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What is your favorite performance by an actress?

Moon River 11 years, 10 months ago at Jun 23 19:17 -
I'm curious, you know. Mine is Katharine Hepburn's in The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Lydia 11 years, 10 months ago at Jun 23 21:24 -
I completely agree. Natalie Portman was amazing in that movie.
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Deleted 11 years, 10 months ago at Jun 24 1:09 -
Maria Falconetti in "Passion of Joan of Arc" (greatest performance in film period imo)
Giulietta Masina in "Nights of Cabiria"
Liv Ullmann in "Scenes from a Marriage"
ranna 11 years, 10 months ago at Jun 25 22:30 -
Bette Davis in All About Eve
Catherine Deneuve in Repulsion
Isabelle Adjani in Possession
Anna Karina in Vivre Sa Vie
Mr. Lays 11 years, 9 months ago at Jul 29 20:47 -
Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest. Gripping and truly jaw dropping performance.
Incandescent Sonder 10 years, 10 months ago at Jul 1 8:20 -
Anna Karina in Pierrot Le Fou
Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde
Jeanne Moreau in Jules et Jim
Naomi Watts in Mulholland Drive
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Deleted 10 years, 10 months ago at Jul 9 22:02 -
Maria Faloconneti in The Passion of Joan of Arc
Naomi Watts in Mulholland Dr.
Isabella Rossellini in Blue Velvet
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Michael S 10 years, 10 months ago at Jul 13 1:47 -
Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's
arkkangabriel 10 years, 10 months ago at Jul 13 5:59 -
Natalie Portman multi faceted
Nicol kidman the more mature years
Anne Hathaway only
Attica! Attica! 10 years, 9 months ago at Jul 19 2:18 -
Gloria Swanson in Sunset Blvd.
Frances McDormand in Fargo
Diane Keaton in Annie Hall
Elizabeth Taylor in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight
Michael M 10 years, 9 months ago at Jul 19 23:07 -
Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard.

Other performances I think of highly:

Judy Garland in A Star Is Born
Ginger Rogers in The Major and the Minor
Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce
Vivien Leigh in Gone With the Wind
Louis Fletcher in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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Deleted 10 years, 9 months ago at Jul 20 15:08 -
I have yet to see Julianne Moore in a role that she didn't play SPECTACULARY. I can't even choose just one.
mika_ 10 years, 9 months ago at Jul 22 4:09 -
Tie: Emily Watson in Breaking the Waves and Dorothy McGuire in The Spiral Staircase
mika_ 10 years, 9 months ago at Jul 22 4:09 -
Tie: Emily Watson in Breaking the Waves and Dorothy McGuire in The Spiral Staircase
kXnPunk 10 years, 9 months ago at Jul 23 1:26 -
Definitely Kate Beckinsale in the Underworld movies. Especially in Evolution.
She's badass. :D