Celebrity crush: Rachel Miner

Here's another new entry for this week featuring an actress prone to edgy roles. Amazon and iTunes links follow. Any affiliate payments earned from your purchase or rental will help pay the hosting fees for my podcasts, so please consider clicking.

Name: Rachel Miner (images -- some NSFW | Web site | Twitter)
Hometown: New York City, according to her Wikipedia profile, which also notes she's of her family's third generation in show business.
Best Known For: In the realm of network and basic cable, she's best known as one of the actresses to play the demon Meg on Supernatural, for a recurring role on the short-lived FX drama Terriers, and for an adolescent role on the daytime soap Guiding Light. Viewers of premium cable and her movie work will know her as the frequently naked guest star on Californication (which put her alongside fellow crush Madeleine Zima in a sexually charged meeting of the bad girls), NY-LON (where she played the frequently naked roommate of fellow crush Rashida Jones), and the feature films Bully, The Butterfly Effect III, and The Black Dahlia.

With Madeleine Zima on Californication.

At age 18, she married fellow child actor Macauley Culkin, who was equally young. The marriage lasted just two years, which Wikipedia attributes to her having wanted to start a family and his wanting to focus on transitioning to more grown-up acting roles.
Humble Beginnings: Born in 1980, she appeared in the 1990 Woody Allen film Alice as the title character at age 12. Beyond steady work in network TV dramas listed below, her film résumé includes Haven (with fellow crush Sarah Carter). She also did an episode of the original CSI series that also featured future crush profilee Amanda Seyfried.

Her film roles would consider
this seriously overdressed.

Obligatory Edgy Stuff: The modifier I used to describe her film and premium cable work earlier was "frequently naked." And that's true. She specializes in women with a tragic, life-changing allergy to clothing. Please note that this is not a judgment, nor a complaint -- certainly not a complaint! -- merely an observation. 
Why Ye Olde Podcaster Likes Her: Because there's always room for a bad girl.
TV and Web series credits: Criminal Minds, season 6: "Today I Do" (Amazon | iTunes) * No Ordinary Family, season 1: "No Ordinary Quake" (Amazon | iTunes) * Terriers (Amazon | iTunes) * Army Wives, season 4: "Murder in Charleston" (Amazon | iTunes) * Supernatural, season 6 (Amazon | iTunes) * Cold Case, season 7: "Two Weddings" (Amazon | iTunes) * Supernatural, season 5 (Amazon | iTunes) * Life, season 2: "Canyon Flowers" (Amazon | iTunes) * CSI: Miami, season 7: "Presumed Guilty" (Amazon | iTunes) * Californication, season 2 (Amazon | iTunes) * The Cleaner, season 1: "The Eleventh Hour" (Amazon | iTunes) * Fear Itself: "The Sacrifice" (Amazon | iTunes) * Californication, season 1 (Amazon | iTunes) * Without a Trace, season 5: "The Damage Done" (Amazon | iTunes) * CSI, season 6: "Rashomama" (Amazon | iTunes) * Medium, season 2: "Lucky in Love" (Amazon | iTunes) * Bones, season 1: "The Girl in the Fridge" (Amazon | iTunes) * Medium, pilot (Amazon | iTunes) * NY-LON (Amazon | iTunes) * Sex and the City, season 2: "Twenty-Something Girls vs. Thirty-Something Women" (Amazon | iTunes)

Voice work: The American Experience, season 8: "The Orphan Trains" (Amazon | iTunes)
Film and TV-movie credits: House of Good and Evil (Amazon | iTunes) * Dark as Day (Amazon | iTunes) * Thicker (Amazon | iTunes) * Everyone Wants the Kush (Amazon | iTunes) * Replicas (Amazon | iTunes) * Cross (Amazon | iTunes) * Life of Lemon (Amazon | iTunes) * Area 51 (Amazon | iTunes) * Love and Distrust (Amazon | iTunes) * The Love Affair (2010 short) (Amazon | iTunes) * The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations (Amazon | iTunes) * Hide (Amazon | iTunes) * No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo and Vilmos (Amazon | iTunes) * Tooth and Nail (Amazon | iTunes) * The Blue Hour (Amazon | iTunes) * The Still Life (Amazon | iTunes) * The Memory Thief (Amazon | iTunes) * Cult (Amazon | iTunes) * Penny Dreadful (Amazon | iTunes) * Grasshopper (2006 short) (Amazon | iTunes) * Onion Underwater (2006 short) (Amazon | iTunes) * The Black Dahlia (Amazon | iTunes) * Love and Debate (Amazon | iTunes) * Fatwa (Amazon | iTunes) * Circadian Rhythm (Amazon | iTunes) * Little Athens (Amazon | iTunes) * Man of God (Amazon | iTunes) * Guy in Row Five (Amazon | iTunes) * Haven (2004) (Amazon | iTunes) * Bully (Amazon | iTunes) * Joe the King (Amazon | iTunes)