most striking eyes

Before the photo loaded I thought this was going to be the princess

Not even close OP!

Diane.

The male winner, hands down.

Meg Foster.

Franco Nero.

Newman. Sinatra had nothing on him in the eye department. And most other departments as well.

My late ex-bf.

Sinead O'Connor

Diana

This guy selling tea.

Annie Lennox:

Is "striking eyes" the same as "stricken eyes"?

This random guy...

Audrey

Afghan girl.

Afgan girl, thread closed. It's the first thing I thought of when I read this title.

Bette Davis. She said herself that in her youth she never used black mascara to accentuate her unique eyes. Instead Bette said she used brown mascara because they made her eyes even bigger.

Striking is the correct word to describe Bette’s eyes. I wouldn’t call them beautiful but striking fits the bill.

Peter O'Toole.

Joan Crawford-ish

Brian Bloom from As The World Turns and Oz. Most beautiful blue eyes ever.

Madonna.

Madonna? Seriously?

Emma Stone. Her green eyes could give Afghan Girl's a run for their money.

Amanda Seyfried. Her face is mostly eyes.

It doesn't count if you're make-up enhanced. Even the plainest eyes can look beautiful with make-up. Plenty of people with gorgeous eyes with NO make-up. Lets see them. Yes, yes, I know the men aren't usually wearing make-up.

The thread didn't say striking eyes with no makeup. It said striking eyes.

Mila Kunis has a very unusual eye color. Pale green eyes like Emma Stone's are more common than Mila's, which are almost olive green.

James McAvoy. I know someone who saw him on the street in London and said his eyes really are this blue.

Here you go, R27. Lord Freddie Windsor with no makeup. His eyes could still be seen from space.

Everybody's favorite hot felon, Jeremy Meeks.

Natalie Wood

Many think immediately of her lips but many plastic surgeons will say that at her peak beauty, Angelina Jolie inspired women to ask for “Angelina’s eyes” when going under the knife.

Yes, blue or green eyes often get the most lauded for beauty, but dark eyes can be very beautiful. Winona Ryder always had gorgeous translucent brown eyes.

High school photo, goth Angelina with minimal eye makeup

Wow, r30. His eyes are such a unique color. They’re kind of creepy though.

Freddie Windsor is a living example of Hanoverian eyes. If you look at the old paintings, all the 18th and 19th century English kings and queens had them. In the current generation, the recipients of those genetics are Lord Freddie and Princess Beatrice.

HRH Bea is a dead-ringer for Queen Victoria, minus the ginger coloring.

Angelina's eyes and lips are hers, but she bought the cheekbones, jawline, and chin.

[quote] Freddie Windsor is a living example of Hanoverian eyes.

I have a Plantagenet face.

[quote] Wow, R30. His eyes are such a unique color. They’re kind of creepy though.

As I mentioned in the thread below, Lord Frederick Windsor is bizarre-looking and looks like a paedo.

You are correct, ma'am. Your cousin Freddie does look like Prince Albert Victor. He also had striking eyes and was prone to sexual deviancy.

Who else?

Who is R39? - and impressive call on Platagenet! Well done, sir.

R43, that is Mrs. Bale from As Time Goes By who says "I am rather pleased to learn that I have a Plantagenet face."

Youse bitches be slipping. Marty Feldman FTW!

R38 sounds like you’ve been watching too many YouTube videos from Lorrie Hill who’s dumb enough to compare teenage AJ to adult AJ. The jaws/ chin, and face don’t stop growing, especially with lower face getting elongated until we’re in our early or even mid 20s.

maggie smith's

Lauren Bacall

R38 here’s 15 year-old Angelina Jolie, look at the 3 photos of her at this age. Same facial structure just not as developed. In the last photo you can see that she’s always had a cleft chin even if it’s a hint of it at age 15. The jawline looks very much like her jawline as an adult but not as pronounced.

Matt Bomer

Agree with those above that said Afgan girl. Mesmerizing and totally unforgettable eyes.

François Cevert

Sheena Easton

The Eyes of Laura Mars, thread closed.

I’m all about the heterochromiacts like Henry Cavill.

Paris Jackson has very striking eyes.

