Actress of the Day: Alexandra Maria Lara

Alexandra Maria Lara!

Known best for her role in Downfall, she is a German actress who is still kind of upcoming in world cinema. She also had a few lines in The Reader, which I'm coincedentally watching as we speak. (How great is Kate Winslet in this?)

Her next role is in The Nazi Officer's Wife, a project by the drastically uneven Mike Figgis, also starring Eva Green.

Also really pretty!

Actress of the Day: Alyson Hannigan

Oh my, Alyson Hannigan.

Best known for Buffy, by a pretty long shot. But I was even more pleasantly surprised when I heard about How I Met Your Mother and assumed it was going to be a dull, sitcom vehicle for the actress. How wrong was I. It's truly the real successor to Friends, and ends up sometimes surprassing that show in cleverness and poignancy.

Um. Hannigan is also really hot and pretty and good in the show.

And also above.

This is really just for me.

Actress of the Day: Lily Cole

The lovely Lily Cole.

Just saw her in Dr. Parnassus. She's.... lovely in it. Such an odd, elflike looking creature.

But she's very pretty.

Full review up tomorrow!

Actress of the Day: Lea Michele

So Glee premiered here on Friday.

It was pretty great, especially Lea Michele and Jane Lynch. And of course Matthew Morrison is just... dreamy.

Anyway! Lea is the show's shining talent in terms of vocal. She's simply amazing.

She's also totally adorable!

More please!

Actress of the Day: Gemma Arterton

The amazingly beautiful Gemma Arterton.

Best known for being the hotter Bond Girl in Quantum of Solace, she was also in the guilty pleasure-film St. Trinians.

A quick gander at IMDB shows these things being lined up for the actress:

• the love interest in Prince of Persia, bizarrely directed by Mike Newell.
• The lead in Tamara Drewe, the next Stephen Frears project which looks promising.
• Io in Clash of the Titans. No idea whether this is going to be a big role or not.
• The St. Trinian's sequel.

Out of all of these, Tamara Drewe looks like the best shot for a chance at stardom.

She's also like, kind of really pretty!

For Gemma Arterton's official future wife.

Actress of the Day: Jennifer Tilly

Jennifer Tilly.

Tilly, aside from being damn hot, gave two of the best performances of the 1990s: as the doomed, dumb moll in Bullets Over Broadway and in the Wachowski thriller Bound alongside the amazing Gina Gershon. (To be featured at some point as well, I'm sure!)

She also gave an appealing supporting performance in Dancing at the Blue Iguana, a sorely underrated film that needs a critical reappraisal, or an appraisal in the first place.

Since then, she's turned to playing Poker professionally. And still being kind of hot.

Because. C'mon. She's hot.

For a certain person! You know who you are.

Actress of the Day: Rachel McAdams

The lovely Rachel McAdams.

First seen in Mean Girls, and dazzled there. Then was in the way-better-than-it-should-have-been Red Eye and was pretty great there as well.

Her career has had an odd trajectory since then, with three movies coming up this year. The moderately high-profile State of Play and The Time Traveler's Wife and the high profile Sherlock Holmes. Needless to say that last one will likely be the best of all three, if trailers and actor pedigree are anything to go by.

She's also really really gorgeous.

For a certain M-to-the-Double-T.

Actress of the Day: Summer Glau

This is Summer Glau, of Firefly and Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles fame.

She's a pretty decent actress, and quite honestly the best part of both of those shows due to her charisma and well, how adorable she is.

She's also kind of hot.

She's going to be in another Joss Whedon joint, Dollhouse this year. So let's have high hopes that she'll elevate that show from it's somewhat middling reviews.

For a specific soup made of Battle. But, let's face it, for every straight guy.

Actress of the Day: Zooey Deschanel

I honestly can't describe this actress in any real detail. She's beautiful. She's charming. She's a brilliant, brilliant and underrated actress. That is all.

More. Please.

For a certain violin-playing fruit; and really for everybody else who loves Zooey Deschanel. Which is everybody.

Actress of the Day: Helena Bonham-Carter

Helena Bonham-Carter. She's had an interesting career from corset-bound Merchant-Ivory films to the Harry Potter series. She's also proven herself to be one of Britain's most talented actresses.

Her performance in Conversations with Other Women remains to be one of the best performances of the decade to me; perfectly felt and pitched at every level.

And just as an example of her career, her next roles include:

• Bellatrix Lestrange in the last two Potter films.
• Author Enid Blyton in a BBC TV movie.
• The Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland.
• Queen Elizabeth in a film about King George VI.

More, please?

For a delightful lady and a delightful faag.

Actress of the Day: Ellen Page

The lovely Ellen Page.

Starring in Whip It!, which comes out here in January 2010. About five months after the rest of the world. Thanks, whoever is releasing this! It's meant to be great, though, so fingers crossed.

And more intriguingly, starring in Christopher Nolan's next movie, Inception, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard and Ken Watanabe. There's spoilers all around the internet for this, but I'm keeping myself spoiler-free. Let's hope it's good, yes?

For a certain sperm of mine.

Actress of the Day: Eva Green

So. This is Eva Green.

She's lovely, and she stars in French films.

Why have the roles dried up, though? She's clearly attractive. Can we get some arty French directors to make some arty French films for her? With lots of jump cuts.

This post is for a special lady! You know who you are.