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6 Actresses who Redefined Male Roles in Hollywood

Tilda Swinton: The Ancient One in Doctor Strange

BBC announced the 13th incarnation of Doctor Who would finally be a woman. This decision is a big shift in the character, but it’s not some huge rattling of the casting cage in general. There has been plenty of casting over the course of television and film where women have taken over roles once occupied by men. Here are six women that stepped into the roles of male characters and redefined them.

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Sigourney Weaver (Ripley in Alien)
The original script for Alien was written to be unisex with its characters, allowing for a man or woman to play almost any role. And though Ripley may have initially been considered to be cast as a male, Ridley Scott cast Sigourney Weaver as the lead and she’s been the action icon of the franchise ever since. When it comes to female action stars, Weaver is usually the first to come to mind as the gun-toting space trucker that slaughtered aliens with guns and robots.

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