is also working the streets with Clayburgh.

Theresa Russell is the "Whore"

Barbra Streisand payed a hooker in both 'For Pete's Sake 'and 'The Owl and the Pussycat'.

Karen Black turns tricks for a while to help support her old dad in The Day of the Locust.

Sure, it may look glamorous at first.

But it doesn’t end well for all... especially when Stanwyck’s your dyke pimp.

Constance Towers played Goop’s mother in something. Before that she was a bald ho beating her pimp in the face with a stiletto heel.

I can't really think of any.

America's Sweetheart Julia Roberts of course! A temp whore is still a whote!

Kathleen Turner in Crimes of Passion

Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman

R38 Yes of course M, and one of the grandest. Here is your speech where you gladly proclaim “I am the French Lieutenant’s whore!” SNL or Mad TV or some show did quite the parody of you dragging out that statement lasting for maybe 30 seconds or more with the “whoooooooooooooreeeeeeeeeeee!”

Lest we forget, AnnE won her Oscar for playing a whore. That along with Liz in Butterfield 8 are two, but I bet there are more actress Oscars for playing a whore. But are their any male one?

Wait, Striesand played a whore in four movies? Anything after three is typecasting.

One male Oscar worthy performance was Joesph Gordon-Levitt in Mysterious Skin. That scene where he is beaten by a John in the bathroom is brutal.

Brendan Fehr, best know from the original Roswell, played a very sexy boy whore in the independent film Sugar. His costar Andre Noble, who unfortunately died before the film was released, also play a boy whore here and in the independent film Twist, which was a take off on Oliver Twist with boy whores.

Twist’s lead character wasn’t Oliver, but “Dodge,” who was played by Nick Stahl.

Perhaps one of the most beautiful of all movie boy whores is the apt named Harris Dickinson in Postcards From London.

Catherine Deneuve in Belle de Jour

Sharon Stone in [italic]Casino[/italic]

It was implied that Brooke Shields was a child prostitute in "Pretty Baby".

R42 beat me to it - I didn't see the picture at R42, I searched the words Brooke Shields in this thread and got nothing.

Yeah, someone posted a "My Private Idaho" pic several posts before River Phoenix was mentioned.

R62 I’m interested in how one searches within a thread, I didn’t know that could be done?

Giulietta Masina as Cabiria, the winsome Roman streetwalker in Fellini's "The White Sheik" and "Nights of Cabiria," which in turn was the source material for the musical "Sweet Charity."

Who is the R la T as mentioned above?

Faye is perfection as Thais, the only whore in a small Cajun town, in Scorchers.

[Quote] I’m interested in how one searches within a thread, I didn’t know that could be done?

Ctrl + F on your browser should do it.

R68 is correct. It's using the FIND command CTRL + F.

[quote]Who is the R la T as mentioned above?

I assume he's Robert La Tourneaux from the 1970 movie version of "Boys in the Band".

Janet Gaynor in Seventh Heaven and Street Angel. Helen Hayes in The Sin of Madeline Claudet.

Elisabeth Shue in Leaving Las Vegas.

Félix Maritaud in Sauvage.

Robert Downey, Jr. - Less Than Zero

Leonardo DiCaprio - The Basketball Diaries

Andre Khabbazi - Circuit

Aren't you all forgetting someone?

Judy Davis in Winter of our Dreams (God know's who'd pay that ugly creature money for a fuck).

Divine in Female Trouble

Audrey Hepburn in The Nun’s Story

Audrey Hepburn in EVERYTHING! She played a relentless parade of whores.

Annie-Margret seemed tame by comparison.

(Deplorable a**hole) Jon Voight in Midnight Cowboy.

Lukas Haas and David Arquette in "Johns"

Already mention at r7.

J.D. Phoenix in Naked Sword Originals, "Hooker Stories 2, Episode 1: Happy Hour"

Jennifer Jason Leigh in The Last Exit to Brooklyn (1990ish).

Jude Law - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Darren Criss - The Assassination of Gianni Versace

Nancy Allen in Dressed to Kill

Nancy Allen in Blow Out

Joe Delasansdro in Flesh

Merle Oberon in TEMPTATION.

