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Cassidy Rae
Had the recurring role of Sarah Owens in four episodes of TV's Melrose Place (1992), and its spin-off series Models, Inc. (1994), before she played heroine Jamie Saunders (opposite Ethan Randall) in cyber-thriller Evolver (1995). In this SF action film, she duels with an experimental robot while playing VR war-games, unaware the machine has some military software programs installed. |
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Natasha Richardson
In Paul Schrader's biopic Patty Hearst (1988), she played the real life heiress who, in 1974, was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, and brainwashed into joining the revolutionary terrorists' cause. This involved robbing banks with a machine gun so, at the time, she became the most famous fugitive in America. |
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Michelle Rodriguez
What kind of babe would elicit the following response from Milla Jovovich: "I'm going to kiss you, bitch"? The babe in question is Michelle Rodriguez, a hot Latina actress who two short years ago set the silver screen on fire with her debut in Girlfight (2000). It was only a matter of time before someone would put a gun in her hand. Born in Bexar County, Texas, on July 20, 1978, Rodriguez has lived in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Jersey City, New Jersey. She began working as an extra in 1999, securing several minor roles in movies such as Summer Of Sam (1999) and Cradle Will Rock (1999). In Girlfight, she played Diana Guzman, a boxer who like Rocky is tough and driven. This performance garnered her several awards, including a Best Actress Award from the Las Vegas Film Critics Society. She then starred in films such as 3 A.M. (2001) and The Fast And The Furious (2001). In 2002, Michelle starred in Resident Evil, playing second banana to Milla Jovovich's character. Redefining the term 'bad ass' for women (much the way Vasquez - played by Jenette Goldstein - did in the film Aliens), Michelle proved equally adept in martial arts as she did in handling an array of state-of-the-art weaponry. Commandos never looked like this! Octavio Ramos Jr
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Cynthia Rothrock
Growing up in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Cynthia Rothrock began to learn martial arts when she was 13 years old. Since then, Rothrock has earned five black belts in the following arts: Tang Soo Do, Tae Kwon Do, Eagle Claw, Wu Shu, and Northern Shaolin. Her hard work has paid off: From 1981 to 1985, she was the undefeated World Karate Champion in both forms and weapons competitions. In the early 1980s, Rothrock succumbed to the acting bug, oddly enough by appearing in a Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial. She then went on to star (with Michelle Yeoh) in Yes, Madam (1985, re-titled Super Cops in USA, and Police Assassins 2 in UK) and from there began appearing regularly in martial-arts-oriented films, such as Righting Wrongs (aka: Above The Law, 1986), No Retreat, No Surrender 2 (aka: Raging Thunder, 1987), China O'Brien (1989) filmed back-to-back with sequel China O'Brien 2 (1990), City Cops (1990), American Tigers (1991), Hostage (1997), and Outside The Law (2002). Rothrock has been inducted into the Black Belt Hall of Fame and Inside Kung-Fu Hall of Fame. She is presently conducting seminars that teach others not only about martial arts but also how to make action movies. Her latest film effort is tentatively titled Sci-Fighter, which begins shooting in May 2003. Octavio Ramos Jr
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Betsy Russell
In Avenging Angel (1985), the sequel to Angel (1984), Betsy Russell took over the title role (from Donna Wilkes) as the former teenage hooker turned undercover cop, in her bid to avenge a friend's death. |
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Theresa Russell
Theresa Russell starred as an undercover vice cop in Impulse (1990), who gets into trouble with gangsters when she hides all evidence of a murder. She also played sexy secret agent Alex Canis in espionage thriller Flight Of The Dove (1994). |
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Rene Russo
She played heavily armed Secret Service agent, Lilly Raines, opposite Clint Eastwood in Wolfgang Petersen's In The Line Of Fire (1993), but Rene Russo is best known to action fans as Lorna Cole, a tough cop - with lots of scar tissue - who's sometime girlfriend of Mel Gibson's hero in Richard Donner's Lethal Weapon 3 (1992). |
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Amanda Ryan
