| 100% | JILLIANBELL | 11 | "Brittany Runs a Marathon" actress who plays Pepper the Elf in 31-Across (2 wds.) |
| 54% | FARRAHFAWCETT | 13 | "Charlie's Angels" actress who played a photographer nicknamed Beauty in "The Cannonball Run": 2 wds. |
| 53% | KATHYBATES | 10 | Actress who plays a marijuana dispensary owner in the new Netflix comedy "Disjointed": 2 wds. |
| 53% | OLIVIACOOKE | 11 | "Ready Player One" actress who plays the pregnant girlfriend of a murdered man in 31-Across (2 wds.) |
| 52% | INGRIDBERGMAN | 13 | "Casablanca" actress who played a Swedish missionary in "Murder on the Orient Express": 2 wds. |
| 51% | DEBRAMESSING | 12 | Actress who played 17a in the series for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award: 2 wds. |
| 51% | KARYNPARSONS | 12 | Actress who played the snobbish cousin of 17-Across in "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," which is rumored to be getting a reunion: 2 wds. |
| 51% | ZOESALDANA | 10 | "Avatar" actress who played a pirate in the first "Pirates of the Caribbean" film: 2 wds. |
| 51% | SUSANSARANDON | 13 | Actress who played Louise, one of the title characters on the run in 1991's "Thelma & Louise": 2 wds. |
| 51% | DIANELANE | 9 | "Unfaithful" actress who plays Penny Chenery, the owner of 33-Across, in a 2010 film (2 wds.) |
| 50% | BRIELARSON | 10 | Actress who plays the character of Carol Danvers, a former U.S. Air Force pilot in "Captain Marvel": 2 wds. |
| 50% | SANDRABULLOCK | 13 | "Ocean's 8" actress who plays a novelist kidnapped in the jungle in "The Lost City": 2 wds. |
| 50% | MARLEEMATLIN | 12 | "CODA" actress who played a deaf employee at the school in "Children of a Lesser God": 2 wds. |
| 50% | SUTTONFOSTER | 12 | "Younger" actress who played Princess Winnifred in the 2024 Broadway revival of "Once Upon a Mattress": 2 wds. |
| 50% | MERYLSTREEP | 11 | "Into the Woods" actress who plays a feminist in 42-Across: 2 wds. |
| 50% | ELLIEKEMPER | 11 | Actress who plays the lead role in 12-/24-Across: 2 wds. |
| 50% | DIANEKEATON | 11 | Actress who plays a mother in "Father of the Bride" (2 wds.) |
| 50% | AMYPOEHLER | 10 | Actress who played the role of Leslie Knope in "Parks and Recreation", a role she is best-known for: 2 wds. |
| 49% | AUBREYPLAZA | 11 | Actress who plays a profane 14th-century nun in "The Little Hours": 2 wds. |
| 49% | CAREYMULLIGAN | 13 | "The Great Gatsby" actress who plays a feminist in 42-Across: 2 wds. |
| 49% | JESSICATANDY | 12 | "Driving Miss Daisy" actress who played 15-Across in the original 1940s stage production of "A Streetcar Named Desire": 2 wds. |
| 49% | TANYAROBERTS | 12 | American actress who played Bond girl Stacey Sutton in the 1985 James Bond film "A View to a Kill": 2 wds. |
| 49% | SONJASOHN | 9 | "The Wire" actress who plays Nancy, the title boxer's mother, in a 2023 biopic about 40-Across (2 wds.) |
| 49% | JULIECHRISTIE | 13 | "Shampoo" actress who played Lara in the 1965 film version of 19-Across: 2 wds. |
| 49% | VIOLADAVIS | 10 | "Fences" actress who plays a government official in "The Suicide Squad": 2 wds. |
| 49% | ANYATAYLORJOY | 13 | "Glass" actress who played 19-Across in a 2020 film: 2 wds., hyph. |
| 48% | SANDRABULLOCK | 13 | "The Blind Side" actress who played a crossword constructor in 33-Across: 2 wds. |
| 48% | SARAHPAULSON | 12 | "American Horror Story" actress who won the 2024 Best Leading Actress in a Play Tony for "Appropriate": 2 wds. |
| 48% | KRISTENSTEWART | 14 | Actress who played a vampire in 2012's "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2": 2 wds. |
| 48% | UZOADUBA | 8 | "In Treatment" actress who plays a detective on the Netflix series "The Residence": 2 wds. |