If we’re speaking in a purely aesthetic sense, and mostly of facial features, not including other factors such as grace of movement or magnetism, then I’ve narrowed it down to four: Zhang Ziyi, Audrey Tautou, Halle Berry, Sienna Miller…
… and I’ll shamelessly add Elisa Cuthbert to that list! (Not really an actress, I know.)
I also find many of the above mentioned women beautiful, but would like to mention someone I developed a childhood crush on many years back and who I always felt was one of the loveliest actresses around; Sharon Tate.
Louise Brooks, Ingrid Bergman, Jean Seberg, and Lillian Gish.
Janet, Janet, Janet…mmmm
Julie Christie might be my favourite, or maybe Irene Jacob. Also most if not all actresses in Bergman films are easily candidates for world’s most beautiful woman.
Grace Kelly…..then Anna Karina without a doubt.
Claudia Cardinale is a fox.. perfect face, perfect body.

WOW
Also— be on the lookout for MONICA CRUZ, Penelope’s little sister.. I’d like to take this time to thank their mother and father, wherever they are, for these smoking hot twins.
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/D6VvK55wH7D/Penelope+Monica+Cruz+Launch+New+Mango+Collection/G2jyctQBcv_/Monica+Cruz
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/4evwW5Uc6jk/Fashion+Relief+LFW+Spring+Summer+2009+Runway/zxDN1mlfqWx/Monica+Cruz
MAKE SURE TO GO TO THESE FIRST TWO LINKS, I CAN’T GET THEM UP BUT THEY ARE AWESOME!



One word Mo’nique
http://sistagirlz.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/monique.jpg
Come on, Anna Karina!
Claudia Cardinale!!!!!!!!!!! GREAT pix!
Hey somebody post Anna Karina pix already if you’re so in love. Let’s get a look at this girl.
I only disagree with Zooey Deschanel. I mean are we talking all time here? She was last decade, if that, and has a style that can be traced back to many others prettier than her. [Kind of ridiculous to debate something so subjective, though]
So I would have to say Anna Karina. Can’t beat the original.
Ah shit, how could I have forgotten to mention Stefania Sandrelli? Stefania in The Conformist and Seduced and Abandoned… dio mio, che bella.
Bardot, Deneuve, the girl from Black Book, Charlotte Rampling (in The Night Porter) and I think Samantha Morton is beautiful.
You know I just found this thread and was about to post, but Evan beat me to it by…9 hours. Spot on with Charlotte Rampling in The Night Porter!
He got most of my favorites – although I would add Grace Kelly, Rita Hayworth, Faye Dunaway, and maybe Louise Brooks.
CLAUDIA CARDINALE & JULIE CHRISTIE
i have a dream…
Jean Seberg
Louise Brooks
Maggie Cheung
I’d have to go with Catherine Deneuve.
Bardot

Didn’t turn out too well for her in the long run though…
Catherine Deveuve…hands down.
Ingrid Bergman in Casblanca
Romy Schneider
Gene Tierney
Ursula Andress
Gong Li, Maggie Cheung, Audrey Hepburn and Ingrid Bergman.
Rebecca Hall
Audrey Hepburn
Emmanuelle Beart
Michelle Pfieffer
Sophie Marceau
Ingrid Bergman
Anna Karina, especially in “Vivre sa Vie”, “Alphaville” and “Pierrot le Fou”.
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Paulette Goddard
Anna Karina
Liv Ullman
Monica Bellucci
Eva Green
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Anna Karina, Monica Vitti, Jeanne Moreau, Claudia Cardinale, Anne Wiazemsky, Marion Cotillard, Maggie Cheung, Niki Karimi, Alexandra Maria Lara, Silvia Pinal, Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullman, Eva Green, Tatyana Samolyova, Natalya Bondarchuk.
There are many, many other attractive actresses, but, unlike the ones listed above, they are either not especially talented or I have just forgotten them.