Irresistible women... at least for me ;-)

1. Kate Winslet

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...

Ah, Kate, my deepest and longest crush and admiration, I'm a forever admirer since Heavenly Creatures, such a long time ago... and however this unbelievably multi-talented charmer is just at her beginning ! I wish you, dearest Kate, the longest and must succesfull and versatile career ever.

2. Jennifer Beals

Actress | Flashdance

Jennifer Beals is an internationally renowned actress who has over 90 credits to her name, including critically acclaimed feature films and some of the highest rated television series to date. Beals is currently executive producing and returning as a lead cast member in the revival of her hit ...

The most irresistible and million-watts smile, deep eyes to die for, such a sexy voice and a natural class, who could ask for anything more ? Well, she did : the epithome of inside and outside beauty, a lightening intelligence, a magnificent life philosophy, that's Jen. In addition, do you know many women who achieved to be more beautiful and sexy at her forties than they ever were before ? Miraculous. Wow, what a woman... *sigh*

3. Barbara Stanwyck

Actress | Double Indemnity

Today Barbara Stanwyck is remembered primarily as the matriarch of the family known as the Barkleys on the TV western The Big Valley (1965), wherein she played Victoria, and from the hit drama The Colbys (1985). But she was known to millions of other fans for her movie career, which spanned the ...

To someone who said to me, noticing with surprise my huge admiration and attraction to 'Missy', that "she isn't even beautiful" (meaning "... next to legendaries beauties like Ava Gardner or Rita Hayworth"), I calmly answered : "No, she isn't the most beautiful woman, she's much more than that !" So true. Charm is the ultimate lethal weapon in seduction, for me. And the one and only Ms Stanwyck has everything, in my book : this irresistible mix of witness and intelligence on the face, a smile to die for and the sexiest voice ever... Put her in the middle of all the official must beautiful women then or now and I would always only have eyes for Barbara...

4. Vivien Leigh

Actress | A Streetcar Named Desire

If a film were made of the life of Vivien Leigh, it would open in India just before World War I, where a successful British businessman could live like a prince. In the mountains above Calcutta, a little princess is born. Because of the outbreak of World War I, she is six years old the first time ...

5. Arletty

Actress | Les enfants du paradis

Before Arlette-Leonie Bathiat went to the movies she was a secretary and had posed several times as a model for different painters and photographers. In 1920 she debuted on stage at a theatre. She only began to work in movies after 1930. After World War II she was condemned to prison for having ...

The Queen of French cinema, legendary 'Garance' in Children of Paradise, able to be as classy as witty with her incredible voice and unique nature, the great Arletty is simply a miracle. And what a killer smile...

6. Elizabeth Taylor

Actress | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was considered one of the last, if not the last, major star to have come out of the old Hollywood studio system. She was known internationally for her beauty, especially for her violet eyes, with which she captured audiences early in her youth and kept the world hooked ...

7. Patricia Highsmith

Writer | The Talented Mr. Ripley

Patricia Highsmith was born on January 19, 1921 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. She was a writer, known for The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Strangers on a Train (1951) and The Two Faces of January (2014). She died on February 4, 1995 in Locarno, Switzerland.

Well yes, an author ! The fascinating author of novels like The Cry of the Owl, Strangers on a train, The Price of Salt (aka Carol) or the 'Ripley' serie. ... and the woman was as complexe and fascinating than her work ! Forget the aged Highsmith, physically devastated by booze and mal-être, and discover the young and then much mature Patricia : what a charm, something mysterious between smiles and dark look, and this brillant intelligence and creativity...

8. Mary Steenburgen

Actress | Last Vegas

Mary Steenburgen is an Academy Award-winning American actress.

She was born in Newport, Arkansas, USA. Her mother, Nellie May (Wall) Steenburgen, was a school-board secretary, and her father, Maurice H. Steenburgen, was a freight-train conductor. Her surname comes from distant Dutch ancestry, and ...

9. Melanie Lynskey

Actress | Togetherness

At sixteen years of age, Melanie Lynskey captivated filmgoers with an astonishing debut in Peter Jackson's revered psychological crime picture, Heavenly Creatures (1994). Her electrifying portrait of the real-life Pauline Parker - a teenage outcast whose fierce rapport with her only friend (a ...

10. Marie-Hélène Breillat

Actress | Ultimo tango a Parigi

Marie-Hélène Breillat was born on June 2, 1947 in Talence, Gironde, France. She is an actress, known for Last Tango in Paris (1972), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1977) and Claudine (1978). She was previously married to Édouard Molinaro.

