The Indie Queen Poll: Who Do You Love?

Dateline: 1/12/00

Who is the It Girl?

You can hear the low murmur echo through theater lobbies and hyperbole-heavy reviews: Indie Queen, Indie Queen, Indie Queen.... But who? Who is the most mysterious, luminescent, beautiful, stunning indie actress -- the hippest of them all?

I remember a time when it seemed like there wasn't an independent movie without Parker Posey. Parker, the daughter of a used car salesman from Laurel, Mississippi, always the talk of the Sundance, winner at the Indie Spirit awards for The House of Yes. Come to think of it, what has she been in lately? I hate to say it: she was the unwanted girlfriend in the Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan studio picture You've Got Mail.

It's the twenty-first century. Who do you think of when you think Indie Queen? Cast your vote.

About.com Poll Who do you love? Sarah Polley Parker Posey Christina Ricci Chloë Sevigny Lili Taylor Current Results

The Nominees Sarah Polley (The Sweet Hereafter, Go, Guinevere) I have a thing for Sarah. She carried Atom Egoyan's sad film as the crippled rock star girl in the Sweet Hereafter. In Go, she sells allergy medication as Ecstasy. An actress with integrity, this young Canadian took two years off to devote herself to political activism. She went to the premiere of Guinevere in the same dress she wore to a premiere the year before -- scandalous!

Parker Posey
(The House of Yes, Day Trippers, Party Girl)
For old times sake. She did set the standard, no?

Christina Ricci
(The Opposite of Sex, Buffalo 66, Pecker)
So Sleepy Hollow was big budget, mucho cleavage, and blond hair, but Ricci exemplifies that independent spirit. How often do you see an actress play it pregnant and sexy with such elan (The Opposite of Sex)? And do you remember her tap dancing in lingerie on a bowling lane in Buffalo 66?

Chloë Sevigny
(American Psycho, Boys Don't Cry, Kids)
Chloë can do tragic, from fifteen year old Jenny who finds herself HIV positive from her first time, herpes-infected in Last Days of the Disco, and in Boy's Don't Cry, her boyfriend isn't even a boy. Her upcoming film American Pyscho, based on the novel by Brett Easton Ellis, is one of the most anticipated films of the new year. Plus, she's romantically linked to indie director Harmony Korinne.

Lili Taylor
(I Shot Andy Warhol, Household Saints, The Addiction)
Perhaps Lily's path is similar to Parker's -- at this point a veteran actress with over thirty films to her name, she has starred in indie everything. She was the graduate student vampire in The Addiction, the feminst anarchist Valerie Salonis in I Shot Andy Warhol, and she has two new indie pics in the can: the Janis Joplion bio pic The Pearl and High Fidelity, based on the novel by Nick Hornby.

If you think the real Indie Queen is so hip that even I haven't heard of her yet, send me an email.

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