Actors who have portayed a whore - all eras, all genders. Name and role/film please!

Robert Downey Jr., Julian, Less Than Zero

Downplayed, but Audrey Hepburn, Holly Golighty, Breakfast at Tiffany's

Jodie Foster Taxi Driver

Theresa Russell. “WHORE”

Jon Voight, Midnight Cowboy

Theresa Russell Whore

Glenn Close, Fatal Attraction

Louise Lasser, Mary Hartman Mary Hartman.

Dolly Parton Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

Marg Helgenberger, CHINA BEACH. But K.C. preferred "Entrepreneur".

Melania Trump, in the role of Donald Trump's wife

Julia Roberts. Pretty Woman

Barbra Streisand. Nuts

Catherine Deneuve, Belle de Jour

Madonna. Evita

Streisand again, The Owl and the Pussycat

Marsha Mason, Cinderella Liberty

Julie Christie, McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Carol Kane, The Last Detail

Elizabeth Shue, Leaving Las Vegas

Jane Fonda, Klute

Shirley Maclaine, Irma la Deuce

Thomas Jane, Hung

Paul Newman, Sweet Bird of Youth

Jennifer Lawrence, Red Sparrow. "You sent me to whore school." Except she really wasn't a whore, just a really good spy.

Barbara Stanwyck, Baby Face

Michelle Pfeiffer, Scarface

Shirley Maclaine...The Apartment

Warren Beatty..The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone!!

Jo Van Fleet won an Oscar.

Downplayed. George Peppard-Breakfast at Tiffany's with dat slut Audrey!!

That's whore x 2 for Shirl...Irma and The Apartment.

Will Smith. Six Degrees of Separation

River Phoenix—My Own Private Idaho

David Arquette - Johns

Dorothy Malone-Written in the Wind won an Oscar. Slattern

Darren Criss. American Crime Story

Jean Stapleton, All in the Family

River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves - My Own Private Idaho

Me—Behind the Candelabra

On TV:

Judith Light - One Life to Life

Illeana Douglas - Action

Richard Gere, American Gigolo

Eve Plumb. Dawn, Portrait of a Teenage Runaway

Lauren Bacall, Marilyn Monroe, and Betty Grable

How To Marry a Millionaire.

3 whores looking for rich men.

Marlene Dietrich x 100. Shanghai Express, Stagecoach, etc.

“When you prostitute yourself, you have to get paid for it.”. - M. Dietrich

R42 they were "models".

Ashton Kutcher - "Spread".

Elizabeth Berkley—Showgirls

[quote]That's whore x 2 for Shirl...Irma and The Apartment.

It’s always been said that Sweet Charity was just a dance hostess, but I think it was a subtle way of saying she was a prostitute.

Shirley Jones, Elmer Gantry

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Mysterious Skin

Shelly Winters A Patch of Blue (1965)

Laura Leighton on Melrose Place

Sylvia Miles Midnight Cowboy

Joan Crawford:

Rain

The Women

Kathleen Turner, Crimes of Passion

Ingrid Bergman

The slutty waitress in "Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde" The fast talking women in "Saratoga Trunk" with Gary Cooper

Jennifer Carpenter

Lola Albright Lord Love a Duck (1966)

Bette Davis, Kim Novack - Of Human Bondage. Kim just turned 91. Can you believe it?

R58 correction: NOVAK. And I'm not even close to 91.

Jane Fonda, Capucine Walk on the Wild Side

Bette Davis- "The Letter", "Mr. Skeffington",

"Jezebel" "Of Human Bondage"

Susan Sarandon, Brooke Sheilds Pretty Baby (1978)

Ann Blyth-the evil daughter Veda in Mildred Pierce

Elisabeth Shue Leaving Las Vegas

Charlize Theron Monster

Rebecca De Mornay Risky Business

The Dowager Countess of Downton Abbey

Lady Mary Crawley-fucked the Turkish gay to Death.

^^^GUY to death^^^

Denise Richardson, Mena Suvari EDMOND (2005)

Jean Harlow, Red Dust

Julie Christie McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Mira Sorvino Mighty Aphrodite

Vivian Leigh- "Waterloo Bridge" and "Gone with the Wind"

Scarlett O'Hara-flirted her way to make men do her bidding

Julianne Moore, Boogie Nights

Marsha Mason Cinderella Liberty

Gena Rowlands Faces (1968)

The only whore in GWTW was Belle Watley!

