100 Greatest Actresses Quiz (Part 3)

[B] Diane Lane | A teenage runaway who galloped across the screen in A Little Romance (1979) and never stopped chasing horizons.

[D] Sophia Loren | Neapolitan earth-goddess who smuggled raw hunger and high cheekbones into Two Women (1960) and walked out with an Oscar.

[C] Jennifer Lawrence | Kentucky archer who fired an arrow straight into blockbuster history in The Hunger Games (2012).

[A] Rachel Weisz | Oxford intellect who unraveled conspiracies and hearts in The Constant Gardener (2005).

[A] Doris Day | Sunshine in a gingham dress, she sent "Que Sera" up the charts with Pillow Talk (1959) and kept America wholesome.

[D] Keira Knightley | Corset-clad rebel who bent Regency rules and sailed box-office seas in Pirates of the Caribbean (2003).

[B] Ellen Burstyn | Housewife turned wanderer who screamed for her lost child and won an Oscar in The Exorcist (1973).

[C] Joanne Woodward | Three faces, one Oscar; she split herself on screen in The Three Faces of Eve (1957).

[A] Anjelica Huston | Gothic heiress who brewed family black comedy in The Addams Family (1991) and proved cruelty could be classy.

[D] Hattie McDaniel | Carried Hollywood’s conscience and a tray of canapés in Gone with the Wind (1939), shattering ceilings with a smile.

[B] Robin Wright | Soap princess who stepped off the White House balcony and into antihero legend in House of Cards (2013).

[D] Octavia Spencer | Warm heart and sharper tongue served with pie and justice in The Help (2011).

[B] Angela Bassett | Channelled rage into a torch song as Tina Turner in What’s Love Got to Do with It (1993) and scorched the screen.

[C] Deborah Kerr | Nun’s habit discarded on a Hawaiian beach, she kissed the surf and Burt Lancaster in From Here to Eternity (1953).

[A] Susan Hayward | Climbed the scaffold in I Want to Live! (1958) and took audiences to the death chamber with her.

[A] Gene Tierney | Perfect face, poison mind—she wore obsession like perfume in Leave Her to Heaven (1945).

[D] Greta Garbo | Silent sphinx who finally spoke and sighed “I want to be alone” in Grand Hotel (1932).

[C] Uma Thurman | Bride in blood-spattered yellow who sliced through Tarantino’s revenge opera in Kill Bill (2003).

[D] Ava Gardner | Smouldering siren who made Spanish bulls and American hearts bleed in The Barefoot Contessa (1954).

[B] Holly Hunter | Piano keys and mute defiance thundered at the shoreline in The Piano (1993).

[C] Geena Davis | Accidental road-warrior in Thelma & Louise (1991) who drove feminism off a cliff and into history.

[A] Hedy Lamarr | Viennese inventor who stunned the world in Ecstasy (1933) and later stunned Axis radios with frequency-hopping genius.

[D] Jessica Chastain | Zero-dark mathematician who hunted bin Laden and awards in Zero Dark Thirty (2012).

[C] Goldie Hawn | Laughing blonde who went AWOL in Private Benjamin (1980) and marched straight into stardom.

[B] Hilary Swank | Trailer-park boxer who punched through poverty and prejudice in Million Dollar Baby (2004).

[B] Salma Hayek | Mexican firebrand who painted her own unibrow and Frida’s soul in Frida (2002).

[A] Myrna Loy | Cocktail elegance with a raised eyebrow, she mixed martinis and murder in The Thin Man (1934).

[C] Madeline Kahn | Soprano lunatic who sang, seduced, and set fire to Mel Brooks’ comedies in Blazing Saddles (1974).

[D] Lana Turner | Sweater girl turned noir casualty, she tightened a scarf around stardom in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946).

[A] Saoirse Ronan | Irish prodigy who whispered secrets across postcard seas in Brooklyn (2015) and grew up on screen.

[D] Renée Zellweger | Texas girl next door who clicked her heels into every diary and Oscar race in Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001).

[A] Emma Watson | Hogwarts know-it-all who traded spells for activism and the Beast’s library in Beauty and the Beast (2017).

[D] Halle Berry | Monster’s Ball (2001) caught her grief and history in one raw Oscar moment.

[D] Carrie Fisher | Princess in cinnamon buns who rewrote rebellion and memoirs in Star Wars (1977) and life.

[B] Drew Barrymore | E.T.’s little sister who grew up, produced, and still flashed that gap-toothed grin in Never Been Kissed (1999).

[C] Annette Bening | Oscar bridesmaid who seduced Kevin Spacey and suburbia in American Beauty (1999).

[A] Faye Dunaway | Network news diva who screamed for ratings and sanity in Network (1976).

[C] Joan Crawford | Shoulder pads and wire hangers—she ruled the lot and the melodrama in Mildred Pierce (1945).

[B] Naomi Watts | Wide-eyed stranger who looped through videotape terror and critical glory in Mulholland Drive (2001).

[D] Agnes Moorehead | Velvet voice of menace, she brewed spells and side-eye as Endora and Citizen Kane’s mother.