heroine
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Sarandon, who played the heroine Janet Weiss in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, praised Curry as "a funny, sexy, original".
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
And yet there was still a sense that Hollywood underserved her canny ability to appear both ferocious and vulnerable, whether as a horror heroine in “Scream 4” or a superpowered cheerleader on “Heroes.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Think of it more as an inversion, with a bottom-up view of its heroine Emma Harte’s life viewed through parallel timelines.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
"Like its own heroine, it feels stuck somewhere between the show it thought it wanted to be and the show it has the potential to become," she wrote.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
Suddenly she was a heroine in Matilda's eyes.
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
I could easily hail “Howl’s Moving Castle” as a tribute to maturity, especially when placed against other Miyazaki stories starring young heroines setting out on adventures.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
As heroines Brenda and Cindy, respectively, Hall and Faris were daffy, dopey and committed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
What interests you about the struggles of your 20-something heroines?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026
Over the years, Dharmendra said he was cast against 70 heroines, but his most successful screen pairing was with Hema Malini, who later became his second wife.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2025
Sometimes there are said to have been two heroines of that name.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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