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Maud Adams
Except for the actresses who have played 'Ms Moneypenny', she is the only Bond girl to appear in two 007 movies. In The Man With The Golden Gun (1974), she played Andrea - villainous Scaramanga's doomed mistress, but she was somewhat overshadowed by Britt Ekland. While in Octopussy (1983), she was promoted to the role of romantic foil for 007 and proves to be a worthy adversary for Roger Moore's James Bond.

Nancy Allen
She played police officer Ann Lewis in Paul Verhoeven's RoboCop (1988), and its sequels RoboCop 2 (1990), and RoboCop 3 (1993), providing backup for the cyborg hero's battle against crime and corporate corruption. In the sequels, her role in the police action was increased and she got into shootouts with snipers.

Maria Conchita Alonzo
Miss Venezuela in 1975, Maria became one of the West's top Hispanic stars, as leading lady in Moscow On The Hudson, Extreme Prejudice, and sci-fi thriller The Running Man (1987) - in which she played Amber Mendez, contestant in a lethal TV gameshow. Then, in 1990, she was cast as tough cop Leona Cantrell, battling against deadly alien hunters in Stephen Hopkins' enjoyable SF-horror movie, Predator 2.

Peter Schilling

Carol Alt
She says:
"When I start to sweat and get all red, they say,
Carol, we're ready to shoot." After eight years as a supermodel, Carol Alt turned to acting in mostly European films, and played Nancy in two TV movies about gangsters, Vendetta: Secrets Of A Mafia Bride (aka: Bride Of Violence, 1991), and sequel Vendetta II: The New Mafia (aka: Bride Of Violence 2, 1993).
Her most notable action roles are as femme fatale Saundra in Deadly Past (1994), agent Monica McBride in The Protector (aka: Body Armor, 1997), and heroine Grace in cyber-SF thriller Storm Trooper (1998).
Since 1999, Alt has played Karen Oldham in TV series Amazon. She enjoys driving Ferraris at 185 mph for charity! Here's her signed publicity photo.

Gillian Anderson
Co-starred with David Duchovny (who plays Fox Mulder) in The X-Files since 1993. As Special Agent Dana Scully, she's the sceptical doctor who debunks paranormal mysteries and UFO myths for her disbelieving bosses at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
   In seasonal episode How The Ghosts Stole Christmas, Scully visits a haunted house and appears to end up getting shot by her partner (or was it all a bad dream?) photos - one two
   See Dana in gun-toting action as a game player in 7th season episode First Person Shooter (scripted by cyberpunk author William Gibson), in which she uses some major firepower against a horde of digital foes in the potentially lethal VR arena to save her partner.
   More Anderson pictures: publicity glamour makeup armed

[thanks to Michael Lohr, Donald Morefield, and Ian Shutter for picture research]

Melody Anderson
She played the hero's girlfriend Dale Arden, in Flash Gordon (1980). The evil alien Ming the merciless wants to marry her, but she's not keen on his pointy eyebrows and droopy moustache. When she eventually breaks out of captivity in the Mongo bridal suite, Dale attacks a palace guard, steals his ray-gun and starts shooting.

Pamela Anderson
Canadian model turned actress Pam Anderson set the standard for top-heavy blondes in TV's BayWatch, and played hooker Sarah in the routine comedy-thriller Good Cop Bad Cop (aka: Raw Justice, 1994), before she achieved big screen stardom in sci-fi comicbook adaptation Barb Wire (1996), which reworks the plot of Casablanca, and where the size of our heroine's guns matched her physical assets. Troubled marriage to rocker Tommy Lee, and her role as the glamorous Vallery Irons in TV action series V.I.P. (1998), kept her in the tabloid limelight. See more in Gallery.

Ian Shutter

Gabrielle Anwar
Born on 4th February 1970, this English actress graduated from TV work, such as role of Nell Forester in miniseries First Born (1989), to big screen productions like Disney's horse movie, Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken (1991), in which she played real life stunt rider Sonora Webster. She was Al Pacino's dance partner Donna for a memorable tango in Scent Of A Woman (1992), and then co-starred opposite Michael J. Fox in romantic comedy For Love Or Money (aka: The Concierge, 1993). For Abel Ferrara's revisionist SF-horror, Body Snatchers (1994), Anwar appeared nude as Marti Malone, and was nearly taken over by invading alien pod people. She portrayed Queen Anne in a remake of The Three Musketeers (1993), and Dagney in Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead (1995). She has also appeared in The Grave (1996) as Jordan, and rescue drama Sub Down (1997) as Laura Dyson, before returning to TV as Florry Lewis in The Ripper (1997), and Marita Lorenz in My Little Assassin (1999).
Sadly, Anwar's once-promising career has floundered of late, to the point where she's reduced to badly written parts in lacklustre genre movies, including that of computer security expert Kate Hayden, investigating hijack of rock star's plane during webcast of airborne gig, in Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal (2001), and TV reporter Ann Baurer, caught up in a terrorist plot in Flying Virus (2001).

Donald Morefield

Patricia Arquette
Since her acting career took off in the early 1990s, Patricia has become the most famous movie star in the Arquette family, achieving greater success than older sister, Rosanna, and younger brothers, Alexis and David. The role of Kristen Parker in A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) was her most notable early appearance, and she followed that with parts in TV movies such as Dillinger and Wildflower (both 1991), before co-starring with Michael Madsen in crime thriller Trouble Bound (1992) as wayward hitchhiker Kit, and with Christian Slater in Tony Scott's lawless action movie, True Romance (1993), as the hero's tough girlfriend Alabama Whitman.
In John Boorman's political thriller Beyond Rangoon (1995), she played widowed American doctor Laura Bowman, stranded without a passport in Burma under martial law, lost in the jungle, on the run from authorities, and forced to shoot a soldier who tries to rape her. While in David Lynch's mystery thriller, Lost Highway (1997), Arquette played two characters - murdered housewife Renée Madison, and dangerous gangster's moll Alice Wakefield.
Perhaps her best girl-with-a-gun role to date, though, is as femme fatale Sandra Dunmore in black comedy, Goodbye Lover (1999), directed by Roland Joffé. Arquette has since appeared in supernatural genre films as the possessed waitress Frankie Paige, in horror drama Stigmata (2000), as love interest Valerie in fantasy farce, Little Nicky (2000), and as Mary Burke in Martin Scorsese's haunted Bringing Out The Dead (2000).

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