● <B>Sofia Coppola </B>: Although Sofia Coppola was maligned for her performance in The Godfather: Part III , she has more than made up for it with her stellar directorial work. The daughter of Francis Ford Coppola, she worked in fashion before trying her hand at directing feature films. Her 1999 effort The Virgin Suicides was a careful and refined film that put her name on the map. In 2003, Coppola followed up the astounding debut with the critically acclaimed Lost in Translation.

● <B>Nigella Lawson </B>: Nigella Lawson is one of the UK’s most influential food writers, with a growing international reputation and several bestselling books to her name as well as the Channel 4 television series, Nigella Bites.Born in 1960, Nigella read Medieval and Modern Languages at Oxford and went on to pursue a successful career in journalism, becoming Deputy Literary Editor of The Sunday Times . This was followed by a successful freelance career writing for a range of publications, from The Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Times Magazine in the UK to Gourmet and Bon Appetit in the USA.

● <B>Uma Thurman</B> : Uma Thurman, an un-famous model who became a famous actress after her nude scene with John Malkovich in the clever, “literary” Dangerous Liaisons. A few quips from Malkovich and an interview later, Uma was universally toasted as the “thinking man’s pinup”. Her other early high profile roles also featured her nude (or close to it), but were also “literary” and highbrow: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen and Henry & June.

Of course, highbrow or low, Uma’s growing popularity was still nursed primarily by her nude chest, but at least now she was getting offers for “respectable” roles along with all the sexploitation parts. And for someone who became famous for being beautiful (and being naked), this was as good as anyone could hope for.