Gabrielle Anwar has incomparable looks and more than enough charm to make her a very sexy woman. FHM certainly concurred with that assessment when they put Gabrielle on their 100 Sexiest Women in the World list two years running, in 1996 and 1997. Gabrielle has taste and class; one of her ex-boyfriends, actor Craig Sheffer, first won her heart by quoting from a Thomas Hardy novel Gabrielle was reading.

Gabrielle’s somewhat tempestuous personal history might douse the flames of desire for some men, however. Gabrielle has had a number of relationships fall apart publicly, and she now has three children from two of them. Gabrielle’s family life might not have become quite as complicated -- or violent -- as that of the Tudor dynasty, but it’s clear that Gabrielle has enough baggage to give a gentleman pause.