IT’S very heartening for older women that 50 year-old Sandra Bullock has just been voted People magazine’s Most Beautiful Woman in the World for 2015.

The actress remains as stunning as she did when she first came to international attention in the 1993 film The Demolition Man.

She is both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe winner and has proved as adept at drama as in comedy roles.

It’s fascinating that her kind of enduring beauty is still winning over screen fans today.

Perhaps more importantly, she has shown that she is very much her own woman, refusing to be stereotyped and appearing as in control of her on-screen and off-screen life.

Even when she learned of this latest accolade she refused to take it seriously insisting that it was “ridiculous” and that “real beauty was quiet”.

It may be that it’s this very independence that makes her a beautiful woman.

Nature gave her all the right equipment, but she is totally in control of what happens to it.