Entertainment Feature: Top 20 Celebrity Portraits of 2016, By Photographer Joe Arce

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Star8. Jamie Lee Curtis

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Actress/Author Jamie Lee Curtis
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com

How ironic that America’s favorite “Scream Queen” has long been completely fearless in front of the camera. I’ve been blessed to photograph Jamie Lee Curtis many times over the years, including a couple times without her wearing a stitch of makeup. In an industry where females over 40 are routinely put out to pasture – and starlets barely old enough to rent a car often demand approval on retouching – Curtis is a self-positive pioneer…brave enough to not only accept her maturing looks, but to proudly flaunt them. As an accomplished and best-selling children’s author, she was promoting her new book “This Is Me: A Story of Who We Are and Where We Came From,” when I got yet another opportunity to capture her once again in all her unflinching natural glory.

LOCATION/DATE: Anderson’s Bookshop, Naperville (Illinois), September 22, 2016

Star7. Kate Hudson

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Actress/Entrepreneur Kate Hudson
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com

“Pretty Happy” seems to be more than just the title of Kate Hudson’s 2016 best selling book – she literally wears the title around her neck as a gold charm. Since her Oscar-nominated role as groupie Penny Lane in “ Almost Famous,” Hudson has been stealing hearts of rock-n-roll front men and fans alike. Now a doting Mom of 13 year-old son Ryder (with ex-husband, singer Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes) and five year-old Bingham (with Matt Bellamy, lead vocalist for the band Muse), Hudson seems to be beaming more joyously than ever. In 2017, she will star in the film “Marshall,” and continuing to run Fabletics, her successful line of workout athletic wear.

From the second I raised my camera, it was obvious that Kate has that superpower that seduces a lens, no doubt inherited from her mother Goldie Hawn. She’s another hippie-hearted golden girl socking it to me, with every click of the shutter.

LOCATION/DATE: North Central College, Naperville (Illinois), sponsored by Anderson’s Bookshop, February 20, 2016

Star6. Ethan Hawke

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Actor/Author Ethan Hawke
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com

Actor Ethan Hawke doesn’t think “Reality Bites.” Nominated four times for an Oscar, and yet to win, he certainly has plenty of other options – including screenwriting, directing and oh yeah, his other career as a best-selling novelist (he was promoting “Indeh: A Story of Apache Wars” in Chicago). As a man with many hats, he seems to be channeling Frank Sinatra in this photo…and yes, he garnered great reviews doing his own singing, as Chet Baker, in the 2016 film “Born to Be Blue.” As a photographer I wanted to thank Ethan Hawke for such a striking portrait, but as the guy who doesn’t get to attend a parent/teacher conference with Uma Thurman, I just want to exclaim, “knock It off already – you’re making us all look like crap by comparison.”

LOCATION/DATE: Printers Row Lit Fest, Chicago, June 10, 2016

Star5. Anna Kendrick

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Actress Anna Kendrick
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com

Despite the title of her memoir, “Scrappy Little Nobody,” Anna Kendrick had no problem selling out Naperville’s Yellow Box Auditorium for her recent book tour. The Oscar and Tony-nominated actress further disproved the title by generously posing for portraits in the green room before her appearance – talk about being über-cool! She had her fans raising their “Cups” in celebration.

LOCATION/DATE: Yellow Box Auditorium, Naperville (Illinois), sponsored by Anderson’s Bookshop, November 17, 2016

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