10 Hollywood Badasses Who Could Stop A British Zombie Outbreak

Maybe it’s her height, but there’s something about Charlize Theron that makes her ill-equipped to play romantic leads and damsels in distress. She was perfectly forgettable in the perfectly forgettable Sweet November, but cast her as a real-life serial killer and you’re talking Oscar.

From 2 Days In The Valley to Mad Max: Fury Road, she’s played femme fatales, treacherous molls and cyber assassins, although comedy probably isn’t her thing. Most people reading this probably aren’t fans of her Razzie-nominated performance in A Million Ways To Die In The West, and how many of you remember her from Woody Allen’s The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion?

This is a good thing. Action heroes require mystique, not a fusillade of unfunny lines. When characters break silence to deliver recycled zingers, they turn into parodies of themselves. Ask anyone who’s seen Terminator Genisys.