Top 10 Best Catwoman Performances
Michelle Marie Pfeiffer is an American actress and producer. One of the most popular actresses of the 1980s and 1990s, she has received international acclaim and many accolades for her work in both comedic and dramatic films. Love Anne, but Michelle is incomparable and unbeatable.
Number one. She made Catwoman sizzle and have depth!
She's number one in everything!
Anne Jacqueline Hathaway is an American actress and singer. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and brought up in Millburn, New Jersey. Hathaway was inspired to act by her mother... read more DUH. Pure purrfection!
I feel like she was way more genuine than Hathaway or any of the others. One of the best aspects of The Batman.
She plays the perfect Catwoman.
Erin Grey Van Oosbree, credited as Grey DeLisle and Grey Griffin, is an American voice actress and singer-songwriter.
Jennifer Leann Carpenter is an American actress best known for playing Debra Morgan on the Showtime drama series Dexter, for which she won a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television in 2009. She has starred as Rebecca Harris in the CBS series Limitless since 2015.The Newcomers
Halle Maria Berry is an American actress. Berry won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the romantic drama Monster's Ball. As of 2018, she is the only black woman to have won the award. I think both the public and the Razzies confuse a weak screenplay with a poor performance. Berry best embodied the character and attitude of Catwoman. On the one hand, as Catwoman, she has the cat-like playfulness that only Michelle Pfeiffer matched. She's all about having fun and indulging her own pleasures, yet she remains likable. While she now has the instincts of a cat, she also retains human reason, intelligence, a sense of justice, and softer emotions. This allows her to choose to use her cat instincts for good, if she wants to.
Pfeiffer, on the other hand, was brilliant as Catwoman but lacked a bit of that humane side. Yes, she has the romance with Bruce Wayne, but she comes across as solely a badass character. Berry, however, could be both badass and soft, emotional. Some of this is due to the screenplay (of which "Batman Returns" definitely had the better), but it's the actress's job to interpret the role. In her out-of-costume scenes, Pfeiffer's character stays pretty strong, while Berry becomes more feminine. The latter is more credible in three ways:
1. The cat instincts add to her characteristics but don't change them.
2. Real-life cats aren't always in playful fight mode.
3. When you're masked and anonymous, you're more likely to be extroverted than when people see you naturally.
This is not meant to criticize Michelle Pfeiffer's performance in any way. Far from it - she completely sells Catwoman. But to me, Berry's performance is more interesting, despite her movie being significantly weaker (though it's not as terrible as it's made out to be. It's just very lame and uninspired).