Ten Worst Actresses of All Time

I'll give you Denise Richards

I dont know how you can watch MR WRONG and say Ellen isn't funny. It's a funny movie. It's also an anti-romantic comedy from an age where they were pumping out rom coms. Whether its watchable all the way through is up to the individual but some of the sequences are hilarious, or at the very least, amusing. Bill Pullman is also great in it.

And you never for a second believe she's straight.

Andie Macdowell takes a lot of shit for her acting but 99% of it is for one … cringe … scene.

She’s been good in other things.

Uma and Sharon? Your cray-cray, homes.

Op sucks at this making a poll thing.

One of my favorite parts of Mad Men is when photos of Don and Betty are shown of them when they were supposedly teenagers.

The art department used old photos of the actors, put them in clothes and settings for the correct era, but forgot to amend JJ's original huge nose to match her adult, heavily altered nose.

Without a nosejob, she wouldn't have gotten anywhere.

Melanie Griffith

Pia Zadora

Didi Conn

Sofia Vergara

Denise Richards

Suzanne Somers

Beyonce

Oprah

Lucy Liu

Tara Reid

Lady Gaga. I'm still not sure what kind of drugs the critics were on back in 2018, when they raved about her awkward A Star Is Born performance.

Cybil Shepherd for the win!

Lady Gaga was good in the otherwise awful Gucci movie.

Sharon Stone does not deserve to be on that list. She's good at what she does.

I-a make-a da pizza!

Ali MacGraw and Bo Derek deserve mentions.

I have a soft spot for Denise Richards. Even her most maligned performance as nuclear physicist Dr. Christmas Jones in the Bond movie was camp heaven, and she's a lot of fun in Wild Things, Starship Troopers and Drop Dead Gorgeous.

Beyonce was fine in Cadillac Records and Stone was great in Casino

You're just listing women you don't like

I like Beyonce and Sharon but they can't act.

Before you create a definitive top 10 list, OP, you should consider Kim Kardashian in the latest American Horror Story.

Deneuve??????

Kim K is actually good in AHS.

Wait a minute. No Bonnie Franklin?

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What I said above before my post was wholesale erased was, sorry to link to the putrid rag, but I don’t see the allegedly huge nose on January Jones. Possibly some light refinement.

No Kim Novak?!?!?

C’mon!

I must admit Ali McGraw should have been on my list.

S. Stone has been in some crap movies-not a bad actress

Oprah- not a bad actress- but a crap person- melomaniac in a wig

J Lo

Reece Witherspoon

Candace Cameron

Denise Richards

Beyonce

OP - If you're going to put a French actress in that list, it sure as hell shouldn't be Catherine Deneuve.

Grace Fucking Kelly!

Oh--and Deana Fucking Durbin!

Wait, wait. WAIT!

Lana Fucking Turner!!!

Joan Crawford

Hold on. One more. I shouldn't but... whatthehelli'vebeendrinking...

Lorna.

Luft.

So "all time" is like, the last 30 years, OP?

Sofia Vergara may not be a great actress but she is enjoyable to watch.

I thought Beyoncé was very appealing in that Austin Powers movie.

How is Neve Campbell not on this list?

Or Tori Spelling?

Oprah was good in Beloved and The Women of Brewster Place. Denise Richards was so beautiful in Wild Things that I think she should’ve gotten an honorary Oscar for it. Beyoncé can’t even play herself convincingly.

Zendaya

Sonja Henie. Fabulous skater , truly lousy actress.

But she's Garbo compared to Vera Hruba Ralston.

Your frame of reference seems rather limited, OP.

Agrippina Drusilla was the WORST!

I adore Deneuve. But other than Umbrellas and Repulsion, I have only seen her do one expression whether she's sad, happy or mad. Wait, no, I think she doesn't play mad. That said, I can watch her in anything but not because of her limited acting but because she's so fabulous looking.

If we're going to go deep dive, how about Ed Wood's girlfriend, Dolores Fuller?

Dolores Fuller wasn't that bad, just in really bad films.

Deneuve was good in Bell de Jour---playing a whore as uptight is a refreshing change from the usual skanks and heart of gold hookers.

Ali McGraw for the win.

Cybil Shepherd

Bo Derek

Vera Hruba Ralston for that accent alone.

Andie McDowell looked like she was dubbed in "Four Weddings and a Funeral"

Pia Zadora

Mariska Hargitay.

I was omitted from this list. Is it because I'm a lesbian?

Sofia Coppola

Kristen Stewart, omitted from the list.

