Her quirky characters defined ’90s cool and made her the ultimate alt-film icon.
She wasnt your typical Hollywood starletthank god for that.
Instead, she brought an electric weirdness to the screen that made even the smallest roles utterly unforgettable.
The White Lotus / Party Girl
The 90s indie scene was Poseys playground, and everyone else was just trying to keep up.
Dazed and Confused (1993)
Who could forget senior mean girl Darla Marks?
Not exactly a star-making role in terms of screen time, but she made those minutes count.
The film is a slight comedy that would have disappeared entirely with anyone else in the lead.
Those impromptu dance sequences alone are worth the price of admission.
A Dairy Queen employee with Broadway dreams, Libby Mae exemplifies small-town delusion wrapped in relentless optimism.
Gramercy Pictures
Posey nails every detail from the tragic bangs to the excessively sincere jazz hands.
The role could have easily veered into campy territory, but Posey grounds the madness in something achingly human.
The infamous scene where she reenacts the Kennedy assassination?
First Look Pictures
Horrifying and mesmerizing in equal measure.
Best in Show (2000)
Another Guest collaboration and another brilliant Posey creation.
From her matching J.
Sony Pictures
), Meg embodies a certain bang out of insufferable upper-middle-class anxiety that feels both dated and eerily contemporary.
Twenty-plus years later, it remains one of the funniest performances in a film bursting with comic talent.
What could have been just another rom-com becomes something more honest through Poseys willingness to embrace Noras messiness.
Miramax
Her panic attacks feel viscerally real; her drunken bad decisions are painfully familiar.
What begins as a manic pixie dream girl setup quickly descends into something far more uncomfortable and revealing.
The White Lotus (2023)
This brings us to Poseys latest reinvention.
Warner Bros.
The Queen of the Indies has arrived at prestige TV, and the water looks fine.
MGM
Magnolia Pictures
FX
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