First: yes, I am in love with most of them but they are also incredibly talented and I love a lot of the movies they starred in.
I have watched a lot of movies just because Kirsten Dunst or Christina Ricci starred in them and I honestly rarely get disappointed choosing movies to watch that way.
I had to make the distinction of them being “serious” actresses because if I had included all my favorite comedic actresses the list would be even longer. So look forward to a sequel tomorrow.

1. Kirsten Dunst (The Virgin Suicides, Melancholia)
2. Christina Ricci (Buffalo ’66, Addams Family)
3. Jodie Foster (Silence of the Lambs, Nell)
4. Winona Ryder (Night on Earth, Heathers)
5. Evan Rachel Wood (Kajillionaire, Pretty Persuasion)
6. Melanie Lynskey (Heavenly Creatures, I don’t feel at home in this World anymore)
7. Natasha Lyonne (But I’m a Cheerleader, Russian Doll)
8. Katharine Hepburn (Bringing up Baby, The Philadelphia Story)
9. Brittany Murphy (Girl, Interrupted, Uptown Girls)
10. Kristen Stewart (Speak, Twilight)
11. Jennifer Jason Leigh (Anomalisa, The Hateful Eight)
12. Toni Collette (Muriel’s Wedding, Hereditary)
13. Allison Janney (I Tonya, Drop Dead Gorgeous)
14. Frances McDormand (Fargo, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
15. Greta Gerwig (Frances Ha, 20th Century Women)
16. Thora Birch (Ghost World, American Beauty)
17. Laura Dern (Citizen Ruth, Enlightened)
18. Jena Malone (United States of Leland, Donnie Darko)
19. Lili Taylor (I Shot Andy Warhol, Arizona Dream)
20. Patricia Clarkson


 (High Art, Six Feet Under)
    
    
    Honorable Mentions:
    Julianne Moore (Magnolia, Boogie Nights)

    Jamie Lee Curtis
 (Freaky Friday, A Fish Called Wanda)