Jennifer Connelly, Requiem for a Dream

Lynn Redgrave The Happy Hooker

Joey Heatherton The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington

[quote] Butterfield Eight

That's BUtterfield 8. It was a phone prefix.

Edy Williams, Constance Towers The Naked Kiss (1964)

Scarlett acted "fast and loose with her flirtations"

She danced with Rhett Butler while still in morning for her 1st husband-Slattern

Catherine Deneuve Hustle (1975)

Kim Bassinger L.A. Confidential

Kim Novak Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)

Tippi Hendren- "Marnie" and "The Birds"

Grace Kelly-"Rear Window"-throwing herself at Jimmy Stewart

Melissa Leo Streetwalkin'

Donna Wilkes Angel

Melanie Griffith Milk Money (1994)

Lana Turner-"The Postman always cums Twice"

I doubt there are any actors or even actresses who have played "all genders" because there are only two genders for humans.

Interested to know, which "genders" aside from males or females have been portrayed as whores in films?

Susan Clark Porky's

Richard Gere-"American Gigolo"

You homos must be slipping!

Pam Grier Fort Apache the Bronx (1981)

Anna Mae Wong, Shanghai Express

Rita Moreno Carnal Knowledge

Claire Trevor-"Stagecoach"

Pamela Sue Martin The Lady in Red

Ann-Margaret-"TOMMY" and The Two Mrs. Grenville. Bang Bang Anne Woodward(who pronounces the "T" in Often.

She lets her television throw up baked beans on her in TOMMY

Stella Stevens The Ballad of Cable Hogue and The Poseidon Adventure

LIZA-Sally BOWLES-CABARET

There used to be a DataLounge troll who insisted that every Oscar-winning actress played a prostitute at one point or another, and I think even ran a website devoted to it. She stretched her definition of whore so far that she once claimed that Olivia de Havilland counted because she wasn't mean to Belle Watling in Gone With the Wind.

So, basically, all of them.

[quote]Ann-Margaret

Oh, dear.

[quote]The Two Mrs. Grenville

And again.

Deborah Van Valkenburg, The Warriors

Penelope Ann Miller, Carlito's Way

Now that I have been attacked by the "Oh dear Grammer Troll"

I have one thing to add- Rosalind Russell-"The Women" Paulette Goddard-"The Women" Joan Crawford- "The Women" Mary Boland-"The Women" The Countess De Lave& Mrs. Buck Winston.

R86, Tippi Hedren was no such thing in "The Birds." She was a woman attracted to a man. What asinine definitions are you using?

"Law and Order":

Julia Roberts.

Patricia Clarkson.

Felicity Huffman.

Cara Buono.

Sharon Lawrence (SVU).

Eddie Cahill (SVU).

Mischa Barton (SVU).

Hayden Panettiere (SVU).

Patricia Arquette (SVU).

Laura San Giacomo - Pretty Woman

Rachel Ward - Sharky's Machine

All the genders, OP? How many are there?

[quote]R108: Tippi Hedren was no such thing in "The Birds." She was a woman attracted to a man. What asinine definitions are you using?

Well, Mitch Brenner's mom (Jessica Tandy) seemed to think Melanie Daniels was a whore. ;)

Charlize Theron, Monster

[quote] Melania Trump, in the role of Donald Trump's wife.

Melania didn’t “portray” a whore

[quote]Well, Mitch Brenner's mom (Jessica Tandy) seemed to think Melanie Daniels was a whore. ;)

Lydia thought [bold]anyone[/bold] interested in Mitch was a whore.

Leigh McCloskey in Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn

R94 - you must be slipping because R40 remembered it.

Pretty much the whole cast of "The Deuce" - great show, btw.

Also, some posters seem to be confusing slut with whore. They're not the same thing.

Anna Karina- Vivre Sa Vie

Anouk Aimee- Lola

Zhang Ziyi- 2046

One of the greatest performances ever: Kinuyo Tanaka- The Life of Oharu

Leslie Cheung- Happy Together

Marlene Dietrich- Blonde Venus

Jane Fonda, Klute

Fill yer boots.

Kevin Zegers—Transamerica.

Bette Davis in MARKED WOMAN.

Vivien Leigh, WATERLOO BRIDGE

Constance Towers in THE NAKED KISS

Dora Bryan - THE FALLEN IDOL (and many others)

Robert La Tourneaux as Cowboy THE BOYS IN THR BAND, and Charlie Carver in the same role in the re-adaptation

M in DOUBT

Thank You R112, remember the little subplot about Melanie Daniels (thrown into fountain in Rome by a man not her husband, picture in newspaper, gossip column). Jessica Tandy mentions it to Mitch in a conservation, and Mitch brings it up to Melanie.

