The Most stunning actresses of our time
by vmv-rantanen | created - 28 Jul 2011 | updated - 31 Dec 2012 | PublicNot in any particular order. These actresses have made an impression, also with their looks but first and foremost with their talent.
1. Georgina Reilly
Actress | City on a Hill
Georgina Frances Reilly is a British Canadian actress born in Guildford, United Kingdom, to songwriter/composer David Reilly and business administrator Frances Reilly. She comes from a long line of performers, her grandfather being Tommy Reilly, the world's first classical harmonica player. Growing...
Saw her on Pontypool. Made great impression. Sweet, cute, with a hint of boyish charisma and candor; these features will stretch her role possibilities to a wide range. Am amazed if we don't hear from her in the future.
2. Kerry Condon
Actress | The Banshees of Inisherin
Kerry Condon is an Irish television and film actress, best known for her role as Octavia of the Julii in the HBO/BBC series Rome, as Stacey Ehrmantraut in AMC's Better Call Saul, and as the voice of F.R.I.D.A.Y. in various films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She is also the youngest actress ...
An actress of greatest talent, doesn't hold back. Brave. Tomorrows greatest promise.
3. Claudia Black
Actress | Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars
Claudia Lee Black was born and raised in Sydney, Australia. Her parents Jules and Judy Black are both Australian Medical Academics Doctors. She has lived in Australia, New Zealand, England and the US. Throughout her career Black has played in many Australian and New Zealand films and guested on ...
An actress with impressive strong features, and an imposing presence. At her best in adamant tough-as-nails roles, though also very capable in giving hints of softness (but never too much).
4. Lena Headey
Actress | 300
Lena Headey is a Bermudian-British actress. Headey is best known for her role as "Cersei Lannister" in Game of Thrones (2011) (2011-2019) and The Brothers Grimm (2005), Possession (2002), and The Remains of the Day (1993). Headey stars as "Queen Gorgo", a heroic Spartan woman in the period film, 300...
A mixture of stone-like toughness and warm softness.
5. Rhona Mitra
Actress | Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
Mitra was born in Paddington, London, England, the daughter of Nora Downey and Anthony Mitra, a cosmetic surgeon. She has an older and a younger brother. Her father is of Bengali Indian and English descent, and her mother is Irish. In 1984, when Mitra was eight, her parents divorced, and she was ...
Loved her in Doomsday. Actresses of her type are far too rare.
6. Matleena Kuusniemi
Actress | Koukussa
Matleena Kuusniemi was born on September 24, 1973 in Espoo, Finland. She is an actress, known for Hooked (2015), Above Dark Waters (2013) and Frozen Land (2005).
A beautiful and versatile actress capable of subtle yet strong expression; in this sense a rather typical kind of Finnish actress. Beautiful soft figures, and majestical face. I'd love to see her in a Trier-movie, to see what he could do with her talent.
7. Julianne Moore
Actress | Far from Heaven
Julianne Moore was born Julie Anne Smith in Fort Bragg, North Carolina on December 3, 1960, the daughter of Anne (Love), a social worker, and Peter Moore Smith, a paratrooper, colonel, and later military judge. Her mother moved to the U.S. in 1951, from Greenock, Scotland. Her father, from ...
Charismatic, sensuel and able to express emotions greater than life while maintaining a feet-to-the-ground touch. Absolutely stunning.
8. Vilma Melasniemi
Actress | Going to Kansas City
Vilma Melasniemi was born on March 30, 1973 in Helsinki, Finland. She is an actress and writer, known for Going to Kansas City (1998), Helsingin herra (2012) and Miten meistä tuli ystäviä (2013). She has been married to Juho Milonoff since 1999. They have two children.
An apt actress with great sense of subtle expression of greater-than-life tragical emotions. And a face of heavenly beauty.
9. Kirsten Dunst
Actress | Spider-Man
Kirsten Caroline Dunst is an American actress, who also holds German citizenship. She was born on April 30, 1982 in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, to parents Inez (née Rupprecht), who owned an art gallery, and Klaus Dunst, a medical services executive. She has a younger brother named Christian Dunst, ...
It is difficult not to recognize Dunst as propably the most "loveable"/amabile actress of all times; it takes a certain type of unique charisma to give that effect. Plus, she has proven to be rather versatile.
10. Charlize Theron
Producer | Monster
Charlize Theron was born in Benoni, a city in the greater Johannesburg area, in South Africa, the only child of Gerda Theron (née Maritz) and Charles Theron. She was raised on a farm outside the city. Theron is of Afrikaner (Dutch, with some French Huguenot and German) descent, and Afrikaner ...
A chameleon.
11. Maria Bonnevie
Actress | I Am Dina
Maria Bonnevie was born on September 26, 1973 in Västerås, Västmanlands län, Sweden. She is an actress, known for I Am Dina (2002), Another Round (2020) and The 13th Warrior (1999).
