Note: The list of films following each name contain the performances by each actress that give me the most pleasure, and are not necessarily the finest films on that actress' resume. (But just try and argue with me on the merits of The Skeleton Key. I dare you.) The first film listed for each actress is the film pictured. Here we go:
Angela Bassett - Strange Days, What's Love Got to Do With It, Sunshine State
Jennifer Connelly - Dark City, Requiem for a Dream, Dark Water, Career Opportunities
Bette Davis - All About Eve, Jezebel, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Irene Dunne - Love Affair, The Awful Truth, My Favorite Wife
Audrey Hepburn - Funny Face, Wait Until Dark, My Fair Lady, Charade
Katherine Hepburn - Stage Door, Bringing Up Baby, Adam's Rib, Holiday
Madeline Kahn - Clue, Paper Moon, What's Up, Doc?, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety, The Cheap Detective
Deborah Kerr - Black Narcissus, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Innocents
Jennifer Jason Leigh - eXistenZ, Short Cuts, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Anniversary Party, Margot at the Wedding
Shirley MacLaine - Some Came Running, The Apartment, The Children's Hour, Steel Magnolias, In Her Shoes
Giulietta Masina - Nights of Cabiria, La Strada
Emily Mortimer - Bright Young Things, Lovely and Amazing, Lars and the Real Girl, Transsiberian
Sarah Polley - No Such Thing, The Sweet Hereafter, Go, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Guinevere
Thelma Ritter - Pickup on South Street, Rear Window, All About Eve
Rachel Roberts - This Sporting Life, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, O Lucky Man!, Picnic at Hanging Rock
Gena Rowlands - A Woman Under the Influence, Faces, Minnie & Moskowitz, Love Streams, The Skeleton Key
Rosalind Russell - His Girl Friday, The Women, The Trouble with Angels
Lili Taylor - I Shot Andy Warhol, Say Anything, Girls Town
Sylvie Testud - Fear and Trembling, Murderous Maids, Beyond Silence, The Chateau, La France
Rachel Weisz - My Blueberry Nights, The Shape of Things, The Fountain
