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Eileen Daly
She plays a vampire in fetish gear, Lilith Silver, who works as a contract killer to alleviate the boredom of immortality, in the low-budget but campy British action movie, Razor Blade Smile (1998).

Tony Lee

Sybil Danning
Playing the valkyrie warrior St Exmin in Roger Corman's space opera, Battle Beyond The Stars (1980), got Sybil Danning noticed. She went on to win villainous roles in several cult movies: the sleazy Chained Heat with Linda Blair, the rarely seen Hercules with Lou Ferrigno (both 1983), Jungle Warriors (1984) with Nina Van Pallandt and Ava Cadell, and sexploitation outing Warrior Queen (1987) with Donald Pleasence. Then she took the lead role of ex-cop turned bounty hunter Ruger for L.A. Bounty (1989), which she wrote and co-produced. In this hardboiled thriller, she tackles a psycho gangster (Wings Hauser).
Danning has also appeared in Andy Sidaris' sexy actioner Malibu Express (1985), as Contessa Luciana, and guest starred as Mary Kruger in an episode called Visitor's Choice of Kenneth Johnson's TV series V in 1985 [picture #3]. See more of Sybil in our Gallery.

Rob Marshall

Geena Davis
Born in the late 1950s, six-foot tall redhead Virginia Davis studied acting at Boston University, and was a successful model. She appeared in TV sitcom Family Ties (1982) as maid Karen Nicholson, before making her film debut as soap opera actress April in Tootsie (1982). She played goofy office worker 'Larry' in Chevy Chase's hit comedy Fletch (1985), sexy vampire wannabe Odette in horror farce Transylvania 6-5000, and Russian spy Tamara Reshevsky in Secret Weapons (aka: Sexpionage, 1985), prior to being cast as journalist Veronica Quaife in David Cronenberg's remake of The Fly (1986), and as Valerie in wacky sci-fi musical Earth Girls Are Easy (1989). Both movies co-starred Jeff Goldblum, whom Davis later married. More quirky comedic roles followed as 'newly deceased' Barbara Maitland in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice (1988) and Phyllis Potter in heist movie Quick Change (1990). Davis won a supporting actress Oscar for her role as dog-trainer Muriel, William Hurt's love interest in The Accidental Tourist (1988).
   As the downtrodden housewife, Thelma Dickinson, who turns to crime in Ridley Scott's road movie, Thelma & Louise (1991), Davis was not the first of the two women to use a gun against men, but once her friend (played by Susan Sarandon) sets an example, she follows it, eagerly, disarming a state policeman, and locking him inside boot of his patrol car. In period baseball movie A League Of Their Own (1992) Davis played catcher Dottie Hinson, and in Stephen Frears' Hero (1992), she played TV reporter Gale Gayley. Her first leading role was as title character in romantic melodrama Angie (1994), and she then co-starred with Michael Keaton in comedy romance Speechless (1994).
   After marrying director Renny Harlin in 1993, Davis starred as Morgan Adams in the flawed pirate adventure, Cutthroat Island (1995), followed by the excellent thriller (co-starring Samuel L. Jackson) The Long Kiss Goodnight (1997), in which she plays happily married amnesiac Samantha 'Sam' Caine, whose secret identity as former government assassin Charlene 'Charly' Elizabeth Baltimore, is revealed during the film. In her role as hard-boiled hit-woman Charly, Davis shoots pursuing bad guys, jumps from a rooftop into a frozen lake, hijacks a telecom centre, prevents a major terrorist plot by destroying a bridge, and generally causes untold death and mayhem.
   Here's more photos of Davis as killer Charly one two

Judy Davis
Played terrorist leader Frankie Leith in the silly but entertaining siege drama Who Dares Wins (aka: The Final Option, 1982). Taking some diplomatic hostages at an ambassador's house, she spends part of the film toting a machine gun while dressed in a red ballgown.

Devin DeVasquez
Playboy's playmate of the month, June 1985, Louisiana born Devin DeVasquez appeared in Brian Yuzna's bizarre mystery horror Society (1989), before playing the villain's homicidal girlfriend, Cash, in Andy Sidaris' Guns (1990).

Angie Dickinson
As LAPD vice detective Suzanne 'Pepper' Anderson in TV series Police Woman (1975-79), Angie Dickinson created a stir in the world of cops shows.

Amanda Donohoe
She bought human qualities to the character of Roberta Whitloff, an ex-cop turned bounty hunter out for revenge on the killers of her brother, in TV movie It's Nothing Personal (1992), which co-starred Bruce Dern.

Minnie Driver
A guitarist and jazz singer, Minnie Driver performed at clubs in London until taking up acting. TV guest spots led to her being cast as Bond girl, Irina, the Russian gangster's mistress, and wannabe country & western star, in GoldenEye (1995). She won a co-starring role as the assassin's high school sweetheart, Debi Newberry (acting opposite John Cusack), in black comedy Grosse Pointe Blank (1987), and played church window restorer Karen, whose flooded town is besieged by armed thieves, in Hard Rain (1998).
Shortly after providing the voice of Jane Porter for animated feature Tarzan (1999), she got her primo action girl role as, Shannon, the nurse who teams-up with American actress friend, Frances (Mary McCormack), to blackmail a gang of London bank robbers in Mel Smith's comedy High Heels And Low Lifes (2001), where the girls' attack upon the villain's house makes great use of a whole arsenal of automatic weapons.

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