R56 Michael Jackson had Afghanistan searched for the little Afghan girl from the cover of National Geographic and some of her DNA extracted so that he could make sure Paris had nice eyes as part of building her in the lab.

R52 - wow, thanks for introducing me to that gorgeous man!

Oliver Reed

mixed race, green eyes

Ian Somerhalder

It made his fortune.

Dare I? (I'm afraid of mentioning his name.)

Walken.

I went to high school with a girl that had true violet eyes (they never changed color like Liz's) and black hair. It was the most stunning combination. Poor thing everyone was Always staring at her.

Aishwarya Rai.

Rihanna.

I laughed when. I laughed when a cinematographer said his eyes could pick up a small keylight a football field away.

Paul Hollywood. His eyes always mesmerize me.

Julie Christie in Dr. Zhivago...

Hard to think of a movie or show where an actor's eyes were so important to the story.

R46 and R49, if you want to cling to the idea that Jolie is an all-natural beauty, go ahead. But that woman has more plastic in her face than Barbie.

[quote]I went to high school with a girl that had true violet eyes

Yes. We had a boy at our school with dark blue cystalline eyes. Very extraordinary, as if there was glitter in them. Never seen another pair like it.

I also sat opposite a girl on a train who was looking down. I realised it was because she had that eye thing where there is a black mark going from the iris, making each eye look like a keyhole. Very unsettling. I'm sure anyone with it in the Middle Ages would have been burnt as a witch.

These brothers have such unusual eyes they don't look real.

That's known as coloboma, R73

R72 the link with 15 year-old AJ’s photoshoot had not 3 (I was mistaken) but 10 photos. They showed a naturally beautiful girl whose face looked unmistakably like her future adult face. If you’re saying her face is full of plastic then you’re either an envious frau or possibly need your eyes checked. Her nose was refined, that’s the one change that’s noticeable. If she had other procedures it’s not face-altering or noticeable. FWIW here’s a well-regarded plastic surgeon who say AJ is mostly natural. Meanwhile that creepy Lorrie Hill YouTuber is making money being a plastic surgery shill, someone who thinks Bella Hadid had great plastic surgery isn’t one to be trusted.

R74 - that reminds me of this mugshot. There was some discussion about it and it was decided they had to be colored contacts.

R76, that picture of Jolie on the left is from her after Gia, not her teen years. She definitely had a nose job to refine it. It also looks like she had something done to minimize her bug eye look that was pretty prominent in her earlier days. It's probably not fair to use photos from recent years because she does get work done now like her lips get plumped. In reality everyone's lips shrink as they age including hers.

Oliver Reed just looks creepy but maybe that poster meant it as a joke. So does Walken but I guess creepy could fall under "striking".

Can any one post a photo of striking gray eyes? I’m not sure what they look like, or how they’re different from blue. TIA.

Angie in Hackers when she was about 20. Those aren't the cheekbones, nose chin, and jawline she has now.

Don't get me wrong--her plastic surgery is fantastic. But it is extensive and dramatic.

Angelina in Girl, Interrupted, when she was in her mid-20s and very thin, so we can't argue it's baby fat hiding her features. A lovely woman with nice bone structure but not the extreme cheekbones, jawline, and chin that she has now.

Another one from Girl. Her face is flatter and rounder than it is now, and I agree she had something done to her eyes.

Also, that's a terrible wig.

R81 Some women have a lot of baby fat on their faces even when they are skinny. This is very true among Asians. Some Asian women don't lose the baby fat on their faces until they are in their 50's. A example of this is Tamlyn Tomita who had a chubby face in Karate Kid despite being thin. Angelina also has Native American ancestry through her mother's line.

Omar Shariff

As I said, R81, if it makes you happy to imagine that Angelina as this perfect natural goddess, have at it. But it ain't the truth.

*is this perfect

Lynda Carter

Capucine was known for her lovely grey eyes.

[quote] Capucine was known for her lovely grey eyes.

They ended up on a grey sidewalk in Paris.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

R88 - well, most eyes will look gray in a black-and-white photo! :) I looked at all the pictures of Capucine I could find in color, and her eyes always looked blue to me.

Sharon Tate had beautiful amber eyes. They were so large that the heavy 60s eyelashes were rather pointless on her.

