From American actress Carrie Fisher's iconic buns in the "Star Wars" franchise to Rooney Mara's rocker mohawk in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," hair has always played a starring role in Hollywood films. Increasingly, however, some female stars are choosing to embrace the razor and shave off their beautiful locks for roles.
While such decisions always come with a healthy dose of trepidation, many of the actresses who went bald expressed a surprising sense of freedom from the shift.
Click through to learn their stories and why some of them wouldn't mind picking up some scissors and doing it all over again.