Comments on: Top 5 unconventional beauties

By: Dagnabbitt

Dagnabbitt — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:58:27 +0000

Heh.

The irony, if not outright paradox, of this thread is that there are no ugly actresses in Hollywood; plenty of ugly actors – even in leading roles – but even the contradictory flattery of ‘unconventional beauties’ has average-looking at worse. [Hello, "Dogfight"]’s Ms. Taylor.]

I would argue that any of the names who are not currently some degree of blonde-haired, petite, and cast opposite an actor a decade or more older and less attractive would qualify as “unconventional.”

~ D.

By: jic

jic — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:25:53 +0000

How did we manage to have a 14-comment thread on this subject without anybody mentioning Lili Taylor?

By: JimmyC

JimmyC — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:45:32 +0000

Jennifer Carpenter. She has sort of an odd-looking face, which would normally disqualify her from getting work in Hollywood, but she is incredibly sexy and beautiful, especially on Dexter.

By: Heidi

Heidi — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:49:04 +0000

Kate Winslet.
I love her because she’s not obsessed with being ultra-skinny and she’ll go naked in a movie and not starve herself before the shoot. I really like Kate. And she’s an unconventional beauty because she’s a real woman.
Here’s one I don’t quite understand. Jennifer Aniston, despite crazy fame, isn’t conventionally pretty, but she’s sort of a sexy Hollywood symbol. Sometimes it’s just all about how Hollywood decides to sell an actor or actress. Zooey Deschanel is another gal Hollywood has decided to mark as a cutie-pie, but I’m not sure she’d be “all-that” in real life. Kind of a dork. Not that there’s anything wrong with that!
It would be interesting to do this same post for men. Speaking of Maggie G., I don’t find her brother attractive at all, yet he’s quite the Hollywood darling these days. I guess good looks really is in the eye of the beholder.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:44:29 +0000

Tilda is just plain scary looking. Claire Danes didn’t knock me over the first time I saw her (Rainmaker), but she grows on you.

By: Erin

Erin — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:20:53 +0000

Maggie Gyllenhaal (sp?) would be my nominee as well.

And, nitpicky as it might be, I’m here to tell you that Megan Fox does have at least one (actually, TEN) natural, physical flaws: She’s got some REALLY effed up finger nails. Seriously. Find a picture where you can see her hands. She’s hot as hell but a hand model, she ain’t.

By: Yeff

Yeff — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:46:32 +0000

Summer Glau. She’s not a conventional beauty and that’s what makes her so beautiful. Even as a killer terminator you wanted to protect her from the bad things in the world.

Or maybe that’s just me.

By: JohnFNWayne

JohnFNWayne — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:25:59 +0000

Hendricks – may her days on television be infinite.

By: cftoto

cftoto — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 05:50:08 +0000

Would Joan Allen fit in this category? Forgot about her. Yeah, Clarkson counts … although Weaver might be conventionally beautiful (and thus disqualified!)

By: Floyd R. Turbo

Floyd R. Turbo — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 05:19:32 +0000

Myrna Loy, Norma Shearer, Patricia Clarkson, Kirsten Dunst (she’s got a crooked face, but can be very appealing — Spiderman, Marie Antoinette, etc.) and Sigourney Weaver can be too (Heartbreakers was great for her and she was that way in Ghostbusters also)