It seemed like you couldn't throw a dodgeball in the late '90s and 2000s without hitting a movie featuring actor Missi Pyle. After landing a small role in the Academy Award-winning movie "As Good As It Gets," she scored a career-changing part in 1999's "Galaxy Quest," a satirical sci-fi flick that spoofed "Star Trek" and its fandom. The beloved comedy also starred Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, and a young Rainn Wilson.

In "Galaxy Quest," she played a statuesque alien with a sharp black bob haircut named Laliari. "When I got [to the audition], they showed me a video of Jed Rees portraying a Thermian," she recalled in The Hollywood Reporter's oral history of the film. "When I saw that silly Thermian smile, I completely understood the character." So much so, the casting direct

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