As spirited heroine, Vera Campbell, she played a British agent foiling sabotage aboard a WWII hospital ship in the TV movie Britannic (1999). In the film, she shoots one of the machine-gun carrying mutineers, and later pursues some bad guys through the sinking ship, armed only with a pistol. Donald Morefield
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Jeri Ryan
Born in Munich, Germany, on 22nd February 1968, Jeri Ryan (alias Jeri Lynn Ryan) is a former beauty queen who appeared in American TV shows like Matlock (1986), Melrose Place (1992), and Time Trax (1993), before getting noticed by sci-fi fans for her role as Russian UFO abductee turned Majestic-12 agent Juliet Stuart, in seven episodes of retro-SF series, Dark Skies (1996-97), an ambitious yet flawed alternate history drama that reinterpreted key socio-political upheavals of the postwar era as UFOlogy conspiracy. Later, she replaced departing space babe, Kes (Jennifer Lien), on Star Trek Voyager (1995-2001) as the lost-in-space ship's new glamour girl - though playing reconditioned borg drone, Seven - "Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero One" - alias Annika Hansen, she first appeared (in season four's opening episode, Scorpion part two, 1998), as a rather ugly duckling robot girl before her startling transformation into ultimate Trek pin-up material. On Voyager, Seven is usually at consoles in astro-lab, or recharging cyber battries in her cargo bay alcove, but she can shoot a mean phaser blast, if provoked. Ryan also played vampire babe Valerie Sharp in Dracula 2000 (aka: Dracula 2001). Steven Hampton
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Meg Ryan
that this woman is not to be messed around with." - Tom Hanks
Endearingly cute, blue-eyed blonde who dumped, albeit briefly, the perky screen persona she had
established as pilot's wife Carole Bradshaw in Top Gun (1986), and the female lead in romantic
comedy When Harry Met Sally (1989), for a stereotype-breaking action role in Edward Zwick's
military drama, Courage Under Fire (1996), in which she portrayed heroine
Captain Karen Emma Walden, a medevac
helicopter pilot killed in action, during a daring rescue operation in the Gulf War.
Peter Schilling
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Winona Ryder
This pale and intense, extremely talented, American actress won a cult following for offbeat teenage roles, and Oscar nominations for more adult performances. She was born as Winona Laura Horowitz, just before Halloween in 1971, and named after a town in Minnesota. Childhood influences included her parents' alternative lifestyle on a hippy commune in California, where guru Timothy Leary became her godfather. Ryder won acclaim for her deadpan morbidity as moody obsessive Lydia Deitz in Michael Lehmann's enjoyable fantasy comedy Beetlejuice (1988), which led to more schoolgirl angst in Lehmann's next film, outrageously funny black comedy Heathers (aka: Lethal Attraction, 1989), which saw Ryder playing suicidal neurotic Veronica Sawyer, in love with roguish JD (Christian Slater), who plots murders and bombs her school. She played child-bride Myra Gaye Lewis in Great Balls Of Fire! (1989), a biopic of rocker Jerry Lee Lewis, and was brilliant as adopted outsider Dinky Bossetti, a character study in brooding alienated genius, in Jim Abrahams' satirical Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (1990), before reuniting with young director Lehmann, to co-star (with Johnny Depp) in charming fantasy romance Edward Scissorhands (1990), as Kim Boggs. Ryder developed a tougher screen persona as chain-smoking tattooed LA taxi driver, Corky, in Jim Jarmusch's Night On Earth (1991), and she followed this with delightfully varied roles - from costume drama to modern romance. In horror drama Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Ryder took on dual role of Mina Murray and Elisabeta, for director Francis Ford Coppola, and played hopeful documentary filmmaker Lelaina Pierce in Reality Bites, but she was back in corsets to portray Josephine 'Jo' March in Gillian Armstrong's acclaimed Little Women (both 1994). Ryder unfairly lost out at the Academy Awards when the 'best actress' Oscar went to Jessica Lange. Her best action girl roles are Annalee Call, android sidekick of Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) in Alien Resurrection (1997), during which she saves the heroes from attack by alien monsters, and Maya Larkin, onetime victim of demonic possession in supernatural chiller Lost Souls (2000), where she pulls a gun on doomed villain. Ryder's nickname, 'Noni' has long since been adopted for common Internet use by her many fans. |
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