Favorite white trash portrayals in movies and TV shows

Everybody in "At Close Range": Christopher Walken, Sean Penn, Chris Penn, etc.

Allison Janney, Kirsten Dunst, and Ellen Barkin in Drop Dead Gorgeous

Reese Witherspoon in "Freeway". I still quote her: "And I don't appreciate being called a natural-born whore!".

JGL as Hesher

Jamie Presley as Joy in My Name is Earl

Barbra's stepson and Kelly McDonald in "No Country for Old Men."

Matthew Cowles as Billy Clyde Tuggle on "All My Children"

Least favorite: Roseanne as Roseanne

Lisa Kudrow as the title character's mom on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Roseanne Barr as Roseanne Connor

Brittany Murphy in literally anything. Had she still been alive she would have elevated so many of the white trash roles they give Jennifer Lawrence or even some of Jessica Chastain’s white trash roles. She would have been a great Fiona in Shameless too

Allison Janney in “Drop Dead Gorgeous”.

Joan Cusack and Melanie Griffith in “Working Girl”.

Ethan Hawke in “Great Expectations”.

Paul Newman in "Hud". White trash, but sexy as hell white trash.

Margot Robbie and Allison Janney in "I, Tonya"

Alice St. Clair as Kate Middleton in "William and Kate: A Royal Romance."

Mamie Gummer in S3 of "True Detective."

natural born killers

Amy Adams in Junebug

Divine in Desperate Living

Isabel Jewell as that white-trash Emmy Slattery.

Matthew McConaughy owns this thread. White trash in every single role he's ever had. He basically shows up and just babbles incoherently and the director and editor just try to cobble something together from the mess.

Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's

Brad Pitt in "Thelma and Louise."

Matthew McConaughey may be white trash, but he's HOT white trash!

Selma Blair did a a terrific performance of a neglectful white trash mother in The Poker House.

Entire cast of Pink Flamingoes

"Favorite white trash portrayals"

Rosemary Ackerman's refusal to recycle. She lives at Four Two One Seven Pussy Way. Get her!

Robin Weight in THE PLEDGE.

^^ Wright

"My Names Is Earl" and "Raising Hope"

Viggo in “The Indian Runner”

Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire.

Ann-Margaret in "Our Sons" (with Julie Andrews)

Robin Wright in [italic]White Oleander[/italic]

Keanu Reeves and Hilary Swank in The Gift. I loved how it was late 90s/early 00s and Hilary wore 80s style clothes.

The cast of BOYS DON'T CRY.

Ashley Judd in Normal Life, a tv movie. Ashley both looks and acts like Charlize Theron in Monster. Or more like looks like Charlize usually does, beautiful, and acts like she does in Monster. Ashley definitely could've performed as Aileen just as well. Charlize and Ashley were practically doppelgangers in my opinion.

Meryl, Kurt, and Cher in Silkwood.

Norman Reedus in The Walking Dead.

Tim McGraw in Friday Night Lights

Amy Sedaris in Bojack Horseman

Juliette Lewis & Brad Pitt in KALIFORNIA

Most realistic white trash was Hillary Swank's family in Million Dollar Baby. They really nailed it.

Walton Goggins and Jeremy Davies in Justified (pretty much everyone on the show, really)

Noel Fisher as Mickey on Shameless

Bria Vinaite in The Florida Project was very real to me.

Meredith Baxter as Betty Broderick

Courtney Love in The People vs Larry Flynt

Melissa McCarthy as Diana in Identity Thief

Jennifer Jason Leigh in Miami Blues.

Diane Ladd in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.

Karen Black as Rayette in "Five Easy Pieces."

R36 beat me to it. Keanu was mesmerizing and scary. He actually acted!

R22

WT with class...

Laura Dern in Citizen Ruth

Parker Posey in "Waiting for Guffman."

"It's the day of the show, y'all."

Susan Tyrell in everything, especially Far From Home with Drew Barrymore.