Name an actress or actor that is/was so beautiful it hurts...

[Gravitycollapse]

Cybill Shepard




Michael Fassbender

[Bucky]

1. Cybill Shepard is more the "so pretty she's boring" category

I admire her career savvy, being able to parley her lack of acting range into a career as a deadpan comedian. On the other hand, I think she supports charities with a lot of her money, so no harm = no foul. But no, not beautiful.

[MiddleFingerMom]

17. My BIL worked with her in advertising (Clairol, The Beef Council) and said she was...

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... one of the biggest jerks that he ever met -- everything you could imagine about
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[Manifestor_of_Light]

33. I heard that as well.

From somebody who worked with her on The Last Picture Show. I think this guy was Bogdanovich's assistant or something. Anyway, she was a complete pain and he was still talking about it 25 years later.

[MiddleFingerMom]

37. On the other hand, he worked with James Garner ("The Rockford Files"), who was...

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... also a spokesperson for The Beef Council and said he was one of the nicest
people he had ever met, although he didn't want to hang with the bigwigs -- he
preferred playing poker with the stagehands in between takes.
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[pipi_k]

50. Pretty much

my opinion as well.

Pretty, but not what I would call beautiful...

[Tom Ripley]

67. Her lack of range is why she worked so well in "The Last Picture Show" and "Taxi Driver"...

as a blank beauty upon who the male protagonists could project their longings.

I've always thought that Ingrid Bergman and Grace Kelly also fell into the "so pretty she's boring" category.

[RudynJack]

85. I agree with you

about Cybill, but Ingrid Bergman was stunning, in an unconventional way.

There a few actresses (and fewer actors) who just compel you to look at them on-screen. Bergman, Garbo, Audrey Hepburn... and I would put Cate Blanchett in that category.

[Bucky]

88. The phrase was originally applied to Catherine Deneuve...

during sex.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

2. Marion Cotillard

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[nolabear]

3. I knew this would cause trouble. It's so subjective. I think we shouldn't argue, just post our own.

But I'll have to give it some thought.

[Bucky]

5. For you list I'd nominate Denise Richards & Shemar Moore. I just look at them and wince

I'm sure they're all wonderful people. But you just know they went through life enjoying the benefits of the Bubble.

[Liberal Veteran]

6. Audrey Hepburn.

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[Arctic Dave]

13. Yes. Nt.

[Paulie]

14. Winner

[RFKHumphreyObama]

42. Yes...

Couldn't agree more

[Denninmi]

7. Julia Roberts

She captured my heart as Vivian.

[ConcernedCanuk]

40. yup

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She captured my heart also








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[WorseBeforeBetter]

8. Julie Christie, then and now.

Men? Hmm. Lemme think...

Oded Fehr



And back in the NYPD Blue days I remember thinking Baldwin was pretty much perfection:

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[Ilsa]

106. I've always liked Oded.

He's very sexy, very handsome.

I love Julie's short hair in the second pic.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

118. Years ago, I was dragged to "Deuce Bigelow"...

on a double date. "Holy hell, who is that?!" was pretty much my reaction when Oded appeared onscreen. I managed to suffer through that hour and a half.

[Ilsa]

120. He played a group leader for anti-terrorist spies

On a network show around 2002, I think, with Vera Farmiga. He also had appearances on Charmed and The Mummy movie series. Great voice, too.

[Blue_In_AK]

111. I'm a huge fan of Julie Christie.

I loved her in Dr. Zhivago.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

119. I need to watch that again...

saw it once as a kid. Certain imagery still stands out though...

[NV Whino]

9. Grace Kelly

[Arctic Dave]

12. Yes. Nt

[MiddleFingerMom]

19. There's a scene in "Rear Window" where Jimmy Stewart wakes up and opens his eyes...

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... to see her, at first slightly out-of-focus and then sharp as he wakes up
more fully. It's a close-up of nothing but her face.
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My buddy Steve and I watched that movie together 3 or 4 times, and we
both would groan in unison during that scene.
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[Yavin4]

79. A funny Johnny Carson joke about Grace Kelly

Right before she was to wed the Prince of Monaco, Carson said: It's great to see a woman who almost has everything, get the rest of it.

