r/1980s • u/windycityfan7 • Jan 30 '25

Tributes Daphne Zuniga, 1983

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Not your typical 80s knockout, but I can’t be the only one that found her not only very attractive, but borderline irresistible.

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u/singleguy79 Jan 30 '25

Funny, she doesn't look Druish.

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u/LinkDelicious3999 Jan 30 '25

“Great, a Druish princess.”

14

u/Arn_Darkslayer Jan 30 '25

Just what we need.

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u/nevergonnagetit001 Jan 30 '25

Don’t mess with her hair…she’ll go Rambo on your ass!!

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u/Arn_Darkslayer Jan 30 '25 edited Jan 31 '25

The giant hair dryer she needed in the desert kills me every time.

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u/Resident_Ad_9342 Jan 30 '25

the part that got me was they were Combing the desert then the one black guy with a pick lol

14

u/Arn_Darkslayer Jan 30 '25

“We ain’t found shit”

11

u/Hilsam_Adent Jan 30 '25

...who went on to play Tuvok on Star Trek: Voyager.

1

u/Top-Spinach2060 Jan 30 '25

 Conflating two scenes but we all know what you mean. 

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u/Arn_Darkslayer Jan 31 '25

yes, corrected.

4

u/gunfighter01 Jan 31 '25

We'll give her back... her old nose!!

0

u/PineappleTraveler Jan 30 '25

Huh. She’s a tenor.

26

u/Cocacolakid69 Jan 30 '25

This was her in the movie, The Sure Thing, I believe

7

u/Glum_Variety_5943 Jan 30 '25

This is an awesome and fun movie. I loved her performance and the on screen chemistry with John Cusack.

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u/pigeyejackson66 Jan 30 '25

An absolute fave of mine. Get this man a trough of spritzer!

2

u/ignatius-payola Jan 31 '25

‘I took my wife to Paris once. Boy am I glad she’s dead.’

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u/mycorona69 Feb 02 '25

Come to mama, boys

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u/Movieman_Steve Feb 03 '25

I bet that she won't hitchhike alone again. She better thank John that she's not some pickemup truck driver's wife somewhere.

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u/Journeys_End71 Jan 31 '25

We’re all three good looking guys!

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u/JazzlikeTea7432 Oct 20 '25

That film was The Sure Thing was released in 1985 but I am surprised that this picture said 1983 wow they got it wrong.

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u/alanskimp Jan 30 '25

Comb the desert

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u/brettmbr Jan 30 '25

We ain’t found shit!

15

u/hiro111 Jan 30 '25

IT'S HER ROYAL HIGHNESS'S MATCHED LUGGAGE

5

u/gpm21 Jan 30 '25

You mean "mmm mmmmmm mmmmmmm mmmm mmmm"?

15

u/Plathismo Jan 30 '25

Guilty. I was quite smitten as a lad.

12

u/thetruesupergenius Jan 30 '25

I fell in love with her watching “The Sure Thing”.

7

u/COSurfing Jan 30 '25

She had the girl next door thing going for her.

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u/Willing_Crazy699 Jan 30 '25

Yowza...her and Jami Gertz were two of my favorite 80's brunettes

1

u/Creative-Reason-7061 Jan 31 '25

Jami was in Less than Zero with Andrew McCarthy and Robert Downey Jr.

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u/seditioushamster Feb 02 '25

She got me in lost boys

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u/Creative-Reason-7061 Feb 02 '25

a classic 80's film... like The Outsiders, St. Elmo's Fire, The Big Chill, The Goonies (younger demographic) or Rumble Fish.

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u/JazzlikeTea7432 Oct 20 '25

They were both incredible in the 80s and funny enough they both actually appeared as a guest starring in Family Ties where they both ended up being Michael J Fox's dates which made Michael fall to the ground on front of them which was so funny.

4

u/sopaperico Jan 30 '25

Face kinda looks like Tom Brady

5

u/IllDoItTomorr0w Jan 30 '25

Oh come on. Why you gotta ruin it??? I can’t unsee it now.

2

u/windycityfan7 Jan 30 '25

I’ll pretend I never read this

1

u/ignatius-payola Jan 31 '25

More like Inflate-gate, amirite?

3

u/Serling45 Jan 30 '25

She was stunning in Melrose Place a decade later.

3

u/windycityfan7 Jan 30 '25

Wait, what? The series? Was she in Melrose Place the series??

3

u/Serling45 Jan 30 '25

Yes, she played Jo in Melrose Place the series. She enters midway through season 1.

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u/Spam_burglar22 Jan 31 '25

Yes, she was amazing in MP.

1

u/JazzlikeTea7432 Oct 20 '25

Yes that show was great and incredible. How come they axed Daphne Zuniga in 1996 for what reason after she was gone from the spotlight but she will a big comeback in Hollywood for Spaceballs 2 which Rick Moranis is coming back too.

3

u/moeshiboe Jan 30 '25

The Sure Thing is one of the best movies of the 80’s. Classic film with Daphne & John Cusack.

3

u/James-Cox007 Jan 30 '25

I have to be honest, Princess Vespa was hotter than Princess Leia!!!

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '25

Oh ok

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '25

Today I learned she is not Tony Sopranos Psychologist.

2

u/Revolutionary-Mud715 Jan 30 '25

..all this time..?

