# Who's the most beautiful woman in the world? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 5, 2001, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-beautiful-woman-in-the-world/85672 "2001-10-05T21:03:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Tretiak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@Tretiak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tretiak)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-beautiful-woman-in-the-world/85672/81 "2001-11-06T19:55:39Z")
Contemporary: Halle Berry Classic: Ingrid Bergman (esp. from _Casablanca_) ---
**Author:** ![vinnyq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/49beb7/32.png) [@vinnyq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vinnyq)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-beautiful-woman-in-the-world/85672/82 "2001-11-06T20:27:23Z")
What? No mentions of Pamela Anderson yet?!?! ~jumps away from flames ---
**Author:** ![nodaker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea5d25/32.png) [@nodaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nodaker)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-beautiful-woman-in-the-world/85672/83 "2001-11-07T02:14:10Z")
DEFINATELY Rosie O’Donnell haha, just joking. Elizabeth Hurley or Jennifer Aniston ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-beautiful-woman-in-the-world/85672/84 "2001-11-07T03:30:30Z")
Easy. The young **Jaqueline Bisset**. Next thread, please. ---
**Author:** ![Searching\_For\_Truth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Searching\_For\_Truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Searching_For_Truth)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-beautiful-woman-in-the-world/85672/85 "2001-11-07T04:01:38Z")
Gwen Stefani. Oh my sweet Jesus. I’m a heterosexual teenage girl but oh my GOD. -staggers away drooling- Pictures on my wall, daaaamn. If you go to Google and type in her name the links and amount of fan sites with pictures are crazy. [http://www.absolutedivas.com/gwen/pics/](http://www.absolutedivas.com/gwen/pics/) > **[1UP.com: Video Game Reviews, Cheats, and More](http://www.1up.com)** > > The latest video game news, reviews, previews, cheats, guides, trailers, screenshots and podcasts from 1UP. Where Gamers Call Home ---
**Author:** ![Daowajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-beautiful-woman-in-the-world/85672/86 "2001-11-07T04:08:21Z")
Am I the only one with a crush on [Nelly Furtado](http://www.nelly-furtado.com)? ---
**Author:** ![fchick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/919ad9/32.png) [@fchick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fchick)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-beautiful-woman-in-the-world/85672/87 "2001-11-07T04:11:13Z")
Gwen Stefani - hellO! Just the right mix of woman and grrrl for a young person-of-undetermined-sexuality to, well, appreciate. ---
**Author:** ![Osakadave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@Osakadave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osakadave)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-beautiful-woman-in-the-world/85672/88 "2001-11-07T05:09:29Z")
Time for an slight oddball vote. [Norika Fujiwara](http://www.angelfire.com/az/osakadave/norika/profile.html) ---
**Author:** ![schplebordnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@schplebordnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schplebordnik)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-beautiful-woman-in-the-world/85672/89 "2001-11-07T06:11:46Z")
If you want all-American, I agree on Jennifer Connelly & Phoebe Cates. For the art-house set, it would be Monica Vitti (can’t find a good pic) and Stephane Audran ([http://www.tedstrong.com/stephane.html](http://www.tedstrong.com/stephane.html)). Oh, then there’s Gina Lollabridgida. Mama mia! ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-beautiful-woman-in-the-world/85672/90 "2001-11-07T06:11:57Z")
Well, it took a while, but someone _finally_ mentioned **Michelle Pfeiffer**. She’s one of three that run a virtual dead heat in my estimation. The other two: **Rebecca DeMornay** and **Jan Smithers**. (Yeah, I know that Jan’s kind of obsolete at this point. Well, so am I . . .) ---
**Author:** ![Maple\_Syrup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@Maple\_Syrup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maple_Syrup)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-beautiful-woman-in-the-world/85672/91 "2001-11-07T06:25:32Z")
Anne Hathaway, hands down. (no, not Shakespear’s wife, the girl from The Princess Diaries). ---
**Author:** ![schplebordnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@schplebordnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schplebordnik)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-beautiful-woman-in-the-world/85672/92 "2001-11-07T06:30:59Z")
Jan Smithers! Yes! Another in the all-American category! ---