[Locrian]

80. yes

[HarveyDarkey]

10. Not a actress, but I've been in love with Emmylou Harris since I first saw her

I think she's become even more beautiful with age.

[MiddleFingerMom]

20. Mmm-HMMMM!!!!!

[edbermac]

11. Elizabeth Taylor

[nomorenomore08]

15. A recent discovery of mine: Kate Parker from "Absentia" (which is a pretty good horror flick BTW).

[steve2470]

16. Morgan Fairchild

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[wickerwoman]

18. Jason Momoa

Natalie Portman

[TexasTowelie]

104. I agree with both your picks for the 30-35 year old age group.

Handsome for Jason and beautiful for Natalie.

[Recursion]

21. Hedy Lamarr

She was also an electrical engineer and invented spread-spectrum frequency hopping. In her spare time between movies.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

35. Yes. And she was so natural in her first movie.

[steve2470]

36. supposedly she sued the people behind Blazing Saddles

Hedley Lamarr character.

Beautiful and brilliant, what's not to like.

[MiddleFingerMom]

22. Patricia Clarkson -- "The Station Agent" "Six Feet Under" "The Green Mile"...

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... Justin Timberlake's mother in SNL's "Motherlover" (Susan Sarandon is even MORE gorgeous).
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[blogslut]

23. To this day, this little lady breaks my heart:

[Rowdyboy]

24. Montgomery Clift is perhaps the most beautiful man I've ever seen....

[Demo_Chris]

26. Wow, he was one handsome man!

[Xyzse]

48. I am confident enough about my masculinity

To say that is a great looking guy.

[Still Blue in PDX]

68. I was completely and utterly in love with him. nt

[Tom Ripley]

69. Man, he was a beauty.

[Arctic Dave]

76. We have fitter who is spittin image of him.

Heck of a nice guy too.

[cliffordu]

99. Yep. 'Suddenly, Last Summer' makes me feel funny

Can't decide whether it's Kate, Elizabeth, or Montgomery, that makes me dizzy.

They are all gorgeous in that film.


Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes, ya don't.

And sometimes you feel like all three.

Heh.

[Blue_In_AK]

112. Oh, yeah,

very, very handsome ... along with James Dean.

[Gravitycollapse]

27. Warning: Chloe Moretz is underage.

[steve2470]

31. I'd delete that...and I'm being kind to you here

You're risking getting banned.

eta: I'd delete the photo too. YMMV.

[Rowdyboy]

28. Audrey could be a store clerk or princess. Really didn't matter much. She was magic...

[Demo_Chris]

30. She was unbelievably good looking. I fell in love with her in "My Fair Lady." nt

[Manifestor_of_Light]

32. This guy.

He was also gorgeous in The Age of Innocence. That was a gorgeous movie, but not much happened. There was voice-over by Joanne Woodward, and the audience laughed at lines like Daniel's character, in voice over, saying things like, "I could go over and push her out the window, and nobody would suspect a thing" referring to murdering his tiny wife, played by Winona Ryder.


This guy, Bruno Lastra, in my favorite movie of all time, The Keeper:The Legend of Omar Khayyam. Filmed in Houston, Texas, and Uzbekistan:


More info at www.greatomar.com
The box:


I think everyone should see this movie. That blonde lady on the cover is Miss Vanessa Redgrave.

[Myrina]

62. Oh yes oh yes oh yes.

We have a winner.

[nolabear]

94. Whoof.

That is one beautiful man.

[DFW]

34. Well, if I have to stick with actors/actresses only, then here's my choice:

Catherine Zeta-Jones
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However, if I can expand the category a little, I'd have to include this lovely lady as well:
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[MiddleFingerMom]

54. Catherine Zeta-Jones is one of those women where it's not fair to include her...

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... in a "poll" of beautiful women -- near-flawless and exotic, they come along
once every decade or two. Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch are two I can think of.
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I think we've discussed your wife's resemblance to Patricia Clarkson. Hubba-hubba.
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[DFW]

65. No offense taken, but....

Who is Patricia Clarkson?

(I know, I know. I'll google her!)

And no argument on Sophia Loren: a once-in-a-generation beauty.

