| Description | Actress, Movie |
| The mentally unstable First Lady who helps her husband depsite her grief at her son's death. | |
| An outspoken maid who helps a white girl with her expose of racial inequality among domestic employees. | |
| A vulgar woman who has a tumultuous relationship with the other women in her brother's wedding party. | |
| A factory worker who must turn to prostitution when she loses her job to support her daughter. | |
| An English Queen who inspires her husband to overcome his stutter so he can inspire his people during World War II. | |
| A mother who tries to facilitate a relationship between her obsessive compulsive husband and bipolar son. | |
| A young dancer who forms a relationship with a silent film star as her career improves and his declines. | |
| An overbearing woman who dotes on one crack-addicted son, and ruins the boxing career of the other. | |
| | Description | Actress, Movie |
| The wife of a charismatic religious leader who befriends a World War II veteran along with her husband. | |
| A headstrong young girl who hires a drunken marshal to track down her father's killer. | |
| A Southern woman shunned by others because of her working class background who is kinder to her maids than most others in her community. | |
| A diminutive Australian woman who aids and encourages her family's criminal activites. | |
| A sexual surrogate who helps a paralyzed poet lose his virginity. | |
| A woman posing as a man who inspires another in a similar situation to be less secretive. | |
| A bartender who dates an up-and-coming boxer and encourages him to separate himself from his domineering family. | |
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