Female screen icons

Audrey Hepburn . Bardot and Loren

Perhaps too sixties ?

Well if it's female stars of the current time they're after, what about Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Kate Winslett, Natalie Portman, Angelina Jolie?
Thing is, are they 'icons'? I'm not sure, maybe not in the same way as Audrey Hepburn, Bridgitte Bardot and Sophia Loren.

For me, as a generational thing, it has to be Katherine Hepburn, hands down, but for the modern generation, Meryl Streep certainly, Cate Blanchett, perhaps Susan Sarandon.

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I don't think modern actresses are icons, if you saw them in a piece of art you would struggle to recognise them.

That's because they all look the same

Julia Roberts? Cameron Diaz or Gwyneth Paltrow ?

Diana Rigg is same era as Edward Fox and Sean Connery (assuming that’s who you mean as James Bond). Contemporary British actress - Helen Mirren, Joanna Lumley?

Bardot? With her convictions for inciting racial hatred? Might as well have Kevin Spacey.

Doris Day. In my opinion she had it all, although seen as less glamorous than some.

But some of these suggestions aren’t really current are they
It’s hard to think of any since Meryl Streep and Julie Roberts what about Kate Winslet

Michelle Pfeiffer. ?

Diana Dors?

Oh! What about Uma Thurman?

Anne Hathaway

Jamie Lee Curtis?

Whoever the woman was from the Alien films?

Sigourney Weaver MissA

Not their era though, still.

I struggle to think of any who are ‘icons’ which is sad really,
Need a ponder.

Thank you. That's the one.

Judy Garland, for us really-oldies. And Ingrid Bergman.
And Katherine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford...I'm on a roll now!

As they're in their 40s ... Carrie Fisher.

Looking at the male list its iconic roles really, rather that the star themselves.

I'd have to go for Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia.

Female actors now do not have the stardust of the likes of Audrey Hepburn and Katherine Hepburn, with the exception of Meryl Streep