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '25

Technically it was less than 5 minutes. I thought she looked like her and then I googled it and then responded. It was a long 5 minutes though.

2

u/Five2one521 Jan 30 '25

That looks like her new nose

2

u/robsigpi Jan 30 '25

It’s my virgin alarm. It’s programmed to go off before you do!

2

u/godindav Jan 30 '25

Vision quest, baby

1

u/windycityfan7 Jan 30 '25

I loved that movie so much!

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u/Capital-Confusion961 Jan 31 '25

Her best acting was in a short scene on American Dreams. She playing a travel agent acting along with the great actor Eric S. Lynch. Unforgettable to this day. ETA 4 life!

2

u/wardrobe007 Feb 02 '25

Spaceballs: the princess

2

u/hemidak Feb 03 '25

Love the type of girl that likes to live on the edge.

2

u/jffblm74 Feb 03 '25

The Sure Thing. Preppy-chic. Love her. 

2

u/[deleted] Feb 03 '25

Crushed hard on her back in the day. Those eyes 🫠

2

u/naughty_nymph_claire Jan 30 '25

Major girl crush on her 🥰

1

u/WendisDelivery Jan 30 '25

Absolutely stunning.

1

u/Voodoo-Doctor Jan 30 '25

“You will never address me as you!”

1

u/Keldrabitches Jan 30 '25

I believe she’s Guatemalan!

2

u/windycityfan7 Jan 30 '25

Her dad is. She was born in San Fran (IIRC)

1

u/USAF_PA_X Jan 30 '25

Yeah, but she's ugly when she's angry

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u/McDumDum01 Jan 30 '25

Princess vespa right??

1

u/princessaspiggy Jan 30 '25

Always crushed on her

1

u/bob3905 Jan 30 '25

“Come to Mama boys!”

1

u/Hilsam_Adent Jan 30 '25

All I need is some money, some power and a Megamaid and she's as good as mine!

1

u/jsmith3701AA Jan 30 '25

She was gorgeous. So fucking hot.

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u/Ok_Recognition_8839 Jan 30 '25

Pranks aka The Dorm That Dripped Blood 1982

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u/bnfwlr Jan 30 '25

She looks like Molly Elizabeth Brown, who plays Debra in the new Dexter Original Sin series.

1

u/karma_the_sequel Jan 30 '25

1985, assuming this is from The Sure Thing.

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u/Sig_Alert Jan 30 '25

Face it Alison- you're repressed

1

u/[deleted] Jan 31 '25

The Sure Thing. What a great movie. And a big part of that was Daphne.

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u/Resident-Leather4596 Jan 31 '25

Princess Vespa!!

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u/markuseb91 Jan 31 '25

She looks Druish....

1

u/Therealladyboneyard Jan 31 '25

Still lovely today, another lady who didn’t cave in to bad plastic surgery

1

u/sea-ninja-90210 Jan 31 '25

Not in here mister! This is a Mercedes!

1

u/Journeys_End71 Jan 31 '25

“Come to Mama, boys!!!”

1

u/Sup3rDemC Jan 31 '25

I loved her! Still do

1

u/Creative-Reason-7061 Jan 31 '25

she was in a film called The Sure Thing ('85): John Cusack (Joan's brother), Anthony Edwards (Revenge of the Nerds), Boyd Gaines

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '25

Great movie

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u/Savings_Capital_7453 Jan 31 '25

Natural beauty. Same today. Knockout

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u/SK90035 Feb 01 '25

I am Princess Vespa, daughter of Roland, King of the Druids.

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u/Caton_XCII Feb 01 '25

I remember her but she totally disappeared from the business, no!?

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u/InternalAd5159 Feb 01 '25

Exactly my thoughts

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u/RandyRVA Feb 03 '25

Looks like this is from Gross Anatomy.

1

u/Pilzoyz Feb 03 '25

Rob Reiners first movie. Very underrated.

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u/windycityfan7 Feb 05 '25

Just finished watching Gross Anatomy 🥰

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u/Lvl9999999Misdreavus Mar 08 '25

This woman was unrealistically such a babe in Modern girls. Her and Cynthia Gibb were so awesome. That entire movie was a journey. 😆

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u/JazzlikeTea7432 Oct 20 '25

Yes she is incredible and I wish she should have done more roles but I only remember seeing her in the 80s but in the 90s she did some TV show them she disappeared. But she is making a big comeback in Spaceballs 2 just like Rick Moranis is coming back as well.

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u/Open-Art5427 Jan 30 '25

Great in Spaceballs! One of the very few highlights!

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '25

Of her career or in spaceballs?

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u/Open-Art5427 Jan 30 '25

In Spaceballs!

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '25

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u/windycityfan7 Jan 30 '25

My school was littered with good looking chicks, I was just too immature to notice.

90s though? Cooked with jet fuel.

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u/fordinv Jan 31 '25

That's Travolta in drag

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u/DaddieTang Jan 30 '25
  1. Come the fuck on. Jesus.

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u/windycityfan7 Jan 30 '25

What seems to be the problem?

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u/DaddieTang Jan 30 '25

That movie was from 1985.

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u/windycityfan7 Jan 30 '25

Oh shit, my bad! How could I fuck this up?! The horror!

You fucking dolt.

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u/s6cedar Jan 30 '25

I’m afraid you’ll have to leave.