Katrina Bowden's 10 Most Gratuitously Sexy Roles

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Katrina Bowden has become synonymous with the word "sexy." From being voted "Sexiest Woman Alive" to starring in campy horror flicks, you can't Google her name without coming across a still of her in a bikini.

This weekend, the resident hottie of 30 Rock adds to her rep with a part as Oz's L.A. socialite girlfriend in American Wedding. If you see the film and need more of her prancing around in a two-piece or being irresistibly flirtatious, check out this list of Katrina Bowden's 10 Most Gratuitously Sexy Roles.

30 Rock (2006-present)

Role: Cerie
30 Rock is pretty meta: it’s a show about a show where Bowden is a hot girl playing a hot girl. If you can’t follow that, then we assume you just tune in to see her as Cerie Xerox (an appropriate name for a sexy secretary) in skimpy outfits twirling around the TGS writer’s room.

Sex Drive (2008)

Role: Ms. Tasty
Katrina Bowden has a knack for playing characters with names that deliberately point to her sex appeal. Case in point: Ms. Tasty. With a name like that, we couldn’t expect her to have pure intentions. She eventually inspires the main character to drive cross-country (after luring him online) just so she can steal his car with her equally criminal boyfriend.

The Shortcut (2009)

Role: Christy
Horror movies usually follow the same storyline for the typical blonde bombshell and Bowden’s character Christy is no exception. In the film, which follows a group of teens who take a deadly detour, the main character falls in love with her, they make out, then a horrible death falls upon her.

Ratko: The Dictator's Son (2009)

Role: Holly
If you can sit through something reminiscent of a poor man’s Borat, then we highly encourage you to watch Ratko just for Bowden. As Holly, a beautiful student activist, she inspires a dictator’s son to reevaluate his father’s role in the world. Plus, she’s in a bikini a lot.

Ugly Betty (2010)

Role: Heather
On, Ugly Betty, the show that follows life of an awkward and frumpy fashion journalist, Katrina Bowden played another character brought in to inherently make Betty look increasingly unsexy: a model.

Nick Swardson's Pretend Time (2010)

Role: Hillary
Bowden appeared on the sketch show Nick Swardson’s Pretend Time as an anthropologist’s adorable assistant exploring the tomb of King Tut. She’s got the kind of sweet prettiness that makes it difficult to be mad at her for inadvertently releasing a mummy from his tomb.

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2010)

Role: Allison
The hilariously gory comedy follows two kindly bumpkins who innocently take in an injured gorgeous college student only to be attacked by her brainless friends who assume they’re serial killers. Katrina plays Allison, the perpetual midriff-bearing captive, who turns out enjoying the company of her hillbilly heroes.

American Reunion (2012)

Role: Mia
If your character is described as “an LA party girl type,” then that pretty much says you’ll be in a bikini and/our short sundress throughout the entire film. As was the case with Bowden’s role as Mia, Oz’s sexy socialite girlfriend who becomes the lacrosse player-turned-reality star’s arm candy at the East Great Falls High School reunion.

Piranha 3DD (2012)

Role: Shelby
The double D in the title alone is an apropo indicator of how gratuitously sexy this sequel to the killer fish horror flick Pirahna 3D will be. In fact, the demise of its characters are even hotly stylized. As its trailer shows us, Bowden’s character Shelby will get the axe, but not before a romantic late-night swimming session with her beau.

Nurse 3D (2012)

Role: Danni
In the upcoming thriller (out at the end of 2012), Paz de la Huerta stars as Abby Russell, a dedicated nurse with a murderous alter-ego who becomes obsessed with another nurse, played by the enchanting Katrina Bowden. Not much else has been revealed about the plot, but from what we know about the film (and Paz de la Huerta’s public persona), we can infer homoerotic sexual tension.