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Name a well written strong female character.

posted 2 years ago by [deleted]
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Preferably a lead. A lot of people online complain about female leads, so name some good ones who aren't simply 'the leads wife'.

Don't name Ellen Ripley or Sarah Connor or Princess Leia.

[–] nyctc7 (44103) 2 years ago

Emma Peel (Diana Rigg)

[–] db20db (17734) 2 years ago

Helen Mirren as Betty McLeish in The Good Liar (2019)

[–] bobbydallas (8681) 2 years ago

Cabiria from Le notti di Cabiria

and definitely
Pam Grier in Foxy Brown (and Jackie Brown)

[–] MovieChatUser497 (18943) 2 years ago

Pam Grier was amazing in Jackie Brown, she totally owned that film.

[–] MartyDeniro (4185) 2 years ago

Clarice Starling

[–] MovieChatUser497 (18943) 2 years ago

I used to not like Clarice but I’m starting to warm up to her. I think it’s the exchange with her colleague after she graduates that kind of got on my nerves.

[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

E Johnson - Cherry 2000 (1987)

[–] Kowalski (78914) 2 years ago

ANYONE WHO MENTIONS CHERRY 2000 GETS A HIGH FIVE FROM KOWALSKI™️.✋🏾

[–] Where (1597) 2 years ago

Norma, Norma Rae (1979)
Maya, Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Ripley, Aliens (1986)

[–] Quasimodo (16388) 2 years ago

Dorothea Brooke - Middlemarch (1994)
Elizabeth Bennet - Pride and Prejudice (1995)
Esther Summerson - Bleak House (2005)
Jane Eyre - Jane Eyre (2006)
Anne Elliot - Persuasion (2007)
Beth Harmon - The Queen's Gambit (2020)

[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

Ma Joad - The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Scout Finch - To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Auntie Entity - Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)