Entertainment Weekly's 15 all-time best butt-kicking babes

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Number 15 - Keira Knightley

AS Domino Harvey
IN Domino (2005)

WHO IS SHE? Knightley's character is based loosely on the real-life Domino Harvey, who was a model-turned-bounty hunter in seedy southern California.

SKILLS In addition to her sleuthing and tracking skills, she's well-versed in firearms, knife-fighting, and nunchucks.

BATTLE GEAR Black leather jacket, dog tags, necklace with a domino as a pendant, bandolier, artfully ripped jeans

MALE ADMIRER Partner Choco (Edgar Ramirez) quietly harbors a crush on Domino.

DROP-DEAD DIALOGUE Asked why ''a delicate little thing'' like her would become a bounty hunter, she says, ''I want to have a little fun.''

CAN'T GET ENOUGH? Knightley plays Guinevere as a warrior princess, lethal with a bow and arrow, in King Arthur (2004).

(source: Entertainment Weekly)

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Number 14 Hillary Swank

AS Maggie Fitzgerald
IN Million Dollar Baby (2004)

WHO IS SHE? A 32-year-old waitress who, despite her age and inexperience, dreams of a welterweight women's boxing title

SKILLS Persistence, discipline, iron will, and a killer right hook that knocks out most opponents in the first round

BATTLE GEAR A green silk robe embroidered with a Gaelic slogan whose meaning is unknown to Maggie, but which becomes a chant for her fans

MALE ADMIRER Crusty old trainer Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood), who comes to see Maggie as a surrogate daughter; the cryptic robe is a sentimental gift from him

DROP-DEAD DIALOGUE (To Frankie, after spending all day at the gym throwing punches) ''I'm workin' the bag, boss.''

CAN'T GET ENOUGH? Swank first studied ass-kicking under another old-man mentor, Pat Morita's Mr. Miyagi, in The Next Karate Kid (1994)

(source: Entertainment Weekly)

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Number 13 - Lucy Liu, Cameron Diaz, & Drew Barrymore

AS Alex Munday, Natalie Cook, and Dylan Sanders
IN Charlie's Angels (2000) and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)

WHO ARE THEY? A trio of sexy supersleuths who work for the unseen Charles Townsend

SKILLS Disguises, computers, martial arts, motor vehicles, archery, foreign languages, and mechanical bull-riding. (But they never use guns.)

BATTLE GEAR A pit-crew uniform (Dylan); a dominatrix-like leather suit (Alex); and Underoos (Natalie)

MALE ADMIRERS Mariner Chad (Tom Green) wooed Dylan; Soul Train aficionado Pete (Luke Wilson) is Natalie's dim-witted beau; Alex runs lines with Hollywood actor Jason (Matt LeBlanc).

DROP-DEAD DIALOGUE ''And that's kicking your ass.'' (Dylan, in Charlie's Angels)

CAN'T GET ENOUGH? Barrymore is a gun-toting teen on the lam in Guncrazy (1992); Diaz finds love and action with Ewan McGregor in A Life Less Ordinary (1997), and Liu crosses swords with Uma Thurman in Kill Bill -- Vol. 1 (2003).

(source: Entertainment Weekly)

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Number 12 Joan Crawford

AS Vienna
IN Johnny Guitar (1954)
WHO IS SHE? In this rare cowgirl-centered Western, she's a saloonkeeper who's persecuted by townsfolk whipped into a frenzy by her nemesis, prim Emma Small (Mercedes McCambridge).

SKILLS Shootin', brawlin,' eyebrow-archin'. Also, she's a shrewd businesswoman.

BATTLE GEAR All-black Western-wear, including britches

MALE ADMIRER Johnny Guitar (Sterling Hayden), a reformed gunfighter

DROP-DEAD DIALOGUE ''Down there I sell whiskey and cards. All you can buy up these stairs is a bullet in the head. Now which do you want?''

CAN'T GET ENOUGH? A younger Crawford leads frequent screen partner Clark Gable on a spy chase across Europe in Love on the Run (1936).

(source: Entertainment Weekly)

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Number 11 Michelle Rodriguez

AS Diana Guzman
IN Girlfight (2000)

WHO IS SHE? Aspiring Brooklyn boxer who challenges herself, her pugilist beau, and the machismo ways of her upbringing

SKILLS She's a knockout in more ways than one.

BATTLE GEAR Regulation trunks

MALE ADMIRER Adrian (Santiago Douglas), a fellow fighter

DROP-DEAD DIALOGUE (To Adrian) ''You still like me with my black eye?'' (His response: ''I think I like you more.'')

CAN'T GET ENOUGH? Rodriguez plays a variety of snarling tough girls in The Fast and the Furious (2001), Resident Evil (2002), and Blue Crush (2002).