I'm not sure what Judy thought of Lana as a person, but she was very fond of her as a friend. An actual friendship not a Hollywood friendship it seemed.

I meant I'm not sure what Judy thought of Lana as an ACTRESS! Oy. She liked her as a person just fine!

Pretty women as actresses never have much to do except be pretty. I don't think of them as actors but as beautiful women. In the same vein, there are gorgeous men who are terrible actors. Why the misogyny?

It's actually a good list.

R8 I actually thought Gaga was damn good in A Star Is Born. And she was the only good thing in the Gucci film.

Too early to tell, but she might just be a decent actress.

Sharon Stone doesn't belong on that list, for the Ginger Rothstein performance in "Casino" alone.

1. Debra Winger, 2. Debra Winger, 3. Debra Winger, 4. Debra Winger 5. Debra Winger, 6. Debra Winger, 7. Debra Winger, 8. Debra Winger, 9. Debra Winger, 10. Debra Winger

Kristen Stewart

Ali MacGraw

Rae Dawn Chong

Oprah

Vera Ralston

Beyoncé

Shelley Hack

Jaclyn Smith

Madonna

Vanna White

R55 Did you ever see Vivien Leigh or Ingrid Bergman?

I like some of ypur list OP, and I'm adding Elizabeth Shue and Bayonce. The dumbness shows through.

RuPaul

OP's list is bizarre. Seriously, Sharon Stone, Uma Thurman, CATHERINE DENEUVE?! Next to Madonna and Beyonce? Weird.

Deliberately provocative TO GET CLICKS. 64.3% of DL threads are created this way.

I think there’s a few you’re missing OP.

Where is Lizzy McGuirre or whatever on this list!?

Tippi Hedren

Kristen Stewart is very good when given good material, such as in Clouds of Sils Maria or Personal Shopper.

Jennifer Hudson is a very bad actress.

70 posts and no one mentioned Hedy Lamarr?

Hedy wasn't bad in H. M. Pulham, Esq.

Faith Domergue

Speaking of drag queens and trans who can't act, Laverne Cox and the some of the trans cast of Pose. Shoot me but I thought Billy Porter was effective on Pose, though the character was not enjoyable. Drag queens and trans people are too "on" in regular life so it's difficult to "double act" - same problem with Madonna. Joan Crawford and Marilyn Monroe had fabricated personalities but managed to act over and around their inherent artifice, very effectively.

Faye Dunaway. Terrible actress. Chewed up the scenery in nearly everything she was in.

I thought she was wonderful in Chinatown.

True about Jennifer Hudson. She tried though

Pia Zadora for the win.

Sharon Stone is indeed a terrible actress.

Meredith Baxter. She was adequate in drama (barely) but had no flair for comedy while she was starring in a sitcom.

Regardless of one's opinion on Sharon, she is nowhere near one of the ten worst actresses of all time. Not even close. And she excels in comedy.

Rita Tushingham

Priscilla Presley. At her prime, she was beautiful but couldn't act her way out of a bag.

Awww OP leave Elizabeth Berkley alone

she's stars in every FAGGOT'S favorite movie

SHOWGIRLS!

JULIA ROBERTS

the ONLY movie I ever liked her in was

Mystic Pizza (1988)

Susan Richardson

Wait! Ellen Degeneres is an actress?

In her prime Raquel Welch was not considered to be a very good actress.

I think you want to distinguish between limited (e.g., Lana Turner, Raquel Welch, Candice Bergen, Faye Dunaway) and truly bad (Pia Zadora, Cybil Shepherd, Ellen Degeneres, Ali McGraw)

Faye was excellent in Bonnie and Clyde, Thomas Crown Affair, Chinatown, Network, Mommie Dearest, Barfly, etc. She's not THAT limited.

Deneuve is a fantastic actress OP. Subtle and understated, foreign among these parts, so of course you tasteless queens will say she's "bad."

On top of Belle de Jour, Umbrellas and Repulsion, check out Young Girls of Rochefort, Last Metro, Mississippi Mermaid, any of her Techine movies (Thieves and Hotel America especially)...

Isabele Huppert has the similar understated and cold thing going on, but because she's not a great beauty, she never really gets called a "bad" actress.

Oprah tends to lapse into the black vernacular way of speaking when she acts. In almost every role except as the shrink in ELLEN’S Very Special Episode. She drops her perfect enunciation and calls it acting.

Andi mc d is a bad actress but she never strayed far from girlfriend parts. So i give her a pass. She was a pretty actress.

Don't forget her "White She Devil" turn in [italic]Undercover Brother,[/italic] R13.

She was hilarious and really held her own with her very talented co-stars. Plus it was peak Denise Richards hotness.

