murderess
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After much fan speculation, she officially stepped into the role of murderess Roxie Hart this week at New York's Ambassador Theatre.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Rivera also inhabited roles like Rosie, the girlfriend of a rock star’s manager in “Bye Bye Birdie,” the original Velma and later the ambitious murderess Roxie in “Chicago,” and former showgirl Lilane in “Nine.”
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2024
“The Sinner,” USA Network’s sleeper hit starring Jessica Biel as an amnesia-prone murderess and victim, was intended as a limited series when it premiered in summer 2017.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2018
Jennifer Jason Leigh, with her finely filigreed vocal role in that stop-motion-animated love story and her barn-burning turn as the murderess Daisy Domergue in The Hateful Eight, has pitched two cinematic no-hitters in one year.
From Slate ● Jan. 6, 2016
I ask you, did you ever hear of a would-be murderess and her escaped victim being on such cordial terms?
From The Dark Star by William Dodge Stevens
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