(source: Entertainment Weekly)

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Number 10 Tura Satana

AS Varla
IN Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)

WHO IS SHE? In Russ Meyer's boobsploitation classic, Varla and two go-go dancer pals drive out to the desert, looking for kicks and a hidden treasure, and they'll roll over anyone who gets in their way.

SKILLS One of the baddest bad girls ever, Varla can out-drag-race any man, and she can kill with a single karate chop to the back.

BATTLE GEAR Cleavage-revealing jumpsuit and driving gloves

MALE ADMIRER Kirk (Paul Trinka), whose family's ranch is the rumored site of the cash Varla wants to grab

DROP-DEAD DIALOGUE ''I never try anything. I just do it. Wanna try me?''

CAN'T GET ENOUGH? Alas, Satana's only other major role was as the villainous spy ringleader in the Z-grade Astro-Zombies (1969).

(source: Entertainment Weekly)

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Number 9 - Anne Parillaud

AS Nikita
IN La Femme Nikita (1990)

WHO IS SHE? Feral street punk retrained as chic assassin

SKILLS Disguises, hand-to-hand combat, and long-range sniper rifles. Burdened, however, by too much conscience.

BATTLE GEAR Cocktail minidress and stilettos

MALE ADMIRER Marco (Jean-Hugues Anglade), a supermarket cashier

DROP-DEAD DIALOGUE (As she prepares to leave Marco forever) ''I'll never kiss you again.''

CAN'T GET ENOUGH? Parillaud plays a sexy vampire who takes a bite out of organized crime in Innocent Blood (1992).

(source: Entertainment Weekly)

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Number 8 Michelle Pfieffer

AS Catwoman, a.k.a. Selina Kyle
IN Batman Returns (1992)

WHO IS SHE? Having survived an attempt on her life, mousy Selina uses her remaining eight lives to transform herself into Catwoman, purring prowler of Gotham City.

SKILLS Even with heels, the acrobatic Catwoman always lands on her feet.

BATTLE GEAR Homemade catsuit, stitched together from a reassembled rain slicker

MALE ADMIRER Batman/Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton)

DROP-DEAD DIALOGUE ''I am Catwoman. Hear me roar.''

CAN'T GET ENOUGH? Pfeiffer's scariest post-Catwoman role is as the murderous mom in White Oleander (2002).

(source: Entertainment Weekly)

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Number 7 Honor Blackman

AS Pussy Galore
IN Goldfinger (1964)

WHO IS SHE? With apologies to Halle Berry's Jinx, Blackman's Pussy Galore is the baddest Bond babe ever. (She certainly has the best name.) Here, she's a fetching henchwoman to the villainous Goldfinger and a pilot who runs an all-female air show.

SKILLS Along with her aviation skills, Pussy can hold her own with 007 in karate.

BATTLE GEAR Gold vest and black stretch pants

MALE ADMIRER Bond, James Bond (Sean Connery)

DROP-DEAD DIALOGUE (To Bond) ''You like a close shave, don't you?''

CAN'T GET ENOUGH? Before Bond, Blackman was the original (pre-Diana Rigg) star of TV's The Avengers (1962-64).

(source: Entertainment Weekly)

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Number 6 Linda Hamilton

AS Sarah Connor
IN The Terminator (1984) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

WHO IS SHE? She learns in Terminator that she's to be the mother of John Connor, leader of the human resistance against the machines, knowledge that all but drives her around the bend in T2.

SKILLS In T2, she's armed with an arsenal of guns, sculpted arms that rival Madonna's, and a paranoid alertness.

BATTLE GEAR Physique-revealing white tank top

MALE ADMIRER Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn), her time-traveling protector in Terminator

DROP-DEAD DIALOGUE (After breaking an antagonist's arm) ''There's 215 bones in the human body. That's one.''

CAN'T GET ENOUGH? Hamilton saves her town from an erupting volcano and lands Pierce Brosnan in the process in Dante's Peak (1997).

(source: Entertainment Weekly)

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Number 5 Carrie-Ann Moss

AS Trinity
IN The Matrix (1999), The Matrix Reloaded (2003), and The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

WHO IS SHE? Futuristic cyberwarrior helping to free humanity from the virtual-reality prison known as the Matrix

SKILLS Good with guns, kung fu, defying gravity, and that stop-time high kick. Plus, she can learn other skills, like piloting a helicopter, just by uploading them into her brain.

BATTLE GEAR Black leather jumpsuit and shades

MALE ADMIRER Neo (Keanu Reeves), the hacker messiah

DROP-DEAD DIALOGUE ''Dodge THIS.''

CAN'T GET ENOUGH? Check out Moss as a sly femme fatale in Memento (2001).