"Actress (and Actors) Who have Played Whores! The Good, the Bad and the Ugly!"

Miss Streisand will be ready by the finale.

[quote]Joe Delasansdro in Flesh

Joe Delasandro in real life.

[quote]Joe Delasansdro

Oh dear.

Danny Pintauro in Who's the Boss.

Marsha Mason in Cinderella Liberty (1973).

TRIVIA: Mason was worried about how stereotypically “whorey” the production team was going to make her look. But she was later relieved to see that the director had pinned a photo of French actress Miou-Miou to the bulletin board in the costume shop, to use as inspiration.

I love Miao. "Entre Nous" (1983) is one my favorite Euro-films.

In "London Spy," Richard Scarmacio (l) played the male escort "doppelganger" of the Ben Whishaw character, Danny (r), having been deployed to seduce Danny's love interest, Alex.

“Do you want me on the bicycle?”

Sigourney Weaver in [italic]Half Moon Street.

Jesse Bradford, Jordan Brower, and DL icon Jonathan Taylor Thomas in Speedway Junky"

Nathalie Baye in La Balance

[quote] but I bet there are more actress Oscars for playing a whore

And I’m surprised two classic performances in two classic movies haven’t even been mentioned-

Jane in Klute

Donna in From Here to Eternity

Tina Turner Tommy

R101 Actually I mentioned Klute in my original posting as the definitive female movie role along with Gere in American Gigolo as the definitive male whore role. I disregarded Pretty Woman since it’s a romantic comedy and is kind of in a category all its own.

Faye in Beverly Hills Madam. I think she had clients too, or was at least seeing a married man.

Brittany Murphy in The Dead Girl.

Isabelle Huppert in Heaven's Gate.

That is the most poorly written.... [italic] thing [/italic] about movies I've ever read in my life, r13.

Samantha McLaren as Xaviera Hollander in The Life and Times of Xaviera Hollander (1974).

Artistae Stiftung as Xaviera Hollander in The Best Part of a Man (1975).

Lynn Redgrave as Xaviera Hollander in The Happy Hooker (1975).

Joey Heatherton as Xaviera Hollander in The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington (1977).

Martine Beswick as Xaviera Hollander in The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood (1980).

R107 I was just succinctly trying to point out that in the over all story arc of the movie the character is not a whore, but in the briefly presented parallel world of if George Bailey had never existed she is one and it’s just a glimpse of a scene. It was also during the Hays Code, so it is veiled, yet very clear that she is a prostitute. I remember this being the most shocking of all elements of George not existing, more then Mary being an old maid librarian or Mr. Gower the town drunk. It hit the hardest even though she is such a minor character, but it has a huge impact.

Jeanne Eagels as Sadie Thompson in the stage version of Somerset Maugham's Rain (1924).

Gloria Swanson as Sadie Thompson in Sadie Thompson (1928).

Joan Crawford as Sadie Thompson in Rain (1932).

Rita Hayworth as Sadie Thompson in Miss Sadie Thompson (1953).

"You men! You filthy, dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you."

Ona Munson as Belle Watling in Gone with the Wind.

I didn’t remember that Jo Van Fleet, who played Cathy in East of Eden the mother whore, won a supporting actress Oscar. I recall more Jane Seymour playing that character in the TV miniseries version.

Daniel Auteuil in The Escort (1999) - not a good film

Garbo as Camille. It's often forgotten that was an exception in the Hays Code that applied to famous works of literature and Biblical stories. But of course, everything was expected to be super tasteful and discreet.

The problem with Garbo's Camille was that Robert Taylor was much prettier than she was.

I think they might have had her be a bar maid for the movie, but wasn't Ingrid Bergman's character supposed to be a prostitute in the book.

I know the legend has that Bergman was cast as the good finance and Turner was the bad girl and she asked to switch parts, but it is hard to imagine Turner at that time pulling off the more emotional scenes Bergman had.

Bergman's character in Notorious was basically prostituted out by US Government.

"Coded" professions for whores:

Bar girls

Saloon girls

Dancers in general

I know there are many others but I'm going blank. Others?

R117, social media influencers.

