| Description | Actress, Movie |
|---|
| An elderly survivor of a terrible tragedy who must relive it when she's approached by explorers. | |
| The worried wife of an astronaut who suffers through her husband's troublesome mission. | |
| The precocious daughter of a mute woman in rural Australia. | |
| A Puritan woman who is accused of witchcraft by her husband's former lover. | |
| The aging Queen of England who patronizes the most famous playwright of all time. | |
| The troubled mother of a Southern writer and his suicidal sister. | |
| The wife of a powerful mob boss who goes out to dinner with a hitman and overdoes on heroin. | |
| A single mother who deals with her troubled young son with a horrifying secret. | |
| A long-engaged teacher who struggles to deal with the possibility of her fiance's homosexuality. | |
| A woman who is racked with guilt when she survives a plane crash in which her baby perishes. | |
| A famous actress who has an affair with a neurotic playwright when he appears in his new work. | |
| A mobster's wife who becomes involved with her husband's drug business. | |
| A teenager who unknowingly has an affair with a transgender youth. | |
| A reporter who advocates for a young man and his father falsely implicated in an IRA bombing. | |
| A sickly woman who leaves her estate to a new friend when she dies. | |
| A ruthless campaign worker who returns from a nervous breakdown to work on a governor's run to the Presidency. | |
| A video store owner who deals with her troubled boyfriend, a former shock jock. | |
| A successful black woman who learns her birth mother is a vulgar white woman. | |
| A young con artist who has a tumultuous relationship with her boyfriend's mother, another con artist. | |
| An aging porn star who develops dangerous feelings for a young up-and-comer in the business. | |
| A brassy woman who accompanies her lawyer boyfriend to Alabama to try a murder case. | |
| A charismatic patient who befriends a new inmate in a mental hospital. | |
| The romantic younger sister of a practical woman who is spurned by the man of her dreams. | |
| The young daughter of a lawyer who is drawn to to the psychopath terrorizing her family. | |
| The wife of the King of England who must deal with her husband's failing sanity. | |
