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Laurie Wallace
She is an up-and-coming movie actress and Playboy playmate. She has been in such movies as Wild Things (with Matt Dillon, Kevin Bacon, Neve Campbell, and Denise Richards), The Holy Man (Eddie Murphy and Jeff Goldblum) and Big Daddy (Adam Sandler). She has appeared on such TV shows as Ed, Wild On The Big Easy and Saturday Night Live, and has also appeared in the pages of Maxim.
She lived in Scotland since she was seven, and has competed in Scottish Highland dancing. She graduated from Loyola College in Maryland. She completed a dual major in German and Political Science, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She currently spends her time between Los Angeles and Miami.

Sigourney Weaver
Plays one of the landmark action woman roles as Ellen Ripley in Alien (1979) and its sequels: Aliens (1986), Alien ³ (1992), and Alien Resurrection (1997).
She also played vengeful torture victim, Paulina Escobar, in Roman Polanski's adult drama Death And The Maiden (1994), based on Ariel Dorfman's play.

Rachel Weisz
Between her two appearances as librarian, Evie, in Stephen Sommers' The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy Returns (2001), Rachel Weisz played fiesty Russian soldier-girl Tania, in Jean-Jacques Annaud's grimly atmospheric war story, Enemy At The Gates (2001), about the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942.
In The Mummy Returns, she wields a mean shotgun to blast a pursuing mummy off the heroes' getaway bus, and later provides covering sniper fire so hero (Brendan Fraser) can go into battle against ancient Egyptian baddies.

Raquel Welch
One of cinema's most glamorous stars, Raquel Welch has been cast in a surprising number of action roles. She was a skydiver conned into playing spy games in Fathom (1967), and a hostage - Maria - taken to Mexico by outlaw brothers (James Stewart and Dean Martin) in western adventure Bandolero! (1968), before eventually hitting the vengeance trail in Burt Kennedy's Hannie Caulder (1972). As the title heroine, Welch tracks down the three men who killed her husband, raped her and left her to die. Robert Culp plays a bounty hunter who teaches her to shoot, and Christopher Lee appears as the gunsmith who makes her a gun for her.

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Vanessa Williams
Vanessa Williams is probably the most beautiful black woman alive on the planet today! She attended Syracuse University, where she majored in musical theater. She won the Ms New York and Miss America titles in 1984, but she lost the Miss America title after nude photographs of her appeared in Penthouse magazine.
As a recording artist Williams has sold millions of records and garnered 14 Grammy Nominations, won over 30 awards from the likes of the Soul Train awards, MTV Video Music Awards and the Billboard Music Awards. Her single, 'Colours of the Wind', from the soundtrack to the animated movie Pocahontas won her both an Academy award and a Golden Globe award. She has also found movie stardom in major motion pictures such as Harley Davidson And The Marlboro Man (1991) where she played Lulu Daniels, along side of Arnold Schwarzenegger in Eraser (1996) where she played Dr Lee Cullen, and in the recent remake of Shaft (2000) where she played the character Carmen Vasquez.
She has also appeared in made-for-tv-movies such as epic fantasy mini-series The Odyssey where she portrayed the Greek goddess Calypso, and Don Quixote where she played Dulcinea. In 1996 Williams made a guest-appearance on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine playing the alien, Arandis, in the episode Let He Who Is Without Sin. She has also performed on Broadway in Kiss Of The Spider Woman.

Kari Wuhrer
From the 3rd season of TV sci-fi adventure series, Sliders (1996), Kari Wuhrer joins the folks who travel between parallel worlds. She plays Maggie Beckett, a former army captain on a version of Earth threatened by pulsar radiation. In the episodes that followed, her military skills were called upon whenever the others in the group needed rescuing.
In a small American town overrun by giant spiders, Wuhrur plays Sheriff Sam Parker, the action woman who blasts many varieties of big bugs with her shotgun, in the comedy horror Eight Legged Freaks (2002).

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