Jezebel: Actresses

The Bizarre And Burgeoning Fixation With Fake Baby Bumps

Anna North — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:50:00 EDT

Beyoncé's odd foldy belly and the scrutiny thereof heralds a new era in celebrity culture: we've moved beyond watching starlets' stomachs for the slightest sign of a baby bump, to monitoring their figures for signs that their pregnancies are fake. More »

Anna Kendrick Isn't A Fan Of Dumb Beauty Questions

Margaret Hartmann — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:27:00 EDT

While interviewing each other for Moviefone, 50/50 co-stars Anna Kendrick, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen chatted about how the press treats male and female actors. While there was a time when Rogen was fielding far too many questions about his diet and eating habits, generally reporters don't hound guys about their favorite type of lip balm. More »

The Little Girl Who's Becoming The Republicans' Poster Child

Irin Carmon — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:50:08 EDT

When in doubt about the best way to fearmonger, seek an adorable little girl. That, at least, is the message from two Republican ads, released on the same day, featuring the same young actress. More »

Paz de La Huerta Thinks Amy Winehouse Just Needed Some Nice Pictures Of Herself

Jenna Sauers — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:23:00 EDT

Hello and welcome to Things People Say, with noted honey aficionado Paz de la Huerta! Does Paz de la Huerta want to weigh in on Amy Winehouse's death? Yes, yes Paz does. Paz has many interesting ideas about Amy Winehouse And The Media, which she would like to share with you: More »

Remembering Elizabeth Taylor's Outsized, Unapologetic Life

Irin Carmon — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:27:15 EDT

Elizabeth Taylor has died at age 79. Throughout her extraordinary life — from child stardom and being celebrated as the most beautiful woman in the world to collecting Oscars, enormous jewels, and seven husbands in eight marriages — she rarely apologized, and kept on surviving. More »

Did Melissa Leo Beat Ageism?

Irin Carmon — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:05:00 EST

Melissa Leo won Best Supporting Actress last night at the Oscars, despite the backlash from the vaguely baffling ads she took out for herself, and despite what she'd described as her reason for taking them out in the first place: bias against older women. So what happened? More »

Jenna Fischer Shares Insider Info On Hollywood's Weight Obsession

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 13:18:00 EST

The Office star Jenna Fischer is Redbook's March 2011 coverlady. In inside, Fischer zeroes in on why actresses feel so much pressure to stay in shape. More »

Shelley Duvall Is Frighteningly Consistent

Dodai Stewart — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:43:00 EST

Watch this video and suddenly the words "Hello, I'm Shelley Duvall" will become sort of creepy. More »

Helena Bonham Carter Suggests Actresses Leave Their Faces Alone

Dodai Stewart — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:27:00 EST

Nicole Kidman recently admitted that she'd (shocker!) been using Botox. And she's not the only actress to tamper with her most important tool — her face. But Helena Bonham Carter refuses to jump on the immobility bandwagon. More »

Poor Gwyneth Paltrow

Lauri Apple — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 12:00:34 EST

"If there's an opposite of America's Sweetheart, she's it," says Time in its review of Paltrow's new movie, My Acoustic Guitar and I Are on a 14-Day Elimination Diet. Burn! Gwyneth should send them a copy of her new song. More »

An Imaginary Conversation Between Jennifer Aniston And Her Agent

Marcos Luevanos — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 11:00:00 EST

What follows is an imaginary conversation between Jennifer Aniston and her agent. More »

Rupert Everett Lashes Out At Jennifer Aniston & "Tasteless Romcoms"

Dodai Stewart — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:14:00 EST

In an interview on BBC Radio 4's Today show, actor Rupert Everett lashed out at Hollywood, calling it a "heterosexual business" — and complained about stars like Jennifer Aniston. More »

The Creepy Phenomenon Of The Stage Dad

Anna North — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:18:00 EST

We hear a lot about stage mothers, but some young stars — most recently Thora Birch — have to deal with stage dads too. And they can be even creepier. More »

