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American Horror Story Characters Ranked (By Actor) From Worst to Best

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Nov 15, 2017 8:30 PM
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American Horror Story: Roanoke
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Finn Wittrock's No. 3. Jether Polk, AHS: Roanoke

1. You don't hire Finn Wittrock and hide his pretty face under all that inbred aesthetic. 2. If you do, you make him stick around for more than an episode.


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Finn Wittrock's No. 2. Tristan, AHS: Hotel

Sure we got to see Finn Wittrock shirtless (a lot) and make out with, well, everybody. But Tristan was just pretty annoying.


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Finn Wittrock's No. 1. Dandy, AHS: Freak Show

His first American Horror Story role and best American Horror Story role. Dandy was a sociopath and you could tell Wittrock had a great time sinking his teeth into the gig.


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Mare Winningham's No. 4. Alicia, AHS: Coven

Mare Winningham has played a lot of pretty awful people on AHS, but her worst one yet has got to be Kyle's sexually abusive mom.


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Mare Winningham's No. 3. Rita, AHS: Freak Show

Is Alicia worse than Pepper's sister Rita? They're both pretty awful.


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Mare Winningham's No. 2. Sally Keffler, AHS: Cult

We would've loved to have spent five more episodes with Winningham's badass alt-right fighting, joint rolling Sally. Alas, Kai and his goons made sure that would never happen.


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Mare Winningham's No. 1. Ms. Evers, AHS: Hotel

Sure she had her problems, but with Ms. Evers, Winningham finally got more to do than be terrible.


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Jamie Brewer's No. 3. Marjorie, AHS: Freak Show

Can we pretend the all that Neil Patrick Harris stuff didn't happen on Freak Show? Silver lining: We got Jamie Brewer back into the mix.


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Jamie Brewer's No. 2. Nan, AHS: Coven

Admit it, you were so pissed when Nan was killed on Coven.


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Jamie Brewer's No. 1. Adelaide, AHS: Murder House

Addie was one of the few characters you can actually really feel for on AHS, despite her warnings of death and what not.


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Gabourey Sidibe's No. 2. Regina, AHS: Freak Show

Gabourey Sidibe had so little to do besides get killed by Dandy.


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Gabourey Sidibe's No. 1. Queenie, AHS: Coven & Hotel

Yas, Queenie! So brash and so sassy, Queenie was the best. Who could forget her friendship with Kathy Bates' LaLaurie?


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Zachary Quinto's No. 2. Chad, AHS: Murder House

Zachary Quinto's controlling former owner of the Murder House wasn't anything to write home about.


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Zachary Quinto's No. 1. Dr. Thredson, AHS: Asylum

Creepy with a capitol C!


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Taissa Farmiga's No. 3. Sophie Green, AHS: Roanoke

When we heard that Taissa Farmiga was returning to AHS in her third role, we were thrilled. When she showed up as a truly stupid moderator of a My Roanoke Nightmare fan site, just to be brutally impaled and burned alive—well, we were considerably less thrilled.


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Taissa Farmiga's No. 2. Zoe, AHS: Coven

A little on the annoying side, Zoe's power of the killer vagina was the only thing that made her interesting.


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Taissa Farmiga's No. 1. Violet, AHS: Murder House

Spunky and ghostly is just the way we like Taissa Farmiga.


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Alexandra Breckinridge's No. 2. Kaylee, AHS: Coven

A pyrotechnic witch, she was easily duped by and then killed by Hank. Meh.


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Alexandra Breckinridge's No. 1. Moira, AHS: Murder House

Alexandra Breckenridge played the younger Frances Conroy who used this form to tempt and taunt men.


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Chloe Sevigny's No. 2. Alex, AHS: Hotel

Chloe Sevigny's character willingly became vampire(y) to be with her beloved son. Other than that, she was pretty boring.


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Chloe Sevigny's No. 1. Shelley, AHS: Asylum

Sure this was a way smaller role, but you could tell she had one heck of a time playing the nymphomaniac who got experimented on by Dr. Arden


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Dylan McDermott's No. 2. Johnny, AHS: Asylum

Talk about mommy and daddy issues!


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Dylan McDermott's No. 1. Ben, AHS: Murder House

We went from loving to hating and wanting to do everything in between to Dylan McDermott's first character.


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Denis O'Hare's No. 5. Stanley, AHS: Freak Show

The smarmiest character ever, his claim to fame was ... his big penis.


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