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Fulton spent nearly 50 years playing the soap opera villainess Lisa Miller.
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Shania Russell, EW.com, 20 July 2025
By the halfway point, when the vampy, non-comic villainess Spider Lady (Carol Forman) takes over the narrative, the plot gets repetitive and the temptation to skip over the next few Saturday screenings becomes overpowering.
—Rory Doherty, Vulture, 11 July 2025
Even a dance-off duel between underdog protagonist and villainess, offering prime opportunity for camp excess, falls flat.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 23 May 2025
For many literary scholars, Cassandra Austen is a villainess of Miss Norris-esque proportions.
—Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 2 May 2025
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Shania Russell, EW.com, 20 July 2025
By the halfway point, when the vampy, non-comic villainess Spider Lady (Carol Forman) takes over the narrative, the plot gets repetitive and the temptation to skip over the next few Saturday screenings becomes overpowering.
—Rory Doherty, Vulture, 11 July 2025
Even a dance-off duel between underdog protagonist and villainess, offering prime opportunity for camp excess, falls flat.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 23 May 2025
For many literary scholars, Cassandra Austen is a villainess of Miss Norris-esque proportions.
—Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 2 May 2025
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“Villainess.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/villainess. Accessed 31 Jul. 2025.
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villainess
noun
vil·lain·ess
ˈvil-ə-nəs 
: a woman who is a villain
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