Nancy Marchand, The Sopranos malevolent matriarch Livia Soprano, is impeccable in her portrayal of the passive-aggressive murderous mother of Tony. Here she takes aim at the neighbor’s pigeons.Īrrested Development‘s matriarch Lucille Bluth, played by TV veteran Jessica Walter, is hilarious as a hard-drinking manipulator extraordinaire who infantilizes her youngest son, shames her oldest son, and scapegoats her daughter.Īrrested Development is full of comically narcissistic characters, and like mother like daughter, Lucille Bluth’s scapegoated daughter Lindsay Bluth F ünke, played by Portia de Rossi, is so self-involved she barely remembers she has her own daughter. Mad Men suburban mom Betty Draper, played by January Jones, is one cold cucumber who specializes in ignoring her kids. In The Devil Wears Prada, it’s almost too fun to watch Meryl Streep play a haughtily grandiose shark of a fashion magazine editor who loves to exploit and torment her personal assistants. Here are some of my favorites, in no particular order. Whether drawing from personal experience or the warped world of Hollywood, they have narcissist mothers down cold. Absurdly funny, selfish, grandiose, scheming, cruel, violent, or a bedeviling mix of all of the above, you’ve got to hand it to the brilliant actors who bring their villains to larger-than-life highs and lows on screen. The last few decades have delivered some knock-out performances of narcissist mothers in both film and television.
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