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15 Butt Kicking Espionage Babes
No secrets here, we love these ladies By Kurt Anthony Krug
July 20, 2010
15 Ass-Kicking Female Spies
© Bob Trate/Mania
As Angelina Jolie’s latest flick, Salt – which is about an American secret agent accused of espionage – comes out soon, listed below are the Top 15 women in the espionage trade. So step aside, James Bond. Move over, Jack Bauer. These women can give you some stiff competition (which isn’t a bad thing).
15. Cassie
Natasha Henstridge
From: She Spies
This little-seen Charlie’s Angels knock-off is about three female criminals recruited as secret agents for the U.S. Government. Cassie is a con artist. When you think about, if Natasha Henstridge is playing a con artist-turned-spy, odds are most men probably wouldn’t mind being played by her in more ways than one.
14. Black Widow
Scarlett Johansson
From: Iron Man 2
The Black Widow – Marvel’s greatest female spy – easily defeats a roomful of Justin Hammer’s best fighters as poor Happy Hogan (Jon Faverau) struggles with just his one opponent. As she walks off in a seductive swagger, she simply sprays another foe with a canister of mace, much to the audience’s delight. And then, there’s that sexy cat suit she’s wearing…
13.Mylene Hoffman a.k.a. 009-1
Yumiko Shaku in Japanse version, Alice Fulks in English version
From: 009-1
The Zero Zero Organization’s best agent, this cyborg spy has machine guns built into her breasts, which are capable of turning anyone or anything into Swiss cheese. Nuff said!
12. Beatrix Kiddo a.k.a. The Bride a.k.a. Black Mamba
Uma Thurman
From: Kill Bill
The Bride gives new definition to kicking ass when she kills her rapist after waking up from a coma for four years and is essentially crippled due to muscle atrophy. For an encore, she single-handedly defeats scores of sword-wielding Yakuza assassins once she’s back in shape. And let’s not forget her one move that can destroy a person’s heart. Subtlety’s not her strong suit, but that’s okay.
11. Nikita
Peta Wilson
From: La Femme Nikita
Based on the 1990 film of the same name and 1993’s Point of No Return, this take is different as Nikita, a homeless woman, is innocent of the crime of killing a cop. She reluctantly becomes an assassin for Section One and even has a medical experiment performed on her to eliminate all emotions. At the end of the series, she takes over Section One. Definitely someone you don’t want gunning for you.
10. Jinx
Halle Barry
From: Die Another Day
An NSA agent, Giacinta “Jinx” first appears emerging from the water wearing a bikini in a tribute to Ursula Andress’ Honey Ryder, the first and definitive Bond girl, from 1962’s Dr. No. Jinx proved that she could pull her weight with 007 himself (Pierce Brosnan) in combat, banter (“I think I get the thrust of it”), and in bed (but of course).
9. Renee Walker
Annie Wersching
From: 24
Easily one of 24’s popular characters in recent years, Renee Walker was an FBI agent who wasn’t above bending the rules and torturing bad guys for the greater good, believing that justice is paramount even if it the cost is her soul and her sanity.
8. Vesper Lynd
Eva Green
From: Casino Royale
This secret agent assisted 007 (Daniel Craig) early in his career as a double-oh. The two fall totally, madly, deeply in love. However, she’s a double-agent for Quantum and betrays 007. While it’s later revealed her duplicity isn’t her fault, she nonetheless breaks 007’s heart and then hardens it, setting him on the path to the man he is today.
7. Mrs. Jane Smith
Angelina Jolie
From: Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Jane Smith has to battle her husband and fellow spy John Smith (Brad Pitt), then teams up with him (after destroying their house), and hunts the people who manipulated them into trying to assassinate each other. This couple takes out a platoon of commandos in a department store, which rekindled their marriage and sex life – something they later tell the marriage counselor.
6. Irena Derevko a.k.a. Laura Bristow a.k.a. The Man
Lena Olin
From: Alias
This woman’s a master of seduction and manipulation. A KGB agent, she seduced and married Jack Bristow (Victor Garber), and had a daughter Sydney (Jennifer Garner). She also had a daughter Nadia (Mia Maestro) with Arvin Sloane (Ron Rifkin). The leader of the criminal organization called the Convenant, Irena faked her death a few times and was phenomenal at playing both sides against the middle. You never knew her loyalties.
5. Nina Myers
Sarah Clarke
From: 24
Now this is a spy who’s good at her job. Nina Myers successfully infiltrated CTU’s Los Angeles bureau, became its second-in-command, slept with Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland), and murdered his pregnant wife Teri (Leslie Hope). In order to stop her, Jack had to become as calculating and cold-blooded as Nina.
4. Maggie a.k.a. Claudia Dorn a.k.a. Nina
Bridget Fonda
From: Point of No Return
Before she is recruited and trained by an off-books government agency, Maggie kills a cop and rams a pencil through another’s hand in this 1993 remake of 1990’s Nikita. Imagine what a bad ass she becomes after this same agency trains her in unarmed combat, firearms, languages, espionage, computers.
3. Sydney Bristow
Jennifer Garner
From: Alias
Strong-willed and sensitive and a combination of Numbers 1 and 2 on this list, the lovely Sydney Bristow – a master of unarmed and armed combat, disguise, and languages – has lost so much during her days as a spy, but yet she comes to grips with all her traumas with a grace and style many envy.
2. Cinnamon Carter
Barbara Bain
From: Mission: Impossible. Cinnamon Carter was one of the very first femme fatales on television. This member of the IMF is a stunningly beautiful model whose specialty was using her feminine wiles to play on a man’s vanities and get them to lower their defenses – which they usually did. She also knows a thing or two about unarmed combat.
1. Emma Peel
Diana Rigg
From: The Avengers
One of the pioneers when it came to being a feminist hero on television, Emma Peel is intelligent, beautiful, and deadly – all of which are requirements to be a spy. She rescued partner John Steed (Patrick Macnee), with whom she often flirted, as much as he saved her – radical thinking for the times. That’s why she gets the Number 1 spot.
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Espionage: "or spying involves an individual obtaining information that is considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information."
I guess techincally you could consider Princess Leia a spy at least in the begining of A New Hope. She is a member of the Imperial Senate secretly couriering the stolen plans for the Death Star to the Rebel Alliance.
Beatrix Kiddo struck me as more of a straight up assassin though I guess it's possible she employed more stealthy means or manipulation to obtain secret information whiile working for Bill.