We might have done this before, so, apologies for the rehash.

What are some of your favorite actors from outside soaps (and yes, that means you can't include any who either have appeared on soaps or are working in soaps at the present...sorry, Vix)?

Do you mean current actors?

Nah, you can include actors from yesteryear as well. They just can't be former/current soap actors.

Bea Arthur

Sherman Hemsley

Isabel Sanford

Marla Gibbs

Angela Lansbury

I'll stop there since I am not sure who has done soaps and who hasnt...LOL

Alan Bates

Rupert Graves

Jean Harlow

Barbara Whinnery

Elisabeth Sladen

Jacqueline Hill

Joanna Lumley

Penelope Keith

Judy Garland

Lol you knew I was about to come in here stanning for Julianne.

Sally Field

Audrey Hepburn

Hilary Swank

It's so hard to just not put an actor based on one role. For instance, I loved Rhoda (character, not show), and I think Valerie Harper is a brave, tough lady, but I'm not sure I've ever really been that into most of her non-Rhoda roles.

The same goes for Chris Barrie - loved him on Red Dwarf, not sure I have any real opinion on him otherwise.

It's so hard to just not put an actor based on one role.

IA -- and Valerie Harper is an excellent example, Carl.

Lol you knew I was about to come in here stanning for Julianne.

Believe me, if not for KNOTS, Julie Harris would be on my list. She has an incredible body of work outside of soaps.

Jennifer Lawrence

Viola Davis

Octavia Spencer

Kathy Bates

Jessica Lange

Mary Louise Parker

Of course I just proved I'm a hypocrite as I put two of my favorite Doctor Who actors on there for one role.

Oh well.

(Barbara Whinnery too, but then I did enjoy her cameo on Sunset Beach as a nun)

My holy trinity of female actors: Geraldine Page, Kim Stanley, and Sandy Dennis (Page and Dennis' soap stints were minor enough not to count, no one knows them as soap stars)

Carroll O'Connor (probably the only male actor who has made me cry, multiple times, and in a comedic role... Redd Foxx was capable of the same)

Jackie Gleason. If you can ever see the adoption "lost" episode of the Honeymooners it is worth seeing. The guy was just beyond talented.

Basil Rathbone

Peter Lorre

Edward G Robnson

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Ed Norton Jr.

He can be completely different in every role he does.