20 Favorite Female Characters (Movies Only)

Hey MoFos

Pretty simple, really. List your 20 favorite female characters in movies.

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Here's my list (in no particular order):

Marla Singer, "Fight Club"
Leeloo, "The Fifth Element"
Ellen Ripley, "Alien"
Marion Ravenwood, "Raiders of The Lost Ark"
O-Ren Ishii, "Kill Bill Vol. 1"
Princess Leia Organa, "Star Wars" - Episodes IV-VI
Enid, "Ghost World"
Rachel Stein/Ellis de Vries, "Black Book"
Catwoman, "Batman Returns"
Sarah Connor, "Terminator 2: Judgment Day"
Mia Wallace, "Pulp Fiction"
Edith Piaf, "La Vie En Rose"
Tessa Quayle, "The Constant Gardener"
Lisa Rowe, "Girl, Interrupted"
Clementine Kruczynski, "Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind"
Marge Gunderson, "Fargo"
Veronica, "Heathers"
Maude Lebowski, "The Big Lebowski"
Clarice Starling, "The Silence of The Lambs"
M., "GoldenEye," "Casino Royale"

Pam Grier in Jackie Brown, Coffy, Foxy Brown
Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween
Eva Green in Casino Royale
Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver
Natalie Portman in Leon
Claudia Cardinale in Once Upon a Time in the West


Lots to chose from :s

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First is....
Sarah Connor

Wait...what?!

Some great ones off the top of my head, no particular order.

Annie Hall (Diane Keaton), Annie Hall
Libby (Ellen Page), Super
Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Mathilda (Natalie Portman), Leon
Penny Lane (Kate Hudson), Almost Famous
Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page), Juno
Amelie Poulain (Audrey Tautou), Amelie
Eli (Lina Leandersson), Let the Right One In
Betty Elms/Diane Selwyn (Naomi Watts), Mulholland Drive
Ofelia (Ivana Baquero), Pan's Labyrinth
Lola (Franka Potente), Run Lola Run
Maxine Lund (Catherine Keener), Being John Malkovich
Megan (Melissa McCarthy), Bridesmaids
Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), Lost In Translation
Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), Fight Club
Summer Finn (Zooey Deschanel), 500 Days of Summer
Lorraine Baines (Lea Thompson), Back to the Future
Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland), The Wizard of Oz
Jenny Everdeane (Cameron Diaz), Gangs of New York
Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), The Graduate

1. Sally Bowles~ Cabaret
2. Fanny Brice ~Funny Girl
3. Margo Channing ~All About Eve
4. Loretta Castorini~Moonstruck
5. Holly Golightly~Breakfast at Tiffany's
6. Andie Walsh~Pretty in Pink
7. Ethel Whitehead~The Damned Don't Cry
8. Cher~Clueless
9. Maria Von Trapp~The Sound of Music
10. Eliza Doolittle~My Fair Lady
11. Gogo Yubari~Kill Bill
12. Veronica Sawyer~Heathers
13. Aurora Greenway~Terms of Endearments
14. Lydia Deetz-Beetlejuice
15. Vivian Rutledge~The Big Sleep
16. Muriel Helsop~Muriel's Wedding
17. Olive Hoove~Little Miss Sunshine
18. Mallory Knox~Natural Born Killers
19. Amelie~Amelie
20. Charlotte Hollis~Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte

Ranking order:

1. Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster, The Silence of the Lambs)
2. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver, Aliens)
3. Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton, The Terminator)
4. Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest)
5. The Bride (Uma Thurman, Kill Bill)
6. Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell, Scream)
7. Kay Adams (Diane Keaton, The Godfather)
8. Evelyn Draper (Jessica Walter, Play Misty For Me)
9. Lisa Fremont (Grace Kelly, Rear Window)
10. Iris (Jodie Foster, Taxi Driver)

