Female villains across film and TV often have three things in common: a killer wardrobe, a dramatic beauty look, and an arsenal of memorable one-liners that help to ensure the spotlight remains firmly on them. Little wonder, then, that Hollywood\u2019s hottest stars have long been lining up to play the most amoral characters in cinema.<\/p>\n
First there are the comic book and Marvel bad girls, like Suicide Squad\u2019s Harley Quinn. Just because they\u2019re bad on the inside, doesn\u2019t mean they can\u2019t be glamorous on the outside\u2014think Angelina Jolie in Disney\u2019s Maleficent, with her signature blood-red pout. Next come the seductresses and killers, like Sharon Stone as the manipulative Catherine Tramell in Basic Instinct or Jodie Comer\u2019s well-dressed assassin Villanelle in Killing Eve.<\/p>\n
Then there\u2019s another category: the conflicted villainess. These women can\u2019t quite decide which side they\u2019re on, and will occasionally use their powers for good\u2014especially if there\u2019s something in it for them. Here, Vogue revisits some of the best portrayals of female villains in Hollywood history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Female villains across film and TV often have three things in common: a killer wardrobe, a dramatic beauty…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[14652,156,409,111,139,69,32819],"class_list":["post-35143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-digital_syndication","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-storytypelist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}