13 Onscreen Female Archers Who've Hit the Bull's-Eye

In the 1996 film Emma, based on the Jane Austen novel, Emma Woodhouse (played by Gwyneth Paltrow) playfully practices archery with Mr. Knightley as they discuss Emma's matchmaking schemes. The scene is fitting, as the heroine is attempting to be like another famous mythological archer — cupid!

Sharing its heroine with two big blockbusters, Mirror, Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman, is the straight-to-DVD film Grimm's Snow White. In this version of the fairy tale, Snow White must save her Prince Charming from the evil queen using her archery skills.

In the fantasy film Wrath of the Titans, Rosamund Pike plays Andromeda, a princess of Greek mythology who is saved from a sea monster by her love Perseus. In the film, Andromeda is now the queen and married to Perseus. She follows her husband into battle with her bow and arrows as her weapon of choice.

In The Chronicles of Narnia book-to-film series, Susan is the second oldest sibling of the Pevensie family. At the age of 12 in the first film, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, she is given a bow and arrows by Father Christmas and immediately shows an affinity for archery. And in the second film, Prince Caspian, she shows off her archery skills in the battle against the Telmarines.

In James Cameron's film Avatar, Neytiri is the Na'vi princess of the Omaticaya clan and Jake Sully's love interest. After she first meets him by saving his life, Neytiri teaches Jake the ways of her clan, including the Na'vi language and how to use a bow.

Keira Knightley plays the legendary queen consort of King Arthur, Guinevere, in 2004's film King Arthur. While legend has it that Guinevere had an affair with Arthur's chief knight Sir Lancelot — causing the downfall of the kingdom — the film only hints at a love triangle, instead portraying her as an archer and a warrior who battles alongside both men before marrying King Arthur.

In 2005's Elektra, Jennifer Garner plays the titular superhero, who's based on the comic-book character Elektra Natchios. As an international assassin with mad martial arts skills, her signature weapons are sai, but she also shows her ability to kill with a compound bow in the film.

Abigail Whistler (Jessica Biel) is one of the leaders of a group of vampire hunters in 2004's Blade: Trinity, and she's straight-up killer with a compound bow.

In this 2011 film, Hanna is a 16-year-old assassin trained by her father. She must complete a mission in Europe with an intelligence agent on her trail. At the start of the film, Hanna proves she's skillful at killing an animal with a bow, but later on, we see she's equally as skilled at hunting humans.

In the 2011 medieval comedy Your Highness, Natalie Portman plays Isabel, a vengeful archer who joins forces with the brothers Thadeous and Fabious after rescuing (and swindling) them at the beginning of the film.

In NBC's sci-fi drama Revolution, an accident causes the entire world to lose all technology and electricity at once with no explanation as to why it happened. So in this dangerous postapocalyptic world, all the characters must use weapons that don't require technology to survive — and teen girl Charlie's weapon of choice is a bow and arrow.

In one of the scenes in Brave, Princess Merida's potential suitors must compete in an archery competition for her hand in marriage. Merida decides to turn the tables on her less-than-quality husband options by entering the contest herself, and needless to say, she blows the competition out of the water!

In the Hunger Games book-to-film trilogy, Katniss has taken up archery as a means of survival, how the sport began in the first place. She's grown up using it to hunt food to support her family, but then in the games she must use those same archery skills to defend herself against her deadly competitors.