Most Beautiful 2009

Beautiful at Every Age

With the help of a few famous faces – Vanessa! Halle! Christie! – these gorgeous gals prove true beauty is timeless. By Karen J. Quan

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AMY ADAMS, 34

Playing a young, naïve nun in 2008's Doubt, Adams went head-to-head with Meryl Streep and earned herself a second Academy Award nomination (she was previously nominated in '05 for Junebug). But don't expect this Colorado native – who also starred as a Disney princess in Enchanted – to be as doe-eyed as her characters. "It's interesting to be perceived as innocent," she told Blackbook. "I misbehave. I just do it in private."

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