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A young girl who experiences a violent possession by a demon.
Linda Blair, The Exorcist (1973)
98%
A frustrated wife and mother who leaves her young son with her workaholic husand, only to want him back some time later.
Meryl Streep, Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
91.3%
A twelve year old prostitute whose salvation becomes the obsession of a deranged cabbie.
Jodie Foster, Taxi Driver (1976)
90.8%
The sister of a mob boss who has turned to alcohol and destructive relationships to deal with her frustrations about her family's business.
Talia Shire, The Godfather Part II (1974)
90.3%
A Scandanavian nanny who is among the suspects in a killing on a famous European train.
Ingrid Bergman, Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
86.7%
A wife of a rich Republican who has an affair with a womanizing hairdresser.
Lee Grant, Shampoo (1975)
84.4%
A resident of a small Texas town who harbors feelings for her former lover, the owner of the local movie theater.
Ellen Burstyn, The Last Picture Show (1971)
84.4%
An overweight former swimmer who becomes a victim in an ocean disaster.
Shelley Winters, The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
83.1%
A famous actress staying in a Hollywood hotel with her gay husband before the Oscars.
Maggie Smith, California Suite (1978)
81.8%
A young girl who travels with a slick conman who may be her father.
Tatum O'Neal, Paper Moon (1973)
81.8%
A single mother who deals with her young son's experience with visitors from outer space.
Melinda Dillon, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
80.3%
A woman who refuses to accept her news producer husband's affair with a younger colleague.
Beatrice Straight, Network (1976)
80.3%
A daffy stowaway who causes problems for an airline manager at the worst possible time.
Helen Hayes, Airport (1970)
79.3%
A stripper who, for a time, travels with a conman and his precocious daughter.
Madeline Kahn, Paper Moon (1973)
79%
A girl from a small Pennsylvania town who marries one soldier, then begins with a relationship with his friend when he is presumed dead in Vietnam.
Meryl Streep, The Deer Hunter (1978)
78.5%
A bookeeper who provides a pair of reporters with leads in their investigation of Richard Nixon's staff.
Jane Alexander, All the President's Men (1976)
78.3%
A violently religious woman who abuses her socially inept and telekinetic daughter.
Piper Laurie, Carrie (1976)
78.3%
A sharp-
tongued waitress who works with a single mother and failed singer.
Diane Ladd, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
77.7%
A stuffy nurse in a Korean War unit full of wacky doctors.
Sally Kellerman, M*A*S*H (1970)
77.5%
A high school football coach's wife who has a painful affair with one of her husband's players.
Cloris Leachman, The Last Picture Show (1971)
77%
An anti-
Nazi fighter who secures the help of her playwright friend in battle against Facism.
Vanessa Redgrave, Julia (1977)
76%
A high school senior who dates a forty year old neurotic television writer.
Mariel Hemingway, Manhattan (1979)
75.4%
A precocious girl who lives with her mother, an aging dancer, and bonds with the cocky actor who lives with them.
Quinn Cummings, The Goodbye Girl (1977)
74.4%
A German singer sent to seduce an African American sheriff in the Old West.
Madeline Kahn, Blazing Saddles (1974)
74.4%
A flirtatious teenager who befriends a socially inept nerd on an eventful night in the 1950s.
Candy Clark, American Graffiti (1973)
74.2%
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Actress, Movie
% Correct
A single mother who bonds with her friend's husband when her friend abandons him and their young son.
Jane Alexander, Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
70.8%
The loving wife of a deranged bomber on a commercial flight.
Maureen Stapleton, Airport (1970)
70.3%
A young military wife who befriends another and has an attachment to her brother during the Vietnam War.
Penelope Milford, Coming Home (1978)
69.8%
The overprotective mother of a young blind man who disapproves of his relationship with a ditzy neighbor.
Eileen Heckart, Butterflies Are Free (1972)
69.3%
A gospel singer and mother of deaf children who engages in an affair with a country singer.
Lily Tomlin, Nashville (1975)
68.8%
A gold-
digger who believes her plot to kill her husband is a failure when the spirit of a dead football player inhabits his body.
Dyan Cannon, Heaven Can Wait (1978)
65.2%
A young ballet dancer who has an affair with a Russian prodigy, and is torn between her mother and teacher, who were once best friends.
Leslie Browne, The Turning Point (1977)
65%
A simple woman who has an unloving relationship with a runaway piano prodigy.
Karen Black, Five Easy Pieces (1970)
64.7%
A woman whose sister leads a double life as a teacher for the deaf and a promiscuous bar hopper.
Tuesday Weld, Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
60.6%
A passenger on a ship of Jewish refugees struggling to find a new home at the start of World War II.
Lee Grant, Voyage of the Damned (1976)
59.6%
An emotionally fragile country singer who is the sweetheart of her genre's capital city.
Ronee Blakley, Nashville (1975)
58.8%
An obnoxious woman who gets married, but then is dismayed to learn her husband immediately fell in love with another.
Jeannie Berlin, The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
55.2%
A middle aged woman who supports her son's love of cycling and Italian culture.
Barbara Barrie, Breaking Away (1979)
54.7%
A drunken widow who deals with a gritty private detective in the 1940s.
Sylvia Miles, Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
53.2%
A white woman whose son buys an apartment building filled with inner-
city black tenants.
Lee Grant, The Landlord (1970)
52.7%
A brassy woman who draws the ire of her new boyfriends three grown daughters and suicidal ex-
wife.
Maureen Stapleton, Interiors (1978)
52.2%
A singer/
songwriter who splits with her husband to further her career, but later wants him back.
Candice Bergen, Starting Over (1979)
50.6%
A former diva starring in a cliched French melodrama with a troubled British actress.
Valentina Cortese, Day for Night (1974)
47.6%
A barfly who takes up with a washed-
up boxer when her boyfriend is sent to prison.
Susan Tyrrell, Fat City (1972)
46%
A woman who gets into a drunken fight with her married friend.
Geraldine Page, Pete 'n' Tillie (1972)
45.5%
An older woman who has a troubled relationship with her daughter, an unhappy housewife.
Sylvia Sidney, Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973)
43.5%
A free-
living literary agent who urges her client and friend to take many lovers.
Brenda Vaccaro, Once Is Not Enough (1975)
43%
The mother of a British woman whose daughter corresponds lovingly with a neighbor while engaged to another.
Margaret Leighton, The Go-Between (1971)
39.4%
A woman who is uncomfortable with her aging as she has a relationship with a pop music composer.
Barabra Harris, Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971)
37.1%
A long-
unmarried woman who has a disatrous relationship with a cad in his thirties.
Ann-Margret, Carnal Knowledge (1971)
34.5%
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