...that's still active.

1. Carli Banks
2. Georgia Jones
3. Taylor Vixen
4. Samantha Ryan
5. Jelena Jensen
6. Brenda James
7. Sammie Rhodes
8. Bobbi Starr
9. Elexis Monroe
10. Shyla Jennings

You really need to specify the type of actress in your thread title. You'll have many people opening this, not knowing the names, searching online, and being insulted or vexed if they don't approve of pornography.

TIS

Any actresses, it doesn't matter what genre.

Can't think of any mainstream actresses that I like that's still active.  


Retired or deceased:
1. Grace Kelly
2, Ingrid Bergman
3. Annette Haven
4. Doris Day
5. Seka
6. Marilyn Chambers
7. Jane Fonda
8. Barbara Dare
9. April West
10. Erica Boyer

I will give it a try, but some might actually be retired:

1. Angel Dark
2. Asa Akira
3. Madelyn Marie
4. Sunny Leone
5. Katsuni
6. Jenaveve Jolie
7. Lela Star
8. Dylan Ryder
9. Amy Reid
10. Lizz Taylor

My list, with first initial followed by a hint:

Z: in the Forbidden City?
A: a Fair one..
G: American nobility?
H: Avid Inspector
O: Romeo (and Zefferelli) is looking for you...
O: looking for a new House? stay away from the unlucky number!
S: Kitty, Kitty...

 

Quoting comorin (Reply 4): G: American nobility?

Ginger Lynn?

It might help if you can give the second initial.

Asian
1. Kaiya Lynn
2. Tia Tanaka
3, Mia Leilani
4, Evelyn Linn
5, Jessica Bangkok
6. Mika Tan
7. Kina Kai
8. Kita Zen
9. Nautica Thorn
10. Kobe Tai

European
1. Rebeca Linares
2. Lisa (Cameron Cruz)
3. Sophie Moone
4. Jo (Monica Sweet)
5. Nella (Jackie)
6. Hannah Black
7. Katalin Kiraly
8. Anita Dark
9. Jana Cova
10. Vera (Dana Kelly)

Latina
1. Celeste Star
2. Layla Rose
3. Ann Marie Rios
4. Maria Menendez (Ryan Keely)
5. Ariella Ferrera
6. Gigi Rivera
7. Megan Martinez
8. Valerie Rios
9. Kristina Rose
10. Vanessa Veracruz

Quoting Confuscius (Reply 5):

GK....

Heres my list

1. Jessica Alba
2. Natalie Portman
3. Rachel Bilson
4. Mila Kunis
5. Scarlett Johansson
7. Dianna Agron
8. Rachel McAdams
9. Rosie Huntington-Whitley
10. Leighton Meester

Honorable Mention

1. Amanda Sayfried
2. Amber Heard
3. Zoe Saldana
4. Alexis Bledel
5. Emma Watson

Mikako Tabe
Aya Hirano
Yui
Mila Kunis
....

All I can think of. I hate pop culture 

no particular order -

1. Sigourney Weaver
2. Nina Arianda
3. Meryl Streep
4. Linda Lavin
5. Stockard Channing
6. Judith Light
7. Anjelica Huston
8. Missi Pyle
9. Gina Gershon
10. Maggie Smith

1-10 Sandra Bullock, hello, Meowwww!

1. Meryl Streep
2. Audrey Hepburn
3. Ingrid Bergman
4. Kathy Bates
5. Helen Mirren
6. Julia Roberts
7. Cate Blanchett
8. Kate Winslet
9. Natalie Portman
10. Audrey Tautou

Quoting comorin (Reply 6): GK....

Still no idea. C'mon spit out her name...

Quoting PHX787 (Reply 8): I hate pop culture

You're in trouble with an ex pat in Bangkok. But I won't mention Superfly's name!

Quoting 2707200X (Reply 7): 1. Jessica Alba

Super cute face.

