Transformation

When it comes to Helen Mirren, there ain't nothing like a Dame. Born Ilyena Vasilievna Mironov to a Russian father and an English mother, the head-turning 67-year-old is as comfortable embodying Queen Elizabeth (I and II) as she is playing a renegade CIA agent in Red. Not to mention that she's likely the only Dame Commander of Order of the British Empire with a decades old tattoo and a red carpet penchant for towering Lucite platforms. In fact, you could say that her beauty secret is her whole-hearted embrace of all life has to offer. "I have my dark moments," she has said, "but I have a fundamentally sunny nature. Unhappiness etches itself on one's face very quickly."

The gorgeous blond 24-year-old played a teenaged artist's muse in Age of Consent.