Every season, there are performances that make me go "Wow!"
I'm not talking about people I've loved from the moment they hit the small screen (like Adam Brody, Jennifer Garner, Gregory Smith, Lauren Graham or Jason Bateman). This column is about the actors who took their game to the next level this season. [This] brilliant performances left me in awe.
Amy Acker as Fred/Illyria on "Angel": I've always enjoyed Acker's cute, giggly Fred. But as Simon Cowell would say, if I'm going to be perfectly honest, I never really gave her much thought. Her performance as Illyria has been chilling. I never once thought she had this in her. She changed her voice, her movements, the whole way she carries herself. Her entire body was transformed. If I didn't know better, I honestly would have thought a different actress was playing the role. Seriously, they didn't even have to dye her hair blue. The full breadth of Acker's ability was demonstrated last week when she flip-flopped back and forth between Illyria and Illyria pretending to be Fred (it reminded me of the nuanced performance David Boreanaz gave when he was Angel pretending to be Angelus.) Of series creator's Joss Whedon's many talents, one may be his ability to recognize that this kind of greatness exist within his stars.
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