(source: Entertainment Weekly)

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Number 4 Pam Grier

AS Coffy
IN Coffy (1973)

WHO IS SHE? In Grier's archetypal blaxploitation role, she's a nurse out for revenge on the drug dealers who ruined her sister's life.

SKILLS Coffy's creative weaponry includes a sawed-off shotgun, a syringe with a lethal dose of heroin, a broken wine bottle, and an Afro packed with hidden razor blades.

BATTLE GEAR A funkadelic array of '70s fashions, all designed to show off Grier's ample bosom

MALE ADMIRER Rising politico Howard (Booker Bradshaw)

DROP-DEAD DIALOGUE ''I'll be p---ing on your grave tomorrow.''

CAN'T GET ENOUGH? Grier sticks it to the Man in Foxy Brown (1974), Friday Foster (1975), and Jackie Brown (1997).

(source: Entertainment Weekly)

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Number 3 Michelle Yeoh and Zhang Ziyi

AS Yu Shu Lien (Yeoh, left) and Jen Yu (Zhang, right)
IN Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

WHO ARE THEY? Two of the fiercest martial-arts warriors ever to face off on film, in this case over a purloined sword called the Green Destiny

SKILLS Though Shu Lien is a veteran and Jen a rookie, they appear evenly matched at swordfighting, kung fu, and gravity-defying leaps between rooftops and tall trees.

BATTLE GEAR Ceremonial robes

MALE ADMIRERS Retiring warrior Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun-Fat) raises Shu Lien's heart rate; Jen has a romp with desert bandit Lo (Chang Chen).

DROP-DEAD DIALOGUE ''I am the Invincible Sword Goddess, armed with the incredible Green Destiny... Lower your head and ask for mercy.'' (Jen)

CAN'T GET ENOUGH? Yeoh fights alongside Maggie Cheung and Anita Mui in the Hong Kong classic The Heroic Trio (1993) and alongside Pierce Brosnan's 007 in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). Zhang proves similarly deadly in Rush Hour 2 (2001) and in Zhang Yimou's martial arts epics Hero (2002) and House of Flying Daggers (2004).

(source: Entertainment Weekly)

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Number 2 Uma Thurman

AS The Bride
IN Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003) and Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)

WHO IS SHE? She's Beatrix Kiddo, a.k.a. Black Mamba, a contract killer who emerges from a four-year coma seeking vengeance against her fellow members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad (DiVAS), who left the pregnant Bride for dead on her wedding day in a massacre at the altar.

SKILLS She's a world-class swordfighter and martial-artist.

BATTLE GEAR Bruce Lee-inspired yellow tracksuit

MALE ADMIRER Boss and old flame Bill (David Carradine), who admits he may have overreacted when he learned she was getting married

DROP-DEAD DIALOGUE (in Vol. 2) ''I'm the deadliest woman in the world. But right now, I'm just scared shitless for my baby.''

CAN'T GET ENOUGH? Thurman first tried her hand at action heroics when she zipped herself into Diana Rigg's leather jumpsuit in The Avengers (1998).

(source: Entertainment Weekly)

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Number 1 Sigourney Weaver

AS Ellen Ripley
IN Alien (1979), Aliens (1986), Alien 3 (1992), Alien Resurrection (1997)

WHO IS SHE? Astronaut who, over the course of four movies to date, proves as resilient as the slimy, face-hugging, acid-blooded space parasites that pursue her

SKILLS Resourcefulness, iron will, a fierce maternal instinct

BATTLE GEAR Her skivvies (in the climax of Alien) or her company-issued flightsuit

MALE ADMIRER Clemens (Charles Dance), the prison doctor in Alien 3

DROP-DEAD DIALOGUE ''Get away from her, you bitch!'' (to the alien queen in Aliens)

CAN'T GET ENOUGH? Weaver parodies her space heroics in Galaxy Quest (1999).

(source: Entertainment Weekly)

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[b]Number 2 Uma Thurman

AS The Bride
IN Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003) and Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)

WHO IS SHE? She's Beatrix Kiddo, a.k.a. Black Mamba, a contract killer who emerges from a four-year coma seeking vengeance against her fellow members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad (DiVAS), who left the pregnant Bride for dead on her wedding day in a massacre at the altar.

SKILLS She's a world-class swordfighter and martial-artist.

BATTLE GEAR Bruce Lee-inspired yellow tracksuit

MALE ADMIRER Boss and old flame Bill (David Carradine), who admits he may have overreacted when he learned she was getting married

DROP-DEAD DIALOGUE (in Vol. 2) ''I'm the deadliest woman in the world. But right now, I'm just scared shitless for my baby.''

CAN'T GET ENOUGH? Thurman first tried her hand at action heroics when she zipped herself into Diana Rigg's leather jumpsuit in The Avengers (1998).

(source: Entertainment Weekly)
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