When it comes to female detectives, it doesn’t get much more iconic than Nancy Drew. Nancy has been solving mysteries since 1930 — in books, in movies, and in her own TV shows.

Light a candle for those fictional characters we lost in 2023. Characters we’ve come to know either over the years, or maybe even over just a few short hours of a movie or TV show.

As the only woman in the fictional WJM-TV newsroom, Mary was on her own, with the occasional appearance of Betty White as Sue Ann Nivens, the sexually forward host of “The Happy Homemaker” show.

For THR's latest intra-industry poll, the editors asked Hollywood professionals — actors, writers, directors and others — to take an online survey of their favorite fictional female characters ...

Women may represent half of the global population in real life, but fictional film worlds get by with just a third. The latest It’s a Man’s (Celluloid) World report from San Diego State’s ...