Who are your favorites actresses? What are your favorite films that they are in?

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It would be useful if people responded with a :wub: for each actress they may suspect they liked because they fancied them and a :girl2: because of the performance itself

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Sissy Spacek - Carrie, but a lot of other ones as well - In The Bedroom is good, and Coal Miner's Daughter.

Emily Perkins, in Ginger Snaps. (Apart from Ginger Snaps films, and It, she hasn't done much.)

Charlotte Coleman, in 4 Weddings, but a lot of other stuff as well (a lot of the stuff she was in was crap, but she was always good).

edit, after snowy's post:

:wub: for all three.

Samantha Morton :girl2: :wub:

Helena Bonham Carter
Natassia Kinski
Laura Dern

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So EC fancies Vanessa Redgrave? :D

Barbara Stanwyck

Maggie Smith
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, California Suite, Suddenly Last Summer.
Bette Davis
All About Eve, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Storm Center.

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I have to agree Vanessa Redgrave is a phenomenal actress

Joan Crawford
Ann Sheridan
Joan Greenwood
Eve Arden
Bette Davis
Kaye Kendall
Angie Dickinson
Katharine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby
Margaret Sullavan
Irene Dunne
Shirley MacLaine
Catherine Deneuve

Natalie Wood
Paula Wilcox

Pam St. Clement.

Most people can't believe when they meet her that she's posh.
Now that is acting!

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:wub: Meiko Kaji :girl2:

:girl2: Jane Horrocks.

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Delta White. <_<

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Hot!

^^^ also ridiculously talented. That's enough for me! :lol: :wub:

Right now, this second?
Agata Buzek/Valerie :girl2:
Sandrine Kiberlain/Mademoiselle Chambon :girl2:

Please also see the "Who's your favourite person (right now,this second)" thread (thd) - only here...on FOF!

where? :ohdear:

All-time "faves":

- Kati Outinen
- Isabelle Huppert
- Maria Montez
- Nova Pilbeam
- Stéphane Audran



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How could I forget... :ohdear:


...the (teh) magnificent Su-jeong Lim! :wub: :wub:

Lucy Thai
Terra Patrick
Charmane Starr

Delphine Seyrig (Last Year at Marienbad, Jeanne Dielman, etc)

Eva Mattes (various Fassbnder films, Woyzeck, Celeste, Germany Pale Mother)

Gena Rowlands (in Cassavetes films)

Ana Karina (in Godard films, and especially Rivette's La Religieuse)

Wendy Hiller (especially in I Know Where I'm Going)

... And a recent performance I loved: Michelle Williams in Wendy and Lucy.

Celia Johnson
This Happy Breed, Brief Encounter, Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

Grace Zabriskie.




Theresa Russell :wub: :rollover:

Stephane Audran
Jean Seberg
Emmanuelle Beart
Catherine Deneuve

:girl2: :wub: for all of 'em!

Sybille Schmitz/Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Grey (1932) :wub: :wub: :girl2:

Additional geekfo: Fassbinder's "Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss" was (loosely) based on her life.

Kathy, Irene and Rita for starters ... lots of others I like already mentioned.

I think Kathy is directing now, isn't she?
Quite successfully, too.

Given up the acting apparently as it feels it doesn't give her the same buzz it used to. I think she's lucky to have the gift of being able to be a comic actress who can play tragic roles equally well.

Somehow, until my son and I started reading the Harry Potter books and watching the films, I wasn't aware of Maggie Smith. I have recently started to explore her films, including two of the ones you listed, and I have really enjoyed them. She has so much style and wit and that voice is like no other.

Some of my favorite actresses are:

Audrey Hepburn - Breakfast at Tiffanys, Roman Holiday

Pam Grier - Coffy, Friday Foster, Foxy Brown, Jackie Brown

Heather Matarazzo - Welcome To The Dollhouse

Lina Leandersson - Let the Right One In

Marisa Tomei - Slums of Beverly Hills, Happy Accidents

Gena Rowlands - A Woman Under the Influence

Anna Karina - My Life to Live, Band of Outsiders

Oh, man, she's my favourite actress ever.
I recently did a poll of her films, but it didn't get a huge response. To be fair, I think her best work was really on the stage and there are only a handful of films that she's done over the years which do her justice.

I'm guessing the film from my list you haven't seen is Suddenly, Last Summer?
Ironically, that was a BBC production that was released on a collection called Maggie Smith at the BBC - which was only ever released in the US. :rant:

http://www.amazon.com/Maggie-Merchant-Mill...y/dp/B0013K2ZGI



Her performance in Suddenly, Last Summer is incredible, it really is. It's a little stagey (directed by Richard Eyre) and has Rob Lowe in it, but it's well worth seeing if you can track it down.

This is really good, too: a brief recording of her performance in Peter Shaffer's Lettice and Lovage in 1990, on Broadway I think. She won a Tony award for the performance...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDRyHYDH7xI

I'd love to see her on stage, but I doubt I ever will now.

Also, I agree about Heather Matarazzo in Welcome To the Dollhouse. She's amazing in that film.

Sally Geeson :wub:
Judy Geeson :wub:
Esma Cannon :wub:

Thanks for the suggestion. You were right, it was the one I hadn't seen. I just checked and Netflix has it, so I've moved it to the top of my queue.

When I first became aware of her, I looked her up on allmovie.com, where her entry begins: "Breathes there a theatergoer or film fan on Earth who has not, at one time or another, fallen in love with the sublimely brilliant British comedic actress Dame Maggie Smith?"

It's true, she is the type of actress that you fall in love with. I find myself gushing about her all the time lately to people who don't seem care. <_< I can't help it though.

Chloë Sevigny/My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (Werner Herzog,2009) :girl2: :wub: :wub:



Her "track record" is awe-inspiring...

01. Kids (1995)
02. Trees Lounge (1996)
03. Gummo (1997)
04. Palmetto (1998)
05. The Last Days of Disco (1998)
06. Boys Don't Cry (1999)
07. Julien Donkey-Boy (1999)
08. A Map of the World (1999)
09. American Psycho (2000)
10. If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000) (TV)
11. Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002)
12. Demonlover (2002)
13. Party Monster (2003)
14. Death of a Dynasty (2003)
15. Dogville (2003)
16. The Brown Bunny (2003)
17. Shattered Glass (2003)
18. "Will & Grace" (1 episode, 2004)
19. Melinda and Melinda (2004)
20. Manderlay (2005)
21. Broken Flowers (2005)
22. 3 Needles (2005)
23. Mrs. Harris (2005) (TV)
24. Lying (2006)
25. Sisters (2006/I)
26. Zodiac (2007/I)
27. "Big Love: In the Beginning" (3 episodes, 2007)
28. The Killing Room (2009)
29. My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)
30. "Big Love" (43 episodes, 2006-2010)
31. Barry Munday (2010)
32. Mr. Nice (2010)
33. The Wait (2011) (post-production)

For acting ability, intelligence and beauty: Helen Mirren

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQh1G8yrfqg

For acting ability and beauty (don't know how bright she is) : Monica Vitti in Red Desert

For sheer looks alone: Brigitte Bardot

Honourable mention: Teri Garr