Of all the original cast members of Twin Peaks, Joan Chen’s nudography is most similar to Madchen Amick’s, in that she did not do many nude scenes, but did manage one world-class scene: the lesbian scene with Anne Heche in Wild Side.

Unlike Amick, however, Chen never did any lower frontal nudity. Despite that, she took the #16 slot in our annual poll of the top nude scenes in 1995, the very dawn of the Scoopy era.


Tai-Pan (1986). See-through

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The Last Emperor (1987). See-through.

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Turtle Beach (1992). Butt only.

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Temptation of a Monk (1993). Breasts.

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The Hunted (1995). Brief nipple exposure.

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Wild Side (1995). Breasts.

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There are two versions of Wild Side. One is 90 minutes long, while the other runs more than 110 minutes. I discussed the differences in my review.

Also in this series:

Part 1 covers Madchen Amick;

Part 2 covers Sherilyn Fenn

Part 3 covers Sheryl Lee

Part 4 covers Lara Flynn Boyle

Part 6 covers Heather Graham

Part 7 covers Anne Gaybis

Part 8 covers Moira Kelly

Incidentally, when I post these collections to the Fun House, there are film clips for all of the entries.

I can’t tell if we are looking at a nipple area or a nipple patch. I guess a good rule of thumb might be: if you can’t tell that, it’s not much of a scene.

An even better rule of thumb is this: since I don’t care which it is, it’s REALLY not a good scene.

Anyway, as ol’ Mel Allen used to say, “You make the call.”


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Diana Rigg in her 1977 Series, Three Piece Suite. (Sketch: Screen Night, from episode 1.)

There’s no body double. There may or may not be a visible nipple, but that’s her firm and substantial breast out there for our viewing pleasure.


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It is a smooth single take. The live audience reacted appropriately. Gotta love the BBC – there are two other topless women in the same scewe.

In a related scene (same character, different scene):

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It’s weird to hear Diana speaking in a nasal voice with a bizarre accent (not sure whether it is supposed to be American).

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From the comments and e-mail (thanks, you guys):

You can see the clip in this video, starting at the 2:39 mark.

This imager did a thorough collage that shows the sequence:

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Lara Flynn Boyle did quite a few nude scenes. In fact she tied Sheryl Lee’s record of nine nude performances in five years, during almost exactly the same span (1995-99 for Sheryl, 1994-98 for Lara).

Unfortunately, some of Lara’s scenes, in fact far too many, were the type that required a freeze frame to find the nudity, if it was there at all, and none of her scenes featured a clear look at her pubic area.

Some of her scenes featured full topless nudity in good light (e.g. Insatiable, The Road to Wellville), and she did do one scene that made an annual top twenty list. Our readers voted her appearance in Susan’s Plan into the #13 slot among the best nude scenes of 1998.

One cool fact about Lara: at one time (1999-2004) she was Jack Nicholson’s girlfriend!


Mobsters (1991). The nipple is said to be a body double.

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Threesome (1994). Butt only.

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The Road to Wellville (1994)

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Past Tense (1994). Brief nipple.

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Cafe Society (1995) Brief nipple.

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The Big Squeeze (1996) Brief nipple. Maybe.

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Afterglow (1997) Brief breasts.

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Susan’s Plan (1998)

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Since You’ve Been Gone (1998). Brief nipple.

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Speaking of Sex (2001). One nipple visible between a man’s fingers.

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Las Vegas (s3e4, 2005). Network show. All privates covered.

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Insatiable, (s1, 2007)

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Also in this series:

Part 1 covers Madchen Amick;

Part 2 covers Sherilyn Fenn

Part 3 covers Sheryl Lee

Part 5 covers Joan Chen

Part 6 covers Heather Graham

Part 7 covers Anne Gaybis

Part 8 covers Moira Kelly

Incidentally, when I post these collections to the Fun House, there are film clips for all of the entries.