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.
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