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Sorry, that short list in the other thread had some good names but it was devoid of some of the best female villians in movie history.
My list includes:
Alex Forrest - "Fatal Attraction" (Glenn Close)
Marquise de Merteuil - "Dangerous Liasions" (again Glenn Close)
Catwoman - "Batman Returns" (Michelle Pfieffer)
Catherine Trammell - "Basic Instinct" (Sharon Stone).
Who are your favorites?
Edit Note: Best Remake of a great villian - Kathryn Merteuil - "Cruel Intentions" (Sarah Michelle Geller, this was a modern take of Dangrous Liasions)
Graybeard
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Also Tallulah Bankhead in Die, Die, My Darling.
Anjelica Huston in The Witches and Ever After.
(edit: corrected spelling of the great Anjelica's
last name.)
Carolina
(6,960 posts)Baby Jane was quite a villainess!
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)Bake
(21,977 posts)Piece of dog doo? Oh hell yes.
Bake
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)Bake
(21,977 posts)There has to be an element of, oh ... some redeeming quality ... like, e.g., "I'd hit it" ... think Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman (hell, **any** of the Catwomen!).
Coulter? Not in a gazillion years. Not with your .... or anybody's ... you get my drift.
Bake
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)MrScorpio
(73,610 posts)Kennah
(14,010 posts)pipi_k
(21,020 posts)witches of the East and West - "Wizard of Oz"
Rhonda Penmark - "The Bad Seed"
The two maiden aunts in "Arsenic and Old Lace"
Ursa - "Superman 2"
And last, but not least...
Mary Poppins, who came to live as a nanny to the Banks children, and ended up giving them "medicine" that made them see singing, dancing animals, flying people, and all sorts of other odd things. Once they became addicted, she abandoned them...
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)raccoon
(31,083 posts)hunter
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racaulk
(11,550 posts)Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)I was completely surprised. Never thought she could pull of evil as well as she did.
Swede
(33,077 posts)Hudson Leick played her to the max.
mysuzuki2
(3,521 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)from "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." Evil incarnate.
Lucinda
(31,164 posts)My second was Annie from Misery.
siligut
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gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Although she impressed me as more psychopathically sadistic than evil, she still presented a pretty good villain.
Neoma
(10,039 posts)Imelda Staunton NAILED that role.
OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)Broken_Hero
(59,305 posts)Rowling wrote Umbridge so well, that she is the only character that I cussed out...literally. Reading the OOTP I recall cussing Umbridge out so many times...I never felt such a vile, dislike of any character...before coming across Dolores.
And to credit the movie, the casted that role, very well....
fizzgig
(24,146 posts)LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Mary Brown, the teacher at the True Directions school where they straighten out gay & lesbian teenagers. Cathy Moriarty was just pure evil even though she thought she could turn these kids around.
The movie was campy as hell but good narrative.
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)I saw that the original novel actually had an incest sex scene which the movie could only make allusions to for obvious reasons
sarge43
(28,935 posts)annonymous
(882 posts)Runners up include Kathy Bates in Misery, Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and Delores Umbridge and Bellatrix LeStrange from the Harry Potter movies.
OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)Her character is Rupert Murdoch, before there was Rupert Murdoch.
I think every kid who's grown up knowing Angela Lansbury as Mrs Potts, or Jessica Fletcher, or Miss Price (Bedknobs & Broomsticks) should see "State of the Union", "The Manchurian Candidate", and "The Harvey Girls." (and the Broadway "Sweeney Todd" if you can get hold of it).
She's an incredibly underrated actress.
Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)during the time when Murder She Wrote was on TV. The students knew Angela Lansbury only as Jessica Fletcher, not as Eleanor Iselin or as the maid in Gaslight, and there were cries of astonishment when she appeared for the first time.
geardaddy
(24,923 posts)siligut
(12,272 posts)She is just the most awful character in it too.
rbnyc
(17,045 posts)I love that show.
siligut
(12,272 posts)The show is truly shameless and I can't stop laughing.
raccoon
(31,083 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Glenn Close was so perfectly "evil"!
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)Taverner
(55,476 posts)Now that girl SCARES me!
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)She was great portraying Aileen Wuornos--I think Bush mocked her before she was executed.
TheCentepedeShoes
(3,522 posts)he mocked, on death row in TX when he was governor...er...asshole in chief
Aileen Wuornos was in Florida, I lived there when she was in action
Charlize Theron did a fantastic job in the movie
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)Ohio Joe
(21,607 posts)I love children... But I could never eat a whole one
sakabatou
(42,070 posts)Great show.
sakabatou
(42,070 posts)>.<
skypilot
(8,845 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Violates one of my personal standards in that you don't know she's a villain until later, but her cunning, manipulative murder/frame up plan was ingenious and diabolical. I wonder if a sequel could now be written, using the same principals? It probably wouldn't be near as good as the movie, and like The Two Jakes and Chinatown would only serve to be forgotten.
