Being a woman, and find a place in a male-dominated industry is not that easy as it seems. Whenever you watch horror movies, you will find a woman in the lead roles, overly sexualized, screaming, and crying at the top of their voice.
Nevertheless, do you know that there are certain females in the entertainment industry who broke out the stereotype and created a new and incredible place among this male dominated industry? Do you want to know who are they?
So here, we go...
Neve Campbell- Scream
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Do you know that before Neve Campbell, the role of Sidney Prescott in the Scream series was offered to Drew Barrymore’s character? Well, even I did not know that. However, due to scheduling conflicts, Neve got chance to play the lead role in the Scream.
Linda Blair
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How can we forget the Exorcist’s girl, Linda, who crabbed down the stairs? Her excellent performance brought many of the roles, but most of them were possessed little girl. Now she has made her way in fighting for animal right activities.
Jamie Lee Curtis
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Jamie started her career in the movies as a teenager. However, at that time for the role played in the Halloween horror movies, she was only paid $8,000, which is not even closer to what she gets now.
Mia Farrow- Rosemary’s Baby
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During the shoot of Rosemary horror film, the script demanded Mia Farrow to wear pregnancy belly for the most of her shoot. This wasn’t the difficult part. When Roman Polanski forced her to walks out into a busy street in New York City that created goose bumps on her skin. However, thanks to god, she delivered the shot without any glitch.
Heather Donahue
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Heather Donahue played the role of terrified girl running around the forest in her gray beanie. She didn’t even to show her tears rolling down her face and from the nostrils too.
Sigourney Weaver- Alien
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She is one of the most actors. She has done plenty of different horror movies, but for the one she was remember most was Ripley character in the horror movie, Alien.
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Heather Langenkamp
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Heather was selected from out of 200 actors, who auditioned for the role of Nancy, in the horror movie, A Nightmare on Elm Street.
Sissy Spacek
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The wide-eyed “scary Carrie” in the movie Carrie will always been remember for her incredible performance in the movie.
Virginia Madsen
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After playing the role of Helen in the movie, Candyman, she received over 100 acting credits, although the movie wasn’t that successful like other blockbuster horror movies.
Shauna MacDonald
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Have you seen ‘The Descent’ movie? The characters of Shauna, that is Sarah, in the movie underwent through torturous events. Her acting was all the more admirable.
Ivana Baquero
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Even Ivana Baquero was young, when she played the character of Ofelia in the movie Pan’s Labyrinth. Her acting was so marvellous that Guillermo Del Toro was impressed with her, so he changed the role to suit Ivana’s age! Isn’t that amazing?
Lina Leandersson
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Remember the vampire Eli in the horror movie ‘Let the Right One In’. Yeah young Lina portrayed that role.