The 100 sexiest actresses over 40

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We’ve done the sexiest actresses under 30, the sexiest actresses in their 30s, now it’s time for the sexiest actresses 40 and older!

This makes 300 different super sexy actresses currently working in Hollywood. And that figure is actually much higher because we left off about 200 other gorgeous actresses that are also plying their trade in Tinseltown. Apparently the economy is doing just fine in La-La-Land.

And as before, you could change this order in a thousand different ways, and swap out one actress for another and still not be wrong, but this is how it played out. The most important thing is it’s 100 beautiful women!

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100 Patricia Arquette

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Age: 44.
Best Known For: Medium (TV). True Romance (Film).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Electric Slide, Vijay and I, Mystery White Boy (Films).

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99 Annabeth Gish

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Age: 41.
Best Known For: The X-Files, Brotherhood, Pretty Little Liars (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Pretty Little Liars (TV).

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98 Elisabeth Shue

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Age: 49.
Best Known For: CSI (TV). The Karate Kid, Adventures in Babysitting, Leaving Las Vegas (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: CSI (TV). Behaving Badly, The Hard Ride (Films).

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97 Minnie Driver

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Age: 43.
Best Known For: The Riches (TV). Good Will Hunting (Film).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: I Give It a Year, Stage Fright, Return to Zero (Films).

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96 Penelope Ann Miller

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Age: 49.
Best Known For: Men of a Certain Age (TV). The Artist (Film).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Mistresses (TV). The Bronx Bull, Saving Lincoln (Films).

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95 Tina Fey

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Age: 42.
Best Known For: Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Admission, The Muppets… Again! (Films).

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94 Perrey Reeves

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Age: 42.
Best Known For: Entourage (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Fugly!, Innocence, Entourage (Films).

Photo credit: Perrey Reeves image by Helga Esteb/Shutterstock

93 Joely Richardson

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Age: 48.
Best Known For: The Tudors, Nip/Tuck (TV). The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Film).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Paganini: The Devil’s Violinist (Film).

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92 Laura Linney

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Age: 49.
Age: XX.
Best Known For: The Big C (TV). The Truman Show, Mystic River (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: The Big C (TV). The Fifth Estate (Film).

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91 Cate Blanchett

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Age: 43.
Best Known For: The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Knight of Cups, Blue Jasmine, The Hobbit films (Films).

Photo credit: Cate Blanchett image by Joe Seer/Shutterstock

90 Dana Delany

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Age: 56.
Best Known For: China Beach, Desperate Housewives, Body of Proof (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Body of Proof (TV).

Photo credit: Dana Delaney image by Helga Esteb/Shutterstock

89 Amanda Peet

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Age: 41.
Best Known For: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The Good Wife (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: The Good Wife (TV). Trust Me (Film).

Photo credit: Amanda Peet image by s_bukley/Shutterstock

88 Debra Messing

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Age: 44.
Best Known For: Will & Grace, The Starter Wife, Smash (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Smash (TV).

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87 Gina Gershon

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Age: 50.
Best Known For: Rescue Me (TV). Showgirls (Film).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Mall, The Scribbler, The Lookalike (Films).

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86 Kelly Preston

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Age: 50.
Best Known For: Medium (TV). Jerry Maguire (Film).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Keep Kalm and Karey On (TV Movie). Gotti: In the Shadow of My Father (Film).

Photo credit: Kelly Preston image by Featureflash/Shutterstock

85 Jada Pinkett-Smith

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Age: 41.
Best Known For: Hawthorne, A Different World (TV). The Matrix film series (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (Film – Voice).

Photo credit: Jada Pinkett-Smith image by s_bukley/Shutterstock

84 Sharon Stone

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Age: 54.
Best Known For: Basic Instinct, Casino (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Lovelace, Border Run, What About Love (Films).

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83 Kristin Chenoweth

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Age: 44.
Best Known For: The West Wing, Pushing Daisies, GCB (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Family Weekend (Film).

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82 Lisa Edelstein

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Age: 45.
Best Known For: House M.D. (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: House of Lies (TV). She Loves Me Not (Film).

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81 Robin Givens

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Age: 48.
Best Known For: Head of the Class, Sparks (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Je’Caryous Johnson’s Marriage Material, Double Sided (Films).

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80 Michelle Pfeiffer

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Age: 54.
Best Known For: The Fabulous Baker Boys, Batman Returns, Dark Shadows (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Malavita, Man Under (Films).

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79 Mira Sorvino

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Age: 45.
Best Known For: Mighty Aphrodite, Norma Jean & Marilyn (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Trooper, Gaffigan (TV Movies). Theo, Space Warriors (Films).

