Brown hair is estimated to be the second most common natural hair color in the world after the color black, it is estimated that around 40 percent of the world’s population has hair that is a shade of brown. With billions of people having this hair color, it is no surprise that many of the world’s biggest stars are brunettes.
In this article, we are going to be listing the top 10 popular star brunettes.
Natalie Portman.
An Israeli-American actress who is based known for playing the role of Padme Amidala in Star Wars Episode 1, this film was a huge success and had a total box office of over $1 billion. However, apart from being a talented actress, Portman is also extremely smart and after her role in Star Wars, she went back to school and managed to graduate from Harvard University with a degree in psychology.
After graduating from Harvard University, Portman decided to go back into acting with a role in ‘The Seagull’ Broadway theater show along with other well-known actors such as Meryl Streep and Philip Hoffman.
Zooey Deschanel.
Known for her striking blue eyes, Zooey Deschanel is a California native who is known for playing leading roles in many well-known comedy and romantic films such as ‘The Good Girl’ that was released in 2002, ‘Yes Man’ in 2008 and also ‘Winter Passing’ released in 2015 to name just of the films that Deschanel has starred in.
Deschanel grew up in a family heavily involved in the film industry with her dad being a well-known cinematographer named Zooey after a character in the film ‘Franny and Zooey’. Her sister Emily Deschanel is also a well-known actress who is best known as playing a doctor in the over decade long television series ‘Bones’.
Olivia Wilde.
Born in New York and growing up in the affluent state of Washington D.C, and despite being born in the United States, Wilde also holds Irish citizenship thanks to large parts of her family having Irish ancestry. Wilde has immersed in television all her life, with her mother is a well-known journalist who became the host of a crime investigation show called ’60 Minutes’.
Wilde admittedly comes from an upper-class family and does not deny that her background has helped her considerably to break into the movie industry. She has had roles in films such as ‘Tron: Legacy’ released in 2010, ‘The Lazarus Effect’ released in 2015 and ‘Meadowland’ released in 2015 as well.
Emma Watson.
A world-renowned actress thanks her leading role as Hermione Granger in the popular Harry Potter film series that has grossed billions of dollars worldwide to date. Watson was born in Paris and lived in France until the age of 5 when she moved to the United Kingdom, she states that she wanted to become an actress ever since the age of 6 and luckily enough her dream became true pretty quickly as she was just 11 when starring in the first Harry Potter movie.
Since the release of the last Harry Potter movie in 2011, Watson has appeared in other productions such as ‘The Perks of Being A Wallflower’ released in 2012 and ‘The Bling Ring’ that was released in 2013. Watson as of late has been increasingly getting involved in philanthropy and activism, mainly in the area of women’s rights.
Angelina Jolie.
Despite coming from a long line of successful actors and leading film industry figures Jolie did not have a smooth journey to becoming a movie superstar.
She appeared in four films before she finally got noticed after appearing in the film ‘Hackers’ that was released in 1995, the film did not turn a profit and was not popular at the time, but today it is seen as a great movie that is loved by film enthusiasts around the world.
Jolie is also well known for adopting children mainly from impoverished countries in Africa and Asia with her ex-husband Brad Pitt, Jolie says that she gets joy from providing a good life for children from bad backgrounds as she did not have a good childhood herself.
Eva Longoria.
Part of the Tejano community who are people with Mexican ancestry that have lived in the US state of Texas for hundreds of years. Longoria grew up in a working-class family, and she recalls in multiple interviews that she respects her parents for how long they worked to provide Eva and her siblings with the opportunity to make something out of their lives.
Eva Longoria is a well-known television actress, she first appeared in ‘The Young and the Restless’ series that was aired on the CBS television channel, this series has had over eleven thousand episodes until the finale of the series in 2016.
Miranda Kerr.
Miranda Kerr is an Australian model born in Sydney who comes from English, French and Scottish ancestry. While studying psychology at college, Kerr decided to try and pursue modeling full time to see if she can make it; this led her to move to the United States and eventually becoming a Victoria Secret’s Angel, which is one of the most respected and widely known modeling jobs in the world.
Apart from being a model, Kerr is also known for being married to actor Orlando Bloom before they divorced in 2013, currently, she is married to Evan Spiegel who is the founder of the popular social media network Snapchat.
Jessica Alba.
Alba is a veteran of the movie and television industry with her first appearance on television being when she was just 13 years old in the comedy film ‘Camp Nowhere’ and also in the same year in the television series ‘The Secret World of Alex Mack’ that was released in 2014. However, she got her first major role at the age of 19 in the dance film ‘Honey’ that was released in 2003 and featured Alba as the main protagonist of the film.
Moreover, Alba is one of the most successful female entrepreneurs in the United States after founding ‘The Honest Company’ which is an American health and beauty product manufacturer that has the goal of being an ethical company that cares about its employees, the environment and the interests of its customers.
Selena Gomez.
Appearing in minor roles at the age of 9 in the kids television series ‘Barney & Friends’, Gomez was snapped up by Disney who saw the potential in her and at 15 she appeared in the Disney television series ‘Wizards of Waverly Place’ which follows the story of a family that owns a restaurant who need to keep a secret that they are wizards.
After leaving Disney, she has appeared in loads of films some with more serious undertones such as ‘The Dead Don’t Die’ which is a horror movie released in 2019 and ‘Getaway’ released in 2013. Gomez is also an award-winning singer who has had multiple hit singles such as ‘A Year Without Rain’ and ‘When the Sun Goes Down’.
Ariana Grande.
Grande like Selena Gomez also got her start on a children’s television show, with Grande featuring on ‘Victorious’ which run from 2010 and 2013. After leaving the show in 2013, she was signed by Justin Bieber’s manager Scooter Braun, who helped make her one of the best known female singers in the world with 14 top ten hits and 2 number one hits in the United States
Furthermore, Grande is a human rights activist who from a very early age has been championing the rights of women and also the LGBT community around the world.
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