- Rosario Dawson, Clerks II, 2005. New Jersey’s Shakespeare, Kevin Smith, invited Ellen to be Becky. Bad timing. She’d just made the Grey’s Anatomy pilot and it looked like a winner. (Sure was. Ran nine years, 2005-2013, and 209 episodes).
- Paula Patton, 2 Guns, 2012. Pompeo and Marisa Tomei were in the frame for Debs. But would they have agreed with Patton’s decision to be topless in a bed scene with Denzel Washington. She told Icelandic director Baltasar Kormáku: “I can’t believe they would get dressed so soon after making love.”
Birth year: Death year: Other name: Casting Calls: 2