Photo credit: Mira Sorvino image by s_bukley/Shutterstock

78 Anne Heche

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Age: 43.
Best Known For: Hung (TV). Six Days Seven Nights, Cedar Rapids (Films)
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Nothing Left to Fear, Life at These Speeds (Films).

Photo credit: Anne Heche image by Joe Seer/Shutterstock

77 Emily Procter

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Age: 44.
Best Known For: The West Wing, CSI: Miami, White Collar (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: White Collar (TV).

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76 Jeri Ryan

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Age: 45.
Best Known For: Star Trek: Voyager, Shark, Body of Proof (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Body of Proof (TV).

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75 Uma Thurman

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Age: 42.
Best Known For: Pulp Fiction, the Kill Bill films (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Nymphomaniac, Eloise in Paris, Girl Soldier (Films).

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74 Helena Bonham Carter

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Age: 46.
Best Known For: Fight Club, Alice in Wonderland, Les Misérables (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: The Lone Ranger, The Young and Prodigious Spivet (Films).

Photo credit: Helena Bonham Carter image by Helga Esteb/Shutterstock

73 Christina Applegate

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Age: 41.
Best Known For: Married… with Children, Up All Night (TV). Anchorman (Film).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Anchorman: The Legend Continues, Vacation (Films).

Photo credit: Christina Applegate image by Jaguar PS/Shutterstock

72 Peta Wilson

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Age: 42.
Best Known For: La Femme Nikita (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Havana Heat (Film).

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71 Julianna Margulies

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Age: 46.
Best Known For: ER, The Good Wife (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: The Good Wife (TV).

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70 Jennie Garth

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Age: 40.
Best Known For: Beverly Hills, 90210, Jennie Garth: A Little Bit Country (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Home Again (TV Movie).

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69 Tea Leoni

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Age: 47.
Best Known For: The Naked Truth (TV). Spanglish, Bad Boys, Tower Heist (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Nothing currently planned.

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68 Robin Tunney

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Age: 40.
Best Known For: Prison Break, The Mentalist (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: The Mentalist (TV).

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67 Ellen Pompeo

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Age: 43.
Best Known For: Grey’s Anatomy (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Grey’s Anatomy (TV).

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66 Lauren Graham

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Age: 45.
Best Known For: Gilmore Girls, Parenthood (TV). Bad Santa (Film).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Parenthood (TV). A Friggin’ Christmas Miracle (Film).

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65 Lucy Lawless

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Age: 44.
Best Known For: Xena: Warrior Princess, the Spartacus TV series (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: The Spartacus TV series (TV).

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64 Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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Age: 52.
Best Known For: Seinfeld, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Veep (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Veep (TV).

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63 Angela Bassett

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Age: 54.
Best Known For: What’s Love Got to Do With It, Malcolm X, The Rosa Parks Story (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Olympus Has Fallen, White Bird in a Blizzard, Black Nativity (Films).

Photo credit: Angela Bassett image by s_bukley/Shutterstock

62 Julia Roberts

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Age: 45.
Best Known For: Pretty Woman, Erin Brockovich, Ocean’s Eleven (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: The Normal Heart (TV Movie). August: Osage County (Film).

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61 Brooke Shields

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Age: 47.
Best Known For: Suddenly Susan, Lipstick Jungle (TV). The Blue Lagoon (Film).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: The Hot Flashes, Skum Rocks! (Films).

Photo credit: Brooke Shields image by Joe Seer/Shutterstock

60 Julianne Moore

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Age: 52.
Best Known For: 30 Rock (TV). Boogie Nights, Magnolia (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: The English Teacher, Non-Stop, The Seventh Son, Carrie (Films).

Photo credit: Julianne Moore image by s_bukley/Shutterstock

59 Heather Locklear

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Age: 51.
Best Known For: Melrose Place, Spin City, Hot in Cleveland (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Hot in Cleveland (TV). Scary Movie 5 (Film).

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58 Nicole Kidman

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Age: 45.
Best Known For: Eyes Wide Shut, Moulin Rouge!, The Paperboy (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Stoker, The Railway Man, Grace of Monaco (Films).

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57 Mariska Hargitay

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Age: 49.
Best Known For: Law & Order: SVU (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Law & Order: SVU (TV).

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56 Cameron Diaz

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Age: 40.
Best Known For: There’s Something About Mary, Gangs of New York, Bad Teacher (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: The Counselor, The Other Woman (Films).

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55 Leslie Mann

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Age: 40.
Best Known For: The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, This Is 40 (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: The Bling Ring, Mr. Peabody & Sherman (Films).

Photo credit: Leslie Mann image by Joe Seer/Shutterstock

54 Teri Hatcher

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Age: 48.
Best Known For: Lois & Clark, Desperate Housewives (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: I Brake for Gringos (Film).

