List of Female Actors
Rebel Wilson
Rebel Melanie Elizabeth Wilson is an Australian actress, comedian, writer, and producer. After graduating from the Australian Theatre for Young People in 2003, she began appearing as Toula in the SBS comedy series Pizza and later appeared in the sketch comedy series The Wedge (2006–2007). Wilson wrote, produced and starred in the musical comedy series Bogan Pride (2008). In 2009, she won the Tropfest best actress award for her role in the short film Bargain, and made a guest appearance in the drama series City Homicide. Shortly after moving to the United States, Wilson appeared in the films Bridesmaids and A Few Best Men, both in 2011.
Blythe Danner
Blythe Katherine Danner is an American actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Izzy Huffstodt on Huff (2004–2006), and a Tony Award for Best Actress for her performance in Butterflies Are Free on Broadway (1969–1972). Danner was twice nominated for the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for portraying Marilyn Truman on Will & Grace, and the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for her roles in We Were the Mulvaneys (2002) and Back When We Were Grownups (2004). For the latter, she also received a Golden Globe Award nomination.
Amanda Bynes
Amanda Laura Bynes is an American actress. She is best known for her work in television and film throughout the 1990s and 2000s. She has received several accolades, including winning seven Kids' Choice Awards and a Critics' Choice Award.
Sarah Chalke
Sarah Louise Christine Chalke is a Canadian actress, model and voice artist. She is known for portraying Elliot Reid on the NBC/ABC comedy series Scrubs, the second Becky Conner on the ABC sitcom Roseanne, Stella Zinman on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, and Beth Smith on Adult Swim's adult animated science-fiction series Rick and Morty. She also had a recurring role on the third season of the ABC/TBS sitcom Cougar Town. She guest starred as Melanie Hertzal, a "special needs supermom" on ABC's Speechless, a recurring character who was at first the nemesis and then business partner of the DiMeo family matriarch.
Lily James
Lily Chloe Ninette Thomson, known professionally as Lily James, is an English actress. She studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and began her acting career in the British television series Just William (2010). Following her role in the period drama series Downton Abbey (2012–2015), her film breakthrough was the title role in Cinderella (2015).
Katheryn Winnick
Katheryn Winnick is a Canadian actress. She is known for her roles in Amusement (2008), Bones (2010), A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2012), Vikings (2013–2020), The Art of the Steal (2013), Polar (2019), and Wu Assassins (2019).
Sophie Okonedo
Sophie Okonedo is a British actress, singer, and narrator. She began her film career in the British coming-of-age drama Young Soul Rebels (1991) before appearing in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995), and Stephen Frears's Dirty Pretty Things (2002).
Emily Browning
Emily Jane Browning is an Australian actress. Browning made her film debut in the television film The Echo of Thunder (1998), and subsequently appeared in television shows such as High Flyers (1999), Something in the Air (2000–2001), and Blue Heelers (2000–2002). Her breakthrough role was in the 2002 horror film Ghost Ship, which introduced her to a wider audience. In 2005, Browning won the Australian Film Institute International Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Violet Baudelaire in the film Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004).
Lili Taylor
Lili Anne Taylor is an Emmy-nominated American actress who has numerous credits across television and film, both independent and commercial. She is known for her appearances in such indie films as Mystic Pizza (1988), Say Anything... (1989), Dogfight (1991), Short Cuts (1993), The Addiction (1995) and I Shot Andy Warhol (1996), as well as for her roles in big-budget films including Ransom (1996), The Haunting (1999), Public Enemies (2009), The Conjuring (2013), and Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015). In television, Taylor has starred in Six Feet Under, Hemlock Grove, Almost Human, and all three seasons of the anthology series American Crime. For the latter, she received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie nomination, her third.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Margalit Ruth Gyllenhaal is an American actress and film producer. Part of the Gyllenhaal family, she is the daughter of filmmakers Stephen Gyllenhaal and Naomi Achs, and the older sister of fellow actor Jake Gyllenhaal.