Batman: All 11 Catwoman actresses ranked from worst to best

American actress Michelle Pfeiffer on the set of Batman Returns, directed by Tim Bruton. (Photo by Warner Bros. Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)
American actress Michelle Pfeiffer on the set of Batman Returns, directed by Tim Bruton. (Photo by Warner Bros. Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images) /
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7. Anne Hathaway

Appeared in: The Dark Knight Rises

When fans of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight saga heard that Catwoman would be coming to the final installment of the trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, we didn’t know what to expect. Nolan’s films employed elements of realism which, in the past, had limited various Batman villains from showing up and while Catwoman was certainly one of the more plausible possibilities, we were excited to see how the film would reinvent her and, more importantly, what Anne Hathaway would bring to the table.

What set Hathaway’s apart from almost all of the recent interpretations was that her felonious feline wore an outfit similar to that of the ’60s Catwomen – the reason being that this version of Selina Kyle wasn’t all that feline (she was never actually referred to as Catwoman) and was, instead a more tactical cat-burglar.

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A somewhat-hardened version of the character, the film briefly touched upon her roots and how a life of petty crime led to her to Bane. While it could have delved so much deeper into her origins, that didn’t stop Hathaway from doing her utmost to bring the character to life, and her chemistry with Christian Bale’s Bruce Wayne/Batman was palpable.

Sharp-tongued, slinky and as sassy as they come, she managed to instill this realistic version of Selina with a ton of recognizable comic book elements and, even in the character’s most desperate of moments, she behaved like the film’s most powerful. And it was a joy to watch her unleash her fighting skills at every given opportunity.