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Greatest Screen Performances
per Film Actresses - A-C


Criteria: These screen performances are ranked according to their acclaim, influence as well as popularity.

Actresses are displayed in alphabetical order by last name.

 Edited By: Tim, Dubrow, ManPerson, Sherick
Last Updated: 2026-05-29

Amy Adams

(1974 - )
  1. Arrival (2016)
  2. Sharp Objects (2018)
  3. Junebug (2005)
  4. American Hustle (2013)
  5. The Master (2012)
  6. Vice (2018)
  7. Nocturnal Animals (2016)
  8. The Fighter (2010)
  9. Doubt (2008)
  10. Big Eyes (2014)

Isabelle Adjani

(1955 - )
  1. Possession (1981)
  2. The Story of Adèle H. (1975)
  3. Camille Claudel (1988)
  4. Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
  5. La Reine Margot (1994)
  6. One Deadly Summer (1984)
  7. Skirt Day (2008)
  8. The Driver (1978)
  9. The Tenant (1976)
  10. Subway (1985)

Bibi Andersson

(1935 - 2019)
  1. Persona (1966)
  2. The Seventh Seal (1957)
  3. Wild Strawberries (1957)
  4. The Touch (1971)
  5. Brink of Life (1958)
  6. The Mistress (1962)
  7. Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
  8. The Passion of Anna (1969)
  9. The Magician (1958)
  10. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977)

Harriet Andersson

(1932 - )
  1. Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
  2. Summer with Monika (1953)
  3. Cries and Whispers (1972)
  4. Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)
  5. Dreams (1955)
  6. Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
  7. To Love (1964)
  8. A Sunday in September (1963)
  9. The White Wall (1975)
  10. People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart (1967)

Julie Andrews

(1935 - )
  1. Mary Poppins (1964)
  2. The Sound of Music (1965)
  3. Victor/Victoria (1982)
  4. Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
  5. The Americanization of Emily (1964)
  6. 10 (1979)
  7. Duet for One (1986)
  8. Star! (1968)
  9. Darling Lili (1970)
  10. That's Life! (1986)

Arletty

(1898 - 1992)
  1. Children of Paradise (1945)
  2. Hotel du Nord (1938)
  3. Le jour se lève (1939)
  4. Les Visiteurs du soir (1942)
  5. The Air of Paris (1954)
  6. Fric-Frac (1939)
  7. Extenuating Circumstances (1939)
  8. No Exit (1954)
  9. Lovers and Thieves (1935)
  10. Pension Mimosas (1935)

Jean Arthur

(1900 - 1991)
  1. The More the Merrier (1943)
  2. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
  3. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
  4. You Can't Take It with You (1938)
  5. Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
  6. The Talk of the Town (1942)
  7. The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
  8. A Foreign Affair (1948)
  9. Shane (1953)
  10. The Plainsman (1936)

Lauren Bacall

(1924 - 2014)
  1. Key Largo (1948)
  2. To Have and Have Not (1944)
  3. The Big Sleep (1946)
  4. Written on the Wind (1956)
  5. Dark Passage (1947)
  6. Designing Woman (1957)
  7. The Shootist (1976)
  8. The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
  9. Harper (1966)
  10. Young Man with a Horn (1950)

Anne Bancroft

(1931 - 2005)
  1. The Miracle Worker (1962)
  2. The Graduate (1967)
  3. The Turning Point (1977)
  4. The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
  5. Agnes of God (1985)
  6. To Be or Not to Be (1983)
  7. Young Winston (1972)
  8. The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
  9. Garbo Talks (1984)
  10. 'night, Mother (1986)

Brigitte Bardot

(1934 - 2025)
  1. Contempt (1963)
  2. And God Created Woman (1956)
  3. La vérité (1960)
  4. Viva Maria! (1965)
  5. A Very Private Affair (1962)
  6. In Case of Adversity (1958)
  7. Manina (1952)
  8. Babette Goes to War(1959)
  9. Doctor at Sea (1955)
  10. 1 Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman (1973)

Angela Bassett

(1958 - )
  1. What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)
  2. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
  3. The Rosa Parks Story (2002)
  4. How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)
  5. American Horror Story: Coven (2013 - 2014)
  6. Akeelah and the Bee (2006)
  7. American Horror Story: Freak Show (2014 - 2015)
  8. Strange Days (1995)
  9. Malcolm X (1992)
  10. Boyz n the Hood (1991)

