Greatest FEMALE villians

[LynneSin]

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]

1. Bette Davis in "...Baby Jane".

Last edited Thu Feb 23, 2012, 01:12 PM - Edit history (1)

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]

69. "We have rats in the cellar, Blanche"

Baby Jane was quite a villainess!

[HopeHoops]

2. Ann Coulter

[Bake]

7. Villain, yes. Favorite? Never.

Piece of dog doo? Oh hell yes.



Bake

[HopeHoops]

8. Well it is forbidden to mention his status, but either way he's a disgusting pig.

[Bake]

9. I think that in the female villain category

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]

26. How about Laura Dern as Katherine Harris in "Recount"

[HopeHoops]

29. Never saw it. Is it good?

[MrScorpio]

3. Faye Dunaway as The Countess De Winter nt

[Kennah]

97. I agree Faye Dunaway, but as Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest

[pipi_k]

4. The wicked

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...

[rrneck]

5. Gah!

[Tom Ripley]

15. But Rhoda is such a polite little girl!

[raccoon]

19. "witch of the West - "Wizard of Oz--AKA Elvira Gulch in Kansas. nt

[hunter]

85. Scary Mary...

Last edited Sat Mar 31, 2012, 04:04 AM - Edit history (1)

[racaulk]

6. Elle Driver in "Kill Bill," played by Daryl Hannah

[Wait Wut]

25. She was awesome in that role.

I was completely surprised. Never thought she could pull of evil as well as she did.

[Swede]

10. Callisto from Xena was a real badass.

Hudson Leick played her to the max.

[mysuzuki2]

11. That's easy - my ex-wife!

[hifiguy]

12. Dolores Umbridge

from "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." Evil incarnate.

[Lucinda]

27. My first thought. Umbridge LOVED causing pain.

My second was Annie from Misery.

[siligut]

28. A rucking fepublican if there ever was one

[IMG][/IMG]

"‎It is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be sufficient to get you through your examinations, which after all, is what school is all about."

[gratuitous]

30. Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix?

Although she impressed me as more psychopathically sadistic than evil, she still presented a pretty good villain.

[Neoma]

49. Now that you mention it... I think that's mine as well.

Imelda Staunton NAILED that role.

[OmahaBlueDog]

65. She is most HR Managers I've met

[Broken_Hero]

83. That woman....

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]

90. that role was marvelously cast

[LynneSin]

13. Here's another great one from "But I'm a Cheerleader"

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]

14. Angela Lansbury as Eleanor Iselin in the Manchurian Candidate is #1

[Blue_Tires]

32. +1000

I saw that the original novel actually had an incest sex scene which the movie could only make allusions to for obvious reasons

[ceile]

35. This.

[sarge43]

38. Second that. n/t

[annonymous]

54. Yes definately

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]

64. ..or as Kay Thorndyke in "State of the Union"

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]

93. Oh yes, I saw that movie for the second time on a college campus

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]

16. Nurse Ratched

[siligut]

17. Louise Fletcher is playing Peg Gallagher in Shameless now

She is just the most awful character in it too.

[rbnyc]

51. She's awesome.

I love that show.

[siligut]

55. Frank does the most despicable things . . .

The show is truly shameless and I can't stop laughing.

[raccoon]

18. Cruella DeVille in 101 DALMATIANS. nt

[femmocrat]

53. My choice too!

Glenn Close was so perfectly "evil"!

[RiffRandell]

20. Theresa Russell--Black Widow

[Taverner]

21. Gogo Yubari from Kill Bill Vol 1

Now that girl SCARES me!

[RiffRandell]

22. I forgot--Charlize Theron in Monster.

She was great portraying Aileen Wuornos--I think Bush mocked her before she was executed.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

46. No, it was Karla Faye Tucker

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]

56. Oh yeah..thanks for the reminder!

[Ohio Joe]

23. Hexidecimal

I love children... But I could never eat a whole one

[sakabatou]

92. From ReBoot?

[Ohio Joe]

100. Yup

Great show.

[sakabatou]

101. Too bad it wasn't finished

>.<

[skypilot]

24. Lena Olin as "Mona Demarcov" in 'Romeo is Bleeding'

[gratuitous]

31. Kathleen Turner in Body Heat

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]

40. She was excellent in that role.....

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]

33. Holly Wood - Cool World

The Space Vampire in Lifeforce
The Borg Queen - Star Trek: First Contact
The Queen Alien


Oo! Oo! Morgana - Excalibur

[LeftOfSelf-Centered]

39. Holy cow!

I thought I was the only one on this planet who had seen Cool World!

