8 Talented and Beautiful Hollywood Stars Who Put Aside Their Egos For Unattractive Roles (3 of 5)

Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf in “The Hours”

Kidman is always the hottest woman on the screen in whatever movie she’s in, whether we’re talking about “Far and Away,” “Moulin Rouge,” or “Batman Forever” (known both for when the franchise started going off the rails and for the nipples on the Caped Cruiser’s Batsuit). So of course it took sporting a prosthetic nose for her to win her one and only Oscar in 2002’s “The Hours,” in which she played the eccentric famed turn-of-the-century British novelist Virginia Woolf. 

Anne Hathaway as Fantine in “Les Misérables”

Hathaway initially rose to fame in “The Princess Diaries” as a pretty but awkward girl who discovers she is the heir to the throne of a fictitious European country of Genovia, and was subsequently cast in a lot of gam roles, including Ella Enchanted and “The Devil Wears Prada.” But it was her role as Fantine, the shaved head, tuberculosis-suffering prostitute, in the musical “Les Misérables” that earned her that shiny gold statuette.