The Most Badass Female Action Heros

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Before there was Lisbeth of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,




Cataleya of Colombiana, 

Hanna of Hanna 

and 

Babydoll, Sweet Pea, Rocket, Blondie and Amber of Sucker Punch,

there were a slew of badass women before them.

In my eyes, the most badass girls in any action film I've seen up until now, goes to:

Charly Baltimore

Geena Davis as an assassin for the CIA in 1996's The Long Kiss Goodnight.

TRAILER:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDuma1M09B0

Lieutenant Jordan O'Neil

Demi Moore as an army Lieutenant in 1997's G.I. Jane.

TRAILER:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQg28Qwmaro

Black Mamba

Uma Thurman as an assassin in 2003's Kill Bill Volume 1.

TRAILER: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-czwy-aVbbU

O-Ren Ishii

Lucy Liu as an assassin in 2003's Kill Bill Volume 1.

TRAILER:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-czwy-aVbbU

Alice

Milla Jovovich as a genetically altered human with super abilities, in the Resident Evil series.

TRAILER:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiS6gtClrqk

Selene

Kate Beckinsale playing a werewolf hunter in the Underworld series.

TRAILER:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMYyhBtQ1PU

Lara Croft

Angelina Jolie as an adventurer in the Lara Croft: Tomb Raider series.

TRAILER:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnNBqNb3taw

 Evelyn Salt

Angelina Jolie as a CIA agent in 2010's Salt.

TRAILER:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ40WlshNwU

Fox

Angelina Jolie as an assassin in 2008's Wanted.

TRAILER:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4pWuFv48Zk 

Foxy Brown

Pam Grier as a woman seeking revenge in the Foxy Brown films.

TRAILER:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erD0pCe0S5Q

Bonnie

Faye Dunaway as a bank robber in 1967's Bonnie and Clyde.

TRAILER:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNrSGutBOlE

Nikita

Anne Parillaud as a trained assassin in 1990's Nikita.

TRAILER:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=167URLa-On0

&

Maggie Hayward

Bridget Fonda as a trained assassin in 1993's Point of No Return (American remake of the French Nikita).

TRAILER:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loWM25F_SOY

Thelma & Louise

 Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis as fugitives for murder and robbery in 1991's Thelma & Louise.

TRAILER:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRr0HY9MPZ0

Mallory Knox

Juliette Lewis as a serial killer in 1994's Natural Born Killers.

TRAILER:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTCL0I2nK4A 

Niobe

Jada Pinkett Smith as a rebel pilot in 2003's The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions.

 

TRAILERS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acmbihkmeVg 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhoaoTZJSX4 

Frankie, Cleo, T.T. & Stoney

Vivica A. Fox, Queen Latifah, Kimberly Elise and Jada Pinkett Smith as working class girls turned bank robbers in 1996's Set It Off.

TRAILER:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LZKJx-otso

Erica Bain

Jodie Foster as a vigilante in 2007's The Brave One.

TRAILER:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_PT4zvbhFw

Abernathy, Zoe & Kim

Rosario Dawson, Zoe Bell and Tracie Thoms as a make-up artist and two stuntwomen looking for revenge in 2007's Death Proof. 

TRAILER:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEVyC8FByng

*Lisbeth Salander

Noomi Rapace playing a brilliant but volatile hacker in 2009's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

TRAILER:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL8LI-h2WFc

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