Top Hottest Bosses of All Time

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The anticipation’s been building. You’ve been counting the days. But finally, it’s here: National Boss’s Day, the not-at-all made-up holiday devoted to those brave souls who get things done—or, better yet, have someone else do it for them.

And as Hollywood has shown,  some of those souls are easier on the eyes than they are on their subordinates.

Think Halle Berry dressing down Billy Ray in Monster Ball or Marissa Tomei dropping by the locker room in White Man Can’t Jump. Back in the day, you had Faye Dunaway calling the shots in Network, not to mention Octopussy doing the same in…Octopussy. (She ran a circus, and had her own all-female cult—where do we sign up?)

In the ’90s, vixens like Heather Locklear, Pam Anderson and Robin Givens all reminded us who’s the boss.  And there’s Lucy Liu as the ferocious yakuza chief in Kill Bill, Courteney Cox’s seductive tabloid editor in Dirt, Tina Fey’s cleavage-baring Liz Lemon and The Office’s Jan Levinson using her assistant to set up trysts with Michael Scott.

Which reminds us: he didn’t make the list. Enjoy here.