R80 you’re retarded if you compare an early 20s woman against her mid-40s self especially if she’d undergone early, surgically induced menopause. Our facial bone structure undergo changes until our mid 20s. Our jawlines and cheekbones get more pronounced and the chins more elongated. Most anyone can go back and compare photos of themselves as a teenager or early 20s and I fucking guarantee they’ll look noticeably different in the mid- and lower face areas because this is where the maturing face is the most noticeable. It’s why young children look so cute with their underdeveloped jawline, cheeks, and chins. Did you ever study anatomy and physiology or do you just like to parrot dumbass YouTubers. Again, look at AJ’s early modeling photos, if she’s had extensive surgeries as you maintain she wouldn’t look so uncannily like the AJ that became famous. And no one us saying she didn’t have anything done, just that it’s not the extensive surgeries you and plastic surgery shills on YouTube are pinning on celebs.

Calm down, Crazy. Angie ain't gonna be your best friend no matter how much bullshit you sling on her behalf. But you do you, boo.

Christopher Reeve had great eyes. It was tragic what happened to him.

John-John was a gorgeous brown-eyed boy.

JFK Jr. was ridiculously photogenic. I don't think I've ever seen a bad picture of him.

Ava Gardner

R48, That is a photo depicting a woman knowing that that man, right then, is falling in love with her. No acting there.

Jacqueline Bissett

No wonder Sinatra never got over Ava. Mia Farrow, even at her prettiest, looked like a boy next to Ava in her prime.

What's Ronan doing with his biological father at R101?

Ha, R102. He is a clone of Mia. But even though I don't really believe the Sinatra thing, there is a weird resemblance . . .

Yeesh, her teeth are yellow^

They had different standards for whiteness back then, R103. It's something I find quite distracting in older movies, especially the ones from the 70s. All the sepia tones and chain smoking made everybody look like a blue meanie.

Sorry, the above was meant for R104.

[quote]They had different standards for whiteness back then,

They most certainly didn't!

Grey eyes and grey-blue eyes are quite common in Russia. (As Duncan Fallowell commented in his wonderful memoir One Hot Summer In St Petersberg, they match the coats of the soldiers.) Alexei Navalny has gorgeous eyes.

EVERYTHING is grey in Russia.

That Little Horhouse on the Prarie witch Melissa Sue Andercunt had some pretty striking eyes.

David Selby, striking even in black-and-white:

Italian actor, Luca Marinelli.

Actor Glenn Corbett

Princess Anne as a young woman, believe it or not. Sensual eyes!

Face it, brown eyes are meh. Its always brunettes with blue or green eyes that win this contest. The contrast mesmerizes.

I agree that Brian Bloom's eyes are exquisite.

Thyroid Disease Patients

Persian men, and men of the Caucasus region, have some of the world's most striking eyes, IMO. I like the contrast in eye color with dark hair and olive skin.

Do you know who that is, R118? He's gorgeous.

R119, his name is Kourosh Sadeghi, and apparently he's an Iranian model.

Thanks, R120.

Donyale Luna.

Stevie Nicks has very expressive eyes. A lot has to do with her heavy use of eye makeup but still, it’s effective. It’s a very eye catching look and her naturally heavy lids look unique the way she highlights them.

Paul McCartney in his younger days had big beautiful brown eyes.

This beautiful baby

Joaquin Phoenix

The eyes have it!

Kate Bosworth has striking heterochromia-- one eye is brown, the other blue

R118, actually, it's pretty common among the Levant, not Iran alone. Middle Eastern as a whole considering all of the invading over thousands of years:

Paris Jackson

A darker or tan complexion with light colored eyes make the eyes look striking.

Paris is a beautiful girl but those tattoos half-ruin her.

Damn that Blue Meenie picture! I'm going to have nightmares now. You suck R113 or whoever did it.

Twas I, R132--BWAHAHAHAHAH.

Seriously, I had no idea they were nightmare fuel for some folks. Sorry 'bout that.

Sorry 113. It's R105 who sucks. I haven't had to think about that crazy movie for years. Fucking nightmare.

Oh my god. That poor little nowhere man and all the creepy holes and nothing makes sense. My mom always made us watch that but she wasn't even into drugs. Fuck.