I love that she always gets the joke, even in that crap role in [italic]The Bold and the Beautiful.[/italic]

Madonna

Cindy Crawford

Not too familiar with Andie MacDowell but weren't her performances in Four Weddings and a Funeral, Sex, Lies and Videotape and Groundhog Day well received?

Cybill Shepherd was fine in The Heartbreak Kid, Taxi Driver and The Last Picture Show and apparently people liked her with Bruce Willis in Moonlighting. Her attachment to Bogdanovich harmed her reputation.

R99, Ya think?

Of definitely Denise Richards…..in fact all those Richards

Tori Spelling

[quote] Sharon Stone doesn't belong on that list, for the Ginger Rothstein performance in "Casino" alone.

Playing fucked up on drugs is easy to do. Watch Diabolique and you'll see what bad acting is all about.

Catherine Deneuve is a wonderful actress, still going strong after sixty years in films

Cybill Shepherd probably played herself in Last Picture Show. She was horrible in real life. The association with Bogdanovich gave her a career. Otherwise, she'd be an ex-model in real estate selling tract homes some place.

R98: Well received by whom. If you watch Four Weddings and Funeral, there are scenes which appear to have been dubbed and she doesn't sound natural at all. Even her commercials were a chore.

The other poster commented on her only having girlfriend roles, but could you imagine her coming off well in "A Doll's House" or "A Glass Menagerie" (in either women's part). The nicest thing you can say about her is that she doesn't chew the scenery.

AND I’M CYBILL SHEPHERD!!!!

Judith Light. Sorry, but she never met a piece of scenery she didn't devour.

Plus, I was an NBC soap queen.

Long live Lady Eyes-a-Buggin'

Sharon Stone can act. Have you seen Casino?

She is also funny as hell in the Muse.

R98 she’s a good actress

[Quote] Shelley Hack

R60 go jump into the Atlantic Ocean

Beyoncé is one of the greatest comedic and musical actresses of all time. Epic failure of a list.

Queen Bey is a natural.

She’s like shit

Simply magnetic.

Fierce and funny.

Post all day, Bey Stan. I refuse to click on any of your video links.

Oh. Forgot andie mcd was sex lies. She was ok in that. Otherwise kept in the girlfriend avenue

R119 she’s one of the better actresses in Hollywood

Greer Garson.

R120. Queen Bey. Agreed.

Jean Harlow.

Norma Shearer.

Watch and LEARN!

Carol Baker

Mariel Hemingway

Juliette Lewis

Tammy Cruise!

ALI MACGRAW OWNS THIS LIST

THREAD CLOSED

Natural charm

All of the people on Hallmark Channel’s When Calls The Heart.

Candace Cameron Bure

Jessica Alba

Hillary Duff is worse than anyone on that list

R106 critics

but I was most impressed by MacDowell. I generally find her likable, but I’ve never seen her as good as in this (only her third movie after GREYSTOKE and ST. ELMO’S FIRE). She’s a character who says so much about herself without actually saying it. When she’s talking to her therapist and she claims things are going pretty good it seems like she really does believe that, but we can tell that there’s more to it. Or when she comes back and talks about Graham having visited, her words are saying it’s nothing big but her voice is saying that she is smitten with this dude who is so different from her husband. Also, as much as she talks about not being interested in sex, the way she handles objects while talking to Graham about it seems to indicate otherwise.

Though bewitchingly pretty, MacDowell has never really found her niche in the movies, but playing this knucklehead brand of modern screwball comedy, she has finally come into her own. Her scenes with Murray have an otherworldly sort of chemistry (with Murray, what else is possible?). And his vermin eccentricity releases a charming flakiness in her; for the first time, her endearing awkwardness really seems to work

Jill St. John

Back in the day Candice Bergen, Ann Margret, Raquel Welch and Ali MacGraw were routinely trashed by critics.

Blasphemy to list the Queen in this list. Fuck you OP.

Hilary Skank

R39, Tori couldn't even play herself convincingly on her *reality* shows or instagram clips. She's so fake and such a cornball.

Rocky Welch was great

Katharine Ross

Sharon Stone isn’t incredible but she’s far from the worst actress ever. I wish did more comedy.

Sharon Stone, Uma Thurman, and Beyoncé do not belong in this list.

Catherine Deneuve is a BRILLIANT actress.

Not only is she excellent, but she only got better with age. She has turned in some miraculous performances in the past 15-20 years.

R144 I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER.

I ALWAYS KNOW BITCH.

