Best Horror Movie Actresses

The Top Ten
1 Jamie Lee Curtis Jamie Lee Curtis, Lady Haden-Guest is an American actress and author. She made her film debut in 1978 by starring as Laurie Strode in John Carpenter's Halloween.

Halloween franchise, Prom Night, The Fog, Virus, Terror Train

I love the Halloween movies and Jamie is a great horror movie actress in my opinnion

Deserves the #1 spot.

2 Sigourney Weaver Susan Alexandra "Sigourney" Weaver is an American actress and film producer. Following her film debut as a minor character in Annie Hall, she quickly came to prominence in 1979 with her first lead role as Ellen Ripley in Alien.

She did a phenomenal work in Alien franchise. Also, Sigourney was brilliant in Copycat and The Village

3 Dee Wallace

Actress from such horror movies as 'The Howling', 'Cujo' and 'The Hills Have Eyes'.

4 Neve Campbell Neve Adrianne Campbell is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her role as Sidney Prescott in the horror film series Scream.

Heroine from Scream franchise

All scream... Need proof

5 Linda Blair

The Exorcist. Need I say more?

6 Sissy Spacek Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek is an American actress and singer. She began her career in the early 1970s and first gained attention for her role in the film Badlands.

Don't you remember her wonderful job in Carrie?

7 Milla Jovovich Milica Bogdanovna Jovovich, known professionally as Milla Jovovich, is an American actress, model and musician.

Resident Evil star must be here

8 Adrienne Barbeau

Film audiences know her best from "The Fog", "Escape from New York", "Swamp Thing", "Cannonball Run", "Creepshow", "Back to School", "Two Evil Eyes", and "The Convent".

9 Sarah Michelle Gellar Sarah Michelle Gellar is an American actress, producer and entrepreneur. After being spotted by an agent at the age of four in New York City, she made her acting debut in the made-for-TV movie An Invasion of Privacy.
10 Danielle Harris
The Contenders
11 Shelly Duvall

She played in The Shining

12 Veronica Cartwright
13 Nicole Kidman Nicole Mary Kidman is an Australian-American actress and film producer. Kidman's breakthrough roles were in the 1989 feature film thriller Dead Calm and television thriller miniseries Bangkok Hilton.
14 Briana Evigan
15 Mia Farrow
16 Winona Ryder Winona Ryder is an American actress. One of the most profitable and iconic 1990s actresses, she made her film debut in the 1986 film Lucas.

Dracula, Beetle Juice, Aliens: Resurrection, which happens to have the most memorable cast of any horror (sci-fi) movie in recent history

17 Lisa Wilcox
18 Cecile De France
19 Jodie Foster Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is an American actress, director and producer who has worked in films and on television. She has often been cited as one of the best actresses of her generation.
20 Margot Kidder

Margot was in Amityville Horror (1979), Sisters, Black Christmas (1974) and some others

21 Janet Leigh Janet Leigh, born Jeanette Helen Morrison (July 6, 1927 – October 3, 2004) was an American actress, singer, dancer and author. She is best remembered for her performance in Psycho, for which she was awarded the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and received an Academy Award nomination. She was the first wife of actor Tony Curtis and the mother of Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Curtis.
22 Courteney Cox Courteney Bass Cox is an American actress, producer and director. She is best identified for her roles as Monica Geller on the NBC sitcom Friends, Gale Weathers in the horror series Scream, and as Jules Cobb in the ABC/TBS sitcom Cougar Town, for which she earned her first Golden Globe nomination.
23 Kate Hodge

Katherine Grey Hodge is an American Actress and Producer, known for having one shot episode roles, she was heroine Michelle in Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III and Randi Wallace in the T.V. series She-Wolf of London

24 Mallory Bechtel
25 Toni Collette Toni Collette is an Australian actress and musician, known for her acting work on stage, television, and film as well as a secondary career as the lead singer of the band Toni Collette & the Finish.
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