Bea Arthur's Secret Past As A Truck-Driving Marine

Dodai Stewart — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:21:00 EST

In 1943, when she was 21 and known as Bernice Frankel, Bea Arthur enlisted in the military. Recently unearthed documents reveal she came across as a tough broad, even then. More »

Helen Mirren Slams Hollywood For Being Dick-Centric

Dodai Stewart — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 12:49:00 EST

Yesterday, at the Hollywood Reporter's Women In Entertainment event, Helen Mirren received the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award. She also said "a few words about being a woman." She went off! More »

Actress Jill Clayburgh Dies At 66

Lauri Apple — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 11:10:00 EDT

After fighting chronic lymphocytic leukemia for more than 21 years, two-time Oscar nominee Jill Clayburgh has died. Her final film, the upcoming Bridesmaids, hits theaters in 2011, but it's her work during the 1970s that made her so legendary. More »

Who Should Play Daisy In The New Gatsby Movie?

Dodai Stewart — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 16:40:00 EDT

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Baz Luhrmann — know for his vivid, colorful, theatrical films like Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge — is tackling F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby next, and the female lead, Daisy Buchanan, has not been cast. More »

Sopranos Actress Denise Borino-Quinn Dies at 46

Lauri Apple — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:18:00 EDT

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Denise Borino-Quinn, who played mobster Johnny Sacrimoni's wife, Ginny, on The Sopranos, has died of cancer. She'd been a manicurist and legal secretary when she got the Sopranos gig, beating out 14,000 other women for the part. That's badass. More »

Joan Collins Is Disappointed By Homely Hollywood Stars

Dodai Stewart — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:37:00 EDT

The 77-year-old icon sniffs: "Jennifer Aniston is cute, but I wouldn't call her beautiful. She's no Ava [Gardner] or Lana [Turner]." More »

Celebrities Publicly Repent For Plastic Surgery Sins

Anna North — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:17:00 EDT

Stars like Kim Kardashian, Dana Delany, and Lisa Rinna are becoming part of a trend: it's now okay to admit that you had plastic surgery, and that you hated it. More »

Titanic Star Gloria Stuart Dies At 100

Dodai Stewart — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:36:00 EDT

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Gloria Stuart, who played Rose in Titanic has died at the age of 100. More »

Jennifer Lawrence Has Figured Out Hollywood's Actress Trap

Irin Carmon — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:45:00 EDT

The star of Winter's Bone, who'll play Mystique in the new X-Men prequel, was awesome in her interview with W (where this photo originally appeared). More »

Four Out Of Four Hollywood Actresses Are Really, Really Hungry

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:52:00 EDT

As seen in Us this week: Liz Hurley has "mugs of hot water" for breakfast. Amanda Seyfried eats spinach and seeds and calls her diet "awful." Julianne Moore says : "I'm hungry all the time." More »

The Foreign Celebrities You Must Know To Be Naturalized

Wheelchair Dancer — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:20:00 EDT

You'd think weapons scientists and surgically altered actresses had nothing in common, right? You'd be wrong about that. But perhaps the only way to discover the connection is, as I did, to become an American citizen. More »

Serene Greek Priestesses Offer Up Laurels

Katy Kelleher — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:00:00 EDT

[Greece, July 22. Greek actresses, playing the role of priestesses, perform a dance inside the ancient stadium at Ancient Olympia, where the Olympics were born in 776 B.C.]

Time Off Is A Good Thing For Amanda Bynes

Dodai Stewart — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:20:00 EDT

Sunday, 24-year-old Amanda Bynes quit Hollywood, Tweeting, "Being an actress isn't as fun as it may seem… you heard it here first, I've retired." FYI: Amanda's been working since age seven. Perhaps she made a wise decision? More »

Will "Botox Babies" Stunt Their Emotional Growth?

