Actors/Actresses who were sexy in one film only

No one can think of anyone else?

John Malkovich in Dangerous Liaisons

Barbra Streisand in What’s Up Doc?

Lori Petty in Point Break

Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction

Kathleen Turner in Body Heat

Russell Crowe in The Sum of Us.

Mickey Rooney in National Velvet.

Op, same.

Michael b Jordan in black panther. I haven't watched any of his other movies, but seeing his pictures and commercials, obviously it was the character that made Jordan attractive.

Brad Pitt in Thelma and Louise.

He's good looking, but lacked sexiness after that breakthrough.

Shelley Winters in A Double Life..

Al Pacino in Cruising.

Sorry R7- He's got a bit of a gut- even in that movie.

R12- What are you talking about?

He was much better looking in the Godfather movie.

[quote] Sorry [R7]- He's got a bit of a gut- even in that movie.

He was incredibly sexy in that movie, "bit of a gut" or no.

Sorry for you!

Ray Liotta in "Something Wild"

Ryan Gosling in "Crazy, Stupid Love"

William Hurt in "Body Heat"

Rami Malek in "Bohemian Rhapsody"

William Shatner in Big Bad Mama.

Pacino was insanely sexy throughout the 70s and early 80s. Gorgeous, even.

Shatner was also insanely sexy, in his case during the 60s. He's incredibly sexy on the original Star Trek.

Shelley Duvall in 3 Women.

I feels I musk dis-agree, R20.

Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct

Haha r20. The whole joke of the movie is that she so WASN’T.

R6, Kathleen Turner seemed pretty sexy to me in lots of films.

De Niro in Taxi Driver

R7 you need to see Romper Stomper. He plays a skinhead in that and has one or two scenes in his underwear. He was far hotter in that movie than the pic you posted.

R7 & R26: Russell was at his sexiest in L.A. Confidential. His character was such a hothead, but he oozed masculinity with the beefy body and the macho demeanor.

Bruce Willis—5th Element

R28 I wouldn’t have said that, I would have said Moonlighting. Nothing after.

I found Willis very appealing in Die Hard.

Jeff Goldblum in Earth Girls Are Easy.

Please. Russell Crowe could have ravaged me over decades and decades.

Crowe in Gladiator.

R31, true also of Jim Carey.

Glen Close in Dangerous Liaisons.

"Glenn"

Glenn in Fatal Attraction. Next to tiny Michael Douglas, I thought she was a statuesque blonde.

I haven’t seen him in anything else but Robert Mitchum sure did it for me in Cape Fear.

Bradley Cooper was really hot in the first 'The Hangover' movie then after that he never looked as good. Especially after messing with his face.

Johnny Depp in The Ninth Gate?

[quote]Bradley Cooper was really hot in the first 'The Hangover' movie then after that he never looked as good.

He was hot in the horror movie with renee zellweger

Marie Dressler in Min and Bill

[quote] "William Shatner in Big Bad Mama."

Granted it isn't a movie, but I believe Shatner was at his very most attractive in the Twilight Zone episode "Nick of Time". He was twenty-eight or twenty-nine when the episode was filmed. He's now NINETY-ONE, which I didn't realize until I looked it up.

Edward Norton in American History X. Virgo Mortenson in all of the Lord of the Rings movies.

Mark Hamill in the original Star Wars.

Leonard Whiting in Romeo and Juliet.

Viggo Mortensen in the LOTR movies. Orlando Bloom, too.

Tom Beringer in The Big Chill.

That's the only movie where I find him sexy. Everything else I've ever seen him in, I'm scratching my head wondering if its the same guy that was in the Big Chill.

There was something sexy about Nicole Kidman in To Die For. She did the murderous blonde bombshell thing well there, but I never found her that sexy in anything else. Eerily beautiful at times, but very icy.

Meryl Streep was somewhat sexy in Death Becomes Her and nothing else.

William Fichtner in Armageddon.

Beulah Bondi in It’s A Wonderful Life.

Benicio Del Toro in The Usual Suspects.

Cillian Murphy in 28 Days Later

Tom Cruise was sexy in Far and Away. Just once. It's a bad movie - but that's beside the point.

Julianne Moore was sexy in The End of The Affair. Just once.

Jimmy Stewart is sexy in The Philadelphia Story. (Hepburn and Grant, are not)

Jodie Foster is sexy in Silence of The Lambs. She just is.

[quote]Benicio Del Toro in The Usual Suspects.

R50, I'd say it's a tie between "License to Kill" and "Excess Baggage" which means he's disqualified from OP's "sexy in one film only" requirement. Here he is in 1997's Excess Baggage

And 1989's "License to Kill"

I think Julianne Moore was sexy in Uncle Vanya on 42nd Street too, R52.

Sal Mineo in Who Killed Teddy Bear? (He was adorable in other films, but not sexy.)

Robert Duvall in To Kill A Mockingbird.

I think some people are being really superficial on this thread. They think that sexy means "sexy looking." Robert Duvall has been sexy in a lot of roles. Sexy is an energy, not just physical appearance.

Paul Newman was sexy looking and so was Elizabeth Taylor. But they were seldom sexy on screen. They ACTED sexy. That's different.

Dinah Manoff in Grease

Sissy Spacek in Heart Beat

Joan Crawford in "Grand Hotel".

Ralph Fiennes in The English Patient.

Glenn close was never erotic in nothin

R63 Neither was Meryl Streep.