Now, when someone starts a thread on beautiful social workers, Mrs. DFW will definitely finish in the top ten, I'll bet!

*on edit: OK, I checked out Patricia Clarkson. She's 7 years younger than my wife and only 5'4" where Mrs. DFW is 5'10," so any resemblance is kind of a stretch.

**second edit--stupid me--I should have scrolled up before posting. Sorrrrrryy! I'm in the final stages of packing after 6 weeks of running around this side of the Atlantic, and have a date with Air Chance in 4½ hours

[marzipanni]

100. Patricia Clarkson and Anne Heche should play sisters in a movie n/t

[MiddleFingerMom]

101. I can see that.

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She DID play this woman's (Frances Conroy) sister on "Six Feet Under" (she was the
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Clarkson was also the warden's wife who was so ill in "The Green Mile".
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[Locut0s]

38. Olivia Wilde, had a crush on her for years...

Emma Stone is a close second. Course there are a lot of women who could be on this list.

[Bonobo]

39. David Bowie

I'm straight, but I saw him close up once and it was like looking at an angel or a god. He is superhumanly beautiful.

It hits you and feels weird. Like being near an alien.

[Xyzse]

49. I may have to agree.

Tilda Swinton looks a bit similar.

[Victor_c3]

41. Christina Ricci before she got super skinny

I loved the way she looked in the movie "Buffalo 66". All the right weight in all the right areas. For an actress, she would probably have been considered "fat" by Hollywood standards, but she was ideal by mine.

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[NewJeffCT]

60. she had a breast reduction, too

if I recall?

[B Calm]

43. Meg Ryan

[a la izquierda]

44. George Clooney,

Gael Garcia Bernal, and Alexander Skarsgard.
Swoon.

[progressivejazzredux]

45. The gold standard for women

is Ingrid Bergman. Watch "Casablanca". One commenter said the only unbelievable part of the movie is that Rick (Humphrey Bogart) would let her go away--in reality no man could stand to lose her, even if it meant Hitler won the war.

[Xithras]

71. Thank you. I was surprised as I read down through this discussion without seeing her name.

Ingrid Bergman, IMHO, is one of the most beautiful women of the last century. When it comes to Golden Age actresses, Ingrid Bergman and Hedy Lamarr have always ranked as my top two. Bergman for her classic beauty, and Lamarr for her all around brilliance (I think that Bergman was the prettier of the two, but if I got to choose one to have dinner with, it would have been Lamarr).

[NewJeffCT]

46. The most recent one for me is Freida Pinto

When I was watching "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", I thought she was so stunning that it distracted from the movie.

[Xyzse]

52. Have to agree

They could have put any one else on Mr. Franco's role, and I would not have minded.

[DFW]

47. I forgot Olivia Munn

I just watched the first season of The News Room with my brother this weekend, and she stole the show for me. Intelligent women are such a turn-on!
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[Xyzse]

51. There are just so many beautiful people

I can make a whole list here in many different categories, but I'll just mention two brunettes for now.

Kate Beckinsale

Serinda Swan

[NewJeffCT]

57. Forgot about Kate Beckinsale

one of my favorites as well.

I've never heard of Serinda Swan, but she's quite attractive as well.

[Xyzse]

58. There are just so many

Like I said, even if we go by categories, and I'd probably be able to name at least 10 per category given enough time.

Uhhh, more women then men though, just because I generally don't make a point of remembering men.

[NewJeffCT]

59. I agree, there are a lot of beautiful people

But, it's rare that I notice how good looking a guy is overall, though.

[Xyzse]

63. Yeah... Same here

[pipi_k]

53. A couple...

Jane Russell





Sophia Loren





And, who could forget...

[Paladin]

55. Kate Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, Lawrence Olivier (nt)

[cliffordu]

98. Right with you on all three.

[sarge43]

56. Mine

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[Myrina]

61. Charlize Theron, Juliette Binoche

n/t

[cliffordu]

64. Sophia Loren, 'boy on dolphin' for the win.

I discovered girls because of that film.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

66. A few

Dana Delany


Sigourney Weaver -old pic but still just as beautiful and stunning now


Gillian Anderson


Also can't get the pics I wanted of them but also Nancy Allen and Betty Buckley, especially when the latter starred in "Eight in Enough" and "Carrie"

[Tom Ripley]

70. Loretta Young, Klaus Kinski

[loli phabay]

72. svletvana toma, angelina jolie, gillian anderson, elizabeth taylor, no particular order

[Rob H.]

