Lotus Cult
Brittany Murphy and Penelope Cruz were at the White Lotus club in November 2004. The event was an after party for AFI’s premiere of Pedro Almodóvar’s Bad Education. This article is all about ‘70s-born actresses. Penelope kissed Charlize Theron for Head in the Clouds (2004) and Milena Smit in Parallel Mothers (2021) whereas Brittany kissed Reese Witherspoon in Freeway (1996) and Kerry Washington in The Dead Girl (2006). Off set, Brittany was taped kissing Winona Ryder in more than once occasion. The latter kissed Sadie Frost in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), Ingrid Rogers in Celebrity (1998), Angelina Jolie in Girl, Interrupted (1999) and Marin Ireland in The Letter (2012). Mena Suvari kissed Caterina Murino in The Garden of Eden (2008), Alexandra Breckenridge in American Horror Story: Murder House (2011), Annapurna Sriram in South of Hell (2015) and Lena Hall in Becks (2017). Lauren Ambrose kissed Mena in Six Feet Under (2004), Joelle Carter in Swimming (2000) and Tawny Cypress in Yellowjackets (2023).
Heather Graham has kissed so many women in productions that her off-screen sexuality speaks for itself. She kissed Lisa Zane in Terrified (1996), Jessica Stroup in Broken (2006), Bridget Moynahan in Gray Matters (2006), Jaime Winstone in Boogie Woogie (2009), Ashley Kinshaw in About Cherry (2012), Carrie Anne-Moss in Compulsion (2013), Reyna de Courcy in Wetlands (2017), Anna Camp in Desperados (2020) and Barbara Crampton in Suitable Flesh (2023). Ione Skye is bisexual, so her kiss with Bahni Turpin for Girls in Prison (1994) was not a surprise. Tricia Helfer kissed Naja Hill in Open House (2010), Lauren German in Lucifer (2020) and Alison Brie in Spin Me Round (2022). Kathryn Hahn kissed Gwen Parker in Bad Moms (2016), Katie Kershaw in Mrs. Fletcher (2019) and Aubrey Plaza in Agatha All Along (2024). Kate Beckinsale kissed Frances McDonald in Laurel Canyon (2002) whereas Elizabeth Banks kissed Alicia Witt in Wainy Days (2008).
Diane Kruger kissed Léa Seydoux in Farewell, My Queen (2012), Kristen Stewart in JT LeRoy (2018), Kiernan Shipka in Swimming with Sharks (2022), Chase Sui Wonders in Out of the Blue (2022) and Marta Nieto in Visions (2023). Piper Perabo kissed Jessica Paré in Lost and Delirious (2001) and Lena Headey in Imagine Me & You (2005). Jaime Pressly kissed Tiffani Amber Thiessen in Fastlane (2003), and Alysson Hannigan at the MTV Movie Awards in 1999. Katheryn Winnick kissed Mirelly Taylor in Kiss Me Again (2006) and Summer Glau in Wu Assassins (2019). Rebecca Mader kissed Laura Benanti in Starved (2005) and Marsha Thomason in White Collar (2012). Jessica Chastain got sapphic with Frances Fisher in Jolene (2008) and kissed Nicole Beharie in Scenes from a Marriage (2021). Linda Cardellini kissed Natalie Morales in Dead to Me (2022) and Katherine Moennig in No Good Deed (2024). Linda also kissed Sarah Michelle Gellar in a deleted scene of Scooby-Doo (2002).
Uma Thurman kissed Maria de Medeiros in Henry & June (1990), Rain Phoenix in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993) and Maggie Q in The Con is On (2018). Anna Faris kissed Angela Bettis in May (2002) and Amy Matysio in Just Friends (2005). Erin Cummings kissed Julia Voth in B!tch Slap (2009) after kissing Michelle Wolff in a LGBT series titled Dante’s Cove (2006). Danneel Ackles kissed Hayley Marie Norman in Fired Up (2009) and Leighton Meester in The Roommate (2011). Krista Allen kissed Brande Roderick in Baywatch (2001) and January Jones in Anger Management (2003). She also kissed women in the Emmanuelle in Space miniseries (1994). Peta Wilson kissed Gina Torres in an episode of La Femme Nikita (1998). Gina kissed Missi Pyle in an episode of The Catch (2017). Missi shared a kiss with Angie Harmon in an alternate take for an episode of Rizzoli & Isles (2010). Constance Zimmer kissed Audra Griffis in Love Bites (2011), Emma Kenney in Shameless (2020) and Missi in Shelter (2023).
Emmanuelle Chriqui kissed Malin Akerman in Entourage (2006), Adrianna Palicki in Elektra Luxx (2010) and KaDee Strickland in Shut Eye (2016). Amy Smart kissed Emmy Rossum in the U.S. version of the Shameless TV series. Carmen Electra kissed Amy Smart in Starsky and Hutch (2004) and Stephanie Blacker in I Want Candy (2007). One of Carmen’s friends is Denise Richards, who kissed Heather Locklear in Spin City (2001) and Frankie Shaw in Blue Mountain State (2010). In 2011, Denise told Howard Stern that she had an affair with a beautiful Hollywood actress. Rya Kihlstedt kissed Keeley Hawkes in Orphan Black: Echoes (2024), Sherri Saum in Grey’s Anatomy (2019), Katherine Moennig in Ray Donovan (2016), Lucy Punch in Elektra Luxx (2010) and Carla Gugino in Jaded (1998). Carla, who played Elektra Luxx, kissed Gaite Jansen in Leopard Skin (2022), Molly Parker in The Center of the World (2001), Cameron Richardson in Hotel Noir (2012) and Willa Fitzgerald in The Fall of the House of Usher (2023). Cameron and Carla kissed Lucy Liu in Rise: Blood Hunter (2007).
Elektra Luxx (2010) was clearly a literal labour of love seeing as how there are other actresses from the Entourage series besides Malin Akerman, Emmanuelle Chriqui and Carla Gugino. These additional actresses were Amy Rosoff and Melissa Ordway. Given the nature of the series, you would be forgiven for thinking that there would have been as many sapphic cameos as there were gay cameos in episodes of Will & Grace; but not even The L Word featured everyone despite a character having a chart showing how everyone is connected. Arden Myrin kissed Crista Flanagan more than once on Mad TV, Michaela Watkins in Hung (2011) and Erin Coker in The Exes (2015). Considering the resemblance, Crista missed an opportunity to play Sheryl Crow (or a facsimile of her) in a sketch piece. Jennifer Esposito kissed Joelle Carter in Just One Time (1998), who kissed Neve Campbell in When Will I Be Loved (2004), who kissed Denise Richards in Wild Things (1998), who kissed Courtney Sinclair in A Girl is a Gun (2017).
Denise Richards has never been photographed with Jenny McCarthy despite being in Scary Movie 3 (2003). Jenny was closer to Carmen than Denise is. In one of Jenny’s many memoirs, Bad Habits: Confessions of a Recovering Catholic (2012), she claimed to have participated in a drug-fuelled orgy with Playboy playmates in Hawaii. What lends credence to a potentially sensationalistic story is that two of her closest friends are bisexual - Chelsea Handler and Joely Fisher. One of Jenny’s friends, Rebecca Romijn, had cast and kissed Rie Rasmussen (an overly flirty bisexual) in Femme Fatale (2002). Another of Jenny’s friends, Joanna Krupa, kissed Kiersten Hall in InAPPropriate Comedy (2013). Last month, it was revealed on The Drew Barrymore Show that the host kissed Amanda Peet during a party at Carrie Fisher’s house. However, Amanda is so close to Sarah Paulson that the latter referred to her as being like her other husband or wife.