What about phone sex workers? Jenny Lee in Short Cuts.

Taxi dancers, r117.

Donna was mentioned at r5, you fat whore r101.

R44 Is that you, Tanner?

I fucking love his channel, and I would be surprised if he ISN'T a datalounger.

Oh, yeah, taxi dancers.

"Ten cents a dance, that's what they pay me

Gosh, how they weigh me down

Ten cents a dance, pansies and rough guys

Tough guys who tear my gown…

Sometimes I think I've found my hero,

But it's a queer romance!

All that you need is a ticket

Come on, big boy, ten cents a dance!"

Angela Lansbury in The Harvey Girls

Angela, that slut.

Meanwhile, sometimes I think I've found my hero, but it's a queer romance....

And for our Doris Day fan, here's her account of her pansies and rough guys and her queer romance....

Judith Light (wonder if she ever met Donna Tyler in Center City over coffee to commiserate).

Marlene Dietrich - Destry Rides Again

[quote]R117 I know there are many others but I'm going blank. Others?

Hostesses.

Amanda Seyfried jerking off Liam Neeson and finger banging Julianne Moore in "Chloe".

Amanda Peet as a big nosed, rangy, smacked out Edie Sedgwick styled mistress in "Igby Goes Down".

Sienna Miller... in life?

Was NatPo a hoor in Closer? Just a titless exotic dancer?

Madeline Kahn in "Blazing Saddles", as the fabulous Lili Von Shtupp.

Due to society’s madonna/whore complex, about half the roles available to actresses were/are? prostitutes in one form or another..

Tallulah Bankhead after she blows through her inheritance in Faithless, which is a terrific pre-code film.

Tallulah did an early, silent, black and white screen test for Scarlett, Selznick found her compelling but too old for Scarlett. He instructed his staff to ask if she'd be interested in playing Belle Watling but no one was willing to tell her that David O. wanted her to play the town madam and the offer wasn't passed on.

The screen test used to be on youtube if you want to search.

Rita Moreno on The Rockford Files

Didn’t Policewoman Angie “Pepper” Dickinson have to go undercover as a whore a couple of times? How’s about the Angels or the Cagney or the Lacey?

All women are whores.

"Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder."

Susan Sarandon and Brooke Shields in "Pretty Baby"

Dolly Parton in "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas"

Hermione Gingold, Eva Gabor, and Leslie Caron in "Gigi"

I’m glad someone mentioned Judith Light, but I thought there would be more soap opera characters and actors mentioned. I guess I can add one in that Harry on Hollyoaks worked as a teen escort for awhile before he was murdered by an avenging religious nutcase. Ironically he wasn’t killed for being a gay escort, but because he knocked up a girl and was a bad dad.

R139 Still miss twink Harry. .. I also remember that in some part of Kyle's story on Hollyoaks, it came out that he used to have sex for money.

More of a casting couch situation, Ted Danson/Sam ended up stopping the arrangement, but getting commercial endorsements in a large part for sleeping with his agent.

[quote]One of the briefest, but most impactful must be Gloria Grahame’s Violet in Its a Wonderful Life, where we learn that we are all just one Bailey Building and Loan away from becoming whores.

or worse, a spinster librarian with glasses (even though your non-Bailey admirer was destined to be a highly successful businessman).

Warren Beatty

'The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone'

Lucky Vivien.

Paul Newman

Sweet Bird of Youth

George Peppard - Breakfast at Tiffany's

George wasn't the whore, it was Audrey. As usual. Read the thread.

Whores can be the most wonderful if damaged people.

Of course George was a whore. Patricia Neal. So sweet when damaged whores find each other.

Darren Criss as Andrew Cunanan - there were rumors that he (Andrew) escorted with a bunch of rich older men.

Diana Ross in Lady Sings the Blues. Billie Holliday worked in a brothel -- first as a maid, then as a prostitute for a while.

Elisabeth Shue in Leaving Las Vegas.

"Barbra Streisand payed a hooker in both 'For Pete's Sake 'and 'The Owl and the Pussycat'."

