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- Still, and in spite of early, sadly underappreciated silent stars like Pearl White and Helen Holmes, it was not until the 1970s (with Pam Grier 's iconic blaxploitation features, Carrie Fisher in Star Wars, and the dawn of the Alien saga) that action movie heroines truly entered the pop culture conversation.
collider.com › best-action-movie-heroines-all-timeThe 30 Best Action Movie Heroines of All Time, Ranked - Collider
May 28, 2024 · From The Incredibles' Elastigirl to Terminator 2's Sarah Connor, these are the most influential, fearless action movie heroines that remain inspiring to audiences worldwide.
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Few films have opened with as much riding on them as J.J.Abrams’ franchise restarter The Force Awakens, and it was successful in revitalizing the Star Wars brand for a new generation. Seeing Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill return to the big screen is what sold $2.07 billion in tickets—but Daisy Ridley and Adam Driverwere the best part....
Fitness model, TV personality and retired MMA fighter Gina Carrano stars as a betrayed government operative who uses her black-ops training to turn the tables on the baddies in Steven Soderbergh's simply effective, nuts-and-bolts actioner. The supporting cast includes Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender, Bill Paxton, Channing Tatum, Antonio Banderas ...
The ABC detective drama that all by itself set up the term “jiggle TV” was reinvented for the new millennium in this runaway hit action/comedy starring Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu. Bottom line: these three are movie stars, well-cast, and they have chemistry. The leads returned for 2003’s Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, which sadly go...
Street racer, mechanic, thief and Dominic (Vin Diesel)'s bae, Letty Ortiz (Michelle Rodriguez), is a fan-favorite in the hugely successful, pleasantly silly Fast & Furious saga. She wasn't in Hobbs and Shaw, and the movie was a meh at best.
T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman) is at the center of Marvel's cultural phenomenon, but he's often upstaged by one of the MCU's best-ever villains (Michael B. Jordan's Killmonger) and the women who run Wakanda (including Lupita Nyong'o's Nakia, Danai Gurira's Okoye, Letitia Wright's Shuri, and Angela Bassett's Ramonda). Black Panther triumphed at the Osc...
In the fateful (to put it mildly) hours before she changes her name to Rose Dawson (and later, Rose Dawson-Calvert), this creation of James Cameron and Kate Winslettransforms from a meek, pushed-around trophy wife to a Badass with a capital B action heroine who spits, hits, and brandishes an axe into the bowels of a sinking leviathan to rescue the ...
Somewhat underrated, Phillip Noyce‘s muscular action pic Salt deserves another look. Angelina Jolie plays CIA officer Evelyn Salt, who’s accused of being a Russian double agent and must fight to clear her name. The role was famously written as Edwin A. Salt for Tom Cruise before Jolie stepped in. The most common criticism directed at Salt upon rele...
Zoe Saldana's Gamora is, without question, one of the very best parts of the MCU. To mix things up, we're including Saldana's indelible Na'vi heroine Neytiri on this list. From the moment they first meet through the heart-pounding conclusion of the final battle, Neytiri is often rescuing Jake (Sam Worthington)'s butt, but it doesn't feel forced. Ne...
After working as a high-fashion model and actress for a decade prior, Ukrainian beauty Milla Jovovich experienced an international breakthrough playing this orange-haired supreme being, the key to stopping a planet-killing threat in Luc Besson's sci-fi hit, opposite Bruce Willis. Jovovich went on to play another high-profile action heroine, the Res...
Introduced to us in MCU low point Iron Man 2, Johansson took full control of Black Widow in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, a sophisticated thriller that one could even argue is the most fully satisfying entry of the Infinity Saga. Directed by Cate Shortland (Berlin Syndrome) and co-starring Rachel Weisz, David Harbour and Florence Pugh, Black...
The 1980s were bountiful with action movies—Rambo (1982), Lethal Weapon (1987), Die Hard (1988)—but bereft of female leads. In the Terminator franchise, Linda Hamilton began as love interest ...
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- 124 VOTES. Ellen Ripley. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) goes through a series of intense emotional and physical transformations as she deals with the titular tormentors in the Alien saga.
- 112 VOTES. Sarah Connor. Sarah Connor's transformation from a mild-mannered waitress with a weird pet iguana to the ultimate survivalist bad*ss who's just mildly insane transpires over the course of her first two on-screen appearances, in James Cameron's original The Terminator and its sequel, Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
- 95 VOTES. Selene. The Underworld franchise is far from the only horror-action-sci-fi mashup of supernatural monster slaying at the hands of tough, slick action heroines, but it is one of the most durable.
- 81 VOTES. Alice. Through six grisly Resident Evil adventures, Milla Jovovich's Alice has battled hordes of mutant zombies.
May 13, 2023 · The 2010s saw a growth of interest in women-led action films after the release of titles like Alice in Wonderland (2010) and The Hunger Games. These films were hugely successful, had heroines leading the action and showed them rebelling against the established order.
Jun 18, 2018 · 1. Diana Prince, Wonder Woman. Those who think of Wonder Woman today immediately think of Gal Gadot, which is not a bad thought by any measure. Casting her as Wonder Woman was an act of...
Jan 20, 2012 · It's impossible to talk about cinematic action heroines without talking about the most iconic, and still by far the best: Ellen Ripley, the lead character of all four Alien movies and,...