Jessica Tandy implies Tippi is an American whore frolicking thru Rome at all hours of the night-WHORE.

Michael York-Brian Roberts-Cabaret (Gay whore)

Shirley Temple - Heidi. Grandfather was the pimp. Did the nasty with Peter and the goats.

Faye Dunaway

Ann Southern

Donna Reed From Here to Eternity (1954)

Billie Piper in Secret Diary of a Call Girl.

I want to say she was a prostitute in Penny Dreadful too.

[quote]Ann Southern

Oh, dear.

Rupert Everett in real life.

Jane Russell in The Revolt of Mamie Stover. Agnes Moorehead was the madam. GOWNS BY TRAVILLA!

Are we limited to movies?

Stella Stevens in The Poseidon Adventure.

Nancy Allen Dressed to Kill

R87 How could you forget the wonderful Julie Newmar in Streetwalkin'?

Does this thread cover porn actors?

[quote] Joan Crawford: "Rain," "The Women:

and her private life.

Catherine McCormack, Dangerous Beauty

Robin Wright Penn, Moll Flanders

Madonna in EVITA

Jamie Lee Curtis, Trading Places

Lee Grant, Pie in the Sky

Gong Li, Farewell My Concubine

Jennifer Jason Leigh in just about everything

R144 on that note, Faye Dunaway in "Evita Peron"

Marlene Dietrich

Greta Garbo

Joan Crawford

Cathy Tyson as Simone, in the movie Mona Lisa

Strapping Mitch turned any lover into a dickmatized cock whore.

Belle Watley?

Oh Fucking Dear!

I thought this was a gay site!

R112, Well, Jocasta would, wouldn't she? 😉

Madeline Kahn, Paper Moon

Madeline Kahn, Blazing Saddles

Lesley Ann Warren, Clue

Thank you, Wong Foo at r139!

[quote]Faye Dunaway in "Evita Peron".

GOWNS BY TRAVILLA!

In Sweet Charity she says to Oscar something like 'Sometimes, just sometimes...' Don't know if that's in the Broadway musical as well.

Dance hall hostesses existed for a long time. Was it just a job of dancing with men or was it known that you were also available for sex? Could you turn a man down if he were gross even to dance with?

Melanie Griffith in Milk Money.

Cameron Diaz in She's The One.

Jennifer Love Hewitt in The Client List.

Dawson in “Dawson’s 50 Load Weekend”.

Shirley MacLaine

- Some Came Running

- Irma la Douce

- Sweet Charity

- Can-Can

- My Geisha

- Two Mules for Sister Sara

[quote]R132 Billie Piper in Secret Diary of a Call Girl.

Such a stupid title. Is there a PUBLIC diary of a call girl?

Women's roles were interesting this year.

Elisabeth Shue ("Leaving Las Vegas") played a hooker.

Mira Sorvino ("Mighty Aphrodite") played a hooker.

Sharon Stone ("Casino") played a hooker.

How many times did Charlie Sheen get to vote?

In this case R160, yes it was actually public, hence the "ironic" title.

The show was based on a column written by "Belle de Jour". A pseudonym an American living in London used, writing about her life as a call girl.

won Oscars playing prostitutes: Jane Fonda, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelly Winters, Donna Reed, Shirley Jones, Mira Sorvino, Charlize Theron, Kim Bassinger, Jo Van Fleet, Susan Hayward I Want to Live!

Félix Maritaud in "Sauvage"

Jodie Foster -Taxi Driver

Devon Graye in "Retake"

Sonny (2002), Directed by Nicholas Cage. James Franco and Mena Suvari are sex workers in New Orleans

R33. Interestingly this film isn’t on his IMDb profile, but it’s still searchable.

Jon Kortajarena in "A Single Man"

Tom Glynn-Carney in "Rialto"

Skeet Ulrich in "As Good As It Gets"

Swoosie Kurtz, "the World According to Garp"

Andre Khabbazi as "Hector" in "Circuit."

[quote]won Oscars playing prostitutes: Jane Fonda, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelly Winters, Donna Reed, Shirley Jones, Mira Sorvino, Charlize Theron, Kim Bassinger, Jo Van Fleet, Susan Hayward I Want to Live!

Don't forget Julie Andrews!

You just KNOW she was servicing Mr. Banks on the down low.

Joseph Gordon Levitt - Mysterious Skin

He's hot r173

You guys are slipping......

