Most Beautiful Actress of the 1990s

If this thread is about "movie stars," Jennifer Lopez needs to come off the list.

R1, Lopez starred in and received excellent reviews for Selena and Out of Sight, two of the most discussed films of that decade so why would she come off?

R2 Because she's a whore, darlin'.

Selena and Out of Sight were two of the most discussed films of that decade?

What color is the sky in your alternate universe?

Luise Rainer

I voted for Michelle even though she used plastic surgery (nose job) to achieve it.

I never found Michelle Pfeiffer to be beyond stunningly beautiful like everyone on here for some reason. She's too brittle and has a boyish body. Sharon Stone was far superior in looks.

Where’s Julia?

I would say Kim Basinger. She had a degree of earthiness and humor that made her more desirable.

Andie MacDowell

Lol that Out Of Sight and Selena were two of the most discussed movies of the 90s!

I voted for Shazza Stone as her beauty peaked in the 90s, whereas Pfieffer was already an established stunner in the 80s and Hall came into her own in the 2000s.

*Halle

Uma Thurman ruined her looks with that nose job. Yes, her original nose was quite large but the post plastic surgery nose was not an improvement.

Nicole Kodman is a nice looking woman. But she is not beautiful. She is unusual looking, a la M Streep and G Close.

Sharon Stone, Halle Berry, and Kim Basinger were all iconically beautiful and glamorous. I'd include Uma Thurman but her film work was too spotty and infrequent in the 90s.

I never took Nicole Kidman at all seriously until THE HOURS, a movie I did not love. But she was outstanding in it, fake nose and all.

R15 Nicole Kidman was excellent in "To Die For."

Kim Basinger had the BEST hair in this group. It deserved its own billing.

Michelle P is gorgeous, face and body, but she has "problem" hair that needs a lot of work. Even more so for Sharon Stone. And for Nicole.

[quote]R17 Kim Basinger had the BEST hair in this group. It deserved its own billing.

She also has the most traditional knockout figure.

Kidman, Stone, Thurman, et al are all tall, slim and nicely proportioned, rather like fashion models. But Basinger’s is the one that goes into a different, elevated, fantasy realm.

Sharon Stone and she still looks great and age appropriate.

I See Me!

It’s funny that gay men think that they are the experts on female beauty.

Lena Olin was special:

[quote]R28 It’s funny that gay men think that they are the experts on female beauty.

Well, do straight men even use the word “beautiful”?

They think more in the terms of “hot/not hot”

Not funny at all, IMHO, R28.

Gay men--at least some of us--can see beyond tits and ass and mere sexual desire and fully appreciate all of a woman's physical attributes. And her personality, her emotional presence. Many of the world's greatest artists, especially portraitists, have been gay men doing just that.

(Who do you think created The Mona Lisa?)

R28 gay men have been experts on fashion and beauty for centuries. I'm sure in a cave somewhere back in the stone age there was an effeminate Neanderthal advising the best placement of the bone for a cave woman's coif.

Rebecca de Mornay in the early 90s.

Rachel Weisz

If Julia Roberts was on this thread it would not be a slam dunk.

[quote]r14 Nicole Kodman is a nice looking woman. But she is not beautiful.

It’s sad the winner is only there because she had a nose job.

Vivica A. Fox has zero votes. It's literal violence!

Viv is sexy and exciting looking. But she wasn't as big a contender in the 90s as most of these other gals.

R1, Anyone who doesn't think J.Lo is a movie star hasn't been paying attention for 25 years. What color is the sky in your hideous ill-informed world?

What was her last hit film?

[R39], her nose isn’t the only nose on that list that has been cosmetically enhanced.

Adrienne Shelly

J-Lo is not a movie star any more than Madonna is or Barbara Streisand. In fact, Babs and Madge both have more legitimate claim to call themselves movie stars than J-Lo.

Isabella Rossellini - classic beauty and elegance, still today

Kim bassinger

I always thought Uma was ugly.

I love the remodeled Sharon Stone in the LensCrafters commercial where the young guy looks like he is about to blow a load just looking at her.

Exactly.

R22 Sharon Stone was never as unrealistically thin as the others, especially Pfeiffer.

For the J.Lo hater:

R56 If "Anaconda" is on your J-Lo "best of" list, you've already lost your argument.

LOL!

J Lo was lovely (excepting her personality) but never gorgeous

My son, when watching the movie 8 Mile declared Kim Basinger (even though she is old enough to be his mother) the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen. fwiw

[quote]r55 Sharon Stone was never as unrealistically thin as the others, especially Pfeiffer.

That’s true. But she’s 5’9” and has a fairly modest bustline.

Sharon is flawless.

Nicollette Sheridan was stunning at the start of the decade, but looking hard by the end of it.

Sharon is gorgeous without makeup

When have we seen her that way?

With makeup, but very minimal here. On set of SLIVER, I think.

If that's the case, Sharon would have been around 34 then, which is astonishing: she really looks at least a decade younger.

Catherine Deneuve

Either Isabel Adjani or Pete Burns, whichever one this is.

Sorry, Isabelle Adjani or Pete Burns.

Michelle is a nosejob.

Remember the cast of TWIN PEAKS? (Remember those denims? High-waisted, fitted, and faded.)

Lara Flynn Boyle, Sherilyn Fenn, Madchen Amick.

Bridget Fonda.