Guest Star Roundup: Cara DeLizia
As any good fan of The West Wing would, I can keep track of the guest stars over the years in an almost alarming fashion, people who only appeared in one episode but were incredibly important to an overall point trying to be made by Aaron Sorkin. When you know the actors, it’s even more fun (Traylor Howard from Two Guys, A Girl and A Pizza Place, then Monk, as Sam Seaborn’s ex-fiancee, or how about Liza Weil as the aide who disclosed Leo’s alcoholism, Paris from the Gilmore Girls?).
Take Winifred Hooper. She was the one who read all of the reports that Sam wanted to get eliminated as part of an effort to cut down on wasteful government spending, in the episode “The Stackhouse Filibuster,” which is a truly excellent episode. The actress who plays her had a really distinctive voice, and I liked her.
So of course, today, I’m watching last week’s episode of Close To Home, which centers around the adventures of two female district attorneys prosecuting criminals. This particular episode was about a dude with a gambling problem who then ended up dead. And dude’s girlfriend? Who do you think that might be? Yep, none other than Winifred Hooper. She didn’t look exactly the same, but I’d recognize that voice anywhere, and when I looked it up, sure enough, it’s the same actress. Turns out her name is Cara DeLizia, and not only was she on Boston Public (which I didn’t watch), she was also on another show called Close to Home 5 years ago. Only that one starred Jared Padalecki instead of Jennifer Finnigan. Who knew?
Close to Home, The West Wing, Cara DeLizia
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