Flinging Thoughts

You know, I consider Veronica Cartwright to be one helluva shining example of a successful professional actor. I’ve never met her, so my opinion is based solely on her resume and the many hours of viewing pleasure she has given to me.

As anyone perusing her IMDB profile can see, from the age of around seven she has been almost constantly working in films and on TV — 113 roles as of this writing.

At age 10 she gave The Beav his first kiss; when she was 12 she rubbed elbows with Buz Murdock (George Maharis) on Route 66; and in that same year she was placed in the care of an android grandmother in Rod Sterling’s Twilight Zone. Veronica has worked for Hitchcock, roamed the frontier with Daniel Boone, been under the care of Dr. Kildare, terrorized in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, was saved by The Mod Squad, tenderly Touched by an Angel, prosecuted criminals on L.A. Law, and was the alien abduction plagued mother of the infamous Agent Spender on The X-Files!

That litany of work was just the tip of the iceberg! She has been nominated for an Emmy three times and won a Saturn award for Best Supporting Actress playing Lambert in the blockbuster flick Alien. The woman is a consummate professional, a character acting diva in her own right. Bravo, Ms. Veronica Cartwright!