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Top 10 Most Iconic Female Movie Characters

These strong-willed, independent and charismatic characters have inspired millions of women to be more like them. Here's a list of some of the most iconic female movie characters to have influenced us through the big screen.

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Princess Leia Organa

Princess Leia Organa

Princess Leia Organa was one of the Rebel Alliance's greatest leaders, fearless on the battlefield and dedicated to ending the tyranny of the Empire.

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The Bride

The Bride

Beatrix Kiddo, codename Black Mamba, is a fictional character and the protagonist of the two-part movie Kill Bill directed by Quentin Tarantino. She is portrayed by Uma Thurman.

3

Hermione Granger

Hermione Granger

Hermione Jean Granger is a fictional character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. She first appears in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, as a new student on her way to Hogwarts.

4

Ellen Ripley

Ellen Ripley

Ellen Louise Ripley is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Alien film series played by American actress Sigourney Weaver. The character earned Weaver world recognition, and the role remains her most famous to date.

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Sarah Connor

Sarah Connor

Sarah Jeanette Connor is a fictional character in the Terminator franchise. She is one of the main protagonists of The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Terminator Genisys, as well as the television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

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Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins is a fictional character and the eponymous protagonist of P. L. Travers' Mary Poppins books and all of their adaptations. A magical English nanny, she blows in on the East Wind and arrives at the Banks home at Number Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane, London, where she is given charge of the Banks children.

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Katniss Everdeen

Katniss Everdeen

Katniss Everdeen is a fictional character and the protagonist of The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins.

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Scarlett O'Hara

Scarlett O'Hara

Katie Scarlett O'Hara is a fictional character and the main protagonist in Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind and in the later film of the same name.

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Clarice Starling

Clarice Starling

Clarice M. Starling is a fictional character who appears in the novels The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal by Thomas Harris. In the film adaptation of The Silence of the Lambs, she was played by Jodie Foster, while in the film adaptation of Hannibal, she was played by Julianne Moore.

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Holly Golightly

Holly Golightly

The patron saint of self-reinvention, Audrey Hepburn's Holly flees to New York and becomes a party girl with a heart of gold.