The Actress

  • The Actress: Hollywood Acting and the Female Star
    By Karen Hollinger

    Hill, John and Pamela Church Gibson, eds. 1998.The Oxford Guide toFilm Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Kennedy, Philippa. 1995.Jodie Foster: The MostPowerful WomaninHollywood. London: MacMillan. King, B. 1991.

  • The Actress: Hollywood Acting and the Female Star
    By Karen Hollinger

    She explained her attraction to her roles in Strange Days and Supernova in the same way: “But in the script, she isn't black or white. They just wanted me to play the role. We're all human, and I hope we keep on moving toward that.

  • The Actress: Hollywood Acting and the Female Star
    By Karen Hollinger

    Reviewers have described her characters repeatedly as “tough paragons” (Seymour, F7), “strong resilient women, unbroken by faithless men, violent abuse, and other woes” (Rader, 4), and “characters pitched into emotional free-fall who, ...

  • The Actress: A Christian Murder Mystery
    By Michael Hicks Thompson

    The most famous actress in America, Tullulah Ivey, is in Solo, Mississippi to film a controversial movie.

  • The Actress: A Novel
    By Amy Sohn

    Winning a prize for her role in an indie film, Maddy Freed is cast in an Oscar-worthy role opposite Steven Weller, a Hollywood heartthrob whom she marries after a whirlwind affair in spite of rumors that he is gay.

  • The Actress: A Comedy
    By Peter Quilter

    The Actress dramatises the events backstage as a colourful, complicated actress makes her emotional farewell performance.

  • The Actress: A Novel
    By Amy Sohn

    Winning a prize for her role in an indie film, Maddy Freed is cast in an Oscar-worthy role opposite Steven Weller, a Hollywood heartthrob whom she marries after a whirlwind affair in spite of rumors that he is gay.

  • The Actress
    By Elizabeth Sims

    Rita’s dream money-making scheme soon turns into a living nightmare as details about Eileen’s private life begin to unfold—and Rita finds her own life, and Petey’s, in jeopardy… A struggling actress is cast in the biggest part of ...