Startling Celebrity Nude Scenes

When it comes to a celebrity nude scene, it's safe to say that certain types of actresses come to mind. This is not amoral issue, but simply, there are certain actresses you would expect to have appeared in a nude scene, and certain other actresses you'd never expect to appear in a nude movie scene. However, there's an interesting thing about movies - once it's on film, it's on film forever. So even after an actress becomes a well-respected and honored member of the Hollywood community, some of those early scenes that a celebrity might just as soon forget, somehow never get forgotten.

With this in mind here are some of the least likely celebrity nude scenes ever captured on film and the celebrities who appeared in them. We'll list them by celebrity.

Karen Allen

You may remember Karen Allen as Indiana Jones' spunky girlfriend in Raiders of the Lost Ark, or the winsome lover in Starman. Lesser known is a movie called Until September. Released in 1984 and directed by Richard Marquand, who also directed Return of the Jedi, Until September is a love story set in Paris. I suppose that's enough to explain Karen Allen's nude scenes.

Kathy Bates

Not known for portraying a sex symbol, Kathy Bates is probably best known for practicing the Chinese technique of hobbling in Misery. However, at age 43 Bates performed a nude scene in the movie At Play in the Fields of the Lord. She had another nude scene in About Schmidt.

Candice Bergen

Before Murphy Brown... actually a long time before Murphy Brown, Bergen had a nude scene in an Italian movie, A Night Full of Rain, which was released in 1978. Not sure why I was surprised by this celebrity nude scene, but I was.

Jane Curtain

Jane Curtain got her break on Saturday Night Live as kind of the straight-laced one in the midst of a bunch of crazies. But then John Belushi never did a nude scene. Curtain would go on to shows such as Third Rock and Kate and Allie, but in 1980 she has a nude scene in the movie, How to Beat the High Cost of Living. But before all you Jane Curtain fans put the movie in your Netflix cue, Curtain's face is not seen in the nude scene, so chances are it's a body double.

Fran Drescher

Yes, the nanny herself was ever so briefly nude in the 1990 comedy Cadillac Man.

Helen Hunt

Some may say Helen Hunt appeared nude in As Good As It Gets, but that's nothing compared to her nude scene in the 1991 film, Waterdance, in which she and Eric Stoltz played a couple having an affair.

k.d. lang

Best known as a singer, k.d. lang has a nude scene in a German movie, Salmonberries (1991), in which she plays an androgynous character posing as a male miner working in Alaska. Okay, maybe that's not so surprising.

Michelle Pfeiffer

In Into the Night (1985) Pfeiffer briefly appears nude as she walks past a doorway while Jeff Goldblum watches her.

Susan Sarandon

The Oscar-winning actress appeared nude in a number of films, but probably her most famous nude scene is from the movie Atlantic City in 1981. This scene gives new meaning to turning lemons into lemonade.

Meryl Streep

One of the most accomplished actresses in Hollywood had an ever so brief nude scene in the 1984 movie, Silkwood.

Lea Thompson

Caroline in the City and Marty McFly's mom in Back to the Future, Lea Thompson's one and only nude scene occurs in the 1983 movie, All The Right Moves, in which she and an equally naked Tom Cruise have a love scene.

So there you have it, some of Hollywood's most respected actresses and their surprisiong celebrity nude scenes.