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Contemporary dramatic monologues for women
Serious pieces for women from the last few decades. The sources are mostly copyrighted, so each entry tells you the character, the work and the length, and the search opens the rest.
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Michelle from 12
Nikita Mikhalkov · film · dramatic · 0:56 min
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Beatrice from The Changeling
Peter Medak · film · dramatic · 1:00 min
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Eleanor of Aquitaine from The Lion in Winter
Anthony Harvey · film · dramatic · 0:46 min
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Jane Eyre from Jane Eyre
Cary Joji Fukunaga · film · dramatic · 0:44 min
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Mrs. Robinson from The Graduate
Mike Nichols · film · dramatic · 1:26 min
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Gwen from Spider Man Across The Spider Verse
Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson · film · anguished · 1:04 min
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Mother'S Voice from Psycho
Alfred Hitchcock · film · dark · 0:51 min
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Dory from Finding Nemo
Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich · film · anguished · 0:51 min
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Eliza from 12 Years A Slave
Steve McQueen · film · anguished · 1:32 min
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Gabriela from Logan
James Mangold · film · anguished · 0:59 min
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Evey from V for Vendetta
James McTeigue · film · anguished · 1:36 min
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Evey from V for Vendetta
James McTeigue · film · anguished · 2:07 min
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Valerie from V for Vendetta
James McTeigue · film · anguished · 3:05 min
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Hopps from Zootopia
Byron Howard, Rich Moore, Jared Bush · film · anguished · 0:47 min
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Nina from Black Swan
Darren Aronofsky · film · anguished · 0:55 min
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Mia from La La Land
Damien Chazelle · film · anguished · 0:53 min
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Carine from Into the Wild
Sean Penn · film · anguished · 2:32 min
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Sissy from Shame
Ingmar Bergman · film · anguished · 1:07 min
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Linda from Magnolia
Paul Thomas Anderson · film · anguished · 1:36 min
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Penny from Almost Famous
Cameron Crowe · film · anguished · 1:01 min
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Anne from Strangers on a Train
Alfred Hitchcock · film · anguished · 1:12 min
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Mom from Boyhood
Richard Linklater · film · anguished · 0:48 min
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Joanna from Kramer vs. Kramer
Robert Benton · film · anguished · 1:23 min
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Joanna from Kramer vs. Kramer
Robert Benton · film · anguished · 1:49 min
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Mrs. Lowe from Awakenings
Penny Marshall · film · anguished · 0:42 min
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Annie from Misery
Rob Reiner · film · dark · 1:31 min
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Elinor from Sense and Sensibility
Ang Lee · film · anguished · 0:54 min
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Tiffany from Silver Linings Playbook
David O. Russell · film · anguished · 1:15 min
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Christine from Changeling
Clint Eastwood · film · anguished · 1:49 min
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Christine from Changeling
Clint Eastwood · film · anguished · 1:31 min
Length is estimated at a spoken pace of about 150 words a minute. Public-domain pieces are printed in full on their own page; copyrighted ones list the character and the source.
Related: dramatic monologues for women under 2 minutes · contemporary comedic monologues for women · classical monologues for women
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