Hottest Female Performances In GOOD Horror/Thriller Films
by HorrorHunter | created - 23 Oct 2014 | updated - 11 Nov 2014 | PublicIf you want good actresses on screen who look damn good in their roles AND a high caliber horror/thriller film, these girls get it done (In the movies I've commented with). The ranking is based 40% off of quality of performance, 30% off caliber of film, and 30% how sexy they are in the role.
1. Kelly Reilly
Actress | Pride & Prejudice
Jessica Kelly Siobhán Reilly (born July 18, 1977) is an English actress. Her performance in After Miss Julie at the Donmar Warehouse made her a star of the London stage and earned her a nomination for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress of 2003. Reilly was born and brought up in Chessington, ...
Eden Lake Performance - 37 pts Film Caliber - 30 pts Sex Appeal - 20 pts Total Score - 87 pts
2. Rachel Nichols
Actress | G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Rachel Emily Nichols was born in Augusta, Maine, the daughter of Alison and James Nichols, a schoolteacher. She has English, French Canadian, German, Irish, Italian and Scottish ancestry. She attended and graduated from Cony High School in Augusta, where she competed in the high jump. She attended ...
P2 Performance - 35 pts Film Caliber - 26 pts Sex Appeal - 25 pts Total Score - 86
3. Sarah Butler
Actress | I Spit on Your Grave
A native of Puyallup, Washington, Butler was interested in the arts while growing up. She sang in choirs, entered singing competitions, and performed in high school and community theatre. She relocated to Los Angeles to study theatre at the University of Southern California, and then played Belle, ...
I Spit on Your Grave Performance - 35 pts Film Caliber - 25 pts Sex Appeal - 25 pts Total Score - 85 pts
4. Katharine Isabelle
Actress | Ginger Snaps
Katharine Isabelle was born Katharine Isobel Murray in Vancouver, British Columbia to Graeme Murray, an art director and production designer who has won two Emmy Awards for his special effects work on the television series The X-Files (1993) and Gail Murray, an amateur Vancouver writer and producer...
American Mary Performance - 40 pts Film Caliber - 30 pts Sex Appeal - 15 pts Total Score - 85 pts
5. Jessica Biel
Actress | The Illusionist
Jessica Biel, has become one of Hollywood's most sought-out actresses. She was born in Ely, Minnesota, to Kimberly (Conroe) and Jonathan Edward Biel, who is a business consultant and GM worker. Biel was raised in Boulder, Colorado. She is of Hungarian Jewish, Danish, English, and German descent.
As ...
Texas Chainsaw Massacre Performance - 31 pts Film Caliber - 27 pts Sex Appeal - 26 pts Total Score - 84 pts
6. Manuela Velasco
Actress | [Rec]
Manuela Velasco is a Spanish TV hostess and actress. Velasco is best known for starred in the Spanish horror films REC (2007), REC 2 (2009), REC 4: Apocalypse (2014), and the Spanish television series Velvet.
She make her film debut in Pedro Almodovar's Law of Desire (1987).
In 2007, she won the Goya...
REC Performance - 36 pts Film Caliber - 27 pts Sex Appeal - 21 pts Total Score - 84 pts
7. Gemma Arterton
Actress | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Gemma Christina Arterton was born in Gravesend, Kent, England, where she was raised. She is the daughter of Sally-Anne (Heap), a cleaner, and Barry J. Arterton, a welder. Her mother's cousin is singer-songwriter Eric Goulden.
Her parents divorced when she was age five, and Gemma subsequently lived ...
The Disappearance of Alice Creed Performance - 34 pts Film Caliber - 23 pts Sex Appeal - 26 pts Total Score - 83 pts
8. Angelina Jolie
Actress | Maleficent
Angelina Jolie is an Academy Award-winning actress who rose to fame after her role in Girl, Interrupted (1999), playing the title role in the "Lara Croft" blockbuster movies, as well as Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Wanted (2008), Salt (2010) and Maleficent (2014). Off-screen, Jolie has become ...
Taking Lives Performance - 32 pts Film Caliber - 23 pts Sex Appeal - 27 pts Total Score - 82 pts
9. Jennifer Lawrence
Actress | The Hunger Games
As the highest-paid actress in the world in 2015 and 2016, and with her films grossing over $5.5 billion worldwide, Jennifer Lawrence is often cited as the most successful actress of her generation. She is also the first person born in the 1990s to have won an acting Oscar.
Jennifer Shrader Lawrence...
House at the End of the Street Performance - 35 pts Film Caliber - 25 pts Sex Appeal - 22 pts Total Score - 82 pts
10. Nora Arnezeder
Actress | Faubourg 36
Nora Arnezeder was born in Paris, France to an Austrian father and an Egyptian mother. While she was still in high school, she studied acting, dancing and singing at the renowned drama school Cours Florent in Paris. Nora's first major role was in 2008 in Paris 36 (French title: Faubourg 36) which ...
Maniac Performance - 33 pts Film Caliber - 25 pts Sex Appeal - 23 pts Total Score - 81 pts
11. Sara Paxton
Actress | The Innkeepers
Sara Paxton was born in Woodland Hills, California. At a young age she began acting in television commercials.
She was cast in her first film at the age of 8 as a child at school and at the party in Liar Liar (1997). Her first major television series role was on the WB's Greetings from Tucson (2002)....
Last House on the Left, The Innkeepers Performance - 37 pts Film Caliber - 28 pts Sex Appeal - 14 pts Total Score - 79 pts
12. Sarah Shahi
Actress | Black Adam
Sarah Shahi was born Aahoo Jahansouzshahi in Euless, Texas, to an Iranian father and Spanish-Iranian mother. She is a former NFL cheerleader and a descendant of a 19th-century Persian Shah. She attended Trinity High School and Southern Methodist University, studied opera and majored in English. As ...
