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8 Talented and Beautiful Hollywood Stars Who Put Aside Their Egos For Unattractive Roles

With few exceptions, if you want to be a leading lady in Hollywood, you have to be among the top 1% in terms of looks. On the other hand, there are times when you will be called upon to portray that other 99%, including characters who are flat-out ugly. We aren’t referring to that silly cliché where the “unattractive” girl is revealed to be stunning when she takes off her glasses and styles her hair either; we mean chicks who look like they’re on crack. With that in mind, here are 8 A-listers who tried being ugly for a change.

Julia Roberts as Mary Reilly in “Mary Reilly”

Roberts has won an Oscar and three Golden Globes for a good reason — she’s very good at what she does. But it was her girl-next-door look that allowed her to really make a name of herself in movies like “Mystic Pizza” and, of course, “Pretty Woman.” So when she played the extremely homely titular character in 1996’s “Mary Reilly,” a gothic horror about a housemaid who falls in love with both Dr. Jekyll and his sinister alter ego Mr. Hyde, it proved that she wasn’t afraid to step out of her comfort zone.