Jamie Foxx is only the latest Hollywood star to save someone’s life. Many other celebs who cash plump paychecks to swoop in and save the day on the big screen have extended their do-gooding into real life.
Heidi Klum
While many celebs come to the aid of strangers, Heidi Klum found herself in the terrifying position of having to help rescue her own child. On a family vacation in Hawaii in March 2013, her then-7-year-old son Henry was pulled out to sea by a big wave. His nannies tried to rescue him, but they became stuck themselves until the supermodel played supermom and swam out, along with her then-bodyguard boyfriend Martin Kirsten, and pulled them all in to safety. “Of course, as a mother, I was very scared for my child and everyone else in the water,” she later said to Yahoo Celebrity in a statement. Luckily, “we were able to get everyone out safely.” (Photo: AKM-GSI)
Zoe Saldana
Zoe Saldana wasn’t afraid to shed her glamorous image and roll up her sleeves in order to aid an elderly woman involved in a car accident in Los Angeles in 2012. After witnessing the crash, the Avatar actress called 911, and then helped the woman to the curb. While they waited for police, Saldana collected the woman’s handbag from her car and brought it to her, barely leaving her side throughout the ordeal. (Photo: Bauergriffinonline.com)
Jennifer Lawrence
The odds were certainly in the favor of a young teenager who collapsed outside of Jennifer Lawrence’s Santa Monica, California, condo complex in 2012. The Hunger Games star, who was walking her dog, assisted the girl, who was passed out on the grass in what was thought to be an alcohol-related incident. “She stood by as a Good Samaritan until officers arrived,” a police spokesperson said of the superstar. (Photo: X17online.com)
Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise is another celebrity who has played real-life action hero on more than one occasion. The Mission: Impossible star’s do-gooding was at an all-time high in 1996 when, in a span of just five months, he pulled off three different rescue missions. One of those took place at sea when he and then-wife Nicole Kidman were vacationing in a yacht off the coast of Capri as they noticed a sailboat on fire with five people stranded on a raft nearby. Cruise instructed their captain to use their boat to rescue the party and he even recorded the rescue mission on a camcorder. (Yes, camcorder … it was that long ago.) The now-53-year-old star has also helped car accident victims (on more than one occasion) as well as two young boys who were being crushed by an unruly crowd. It’s almost like the actor has been an action hero on the big screen so long, it’s become part of his real life too. (Photo: Headlinephoto/Splash News)
Kate Winslet
Kate Winslet’s 2011 vacation to the Caribbean’s Necker Island wasn’t all about rest and relaxation. One of 20 houseguests at Richard Branson’s mansion there, a fire broke out when the house was struck by lightning during Hurricane Irene. After the British actress made sure her two young kids were safe, she helped carry Branson’s 90-year-old mother outside. “I’m just glad that everyone is safe,” Winslet, who is now wed to Branson’s nephew Ned Rocknroll, said in a statement after the incident. “And this easily could not have been the case.” (Photo: Jack Brockway/Splash News)
Arnold Schwarzenegger
If you’re in distress, a good person to have around is certainly action hero extraordinaire Arnold Schwarzenegger. In 2004, the then-California governor was taking a dip in the ocean during a vacation in Hawaii when an unidentified man nearby on a boogie board cramped up and became distressed. Faster than you can say “come with me if you want to live” (one of his classic lines from Terminator 2, of course), the then-65-year-old star grabbed the man and pulled him 100 yards back to the shore. (Photo: starsurf/Splash News)
Heidi Klum
While many celebs come to the aid of strangers, Heidi Klum found herself in the terrifying position of having to help rescue her own child. On a family vacation in Hawaii in March 2013, her then-7-year-old son Henry was pulled out to sea by a big wave. His nannies tried to rescue him, but they became stuck themselves until the supermodel played supermom and swam out, along with her then-bodyguard boyfriend Martin Kirsten, and pulled them all in to safety. “Of course, as a mother, I was very scared for my child and everyone else in the water,” she later said to Yahoo Celebrity in a statement. Luckily, “we were able to get everyone out safely.” (Photo: AKM-GSI)
Zoe Saldana
Zoe Saldana wasn’t afraid to shed her glamorous image and roll up her sleeves in order to aid an elderly woman involved in a car accident in Los Angeles in 2012. After witnessing the crash, the Avatar actress called 911, and then helped the woman to the curb. While they waited for police, Saldana collected the woman’s handbag from her car and brought it to her, barely leaving her side throughout the ordeal. (Photo: Bauergriffinonline.com)
Jennifer Lawrence
The odds were certainly in the favor of a young teenager who collapsed outside of Jennifer Lawrence’s Santa Monica, California, condo complex in 2012. The Hunger Games star, who was walking her dog, assisted the girl, who was passed out on the grass in what was thought to be an alcohol-related incident. “She stood by as a Good Samaritan until officers arrived,” a police spokesperson said of the superstar. (Photo: X17online.com)
Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise is another celebrity who has played real-life action hero on more than one occasion. The Mission: Impossible star’s do-gooding was at an all-time high in 1996 when, in a span of just five months, he pulled off three different rescue missions. One of those took place at sea when he and then-wife Nicole Kidman were vacationing in a yacht off the coast of Capri as they noticed a sailboat on fire with five people stranded on a raft nearby. Cruise instructed their captain to use their boat to rescue the party and he even recorded the rescue mission on a camcorder. (Yes, camcorder … it was that long ago.) The now-53-year-old star has also helped car accident victims (on more than one occasion) as well as two young boys who were being crushed by an unruly crowd. It’s almost like the actor has been an action hero on the big screen so long, it’s become part of his real life too. (Photo: Headlinephoto/Splash News)
Kate Winslet
Kate Winslet’s 2011 vacation to the Caribbean’s Necker Island wasn’t all about rest and relaxation. One of 20 houseguests at Richard Branson’s mansion there, a fire broke out when the house was struck by lightning during Hurricane Irene. After the British actress made sure her two young kids were safe, she helped carry Branson’s 90-year-old mother outside. “I’m just glad that everyone is safe,” Winslet, who is now wed to Branson’s nephew Ned Rocknroll, said in a statement after the incident. “And this easily could not have been the case.” (Photo: Jack Brockway/Splash News)
Arnold Schwarzenegger
If you’re in distress, a good person to have around is certainly action hero extraordinaire Arnold Schwarzenegger. In 2004, the then-California governor was taking a dip in the ocean during a vacation in Hawaii when an unidentified man nearby on a boogie board cramped up and became distressed. Faster than you can say “come with me if you want to live” (one of his classic lines from Terminator 2, of course), the then-65-year-old star grabbed the man and pulled him 100 yards back to the shore. (Photo: starsurf/Splash News)
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