Actress Sienna Miller

Sienna Miller is a British actress that Americans can nominally claim as their own. She was born in New York City to an American father and raised in the United Kingdom.



The actress, who turns 26 today, is a former model who designs clothes. Her movies include the recent remake of Alfie, as well as Factory Girl, in which she played Andy Warhol's artistic protege Edie Sedgwick.

Oh yeah, she had a very public and very publicly contentious relationship with actor Jude Law.

Actress Lucy Liu

Lucy Liu is another actress attracting attention of late.



Best known for her role as Ling Woo in the TV series "Ally McBeal," she has since appeared in numerous movies, notably Kill Bill: Vol. 1.

Seventies supermodel Beverly Johnson

Beverly Johnson was among several black fashion models that appeared in the early seventies in the wake of Naomi Sims's success.

At first, many of the modeling jobs she had involved catalog and department store work, such as the black-and-white picture above and the color photo, from a Sears ad, below.

Then the photograph below, taken by Francesco Scavullo, appeared on the August 1974 cover of the U.S. edition of Vogue - the first time a black model had ever graced the cover of a mainstram women's fashion magazine in America.
Though she has had success as a model, her attempt to become an actress fell flat. Her acting ability wasn't necessarly in question, nor was racism really a factor. She just had the horrible luck of appearing in movies that didn't make it, nor deserved to.

But the still picture camera still loves her, even if the motion picture camera didn't. :-)

Sixties supermodel Karen Harris

Before Karen Graham, there was Karen Harris.

Karen Harris was the Estée Lauder company's second spokesmodel, holding that lucrative position from 1965 to 1970, when Karen Graham replaced her. (Model Phyliis Connor was the first.) Mademoiselle Harris's look clearly exudes the style of the swinging sixties. :-)


As with so many pictures for Estée Lauder ads, these were taken by Victor Skrebneski.

Actress Jennifer Garner

Is Jennifer Garner the cutest actress to ever grace a television screen? :-)



Jennifer Garner catapulted to stardom in the ABC series "Alias," in which she played secret agent Syndey Bristow, skilled at quick-identity changes. Her movie credits include Catch Me If You Can and 13 Going on 30.



She has been married to Ben Affleck since 2005. She is currently appearing in "Cyrano de Bergerac" on Broadway.

Cable newswoman Jennifer Eccleston

Jennifer Eccleston has been a news correpsondent for all three major American cable news networks - CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. She currently is at CNN as an international correspondent.



Much of her reporting has been from the front lines in Iraq.

Patricia Clarkson and Kate Winslet: Two Beauties For the Price of One!

Here's a great picture of Patricia Clarkson with Kate Winslet at the premiere of the 2006 remake of All The King's Men, in which they both appeared.



Too bad the movie was a flop. :-O

Actress Patricia Clarkson

Patricia Clarkson first caught people's attention as a television reporter in the 1988 Dirty Harry movie The Dead Pool, and has been a consistent presence in movies ever since.



Clarkson's more recent movies include 1999's The Green Mile, 2002's Far from Heaven, and 2005's Good Night and Good Luck. In 2003, she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Pieces of April, in which she played an acerbic mother dying of cancer.

Australian actress Cate Blanchett

Cate Blanchett is one of the most accomplished actresses ever to come from Down Under.



Blanchett made her international film debut in 1997 as an Australian nurse who is captured by the Japanese in the movie Paradise Road. She broke through in a big way the following year, though, with her role as Queen Elizabeth I of England in Elizabeth.



She played Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator, and she also portrayed the scandalous, psychologically tormented teacher Sheba Hart in Notes On a Scandal.

Actress Jessica Alba

Okay, here we go with another round of beautiful women from A to Z! We start off with the gorgeous young actress Jessica Alba.



Jessica Alba had bit parts in movies and television shows before her breakthorugh as the genetically engineered super-soldier, Max Guevara, on the TV series "Dark Angel." Since then, she has appeared in films such as Sin City and the Fantastic Four movies.

Not Another Karen Graham Photo! :-D

How many pictures of seventies supermodel Karen Graham can I possibly display here?

Try me. :-)



Karen Graham was and remains the classiest and most beautiful fashion model America has ever produced, as this picture - showing her with a lovely hairstyle and in a sexy strapless dress - so clearly demonstrates. As long as I keep finding these pictures, I'll keep posting them. :-D

The Beauty of Retrospect, Part Two: Paloma Herrera

This Thanksgiving, American ballet fans can be thankful for Argentina's Paloma Herrera dancing for one of this country's most prestigious ballet companies.


Miss Herrera will be 32 next month - considered old for a ballerina - but she remains a principal star of the current repretory company of the American Ballet Theatre in New York.

The Beauty of Retrospect, Part Two: Karen Graham, 1974

Here's onetime Estée Lauder model Karen Graham again, this time in a perfume ad from 1974.


If you ask me, photographer Victor Skrebneski focused way too much on the Mercedes. :-D

The Beauty of Retrospect, Part Two: Nancy Dutiel In Quadruplicate, 1980

Here's then-Lancome model Nancy Dutiel from a 1980 Lancome ad I just found.



Oh, that there were really four of her! :-)

Supermodel Daria Werbowy

Daria Werbowy is one of the most sought-after models around these days, attracting clients of very high profiles.



A Canadian, she was born in Poland and is of Ukrainian decent.

Ain't internationalism wonderful? :-)

Broadcast journalist Alison Stewart

Alison Stewart has been associated with virtually every high-profile broadcast network in the United States.



Originally a political reporter for MTV News in the early 1990s, she went on to work for CBS, ABC, and, most recently and most visibly, the MSNBC cable news network. Stewart currently cohosts National Public Radio's new morning drive show, "Bryant Park Project."