While actors in the industry have managed to perform in some of the most intense, hard-hitting, and disturbing character roles in movie history–from Heath Ledger’s legendary Oscar Award-winning performance as The Joker in The Dark Knight to the truly disturbing Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho–some of the most memorably-disturbing performances have undoubtedly been given by the top female performers in the industry. Despite a large part of the movie industry being about body image and maintaining a certain physique to be able to be cast in more high-profile Hollywood roles, women have proven to have delivered some of the best character performances in the roles as grimy, gross, and disgustingly disguised protagonist and antagonist characters in movies without any need to showcase the more flattering elements of their “personalities.”
Although the role of the final girl–the last girl to remain after the murderer in a horror movie has killed off everyone else–seems to be the most desired among starlets seeking to make their big break as the protagonist in thriller and horror movies, it is often the female villain character that is hurdled into the spotlight for the deliverance of a truly alarming performance. Some of the most remarkable-looking celebrities in the industry have even played their part in some grisly disturbing roles, in which their normally-stunning appearance is sometimes unrecognizable.
Here are twenty incredibly gorgeous celebrities who played some of cinema’s most horrifying and disturbing characters:
20. Gemma Ward – The Strangers
The award-nominated actress, Gemma Ward, has performed roles in other commercially-successful box office productions, including Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and The Great Gatsby, and has even starred in music videos for top-charting musical artists including Fergie. Despite her incredibly stunning looks, Gemma Ward took her horror-performance skills to new heights as the killer Dollface in The Strangers. Stalking a couple played by Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman while on a romantic retreat at their secluded wood cabin, Ward and her two other co-criminals torment the distressed couple, eventually capturing the couple and subjecting them to one of the more brutal murder scenes in movie history. In a prolonging scene, Ward walks away having established herself as a sadistic force to be reckoned with, as her complete lack of empathy and blatant enjoyment in torturing the couple is truly disturbing.
19. Sofia Boutella – Kingsman: The Secret Service
The skilled dancer and actress immediately had the spotlight turned on her after performing in numerous high-profile dance productions for A-list musicians such as Madonna and Michael Jackson and as Samuel L. Jackson’s tastefully-classy killer assistant, Gazelle, in the action-spy feature Kingsman: The Secret Service. With swords for legs, Boutella struts her stuff on camera and, in some well-choreographed moments, shows how dangerously disturbed she can really be. Her combat skills and sword-limbs make her a deadly opponent to the protagonist, Eggsy, played by Taron Eggerton in the film. Additionally, Boutella appears to have a particular love for violence in the movie, seemingly enjoying the massacre of religious churchgoers by Colin Firth and showing no sympathy for Jackson as she burns his palm into a high-tech computer security system.
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