Judy Greer

Judy Greer arrived as the sidekick and stayed long enough to become a genre unto herself. Her breakout was Fern Mayo in the 1999 high school satire Jawbreaker, followed by What Women Want in 2000, and from there she spent two decades as the funniest person standing slightly to the left of the star: 13 Going on 30, Elizabethtown, 27 Dresses, Love & Other Drugs.

What she does better than almost anyone is play a woman who is three seconds ahead of the room and knows it will not help her. Lucy Wyman in 13 Going on 30 is nominally the villain, but Greer plays her as someone exhausted by having to be the antagonist in another woman's story, which is why the part still lands. The same trick works in Adaptation, where she has one waitress scene and makes it the warmest thing in the film.

The later career has been stranger and better. She spent two Planet of the Apes films acting through a performance capture rig as Cornelia, communicating almost entirely without speech. She became a fixture of blockbuster domestic life, the sister in Jurassic World and the ex-wife in Ant-Man. And in the Halloween revival she finally got the weight, playing Karen as a woman whose whole childhood was survival drill.

Alongside that runs a long voice career as Cheryl Tunt on Archer, where the leash comes off entirely and she is allowed to be genuinely unhinged.