Donna Reed: "From Here to Eternity" (Oscar winner)

Dorothy Malone "Tarnished Angels", "Warlock", " Written on the Wind" (Oscar winner)

r177 And you're not reading the thread before posting.

A few here....

BTW no one likes Alan Moyle anymore.

R177 Donna Reed has been mentioned 3 times already

Roberto Aguire as "Leo" in "Boulevard"

Brendan Fehr as "Butch" in "Sugar"

Leonardo DiCaprio as "Jim Carroll" in "The Basketball Diaries"

The late, very talented Katrin Cartlidge in CLAIRE DOLAN.

She died suddenly at age 41!

Wow. Seeing them all laid out (so to speak), it’s amazing how many there were during the years of the Hays Code (1934 to 1968).

I believe this film is notoriously frank about the lead character being pimped out by her father in the early scenes:

There are more than 40 titles on IMDb featuring the character "Mary Magdalene."

Some remembered include Joanna Dunham in "The Greatest Story Ever Told," Anne Bancroft in "Jesus of Nazareth," Barbara Hershey in "The Last Temptation of Christ."

Shirley Jones in ELMER GANTRY. Did not deserve to win the Oscar though.

Playing a whore is total Oscar bait.

So is being one ... for the right people.

[quote]There are more than 40 titles on IMDb featuring the character "Mary Magdalene."

There’s no biblical evidence that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute. Actually, it’s believed that she was wealthy and that’s why jealous men made up that she was a prostitute.

Paulette Goddard and Eartha Kitt played the same role in different versions of ANNA LUCASTA.

Ginger Rogers in PRIMROSE PATH.

Jane Fonda - Klute Season Hubley - Hardcore Joe Dallesandro - Flesh Candice Bergen - Mayflower Madam Susan Anspach - MOW

Joe Dallesandro was a whore.

Sylvia Miles in Murder, Inc.

Joe Dallesandro in Heat

[Quote] Is a porn star the same as a whore?

Yes

Patrick Dempsey starring as "Randy" in "Loverboy"

William Holden in SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950)

Ashton Kutcher as "Nikki" in "Spread"

Patricia Arquette in True Romance

Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge!

Anne Hathaway in Les Miserables

Heather Graham in The Hangover and From Hell

Jennifer Gardner in Catch Me If You Can

Taryn Manning in Hustle And Flow

Rob Schneider in Duece Bigelow: Male Gigolo

Freida Pinto in Slumdog Millionaire

Too many to count from the soaps.

Emerald Fennell as Camilla Shand Parker-Bowles in The Crown.

Romanian gigolo, Georges Iscovescu played by Charles Boyer, in "Hold Back the Dawn."

The actors are charming in Johns but the movie is hardly there at all.

R137 - Hands above the table, Linda!

[quote] Romanian gigolo, Georges Iscovescu played by Charles Boyer, in "Hold Back the Dawn."

Would that be Delta, or Tony Orlando's?

Warren Beatty The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone

Over 200 posts and not one of you sloppy-assed couch potato homosexuals mentioned Judith Light?

And that was not a mere one-time performance. Karen Wollack made One Life to Live worth watching.

To R190, I agree with you on that, Janet Leigh for Psycho (and she didn't win)

Jean Simmons wasn't even nominated for Elmer Gantry and didn't even win the Golden Globe!!

The whore playing a whore won because she almost died!!

Wolek? Sorry

[quote]To [R190], I agree with you on that, Janet Leigh for Psycho (and she didn't win)

Janet Leigh was not a prostitute in PSYCHO.

She worked as a secretary and had a boyfriend.

R211 - You should have looked at the whole thread before taking that tone, missy!

One of my favourites- Laura San Giacomo in Pretty Women. Sexy, grimy, sassy.

Has it been decided if this thread is about

1) Prostitutes - SEX WORKERS

2) Sluts who can also be called whores.

3) Both.

How many more times are people going to post "I can't believe no one has mentioned this person!" only to find out that yes, someone did mention them earlier in the thread?

To R214, I typed she should have won over Shirley Jones, not that she was a whore!!

JFC, you are typing like a Gen Zer screaming Mary Queen. Did you learn how to read in your private school?

R218 - The answer my friend is blowing my junk.

Dianne Weist in Purple Rose of Cairo.

Karen Black in Day of the Locust.

Simon Baker had a very tragic role in LA Confidential that might qualify.

Norma Shearer-The Divorcee

Ruth Chatterton-Dodsworth

Kathy Baker in Street Smart.

R222 This thread is about whores, not tramps.

