Kim C: How could I forget Linda Hunt!? She won an Oscar in 1982 (for playing a man, no less!) and has had mostly obscure roles since then. I see she has a fairly regular gig on "The Practice" where she plays a judge. I haven't seen the show, but I suppose it works because she gets to sit behind a bench, where you can't see how short she is, and she has to be professional, not glamorous. Her recent resume at IMDb mostly consists of voice-overs, narration, voices of animated characters, and so on.

Which leads me to another question I have often wondered about: What do actors do in the long gaps between gigs, if they're not big stars? Do any of them have other jobs/occupations? Anybody know anything about this?