Actress Mariska Hargitay

Mariska Hargitay was originally famous for her lineage; she's the daughter of actor-bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay and actress Jayne Mansfield. She established herself as an actress in her own right, as a star of NBC's "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit."

Since 1999, she's played Olivia Benson, a New York City police detective investigating sex crimes.

Television actress Joanna Garcia

Joanna Garcia is a familiar face to televison viewers, especially to CW network viewers.

She's best known for her role on Reba McEntire's namesake CW sitcom, playing Reba's daughter Cheyenne. Ms. Garcia has also been on the CW series "Privileged."

At this writing, she's set to star in "Revenge Of the Bridesmaids," a new ABC Family series.

Actress Barbara Eden

Barbara Eden is an enduring icon of Hollywood, having appears in too many movies, musicals, and television shows to list. Her most famous role, of course, was the title role in "I Dream of Jeannie," one of those fantasy sitcoms popular in the 1960s.

Her other famous role was the 1978 movie Harper Valley P.T.A., based on the country song of the same name. Barbara Eden played Stella Johnson, a provocative woman in a small town who's given a hard time by the local parent-teacher association and decides to get even with her uptight counterparts.

It was made into a TV series in which Barbara Eden reprised her role.

Actress Kirsten Dunst

Kirsten Dunst made her cinematic debut in "Oedipus Wrecks," Woody Allen's contribution to the 1989 shorts compilation New York Stories, when she was seven.

More recently, the New Jersey-born actress has appeared in the satirical Nixon comedy Dick, played the title role in Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, and performed in movies such as Mona Lisa Smile and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Her most famous role, however, has been in the Spider-Man movies as Mary Jane Watson, Peter Parker's love interest.

Actress Joy Bryant

Oh ,what a Joy. :-)

Joy Bryant is a Bronx-born actress who began her acting at the beginning of the century after having been a model.

Her film credits include Showtime and The Skeleton Key, and now she stars as Jasmine in the NBC-TV drama series "Parenthood." Jasmine is a dancer whom Crosby, the immature son in the extended Braverman family, unkowingly fathered a child with after a fling. The storyline involving Jasmine and Crosby, who is white, is about their concerted efforts at raising their child.

Actress Jennifer Beals

Jennifer Beals first appeared in the movie Flashdance in 1983 as an aspiring dancer working in a steel mill. She has appeared in over fifty movies, including Devil In a Blue Dress with Denzel Washington, since then.

She also played attorney Bette Porter in the Showtime lesbian drama series "The L Word."

Exercise and fitness expert Denise Austin

Denise Austin is one of the leading experts and teachers in physical education.

Doesn't it show? :-D

The sister-in-law of tennis star Tracy Austin (Denise married Tracy's brother Jeff), Denise Austin started out as a fitness teacher and has gone on to produce fitness television shows and write columns on physical eduaction. The exercise expert was appointed to a four-year term on the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports in 2002 and was re-appointed in 2006.

The Latest Numbers

I have now posted pictures of 332 different women on this blog.

A new alphabetical round of all-new subjects is coming very, very soon. :-)

The Beauty of Retrospect, Special Supermodel Edition: Louise Vyent

Louise Vyent was a ubiquitous fashion model back when George Bush the Elder was in the White House, appearing in magazines and television commercials. This stylish photo of Miss Vyent is dated October 1992.

She appeared in the Eddie Murphy movie Boomerang that year, which produced a major hit theme song ("End of The Road," by Boyz II Men, number one on the Billboard charts for fourteen weeks), but not much else.

Louise Vyent turned her back on Hollywood and became an interior design consultant, and she's now a professional photographer. She lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

Check out her Web site here.

The Beauty of Retrospect, Special Supermodel Edition: Anna Anderson and Alva Chinn

I didn't think I'd be revisiting any recent subjects on this blog, but I found this lovely picture of models Anna Anderson (at left) and Alva Chinn that I just had to share! :-)

They have wonderful smiles in this one.

Both Anna Anderson and Alva Chinn demonstrate here why they were among the most elite and most sought-after women in the modeling trade. They even made boring clothing like this look hot! :-D

Philadelphia TV news anchor Beverly Williams

Beverly Williams is a legend in Philadelphia broadcast journalism.

She anchored the news from KYW-TV, then an NBC affiliate, from 1975 to 1981, and again from 1989 to 2003. (KYW-TV became a CBS affiliate in 1995.) She was the first black woman to anchor a newscast in the Philadelphia market.

She also anchored the news at WTNH-TV in New Haven, Connecticut, and hosted the KYW-TV talk show "Eye On Philadelphia" from 2003 to 2006.

Beverly Williams left KYW-TV in September 2006, but she said she hoped to remain active in television news.

Actress Sofia Vergara

Sofia Vergara is a Colombian actress who started out as a model and was mostly known for her looks. As a result of being cast in ABC-TV's "Modern Family," that has definitely changed.

She plays Gloria Delgado-Prichett, the Colombian trophy wife of Jay Prichett (played by Ed O'Neill). Jay has to play dad to her son even as his gay son and straight daughter have started families of their own. The comedy of the show is based on the interconnected stories of these three very different households.

("Modern Family" also stars Julie Bowen, featured here in an earlier entry, as Jay's daughter Claire.)

Actress Marisa Tomei

Marisa Tomei has been a major star in the movies for the past several years.

The Brooklyn-born actress made a big splash in the 1992 comedy My Cousin Vinny, about novice Brooklyn lawyer Vincent "Vinny" Gambini (played by Joe Pesci) defending his cousin on murder charges in the South. Tomei played Vinny's girlfriend.

Other films Marisa Tomei has appeared in include Slums of Beverly Hills and Anger Management. More recenly she played an exotic dancer in Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler.