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Barbara Bach
Famously married to ex-Beatle Ringo Starr, she plays a Soviet secret XXX agent in the 10th Bond movie, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).
Initially, Major Anya Amasova wants revenge on James Bond (Roger Moore), after finding out that he killed her Russian boyfriend on a mission - but, of course, old smoothie 007 charms and disarms her.

Karen Bach
Karen Bach plays the prostitute turned violent outlaw and spree killer, Nadine, in the controversial Ruropean rape/revenge thriller, Baise Moi (2000).

Adrienne Barbeau in Escape From New York

Adrienne Barbeau
As the heroine, Maggie (girlfriend of Harry Dean Stanton's character, Brain), of John Carpenter's futuristic prison movie, Escape From New York (1981), she got to shoot at the villain's car during the climactic race across a bridge dotted with landmines.

Glynis Barber
When they replaced some of the rebel heroes during the 3rd and 4th seasons of BBC-TV space opera, Blake's 7 Glynis Barber joined the cast in 1981 as blonde gunslinger, Soolin, who had a neat line in sarcasm if she couldn't get away with using her futuristic blaster.
Later, Barber played the British half of TV's crime fighting duo, Dempsey & Makepeace (1985). Michael Brandon was her trigger-happy partner, in a TV action-adventure series derived from John Wayne's Brannigan (1976).

Ellen Barkin
She says:
"Hollywood just doesn't perceive me as a Penny Pretty type." Quirky blonde actress with admirable range, Barkin followed a clutch of minor roles, such as Beth in Diner (1982) and Maggie in Eddie And The Cruisers (1983), with a mercurial performance as suicidal Penny Priddy in cult favourite, The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The Eighth Dimension (1984), where her depressive character tries to shoot herself in a jazz club. Unfortunately, the mainstream stardom she deserved was not immediate while she accepted parts in arty movies, like Laurette in Jim Jarmusch's intriguing jailbreak movie Down By Law, Jon Voight's girlfriend Starr in Desert Bloom (both 1986), and confused skydiver Claire in Mary Lambert's weird psychodrama Siesta (1987). Eventually, however, Barkin made progress from notable supporting actress to leading lady, when she co-starred as D.A. Anne Osborne, who falls for a charming but corrupt New Orleans cop (Dennis Quaid) in Jim McBride's romantic comedy-drama, The Big Easy (1987).
Later, she played sexy Sunny Boyd, gun moll for robber (Lance Henriksen) in Walter Hill's revenge thriller Johnny Handsome (1989). Here, she helps betray and shoot one of the gang after their jewellery store heist, and pistol-whips an office boss to make him turn off alarms during the film's payroll theft. She was the mystery blonde (with a gun in her purse!) and serial-murder suspect Helen Cruger, in whodunit Sea Of Love (1989), and went on play a man in a woman's body as Amanda 'Steve' Brooks in Blake Edwards' fantasy farce Switch (1991). Another sexy role as deadly spy Margaret Wells in Bad Company (with Laurence Fishburne) preceded her appearance as tough cowgirl Calamity Jane in Hill's revisionist western, Wild Bill (both 1995), and a key role in gangster comedy Trigger Happy (aka: Mad Dog Time, 1996).
In Mercy (2000), Ellen Barkin gives her best performance for years as tough homicide detective Catherine Palmer, investigating serial murders that draw her into a shadowy underworld of sadomasochism. In one dramatic scene, she pursues a suspect into the street and shoots him [photo]

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Drew Barrymore with James LeGros in Guncrazy

Drew Barrymore
Third generation Hollywood star, Drew Barrymore was a successful child actor, as Gertie in Steven Spielberg's ET: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), as Charlene 'Charlie' McGee psychic pyromaniac of Firestarter (1984), and Amanda in the final segment of movie anthology Cat's Eye (1985). After personal problems of a teenager dealing with fame, her movie career re-started with more adult roles, such as white trash Anita Minterr, drawn into a life of violent crime, in 'Bonnie and Clyde' road movie GunCrazy (1992), and the demonically possessed sexpot Holly Gooding in Doppelganger (1993). Her best action girl role, so far, is as victimised Lilly Laronette in feminist western, Bad Girls (1994), where she sports two pistols for the girls' final shootout against their male enemies.
Since then, Barrymore has played gangster's moll Sugar (opposite Debi Mazar's Spice) in Batman Forever (1995), hapless murder victim Casey Becker in serial killer horror Scream (1996) and, more recently, she appeared (alongside Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu) as one of three heroines in a big screen version of 1970s' TV show, Charlie's Angels (2000), playing kung fu expert Dylan Sanders.
See more Bad Girls photos in Gallery.

Angela Bassett
She played driver and bodyguard Lornette 'Mace' Mason in Kathryn Bigelow's futuristic thriller Strange Days (1995), and so as not to crease her party frock for millennial celebrations she kept her gun in a crotch holster.

Monica Bellucci
Born in September 1968 in Umbria, Italy, Bellucci originally intended to pursue a career in the legal profession. While studying at the University of Perugia, she began modelling. In 1988, she moved to Milan and joined Elite Model Management. Having garnered great interest through her modelling career, she began acting in an Italian TV series in 1990 and made a brief appearance as one of the vampire brides in Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992). After featuring in a number of Italian films, her leading role as Lisa in the Hitchcockian French thriller L'Appartement (1996) won her a French Cesar nomination for Most Promising Actress and wider acknowledgement wherever the film was seen. Her sheer physical presence (as mute gypsy, Nat) in the French gun-frenzy film Dobermann (1997), and her pouting sexuality in the Oscar-nominated Italian feature, Malèna (2000), have won her more plaudits and admirers.
More recently she featured as Chantal Hearst in the English-speaking Under Suspicion (2000) with Morgan Freeman and Gene Hackman, and as Sylvia in the French-speaking hit Brotherhood Of The Wolf (2001), Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre (2002) and the controversial Gasper Noé film Irreversible (2002) which, like Dobermann and Brotherhood, starred her husband since 1999, Vincent Cassel. Fans await with anticipation her seductive appearance as Persephone in the likely blockbuster sequels to The Matrix, which should bring her even wider attention.

Stewart Smith-Langridge

Halle Berry
A former model and beauty queen, crowned Miss USA in 1987, Halle Maria Berry was born on 14 August 1968, in Cleveland, Ohio. She played a stripper named Cory, in Bruce Willis movie The Last Boy Scout (1991), and sexy cavegirl character Sharon Stone in The Flintstones (1994), before winning female lead in TV movie Solomon And Sheba (1995), and role of plucky flight attendant Jean in hijack thriller Executive Decision (1996).
Playing Ororo Monroe, alias Storm, in X-Men (2000) was Berry's introduction to superheroine cinema, and she then played Ginger Knowles in hi-tech heist thriller, Swordfish (2001).

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Claudia Black
Claudia was born and raised in Sydney, Australia. She has appeared in many of Australia's popular TV series and movies, and is well known to Aussie audiences for her portrayal of the hermaphrodite Jill Mayhew in Good Guys Bad Guys (1997), and also the leading role of Angela Kostapas, a Greek lawyer, in weekly TV series City Life (1996). She has also appeared in other Australian TV productions such as A Country Practice (1994, shown on ITV in UK), Police Rescue (1990, BBC1 in UK) and Water Rats (1996, Channel 5 in UK). She has also had parts on the syndicated hit shows Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995) playing Cassandra, and Xena: Warrior Princess (1995).
Her biggest acting accomplishments thus far have gained her international fame as Peacekeeper Aeryn Sun in the hit TV series Farscape (1999-2002). She has also starred in the movies Pitch Black (2001), as Sharon 'Shazza' Montgomery, and in Queen Of The Damned (2002), as Pandora.
More photos of Black as Farscape heroine, Aeryn - armed, aiming.

Cate Blanchett
She says:
"I'm not a weak woman. I know my own mind." Cate was born in Melbourne, Australia, and graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1992. She joined the Sydney Theatre Company's production of Caryl Churchill's Top Girls. She then played Felice Bauer in Timothy Daly's Kafka Dances, winning the 1993 Newcomer Award from the Sydney Theatre Critics Circle for her performance.
Her first major starring role came in 1998, when she seized the movie screen in the title role of Elizabeth, and won a Golden Globe award for best actress in a drama. She has since gained worldwide cult status fame playing the part of Galadriel in blockbuster trilogy The Lord Of The Rings. She has been in several other movies including 1997's Oscar And Lucinda where she played the character of Lucinda Leplastrier, 1999's The Talented Mr Ripley where she played Meredith Logue, and 2001's The Shipping News where she played the enigmatic character. Petal. Also in 2001, Blanchett played dual role of Charlotte and Dominique in Gillian Armstrong's WW2 spy drama Charlotte Gray.

Emily Booth
Onetime presenter of Bits, the TV review of computer games, Emily Booth plays 'Princess' Laura in amusing short sci-fi flick, Inferno (2001), about A.I. software in a shoot 'em up VR game that evolves non-violent 'characters'. Here's more great photos of her in action: ready shooting.

Cynthia Brimhall
A Playboy playmate in October 1985, Cynthia Brimhall is best known for her recurring role as undercover federal agent and lounge singer, Edy Stark, in sexy action movies by Andy Sidaris. Her screen debut was in Hard Ticket To Hawaii (1987), and she played the character of Edy in Picasso Trigger (1988), Guns (1990), Do Or Die (1991), Hard Hunted (1992) and Fit To Kill (1993). She also performed theme songs for Guns and Do Or Die.
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Sandra Bullock
As the star and producer of Miss Congeniality (2000), she enjoyed a tailor-made role as an FBI agent Gracie Hart going undercover as a contestant at the Miss United States beauty pageant.

Yancy Butler
New York actress who got the attention of action fans as the female lead, Natasha Binder (opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme), in John Woo's first American film, Hard Target (1993). She then played skydiver Jessie Crossman in Drop Zone (1994), and found regular TV work as police officer Ann-Marie Kersey in TV cop show, Brooklyn South (1997). More recently, Butler won the role of super-heroine Sara Pezzini in pilot film, Witchblade (2000), and starred in the TV series that followed in 2001.

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