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Very cool lists

A few other favs not mentioned yet:
　
　
Kate Reynolds (Téa Leoni) - The Family Man
Lady Asaji Washizu (Isuzu Yamada) - Throne of Blood
Ada McGrath (Holly Hunter) - The Piano
Bridget Gregory (Linda Fiorentino) - The Last Seduction
Lee Holloway (Maggie Gyllenhaal) - Secretary
Norma Rae (Sally Field) - Norma Rae
Becca (Martha McIssac) - Superbad
Marty (Natalie Portman) - Beautiful girls
Libby (Ashely Judd) - Double Jeopardy
Jane Harper (Jane Fonda) - Fun with Dick and Jane
Emily Eden (Melanie Griffith) - A stranger among us
Rachel Wareham (Meg Tilly) - Off Beat
Béatrice de Montmirail (Valérie Lemercier) - Les Visiteurs
Sibel (Sibel Kekilli) - Head on
Jane Craig (Holly Hunter) - Broadcast News
Mirella Utano (Maya Sansa) - Best of Youth
Sofie Crisp (Hope Davis) - Mumford
Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung) - In the mood for love
Muriel Pritchett (Geena Davis) + Rose Leary (Amy Wright)- The Accidental Tourist
Lara (Julia Christie) Doctor Zhivago
Chiara Manzoni (Sophie Marceau) - Anthony Zimmer
Hayley (Ellen Page) - Hard Candy
Nina - (Juliet Stevenson) - Truly, Madly, Deeply
Nancy (Shani Wallis) - Oliver!
Terri - (Greta Scacchi) The Coca Cola Kid
Sarah Norman (Marlee Matlin) - Children of a lesser God
Margot Tenenbaum (Gwyneth Paltrow) - The Royal Tenenbaums

These are ones I hope haven't been mentioned yet. I could have named several already mentioned, and I didn't even list one character from either Hepburns, Faye Dunaway, Catherine Deneuve, Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, Bette Davis, Carole Lombard, Myrna Loy, Sigourney Weaver, Meryl Streep, a gazillion others.


Sister Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons) in Elmer Gantry
Elastagirl (Holly Hunter) in The Incredibles
Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn) in The Exorcist
Annie Sullivan (Anne Bancroft) in The Miracle Worker
Helen Keller (Patty Duke) in The Miracle Worker
Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) in Sunset Blvd.
Martha (Elizabeth Taylor) in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Miss Giddens (Deborah Kerr) in The Innocents
Maude (Ruth Gordon) in Harold and Maude
Scarlett O' Hara (Vivien Leigh) in Gone With the Wind
Mammy (Hattie McDaniel) in Gone With the Wind
Jean d'Arc (Falconetti) in The Passion of Joan of Arc
Lee Leander (Barbara Stanwyck) in Remember the Night
Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) in Casablanca
Laura (Gene Tierney) in Laura
Roslyn Taber (Marilyn Monroe) in The Misfits
Jessica Rabbit (Kathleen Turner) in Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Maria Braun (Hanna Schygulla) in The Marriage of Maria Braun
Mrs. Brown (Anne Revere) in National Velvet
Victoria Page (Moira Shearer) in The Red Shoes
Caroline Meredith (Ursula Andress) in The Tenth Victim

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1. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver, Aliens)
2. Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton, The Terminator)
3. Alice (Milla Jovovich, Resident Evil)
4. Lola (Franka Potente, Run Lola Run)
5. Azumi (Aya Ueto, Azumi)
6. The Bride (Uma Thurman, Kill Bill)
7. Gogo Yubari (Chiaki Kuriyama, Kill Bill)
8. Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland, The Wizard of Oz)
9. Evey (Natalie Portman, V for Vendetta)
10. Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo)

I will have to think about the rest.

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There may be too many for me to do a comprehensive list. Anyway, here are the first 20 I thought of (many of them from movies I saw recently)

Elinor Dashwood (Emma Thompson) - Sense and Sensibility
Elizabeth Abbot (Tilda Swinton) - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Elizabeth Pinkie Pinkerton (Elspeth Duxbury) - Make Mine Mink
Lucy Muir (Gene Tierny) - The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Melanie Hamilton (Olivia de Havilland) - Gone With the Wind
Sandra (Asia Argento) - Boarding Gate
Liu Lianren (Maggie Cheung) - Center Stage
Ling (Anita Mui) - Drunken Master II
Chow Ying-kit (Anita Mui) - A Better Tomorrow III
Pat Neil (Sally Yeh) - Peking Opera Blues
Suzanne Davis (Shelley Duvall) - Brewster McCloud
Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand) - Fargo
Helen (Jean Harlow) - Hell's Angels
Isabelle (Isabelle Huppert) - Amateur
Asia the Invincible (Brigitte Lin) - The Swordsman II and III
Faye (Faye Wong) - Cheungking Express
Lillie and Ally (Judy Davis and Claudia Karvan) - High Tide
Ryoko Itakura (Nobuko Miyamoto) - A Taxing Woman I and II
Detective Avery (Whoopi Goldberg) - The Player
Beatrice (Sarah Polley) - No Such Thing

