Best Catwoman Performances

The Top Ten
1 Michelle Pfeiffer - Batman Returns 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. S he made Cat Woman sizzle and have depth!

She's number one in everything!

2 Anne Hathaway - The Dark Knight Rises 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
3 Julie Newmar - Batman (Seasons 1 & 2)
4 Camren Bicondova - Gotham
5 Zoe Kravitz - The Batman

I feel like she was way more genuine than Hathaway or any of the other ones, one of the best aspects of The Batman.

She plays the perfect catwoman.

6 Grey DeLisle - Infinite Crisis and The Batman: Arkham Video Games Erin Grey Van Oosbree, credited as Grey DeLisle and Grey Griffin, is an American voice actress and singer-songwriter.
7 Eartha Kitt - Batman (Season 3)
8 Jennifer Carpenter - Batman: Gotham by Gaslight 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.
9 Adrienne Barbeau - Batman: The Animated Series

Take off Halle!

10 Gina Gershon - The Batman
The Contenders
11 Lee Meriwether - Batman: The Movie
12 Maggie Baird - Birds of Prey
13 Halle Berry - Catwoman (2004) 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 people and the Razzies confuse a lame screenplay with a bad performance. Berry best embodied the character and attitude of Catwoman. One the one hand, as Catwoman she has the cat-like playfulness only Michelle Pfeiffer had. She's all about having fun and satisfying her own pleasures, yet she's not an unlikable character, because while now having the instincts of a cat, she also has human reason and intelligence, and a sense for justice and softer emotion, and therefore can decide to use her cat instincts for good, if she wants to. Pfeiffer on the other hand was brilliant as Catwoman, but lacked the humane side a bit. Yes, she does have the romance with Bruce Wayne, but she comes off solely as a badass character, while Berry could be both badass and soft, emotional. Even though some of this is owed to the screenplay (of which "Batman Returns" definitely had the better), it is the actress' job to interpret the role. And in her out of costume scenes, Pfeiffer's character ...more

14 Melendy Britt - The New Adventures of Batman
15 Jane Webb - The Batman/Superman Hour
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