Anna North — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:30:00 EDT

Los Angeles plastic surgeons report models and actresses are getting Botox as young as 17 — in addition to freezing their faces, are they permanently jeopardizing their emotional lives? More »

Cate Blanchett Has No Complaints About Film Roles For Women

Dodai Stewart — Mon, 17 May 2010 11:00:00 EDT

Cate Blanchett comes off as smart, silly, and charmingly self-deprecating in this W Magazine profile. And, as Danielle Stein writes: "Blanchett is the rare actress who does not lament the lack of good film roles for women." More »

Why Does Katherine Heigl Make Such Crappy Movies?

Dodai Stewart — Fri, 14 May 2010 17:40:00 EDT

"Katherine Heigl has played stereotype after offensive stereotype during her brief blockbuster career, and upon seeing a trailer for Killers last night I decided enough was enough, writes Kelsey Wallace at BitchMedia.com. More »

R.I.P. Dorothy Provine, Classic-Film Star

Katy Kelleher — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:40:30 EDT

Dorothy Provine, the "shapely" actress who starred in the film It's A Mad, Mad World and played the title roll as a notorious bank robber in The Bonnie Parker Story, died on Sunday at the age of 75. [NYT] More »

"Why Did She Do That To Herself?": Hollywood's Plastic Surgery Backlash

Hortense Smith — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:50:00 EDT

As Laura M. Holson of the New York Times found when discussing plastic surgery with several directors and casting directors in Los Angeles, obvious surgical enhancements, once considered fairly standard in the industry, are now considered career-killers. More »

Gabby Sidibe Is "Big" ... Compared To "Abnormally Tiny People"

Anna North — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:30:00 EDT

Says a friend of blogger Molly Knefel: "it's a combination of the camera, which adds weight to everyone, and the context she's in– on a red carpet full of abnormally tiny people, she certainly stands out." [True/Slant] More »

Are Actresses Sacrificing Artistic Success In Order To Save Face?

Jessica Coen — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:00:00 EST

At left, a smooth forehead in 2001. At right, the same smooth forehead in 2008. More »

Emma Watson Is Highest Paid Actress

Katy Kelleher — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:40:00 EST

19-year-old Brit Emma Watson is Hollywood's highest earning female actress, beating out romcom favorite Cameron Diaz, the only other woman in the top 20. Watson comes in 14th in the overall list, a little ways behind Harry. [TheStar] More »

"Young Hollywood" Is White, Thin

Dodai Stewart — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:20:00 EST

What does "Young Hollywood" look like? According to Vanity Fair, it's pretty, thin, female and white. More »

Breaking: Meryl Streep Is Hot, Old

Anna North — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:00:00 EST

Did you know Meryl Streep has been in a lot of movies lately? And also that she's old? The Telegraph explores in depth this striking contradiction. More »

Avatar Actress On Guns And The Women Who Shoot Them

Anna North — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:45:00 EST

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"It's not the guns that turn me on, though—it's seeing women in a commanding position. It's boring to always play the victim. [...] 'Rape me! I'll have your child!' Eff that!" — Zoe Saldana [Complex, via Feministing] More »

Brittany Murphy And The Hollywood Starlet Syndrome

Irin Carmon — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:00:00 EST

Ultimately, an autopsy will determine how Brittany Murphy died. For now, we know enough about how she lived to detect some depressingly familiar themes about how she lived: needy, agitated, ever-shrinking, drawn to an apparently unsavory man as a protector. More »

Robin Wright And The Private Lives Of The American Actress

Anna North — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:00:00 EST

Last night on Charlie Rose, actress Robin Wright broke down briefly when her host asked if she'd wanted to be "the best actress of her generation" — raising questions about what Hollywood expects of women. More »

Megan Fox's Minders Are Worried Women Don't Like Her

Irin Carmon — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:00:00 EST

We aren't the only ones pondering Megan Fox's appeal (or lack thereof) to women — it's also stressing out her reps, says a forthcoming New York Times Magazine cover story. More »