73. Rita Hayworth

She was long before my time, but I was struck speechless the first time I saw her on film. So damned beautiful...*sigh*



Oh! Almost forgot--Barbara Eden. (And not because of the harem outfit, either.)

[lunamagica]

74. Not an actor (though he made a few movies...)

I think he was so beautiful it hurt....

[kwassa]

75. Halle Berry

[hamsterjill]

77. Sandra Bullock

I've always thought she was beautiful. An understated type of beauty. Natural and real, etc.

[pipi_k]

89. I've always liked

her personality and have thought many times how cool it would be to be her sister or best friend.

[LongTomH]

78. Salma Hayek, Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren isn't "still beautiful," she's just beautiful.

[MountainMama]

81. Darn it

I don't know how to do pix!

No one mentioned the incandescent Vivien Leigh? A stunning, timeless beauty...

I love that someone mentioned Montgomery Clift, but for me it is and shall always be Christopher Reeve. *sigh

[Glorfindel]

82. I agree with you! Vivien Leigh was about as beautiful as it's possible to be.

[MountainMama]

83. Thank you!

My very favorite actress...

[RudynJack]

84. Garbo

and Audrey Hepburn. Both impossibly beautiful.

[stevenleser]

86. No one has ever played the beautiful villainess like Marlene Dietrich

http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Dietrich,%20Marlene/Annex/Annex%20-%20Dietrich,%20Marlene_18.jpg

[Lydia Leftcoast]

87. When I was in grad school, all the guys had a crush on her

I could never understand it. She's very ordinary looking.

[whistler162]

90. Neville Brand!

[PasadenaTrudy]

91. Young De Niro....swoon n/t

[applegrove]

93. Yes. Bobby D

[Boomerproud]

107. Yes, DeNiro was beautiful when he was young.

and downthread, Robert Redford gets my vote too.

When I was a girl, David McCallum, Paul McCartney and Davy Jones were the gold standard. Easy to see why...

[applegrove]

92. Robert Redford circa "All the President's Men"

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[Demo_Chris]

95. I forgot one of my favorite actors...

TOM CRUISE

He might be a freaking mental case (many actors are) but he is an amazingly talented actor and one of the best looking men alive.

[handmade34]

96. ...

[Gravitycollapse]

97. I'm glad this thread was successful.

[No Vested Interest]

102. Ava Gardner nt

[enigmatic]

103. Natalie Wood

[Tom_Foolery]

121. Natalie always made me melt...

She was beautiful.

[cyberswede]

105. So...watching Key Largo on my DVR...

Lauren Bacall has to be one of the most beautiful human beings ever born.

[Blue_In_AK]

113. It's her eyes.

I always loved her eyes.

[Ilsa]

108. Dan Stevens

from Downton Abbey
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Christian Bale

Famke Janssen
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[cyberswede]

109. Oh...and Paul Newman

Good liberal, too!

[GreenPartyVoter]

110. This lady really struck me when I saw her in

"LadyHawke.: Total teenage girl-crush.

[Taverner]

114. Jennifer Love Hewitt

Now, more than her younger years.

[Skittles]

115. Sharon Tate

[Jasana]

116. Need more men in this thread. I nominate...

Antonio Banderas
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Brad Pitt
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Johnny Depp
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And though not an actor, he was Mr. Universe in 2008 - Ivan Rusilko
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[Skittles]

122. Denzel

*scrumptious*

[Jasana]

123. And Will Smith...

Not only is he pretty but there were times he made me laugh so hard I cried. I can still picture him in Independence Day dragging the alien through the desert screaming, "I could have been at a barbecue!"

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[Skittles]

124. wonderful actor, great smile!

I have also long crushed on Chiwetel Ejiofor

[mainer]

117. What, no Angelina Jolie?

Gotta be on the list.

[AsahinaKimi]

125. I would go with..Rinko Kikuchi from Pacific Rim