Static Performance - 30 pts Film Caliber - 24 pts Sex Appeal - 24 pts Total Score - 78 pts
13. Natalie Portman
Actress | Black Swan
Natalie Portman is the first person born in the 1980s to have won the Academy Award for Best Actress (for Black Swan (2010)).
Natalie was born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel. She is the only child of Avner Hershlag, an Israeli-born doctor, and Shelley Stevens, an ...
Black Swan (We're counting it, but horror film caliber takes a hit) Performance - 36 pts Film Caliber - 18 pts Sex Appeal - 23 pts Total Score - 77 pts
14. Jennifer Carpenter
Actress | Dexter
Jennifer was born in Kentucky. Her mother is Catherine Mitchell and her father is Robert Carpenter.
She attended St. Raphael the Archangel and then Sacred Heart Academy. During her last two years of high school, she studied drama at the Walden Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky. She then trained at the ...
The Exorcism of Emily Rose Performance - 35 pts Film Caliber - 28 pts Sex Appeal - 13 pts Total Score - 76 pts
15. Kate Beckinsale
Actress | Underworld: Evolution
Kate Beckinsale was born on 26 July 1973 in Hounslow, Middlesex, England, and has resided in London for most of her life. Her mother is Judy Loe, who has appeared in a number of British dramas and sitcoms and continues to work as an actress, predominantly in British television productions. Her ...
Vacancy Performance - 31 pts Film Caliber - 24 pts Sex Appeal - 20 pts Total Score - 75 pts
16. Kate Bosworth
Actress | Superman Returns
Kate Bosworth was born in Los Angeles, California, to Patricia (Potter), a homemaker, and Harold Bosworth, who was an executive for Talbots. Unlike the characters Bosworth has portrayed in television and in film, which are known as "townies", Kate spent most of her childhood in different cities and...
Straw Dogs Performance - 29 pts Film Caliber - 22 pts Sex Appeal - 23 pts Total Score - 74 pts
17. Anna Hutchison
Actress | Robert the Bruce
Anna Hutchison was born on February 8, 1986 in New Zealand. Anna is an actor and producer, known for Robert the Bruce (2019), Encounter (2018) and Vengeance: A Love Story (2017). Anna has been married to Mike Gillespie since December 2018. They have two children.
The Cabin in the Woods Performance - 18 pts Film Caliber - 28 pts Sex Appeal - 27 pts Total Score - 73 pts
18. Sarah Roemer
Actress | Disturbia
American actress and model Sarah Roemer starred as the love interest of Shia LaBeouf's character in the thriller Disturbia (2007). She was born in San Diego, California, and began modeling at the age of 15 after she was discovered buying coffee at a local 7-Eleven while attending Horizon Jr/Sr High...
Disturbia Performance - 24 pts Film Caliber - 24 pts Sex Appeal - 24 pts Total Score - 72 pts
19. Katheryn Winnick
Actress | Vikings
Award-winning actress, director, producer, Katheryn Winnick, is best known for starring and directing the critically acclaimed, Emmy award-winning television series "Vikings." Winnick made her directorial debut in sixth and final season which earned her "Best Director" at the 2020 WIN Awards. She ...
Amusement Performance - 29 pts Film Caliber - 20 pts Sex Appeal - 22 pts Total Score - 71 pts
20. Eliza Dushku
Actress | Bring It On
Eliza Dushku was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Judith (Rasmussen), a political science professor, and Philip R. Dushku, a teacher and administrator. Her father is Albanian and her mother is American (of Danish, Irish, English, and German descent). She was discovered at the end of a five-month ...
Wrong Turn Performance - 28 pts Film Caliber - 18 pts Sex Appeal - 23 pts Total Score - 69 pts
21. Sarah Polley
Actress | My Life Without Me
Sarah Polley is an actress and director renowned in her native Canada for her political activism. Blessed with an extremely expressive face that enables directors to minimize dialog due to her uncanny ability to suggest a character's thoughts, Polley has become a favorite of critics for her ...
Dawn of the Dead Performance - 30 pts Film Caliber - 17 pts Sex Appeal - 21 pts Total Score - 68 pts
22. Jessica Chastain
Actress | Zero Dark Thirty
Jessica Michelle Chastain was born in Sacramento, California, and was raised in a middle-class household in a Northern California suburb. Her mother, Jerri Chastain, is a vegan chef whose family is originally from Kansas, and her stepfather is a fireman. She discovered dance at the age of nine and ...
Mama Performance - 31 pts Film Caliber - 15 pts Sex Appeal - 21 pts Total Score - 67 pts
23. Liv Tyler
Actress | Armageddon
Liv Tyler is an actress of international renown and has been a familiar face on our screens for over two decades and counting. She began modelling at the age of fourteen before pursuing a career in acting. After making her film debut in Bruce Beresford's Silent Fall, she was cast by fledgling ...
The Strangers Performance - 30 pts Film Caliber - 17 pts Sex Appeal - 20 pts Total Score - 67 pts
24. Ali Larter
Actress | Final Destination
Born in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Ali began modeling at age thirteen, and traveled the world before moving to Los Angeles to study acting. Her first professional acting job was a role on the television series Chicago Sons (1997). She received her breakthrough in the high school football drama ...
Final Destination Performance - 27 pts Film Caliber - 14 pts Sex Appeal - 24 pts Total Score - 65 pts
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