Fantastic Femmes--Natalie Portman

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Delicately-featured ingenue. Presently spokesperson/model for Chanel.
Has taken serious acting challenges with roles in films like Goya's Ghosts.

Genre Credits include...
Mighty Thor (Jane Foster)
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (Molly Mahoney)
Star Wars I: the Phantom Menace, Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones, and Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith (Padme Amidala)
V for Vendetta (Evey)
Mars Attacks (Taffy Dale)
The Professional [aka Leon] (Mathilda)

Padme Amidala is voice-performed in the two Clone Wars animated series by Grey DeLisle (2003-2005) and; Catherine Taber (2008-2009). Taber also played Amidala's mother Leia Organa in the videogame Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.

Fantastic Femmes--Halle Berry

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Fantastic Femmes--Gina Torres

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Superb, convincing, action actress.
Talented singer (mezzo-soprano) with opera & jazz training.
Her rendition of "All Night Long" is on the soundtrack of the film I Think Love My Wife, which she also stars in.

Genre Appearances
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (SuperWoman)
[Not in the same continuity / universe as Justice League / Justice League Unlimited]
Vampire Diaries (Bree)
FlashForward (Felicia Wedeck)
Pushing Daisies "Water & Power" (Lila Robinson)
Angel (Jasmine)
Firefly / Serenity (Zoë Alleyne Washburne)
Matrix Reloaded / Matrix Revolutions (Cas)
Matrix Online [Video Game] (Niobe)
Alias (Anna Espinosa)
24 (Julia Milliken)
Justice League / Justice League Unlimited (Vixen aka Mari Jiwe McCabe)
La Femme Nikita (Jenna Vogler)
Hercules the Legendary Journeys (Nebula / Casting Director Beth Hymson)
Xena: Warrior Princess "King of Assassins" (Cleopatra)
Cleopatra 2525 (Hel aka Helen Carter)

M.A.N.T.I.S. (Dr. Amy Ellis)

Check out
her Official WebSite
Goddess (fan site)

Other actresses to play Niobe include...
Jada Pinkett-Smith in Matrix Reloaded / Matrix Revolutions
Other actresses to play Cleopatra include...
There are 87 different listings here for various movie / tv Cleopatras based on the historical figure.

Fantastic Femmes--Helen Slater

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It's not often an actress can play a character, then play the character's aunt 24 years later.
Helen was the first actress to play Supergirl / Kara Zor-El in any medium in Supergirl: the Movie (1984)!
In 2008, she played Kara's aunt, Lara Jor-El (birth mother of Kal-El / Clark Kent), in several episodes of Smallville! (She also appears in a documentary on the Season 7 Smallville DVD set entitled "Supergirl: Last Daughter of Krypton")
And she still looks...well...SUPER!

Over three dozen film & tv credits...
Other genre appearances:
Dream On
Batman: the Animated Series (4 episodes as Talia, daughter of Ra's al Ghul)
ABC AfterSchool Specials "Amy & the Angel"
12:01
Check out...
Helen Slater's Official Page
Tribute to Helen Slater

Other actresses to play Supergirl / Kara Zor-El since Helen include
Nicolle Tom (Superman: the Animated Series, New Batman Adventures, Justice League Unlimited)
Laura Vandervoort (Smallville)
Tara Strong (Justice League Heroes video game)

Other actresses to play Lara Jor-El before Helen include...
Agnes Moorehead (Adventures of Superman [radio] "The Baby from Krypton" [1940], "Superman Comes to Earth" [1942])
Luana Walters (Superman [1948 movie serial] "Chapter 1: Superman Comes to Earth")
Aline Towne (Adventures of Superman "Superman on Earth")
Susannah York (Superman the Movie, Superman II, Superman IV: the Quest for Peace)
Britt Ekland (Superboy "Escape to Earth" & "Abandon Earth")
Eliza Roberts (Lois & Clark: the New Adventures of Superman "Foundling")
Finola Hughes (Superman: the Animated Series "The Last Son of Krypton")
and, Kendall Cross on an earlier episode of Smallville ("Memoria")

Fantastic Femmes--Michelle Yeoh

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aka Michelle Khan (Yang Zi Chong)