8 Actors Who Have Only Made One Good Movie

4. Alexandra Daddario - The Squid & The Whale

The Squid And The Whale Alexandra Daddario
Samuel Goldwyn Films

Alexandra Daddario is a talented actress - her brief stint on HBO's True Detective being sure proof of that - but almost her entire movie career has seen her pigeonholed as the hot girl, especially in her recent critical flops Baywatch and the appallingly bad The Layover (which scored 0% on Rotten Tomatoes).

Hell, even her single appearance in an acclaimed movie - Noah Baumbach's brilliant 2005 drama The Squid and the Whale - sees her credited as "Pretty Girl", focused almost entirely on her making sexy-eyes at Jesse Eisenberg and not remotely on her acting talent.

Perhaps A-list directors worry that her striking looks are too distracting for a lot of prestige-type roles, but seriously, her tawdry film career belies the fact she actually has solid acting chops.

At 32 years young she still has plenty of time to turn things around, and to be honest, age might actually help her be taken a little more seriously.

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