NO. 22: HILARY SWANK
as Maggie Fitzgerald in Million Dollar Baby (2004)
WHO IS SHE? A 32-year-old waitress who, despite her age and inexperience, dreams of a welterweight women's boxing title.
SKILLS Persistence, discipline, iron will, and a killer right hook that knocks out most opponents in the first round.
MALE ADMIRER Crusty old trainer Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood), who comes to see Maggie as a surrogate daughter; he gives her a robe with an Irish phrase meaning ''my darling'' emblazoned on the back.
CAN'T GET ENOUGH? Swank first studied ass kicking under another old-man mentor, Pat Morita's Mr. Miyagi, in The Next Karate Kid (1994)
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