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It's not of a action movie but I'd say Franka Potente in Run Lola Run should be considered. Tyne Daly in Clint Eastwoods second outing as Dirty Harry The Enforcer. Julianne Moore as the FBI Agent Clarice M. Starling in Hannibal suited me just fine in her role and does some serious @ss kick'in.
Pitch Black's Radha Mitchell had a juicy role and is up there IMO. For a classic Female Heroine look too Marlene Dietrich espically in Destry Rides Again. Candice Bergen in "Soldier Blue" & Bite the Bullet makes men look like tiny little wimps. Michelle Yeoh in numerous flicks, loved her in Wo hu cang long (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon).
Janeane Garofalo in Clay Pigeons has a samaller but valid role as one of the agents out to catch the serial killer. Geena Davis in Cutthrout Island & espically The Long Kiss Goodnight her part is very meaty and she don't take shiyt. Althou a weak movie Elizabeth Shue should be included into the thread for her part in Hollow Man. Another awful movie which a heroine should at least get a nod is Thandie Newton in MI2.
Sharon Stone's western act in The Quick and the Dead is pretty stand-out. Katharine Hepburn in more of an adventure story with a love thingy with Bogart in The African Queen puts men into place from time to time. Mira Sorvino back to back with Yun-Fat Chow in The Replacement Killers is nifty with the gun. Meryl Streep's watery thriller called The River Wild is sterdy as the female heroine.
Sigourney Weaveralready been mentioned but what about Jenette Goldstein as Private J. Vasquez. For one minute there that girl in Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrles how picks up that honk'in machine gun becomes an action heroine for me. Holly Hunter in Copycat simply amazed me.
If Animies count than the female cyborg cop in Ghost in the Shell has to be added to the list. Karen Allen of course in Raiders of the Lost Ark. That's all I ask is for a woman once in a blue moon to hit the badie over the frickin head with a pot or pan which she does perfectly.
I'll admit that some of these films I've mentioned are not particularly action movie but are a mixture of suspense & thrillers as well. IMHO, I still think they should get mentioned they've done there part in making woman of cinema not look so blood helpless which they most certainly arn't in really life.