My 50 Favorite Actresses

Little Rock in Zombieland

Brenda "Bren" MacGuff in Juno

Rose Lorkowski in Sunshine Cleaning

Helene McCready in Gone Baby Gone

Jerri Blank in Strangers with Candy

Tillie Sullivan in Dog Bites Man

Kym in Rachel Getting Married

Carolyn Burnham in American Beauty

Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's

Amélie Poulain in Amélie

Jude in I'm Not There.

Maxine Lund in Being John Malkovich

Julia in The Wedding Singer

Starla Grant in Slither

Juno MacGuff in Juno

Norah Lorkowski in Sunshine Cleaning

Jules in Superbad

Karen in Love Actually

Isabelle in The Dreamers

Elaine Miller in Almost Famous

Lucy in Across the Universe

Marla Singer in Fight Club

Gayle Sweeny in Role Models

Beth in Wet Hot American Summer

Pam Beesly in The Office

Hedra "Hedy" Carlson in Single White Female

Kitty Sanchez in Arrested Development

Elaine Benes in Seinfeld

Celine in Before Sunrise

Susan Gardner in Charlie Bartlett

Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Elizabeth Swan in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Vicki St. Elmo in MacGruber

Debbie in Knocked Up

Lindsay Weir in Freeks and Geeks

Denise Huxtable Kendall in The Cosby Show

April in Hot Tub Time Machine

Ana Pascal in Stranger Than Fiction

Susan Orlean in Adaptation.

Sam in Garden State

Zooey Rice in I Love You, Man

Becky in Clerks II

Susan Walker in Coupling

Darlene Conner in Roseanne

Sarah Silverman in The Sarah Silverman Program

Liz Sherman in Hellboy

Elizabeth Abbott in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Liz Lemon in 30 Rock

Lelaina Pierce in Reality Bites

Summer Finn in (500) Days of Summer