Ah, my first big crush at my prime teenage years, watching her 'Claudine' TV miniserie (from Colette's celebrated novels). One of the most seductive smile I ever saw ! Alas, nobody seems to know what happened to her since the seventies, after her awful depressive period...

11. Béatrice Agenin

Actress | Amélia

Béatrice Agenin was born on July 30, 1950 in Paris, France. She is an actress, known for Amélia (2000), Une famille formidable (1992) and Le roi qui vient du sud (1979).

12. Agnes Moorehead

Actress | The Magnificent Ambersons

Agnes was born of Anglo-Irish ancestry near Boston, the daughter of a Presbyterian minister (her mother was a mezzo-soprano) who encouraged her to perform in church pageants. Aged three, she sang 'The Lord is my Shepherd' on a public stage and seven years later joined the St. Louis Municipal Opera ...

13. Patricia Neal

Actress | The Day the Earth Stood Still

Patricia Neal, the Oscar and Tony Award-winning actress, was born Patsy Louise Neal in Packard, Kentucky, where her father managed a coal mine and her mother was the daughter of the town doctor. She grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she attended high school. She was first bit by the acting bug...

14. Dana Delany

Actress | China Beach

Dana Welles Delany was born on March 13, 1956, in New York City and raised in Stamford, Connecticut. Dana knew early in life that she wanted to be an actress. Following graduation from Wesleyan University, this tall (5'6") beauty moved to New York and developed her skills working in daytime ...

By far my favorite Desperate Housewives, the only one for which I have a crush - now isn't that a huge compliment ? I cannot wait to discover her new TV serie...

15. Emma Thompson

Actress | Sense and Sensibility

Emma Thompson was born on April 15, 1959 in Paddington, London, into a family of actors - father Eric Thompson and mother Phyllida Law, who has co-starred with Thompson in several films. Her sister, Sophie Thompson, is an actor as well. Her father was English-born and her mother is Scottish-born. ...

16. Ida Lupino

Actress | High Sierra

Ida was born in London to a show business family. In 1932, her mother took Ida with her to an audition and Ida got the part her mother wanted. The picture was Her First Affaire (1932). Ida, a bleached blonde, went to Hollywood in 1934 playing small, insignificant parts. Peter Ibbetson (1935) was ...

17. Evangeline Lilly

Actress | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Evangeline Lilly, born in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, in 1979, was discovered on the streets of Kelowna, British Columbia, by the famous Ford modeling agency. Although she initially decided to pass on a modeling career, she went ahead and signed with Ford anyway, to help pay for her University of ...

I discovered Lost... and I immediately get lost in Evangeline's eyes and smile ! I would have adore this serie anyway but, well, she became a huge reason to became a huge fan !

18. Lisa Edelstein

Actress | House M.D.

From her role as Dr. Lisa Cuddy on the hit Fox series "House" to her starring role as Abby McCarthy in Bravo's first scripted series "Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce," Lisa Edelstein's range of roles are as diverse as her talent. Set for a Summer 2018 Season 5 premiere, "Girlfriends' Guide" is a ...

How many times could I have slap Gregory House ! Each time he's so rude or irritating with his so patient and sexy hospital director Cuddy, I'm yelling at him ;-) He definitly didn't deserved such a woman.

19. Helen Shaver

Actress | Desert Hearts

Helen Shaver has built a lasting legacy, both behind and in front of the camera. She has directed hundreds of hours of television ranging from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) to Castle (2009), from The Unit (2006) to The Outer Limits (1995). Her film, Summer's End (1999), a Showtime ...

Now, who could watch Desert Hearts without feeling a growning crush for her Vivian ? This smile, my goodness...

20. Melina Kanakaredes

Actress | Providence

Melina Kanakaredes is an Emmy-nominated actor, writer, director, and philanthropist. She's best known for her starring role as Stella Bonasera in CSI: New York. Prior to that, she starred as Dr. Sydney Hansen in NBC's Providence. Most recently, Melina starred as Dr. Lane Hunter in Fox's The ...

No wonder I always prefer to watch CSI Manhattan instead of CSI Las Vegas - even when I like these series the same way ! I would gladly play the dead body in any of her murder enquiries... The smile is the ultimate seduction weapon, for me, and I definitly have a special sweet spot for intelligent brunettes ;-)

21. Rachel Shelley

Actress | Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India

Rachel Shelley was born in Swindon, England, UK. Rachel is an actor, known for Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001), Blank (2022) and The L Word (2004).

My, my, I try very hard to hate Laurel Holloman for having been sooo unbelievably lucky to get two magnificent and sexy brunettes - Jennifer and Rachel - with her playing Tina Kennard... But since it's impossible not to like Laurel, I forgive her each time ! ;-)

22. Karin Viard

Actress | Polisse

Karin Viard was born on January 24, 1966 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France. She is an actress and writer, known for Polisse (2011), The Bélier Family (2014) and Paris (2008).

