The Hottest Women Over 40

Even though we're still a few decades out from her X-Files heyday, Gillian Anderson is still a very smoking piece of womanhood. She's set to star in an upcoming period zombie flick with Judi Dench, which should own.

As Sara Sidle on CSI, Jorja Fox has been illuminating our TV screens for over a decade. The Canadian-born actress has a refreshing vivacity that doesn't seem to be dissipating with age.

Some ladies just get hotter and hotter as they age. Marisa Tomei is a great example - sure, she was cute as a button in My Cousin Vinny, but her smoking sexuality really started to emerge as she matured. And we're all the better for it.

I'm kind of done feeling sorry for Jennifer Aniston - sure, she's about as unlucky in love as just about anybody in Hollywood, but she's still smoking hot and as rich as the day is long.

It takes a certain kind of woman to stay married to Nicolas Sarkozy, but the gorgeous French-Italian songwriter and model Carla Bruni is a certain kind of woman. The gorgeous Bruni is preparing another album, as well as a baby in her belly.

How shocking is it that Buffy co-star Charisma Carpenter is 40? You would never guess it by looking at her, which is I guess the point. The actress, last seen in The Expendables, is a hardcore fitness buff, which should explain her fantastic body.

The smokin' Famke Janssen won nerd hearts by perfectly playing Jean Grey in the three X-Men flicks, but she has a very robust resume behind her, dating from her debut as a Bond girl with skull-crushing thighs.

Can you believe that Sela Ward is fifty-four years old? That's just ridiculous. I'm not sure what her methodology is for staying so young-looking into her second half-century, but if you could bottle it you'd be a millionaire.

The Welsh actress recently laid it all on the line to the press about her struggles with bipolar disorder, but having a crazy brain sure hasn't made Catherine Zeta-Jones any less hot. In fact, it might have made her hotter.

It is inconceivable to me that Monica Bellucci is forty-six years old. It's like she's a walking time paradox stuck in a gorgeous Italian broad's body. She's one of the rare actresses who finds success in both American and European productions.

Vanessa Williams has had quite an eventful life - the first African-American woman to be named Miss America, then forced to relenquish her crown after nude photos surfaced, she managed to carve a career out of the ashes, most recently in a great supporting role on Ugly Betty.

Army Wives star Catherine Bell has led an extremely varied life - she did everything from modeling to massaging before she started acting, and traveled around the world. She's also a Scientologist but I don't think they have any youthfulness preservation tech.