Female screen icons

Bond has to be Connery ,the original and best .Female icons are hard to come by though ,Judi Dench maybe ,Emma Watson,Julia Roberts ?

Jennifer Lawrence [especially in The Hunger Games and Winters Bone].

Oh, and Jessica Chastain; always plays incredibly strong women eg Zero Dark Thirty and the most recently Mollys Game...hasn't become quite so 'Hollywood' as Lawrence albeit being the face of a perfume brand...

Why does the woman have to be "their generation" when 2 of the men you have mentioned defiitely are not?
I would have gone for Michael Caine anyway -much longer and more varied career.
I agree about Dench and Mirren. But I would always choose Katherine Hepburn as a true icon
Today TV and video dominates so what about Julianna Margulies star of The Good Wife?

I agree that present day film stars just don't have the glamour of the older ones. Perhaps they are too familiar? We see so many films now, of all genres. I don't see real star quality in any modern actress. Sorry - actor.

Meg Ryan
Reese Witherspoon
Jodie Foster

I never tire of Eileen Atkins or Maggie Smith but there is no glamour there!

What about Gillian Anderson? One of the best actors of her generation. The trouble is she is so good she looks different each time. Don't know how old your DD2 is, but for my DSs the X Files and Scully were part of them growing up.

I suppose that, as it's to be drawn on a wall, it has to be instantly recognisable. So, Monro, Princess Leia and Jennifer as Katniss to me show the progression of iconic images of women over the years. Although I'd prefer Audrey Hepburn to Monro [as she was also a pretty amazing person in real life]...

I’d forgotten that sketch, Fennel - so funny!

Katy Jurado in High Noon.

Obviously I don't go to the cinema enough - who is Jennifer and what is Katniss?

Bond has to be Connery ,the original and best
Definitely not, I would be sticking pins into his image.

My Dad thought Alexandra Bastido (Sp?) had a lovely a sculpted face with high cheek bones.

I used to wish I looked like her

Jennifer Lawrence is Katniss [sp] in the Hunger Games.

Jalima
I'm sure you do you just didn't want boast
Did I get the spelling correct?

Please don't stick pins in S.C
DH has a slight Connery look about him
(the aged mature version)

the voice is appealing and he looks OK, jut don't like the sound of the real person!
(not your DH, I am sure he is lovely)

I've never seen the Hunger Games, are they on Sky?

Oh Jalima you beat me to it-I said the same. . . who is Jennifer and Katniss??
It IS Sean Connery that they've chosen funnily enough.
DH is, as we speak, -salivating-looking for posters of Gillian Anderson. Not sure it's their time though. We sent them a poster of Tippi Hedren in The Birds and they asked who that was!

salivating

Oh so that's how you cross through!

I don't watch American TV programmes , well I did watch The Waltons and Lost but think British tv much, much more enjoyable than American

I thought Katniss could be the name of the film that this Jennifer Whoever was in ....
oh dear

The Hunger Games are a trilogy of films about a young freedom fighter called Katniss who is up against a despotic dictatorship that makes it's subjects fight each in a gladiatorial sort of way.

gladiatorial
moved on a bit from Russell Crowe then?

Russell Crowe?

...I SO want to be Katniss [sigh]....

Newqay Maybe this will put him off. GA as Miss Haversham