Batman's Beauties - The gorgeous women of the caped crusader series

In honor of The Dark Knight, this summer's big blockbuster, we thought we'd take a look at some of the beautiful women who've been involved with the caped crusader over the years.
Maggie Gyllenhaal plays Rachel Dawes in The Dark Knight. Katie Holmes (shown at right) had the role in the 2005 movie, Batman Begins. The character appears exclusively in the movies, and is not based on a comic-book character.
Before director Chris Nolan rebooted the series with The Dark Knight and Batman Begins, Joel Schumacher directed Batman Forever (1995) and Batman & Robin (1997).


Alicia Silverstone introduced Batgirl in Batman & Robin. She dates back to the early 90s when she burst onto the scene in Aerosmith's videos for Cryin' and Amazing. She's also known for PETA's first-ever naked veggie testimonial ad.
Uma Thurman is also in it as Poison Ivy.
In Batman Forever the series introduced Nicole Kidman, Drew Barrymore and Debi Mazar.



Before all that, there was the Batman series of movies directed by Tim Burton. In Batman Returns (1992), Michelle Pfeiffer took on the role of Catwoman. Also worth noting, Halle Berry starred as Catwoman in a movie of the same name in 2004.

The Perfect Face?

Katie Holmes' eyes, Katherine Heigl's nose, Keira Knightley's cheeks, Jessica Simpson's long blonde hair and Angelina Jolie's lips...is this the perfect face?
Star morphed the celeb body parts most often requestedto create what should be the perfect woman.
Not bad.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of 2007 (with the ugly thrown out)

Moviefone has counted up the four million votes cast in its 2007 year-end poll.
Best female villain went to Angelina Jolie in "Beowulf" with 40 percent of the vote. Trailing were Nicole Kidman (18 percent), Maggie Q (15 percent), Susan Sarandon (14 percent) and Michelle Pfeiffer (13 percent).

Worst couples? Coincidentally, all of them had cutesy, smashed-together nicknames. Taking the top spot: Evalyn, or Evan Rachel Wood and Marilyn Manson (40 percent). TomKat, Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise came close with 35 percent. Bringing up the rear: Brangelina (Angelina Jolie/Brad Pitt with 10 percent), LoMarc (Jennifer Lopez/Marc Anthony with 10 percent) and RoseRod (Rose McGowan/Robert Rodriguez with 5 percent).

The biggest news story went to Anna Nicole Smith, who died of drug intoxication. That story beat out the competition with 48 percent of the votes.

Hottest movie star MILF? Angelina Jolie was on top. She took in 43 percent of votes, while Reese Witherspoon trailed with 26, Jennifer Garner with 15, Katie Holmes with 9 and Julia Roberts with 7.


Who would nab the sexiest babe? Megan Fox from Transformers took that one with 42 percent. Jessica Alba, Katherine Heigl, Eva Mendes and Lena Heady were in the running.

Lindsay Lohan ("I Know Who Killed Me") garnered 58 percent of the vote for the worst performance given by an actress.

Who had the best nude scene? The honors went to Eva Mendes by 35 percent in "We Own the Night". Lena Heady ("300") took 25 percent. Natalie Portman had 16 percent of "The Darjeeling Limited". Sienna Miller tallied 13 percent for "Factory Girl".

Source: AOL's Best and Worst of 2007