What's the best female performance in a gangster flick?

[mr x]

*edited for clarification

no poll..feel free to mention any performance of your liking

the following are popular choices...but you may choose from outside this list...

Diane Keaton in Godfather 2
Talia Shire in The Godfather
Talia Shire in The Godfather 2
Madonna in dikk Tracy
Lorraine Bracco in Goodfellas
Sharon Stone in Casino
*the last 2 had the most to work with, I expect them to be the obvious favs.

Spoiler

you thought I was serious with Madonna

 

[Mr. Manhattan]

Lorraine Braco easily, she was the most tolerable out of those annoying bytches, plus she had quoteables

"Hello Superintendent, i just wanted you to know that you have a whore living in apartment 2B"

 

[Kill Dat Noize]

this nikka said dikk tracy lol.

hmmm... gotta think on this one.

i'm gonna say sharon stone in casino. no explaination necessary. just gonna let the performance speak for itself.

 

[obarth]

Talia Shire or Diane Keaton, toss up. Leaning towards Shire, tho

 

[BulletProof]

Make this a poll.

My vote goes to Lorraine and I think that she was the best actress out of the modern candidates in the Mob movies.

 

[BulletProof]

Talia Shire or Diane Keaton, toss up. Leaning towards Shire, tho

Diane under performed in the Godfather.

 

[mr x]

Talia Shire or Diane Keaton, toss up. Leaning towards Shire, tho

in part 1 or part 2, or were you combining the two?

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

this nikka said dikk tracy lol.

hmmm... gotta think on this one.

i'm gonna say sharon stone in casino. no explaination necessary. just gonna let the performance speak for itself.

she was fukking fantastic in that role but I hate her character with a passion in that movie. I spent the entire movie praying she would get killed by the end to no avail

 

[RAX 010]

I was thinking Queen Latifah
In "Set it off"
And I was like

Then I saw the selections
And was like

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

Does Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction count?

It was a movie.....about gangsters

 

[sanityovar8ted]

came in to say keisha in belly but uhhhhhhh

 

[mr x]

ya'll can say whoever you want, that's why I specifically said no poll, feel free to mention who you choose(could have been worded better)...those options are guidelines

OP edited for clarification

 

[Danie84]

...wish she didn't have to go out like that in the end, tho

 

[obarth]

in part 1 or part 2, or were you combining the two?

I was combining the two for both. I just felt the characters they were meant to portray came off incredibly natural without a hint of being caricatures, which I feel Bracco slightly was. Talia as the spoiled mob princess that eventually gets completely broken down by the sweet little brother who she never envisioned turning into the monster he became. Diane being the the white bread good girl that was supposed to be part of Michael's escape from the mob life but instead gets sucked into it and suffers as well. I gave it to Talia just because of the transformation we see from the bride in the opening scenes of Part 1 to the shell of a woman we see in Part 2.

I'm gonna end up marathoning this damn series again now

 

[Gains]