[Archae]

84. I saw it. It sucked.

[ohiosmith]

34. Granny Dolarhyde in Red Dragon.

[ceile]

36. Mrs. Danvers "Rebecca"

Shannen Doherty "Heathers"

[AsahinaKimi]

37. GO GO YUBARI (Chiaki Kuriyama)

[dimbear]

41. Barbara Steele: Black Sunday, and many others.

Quite a talented actress, but she was gifted with a physical type especially suited to evil. An interesting part of psychology, BTW.

[blue neen]

42. Catherine---"East of Eden"

Jane Seymour played this character to perfection in the mini-series version.

[OmahaBlueDog]

66. I just re-read the book

Jo Van Fleet did a pretty good job playing her in the Kazan version with James Dean and Raymond Massey.

[blue neen]

43. Rhoda Penmark

"The Bad Seed"

[Matariki]

48. +1 and a basket of kisses

[Auggie]

44. Kathy Bates, Misery & Lotte Lenya, From Russia with Love

[alphafemale]

45. Asami Yamazaki from Audition

I've never seen anything half as disturbing as the last 15 minutes or so of this movie.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

47. Helena Versey

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]

50. I'm rather enjoying Once Upon A Time

and Lana Parrilla's wicked queen/mayor is pretty wicked.

[siligut]

57. I want to see her get her comeuppance so bad.

She exists to make people miserable. Do you know who her lost love is? The one she holds against Snow White?

[Matariki]

58. That's what makes a great villian

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]

62. I haven't figured it out

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]

96. And yet, evil as she is...

she is curiously arousing.

As is Amanda on "Nikita"

[sakabatou]

52. Mariko (Number 35)

[Bruce Wayne]

59. Selina Kyle. Talia al-Ghul. Pamela Isely, Amanda Waller...

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]

71. I can't wait to see Catwoman in Dark Knight Rises.

:drool:

[LeftishBrit]

60. Oh obviously the film I saw most recently..

'The Iron Lady', That character, what's her name, played by Meryl Streep. Now SHE was a scary villain!

[nytemare]

61. Angela Lansbury in "Manchurian Candidate"

As Eleanor Shaw. Creeeepy.

[Doc_Technical]

63. Sian Phillips

She played Livia in the BBC production of
I, Claudius around 1976.

[dogknob]

79. Ack! Just posted this below. Missed this.

Yeah this is one of many great bits of hers.

[WCGreen]

67. Natasha.....

Of Boris and...

[WhoIsNumberNone]

68. Natasha Fatale

So we're doing TV now?

Lucille Bluth

[siligut]

74. Jessica Walter plays somewhat the same character in Archer

Mallory Archer runs a mom and son agency similar to the CIA . . . only really rinky-dink.
[IMG][/IMG]

[WCGreen]

77. That is one of my favs right now....

[Graybeard]

70. You beezy bodies have beezyed your last body!

Ah, the good old days when all we had

to worry about were Russian spies. (sigh)

[NewJeffCT]

72. Glory from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Season 5 main villain.

[NewJeffCT]

73. the Borg Queen

Star Trek: first contact

[Tuesday Afternoon]

75. Cruella Deville

[YankeyMCC]

76. Skade

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]

78. Siân Phillips as Livia Augusta in "I, Claudius"

After a trail of bodies, she's still afraid of going to Hell

[JonLP24]

80. Hmmmm

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]

81. Livia Soprano

A real devious witch.

[IMG][/IMG]

[kwassa]

91. Evil incarnate. "The Sopranos" was never the same without her.

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]

94. And the shy, awkward, dowdy girlfriend in the TV production of Marty in the 1950s

She had a long career.

[kwassa]

102. Wow. I never would have made the connection.

She is a rare example of a true actress that can disappear into a broad range of roles.

[Kingofalldems]

82. Did anyone mention Louise Fletcher as Nurse Rachet?

The movie: One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest

[alphafemale]

86. thisn' YOWSA

[Tom Ripley]

87. Veda Pierce

[Yukari Yakumo]

88. Mercury Lampe

Better known as Suigintou.

[unkachuck]

89. Mary Astor in the Maltese Falcon....n/t

[Puzzledtraveller]

95. my ex-wife

[Kennah]

98. Anne Ramsey as Momma in Throw Momma From The Train

Owen!!!

[Kennah]

99. Technically she was part of the protagonists ...

... but Ruth Gordon as Ma in Every Which Way But Loose.

Just a helpless old lady.

[CottonBear]

103. Linda Fiorentino in The Last Seduction

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Seduction

Her character is a truly evil femme fatale.