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Anne Parillaud
The title role in Luc Besson's stylish thriller Nikita (aka: La Femme Nikita, 1990) made her a star. She plays a junkie lowlife recruited as an assassin by a covert agency, and the film showcases some of the best girl-with-guns action ever filmed... including a bathroom sequence with the heroine in her underwear, using a sniper rifle dumped into soapy water after she hits the target! See our Gallery for photos. This French-Italian movie was remade in Hollywood by John Badham, as The Assassin (aka: Point Of No Return, 1993), with Bridget Fonda as the heroine, followed by spin-off TV series, La Femme Nikita. |
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Amanda Pays
British actress with a classy accent (catch her as Lady Victoria in Oxford Blues, 1984), Amanda was stunning as TV news-room controller Theora Jones in Channel Four's cult SF comedy-drama Max Headroom (1985), before making below-average genre flick The Kindred (1986) in which she played human-hybrid, Melissa. In Saigon (aka: Off Limits, 1988), she portrayed streetwise nun Sister Nicole, helping US army cops catch a serial killer, while in Leviathan (1989), Amanda played aspiring novelist Elizabeth Williams, and got very wet escaping from an undersea monster. More TV work followed, as she was cast in a regular role as the superhero's scientific helpmate, Dr Tina McGee, in The Flash (1990), and as Phoebe Green, David Duchovny's old flame from Scotland Yard in The X-Files' episode Fire (1993). More recently she joined a modernised version of The Sweeney as Detective Sergeant Anna Dryden in the second season of police drama, Thief-Takers (1997-98). William P. Rutherford
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Jacqueline Pearce
Jacqueline Pearce was trained at RADA, and graduated from parts in genre TV like The Avengers (1961), Doctor Who (1963), and Danger Man (1964), to key roles in British horror movies - playing Alice Thompson in The Plague Of The Zombies, and Anna Franklyn in The Reptile (both 1966). Then, in 1978, she was cast as sexy villainess, Servalan, who became supreme commander of a totalitarian Federation in cult space opera Blake's 7 (1978-81), introduced in episode six, Seek - Locate - Destroy. Although Pearce's campy evil character did not appear in every subsequent episode, she was the heroes' archenemy and her performance was influential on the series' development. It's often overlooked, but she single-handedly established the generally melodramatic tone that became this show's trademark. Servalan with her eye-patch wearing henchman, Travis (Stephen Greif). |
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Nia Peeples
Born in Hollywood, Nia Peeples (born: Virenia Gwendolyn Peeples) dabbled in singing and dancing before she started acting. After working in children’s television, commercials, and guest shots, Peeples landed a part on the soap opera General Hospital, which was followed by the role of Nicole Chapman in Fame. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Peeples was busy indeed, working on a number of television movies and series, as well as recording pop songs and hosting musical shows, such as Top Of The Pops and The Party Machine With Nia Peeples (produced by Arsenio Hall!). In 1998, Peeples began to kick ass as a Texas Ranger in the television series Walker, Texas Ranger, which starred Chuck Norris. As Ranger Sydney Cooke, Peeples took care of her own bad guys with an array of kicks and punches, as well as some funky acrobatics and her trusty sidearm. Peeples made her directorial debut with the short film Treading Water, which she also produced and co-wrote. Her films include Deep Star Six (1989), Alone With A Stranger (2000), The Riff (2002), and Half Past Dead (2002), where she uses some nice hardware to take care of business. Octavio Ramos Jr
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Rosie Perez
Ay, caramba! Born in Brooklyn, New York, on 16 May 1963, this hot Latino actress was tough from the very beginning. For example, at age 12 Perez was sent to a group home for cutting a woman's throat. After getting her act together, she began her career as a dancer, working on TV shows such as Soul Train and In Living Color. Her first role in film was in Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing (1989). She then secured roles in White Men Can't Jump (1992), Fearless (1993), Untamed Heart (1993), and It Could Happen To You (1994). In 1997, Perez starred in Perdita Durango (aka: Dance With The Devil). Based on the novel Wild At Heart by Barry Gifford (David Lynch also mined this book for his 1990 feature of the same name), the story has the title character and her evil lover (and Santero) Romeo Dolorosa (his last name means 'Pain-rose') crossing the Mexican border, kidnapping an American couple, and becoming involved with a truckload of human foetuses, black magic, human sacrifices, and murder. Perez's most recent movies include King Of The Jungle (2001) and Human Nature (2002). She also was involved behind the scenes as a co-producer on HBO's Subway Stories. Octavio Ramos Jr
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Lori Petty
Her gun's so big it needs wheels! Lori Petty's star role in Tank Girl (1995), based on a comic-strip by Alan Martin and James Hewlett, only succeeds because of her quirky sense of humour throughout the action scenes. |
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Amanda Plummer
The daughter of Christopher Plummer and Tammy Grimes, Amanda's screen debut was in offbeat western Cattle Annie And Little Britches (1980), as one of two mischievous young girls (the other was played by Diane Lane) that join a gang of outlaws. She had the recurring role of Alice Hackett in six episodes of TV drama L.A. Law (1986), and alternated success on the stage with character parts in cult movies like Static (1985), Joe versus The Volcano (1990), The Fisher King (1991), So I Married An Axe Murderer and Needful Things (both 1993), The Prophesy (1995), American Perfekt (1997) and The Million Dollar Hotel (2000). Her vital action girl roles include the nun with a gun in Freejack (1992), crazy foulmouthed Honey Bunny, one of the coffee shop stickup thieves in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994), and bomb disposal expert Rothstein in The Final Cut (1995). Ian Shutter
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Natalie Portman
Born in Jerusalem, Israel on 9 June 1981, Natalie Portman immigrated to the United States, where her parents and she lived in Washington DC and later in New York. At age 11, Portman was discovered by a rep from Revlon Cosmetics, but she soon grew bored with modeling and switched to acting. In 1994, Portman made her film debut in Luc Besson's Leon (aka: The Professional). In the film, she played Mathilda, a little girl who becomes an apprentice to assassin Leon (played by the outstanding Jean Reno). From him she learns the arts of pistol cleaning and handling, rifle manipulation and long-distance target acquisition, and bomb-making. After some critically acclaimed work in Heat (1995), Beautiful Girls (1996), and Mars Attacks (1996), she returned to the way of the gun in George Lucas' Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace (1999) and Star Wars II: Attack Of The Clones (2002), as Queen Padme Amidala. In both films, she uses futuristic weapons to good effect. Octavio Ramos Jr
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Ely Pouget
As the company exec menaced by a killer robot, in Death Machine (1997), former model Ely Pouget gets into lots of Die Hard style fight scenes as she's hunted down through the floors of her office block. |
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Kelly Preston
Hawaiian blonde Kelly Preston, born Kelly Palzis, appeared in TV ads before studying drama at university, and had guest roles on TV action shows like Riptide (1984), and Blue Thunder (1984), after playing Dhyana in post-holocaust SF movie Metalstorm: The Destruction Of Jared-Syn (1983), and appearing in John Carpenter's Christine (1983). Her career went into orbit on a NASA shuttle when she played young astronaut Tish in SpaceCamp (1986), but her breakthrough role as female lead was playing Marnie Mason in Twins (1988). As Miranda Reed, she was into witchcraft for Spellbinder (1988), and she portrayed sexy Russian spy 'Bonnie' (who really knows how to dance - with John Travolta!) in The Experts (1989). She has been married to Travolta since 1991. In 2000, Preston played Chirk in poorly received sci-fi adventure Battlefield Earth: A Saga Of The Year 3000. |
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