49. CALISTA FLOCKHART
Any character accused of killing feminism deserves a boxed set for her trouble, no? We loved Ally McBeal for the same reasons she landed on Time magazine: She was neurotic but lovable, silly but smart, desperate for a baby one minute but secure in her independence the next. She was every woman by being a meticulously specific one. Nobody could've inhabited her better than the mousy-but-sexy Flockhart. (She now plays a very Ally-like Republican on Brothers & Sisters.) Ms. McBeal's legacy lives on, as Meredith Grey and others follow in her complicated footsteps.

We're Dyin' For... Ally McBeal on DVD