Everytime I watch Starship Troopers, there's always something that
bothers me. Yeah, yeah, some of the acting can be pretty awful, but aside from
that. There's a scene, early in the film, when Carmen is piloting a group of her
fellow fleet officers aboard a shuttle. The young blonde woman who sits next to
Carmen (at left in the photo) is Cadet Lumbreiser, whose friendship with Carmen
will eventually lead her to a helmsman spot on a starship. I thought the actress
who played her had a very familiar face. I've found out that she's Amy Smart, and
since her minor role in Starship Troopers, Amy has gone on to star in
such movies as Dee
Snider's Strangeland, the Farrelly Brothers' Outside Providence, the time travel story The Butterfly Effect and the film version of Starsky & Hutch.
She's also appeared on TV in Felicity, Scrubs, and has even lent her voice to several episodes
of the insanely genuis Adult Swim series Robot Chicken.