Film character
Idgie Threadgoode
Fried Green Tomatoes 1991
played by Mary Stuart Masterson
The film
Amidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in 1920s Whistle Stop, Alabama.
Synopsis from TMDB.
The name
Also in Fried Green Tomatoes