The Actress Who Plays The Nun Is Unrecognizable In Real Life
By Emily Bell
Due to how monstrous some of the roles across her filmography have been, there's a solid chance fans have seen Bonnie Aarons outside of her role as the Nun without even recognizing her. The list of projects featuring Aarons as a supernatural creature of some sort is sizable, including an appearance as a demonic mother in the 2011 short film "The Closet" and the vampiric Master from the 2021 flick "Jakob's Wife." However, arguably her most notable credit on this front is her role in David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive."
In "Mulholland Drive," Aarons portrays a character credited simply as "The Bum." The character is arguably insignificant to the film's story, but nevertheless acts as the focal point of one of the film's most iconic scenes. Some fans consider that scene to be one of the scariest in film history. In a 2014 interview with Vulture, Aarons described the role as her absolute favorite from her career. She also noted that she rarely gets recognized for the role. "I'm very chameleonlike," she said. "Put a little makeup on me, I look completely different."
All that said, Aarons' filmography likewise includes a number of wholly human roles in movies with no such paranormal elements. Those include "The Princess Diaries," "Shallow Hal," and "The Fighter."
