An Oscar-winning turn sits beside camp favourites, a Cannes-honoured drama and a 1969 debut hardly anyone has seen. Decide which performance proves the singer was always an actress.
1Loretta Castorini (Moonstruck)The Brooklyn widow who falls for her fiancé's hot-headed brother in the 1987 romantic comedy that won Cher the Best Actress Oscar.1000pts
2Herself (Stuck on You)A heightened version of Cher who tries to tank her own TV show in the Farrelly brothers' 2003 comedy.551pts
3Rusty Dennis (Mask)The biker mother fiercely protecting her son with a facial deformity in Peter Bogdanovich's 1985 drama, which won Cher Best Actress at Cannes.551pts
4Alexandra Medford (The Witches of Eastwick)The sculptor among three small-town witches seduced by Jack Nicholson's devil in the 1987 dark comedy.466pts
5Rachel Flax (Mermaids)The flighty single mother of Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci in the 1990 comedy-drama that gave Cher the hit 'The Shoop Shoop Song'.466pts
6Kathleen Riley (Suspect)A public defender who teams up with a juror to clear a homeless veteran in the 1987 legal thriller.466pts
7Ruby Sheridan (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again)Donna's glamorous estranged mother who crashes the party singing 'Fernando' in the 2018 sequel.466pts
8Dolly Pelliker (Silkwood)Karen Silkwood's lesbian roommate in Mike Nichols's 1983 whistleblower drama, Cher's first Oscar nomination.363pts
9Chastity (Chastity)Her first lead role as a drifting hitchhiker in the 1969 drama written and produced by Sonny Bono.363pts
10Elsa Morganthal (Tea with Mussolini)A flamboyant American socialite among English expatriates in 1930s Florence in Franco Zeffirelli's 1999 film.0pts
11Tess (Burlesque)The flinty owner of a struggling Los Angeles burlesque club in the 2010 musical opposite Christina Aguilera.0pts
12Sissy (Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean)The brassy waitress in Robert Altman's 1982 reunion drama, Cher's acclaimed return to acting.0pts
13Margaret (Faithful)A neglected wife held hostage by a hitman in Paul Mazursky's 1996 dark comedy with Chazz Palminteri.0pts