French actress Karin Viard is such an irresistible mix of fun and charm, it's simply irresisitible ! Ah yes, the power of charm...

23. Jodie Foster

Actress | The Silence of the Lambs

Jodie Foster started her career at the age of two. For four years she made commercials and finally gave her debut as an actress in the TV series Mayberry R.F.D. (1968). In 1975 Jodie was offered the role of prostitute Iris Steensma in the movie Taxi Driver (1976). This role, for which she received ...

When I said that I always fall for intelligence and charm, Jodie is such a perfect exemple...

24. Susan Sarandon

Actress | Thelma & Louise

It was after the 1968 Democratic convention and there was a casting call for a film with several roles for the kind of young people who had disrupted the convention. Two recent graduates of Catholic University in Washington DC, went to the audition in New York for Joe (1970). Chris Sarandon, who ...

25. Holland Taylor

Actress | Legally Blonde

Holland Taylor was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the third-born (and last) daughter of her mother, Virginia (Davis), a painter, and the only child of her father, C. Tracy Taylor, an attorney. She spent her teen years in nearby Allentown, PA, where Holland got the nickname, "Penny Taylor" ...

Who cares about age when you're in front of such a wonderfully ironic and witty woman ? Her authoritative character of Peggy Peabody in The L Word was a delight...

26. Simone Renant

Actress | Quai des Orfèvres

Simone Renant was born on March 19, 1911 in Amiens, Somme, France. She was an actress, known for Jenny Lamour (1947), The Adventures of Remi (1958) and The Pearls of the Crown (1937). She was married to Alexandre Mnouchkine, Christian-Jaque, Charles Gombault and Marcel Dalio. She died on March 29, ...

27. Ashley Judd

Actress | Double Jeopardy

American actress and political activist Ashley Judd was born Ashley Tyler Ciminella on April 19, 1968, in Granada Hills, California. She grew up in a family of successful performing artists as the daughter of country music singer Naomi Judd and the sister of Wynonna Judd. While she is best known ...

28. Barbara Babcock

Actress | Far and Away

Blue-eyed, red-haired American character actress, often seen as resolute, strong-willed women. Though born in Kansas, Barbara Babcock spent much of her early childhood in Japan, where her father, U.S. Army Major General Conrad Stanton Babcock Jr., was posted (he was also a noted equestrian, who ...

Following Dr Quinn with enthusiasm, I came to see the lovely Jane Seymour... and then, to my big surprise, I became addicted to Barbara Babcock's character ! Something a bit ironical in her smile, a je-ne-sais-quoi that makes her dangerously charming.

29. Joely Fisher

Actress | The Mask

In Joely Fisher's recent unflinching memoir, she comes clean and bares her soul about growing up in what she describes as "The Fishbowl".Daughter of Hollywood legendary crooner Eddie Fisher and entertainment icon Connie Stevens, Joely was raised in the Los Angeles area educated in a dozen LA ...

Now, how to resist to such a funny actress ? I adored her in Ellen, she made me laugh so much ! What a weapon, a fun charm...

30. Demi Moore

Actress | G.I. Jane

Demi Moore was born 1962 in Roswell, New Mexico. Her father Charles Harmon left her mother Virginia Guynes (née King) before Demi was born. Her stepfather Danny Guynes didn't add much stability to her life either. He frequently changed jobs and made the family move a total of 40 times. The parents ...

31. Ludmila Mikaël

Actress | Un homme qui dort

Ludmila Mikaël was born on April 27, 1947 in Bois-Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine, France. She is an actress, known for The Man Who Sleeps (1974), White Wedding (1989) and Le coeur des hommes (2003). She was previously married to Terry Hands.

32. Michèle Mercier

Actress | Angélique, marquise des anges

For Michèle Mercier, the role of Angélique, "the Marquise of the Angels," was both a blessing and a curse. It catapulted her to almost instant stardom, rivaling Brigitte Bardot in her celebrity and popularity, but ruined her acting career. The character of Angélique made to forget the other aspects...

Unforgettable 'Angélique' for all a generation... For me, simply the most beautiful french actress ever.

33. Rosalind Russell

Actress | Auntie Mame

The middle of seven children, she was named, not for the heroine of "As You Like It" but for the S.S. Rosalind on which her parents had sailed, at the suggestion of her father, a successful lawyer.

After receiving a Catholic school education, she went to the American Academy of Dramatic Art in New ...

Funny, witty, what a charmer !

