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As one of the Hallmark Channel’s most in-demand holiday heroines, she’s become a familiar presence to viewers.
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Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
In this mix of home-invasion terror and slasher picture, Kate Siegel puts a different spin on the usual horror heroine as an author unable to hear or speak but who has plenty of gumption when she's stalked in her home by a masked killer.
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—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
Director Satoshi Kon uses the medium to his advantage, to be sure, utilizing the reality-bending possibilities of animation to take viewers inside his heroine's paranoid, fractured headspace.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 25 Oct. 2024
Inside His 'Intimate' and 'Great' Life with Blake Lively and Their Family
& Juliet imagines what would happen if the title heroine from William Shakespeare's classic romantic tragedy Romeo and Juliet would have survived and gotten a second chance at life and love on her own terms.
—Dave Quinn, People.com, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Heroine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heroine. Accessed 11 Dec. 2024.
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