Riley Weston

Billed under the stage name of Kimberlee Kramer, she was merely a bit player with credits like "The American Scream" (1988) and "Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit" (1993) on her resume. Other actresses have taken extreme measures to jump-start their careers (for example, one thinks of Clare Woodgate who morphed into Georgina Cates to land the lead in 1995's "An Awfully Big Adventure") but none have duped so many in such a short period of time. By the time her cover was blown in October 1998, Weston was no longer on staff at "Felicity," although the precise reason for her departure remained unclear. While the reaction to her ruse was mixed, with some seeing it as an example of the extremes women are forced to endure in a youth-obsessed industry, others saw darker issues. Her attorney, who had been completely taken in by her real-life performance, went so far as to raise the question as to whether or not she even wrote her own work.