- Ingrid Bergman
- Katharine Hepburn
- Meryl Streep
- Giulietta Masina
- Lillian Gish
- Jeanne Moreau
- Liv Ullman
- Catherine Deneuve
- Marlene Dietrich
- Barbara Stanwyck
- Faye Dunaway
- Diane Keaton
- Juliette Binoche
- Julie Christie
- Julianne Moore
- Audrey Hepburn
- Judy Garland
- Sissy Spacek
- Bette Davis
- Anna Karina
- Mia Farrow
- Ellen Burstyn
- Deborah Kerr
- Frances McDormand
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Jane Fonda
- Maria Falconetti
- Gena Rowlands
- Anna Magnani
- Emily Watson
- Shirley MacLaine
- Gong Li
- Naomi Watts
- Maggie Cheung
- Sigourney Weaver
- Kate Winslet
- Janet Gaynor
- Nicole Kidman
- Julie Deply
- Holly Hunter
- Uma Thurman
- Helen Mirren
- Scarlett Johansson
- Marion Cotillard
- Lauren Bacall
- Amy Adams
- Vivien Leigh
- Michelle Williams
- Charlize Theron
- Jean Arthur
- Liza Minnelli
- Isuzu Yamada
- Claudette Colbert
- Claudia Cardinale
- Natalie Portman
- Isabelle Hubbert
- Tilda Swinton
- Emma Stone
- Joan Fontaine
- Cate Blanchett
- Susan Sarandon
- Joan Crawford
- Glenn Close
- Anne Bancroft
- Natalie Wood
- Simone Signoret
- Marilyn Monroe
- Maureen O’Hara
- Jodie Foster
- Shelley Winters
- Hilary Swank
- Anjelica Huston
- Grace Kelly
- Shelley Duvall
- Laura Dern
- Vanessa Redgrave
- Ruth Gordon
- Kirsten Dunst
- Hanna Schygulla
- Bibi Andersson
- Janet Leigh
- Jessica Chastain
- Patricia Arquette
- Harriet Andersson
- Anouk Aimee
- Kim Novak
- Greta Garbo
- Irene Jacob
- Lorraine Bracco
- Anna Paquin
- Bjork
- Rosalind Russell
- Catherine Keener
- Jennifer Lawrence
- Penelope Cruz
- Greta Gerwig
- Emma Thompson
- Gloria Swanson
- Cathy Moriarty
- Talia Shire
Whoaa there, its Emma Thompson! C’mon, she’s amazing!
Who would you put her above? Thompson is great– especially from 1992-1995– what an amazing stretch– I just have a hard time putting her accumulative work (which is impressive) over the one-time brilliance of actresses like Bjork or Lorraine Bracco who were spectacular in masterpieces
Good question, Hmm…I don’t know. It’s just, she is one of my favorites, and I don’t know a lot of these talented ladies, and I know this is performance and career based, but still, I personally thought she was going to be somewhere top you know? She just has this great presence on screen. Wit is one of my favorite films and her performance is just so incredible.
Milcah– appreciate your comments and opinion. I haven’t seen “Wit”- it’s been on my list to see I just haven’t gotten around to it. I’ll seek it out.
i think that jennifer jones ought to be on this list. her and montgomery clift did a short masterpiece called indescretion of an american wife directed by Vittorio De Sica merely an hour and 3 minutes but one of my favorite films- she is a great artist like clift and they have all time performances.
Hi – thanks for the comment– I’ve never seen “Indiscretion of an American Wife”- i’ll add it to the list. I adore De Sica but this has negative reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. Probably why I’ve skipped it until now.