Hollywood’s Most Badass Female Movie Characters
Fierce females! Whether a super power, inner strength or emotional muscles, women have been crushing roles on the big screen for decades. Over the years, fans have fallen for the talents of those including Taraji P. Henson in Hidden Figures, Emily Blunt in a Quiet Place and many more.
Blunt starred as Evelyn Abbott in the 2018 drama/thriller in which her character, a pregnant mom of two, must help her family survive in a world where they need to avoid making noise due to mysterious creatures who hunt by sound.
“This was so personal to me, and I think it was a very personal character for me, and a sort of intimate experience doing this film because it was so close to home, understanding this woman and what she’s going through, and the desire she has to just, amidst this brutal world, want to inject into her children’s lives some kind of warmth and ability to thrive,” Blunt told Screen Crush of the role. “And, I’m someone who’s probably worried, unnecessarily, all the time about my children. So this character’s experience would be the depth of hell for me. But I understood her plight and understood everything about her, so it was an intimate thing, playing this part.”
The Mary Poppins actress added of filming the intense scenes: “By the end of that week, I was like, I need to check myself into an institution. [Laughs] Like a spa or rehab, I mean, something. It was crazy.”
Henson, meanwhile, stole the show as the powerful Katherine Johnson in the 2017 drama/history film about the women — and the brains — behind the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit in the 1960s.
“This movie I had to do, I just felt like it was my duty,” the Empire star told TheWrap in December 2016. “We always celebrate the astronauts, but we don’t celebrate the mathematicians behind it. But I didn’t know that these women existed and I was like, ‘Why are we just learning about them?’ And I couldn’t wait to meet Katherine Johnson, she’s still very much alive. She’s 98 now.”
Scroll down to see more of Hollywood’s most talented actresses in their roles that broke barriers.
Henson starred alongside Octavia Spencer (Dorothy Vaughan) and Janelle Monáe (Mary Jackson) in the inspiring film that tells the story of the three women who helped John Glenn become the first American to orbit the Earth.
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Blunt’s character was not only powerful, but also endearing. The film’s sequel is set be released in March 2020.
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Gal Gadot played the title character on the 2017 fantasy film, proving men aren’t the only ones who can play superheroes. Wonder Woman was born Diana, Princess of the Amazons, and was trained to be an untouchable warrior. When a pilot crashes on the sheltered island in which she lives, Wonder Woman chooses to accompany him back to the outside world and help battle the war to end all wars.
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Reese Witherspoon portrayed the Elle Woods in the 2001 comedy that saw her pursue law school after she was dumped by her boyfriend. Though Woods is mostly focused on her appearance — and tiny chihuahua — when she first follows him to the university, she ultimately learns important life lessons and finds out there is more to life than her looks.
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Sandra Bullock’s character, an F.B.I. agent, must go out of her comfort zone and appear in the Miss United States pageant in order to help stop a terrorist.
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Brie Larson also took on the role of a superhero who finds herself in the middle of an intergalactic battle between her people and the Skrulls. Marvel uses her special powers to help end the war with the Skrulls while attempting to uncover the secrets of her past that haunt her.
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Linda Hamilton has shared the screen with Arnold Schwarzenegger in two of the sci-fi films, proving she is just as badass as one of the strongest men in Hollywood. Hamilton’s character is forced to save herself from Schwarzenegger, a cyborg disguised as a human, who is sent to kill her and her unborn son.
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Viola Davis plays the role of a widow who lost her husband during an explosive armed robbery attempt in Chicago. Following his death, Veronica must join forces with three other women whose husbands were left dead in order to forge a future of their own.
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