Kathy Bates

(1948 - )
  1. Misery (1990)
  2. Primary Colors (1998)
  3. About Schmidt (2002)
  4. Dolores Claiborne (1995)
  5. Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
  6. American Horror Story: Coven (2013 - 2014)
  7. The Late Shift (1996)
  8. American Horror Story: Freak Show (2014 - 2015)
  9. Richard Jewell (2019)
  10. Matlock (2024 - )

Monica Bellucci

(1964 - )
  1. Malèna (2000)
  2. Irréversible (2002)
  3. The Passion of the Christ (2004)
  4. Remember Me, My Love (2003)
  5. Ville-Marie (2015)
  6. On the Milky Road (2016)
  7. The Apartment (1996)
  8. Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)
  9. Tears of the Sun (2003)
  10. The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

Annette Bening

(1958 - )
  1. American Beauty (1999)
  2. The Kids Are All Right (2010)
  3. 20th Century Women (2016)
  4. Being Julia (2004)
  5. Nyad (2023)
  6. The Grifters (1990)
  7. Bugsy (1991)
  8. Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017)
  9. The Report (2019)
  10. Mrs. Harris (2005)

Ingrid Bergman

(1915 - 1982)
  1. Casablanca (1942)
  2. Gaslight (1944)
  3. Autumn Sonata (1978)
  4. Anastasia (1956)
  5. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
  6. Spellbound (1945)
  7. Notorious (1946)
  8. The Bells of Saint Marys (1945)
  9. The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)
  10. Joan of Arc (1948)

Halle Berry

(1966 - )
  1. Monster's Ball (2001)
  2. Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999)
  3. Frankie & Alice (2010)
  4. Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)
  5. Bruised (2020)
  6. Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005)
  7. The Call (2013)
  8. X2 (2003)
  9. Gothika (2003)
  10. Jungle Fever (1991)

Julliette Binoche

(1964 - )
  1. Three Colors: Blue (1993)
  2. Certified Copy (2010)
  3. The English Patient (1996)
  4. Let the Sunshine In (2017)
  5. Caché (2005)
  6. Chocolat (2000)
  7. Les amants du Pont-Neuf (1991)
  8. Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
  9. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
  10. Rendez-vous (1985)

Cate Blanchett

(1969 - )
  1. Blue Jasmine (2013)
  2. Tár (2022)
  3. Elizabeth (1998)
  4. Carol (2015)
  5. The Aviator (2004)
  6. I'm Not There (2007)
  7. Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
  8. Notes on a Scandal (2006)
  9. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
  10. Bandits (2001)

Emily Blunt

(1983 - )
  1. A Quiet Place (2018)
  2. Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
  3. Sicario (2015)
  4. The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
  5. Oppenheimer (2023)
  6. The Girl on the Train (2016)
  7. Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
  8. The English (2022)
  9. The Young Victoria (2009)
  10. The Smashing Machine (2025)

Helena Bonham Carter

(1966 - )
  1. The Wings of the Dove (1997)
  2. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
  3. Fight Club (1999)
  4. The King's Speech (2010)
  5. Burton & Taylor (2013)
  6. The Crown (2019 - 2020)
  7. Enid (2009)
  8. Conversations with Other Women (2005)
  9. Corpse Bride (2005)
  10. Howards End (1992)

Louise Brooks

(1906 - 1985)
  1. Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
  2. Pandora's Box (1929)
  3. Prix de Beauté (1930)
  4. Beggars of Life (1928)
  5. A Girl in Every Port (1928)
  6. The Canary Murder Case (1929)
  7. The Show-Off (1926)
  8. The American Venus (1926)
  9. God's Gift to Women (1931)
  10. Overland Stage Raiders (1938)

Jessie Buckley

(1989 - )
  1. Hamnet (2025)
  2. The Lost Daughter (2021)
  3. I'm Thinking of Ending Things(2020)
  4. Wild Rose (2018)
  5. Women Talking (2022)
  6. Men (2022)
  7. Chernobyl (2019)
  8. Fargo (2020)
  9. Beast (2017)
  10. Wicked Little Letters (2023)

