Stripping for Hollywood
Check out actresses who worked the pole for the big screen.
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Jennifer Beals in Flashdance - Alex Owens (Beals) is a welder at a Pittsburgh steel mill during the day and an exotic dancer at a club called Mawby's at night... but only because she lacks the formal dance training to become what she really wants to be—a professional dancer. After seeing some break dancers on a street corner and incorporating the moves into an audition, she kisses stripping goodbye. (Photo: Landov)
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Rosario Dawson in Rent - In this film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical, Rosario Dawson is the heroin-addicted erotic dancer Mimi. Even love and getting HIV doesn't deter her from her wild life. But just when it seems she's about to meet her end, a song brings her back to life. (Photo: Courtesy Everett Collection)
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Zoe Kravitz in X-Men: First Class - Playing erotic dancer Angel Salvadore, Lenny Kravitz's little girl is appropriately a mutant with housefly wings and acidic saliva. Who says strippers can't be superhuman and have superpowers?
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Vivica A. Fox in Independence Day - Playing the girlfriend of Will Smith's Captain Steven Hiller, Vivica gave America one of its most lovably kick-ass strippers in the character Jasmine Dubrow. Aside from saving her son and herself from evil aliens attacking Earth, she finds and helps an injured First Lady. She was a stripper with a heart of gold!
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LisaRaye in The Players Club - LisaRaye played Diamond, the ideal Atlanta pole worker who's stripping to pay for college. She's a single mom trying to make a better life for herself and her son until her little cousin Ebony (played by Monica Calhoun) comes to live with her and also, uh, dance. (Photo: Courtesy Everett Collection)
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