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* In ''Film/ADangerousMethod'' Sabina Spielrin is portrayed like this.

* Gina, Tony Montana's sister, in her last scene in ''Film/{{Scarface 1983}}''. Tony has been playing KnightTemplarBigBrother to her throughout the movie, having a [[MySisterIsOffLimits violently territorial reaction]] every time her virginity is the least bit endangered, to the point of being a {{Yandere}}. This culminates with him discovering her post-sex with Manny Ribera (his best friend) and shooting him dead right in front of her, only for her to tearfully reveal that they'd gotten married the previous day. At his mansion that night, amidst the attack by Alejandro Sosa's men, she appears semi-nude and drugged out, telling him he can have her now since he clearly wants her for himself, all the while shooting at him with a revolver. One of the attackers kills her; Tony kills him in turn and then basically loses his mind over her body. Of course, ''he's'' the one who has the swimming pool death. (Incidentally, IncestSubtext is a somewhat popular reading of Laertes's overprotective attitude toward [[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} the original Ophelia]].)

* French Actress Isabelle Adjani plays characters which almost always is this.

Compare/contrast with NightmareFuelStationAttendant, {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, FaintingSeer, AxeCrazy, MysteriousWaif, WaifProphet, HystericalWoman, UnstablePoweredWoman. For the (usually) "harmlessly kooky" variant see ManicPixieDreamGirl and PerkyGoth. See CuteButPsycho when mental issues are not part of the appeal. A reason for the appeal of the {{Yandere}}.

* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': [[NoExportForYou PSP-game only]]. [[spoiler:Kyouko Sakura]]'s witch form is known as Ophelia, and it integrates the mythology of Ophelia into its motifs.

* Lacey of WebAnimation/LaceyGames is one of these. A beautiful {{Moe}} girl who's supposedly a 2000s flash game mascot, Lacey at first appears to be a typical little girl WishFulfillment character. However, throughout the series, Lacey is revealed to have a DarkAndTroubledPast that left her absolutely insane.

->''"Thought and affliction, passion, hell itself,''\\
''She turns to favour and to prettiness."''

* Dilandau from ''Manga/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'' eventually dissolves into a male version of this as his mental stability shatters from a variety of influences. Given that he ''started the series'' as an AxeCrazy PsychoForHire, that's saying quite a lot. And then you find out that he actually started out [[spoiler:as a girl]].

* This is more or less Katie-Jane Garside's (Of Daisy Chainsaw and Queenadreena fame) stage persona. Actually, imagine the girl in the picture at the top of this page stumbling around in a terrified daze and you're practically there.

* Music/YoshikiHayashi in both stage persona and RealLife is a male example of the trope, though somewhat less, both as he's gotten older and as therapy for the conditions from which he has suffered has improved from what it was. Arguably, from Yoshiki's autobiography, Yoshiki's father was also a RealLife male Ophelia, one whose life sadly ended from suicide at 33.

* Marianne Faithfull, who went from early 60's [[TheIngenue ingenue]] to late 60's wild child with an almost suicidal eagerness. She even played Ophelia alongside Nicol Williamson's Hamlet.
* Music/TheDoors: Jim Morrison a poem in tribute to Brian Jones, guitarist for Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}, which compared him to Ophelia; Jones had drowned in a swimming pool. * Morrison himself counts, as a rare male example.
* Most of Music/{{Evanescence}}'s {{Sanity Slippage Song}}s give off this vibe.
* Lacey Sturm, the original lead singer for the band Music/{{Flyleaf}}, has an Ophelia-like air in their music videos, and sometimes, even on stage. Bare feet and all.
* Music/LanaDelRey shows [[ShoutOut shades of]]... [[OrphanedSetup it]].

* Reol has this image in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVIvnYFsfXM White Midnight]] as she dresses in white, wanders around, and seems completely oblivious to the world around her while displaying her trademark ThousandYardStare.

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* Lucia Joyce, daughter of Creator/JamesJoyce. Schizophrenic. Institutionalised. Pretty (rather Flapper-like), with an artistic temperament: she was a skilled dancer in her youth, good enough to train with Isadora Duncan.
* ''Series/AmericasNextTopModel'''s seasons 12 and 17 contestant Allison Harvard (also known on the Internet as "Creepy-chan"). Long, messy hair, weird, crazy vibe and everything.
* In 1720, Susan Mountfort, an institutionalized actress who had been known for playing Ophelia, escaped her keepers, went to her former theater, hid in the wings, and took the current actress's place in Ophelia's "mad" scene, dying shortly afterwards.
* The aforementioned sister of Tennesee Williams, Rose.
* UsefulNotes/AlexanderHamilton's eldest daughter, Angelica, became this when her older brother Philip was killed in a duel. Thanks to a nervous breakdown, she reverted to a childlike state from which she never recovered, and was reported to have played piano incessantly.
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* Music/TheDoors: Jim Morrison a poem in tribute to Brian Jones, guitarist for Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}, which compared him to Ophelia; Jones had drowned in a swimming pool. ** Morrison himself counts, as a rare male example.

* Music/TheDoors: Jim Morrison a poem in tribute to Brian Jones, guitarist for Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}, which compared him to Ophelia; Jones had drowned in a swimming pool.