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53 Ashley Judd

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Age: 44.
Best Known For: Missing (TV). Norma Jean & Marilyn, Dolphin Tale (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Olympus Has Fallen, The Identical (Films).

Photo credit: Ashley Judd image by CarlaVanWagoner/Shutterstock

52 Demi Moore

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Age: 50.
Best Known For: About Last Night…, Ghost, Striptease, G.I. Jane (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Very Good Girls (Film).

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51 Catherine Bell

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Age: 44.
Best Known For: JAG, Army Wives (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Army Wives (TV). Desert Storm (Film).

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50 Nicolette Sheridan

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Age: 49.
Best Known For: Desperate Housewives (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Jewtopia (Film).

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49 Kate Walsh

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Age: 45.
Best Known For: Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Private Practice (TV). Bad Judge (TV Movie). Scary Movie 5 (Film).

Photo credit: Kate Walsh image by s_bukley/Shutterstock

48 Courteney Cox

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Age: 48.
Best Known For: Friends, Cougar Town (TV). The Scream film series (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Cougar Town (TV).

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47 Charisma Carpenter

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Age: 42.
Best Known For: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The Lying Game (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: The Lying Game (TV).

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46 Sarah Rafferty

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Age: 40.
Best Known For: Suits (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Suits (TV).

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45 Winona Ryder

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Age: 41.
Best Known For: Heathers, Edward Scissorhands, Reality Bites, Black Swan (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Homefront (Film).

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44 Elizabeth Mitchell




Age: 42.
Best Known For: Revolution (TV). The Santa Clause films (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Revolution (TV).

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43 Julie Benz

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Age: 40.
Best Known For: Dexter, No Ordinary Family, A Gifted Man (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Defiance (TV). Sole Custody (Film).

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42 Gwyneth Paltrow

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Age: 40.
Best Known For: Iron Man, Iron Man 2, The Avengers (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Iron Man 3, 33 días (Films).

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41 Eva LaRue

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Age: 46.
Best Known For: All My Children, CSI: Miami (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Help for the Holidays (TV Movie).

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40 Gabrielle Union

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Age: 40.
Best Known For: City of Angels, FlashForward (TV). Think Like a Man (Film).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Miss Dial (Film).

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39 Dina Meyer

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Age: 44.
Best Known For: Birds of Prey (TV). Starship Troopers, the Saw film series (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Golden Shoes, The Stupidest Angel (Films).

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38 Sandra Bullock

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Age: 48.
Best Known For: Speed, Crash, The Blind Side (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: The Heat, Gravity (Films).

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37 Portia de Rossi

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Age: 40.
Best Known For: Arrested Development, Nip/Tuck, Better off Ted (TV). Sirens (Film).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Arrested Development (Film).

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36 Gillian Anderson

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Age: 44.
Best Known For: The X-Files, The Fall (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Mr. Morgan’s Last Love, The Curse of The Buxom Strumpet (Films).

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35 Julie Bowen

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Age: 42.
Best Known For: Ed, Boston Legal, Modern Family (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Modern Family (TV).

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34 Stacey Dash

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Age: 46.
Best Known For: Clueless, The Game, Single Ladies (TV). Clueless (Film).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Monica (Film).

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33 Kelly Hu

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Age: 44.
Best Known For: Sunset Beach, Martial Law, The Vampire Diaries (TV). The Scorpion King, X2 (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: The Hundred (TV Movie). The Haumana (Film).

Photo credit: Kelly Hu image by s_bukley/Shutterstock

32 Bridget Moynahan

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Age: 42.
Best Known For: Blue Bloods (TV). Coyote Ugly, I, Robot, Battle Los Angeles (Films)
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Blue Bloods (TV). Small Time (Film).

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31 Jenna Elfman

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Age: 40.
Best Known For: Dharma & Greg, 1600 Penn (TV). Friends with Benefits (Film).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Damages, 1600 Penn (TV).

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30 Claire Forlani

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Age: 40.
Best Known For: CSI: NY, Camelot, NCIS: Los Angeles (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Panda Eyes, Deauville (Films).

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29 Diane Lane

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Age: 48.
Best Known For: Unfaithful, Under the Tuscan Sun, Secretariat (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Man of Steel, Every Secret Thing (Films).

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28 Jennifer Connelly

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Age: 42.
Best Known For: He’s Just Not That Into You, Hulk, A Beautiful Mind (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Winter’s Tale, Noah, Cry/Fly (Films).

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27 Lucy Liu

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Age: 44.
Best Known For: Ally McBeal, Elementary (TV). Payback, the Kill Bill film series (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Elementary (TV).

