Christina Ricci. I was maybe 5 or 6 the first time I saw the Addams Family movies, I was already extremely into everything scary and/or Halloween adjacent, and she was only a few years older than I was, and she was both pretty and scary, and the boy she gets paired with in Values reminded me of me. The overall effect of this was to fill me with a deep-seated lifelong fondness for spooky women in general and her in particular. A few years after that I saw Casper, which only reinforced the effect, and Sleepy Hollow showed up just in time for me to hit puberty.

Queen Latifah in Chicago

Winona Ryder

Christina Ricci

Lead woman in the last movie I saw.

Maybe the most consistent was Hermione Granger, I say Hermione instead of Emma Watson bc I never saw her as anything else and had a crush on the book character too.

The other option might be Anna Kendrick.

Diana Rigg, but only because I was a big Bond nerd in high school.

Adrian Paul in The Highlander TV Series.

• Hudson Leick (Calisto on Xena)
• David Yost (Billy on MMPR)
• Toni Braxton (that Unbreak My Heart video? Come on!)
• Tyson Beckford (speaking of that video!)
• John Henson (Talk Soup)
• Tiffani-Amber Thiessen
• Siddig El Fadil
• And of course Terry Farrell

Lindsay Wagner, the bionic woman. I had no fear of strong women.

Linda Hamilton circa Beauty and the Beast

Michelle Pfeiffer circa Ladyhawke

Valerie Bertinelli

Blondie

Eddie Vedder circa Ten. Sigh…

Tim Curry lol

Lilu Multipass & Ruby Rhod

Fran Fine from The Nanny.

It was one of those ‘I don’t know if I fancy her or want to be her’ type crushes and was basically the foundation for my love of fashion and personal style, and my predilection for annoying voices.

Also my mother hated her, which made me like her even more.