For Mother’s Day Wuaki.tv, a leading movie and TV series streaming service, has today revealed the nation’s favourite onscreen mother figure is Molly Weasley from the Harry Potter franchise.

Wuaki.tv asked 1,000 people to vote for their favourite onscreen mother figure who features in movie franchises or a TV series. Of all the onscreen mums, Ronald Weasley’s loving mother was by far the most popular – with almost one in five people naming her as their favourite.

Harry Potter’s mother, Lily Potter, also featured in the top 10, but much further down at number nine. Bambi’s mother, from Disney’s animated classic Bambi grabbed the second spot with 11% of the votes, while in stark contrast Stifler’s Mom from the American Pie franchise came in third place with 10%.

Top 10 onscreen mother figures

Molly Weasley, Harry Potter franchise (19.8%)
Bambi’s mother, Bambi (11.0%)
Stifler’s Mom, American Pie (10.6%)
Princess Diana, Diana (9.4%)
Sarah Connor, Terminator franchise (8.5%)
Mrs Gump, Forrest Gump (6.0%)
Elastigirl/Helen Parr, The Incredibles (3.5%)
Catelyn Stark, Game of Thrones (3.4%)
Lily Potter, Harry Potter franchise (3.1%)
Philomena Lee, Philomena (2.2%)

Some of the more surprising names to appear outside the top 10 included Wendy Torrance, the wife of Jack Torrance from horror film classic The Shining, and Skyler White from US TV series Breaking Bad.

There was also a stark contrast between mummy’s girls and boys. While Molly Weasley proved to be the most popular mum amongst woman surveyed (grabbing 23% of the female vote), men preferred the tougher approach to parenting from Terminator’s Sarah Connor (with 14% of the male vote).

Top 5 onscreen mothers voted for by men

Sarah Connor, Terminator franchise
Stifler’s Mom, American Pie
Molly Weasley, Harry Potter franchise
Bambi’s mother, Bambi
Mrs Gump, Forrest Gump

Top 5 onscreen mothers voted for by women

Molly Weasley, Harry Potter franchise
Bambi’s mother, Bambi
Princess Diana, Diana
Stifler’s Mom, American Pie
Mrs Gump, Forrest Gump

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