Everybody loves a pretty actress, but sometimes in order to demonstrate acting talent over beauty, a little bit of beast is in order. Here are some roles were normally hot actresses turned on the cold shower.

Cameron Diaz, Being John Malkovich

Cute grinner Diaz of the “swirling behind” went seriously ratty in the Spike Jones / Charlie Kaufman head-trip Being John Malkovich. To top it off, she hung out with a chimp and wanted to become a man. This made me lust after Catherine Keener more, but earned Diaz some serious-actress cred, so she could go onto roles like Charlie’s Angels Full Throttle.

IMDB: Being John Malkovich

Charlize Theron, Monster

Normally smoldering Charlize Theron seriously took out the ugly stick here, gaining thirty pounds and losing makeup and eyebrows to play a serial-killer prostitute. An Academy Award was the hard-earned result.

IMDB: Monster

Hilary Swank, Boy’s Don’t Cry

The film equivalent of getting your head beat with a brick named “PC”, the intense Boy’s Don’t Cry featured the hot girl from The Next Karate Kid as a boy, or a girl pretending to be a boy, and doing such a good job that you get to hump a girl and then be creamed senseless by rednecks. Talk about going all the way. But it earned Swank an Oscar and launched her career into the stratosphere.

IMDB: Boys Don’t Cry

Renee Zellweger, Cold Mountain

The rail-thin girl next door from Chicago piled on pounds for Bridget Jones’s Diary, and also played a rustic, earthy cowgirl in Cold Mountain.

IMDB: Bridget Jones’s Diary, Birdget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Cold Mountain

Felicity Huffman, Transamerica

This desperate housewife went on the other side of the white picket fence in Transamerica, playing a transsexual woman, low voice and all.

IMDB: Transamerica

Nicole Kidman, The Hours

Hot just standing still Nicole Kidman put on a fake nose and took off the makeup to play writer Virginia Woolf. Bingo, Academy Award.

IMDB: The Hours

Emma Thompson, Nanny McPhee

In the kid’s movie Nanny McPhee, Emma Thompson’s scary, wart-covered visage could obliterate the sugar-plum fairies with nightmares. Thankfully, she slowly transforms from this beastly hag-witch into a pleasant woman, but for 90% of the film, it’s creepy facial hair and buggy eyeballs.

IMDB: Nanny McPhee

Salma Hayek, Frida

All in the name of art, bombshell Salma Hayek played mousy with a blunt unibrow as artist Frida Kahlo.

IMDB: Frida

So remember, beauty is only skin deep, but critics never forget an unusual face!

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