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26 Mary-Louise Parker

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Age: 48.
Best Known For: The West Wing, Weeds (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Jamesy Boy, Behaving Badly, R.I.P.D., Red 2 (Films)

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25 Marisa Tomei

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Age: 48.
Best Known For: My Cousin Vinny, In The Bedroom, The Wrestler (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Why Now?! (Film).

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24 Connie Britton

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Age: 45.
Best Known For: Friday Night Lights, American Horror Story, Nashville (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Nashville (TV). When Angels Sing, The To Do List (Films).

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23 Andie MacDowell

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Age: 54.
Best Known For: Jane by Design (TV). Groundhog Day, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Footloose (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Cedar Cove (TV Movie). Breaking at the Edge, Mothers Day (Films).

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22 Sofia Milos

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Age: 43.
Best Known For: CSI: Miami, Desire, The Border (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: The First Family (TV).

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21 Denise Richards

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Age: 42.
Best Known For: Blue Mountain State (TV). Starship Troopers, Wild Things (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Twisted (TV).

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20 Famke Janssen

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Age: 48.
Best Known For: GoldenEye, the X-Men film series, the Taken film series (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Hemlock Grove (TV). Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, The Being Experience (Films).

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19 Catherine Zeta-Jones

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Age: 43.
Best Known For: The Mask of Zorro, Entrapment, Traffic, Chicago (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Broken City, Side Effects, Red 2 (Films).

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18 Maria Bello

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Age: 45.
Best Known For: ER, Prime Suspect, Touch (TV). Coyote Ugly, A History of Violence (Film).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Touch (TV). Grown Ups 2, Prisoners, The Third Person (Films).

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17 Teri Polo

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Age: 43.
Best Known For: The West Wing (TV). The Meet the Parents film series (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: The Fosters (TV). Scribble, A Bit of Bad Luck, Final Recourse (Films)

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16 Jennifer Garner

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Age: 40.
Best Known For: Alias (TV). Butter, The Odd Life of Timothy Green (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Dallas Buyers Club (Film).

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15 Aisha Tyler

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Age: 42.
Best Known For: Friends, Ghost Whisperer, The Talk (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Archer (TV – Voice).

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14 Lori Loughlin

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Age: 48.
Best Known For: Full House, Summerland, 90210 (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: When Calls the Heart (TV Movie). Crawlspace, A Mother’s Rage (Films).

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13 Naomi Watts

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Age: 44.
Best Known For: 21 Grams, King Kong, The Impossible (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Two Mothers, Sunlight Jr., Diana, Birdman (Films).

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12 Heather Graham

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Age: 43.
Best Known For: Scrubs (TV). Boogie Nights, The Hangover (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Behaving Badly, Compulsion, Goodbye to All That, The Hangover Part III (Films).

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11 Alyssa Milano

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Age: 40.
Best Known For: Who’s the Boss, Melrose Place, Charmed (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Mistresses (TV).

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10 Jennifer Lopez

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Age: 43.
Best Known For: American Idol (TV). Out of Sight, U Turn (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Parker (Film).

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9 Vanessa Marcil

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Age: 44.
Best Known For: General Hospital, Beverly Hills, 90210, Las Vegas (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Borrowed Moments (Film).

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8 Charlotte Ross

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Age: 45.
Best Known For: NYPD Blue, Glee (TV). Drive Angry (Film).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Bounce (TV).

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7 Melinda Clarke

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Age: 43.
Best Known For: The O.C., Entourage, CSI, Nikita (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Nikita (TV).

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6 Jennifer Aniston

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Age: 43.
Best Known For: Friends (TV). Marley & Me, Horrible Bosses (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: We’re the Millers, Miss You Already, She’s Funny That Way (Films).

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5 Carla Gugino

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Age: 41.
Best Known For: Political Animals (TV). The Spy Kids film series, Sin City, Watchmen (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Match, By Virtue Fall (Films).

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4 Rachel Weisz

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Age: 42.
Best Known For: The Mummy film series, Dream House, The Bourne Legacy (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Oz: The Great and Powerful (Film).

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3 Sofia Vergara

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Age: 40.
Best Known For: Modern Family (TV).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Modern Family (TV). Fading Gigolo, Machete Kills, Heat (Films).

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2 Halle Berry

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Age: 46.
Best Known For: The X-Men film series, Monster’s Ball, Catwoman, Cloud Atlas (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: The Call, X-Men: Days of Future Past (Films).

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1 Salma Hayek

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Age: 46.
Best Known For: 30 Rock (TV). Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn, Frida, Grown Ups (Films).
Recent/Upcoming Projects: Grown Ups 2 (Film).

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(Previously published on April 1, 2013.)

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