Actors Short Iconic Roles (20 pics)

1

Viola Davis as Mrs. Miller in Doubt (2008)

Screen time: 8 minutes

2

Drew Barrymore as Casey Becker in Scream (1996)

Screen time: 10 minutes

3

Margaret Hamilton as The Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Screen time: 10 minutes

4

Estelle Reiner as Unnamed Diner Patron in When Harry Met Sally… (1989)

Screen time: literally like 5 seconds

5

Anne Hathaway as Fantine in Les Misérables (2012)

Screen time: 15 minutes (5 minutes of which was a musical number; and won an Oscar!)

6

Ruby Dee as Mama Lucas in American Gangster (2007)

Screen time: less than 10 minutes

7

Matthew McConaughey as Mark Hanna in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

Screen time: 5 minutes

8

Cher as Ruby Sheridan in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)

Screen time: 7 1/2 minutes

9

Beatrice Straight as Louise Schumacher in Network (1976)

Screen time: 6 minutes (and won an Oscar!)

10

Bill Murray as Bill Murray in Zombieland (2009)

Screen time: 5 minutes

11

Gwyneth Paltrow as Beth Emhoff in Contagion (2011)

Screen time: 10 minutes

12

David Reale as Glen Coco in Mean Girls (2004)

Screen time: we only see the back of his head for like 2 seconds

13

Kimberly Adair Clark as Honey in The Incredibles (2004)

Screen time: less than a minute, never even seen

14

Billy Crystal and Carol Kane as Miracle Max and Valerie in The Princess Bride (1987)

Screen time: 5 minutes

15

Meat Loaf as Eddie in Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Screen time: one musical number (less than 3 minutes)

16

Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Screen time: 7 minutes

17

Rooney Mara as Erica Albright in The Social Network (2010)

Screen time: 5 minutes

18

Judi Dench as Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love (1998)

Screen time: 8 minutes (and won an Oscar!)

19

Kenneth Tigar as the German Old Man in The Avengers (2012)

Screen time: like 30 seconds