Fuck Datalounge. I'm going to take some Ambien and a shower. I'm going to have to take a whole pill.

PS I was going to say I went through a phase in my 20's when I was so cocky about my pretty eyes that I would say they were grey, probably just to get people to talk about them more.

Fucking blue meenies. Goodnight.

Alexandra Daddario. Beautiful but kinda creepy.

Helena Christensen in the Wicked Game video. Sultry.

Matthew Daddario also has pretty eyes. Good looking family.

Love men with green eyes.

I would like one of Matthew Daddario, please.

Since his time with The Beatles every time I've looked at Paul McCartney my first thought has been "fetal alcohol syndrome".

.....

This girl has albinism and heterochromia. She looks like some kind of frost fairy.

Anya Taylor-Joy. It's more about her powerful gaze.

This lady surely belongs here...

Joseph Fiennes has warm gold/brown/green eyes. I had a lover with this color eyes. He was also handsome. These eyes are good reflectors of the setting. They are striking without being cold or making one uneasy.

Steffen Peetz (model)

Blue eyes never did it for me except for Newman. Dark hair with green, hazel or honey brown eyes - perfection

Timothée Chalamet

Hmm. I guess for 99% of you "striking" means blue or green. I always like to see some really interesting soul back in there.... you know window to, and all that.

Jeanne Moreau did not have classic or fine features... but she was on of the most beautiful actresses because of what was happening in those sad and hungry eyes...

Jared Leto

Steinberg (model)

Avril Lavigne

I can look in 2 directions at once!

Now I see you!

Now I don't!

Matt Bomer

I always thought Lauryn Hill had pretty eyes.

Sophie Dahl

Tisha Sterling has the biggest eyes I've ever seen

Taeyong - Korean Pop Idol, famous for his striking eyes. With and without makeup.

A better picture of Timothee's striking eyes.

Marty Feldman

R165, are you also R45?

Or if we’re talking Sandy Duncan “eye.”

Priyanka Chopra

R9 That O'Connor lunatic. Or is it Magda Davitt? Or Shuhada' Sadaqat? Truly the eyes are the gateway to the sheer craziness and madness within. MAD.AS.A.FUCKING.BRUSH.

[quote]Face it, brown eyes are meh. Its (sic) always brunettes with blue or green eyes that win this contest. The contrast mesmerizes.

What a load of crap, R115.

One could argue that contrast between the color of eyes versus skin and hair can usually be striking (not necessarily attractive). It’s not the focus of this thread, but if we’re talking about really beautiful eyes – they aren’t determined by color. They are determined by shape.

Ain’t nobody raving about the blue eyes of Steve Buscemi, Rachel Dratch , or Marty Feldman. Sylvester Stallone’s basset hound eyes wouldn’t be improved if they were green. Parasite Hilton’s wonky brown eye isn’t helped by her blue contact lens.

On the other hand, Elizabeth Taylor’s eyes would be great no matter the color because the shape is excellent and the double rows of lashes are a bonus.

The dark eyes of Natalie Wood, Audrey Hepburn, Ursula Andress, Cindy Crawford, and Winona Ryder are often called beautiful. The same goes for JFK Jr, Tyrone Power, and Zayn Malik. Nothing meh about their peepers.

Yes, Natalie had beautiful eyes....

Barbra....bitch sees 360 degrees

Back to the reason for the thread - yes, OP, Ross certainly possessed a set of striking eyes.

Indian actor Priyanshu Chatterjee had the most beautiful large, dark eyes.

R174 The eyelashes of that era did a lot of the heavy lifting for her, just like for Liza.

Something about Reba McEntire's eyes is striking, though not attractive.

Rasputin.

Of course the eye makeup did a lot of the heavy lifting, but I always though Diamanda Galas had a phenomenal cut you like a little bitch stare intensity that couldn’t be rivaled.

Mussolini had eyes that were so dark brown they looked black, and like Rasputin's were said to hypnotize.

Zac Efron

Joseph P Kennedy is said to have had an extraordinarily intense penetrating stare. It's the first thing people noted about him after meeting him.

Joanne Catherall of Human League

Claudia Devlin wearing the original un-opened Biba make-up from the early 70's (make-up artist: Lisa Eldridge)

Here's a better picture of Claudia Devlin's eyes.

