Zack Snyder’s space fantasy Rebel Moon is back for a second round with Rebel Moon – Part 2: The Scargiver .

The film is new on Netflix NFLX Friday.Among the familiar faces in the film is the warrior leader Kora, who leads the band of warriors in their fight against evil in Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire .If she looks familiar, it’s because the performer has appeared in several high-profile projects over the years.

Kora is played by Sofia Boutella, whose breakthrough role came in the 2014 movie hit Kingsman: The Secret Service .In director Matthew Vaughn’s spy adventure, Boutella plays Gazelle — a deadly personal assistant to billionaire bad guy Richmond Valentine (Samuel L.

Jackson).

What makes Gazelle unique is the absence of her lower legs, which have been replaced by blades.Essentially, Gazelle looks like a female version of the infamous “blade runner” Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, who was released on parole from prison in January more than 10 years after killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

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Also in 2017, Boutella teamed with Tom Cruise in what became the first and last film in Universal Studios’ planned Dark Universe of monster movies with The Mummy .

Playing a female version of the title character originated by Boris Karloff in 1932’s The Mummy , Boutella stars as Ahmanet, who is reawakened after centuries when Nick Morton (Cruise) and his crew discover the Egyptian princess’ tomb and inadvertently bring her back to life.

The Mummy’s underwhelming box office take, however, led to the cancellation of Universal’s shared universe of characters harvested from their famed Universal Monsters vault.

Boutella Got Her Start As A Dancer In Music Videos Born April 3, 1982, in the Bab El Oued district in Algiers, Algeria, Sofia Boutella’s screen career kicked off in earnest in films or television shows, but as a dancer in several music videos.Among the artists Boutella worked with was Madonna, having appeared in the pop star’s music video for 2005’s Hung Up , 2006’s Sorry and 2009’s Celebration .

In addition, Boutella was billed as the lead dancer in a 2011 music video set to the late Michael Jackson’s song Hollywood Tonight.

Boutella even wears a Jackson-inspired costume, fedora and right-hand glove in the last part of the Hollywood Tonight video, in addition to recreating some familiar dance moves and poses as a tribute to the King of Pop.

The next year, Boutella scored a leading role in the dance drama Street Dance 2 .

After The Mummy in 2017, Boutella nabbed a key supporting role as the assassin Nice in the dystopian action thriller Hotel Artemis opposite Jodie Foster, Dave Bautista and Sterling K.Brown.

Before she was cast by Zack Snyder in the lead role of Kora in Netflix’s first Rebel Moon movie in 2023, Boutella appeared in such projects as the Foo Fighters’ music video Shame Shame and the 2022 Netflix streaming anthology series Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities .

Most recently, Boutella reunited with her Kingsman: The Secret Service director Matthew Vaughn for a supporting role in the spy thriller Argylle opposite Bryce Dallas Howard and Sam Rockwell.

Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver is now streaming on Netflix.

Tim Lammers.