What female play,movie or book character do you find the most interesting?

Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo . I just saw the movie, I’m looking forward to reading the book.

I usually hate violent and scary movies. I would not have picked it if I knew the story beforehand. But the film was too good not to like.

I’m not sure if you’re old enough to watch it, but “Orange is the new Black” has fantastic female characters that are full of depth, complexity, and tension. The lead actress is actually one of the least interesting female characters in the show (IMO).

The character Red is one of the best. She is a strong woman, but also shows vulnerablity, pride, anger, fear, joy, power, mothering, nurturing, leading, etc.

Steven Universe has a great variety of funny, interesting female characters and it’s great for all ages. It has an interesting plotline- a couple alien ladies who are close friends travel to earth and live in a big house together. One of them falls in love with a human man, they have a son, and then she dies (sort of.) Her friends and the human guy cobble together an odd found family to raise the son together. Meanwhile, everyone goes off on crazy outer space adventures.

It’s a cartoon, but the animation is creative and unique. The characters are really well-written, and there are real-life themes like loyalty, loss, grief, and family. It’s also pretty progressive for a kid’s show (or any show), with strong female friendships, multiple female leads, and main characters of different races, body types, and sexual orientations. And it’s funny.

I don’t have a one-dimensional interestingness rating system for female characters. For your drama club, as in, you want an interesting character to practice acting as?

Jane Austen novels are full of interesting female characters of various types. The protagonists in particular tend to be interesting, though their interestingness is developed throughout the course of a novel, so they might not be the best choice for acting skits (unless you’ve already read an entire novel and have a scene in mind).

Lady MacBeth is fun to do scenes as – I did a couple in middle school English classes. The “Out out damned spot!” scene is fun to do, as is the scene where she convinces MacBeth to go for her scheme… there are many, many interesting women in Shakespeare, and great for practicing acting… if you don’t mind doing Shakespeare.

Maude in Harold and Maude is awesome, and the film is great.

Mrs. Wilburforce in The Lady Killers (1955 version) is awesome, though again you sort of want the entire production, not just a scene.

Katharine Hepburn tended to make her characters interesting, and could be fun to act. e.g. See Philadelphia Story.

Lauren Bacall also made her roles interesting and fun to watch. e.g. The Big Sleep.

The woman in Misery is quite interesting, but in a terrifying and psychologically interesting/realistic way.

Grace Kelly’s character in Rear Window is brave and fun and would make for some good short scenes. I also like Eva Marie Saint’s character in North By Northwest, and Kelly in To Catch a Thief I like too. Though all those films have various levels of the sexism of the culture of their time, they’re also strong, brave and very clever (even if they are all sort of throwing themselves at much older men – who can’t love Cary Grant or James Stewart? ;-) ).

Scarlett Johansson’s character in Under The Skin I would describe it more, but it’s better if you see the movie completely uninformed.

^^ Great movie. Trippy AF.

Pride & Prejudice

Most recently, I very much liked all the female characters in “This Is Where I Leave You,” especially Jane Fonda’s and Rose Byrne’s.

Dagny Taggart

Sacajawea and Laura Ingalls Wilder’s mum.