Unique facial features have made some actresses stand out on screen throughout film history.
Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie’s already full lips, high cheekbones, and overall angular facial geometry helped her to stand out early in her career in the 1990s. Especially after starring in Girl, Interrupted and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, she became a celebrity with instantly recognizable features.
Her lips were relentlessly talked about by the media and became widely referenced. She has since proven that she could act in roles other than action, showing dramatic skills as well.
Lauren Hutton
Lauren Hutton’s trademark gap between her front teeth became famous throughout the fashion world and in film. When she first began acting, she was told she needed to fix her gap teeth. However, she soon learned that her gap became her signature look. She modeled and starred in movies such as American Gigolo. Lauren helped shed the stigma that beautiful smiles have to be perfect and straight.
Marilyn Monroe
Monroe’s beauty mark on her left cheek became one of the most identifiable features of her face. Along with platinum- blonde ringlets and bold red lipstick, the mole distinguished her Hollywood glamour look.
Monroe’s beauty mark is still copied by fans and makeup gurus everywhere because it became so emblematic of her persona. Generations of makeup trends have been created after her legacy.
Kate Bosworth
Kate Bosworth is known to have heterochromia, or an abnormality of her eyes where one eye has a different iris color from the other eye. Kate has a hazel colored right eye and a blue colored left eye. Her naturally unusual look has been said to help her stand out in Hollywood.
In fact, during her early years as an actress, her eyes would often be the same color due to colored contact lenses. Having become famous through Blue Crush in 2002, Bosworth now proudly shows off her differing eye colors.
Mia Goth
Goth is known for her naturally pale, translucent eyebrows, large eyes, and soft facial features. Her unique features cause her expressions to range from angelic fragility to hauntingly disturbed.
Goth’s distinguishing features make her face one of the most versatile in film today, allowing her natural reactions to shine through, and she has become a darling of horror fans.
Barbra Streisand
When she first started out in show business, Streisand was advised to change her nose, which is thin and prominently aquiline. She resisted tremendous pressure to do so and instead celebrated her profile by turning her side-view into a trademark of hers, making it a statement of her unique individuality while dismissing the idea that she needed to look like everyone else.
It reinforced her as different from typical Hollywood beauty, while turning her natural nose into a trademark of confidence.
Cate Blanchett
Actress Cate Blanchett has an architecturally angular face. Her cheekbones are prominent, her jawline defined, and her pale features unusually expressive. She has an interesting bone structure that gives her an innate royal demeanor before the camera. She can shift from icy, detached nobility to emotionally devastated in a heartbeat.
Anya Taylor-Joy
Anya Taylor-Joy’s most defining characteristic is her widely spaced, unnaturally large almond eyes paired with her petite, sharp facial features. The distance between her eyes gives her face a foreign look, especially in close-up shots. Her eyes allow her to emote solitude, concentration, and quiet intensity with just a look. Directors love to capture her face in extreme close-ups, able to narrate entire stories without Anya saying a word.
Kirsten Dunst
Kirsten Dunst kept her natural, slightly asymmetrical snaggletooth grin even though, in the early stages of her career, people tried to talk her into getting them straightened. Dunst’s choice helped maintain her innocence and charm while keeping her smile quirky and unmistakable. It also keeps her looking younger and authentic.
Lily Collins
Lily Collins has naturally thick, dark eyebrows that are considered unconventional in Hollywood beauty standards. They frame her face beautifully. Her strong eyebrows give her a classic, dramatic, and old-world European flair.
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