Dina was one of the strongest female lead roles i've ever seen.
12. Laura Malmivaara
Actress | FC Venus
Laura Malmivaara was born on October 26, 1973 in Kajaani, Finland. She is an actress and writer, known for FC Venus (2005), Kotikatu (1995) and Private Eye Vares (2004). She was previously married to Aku Louhimies.
Malmivaara has fine noble Spartan-like features, and she is rather potent in her physical expression, much like those Finnish actors and actresses of previous generation forged in the hands of Jouko Turkka. Hopefully doesn't get stuck in dull tv-roles in Finnish soap operas.
13. Charlotte Gainsbourg
Actress | Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
Charlotte Gainsbourg was born in London, England in 1971. She is an Anglo-French actress and singer. The daughter of English singer and actress Jane Birkin and French songwriter, singer and actor Serge Gainsbourg, she was raised in Paris. Charlotte made her motion picture debut in 1984. In 1986, ...
An actress of tremendous talent and will to put herself on the line of fire so to speak, doesn't spare herself one bit. Such bravery!
14. Kate Winslet
Actress | Titanic
Ask Kate Winslet what she likes about any of her characters, and the word "ballsy" is bound to pop up at least once. The British actress has made a point of eschewing straightforward pretty-girl parts in favor of more devilish damsels; as a result, she's built an eclectic resume that runs the gamut...
Beatiful, fisty, ballsy, with great voice. Been in too many mainstream Hollywood films though.
15. Kristin Scott Thomas
Actress | Gosford Park
The acclaimed Cornish actress Dame Kristin Scott Thomas was born in Redruth, Cornwall, to Deborah (Hurlbatt) and Lieutenant Commander Simon Scott Thomas. Her father was a pilot for the British Royal Navy and died in a flying accident in 1964. Her stepfather, Lt. Cdr Simon Idiens, was also a pilot, ...
As English as they get. Has proven enormous talent, in both comical and tragical roles.
16. Nicole Kidman
Actress | Moulin Rouge!
Elegant Nicole Kidman, known as one of Hollywood's top Australian imports, was actually born in Honolulu, Hawaii, while her Australian parents were there on educational visas.
Kidman is the daughter of Janelle Ann (Glenny), a nursing instructor, and Antony David Kidman, a biochemist and clinical ...
Though obviously very beautiful, not appealing to my taste. But as an actress VERY talented. Despite continuous proofs of her aptitude as an actress, she still remains underappreciated by far too many. Margaritas ante porcos.
17. Renée Zellweger
Actress | Chicago
Renée Kathleen Zellweger was born on April 25, 1969, in Katy, Texas, Her mother, Kjellfrid Irene (Andreassen), is a Norwegian-born former nurse and midwife, of Norwegian, Kven (Finnish), and Swedish descent. Her father, Emil Erich Zellweger, is a Swiss-born engineer. The two married in 1963. Renée ...
Versatile and energetic, though also made some terrible career moves.
18. Eva Green
Actress | Casino Royale
French actress and model Eva Gaëlle Green was born on July 6, 1980, in Paris, France. Her father, Walter Green, is a dentist who appeared in the 1966 film Balthazar (1966). Her mother, Marlène Jobert, is an actress turned children's book writer. Eva's mother was born in Algeria, of French, Spanish,...
A strong actress. Hopefully gets to play in better movies in the future.
19. Sarah Polley
Actress | My Life Without Me
Sarah Polley is an actress and director renowned in her native Canada for her political activism. Blessed with an extremely expressive face that enables directors to minimize dialog due to her uncanny ability to suggest a character's thoughts, Polley has become a favorite of critics for her ...
Great facial expression.
20. Natascha McElhone
Actress | Solaris
Natascha McElhone was born in Walton on Thames, London. She attended several schools, Camden School for Girls being the last.
Natascha McElhone established herself as a talented leading actress when she left drama school in 1993 to play the lead in her first film, Merchant Ivory's Surviving Picasso,...
Talented: roles ranging from one end to the other, always pulled through with professional touch. Theater backround.
21. Jess Weixler
Actress | Teeth
Jess Weixler is an American actress. She played Dawn O'Keefe in the comedy-horror film Teeth and Jordan in the comedy The Big Bad Swim. Weixler graduated in 1999 from Atherton High School in Louisville, Kentucky, where she also attended the Walden Theatre Conservatory Program and was in The River ...
Shows potential. I'd still keep her "in parentheses" so to speak, as her career has just started.. I was very content with her work in "Teeth" - mind you, it is not a good movie (although a lot better than average), but she does her work perfectly without mannerisms or cliche expressions. Thusly, she shows the same kind of working moral and attitude as actors like Christopher Lee or Peter Cushing, who made thoroughly apt work no matter how crappy the movie was. (Again not saying that Teeth was crappy, but...). Hopefully she makes it big but not too big, as that is never good for an actor or actress.
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