If you try to find out who is the most beautiful or the
hottest Hollywood actress you are bound to get spoilt
for choice. There are so many of them that you cannot choose a single Hollywood actress as the most beautiful or the
hottest. Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Aniston, Katie Holmes, Jessica
Alba, Scarlett Johansson, Penelope Cruz, Angelina Jolie, Elizabeth Hurley,
Catherine Zeta-Jones, Reese Witherspoon, Hilary Swank among several others are
rated to be the hot Hollywood actresses.
In magazine and tabloid ratings these actresses keep vying with each other for
the number one position of beauty and glamour.
But it will be wrong to choose only beauty and glamour as
the parameters for determining the popularity of the Hollywood actresses. All these actresses are
talented. Even in unconventional not-so-feminine roles like that of a lesbian
boxer as played by Hilary Swank in Million
Dollar Baby (2004), the eponymous tough warrior in the Lara Croft movies
played by Angelina Jolie, the androgynous character of Virginia Woolf in The Hours (2002) played by Nicole Kidman
with prosthetic makeup — the Hollywood ladies have proven their superb talent
for acting. The roles fetched them several awards and have increased manifold
their popularity and international recognition.
But the additional factors that contribute towards making
the talented actresses sizzle with glamour are how they maintain public
relations, how frequently they feature in gossip columns of tabloids and
magazines, how often they cook up controversies and what novel style statements
they make at gala award ceremonies in their designer wear. For instance, Nicole
Kidman came suddenly to the centre of attention when she had a controversial
divorce with Tom Cruise in 2001. Immediately afterwards with her role in Moulin Rouge she shot to fame and won
several awards. Many contemporary gossip columns felt that coming to the
limelight with her acclaimed role in the award-winning film became easy for her
controversial divorce that shortly preceded the film release. Elizabeth
Harely’s pre-marriage dating with her friend Valentina Pedroni’s beau Arun
Nayar stormed up controversy and gave some mileage to news posts the Hollywood actress.
The other way round, the popularity of a controversial film
role often leads to wild surmises about the real life attributes of a Hollywood actress. Hilary
Swank kept being plagued by questions about her real life sexual orientation
after she won awards for her role of a lesbian boxer in Million Dollar Baby. The gossip interests about her real life
sexual orientation quite predictably turned the spotlight of magazines and
tabloids on her personal life. About the Bollywood
actress Mallika Sherawat from India
who landed in a role in the international Hollywood production Hissss in the role of a snake and
appeared on the red carpet of the Academy Awards 2010 with a real snake twirled
around her neck reinforced the misconception of the Western world that India is indeed
full of snakes and snake-charmers. Needless to say, this weird appearance
despite the fashion disaster turned many eyes to the Bollywood actress.