Best, or favourite, actress around?

[Numero Veinticinco]

Other than Frances McDormand, I’ve not really noticed as many great female performers recently. Sophie Turner has improved a lot on GoT.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Julie Walters, Maggie Smith and Katherine Hepburn spring to mind. You'd be hard pushed to find two dud performances between the three of them.

[s(k)aturation]

Got to be Kate Beckinsale, doesn't it?

 

Lovely, supple, conical... consummate acting ability. 

[Rico1304]

All the ugly ones.

[Elite]

All the ones with their tits out.

[Moo]

This is tough, there aren't many female leading lights around are there? I quite liked Glenn Close in The Shield, genuinely can't think of many others.

I think that's a problem with the parts available as opposed to the acting ability of the women. Fortunately things have changed for the better since 2013, at least on the TV side of things.

Lena Headey in Game of Thrones has been outstanding since it started in 2011, only Charles Dance has appeared to better her. And I say "appeared" as I'm not convinced it wasn't part of the act such was Cersei's reverence for her father.

Other recent brilliant female parts acted brilliantly; Evan Rachel Wood and Thandie Newton in Westworld, Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman and Laura Dern in Big Little Lies, Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange in Feud: Bette and Joan.

All of them exceptional.

[TheHowieLama]

Whoever the old lady in The Darkest Hour was -- still would

[Pureblood]

Miss Piggy

[Moo]

Miss Piggy

She's brilliant but it's the partnership with Kermit that really stands out.

[TheHowieLama]

Are you calling the female supporting lead in a multiple Oscar winning film Miss Piggy???

[Pureblood]

She's brilliant but it's the partnership with Kermit that really stands out.

 

 

Yes, it's a symbiotic relationship.  

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Miss Piggy

 

I've always thought she was a bit hammy.

[Pureblood]

I've always thought she was a bit hammy.

 

 

Yeah, but would you pork her?

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Yeah, but would you pork her?

I'd certainly cast my pearls before swine.

[s(k)aturation]

She's brilliant but it's the partnership with Kermit that really stands out.

 

 

Frogist.

 

Mind you, they were the Sonny and Cher of puppetry.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Sheridan Smith is slightly awesome these days.

[Kevin D]

Elisabeth Moss is outstanding in The Handmaid's tale, just as she was in Mad Men. I haven't seen Top of the Lake, but people rave about her in that, too.

 

As strong a claim to being the best actress in the world, as any.

[Bjornebye]

Sandra Bullock 1995

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Let's try and keep it to acting ability.

 

 

Not Sandra Bullock. Ever.

[Bjornebye]

Not Sandra Bullock. Ever.

Stop trying too hard to be edgy mate.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Stop trying too hard to be edgy mate.

She's obviously fit and she's also an underused comic talent (as in Demolition Man and Muppets Tonight) but she's not really a great actor, is she?

[Bjornebye]

She's obviously fit and she's also an underused comic talent (as in Demolition Man and Muppets Tonight) but she's not really a great actor, is she?

She is good in gravity. I'm not arsed if she can act though. In 1995 she was fit. I watched some film the other day with her in (can't remember what it's called) where she got her identity stolen. She is so fit in it.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

The Net.

 

She has been in some fucking terrible films, which is a pity, because she's always been fit.

[Numero Veinticinco]

She's obviously fit and she's also an underused comic talent (as in Demolition Man and Muppets Tonight) but she's not really a great actor, is she?

Have you seen 'The Blind Side', for which she won the Best Actress Oscar?

[SammyAftershave]

I've never seen Marisa Tomei give a poor performance.

 

 

She's ace.