8 Actresses Who Are Downright Divas

But Courteney Cox always seems so nice onscreen...
By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff
Posted Jun 14, 2010 10:58 AM CDT
8 Actresses Who Are Downright Divas
In this image released by ABC, actress Ellen Pompeo, is shown playing Meredith Grey in a scene from ABC's, "Grey's Anatomy."   (AP Photo/ABC, Michael Desmond)

Since divas always want to be the center of attention, The Frisky devoted an entire list to them. Eight ladies with bad on-set reputations:

  • Paris Hilton: Played herself—for just one day of shooting—in The Other Guys, yet still had three pages of demands including live lobsters prepared fresh and a bottle of Grey Goose vodka.
  • Courteney Cox: A Cougar Town crew member says she once yelled at an assistant who prepared her ham and cheese sandwich incorrectly.

  • Ellen Pompeo: Was such a pain during the first season of Grey’s Anatomy, she was nicknamed “Pompous Pompeo”—she even insisted on being interviewed separately from the rest of the cast .
  • Faye Dunaway: She also earned herself a nickname—“the dreaded Dunaway”—on the set of Roman Polanski’s Chinatown. Supposedly, tantrums were involved.
For the complete list—including the not-entirely-surprising news that Lindsay Lohan was once banned from a set—click here.
(More Ellen Pompeo stories.)

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