Scene Stealers: 10 Underrated On-Screen Dark Feminine Badasses

The formidable actresses we should all be talking about

By: The Lace Ledger Staff

There is something compelling about watching an actress disappear into a character we’re not entirely sure we should root for. These are the disrupters: actresses willing to inhabit characters who are damaged without making them helpless; dangerous without stripping away their humanity. They find beauty inside ugly stories without sanding down the edges that made them uncomfortable in the first place.

Their work makes space for women to be contradictory and occasionally difficult to love—and infinitely more interesting because of it.

From established actresses whose range deserves greater recognition to emerging talent already pushing at the boundaries, these are 10 dark feminine badasses we cannot shut up about.