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Rush also appeared as the villainess Nora Clavicle, a women’s rights activist bent on evil, on the third season of Batman and recurred as Grandma Ruth Camden (Stephen Collins’ mother) on 7th Heaven.
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Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Mar. 2024
In the film, Uma Thurman plays the doctor turned villainess who kills her enemies with toxic kisses.
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2012: Kim Kardashian as a mermaid
Kim slayed as a whimsical mermaid at an N.Y.C. bash, complete with a seashell bra top and fishtail-style hem on her green skirt.
—Maria Yagoda, Peoplemag, 28 Oct. 2023
This role was way more of a straight character and a villainess.
—Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2023
Then there’s another category: the conflicted villainess.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2023
His 2021 take on the classic Disney villainess with Cruella, which starred Emma Stone, won a best costume design Oscar, while 2017’s Tonya, which starred Margot Robbie, received three Academy Award nominations and won one for supporting actress for Allison Janney.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Sep. 2023
In Another World, her character was known as a scheming villainess and found herself in a love triangle with the characters Blaine (Laura Malone) and Sandy (Christopher Rich).
—Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Aug. 2023
By the time the nature of independent cinema morphed headlong and conspicuously into the maw of commodification, Posey dipped her feet into studio franchises, stealing all her scenes in Scream 3, and then playing a vampire, in Blade: Trinity, in 2004, and a villainess in Superman Returns, in 2006.
—Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 14 Apr. 2023
Gellar did pay tribute to her scheming villainess in 2022’s Do Revenge, in which her unnamed headmaster gives off major Kathryn vibes.
—Reboots Apr. 4, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2023
Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Mar. 2024
In the film, Uma Thurman plays the doctor turned villainess who kills her enemies with toxic kisses.
07 of 40
2012: Kim Kardashian as a mermaid
Kim slayed as a whimsical mermaid at an N.Y.C. bash, complete with a seashell bra top and fishtail-style hem on her green skirt.
—Maria Yagoda, Peoplemag, 28 Oct. 2023
This role was way more of a straight character and a villainess.
—Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2023
Then there’s another category: the conflicted villainess.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2023
His 2021 take on the classic Disney villainess with Cruella, which starred Emma Stone, won a best costume design Oscar, while 2017’s Tonya, which starred Margot Robbie, received three Academy Award nominations and won one for supporting actress for Allison Janney.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Sep. 2023
In Another World, her character was known as a scheming villainess and found herself in a love triangle with the characters Blaine (Laura Malone) and Sandy (Christopher Rich).
—Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Aug. 2023
By the time the nature of independent cinema morphed headlong and conspicuously into the maw of commodification, Posey dipped her feet into studio franchises, stealing all her scenes in Scream 3, and then playing a vampire, in Blade: Trinity, in 2004, and a villainess in Superman Returns, in 2006.
—Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 14 Apr. 2023
Gellar did pay tribute to her scheming villainess in 2022’s Do Revenge, in which her unnamed headmaster gives off major Kathryn vibes.
—Reboots Apr. 4, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2023
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“Villainess.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/villainess. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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villainess
noun
vil·lain·ess
ˈvil-ə-nəs 
: a woman who is a villain
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