Actress/Film: Anne Bancroft, The Graduate (1967)

Cheating On/With: Her inattentive husband (Murray Hamilton), a law partner; with Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), a listless recent university graduate young enough to be her son.

Alright, We Forgive You: She's clearly not the happiest cougar on the block, riddled with pre-menopausal angst and terrified of her looks fading.

She does, at least, attempt to stop Benjamin from getting mixed up with her daughter Elaine (Katharine Ross). And besides, she's just sort of weirdly, hypnotically authoritative...