Eva Green in the film, Dumbo, wearing make-up by Lisa Eldridge

Diana Ross could have been a model - look at those eyes

Elizabeth Hackney (model) wearing make-up by Lisa Eldridge

Bradley Cooper. I remember watching one of his earlier movies-- Limitless-- and the color of his eyes stood out because they were such a sparkling blue.

His eyes are a nice color but they're so beady

Dark hair makes Tom Hiddleston's blue eyes look striking.

[quote] Dark hair makes Tom Hiddleston's blue eyes look striking.

They become the loci of his face.

Barbra has small eyes but the color of her eyes always stood out.

Ann Hathaway- with and without makeup, her eyes are huge.

Donna Mitchell

Would you believe this is Chris Evans eyelashes? He's the envy of every woman who has to put on false eyelashes.

R194 I don’t like eyes that are that huge, especially if they’re dark. All her features are just way too big for her face.

R195 those are gorgeous eyes. Perfect shape too (and damn, her face is so perfectly symmetrical, it’s annoying).

Donna Mitchell is even beautiful as an older woman

Gene Wilder:

The late Glenn Quinn had very striking eyes.

I'm going to post dark eyes-- they're just as beautiful and mesmerizing too.

Don't forget me!

Baryshnikov had great eyes even when they weren't the focus of attention.

Sophia Loren

Rudolph Valentino

Rudolf Nureyev

I'm probably the only person who thinks Cleavon Little had striking eyes, but I do. The camera adored him.

Honorable mention for this guy after his eye job.

OMG I had no idea such a thing existed R208. And he does look nicer.

Gomez, take those out of his mouth.

Meg Foster.

Ian Somerhalder

Halle Berry has beautiful big, dark eyes

Here's a better picture of Diana's eyes.

R211 Meg Foster’s eyes look possessed. They cross that line from striking into demon territory.

(She was always kind of butch, too, but I digress)

Mr. Paul Hollywood. This picture doesn't fully bring out the blue in his eyes.

All round eyes. Ugh.

Michael Grimm, the crooked rep. He was outside somewhere greeting people and shook my hand. His eyes could definitely be described as striking. Eyes are just more striking on a darker complexion and darker hair.

R217, see R163

Jisoo from Blackpink

Music producer, Zedd

Sophia Lorne. Her eyes are enormous, gorgeous.

Emma Samms. She's unrecognizable now due to plastic surgery, but in her youth she had beautiful, round, chocolate brown eyes.

Janet

Prince. A comedian once noted that a straight man should never look directly into them.

[quote] Sophia Lorne

Who is she?

Mike Piazza for the big, brown doe eyes trifecta (joining the two above)

Cal Ripken Jr, and his brother Billy too.

Daphné de L'Aubespine

"Who is she?"

Make that Sophia Loren. Pardon my typo, dear.

Oscar Isaac - add him to the dark brooding brown eyes list.

Meh, brown eyes just aren't interesting, sorry.

meh, you're just stuck up racist asshole.

Taehyung of BTS

Irish actor Robert Sheehan has captivating, light-colored eyes with curly black hair. He was so handsome in the tv series about Dublin gangs called Love/Hate. (2010). Currently, he just doesn't have the same appeal that he had in Love/Hate.

[quote]Meh, brown eyes just aren't interesting, sorry.

Well neither are you, so there's that.

Lord George Hamilton. Click for the closeup.

One of my favorite foreign language films features two actors with incredible, devastating eyes: Catherine Deneuve and Vincent Perez in "Indochine."

Pom Klementieff

Clift

Emmanuelle Beart

Audrey Hepburn

After watching Goodfellas for first time in years, Ray Liotta. Goddamn.

Kurt

Hakeem Jeffries, Congressman from NY and possibly future Speaker of the House. I was watching the news this morning and realized what striking eyes he has. I assume he's biracial. Not sure if he has green or hazel eyes.

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Liza

Lee Remick

This guy has striking eyes...

Nicholas Hoult - I was watching The Great-- which he is wonderful in btw---and I can't get over his eyes. They're an unusually mesmerizing blue or blue/green? The color shows up more onscreen than in pics.

Millie Perkins