Celebrity crush: Aubrey Dollar

In Women's Murder Club. Photographers for non-TV images
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Today's profile focuses on a former child actress who's spent time on stage and in daytime soaps as well as the occasional guest appearance on primetime dramas and ensemble roles in a couple of short-lived series. She's one of my more obscure crushes, but no less deserving for it.

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Name: Aubrey Dollar (images | Web site | Twitter -- may be real-life-friends-only)
Hometown: Born and raised in Raleigh, N.C., according to her Wikipedia profile. She attended college at Boston University and Amherst College, her profile notes.
Best Known For: Depends on your viewing preferences. Aubrey was nominated for a Soap Opera Digest award for her work on Guiding Light. She's also recurred on Dawson's Creek and been a regular on the short-lived horror drama Point Pleasant (as a normal girl who strikes up a friendship with the blond-haired, blue-eyed female Antichrist) and Women's Murder Club (based on the best-selling series of novels by James Patterson).

Aubrey Dollar, right, with Elisabeth Harnois on
the Fox horror series Point Pleasant.

She's also appeared in a few films and TV-movies here and there and made the occasional TV guest-turn, such as playing a loose-lipped nurse used to gather information by a private eye on The Good Wife.
Humble Beginnings: Among her roles as a pre-teen and teenager were the horror film Children of the Corn 2 and an episode of the creepy TV drama American Gothic.

Film roles as an adult include small parts in the romantic comedies Failure to Launch and Prime and the direct-to-video teen dance movie Save the Last Dance 2.
Why Ye Olde Podcaster Likes Her: She has a wonderfully warm on-screen persona and a smile that lights up a screen of any size. Aubrey has been in front of cameras since 1992 and is well overdue for the breakthrough role that will make her an "overnight success."

Film and TV-movie credits: See Girl Run (2012) (Amazon | iTunes) * One Small Hitch (2011) (Amazon | iTunes) * Hard Luck (2006) (Amazon | iTunes) * Save the Last Dance 2 (Amazon | iTunes) * Failure to Launch (Amazon | iTunes) * Backseat (2005) (Amazon | iTunes) * Prime (2005) (Amazon | iTunes) * Crazy Little Thing (2002) (Amazon | iTunes) * Trapped: Buried Alive (2002 TV-movie) (Amazon | iTunes) * Amy & Isabelle  (2001 TV-movie) (Amazon | iTunes) * Students vs. School Violence (2000 TV-movie) (Amazon | iTunes)
TV and Web series credits: The Good Wife, season 2: "In Sickness" (Amazon | iTunes) * Ugly Betty, season 4: "Smokin' Hot" (Amazon | iTunes) * Cupid (2009): "Shipping Out" (Amazon | iTunes) * Women's Murder Club (Amazon | iTunes) * Point Pleasant (Amazon | iTunes) * The Education of Max Bickford: "The Cost of Living" (Amazon | iTunes) * Going to California: "Apocalypse Cow" (Amazon | iTunes) * Dawson's Creek, season 4: "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" (Amazon | iTunes) * Dawson's Creek, season 3 (Amazon | iTunes)