12. Natalie Portman – Black Swan
Starting out young in mature roles like her role in The Professional, Natalie Portman established herself early as an actress capable of taking on the more challenging movie roles. After securing her reputation in the industry with such high-profile roles as Padme in Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, Star Wars Episode 2: The Clone Wars, and V for Vendetta, Natalie Portman went on to secure an Oscar for “Best Performance by a Female Actress in a Leading Role” for her portrayal of the conflicted perfectionist, Nina Sayers. In the role of Nina, Portman delivers a tremendously-unsettling role as a ballerina seeking perfection. The cinematic masterpiece exhibits Portman performing such acts as self-mutilation and hallucinatory physical transformations, leaving viewers with a shocking ending that will have them watching it all over again to see just where it all went wrong. Natalie Portman is absolutely a prime example of one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood showing their grit in truly disturbing movie roles.
11. Lena Headey – Dredd
The gorgeous Lena Headey has made major debuts in such productions as the thriller The Purge, where she plays the righteously-moral housewife to Ethan Hawke and is internationally-established for her roles in other hit films and television shows, including 300 and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Headey is no newbie to playing the antagonist in film and television shows, having given an exceedingly brilliant performance on television as the ruthless tyrant, Queen Cersei Lannister, in the multiple Primetime Emmy Award-winning HBO series, Game of Thrones. Although Headey is most renowned for her unmatched portrayal of the tyrannical queen in Game of Thrones, one of her other lesser-known character performances still remains the focal example of how this beautiful Golden Globe Award-nominated actress is able to transform into a sadistic disturbing monster of a villain. In the 2012 action-packed feature film, Dredd, Lena Headey plays Ma-Ma, a ruthless crime lord heading the distribution of a new reality-altering drug called slowmo, which slows down a user’s perception to make everything appear to be in slow motion.
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