I've seen Vincent D'Onofrio in Law & Order and I don't think he has Asperger's. Borderline NT, more like.
I recently read Louisa May Allcott's Little Women and Good Wives - at the ripe old age of 35 - and I think spotted at least two Aspies there. Jo, of course, and her sister Beth.
Jo is more typical for a female Aspie, but Beth is harder to spot, I think. The former is a tomboy, and the latter is a girly girl, the one is active-but-odd and the other withdrawing type, but they seem Aspergerish to me alright. The only unifying trait between the two is that they don't seem to get along with peers and don't have any female friends outside the family, and only one - male - friend for both of them, for which neither sister harboured romantic feelings.
Beth was taken away from public school because of 'shyness'. She prefers to be ignored by strangers than having to talk to them - even briefly - and is attracted only by people who are on the border of her society for some reason - the very poor, the sick and the disabled. She is described to be 'very nice' to everyone but that only involves her family, as she shuns contact with any other and I am sure that 'very nice' sums up the unwillingness to be involved in conflicts or complicated emotional affairs. In any case it looks to me more like mirroring than real empathy,
Later in the book Beth contracted an infectious disease and complained only after she carefully checked her symptoms in 'the book' - supposedly she wasn't supposed to be able to read and understand it for some 10 years to come. Very indicative, I'd say.
Oh, and I forgot, both sisters had their special interests which they would gladly practice to exclusion of other activities, if and when given the chance.
There is also a stray Aspie trait in the youngest sister Amy - 'a very literal young lady', as the author describes her,
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