Body of work: Helen Mirren

A recent SkyNews poll gave Dame Helen Mirren, who is 66, this year's Body of the Year award. She got  17.65% of the vote. Second place went to 48-year-old Elle McPherson. Which goes to show that people prefer their beauty to be ageless..

Mirren still feels no qualms about flaunting her assets, as can be seen as recently as  2005 when she romped with Cuba Gooding Jr. in "Shadowboxer." And as can be seen from Michael Powell's "Age of Consent" (1969), in which the 24-year-old Mirren had her her first big role playing a kind of muse/water nymph for an artist played by James Mason,

she got off to a good start.