10 Greatest Women Action Stars Of All Time

From Angelina Jolie to Lucy Liu to Sarah Connor herself, Linda Hamilton, the action movie genre is full of badass female action stars who proved that action movies aren’t just for men. For decades, action cinema was a typically male-driven genre, because the big Hollywood studios didn’t believe they could sell an action film to a wide audience with a woman in the lead role. But in the 1970s, pioneering female action stars like Pam Grier and Sigourney Weaver proved that an action movie starring a woman could not only sell, but also be remembered as an iconic classic of the genre.