Do we like Virginia Hey?
Our score: 6 out of 10. No harmful words or company turned up and there are small signs of care, but there's too little reporting to score her higher.
Virginia Hey is the Sydney-born actress who started out as a fashion model, then landed the Warrior Woman part in Mad Max 2 and went on to play the blue priestess Zhaan in Farscape. Before that she did Australian soaps like Prisoner and Neighbours, and she turned up in a Buggles music video. She's a proper cult-sci-fi face.
Zhaan is the role fans still stop her for. At a Farscape tenth-anniversary panel she said shaving her head was the biggest step in becoming the character, and that putting on the blue makeup each day gave her time to settle into Zhaan. It's a nice bit of craft, and the sort of detail fans love.
Harm check: we looked for anything she's said or done about LGBTQ+ people, women, migrants, vaccines or the climate, and who she works with. Nothing came up. Searches under her name mostly returned stuff about the US state of Virginia, so the honest answer is that no harmful words or company are on the record, rather than a deep dive finding a clean sheet.
The good-person check came up clean too. We found no court cases, lawsuits or allegations against her, and no reports of her mistreating co-stars, staff or fans. That's a quiet record rather than a glowing one, and we couldn't find tabloid-grade goss either.
After Farscape she moved into wellness. She teaches simple meditation, which she began doing at conventions in 2003 when fans asked how she'd prepared Zhaan, and she makes soy candles and perfumes. In a 2011 interview she called the Hollywood view that she was too old for roles ageist silliness, and she asked readers to donate to animal welfare and child protection charities.
Nothing new on her lately: no recent news, controversy or big interview turned up. The latest we could read was a 2011 profile and a 2018 database entry, so the picture is old.