Don't forget "Nuts" in which she plays a prostitute that is irresistible to men, despite looking like a bag of shit. Here she is talking about being a hooker than men can't get enough of:

Why don't we stop all the bullshit and get to the point? Now, you want to know what I do for a living? Ask me. My time is very expensive, Mr. MacMillan. Probably more than yours. I get 500 dollars an hour. How much do you get? I get four-hundred dollars for a straight lay, three-hundred for a hand job, and five-hundred for head. If you want to wear my panties, that's another hundred. You take them home, Mr. MacMillan, that's another hundred. No whips, no ropes, no spikes. I've got liquor and grass. Anything else, you bring your own. It works like this: You call me up, we make a date. I look you over, and IF I like you, we make a deal. And, darling, I am worth the trouble. Take my word for it, if you want the best.

Do you want the best, Mr. MacMillan? I am talking about taking your body to heaven and sending your mind south. I'm talking about spoiling you so bad you'll hate every other woman you touch. I'm talking about my mouth on your mouth, and my tongue anywhere you want it. I'm talking about indulging your every fantasy, and then giving you those fantasies one by one. Just for you. All for you. Nobody but you. You get all that, darling? Would you like that, baby? You get what I'm telling you?

.Barb and her fantasies. Priceless.

Nuts is a long-lost film. Never on cable TV / old movie channels, not streamable, the DVD is way out of print, etc. Why????

R154 update: I see that Nuts is now on Amazon Prime (for $1.99) and the DVD is (now) selling for only about $10. Should I watch it?

Probably distant heirs arguing over the rights without realizing it's been years since anyone cared.

"Should I watch it?"

If you want to watch a really bad film, by all means watch it. Because it REALLY is bad.

Susan Hayward in I Want to Live!

Isabelle Huppert in Special Treatment.

Isabelle Huppert in Ghost River aka La Vie Promise.

Barbra Streisand used NUTS as Oscar bait, but no one bit. She probably doesn’t want people to see it.

Jennifer Jason Leigh played more than just one hooker, didn't she?

R162 Well Last Exit to Brooklyn and the phone sex worker in Short Cuts have been mentioned. But definitely in the Machinist and The Men’s Club as well and possibly more.

Anne Baxter in All About Eve (and ABC's Hotel?)

The idea of Jenny Lee as a hooker is funny to me since she can barely get her mouth open to speak.

Shani Wallis as Nancy in "Oliver!"

R162 Miami Blues as well.

Deborah Kerr in From Here to Eternity. Whorish Army wife. Lots of soldier dick for her.

Juliette Greco, a nightclub hostess, in The Roots of Heaven.

Debra Winger in Everybody Wins.

The Oldest Profession has Jeanne Moreau, Raquel Welch, Elsa Martinelli, Anna Karina, ad two others.

Melania Trump - Zoolander

Le Senitrex in ELECTION 2020. Please send money! Please!

Gigolo Joe (Jude Law) in AI

Shirley Jones played another hooker in The Happy Ending.

Has Yvonne Elliman been mentioned yet for playing the ultimate whore? And I guess Sara Bareilles as well.

Barbara Hershey in TLTOC.

Rooney Fuckin Mara!

Olivia Hussey as the biggest, lyingest whore of all time... Mary of Nazareth.

This knocked up teen convinced the world some imaginary angel appeared out of nowhere and impregnated her. Yeah, RIGHT!

R179 “Immaculate Conception, I swear!” Yeah right, what knocked up teen hasn’t used that old chestnut!

Roma Downey played "Virgin" Mary, Whore of Nazareth, in 2014.

She's reaching out for cock in this pic...

Kathleen Turner as Jessica Rabbit, or at least that's how I interpreted her relationship with the producer.

Is Richard Gere on here? I didn't see a shout out to Julian Kay in American Gigolo. (I just watched it again last night.)

And started a thread that is being neglected--why???

Susan Hayward in ADA.

Isabel Sanford in LADY SINGS THE BLUES and THE NEW CENTURIONS.

Dorothy Dandridge in PORGY & BESS.

Your mom, in everything.

Shirley Jones, again, in the Cheyenne Social Club

R183 Dude, I alluded to him in the OP.

Anne de Salvo as Gloria in Arthur