Bergen had no trouble trashing herself

So, now we have not only a Lange troll but even more inexplicably, an Andie McDowall troll.

Suzy Parker

DENEUVE????? OP, you’re an idiot.

I recently saw Brooke Bundy on a Dragnet episode and she was really bad, though I think she redeemed herself later on.

Stone doesn't belong on this list.

R123 Be nice. She was the first platinum blonde in the movies and died of kidney failure at the age of 26 and she worked hard. William Powell was crushed.

Margaux Hemingway

Sharon Tate

Marion Davies.

One good performance (Or more - Deneuve? Ridiculous.) removes people from the list. That takes out Catherine Deneuve, Uma Thurman, Sharon Stone and Andie MacDowell.

Replace them with

Rosie "Speshul" O'Donnell

Sandra "Ex Nazi-Lover/Always the Same/Connects with No Costars" Bullock

Jennifer Love Hewitt (aka Jennifer Lugs Huge Tits.)

Angelina Jolie, whose career has been based on being weird, bug-eyed, dazed and supremely self-centered while pretending to be Mother Teresa.

And throw in Shirley Temple (tremendous in her way as a child, after her tits budded she was hideous), Ali MacGraw (always terrible), Tara Reid, Hillary Duff, Tara Reid, and the cunt Juliette Lewis.

Davies had a flair for comedy. She was unfairly savaged in "Citizen Kane" because Hearst pushed her into unsuitable roles. Harlow was wonderful in several films. Shearer and Garson often were insufferable but they weren't bad actresses. Cybil Shepherd was good in "Last Picture Show," period.

Beyonce is as bad as an actress as she is a "singer/dancer." Mariah Carey, on the other hand, was perfect in "Precious."

Ava Gardner

Barbara Parkins

Ava Gardner is good in a number of roles---limited but not bad.

Parkins was ok on "Peyton Place", forgettable in :Valley of the Dolls"---Patty Duke's overacting and the luminous Sharon Tate's non-acting are more memorable.

Sandra Dee

Mimsy Farmer

That awful little girl who played Beverly Garland's daughter on "My Three Sons" --- Garland, herself made bad movies and delivered bad dialogue, but wasn't a bad actress.

[quote] Davies had a flair for comedy. She was unfairly savaged in "Citizen Kane" because Hearst pushed her into unsuitable roles.

I've seen her in several movies and she was terrible. She was good (according to Pauline Kael, not me) in a couple of silent comedies directed by King Vidor. She was better when she was silent. She had a stammer and her acting suffered from it, and also, she couldn't act. She was likeable.

Deneuve was gorgeous and she has fantastic presence but her acting is frigid. Maybe that's why Hitchcock wanted her for the movie he never made.

R156. your Jennifer Love Hewitt references is a reminder that there are a good number of teen soap starlets who could make the list of worst actresses. I think Katie Holmes gave a few good performances (Wonder Boys, The Ice Storm), but I'm kind of surprised no one has mentioned her yet. And what about tabloid starlet Mischa Barton?

But if we're really being cruel, there are a ton of performances by children that make the worst of Andie MacDowell look like Streep in Sophie's Choice. It might not be polite to criticize the Olsen twins' performances as children, but they're full-grown adults with hundreds of millions in the bank and one of them might have killed Heath Ledger, so I don't feel bad saying how awful they were.

I like Katie but she is kind of a bad actress. There no there there. She can’t emote.

R162, I recall LOOK Magazine proclaiming her “The Most Beautiful Woman in the World” back in the 1960s.

Catherine Deneuve? Really? I’d argue that she’s underrated

Barbara Bain. Solid wood.

Julie London?

R168: Forgettable more than bad.

Lana Turner was very overrated.

Linda Evans

[Quote] Tori couldn't even play herself convincingly on her *reality* shows or instagram clips. She's so fake and such a cornball.

R139 made me laugh and laugh

R169 Not forgettable, with her looks. I guess her acting ability was forgettable.

She was okay, she just didn't seem to be able to do much except to underact.

(Good singer, though.)

R141 yes, thank you. I thought Paula Prentiss was the more interesting character in The Stepford Wives. There's just something kind of boring about Katharine Ross. No offense.

Paula Prentiss is a better actress than Katharine Ross.

Katharine has gorgeous eyes, but little else. She must be a little crazy with five marriages.

R177 Her daughter tried to kill her. But they made up.

R177, Yeah, but #5 was Sam Elliott and they’ve been married for 40 years.

Linda Blair

I read this as "Ten Worst Addresses of All Time" and thought how oddly specific - even for DL.

Meryl Streep

Meredith was very good at acting...straight.