Sandra Bullock

(1964 - )
  1. Gravity (2013)
  2. The Blind Side (2009)
  3. Speed (1994)
  4. While You Were Sleeping (1995)
  5. Miss Congeniality (2000)
  6. The Proposal (2009)
  7. The Heat (2013)
  8. Crash (2004)
  9. The Unforgivable (2021)
  10. Bird Box (2018)

Ellen Burstyn

(1932 - )
  1. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
  2. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
  3. The Exorcist (1973)
  4. Same Time, Next Year (1978)
  5. Resurrection (1980)
  6. Pieces of a Woman (2020)
  7. The Last Picture Show (1971)
  8. The People vs. Jean Harris (1980)
  9. Political Animals (2012)
  10. Flowers in the Attic (2014)

Claudia Cardinale

(1938 - 2025)
  1. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
  2. The Leopard (1963)
  3. Fitzcarraldo (1982)
  4. Claretta (1984)
  5. The Day of the Owl (1968)
  6. A Girl in Australia (1971)
  7. Girl with a Suitcase (1961)
  8. Silver Spoon Set (1960)
  9. Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
  10. Signora Enrica (2010)

Jessica Chastain

(1977 - )
  1. Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
  2. The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021)
  3. George & Tammy (2022)
  4. Molly's Game (2017)
  5. Miss Sloane (2016)
  6. A Most Violent Year (2014)
  7. The Help (2011)
  8. Scenes from a Marriage (2021)
  9. Memory (2023)
  10. The Tree of Life (2011)

Maggie Cheung

(1964 - )
  1. In the Mood for Love (2000)
  2. Center Stage (1991)
  3. Comrades, Almost a Love Story (1996)
  4. Clean (2004)
  5. Irma Vep (1996)
  6. As Tears Go By (1988)
  7. Hero (2002)
  8. New Dragon Inn (1992)
  9. Ashes of Time (1994)
  10. The Soong Sisters (1997)

Julie Christie

(1940 - )
  1. Darling (1965)
  2. Away from Her (2006)
  3. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
  4. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
  5. Billy Liar (1963)
  6. Don't Look Now (1973)
  7. Afterglow (1997)
  8. The Go-Between (1971)
  9. Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
  10. Finding Neverland (2004)

Glenn Close

(1939 - )
  1. Fatal Attraction (1987)
  2. The Wife (2018)
  3. Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
  4. The World According to Garp (1982)
  5. Albert Nobbs (2011)
  6. The Natural (1984)
  7. The Big Chill (1983)
  8. Damages (2007 - 2012)
  9. The Lion in Winter(2003)
  10. 101 Dalmatians(1996)

Claudette Colbert

(1903 - 1996)
  1. It Happened One Night (1934)
  2. The Palm Beach Story (1942)
  3. Since You Went Away (1944)
  4. Imitation of Life (1934)
  5. Private Worlds (1935)
  6. Midnight (1939)
  7. Cleopatra (1934)
  8. Drums Along the Mohawk(1939)
  9. Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
  10. It's a Wonderful World (1939)

Jennifer Connelly

(1970 - )
  1. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
  2. House of Sand and Fog (2003)
  3. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
  4. Dark City (1998)
  5. Little Children (2006)
  6. Blood Diamond (2006)
  7. Dark Water (2005)
  8. The Hot Spot (1990)
  9. Labyrinth (1986)
  10. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

Marion Cotillard

(1975 - )
  1. La Vie en Rose (2007)
  2. Two Days, One Night (2014)
  3. Rust and Bone (2012)
  4. The Immigrant (2013)
  5. Little Girl Blue (2023)
  6. A Very Long Engagement (2004)
  7. Nine (2009)
  8. Macbeth (2015)
  9. Annette (2021)
  10. Love Me If You Dare (2003)

Joan Crawford

(1904 - 1977)
  1. Mildred Pierce (1945)
  2. Sudden Fear (1952)
  3. Possessed (1947)
  4. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
  5. Grand Hotel (1932)
  6. A Woman's Face (1941)
  7. Strange Cargo (1940)
  8. Humoresque (1946)
  9. Johnny Guitar (1954)
  10. The Women (1939)

Penélope Cruz

(1974 - )
  1. Volver (2006)
  2. Parallel Mothers (2021)
  3. The Girl of Your Dreams (1998)
  4. Don't Move (2004)
  5. Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
  6. Broken Embraces (2009)
  7. Nine (2009)
  8. Ma Ma (2015)
  9. Ferrari (2023)
  10. The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (2018)
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