Character Women
Character Women
shavens
Swing Joined: 4/30/04
#1Character Women
Posted: 1/13/07 at 7:38amWith 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
#2re: Character Women
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
Swing Joined: 4/30/04
#3re: Character Women
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"
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#6re: Character Women
Posted: 1/13/07 at 12:50pmAndrea 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
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lovesclassics
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#11re: Character Women
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#13re: Character Women
Posted: 1/14/07 at 3:28amWhat about Kristin Chenoweth and Jenny Galloway (sp?)?
#14re: Character Women
Posted: 1/14/07 at 4:17amCan'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"
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