**Author:** ![Coil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Coil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coil)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-beautiful-woman-in-the-world/85672/93 "2001-11-07T10:06:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Umbriel \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by lawoot \* > > \*\* > > > > > [@](#): > > > > > > \*Originally posted by Dragon Phoenix \* > > > \*\* > > > > > > > [@](#): > > > > > > > > \*Originally posted by kpm \* > > > > \*\*I would say Winona Ryder. \*\* > > > > > > I’ll second (or is that third?) that - as long as she keeps her hair dark.\*\* > > > > No argument there. You realize that she is a _natural_ blonde who dies it black? \*\* > > I’ll compound the Winona vote. > I believe her natural hair color is, as The Tick once described that of Arthur’s sister: “a halo of mouse brown fire!” \*\* Add my name to the Winona camp. /Coil - whos wife looks like Winona (at least according to a coworker of mine) ---
**Author:** ![OneChance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/74df32/32.png) [@OneChance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneChance)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-beautiful-woman-in-the-world/85672/94 "2001-11-07T11:48:34Z")
**[Monica Brant](http://www.monicabrant.com/)**, without a doubt. She has a great personality, too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-beautiful-woman-in-the-world/85672/95 "2001-11-07T19:40:39Z")
so many beautiful women. As far as actresses whose movies I’ll see regardless, I’ll say Jennifer Connelly does it for me. She has a different look in Requiem for a Dream than in her other movies, but it works well. On the soft-core side of things I’ll have to go with Catalina Larranaga. ---
**Author:** ![BalmainBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@BalmainBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BalmainBoy)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-beautiful-woman-in-the-world/85672/96 "2001-11-08T06:08:13Z")
This is an answer out of left field, but people of a certain age in the British Commonwealth countries will know where I’m coming from. Queen Elizabeth was only 26-27 when she became the monarch, and at such a young age, had a series of grand tours of Commonwealth countries, most of the time to places where such a global figure had never been before. She spent 3-4 months touring Australia, going to (nearly) every one-horse town here, being fawned over by local mayors, parliamentarians and prime ministers alike. And she had the most radiant, serene and happy countenance the whole time. When she came to a region, everyone came to see her, and the ‘glamour’ had a lot to do with it. After the dour Victoria and the dull, stuttering Georges, she was a monarch mirabilis. So young, so pretty, such a queen to be proud of. Reading the newspapers of the time, they are full of this ‘awful weight of duty on such slender shoulders’ purple prose. For those few short years of the mid-50s, when a new ‘Elizabethan Age’ was being touted, she was the glamourpuss of the century. ---
**Author:** ![Ironblayde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f14d63/32.png) [@Ironblayde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ironblayde)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-beautiful-woman-in-the-world/85672/97 "2001-11-08T06:20:33Z")
You Kizaki ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-beautiful-woman-in-the-world/85672/98 "2001-11-08T06:43:00Z")
Need I remind you people of the overwhelming beauty that is [Angelina Jolie?](http://www.absolutely.net/jolie/pic203.htm) Sheesh, 97 posts and no one has mentioned her yet, I’m ashamed of you people. ---
**Author:** ![DaToad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@DaToad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaToad)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-beautiful-woman-in-the-world/85672/99 "2001-11-08T14:52:26Z")
Irena Voronina ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-beautiful-woman-in-the-world/85672/100 "2001-11-08T23:04:54Z")
Tough call, Portia, Latitia(sp), Michelle, Angelina, Winona, Femke… I can’t decide… There is also Natasha Henstridge… I should also mention a woman in my building who my co-workers and I have nicknamed “R” (short for rediculous, as in “She is so amazingly hot, it’s rediculous.”) But if I am going to vote it would be either Jessica Alba and/or Jeri Ryan. Alba can wear hip-huggers like no one else, and her hair this season is beyond words. Ryan is even hotter outside of her Seven of Nine role than she was in it, and I would have thought that impossible. They both have incredible bodies, faces, eyes, lips, etc. It really boils down to whether I am in a blonde or brunette mood. To further complicate the choices, I have been watching women’s national volleyball on the Women’s Sports Network and the American libero, Holy Effing Crap!!! She is so hot! Throw in a couple of the Cuban’s in those amazing uniforms and we have proven that V-Ball is the best game on the planet! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-beautiful-woman-in-the-world/85672.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-most-beautiful-woman-in-the-world/85672.md?page=6)