You're in control, you define it!!

What is a tramp, slut and whore, and what is the difference.

You are the expert. Definitions please, with examples!!

R225 I know a good doctor who treats OCD. 🤙🏻

A whore gets paid for sex. A slut has sex with or without money. A tramp is an all-inclusive word meaning a person who is undesirable (for a woman, it can mean a low class woman, whether sex is referred to or not. For a man, it's usually a homeless beggar, often with mental problems or drink problems.)

Did we travel back to 1952, somehow?

Are you kidding? We've been 1952 all along.

[quote]Did we travel back to 1952, somehow?

Are the colored boys ready to serve me my dinner?

Must you?

Vivica A. Fox in Why Do Fools Fall In Love.

[quote] Kathy Baker in Street Smart.

I involuntarily shuddered when I first thought this was Kathy Bates.

R211 I thought OP wanted films, not television. We'd probably be well into Part 2 already, if daytime soap operas were included. ;-)

Leigh McCloskey in The Other Side of Dawn a made for TV Movie.

Eve Plumb in Portrait of a Teenage Runaway the movie that spawned The Other Side of Dawn ^^^^^^

We’ve discussed those two teen whores already.

(Though they are notable!)

Shelley Winters again in “The Big Knife”

[quote]Would that be Delta, or Tony Orlando's?

The dishwashing liquid.

Matthew Ludwnksi starring as "Adam" in "Going Down in LA-LA Land"

Dakota Fanning as a teen saloon whore in Brimstone

Jodie Foster : “Taxi Driver”

Candy Clark, "Debbie" in "American Graffiti"

Robing Wright as "Jenny" in FORREST GUMP.

Honorable mention goes to Sally Field, because "Mama Gump" slept with the principal to get Forrest into the school.

[quote] Julianne Moore, Boogie Nights

Mark Wahlberg as "Dirk Diggler" also turned to prostitution in "Boogie Nights."

Kevin Bacon in JFK

Marilyn Monroe in All About Eve. We knew what that deal was...

Michelle Pfeiffer in The Fabulous Baker Boys.

Goldie Hawn Dollars

Melanie Griffith Fear City

Debra Winger in CANNERY ROW

Kristen Stewart in Spencer.

Cameron Diaz, Gangs of New York

Nancy in Oliver Twist (forget the actress' name)

This is a favorite performance of mine. Delphine Seyrig in Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles.

Shirley Jones

Most of the female cast of Walk On The Wild Side, including Jane Fonda, Capucine, Anne Baxter, Barbara Stanwyck

[quote]R42 - they were "models".

So was Melania Trump

Fairuza Balk in Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead.

Lily Tomlin

Melina Mercouri, "Never on Sunday"

[quote]r255 Nancy in Oliver Twist (forget the actress' name)

Shani Wallis. I only know her name because I had that record album when I was little.

I’m surprised she only did junk like Night Gallery and Charlie’s Angels after that - you’d think being a lead in a Best Picture winner would set one up for better (?)

R252 I was going to write Debra Winger.

Mark Keyloun

R263 - But you sent an email instead?

Leslie Caron as whore-in-training Gigi

R266 - Do you mean her character or Caron herself?

They are both one in the same, some men love buck teef!!

Vivien Leigh, WATERLOO BRIDGE. Though initially it was not easy to figure it out because of the Production Code. It could only be hinted at.

Constance Towers (Mrs. John Gavin) The Naked Kiss 1964

Edy Williams The Naked Kiss 1964

Jane Fonda Steelyard Blues

Elizabeth Debicki and Emma Corrin

Jared Kushner, administration of the 45th U.S. President, Donald Trump

Lesley Anne Warren-Victor/Victoria-James Garner GF??

Ava Gardner-The Killers (also in real life, Ava had a "Good Time" in her real life)

Op do you mean in real life or in film. If you mean real life a better list would be actors who have portrayed a whore.

I can't believe no one mentioned Richard Gere in American Gigolo.

Kevin Bacon, JFK

R267, the character was being groomed to be a courtesan.

Judy Davis as Nancy Reagan in "The Reagans."

R276 Oops, should read have not portrayed a whore.

Will someone mention Richard Gere in "American Gigolo"? He's been completely forgotten!

R282 I did.

[quote] r282, I did.

And so did r40 and so did r94.

That was my point.

Jill Clayburgh, in "Hustling"

Those scum bags were blocked I guess.

Helen Lawson in TALES FROM THE FREE CLINIC.

Barbara Mandrell "Burning Rage".

Veronica Hamel