Thelma(Geena Davis, Thelma and Louise)
Louise(Susan Sarandon, Thelma and Louise)
Ellen Ripley(Sigourney Weaver, Alien series)
Sarah Connor(Linda Hamilton, Terminator series)
Sheri Moon Zombie(Baby, The Devil's Rejects)
Ginger(Sharon Stone, Casino)
Lulu(Melanie Griffith, Something Wild)
Linda(Phoebe Cates, Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
Brandon(Hilary Swank, Boys Don't Cry)
Carol(Helen Hunt, As Good it Gets)
Annie(Kathy Bates, Misery)
Florence(Cher, Mask)
Alabama(Patricia Arquette, True Romance)
Mia(Uma Thurman, Pulp Fiction)
Queen Elizabeth(Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth)
Queen Elizabeth(Helen Mirren, The Queen)
Evelyn(Faye Dunaway, Chinatown)
Sera(Elisabeth Shue, Leaving Las Vegas)
Catherine(Sharon Stone, Basic Instinct)
Matty(Kathleen Turner, Body Heat)

11. Kate Libby 'Acid Burn' (Angelina Jolie, Hackers)
12. Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates, Misery)
13. Sera (Elisabeth Shue, Leaving Las Vegas)
14. Marie (Cecile De France, High Tension) I know it's just me.
15. Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer, Batman Returns)
16. Amelie Poulain (Audrey Tautou, Amelie)
17. Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss, The Matrix)
18. Hayley Stark (Ellen Page, Hard Candy)
19. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis, Halloween)
20. Sarah (Jennifer Connelly, Labyrinth)

I left off a couple of obvious ones:

Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen) in Raiders of the Lost Ark
Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) in the Star Wars saga

My list :

1- Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman), Black Swan
2- Mathilda (Natalie Portman), Leon
3- Evey (Natalie Portman), V for Vendetta
4- The Bride (Uma Thurman), Kill Bill
5- Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn) Requiem for a Dream
6- Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank), Million Dollar Baby
7- Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent), Inglourious Basterds
8- Katharine Clifton (Kristin Scott Thomas), The English Patient
9- Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), Alien
10- Weronika / Véronique (Irène Jacob), The Double Life of Veronique

Evelyn (The Mummy)
Satine (Moulin rouge)
Nancy (Oliver!)
Buttercup (The Princess Bride)
Sidney (Scream)
Ellie (Jurassic Park)
Hermione (Harry Potter)
Dorothy (The Wizard of Oz)
Ripley (Alien)
Luisa (Nine)
Sharpay (High School Musical)
Rose (Titanice)
Lucy (While you were sleeping)
Bellatrix (Harry Potter)
Sophie (Mamma Mia)
Velma (Chicago)
Roberta (Now and Then)
Tess (Burlesque)
Whichita (Zombieland)
Julia (The Wedding Singer)

Some of my favorite :

Scarlett O'Hara (played by Vivien Leigh in "Gone With the Wind")

Ellen Ripley (played by Sigourney Weaver in the "Alien" series)

Phyllis Dietrichson (played by Barbara Stanwyck in "Double Indemnity")

Clarice Starling (played by Jodie Foster in "The Silence of the Lambs" and by Julianne
Moore in "Hannibal")

Margo Channing (played by Bette Davis in "All About Eve")

Norma Desmond (played by Gloria Swanson in "Sunset Blvd.")

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Best Movies 2012

Catherine Zeta Jones in The Terminal and Entrapment
Melanie Griffith in Milk Money
Annette Bening in American Beauty
Molly Ringwald in Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club
Kirstie Alley in Look Who's Talking
Gwyneth Paltrow in View from the Top
Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz in The Holiday
Cameron Diaz in There's Something About Mary
Olivia Newton John in Xanadu
Reese Witherspoon in Legally Blonde
Goldie Hawn in Cactus Flower and Private Benjamin