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Poll: Most Superior Mother Superior?

Which of these reverend mothers or abbesses do you think is the best character?

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    Peggy Wood in The Sound of Music (1965)

    Mother Abbess
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    Maggie Smith in Sister Act (1992)

    Mother Superior
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    Charlotte Rampling in Benedetta (2021)

    Soeur Felicita
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    Vanessa Redgrave in The Devils (1971)

    Sister Jeanne
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    Miriam Margolyes in Call the Midwife (2012)

    Mother Mildred
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    Juliet Stevenson in The Letters (2014)

    Mother Teresa
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    Nancy Roberts in Black Narcissus (1947)

    Mother Dorothea
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    Diana Rigg in The Painted Veil (2006)

    Mother Superior
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    Edith Evans in The Nun's Story (1959)

    Mother Emmanuel
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    Peggy Ashcroft in The Nun's Story (1959)

    Mother Mathilde
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    Sidney Poitier and Lilia Skala in Lilies of the Field (1963)

    Mother Maria
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    Hayley Mills and Rosalind Russell in The Trouble with Angels (1966)

    Mother Superior
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    Agata Kulesza in The Innocents (2016)

    Mère Abesse
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    Anne Bancroft in Agnes of God (1985)

    Mother Miriam Ruth
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    Molly Shannon in The Little Hours (2017)

    Sister Maria
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    Jane Lynch in The Three Stooges (2012)

    Mother Superior
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    Judi Dench and Dane DeHaan in Tulip Fever (2017)

    Abbess
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    Melissa Leo in Novitiate (2017)

    Reverend Mother
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    Barbara Morrison in Papillon (1973)

    Mother Superior
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    Geraldine McEwan in The Magdalene Sisters (2002)

    Sister Bridget
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    Lynnette Gaza in The Nun (2018)

    Mother Superior
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    Lilyan Chauvin in Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)

    Mother Superior
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    Isabelle Huppert in The Nun (2013)

    Supérieure Saint-Eutrope
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    Lucyna Winnicka in Mother Joan of the Angels (1961)

    Mother Joan of the Angels
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    Halina Skoczynska in Ida (2013)

    Mother Superior
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    Frances de la Tour in Outlander (2014)

    Mother Hildegarde
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    Carolyn Hennesy and Sabrina Kern in St. Agatha (2018)

    Mother Superior
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    Margo Martindale in Mrs. Davis (2023)

    Mother Superior
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    Madeleine Sherwood in The Flying Nun (1967)

    Reverend Mother Superior Placido
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    Sylvia De Fanti in Warrior Nun (2020)

    Mother Superion
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    Charlotte Rampling in Dune: Part One (2021)

    Reverend Mother Mohiam

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