AnneD
(15,774 posts)best ever. And you can add stealing every scene she was in to her list of crimes. She was a moving violation against the laws of nature and gravity. Daymuh she was hot. The best lines of dialogue too. William Hurt didn't stand a chance and neither did Richard Crenna.
WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)The Space Vampire in Lifeforce
The Borg Queen - Star Trek: First Contact
The Queen Alien
Oo! Oo! Morgana - Excalibur
LeftOfSelf-Centered
(776 posts)I thought I was the only one on this planet who had seen Cool World!
Archae
(46,246 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)ceile
(8,692 posts)Shannen Doherty "Heathers"
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)dimbear
(6,271 posts)Quite a talented actress, but she was gifted with a physical type especially suited to evil. An interesting part of psychology, BTW.
blue neen
(12,305 posts)Jane Seymour played this character to perfection in the mini-series version.
OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)Jo Van Fleet did a pretty good job playing her in the Kazan version with James Dean and Raymond Massey.
blue neen
(12,305 posts)"The Bad Seed"
Matariki
(18,775 posts)Auggie
(31,025 posts)alphafemale
(18,497 posts)I've never seen anything half as disturbing as the last 15 minutes or so of this movie.
TheCentepedeShoes
(3,522 posts)played by Diana Rigg in a PBS mini series called Mother Love around 1990
The ultimate interfering ex wife
Had to look her name up on IMDB
Matariki
(18,775 posts)and Lana Parrilla's wicked queen/mayor is pretty wicked.
siligut
(12,272 posts)She exists to make people miserable. Do you know who her lost love is? The one she holds against Snow White?
Matariki
(18,775 posts)you *really* want to see them get what they deserve.
Nope, I don't know. I'm a few weeks behind watching the show. Is that something you've figured out, or...?
siligut
(12,272 posts)I do gather that in reality, Snow White had nothing to do with it. That the queen is psychotic and just blames Snow White because she can't admit error. I wonder if it was actually Snow White's father, but that hasn't been made clear.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)she is curiously arousing.
As is Amanda on "Nikita"
sakabatou
(42,070 posts)Bruce Wayne
(692 posts)But the worst/best of them all was British woman named Lady Elaine Marsh-Morton. Bad temperament, sure, but gracious what a sense of class she brought to the game. I do wonder what happened to her, sometimes.
Initech
(99,881 posts):drool:
LeftishBrit
(41,175 posts)'The Iron Lady', That character, what's her name, played by Meryl Streep. Now SHE was a scary villain!
nytemare
(10,888 posts)As Eleanor Shaw. Creeeepy.
Doc_Technical
(3,500 posts)She played Livia in the BBC production of
I, Claudius around 1976.
dogknob
(2,431 posts)Yeah this is one of many great bits of hers.
WCGreen
(45,558 posts)Of Boris and...
WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)So we're doing TV now?
Lucille Bluth
siligut
(12,272 posts)Mallory Archer runs a mom and son agency similar to the CIA . . . only really rinky-dink.
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WCGreen
(45,558 posts)Graybeard
(6,996 posts)Ah, the good old days when all we had
to worry about were Russian spies. (sigh)
NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)Season 5 main villain.
NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)Star Trek: first contact
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)YankeyMCC
(8,401 posts)She is a character from Alastair Reynolds 'Revelation Space' series
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair_Reynolds#Revelation_Space
One scary person to be on the wrong side of. I mean you'd think cutting her in half would slow her down at least...not much it turns out
dogknob
(2,431 posts)After a trail of bodies, she's still afraid of going to Hell
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)The only one I can think of that hasn't already been mentioned. Erika Christensen in Swimfan. I'm very tempted to say Sarah Michelle Gellar in Cruel Intentions, even though I think she played a good villian, I feel like I'm leaving out an obvious choice.
siligut
(12,272 posts)A real devious witch.
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kwassa
(23,340 posts)She is the key to the greatness of the first season, never to be equaled again.
played by the great Nancy Marchand, who also played the aristocratic publisher Margaret Pynchon on "Lou Grant" an almost opposite role. What a range she had!
Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)She had a long career.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)She is a rare example of a true actress that can disappear into a broad range of roles.
Kingofalldems
(38,314 posts)The movie: One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)Yukari Yakumo
(3,013 posts)Better known as Suigintou.
unkachuck
(6,295 posts)Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)Kennah
(14,010 posts)Owen!!!
Kennah
(14,010 posts)... but Ruth Gordon as Ma in Every Which Way But Loose.
Just a helpless old lady.