murderess

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Leavitt has played tap-dancing murderess Roxie Hart in the Broadway revival since February.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

Marten said she was worried people would think she was "some evil mother" or a "murderess."

From BBC • May 2, 2025

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

Macdonald, an experienced falconer, withdrew from people to train her murderess, transforming her fridge into a morgue for raw animal parts.

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2015

Several writers have confounded the two ladies, and Scribe and Legouv�, in their tragedy, Adrienne Lecouvreur, make the princess, and not the duchess, the rival and murderess of the heroine.

From Queens of the French Stage by Williams, H. Noel