Ashley Judd's Best Performances

She makes such an impact with just one scene.

I extended my condolences on the passing of her mother and she farted in my face!

She was not very good.

Manageable in Sisters, Star Trek TNG, and Eye of the Beholder and not believable in anything else.

Brilliant in Heat. Made the most of a small role. Her waving off Kilmer's character at the end, when she had everything to lose, is one of my favorite scenes in cinema.

[quote]Ashley Judd's Best Performances

I'd say the time she had Africans carry her litter to get her out of the jungle, and her star turn at poor Naomi's Homegoing.

Not necessarily her best performance, though the chemistry with Morgan was strong, but I love the way this scene is shot.

Why was the movie so vague about the sadistic relationship between Cary Elwes and Tony Goldwyn’s characters?

Tony should have at least put the tip into Cary’s hole by the end.

Nick???!!!!????

I hope Cary had fun with this face while it lasted.

I actually always liked her acting. She came across as strong and authentic.

I always liked her performance in Norma Jean and Marilyn.

Mmmm Viggo.

I love her in Ruby in Paradise, a film I've watched more than once. And as someone who's lived in FL a total of 21 years now (on and off), I can tell you that Ruby in Paradise captured "the real Florida" a lot better than the widely praised "The Florida Project," which was filmed in a part of Kissimmee I drove by often during the two years I lived there.

Ashley was pretty damned hot back in those days. Now, not so much. Sad.

She was pretty good in Heat. Other than that I haven't seen her in much. Her batshit narcissistic interviews speak for themselves.

And oh! I forgot -- "Ruby" also stars the infamous Todd Field.

Double Jeopardy and High Crimes are such guilty pleasures. She showed such promise in Ruby in Paradise and then she became the "woman in jeopardy" which did well for her for awhile.

She's a terrible, artificial actress. She sounds like she learned diction at the 20th Century Fox Elocution Department.

Seems like she and WyNonna are just walking through their roles as The Grieving Daughters.

My favorite was Linda Porter in Delovely. Truly heartbreaking.

I also loved her in Kiss the Girls.

R14 Why is he "infamous?"

I had a crush on him during his indie movie era.

Ashley on Sisters.

She was okay in "Ya Ya Sisterhood", though I re-watched it recently & it occurred to me that when playing the beautiful but high strung, histrionic, chain smoking, mentally ill Vivi, she's basically playing a version of herself (though Vivi had a sense of humor, which Ashley does not). She's beautiful, but she's just not a very good actress, which is why I think she never morphed into the "mom" roles that other actors her age have

She is not and has never been a good actress.

Are people evaluating her on her thriller roles and not her more serious films?

Plenty of people think she's a good actress in several of her dramatic roles.

""Ruby in Paradise" was written, directed and edited by Victor Nunez, a Floridian whose previous films, "Gal Young Un" and "A Flash of Green," showed a deep sympathy with his characters. He cares about his people - what they need, how they feel. Here he has found the perfect star in Ashley Judd, who has done some television but is in her first movie role, and brings a simplicity and honesty to the performance that is almost startling in its power."

There is something there. I saw it in Heat. But she rarely brings it. She did a Philip Kaufman movie and stank it up. She sits behind a shell of prettiness and rarely lets anything real out.

"Ashley Judd, in the performance of her career, stars as Agnes, a waitress rooming in a run-down motel who intuits from a series of strange phone calls that her ex-husband (a ridiculously buff Harry Connick Jr.) has been paroled from prison, at which point her lesbian gal-pal (Lynn Collins) brings the mysterious Peter (Michael Shannon) to look after her. What follows is a study of metamorphosis through gross empathy. Agnes lost her son in a supermarket years ago and Peter fought in an unspecified war. She’s accepted her loss, looking for her son only in her sleep, but he claims to have been the subject of scientific experiments that left him with sacks of aphid eggs in his body. Is she nuts to believe him? More importantly, are we?"

She's easy to root for in Double Jeopardy. You're always on her side. She had a nice mix of vulnerability and toughness in that movie.

She's very mannered and artificial. She she comes across like this in interviews, as well, so maybe she's just playing herself. Not a compliment.

Judd and De Niro.

She put more power into that poem she read at pussy march on Washington than she did into any of her performances.

She was great in Heat (and gorgeous as a blonde) but I always associate her with the 90s TNT staple Double Jeopardy.

No one’s mentioned Simon Birch! Yes it’s treacly melodrama, but I thought she was great in it, & iirc Roger Albert said she should’ve gotten a Supporting Actress nomination.

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