R54 I thought he was so hot in that I almost fainted the first time I saw him—literally breathtaking (MARY I know). I went back & saw it two more times, on consecutive days, just for him.

OP, also the papa Donald Sutherland was only sexy as Fellini's Casanova.

Sandra Bullock in ..... never mind.

R60 I should've killed myself when he put it in me. After the first time, before we were married, Ralph promised never again. He promised, and I believed him. But sin never dies. Sin never dies. At first, it was all right. We lived sinlessly. We slept in the same bed, but we never did it. And then, that night, I saw him looking down at me that way. We got down on our knees to pray for strength. I smelled the whiskey on his breath. Then he took me. He took me, with the stink of filthy roadhouse whiskey on his breath, and I liked it. I liked it! With all that dirty touching of his hands all over me. I should've given you to God when you were born, but I was weak and backsliding, and now the devil has come home. We'll pray.

Eugene Pallete in The Lady Eve.

OP, we know he is a fall down, hard core alcoholic. Thus,

Without having met him, we know he stinks of yesterdays’ whiskey and beer. The stench would emanate through his pores, and his clothes smell of cigars and alcohol spills. He gets up, and pours a drink to get going. He prefers alcohol over a proper meal, and drinks to fill his stomach first.

Yeah, it’d be a real surprise if he died “young,” and only appeared “once,” as a (stink, repulsive) sexy character.

Paul Bettany in Master and Commander…and maybe sexy in a freaky way in Da Vinci Code.

R70, plenty of actors who were alcoholic were sexy in multiple films.

Emory Cohen in “Brooklyn”.

Robert Downey Jr. in Zodiac. I think he's an attractive man and was a very beautiful boy, but something about that role worked a sexual angle he otherwise lacks.

Eva Green in the trainwreck that was Dark Shadows. I'd go straight for that character. Gorgeous and talented but oddly asexual elsewhere.

Dennis Quaid in Jaws 3D. Maybe there were other movies he looked good but I remember this one particularly exciting me as a gayling.

Dennis Quaid is an asshole, but he was sexy in numerous films - The Big Easy, Postcards From the Edge, Innerspace, etc.

Sarah Jessica Parker in Hocus Pocus

james spader in supernova

James Spader was gorgeous in that film, but I'd argue he was sexy in plenty of other movies.

R78 - good call! I love that movie and think she looked awesome in it - probably one of her funniest roles.

R78 I'd personally say L.A. Story for horsehead.

R82 No, I'd pick Equus but she still lacked the sexual energy that Jenny Agutter exhibited.

Has Aidan Quinn in Desperately Seeking Susan been mentioned? So much unfulfilled promise.....

Sandra Bernhardt in Hudson Hawk. The character is grotesque, but she totally owns it.

Her costar in that film, Richard E. Grant, in Withnail and I. Elegance and vulnerability and ill-concealed longing for his male roommate.

R85 It's Bernhard baby!

Russell Crowe was sexy in The Quick and the Dead. Sharon Stone negotiated to have him as her costar as she was so impressed with his AUS films like Romper Stomper, The Sum of Us, Proof, Silver Brumby, etc.

US producers cut the QATD scene where Sharon Stone searches out Russell and they go for it. It’s always been so strange that that was done for US audiences as it’s not R rated. The AUS version left it in.

A bazillion years ago Crowe stated he was part Māori and thus tended to put on weight.

R86, Miss Bernhard! My apologies!

Vince Vaughn in Rudy. He never looked cute ever again.

[quote] Has Aidan Quinn in Desperately Seeking Susan been mentioned? So much unfulfilled promise.....

Aidan was sexy in his premiere film, Reckless, for sure. I also thought he was an extremely sexy DILF in Benny & Joon.

I might get flamed for this, but Patrick Dempsey was a revelation for me as a gayling in Some Girls. The idea that a cute boy would show peen nailed my 15-year-old eyelids open and made him the most adorable thing in the word as far as I was concerned.

He grew up to be a very handsome man, but no movie he made matched, for me, the off-the-cuff forbidden cuteness of him running around starkers through a bizarre Art Nouveau mansion in pursuit of Jennifer Connelly.

Also - I don't know that I thought of him as "sexy" but I crushed on him hard at the same time - Keith Gordon in Dressed to Kill. He was so delicate and beautiful in that film...and then it seemed that he lost his looks by Back to School.

I've heard he's a super-nice guy in real life.

Gerard Butler in 300. I haven’t seen him in anything else where he looked fuckable.

Bradley Cooper was hot in American Sniper, but never again

[quote]Dennis Quaid is an asshole, but he was sexy in numerous films - The Big Easy, Postcards From the Edge, Innerspace, etc.

An asshole and a Trumper. Add "The Nights the Lights Went out in Georgia" to your list.

[quote]I'd personally say L.A. Story for horsehead.

Same here, R82.

Michelle Pfeiffer in The Fabulous Baker Boys.

Speaking of LA Confidential, it was the only time Guy Pearce looked hot. Except for Priscilla, where he was even hotter (juicier might be a better description) and is actually kind of weird.

He lost too much weight and lost his sex appeal.

Guy Pearce was sexy in Memento too. He has unusual features. You're either into him or not. I would fuck him till his fragile bones break and slap his face till his thin skin bleeds. He's never been juicy. He's a lean piece of filth.

It was a film franchise, but Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn in Lord of the Rings OWNS this thread.

Joan Crawford in Humoresque, the ending anyway.

Viggo Mortensen was never as sexy as he was in A Walk on the Moon as the hippie blouse salesman.