Peggy Wood in The Sound of Music (1965)
Mother Abbess
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Maggie Smith in Sister Act (1992)
Mother Superior -
Charlotte Rampling in Benedetta (2021)
Soeur Felicita -
Vanessa Redgrave in The Devils (1971)
Sister Jeanne -
Miriam Margolyes in Call the Midwife (2012)
Mother Mildred -
Juliet Stevenson in The Letters (2014)
Mother Teresa -
Nancy Roberts in Black Narcissus (1947)
Mother Dorothea -
Diana Rigg in The Painted Veil (2006)
Mother Superior -
Edith Evans in The Nun's Story (1959)
Mother Emmanuel -
Peggy Ashcroft in The Nun's Story (1959)
Mother Mathilde -
Sidney Poitier and Lilia Skala in Lilies of the Field (1963)
Mother Maria -
Hayley Mills and Rosalind Russell in The Trouble with Angels (1966)
Mother Superior -
Agata Kulesza in The Innocents (2016)
Mère Abesse -
Anne Bancroft in Agnes of God (1985)
Mother Miriam Ruth -
Molly Shannon in The Little Hours (2017)
Sister Maria -
Jane Lynch in The Three Stooges (2012)
Mother Superior -
Judi Dench and Dane DeHaan in Tulip Fever (2017)
Abbess -
Melissa Leo in Novitiate (2017)
Reverend Mother -
Barbara Morrison in Papillon (1973)
Mother Superior -
Geraldine McEwan in The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
Sister Bridget -
Lynnette Gaza in The Nun (2018)
Mother Superior -
Lilyan Chauvin in Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
Mother Superior -
Isabelle Huppert in The Nun (2013)
Supérieure Saint-Eutrope -
Lucyna Winnicka in Mother Joan of the Angels (1961)
Mother Joan of the Angels -
Halina Skoczynska in Ida (2013)
Mother Superior -
Frances de la Tour in Outlander (2014)
Mother Hildegarde -
Carolyn Hennesy and Sabrina Kern in St. Agatha (2018)
Mother Superior -
Margo Martindale in Mrs. Davis (2023)
Mother Superior -
Madeleine Sherwood in The Flying Nun (1967)
Reverend Mother Superior Placido -
Sylvia De Fanti in Warrior Nun (2020)
Mother Superion -
Charlotte Rampling in Dune (2021)
Reverend Mother Mohiam
