Celebrity crush: Cody Horn

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This actress was almost a regular on The Office. Until, ya know, she wasn't.

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Name: Cody Horn (images | Web site | Twitter)
Hometown: Not listed at Wikipedia or IMDB, but given that her father is President and COO of Warner Bros., chances are it was in or around Los Angeles.
Best Known For: Sadly, a role on Rescue Me whose details I don't even feel like typing out; what a waste of a television show's potential that series turned out to be. Cody appeared in a few episodes of The Office in its seventh season but did not return for the eighth season.

On the big screen, she's appeared in the 2010 films Twelve and Flipped. Her on-screen résumé only starts in 2010 at IMDB; though she also has a crew credit (set staff assistant) on a 2005 movie I didn't bother listing below since it was fully a behind-the-scenes, off-camera gig.

Hanging out at a fashion show with fellow crush
Emmy Rossum, star of Showtime's Shameless.

Humble Beginnings: Presumably modeling before she started acting; her IMDB and Wikipedia entries are pretty sparse. She's also guest-starred on White Collar and has roles in two potentially high-profile movies coming next year (Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña's cop drama End of Watch and Channing Tatum's male-prostitute comedy Magic Mike). 

Obligatory Edgy Stuff: ... Seriously, was anyone else as disappointed, disgusted, disillusioned by how Rescue Me took a promising premise of showing firefighter life in the wake of 9/11 and turned it into a rehashing of "He-Man Woman-Hater's Club" misogyny, homophobia, racism, and scatology?
Why Ye Olde Podcaster Likes Her: Her short stint on The Office didn't give her a ton to do -- the deleted scenes offered more than what made it to air -- but I was looking forward to seeing how the cubicle dwellers might deal with having a woman so pretty she might as well be a space alien in their midst. (Fellow crushes Jenna Fischer and Ellie Kemper and for that matter Mindy Kaling are all lovely as well, but they're all to varying extents glammed down for the show, as was Amy Adams a bit in her guest turn -- Cody wasn't.)

TV and Web Series Credits: Rescue Me, season 7 (Amazon | iTunes) * White Collar, season 2: "Power Play" (Amazon | iTunes) * The Office, season 7 (Amazon | iTunes) * Rescue Me, season 6 (Amazon | iTunes)
Film and TV-movie Credits: Magic Mike (in development) (Amazon | iTunes) * End of Watch (filming) (Amazon | iTunes) * Worst Friends (post-production) (Amazon | iTunes) * Violet & Daisy (Amazon | iTunes) * Hollywood Takes a Stand Against Planking (Funny or Die) * Flipped (2010) (Amazon | iTunes) * Twelve (2010) (Amazon | iTunes) * Occupant (Amazon | iTunes) * Dead Hands (2010 short) (Amazon | iTunes)