Character Women

[shavens]

Character Women#1

Posted: 1/13/07 at 7:38am

With your help, I'd like to compile a list of females whom you regard highly as Broadway and/or Off-Broadway actors. Please limit your candidates to women who can play strong yet sympathetic, acerbic characters. In terms of models, think Shirley MacLaine, Judy Dench, etc. Thanks, Sam

[mattonstage]

re: Character Women#2

Posted: 1/13/07 at 8:40am

When I think of character women, I think of:
Tyne Daly
Cynthia Nixon
Mary Testa
Cherry Jones
Jackie Hoffman
Zoe Caldwell
Linda Lavin
Michele Lee
Loretta Devine
Ann Harada
Kelly Bishop
Julie Halston
Swoosie Kurtz
Judith Ivey
Christine Baranski

how's that for a start?

I killed the boss, you don't think they're gonna fire me over a thing like that!!!!

[shavens]

re: Character Women#2

Posted: 1/13/07 at 8:47am

Great list. Very helpful. Thanks a million!

[benjamin_barker]

re: Character Women#3

Posted: 1/13/07 at 8:50am

Joanna Gleason!

Mary-Louise Parker (although she's been spending a lot of time in the LA side of things lately)

"Demons are prowling everywhere, nowadays..." - - Tobias, "Sweeney Todd"

[i love idina]

re: Character Women#4

Posted: 1/13/07 at 9:28am

Ashley Brown

[CurtainPullDowner]

re: Character Women#5

Posted: 1/13/07 at 11:57am

Ashley is a leading Lady.

[singtopher]

re: Character Women#6

Posted: 1/13/07 at 12:50pm

Andrea Martin

"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert

[keen on kean]

re: Character Women#7

Posted: 1/13/07 at 11:21pm

Rosemary Harris

[CurtainPullDowner]

re: Character Women#8

Posted: 1/13/07 at 11:32pm

Jan Maxwell

[Heybeenfood]

re: Character Women#9

Posted: 1/13/07 at 11:34pm

Blythe Danner.

[CurtainPullDowner]

re: Character Women#10

Posted: 1/13/07 at 11:36pm

Ruth Gotshall (sp?)

[lovesclassics]

re: Character Women#11

Posted: 1/14/07 at 12:14am

In addition to some of the great ones already listed, I think these gals have the stuff to fit your description.

Vanessa Redgrave
Megan Mullally
Meryl Streep
Victoria Clark
Bernadette Peters

lc

[CurtainPullDowner]

re: Character Women#12

Posted: 1/14/07 at 12:16am

Mary Stout

[neddyfrank2]

re: Character Women#13

Posted: 1/14/07 at 3:28am

What about Kristin Chenoweth and Jenny Galloway (sp?)?

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

re: Character Women#14

Posted: 1/14/07 at 4:17am

Can't believe no one has mentioned Donna Murphy.

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"