34. Rene Russo

Actress | Nightcrawler

Rene Russo was born in Burbank, California, to Shirley (Balocca), a barmaid and factory laborer, and Nino Russo. Her father, a sculptor and mechanic, left the family when Rene was just two, and thus her mother raised Rene and her sister, Toni, as a single mom. Her father was of Italian descent, and ...

35. Diana Rigg

Actress | Last Night in Soho

British actress Dame Diana Rigg was born on July 20, 1938 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England. She has had an extensive career in film and theatre, including playing the title role in "Medea", both in London and New York, for which she won the 1994 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.

Rigg made her ...

36. Sela Ward

Actress | Independence Day: Resurgence

Hallelujah for Sela. Everyone's favorite "Sister" was born Sela Ann Ward, on July 11, 1956, in Meridian, Mississippi. Sela's parents were Annie Kate (Boswell) and Granberry Holland Ward, Jr., an electrical engineer; the three younger children in the family are Jenna (1957), Berry (1959) and Brock (...

So, not only this awful Greg House don't deserve Cuddy but he definitly didn't deserve such a charming and classy woman neither ! ;-)

37. Anne Bancroft

Actress | The Graduate

Anne Bancroft was born on September 17, 1931 in The Bronx, NY, the middle daughter of Michael Italiano (1905-2001), a dress pattern maker, and Mildred DiNapoli (1907-2010), a telephone operator. She made her cinema debut in Don't Bother to Knock (1952) in 1952, and over the next five years appeared...

38. Deborah Kerr

Actress | The King and I

Deborah Jane Trimmer was born on 30 September 1921 in Glasgow, Scotland, the daughter of Captain Arthur Kerr Trimmer. She was educated at Northumberland House, Clifton, Bristol. She first performed at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, London. She subsequently performed with the Oxford ...

Deborah Kerr or the epithome of class...

39. Susan Hayward

Actress | With a Song in My Heart

Susan Hayward was born Edythe Marrener in Brooklyn, New York, on June 30, 1917. Her father was a transportation worker, and Susan lived a fairly comfortable life as a child, but the precocious little redhead had no idea of the life that awaited her. She attended public school in Brooklyn, where she...

Ah, one of my prime teenage years' big crushes, when I saw her as Messaline in The Gladiators... Those souvenirs never die...

40. Michelle Pfeiffer

Actress | The Fabulous Baker Boys

Michelle Pfeiffer was born in Santa Ana, California to Dick and Donna Pfeiffer. She has an older brother and two younger sisters - Dedee Pfeiffer, and Lori Pfeiffer, who both dabbled in acting and modeling but decided against making it their lives' work. She graduated from Fountain Valley High ...

41. Anouk Grinberg

Actress | Mon homme

Anouk Grinberg was born on March 20, 1963 in Uccle, Belgium. She is an actress, known for My Man (1996), La fille du magicien (1990) and Sale gosse (1995).

42. Viveca Lindfors

Actress | Creepshow

Ms. Lindfors was a Swedish-born actress whose stage and screen career in the U.S. and Sweden spanned more than half a century. She was brought to Hollywood in 1946 by Warner Brothers in the hope that she would be a new Greta Garbo or Ingrid Bergman. She appeared with Ronald Reagan in her first ...

43. Sigourney Weaver

Actress | Alien Resurrection

Sigourney Weaver has created a host of memorable characters, both dramatic and comic, ranging from Ripley in Alien to Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist to Gwen/Tawny in Galaxy Quest and most recently, 14-year-old Kiri in Avatar: The Way of Water. With a career spanning over 50 years, Weaver has ...

44. Lana Turner

Actress | Madame X

Lana Turner had an acting ability that belied the "Sweater Girl" image MGM thrust upon her, and even many of her directors admitted that they knew she was capable of greatness (check out The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)). Unfortunately, her private life sometimes overshadowed her professional ...

45. Natascha McElhone

Actress | Ronin

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,...

46. Courteney Cox

Actress | Friends

Courteney Cox was born on June 15th, 1964 in Birmingham, Alabama, into an affluent Southern family. She is the daughter of Courteney (Bass) and Richard Lewis Cox (1930-2001), a businessman. She was the baby of the family with two older sisters (Virginia and Dottie) and an older brother, Richard, Jr...

47. Lee Grant

Actress | In the Heat of the Night

Academy Award-winner Lee Grant was born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal on October 31, 1925 in Manhattan, New York City, to Witia (Haskell), a teacher and model, and Abraham Rosenthal, an educator and realtor. Her father was of Romanian Jewish descent, and her mother was a Russian Jewish immigrant. Lee ...