Ellen Barkin departs the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala on May 05, 2008. Getty Images.Why She Sizzles: Ellen’s nice and blunt. She told More magazine, “I go out with men…you think: why am I here? And if it’s a great dinner, why are we having dinner? Why don’t we just go home? I mean, isn’t that the more important connection?...Let’s see first if the sex thing works, and then we could go have dinner.”
Barkin at the premiere of Smart People. Getty Images.When We First Fell in Love: She was torturously sexy in Sea of Love—Al Pacino’s character never stood a chance.
Career Highs: Diner, Sea of Love, The Big Easy
Barkin arrives at an Ocean's Thirteen promo party on May 24, 2007. Getty Images. Career Lows: Todd Solondz’s Palindromes, which follows the exploits of a 13 year-old girl desperate to get pregnant, was unwatchable. Barkin played the girl’s mother.
“Work”: Barkin is openly disdainful of invasive cosmetic surgery, but she admits to regularly using collagen treatments. Perhaps that explains the recent appearance of those lips.
