We were in orbit for Kristen Bell even before she became the titular heroine of the girl-detective TV series Veronica Mars. She started out as a New York actress while attending the city’s Tisch School of the Arts, where Kristen’s early stage work included a stint as a buxom Betty Thatcher in the Broadway musical The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. She also showed off her nymphoid bod with a quick turn as a turned-on teen in the cult comedy Pootie Tang (2001). Her quirky and sexy turn on the HBO series Deadwood gave us some live wood, but Veronica Mars’s rising star really raised an Angry Red Planet in our shorts with her big-screen turn in Spartan (2004). Angry Val Kilmer prompted a kinky slip o’ the nip from Kristen, playing a deceitful dame. Now that Veronica Mars is through and Kristen has a steady gig as yet another hot blonde on Heroes, it's not likely that she'll do the truly heroic thing and ring viewers' bells with further nudity any time soon.