Sandra Oh is best known for her role saving lives as Dr. Cristina Yang on Grey’s Anatomy but on an episode of Six Feet Under she was a porn star mourning the loss of a fellow porn star who was her friend and first foray into girl-on-girl action.
Oh my, the adorableness is almost too much to handle. We all love Jeremy Sisto for his roles in Six Feet Under and Law and Order as well as for his current role in Suburgatory, but did you recognize a much younger Sisto as Elton from Clueless?
Peter Macdissi held a recurring role in Six Feet Under as eccentric art school teacher Olivier Castro-Staal. More recently, however, he could be seen in the latest season of True Blood as Luis Patiño, the vampire sheriff of Area 3.
Currently known for his comedy show Suburgatory, Jeremy Sisto (Six Feet Under) once played an ex-drug addict and boyfriend to the mother in the movie Thirteen.
Frances Conroy may play the mysterious and creepy maid on American Horror Story, but she also cleans up her act a bit and steps in as Barney’s crazy mother on How I Met Your Mother (and let’s not forget perhaps her greatest role as Ruth, the matriarch of the Fisher family, in Six Feet Under).
Years before counseling McKinley High’s dramatic students as Emma Pillsbury in Glee, Jayma Mays tried to look after Federico’s kids as Canadian maid/babysitter Donna in an episode ofSix Feet Under… and got herself fired before the end of the episode.
Peter Krause, known primarily as angsty Nate Fisher in Six Feet Under appeared in an episode of Seinfeld as a neo-nazi sympathizer who pulled a gun on Jerry and George. It’s a far cry from his current role as Adam Braverman, the father figure he plays on Parenthood.
Peter Krause is best known as Six Feet Under’s Nate Fisher or as Parenthood’s Adam Braverman, and Jensen Ackles is best known as Supernatural’s resident demon-killing badass Dean Winchester, but in 1997 Peter and Jensen appeared together in an episode of Cybill.
Known best for her role as Annie Wilkes, the most rabid fangirl ever, in Misery, Kathy Bates not only guest-starred in episodes of Six Feet Under as Ruth’s Fisher’s straight-talking BFF Bettina, but also directed 5 episodes of the series.
Turns out Hitler’s not the only villain with an art school past: here’s a pre-Sylar Zachary Quinto, playing a pretentious art student in an episode of Six Feet Under.
Jen had already spotted this one, but thanks to lollercoaster for the tip and a link to the screenshot!
Before becoming Dunder Mifflin’s top salesman on The Office, Rainn Wilson studied to be a mortician (and romanced Frances Conroy’s Ruth Fisher) on season 3 of Six Feet Under.
Before he began his search for the woman with the yellow umbrella in How I Met Your Mother, Josh Radnor made a brief appearance on Six Feet Under as dead-guy-of-the-week, Will Jaffe. Props to him for rocking that sweet ‘stache.
