If a bald man is completely normal and habitual, then a woman sparkling with a shaved head is a real challenge to society. Incredible, but true: some women really like a shaved head, and they can create an absolutely stunning image. We have compiled a photo-list of famous actresses who shaved their heads for a movie role. Here you can find pictures that are completely different in theme and plot, which are united by one thing - the presence of a woman's image, shaved bald. I must say that many actresses look pretty impressive, and the lack of hair makes them very sexy.
Polina Maksimova - "257 reasons to live" (2020) - Zhenya Korotkova
- "Without Me", "8 New Dates", "Hunt for the Devil"
In order to play the woman who defeated oncology, Polina Maksimova had to say goodbye to her hair. The main character of the series "257 Reasons to Live" was able to defeat a fatal disease. But the joy of victory is overshadowed by the deadly loneliness, into which Zhenya Korotkova plunged headlong. Sorting out her old things, the girl finds a notebook with her notes - the reasons why she should live. In total, there were 256 points on the list, she adds one more - to find love. And he tries with all his might to achieve his goal, getting rid of the old burden of problems of the "past" life.
Tilda Swinton - Doctor Strange 2016 - Elder
- "The Dead Don't Die", "Suspiria", "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
Participation in the fantastic action movie "Doctor Strange" implied the lack of hair in the heroine of Tilda Swinton. This fact did not bother the actress at all, who easily got rid of excess vegetation on her bright head. In the canon comics that formed the basis of the script, the elder is an ancient bearded Tibetan magician. The creators of "Strange" deviated from the standard and did not fail.
After a terrible catastrophe, the famous and wealthy neurosurgeon Doctor Strange does not know what to do next - his life just goes downhill. In desperation, he decides on a strange but exciting journey, the goal of which is healing. At some point, it becomes clear that after the disaster, Strange has become a link between parallel dimensions. Now, with the help of the ancient magician, he must find himself, return his will and realize that his mission is to save the Earth and resist the universal Evil.
Charlize Theron - Mad Max: Fury Road 2015 - Warlord Furyos
- "Prometheus", "Hancock", "North Country"
After the release of the film, Charlize admitted that she was ready to continue playing the warlord Furiosa if the creators of the project would create a sequel. The actress said that she was very inspired by her character. Therefore, we boldly include Charlize Theron in our photo-list of famous actresses who shaved their heads for a movie role.
The plot of "Road of Fury" is centered on the throwing of the protagonist Max, who, on the one hand, realizes that he needs loneliness to get rid of the demons of the past, but on the other, decides to join the rebels. Disagreeing with the actions of the tyranny of the Immortal Joe, the people gathered to organize a rebellion. Their inspirer, desperate warlord Furiosa, is about to fight the enraged dictator.
Natalie Portman - "V for Vendetta" (2006) - Evie
- "Black Swan", "Love and Other Circumstances", "Another One of the Boleyn Family"
In the film "V for Vendetta" Natalie Portman managed to bring to life one of the most striking images of bald women in cinema. Somewhere in an alternate future, after a terrible epidemic of an unknown virus, England is in chaos. In order for order to prevail, a brutal tyranny and dictatorship is established in the country. The people live in constant fear, but one night an unknown freedom fighter appears in the country. He is called V, and only he, together with the young and brave woman Evie, can return freedom to his frightened people.
Cara Delevingne - Life in a Year 2019 - Isabelle
- Carnival Row, Suicide Squad, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Even the shaved bald Cara Delevingne, who played the main role in the film, could not melt the hearts of film critics and viewers. Melodrama "Life in a Year" received negative reviews and a very low IMDb rating. The plot is simple and sad - a seventeen-year-old boy named Darin learns that his beloved is terminally ill. He has only a year to accommodate a life that a girl is not given to live to the fullest.
Cate Blanchett - Heaven 2002 - Philip
- "Mrs. America", "Manifesto", "Cinderella"
The role of Philippa in Paradise is considered by many to be one of the most powerful and emotional in the filmography of Cate Blanchett. After the death of her husband, a teacher named Philip decides to take revenge on her husband's murderer by all means. But after a woman takes justice into her own hands, completely innocent people die. Now a woman is in prison and the realization that this is not the end at all, but a possible beginning of a completely new life and new relationships.
Demi Moore - Soldier Jane (G.I. Jane) 1997 - Lieutenant Jordan O'Neill
- "Striptease", "Ghost", "Taking apart Harry"
Continuing our photo-list of famous actresses who shaved their heads for a role in a movie, the sex symbol of the 90s and ex-spouse of Bruce Willis - Demi Moore. Olympic participant Lieutenant Jordan O'Neill is selected for the Catalano elite military training program. Even seasoned commandos often cannot withstand even weeks of stress and bullying in these Spartan conditions. More than half of them leave the unit, realizing that they simply cannot stand another day at Catalano. But Jane's soldier is not one of them, she must prove to everyone, but first of all to herself, that, as a woman, she is stronger and more courageous than many men.
