Bald-Headed Women In Movies

In the opening scene, when I saw an arm reach up out of nowhere to snatch the wig off a woman's shiny bald head as she was in the middle of purse-whipping the daylights out of her pimp, I knew this was going to be my kind of movie.

A mad doctor's experiments with facial skin transplants turns his captive lady into a bald and beautiful Elena Anaya, so of course the doc can't control himself.

Natalie Portman looks great as a Baldielocks, but unfortunately she's bald in the movie because she was kidnapped, shaved, and thrown into prison. Head shaving has been a way to shame and disempower people throughout history.

Delphine Chaneac is a gene-spliced animal/human hybrid who grows into some kind of winged kangaroo creature with a bald head, but she's still sexy enough to seduce her male creator. Then she turns into a male and attacks her female creator.

In a future dystopian underground city, people have given up their freedom for security, their emotions are suppressed by anti-depressant drugs, and they never look up from their touch-screen devices except to watch reality programming on their tv, or something like that... but LUH-3417, played by Maggie McOmie with a shaved head, breaks out of the dull conformity and tries to lead THX-1138 to freedom.

Most of the cast had their heads shaved for the film, and there is even a promo movie called Bald: The Making of THX 1138 where you can see them getting buzzed.

Saint Joan gets a jailhouse cut that leaves her almost completely bald.

After WWII, some French women who had relationships with German soldiers during the occupation had their hair violently cut off, then they were beaten and dragged naked through jeering crowds.

In this film we see a flashback of Emmanuele Riva locked in a basement with her hair all cut off as punishment for having a German boyfriend.

Samantha Morton is a bald-headed psychic who spends her days lying in a bathtub full of milky liquid wired up and dreaming abut the future.

Mr. Sulu, set a course for the planet of bald-headed women, and step on it!

Persis Khambatta's beautiful shiny domehead is probably the most memorable part of this voyage of the Starship V'Ger, the first Star Trek movie. The TV spinoff Babylon V had several baldies, too.

After Ripley crash-lands on a prison planet she is told that she should shave her hair as all the men there did because there was a planet-wide lice infestation. After she does, a damaged android tells her he likes her new haircut. You can see someone shaving Sigourney Weaver's head in the making of Alien 3 video.

In 1938 India, a young girl, around 8 years old, is married off to an old man who soon dies, so her parents dress her in white, shave her head, and dump her off at an ashram for poor widows, all of whom have their hair cropped short except for the young and beautiful one who is prostituted to pay the rent. (The head widow later cuts her hair very short when she threatens to leave and get married. Of course, since she's played by Bollywood Bombshell Lisa Ray, she still looks amazing.) A priest tells one of the widows that the scriptures say a widow has three choices - to throw herself on her husband's funeral pyre, to live a life of deprivation, or to marry her husband's younger brother. A young Brahmin law student and follower of Ghandi later tells her that widows are sent away under the guise of religion, but the reality is that it is done simply so the family can save money by having one less person to feed and clothe. This traditional mistreatment of women is the main message of the film, creating much controversy which contributed to long delays in production and a negative response in India where such practices still occur in some areas. A message at the end of the film states that there are 34 million widows in India according to the 2001 census.

Ten different segments of the movie are all filmed from a camera placed on the dashboard of a car, facing the driver and the passenger. The women in the car wear something to cover their hair, but not their face. Showing a woman's hair in Iranian films is not allowed. The driver picks up a friend who has been having relationship problems with her boyfriend. She removes her head covering and we see that she has shaved her head to get rid of the pain of her breakup. It comes as a real shock to suddenly see all of a woman's head in the movie, even if it is shaved. It's a nice trick by the director to let us see the woman without a head covering, without the scene being censored - he isn't breaking any rules by showing a woman's hair, because she doesn't have any.

Ellen Page runs away and joins a German street-people cult. The leader shaves the left half of her head making her run around with a sideways mullet. Then when she is finally accepted into the group, he shaves the rest. Her mom comes and has her head shaved, too. IMDB says all the cast members really shaved their heads for this film, and you can believe everything you read on IMDB, right?

A man listed in the credits as the "Alchemist" dressed in black wearing a black hat with an enormous rounded crown, rubs a wet towel over two similar-looking blonde women to remove their makeup. Then he takes off their jewelry and fake nails, and tears their clothing off. Next he cuts their hair off with a scissors, then cuts it very close with manual clippers, until finally they are completely bald. We see them briefly later in the film.

Towards the end of the film, when he and 9 other seekers have reached Lotus Island on their search for the Holy Mountain, he shaves everyone's head, including his and several women. We follow them around for the rest of the film.

After one day of Navy Seal training with long hair, Lt. O'Neill (Demi Moore) goes into the base barber shop where we watch her take a pair of electric clippers and completely shave her head. For real.

Robin Tunney uses an electric razor to buzz her head in the bathroom of the hip little independent record store where she works. Then she punches the timeclock for another day of sneering at any customer who dares to look at a major-label record.

Anne Hathaway had most of her long hair hacked off for this movie. Pictures online show her with her head completely shaved after the movie - they may or may not be fake.

Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam is the leader of a group of women with shaved heads. They are members of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, powerful telepathic women, called Witches by men, who can use a special voice to manipulate others into doing their will.

Cate Blanchette shaves her head to disguise herself from the law when she's on the run. A dye job or a hat and sunglasses wouldn't work?

The king's concubine Bai Ling has her head shaved as punishment for loving another guy. I guess that's supposed to shame her and make her unattractive, but be careful your majesty, it seems to have the opposite effect.

Turns out, the list everybody is running around looking for is tattooed on the back of Noemie Lenoir's bald head.

After a rich man's wife dies, he and his son fill the empty bedrooms of his mansion with women who are paid to be his lovers. Toni Collette plays a Scandinavian woman who becomes one of the kept women to pay off a large debt she owes. She is described as a retired nun and when she gets to the mansion we see someone shaving her hair off for reasons that are not explained. After that she walks around either with no clothes and no hair, or wearing a nun's habit over her shaved head.

Shilpa Shetty looks so good as a bald monk in this love story between an Indian classical dancer and a Chinese artist, that you'll want to run away and join a monastery (even if it's just a bald cap she's wearing.)

Cameron Diaz wears a bald cap playing a mother who shaves her head in solidarity with her daughter who suffers from leukemia, but the daughter, Sofia Vassilieva, shaved her head for real.

Barbara Mori shaves her head to support her son whose cancer treatment causes him to lose his hair.