Borrowed from a best-selling book, the term "mean girl" entered the realm of
pop culture when the award-winning writer scripted the 2004 movie, starring a true-life Hollywood bad girl. Whether they're called mean girls, bad girls, vixens, queen bees or worse, they usually steal the show in TV land.
Sue Sylvester
Jane Lynch plays the twisted high school coach of a cereal-nicknamed team, but film fans may know the actress from another
scandalous role.
Wilhelmina Slater
Vanessa Williams plays a conniving magazine editor, and her award-nominated role probably landed her residence on a suburban street. But she's played a high-powered businesswoman on the big screen, too.
Abby Cunningham Ewing
Donna
Mills took her role as a shady
bookkeeper to another level, but the glamour makers owe her lifetime residuals.
Blair Waldorf
Leighton Meester put the flesh-and-bone, along with a signature style, on point when she took on the role of the book-created queen bee. What's her connection to Gwyneth Paltrow?
Amanda Woodward
Heather Locklear's coldhearted
advertising executive made the micro-mini the
new business attire. Before landing in
West Hollywood, she cut her teeth in Colorado.
Toni Childs
Jill Marie Jones' portrayal of a money-hungry
real estate agent took a real-life turn when she squared off with show executives. Guess she couldn't rally the troops like the "Friends" cast. What's her connection to Christmas?
Katherine Pierce
Nina Dobrev gets to play it both ways: She's the bad-girl vampire who has
two brothers lusting after her for more than a century and she's her own good-girl enemy.
Alexis Carrington Colby
Joan
Collins' stylish and vindictive ex-wife of an oil baron made her costume designer a household name, not to mention as famous as she was infamous.
Esther Anderson
LaWanda Page's portrayal of the Bible-waving
menace gave new meaning to the term "suffering the in-law.
Edie Britt
Nicollette Sheridan plays a
divorcee with a roving eye on Wisteria Lane. But she became a household name along with a premier mistress of mean.
Rhonda Volmer
Daveigh Chase plays the manipulative teenage runaway from an arranged marriage on a polygamist compound with so much saccharin sweetness that the venality will strangle.
Valerie Malone
Tiffani-Amber Thiessen played a bad girl to the hilt, totally destroying her sweet cheerleader
casting. But she's come full circle, now that she's an agent's wife.
Nellie Oleson
Alison Arngrim played a spoiled-rich small-town queen bee from girlhood to adulthood without missing a beat.