Ekaterina Vilkova - Battalion (2014)
- "Hotel Eleon", "Satisfaction", "Palm Sunday"
When the beautiful Ekaterina Vilkova appeared before the public with a short-cropped head, she greatly surprised the public. The actress honestly admitted - she did everything possible to take part in the "Battalion". However, shortly after the start of filming, Catherine found out that she was expecting a child and withdrew from the race.
The events of the picture unfold in the spring of 1917. After the February Revolution, the life of every person who lived in Russia completely changed. At the moment when the army is on the verge of final decomposition, the government decides to create a female "Death Battalion", which was appointed to command Maria Bochkareva. Women with completely different fates stand shoulder to shoulder to be an example of courage and bravery.
Sigourney Weaver - Alien 3 (Alien 3) 1992 - Ripley
- "The Voice of the Monster", "The Robot Called Chappy", "The Politicians"
When you ask the question, "Which actresses shaved their heads for the movie?", The image of Agent Ripley, brilliantly created by Sigourney Weaver, immediately pops up in the minds of most viewers. In the third part of the fantastic action movie, the main character's spaceship wrecks near the prison planet. The worst criminals are serving their sentences there.
But the real threat does not come at all from murderers, rapists and other scum of society, but from the embryo of an "alien" that gets to the planet along with the spaceship. Now the former murderers become victims, and only the fearless Ripley can stop the nightmare creature.
Daria Moroz - Point (2005) - Nina "Moidodyrka"
- "Red Bracelets", "Fool", "Inquisitor"
Continuing our photo-list of famous actresses who shaved their heads bald for a movie role, Daria Moroz, who played the bald capital prostitute Nina. “Tochka” is not a story about punctuation marks at all, it is a place where the fates of provincial girls who became prostitutes are closely intertwined. They were brought to the capital for completely different reasons, but in the end they all ended up in a small change house next to the station, where they while away the time from client to client. Their Vietnamese neighbors are much more fortunate - they sell some things, but Nina, Kira and Anya are selling the only thing they have - their own body. They are united by the dreams that someday all this humiliation will end, and they will heal happily ever after.
Cameron Diaz - My Sister's Keeper 2009 - Sarah Fitzgerald
Cameron Diaz is also among the actresses who shave their heads for the role. In the touching film adaptation of Jodie Picoult's novel Angel for Sister, the actress got the role of the mother of the two main characters. Her eldest daughter, Kate, is terminally ill. Upon learning of this, Sarah decides to take an extreme measure - she gives birth to a baby from a test tube so that he becomes a donor for her sister, who constantly needs plasma and various organs. Sarah did not calculate one thing - her youngest child, Ann, is the same person as everyone else, and she has every right to live and not become disabled. Even for my sister. One day a girl sues her family, and this does not mean that she does not love them, she just wants to live too.
Maria Kozhevnikova - Battalion (2015) - Natalia Tatishcheva
- "Sklifosovsky", "Univer", "My Favorite Witch"
Maria Kozhevnikova is another Battalion actress who decided to part with her hair for the role. In the military drama, the plot of which we have already described in this TOP, she got the role of Natalia Tatishcheva. Her heroine is a countess who is sent to the front out of noble motives. But she, like other women of the Death Battalion, will have to sip a soldier's life with all its horrors in full.
Julia Vysotskaya - Paradise (2017) - Olga
- "Lion in Winter", "House of Fools", "Queen's First Rule"
In the film "Paradise" by her husband Andrei Konchalovsky, Julia played the main role, for which the woman had to part with her blond hair. Paradise is the story of a Russian aristocrat who emigrated to France and became a member of the Resistance. German troops arrest Olga for sheltering Jewish children. Even the fact that the French collaborator leading her business is fond of her does not exempt a woman from punishment. She is sent to a concentration camp, where she can be called hell. Suddenly Olga meets a man who has been hopelessly in love with her for many years. Only she is a prisoner, and he is a high-ranking German SS officer.
Karen Gillan - Guardians of the Galaxy 2014 - Nebula
- Call of the Wild, Selling Short, Doctor Who
Rounding out our photo-list of famous actresses who shaved their heads for a movie role is Karen Gillan, who played Nebula in Guardians of the Galaxy. The actress not only had to part with her gorgeous hairstyle, but also put on makeup every day for four hours in order to play this character.
Brave traveler Peter Quill becomes the owner of a mysterious artifact that previously belonged to a villain named Ronan. A powerful and ruthless anti-hero wanted to take over the universe, but Peter got in his way. To survive, Quill must team up with a strange four - Gamora, Drax the destroyer, a raccoon and a humanoid tree.