| Description | Actress, Movie |
| The strong-willed mother of a ruthless and successful drug kingpin. | |
| A successful movie star who has an affair with a famous and eccentric millionaire. | |
| A single mother who must deal with her young daughter's budding drug use and promiscuity. | |
| A feisty Spanish woman who has an unconventional relationship with her former lover and an American tourist. | |
| A grumpy old rich woman who terrorizes her servant when she visits a wealthy friend in the country. | |
| A confident singer who is pushed from the spotlight in favor of her more attractive backup singer. | |
| A stripper who has a tumultuous relationship with an English writer in London, which begins when he sees her get hit by a car. | |
| A math student who marries her professor, a brilliant, but troubled, man. | |
| A young, ambitious woman who is assigned to work with a veteran firer on the road. | |
| The proprietess of a Roaring Twenties women's prison. | |
| A union representative in a Minnesota mine who suffers from multiple sclerosis. | |
| An attorney for an agricultural products company who gets involved in the company's shady dealings. | |
| A famous 'band-aid' who travels with a successful rock band and inspires a young writer. | |
| A deaf Japanese girl who is scarred by her mother's recent suicide. | |
| A divorcee who tries to seduce her son's fiancee's father. | |
| A Boston woman who suspects her troubled husband may be responsible for the death of a young girl. | |
| A drug-addicted woman whose baby daughter is kidnapped in Boston. | |
| A reporter and single mother who has an affair with an aging alcoholic country singer. | |
| A single mother who has an affair with a younger man while dealing with her abusive ex-husband. | |
| A grumpy old woman in a French village who finds solace in a new sweets shop. | |
| A meek young nun who suspects the priest at her school may have abused a male student. | |
| A Southern woman who suffers in silence as her husband maintains an affair with a man, a former fellow rancher. | |
| The wife of the pre-eminent sexual researcher of the Twentieth Century. | |
| A young writer who forms a relationship with a colleague that lasts years, into her eventual dementia. | |
| A famous and influential male musician in the 1960s. | |