Quoting Fly777s (Reply 11): 4. Kathy Bates

Great scene with James Caan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5OlolbLXvw

Quoting stlgph (Reply 9):

Could Jessica Walter be an honorable mention in your list?  

Quoting Confuscius (Reply 12): Quoting comorin (Reply 6): GK.... Still no idea. C'mon spit out her name...

Quoting comorin (Reply 13):

"American nobility" Now I get it. I assumed your list were for adult entertainers. I gotta get my mind off the gutter...nah!

Quoting comorin (Reply 4): O: Romeo (and Zefferelli) is looking for you...

Olivia de Havilland

Quoting comorin (Reply 4): A: a Fair one..

Audrey Hepburn

Quoting Confuscius (Reply 14):

Hope you enjoyed the puzzle  

Quoting comorin (Reply 15): Hope you enjoyed the puzzle

I would've done better if they were pornstars.  


in addendum:

Honorable mentions...

Jessie Rogers
Emily Addison
Sensi Pearl
Jessie Andrews
Avy Scott
Lexi Belle
Kara Price
Rilee Marks
Aubrey Belle
Rayveness
Nina Hartley
Evie Delatosso

[Edited 2012-07-13 14:55:59]

Quoting Confuscius (Reply 12): You're in trouble with an ex pat in Bangkok. But I won't mention Superfly's name!

Don't worry I'll be in Japan in 2 weeks ....


... which on second thought is closer to Bankok than PHX -_-

Quoting Confuscius (Reply 2): 3. Annette Haven

You're showing your age. And I guess the fact that I highlighted this shows that
1) I am also showing my age
2) I watched my share of porn back in the last 70's/early 80's

My roommate at the time was a sales rep for one of the X-rated video distributors and got free copies of all the movies. Annette was definitely one of my very favorites. Her and Nancy Sutter.

Quoting ER757 (Reply 18): 2) I watched my share of porn back in the last 70's/early 80's

You're just a liitle bit ahead. '80s and '90s (lots of trip to the back of the video rental store) for me. And of course now with free tube videos.  

Quoting ER757 (Reply 18): Annette was definitely one of my very favorites.

Among performers in the "classic" era she's definitely in the team picture. Here's a few more...

70s and 80s:
Veronica Hart
Kay Parker
Sharon Mitchell
Candida Royale
Erica Boyer (died in a car accident 2009)
Marilyn Chambers (died 2009)
Gloria Leonard
Juliet Anderson (died 2010)
Vanessa Del Rio
Seka

80s and 90s:
Ginger Lynn
Barbara Dare
Nina Hartley (still active)
Nikki Charm
Jamie Summers
Traci Lords
Buffy Davis
Christie Canyon
Amber Lynn
Tori Welles

The good ol' days...all natural and no tatts!  

[Edited 2012-07-13 20:10:36]

Quoting Confuscius (Reply 19): Marilyn Chambers (died 2009)

Got to meet her at a convention right after "Insatiable" came out. Surprisingly, she looked as good or better in person as she did in her movies. She was quite a nice person as far as I could tell - took the time to talk to people and didn't just sign autographs and move on as quickly a possible.
Working at a wholesale video distribution company at the time, we got visited by several other adult starts. Met Seka, Desiree Cousteau and a couple others there. Wasn't impressed by any of them. I guess I just always had a little thing for Marilyn though, 'cause I really enjoyed meeting her.

Quoting 2707200X (Reply 7): 8. Rachel McAdams

Yes! Great smile.


But it is hard to top a young Lauren Bacall:

Quoting SmittyOne (Reply 21): But it is hard to top a young Lauren Bacall:

   Bogie's girl. I liked her in "Young Man with a Horn", as Kirk Douglas's troubled love interest.

Classic scene from "To Have and Have Not"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MheNUWyROv8


One of may favorite in the classice era was Jennifer Jones. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in her first major movie in "The Song of Bernadette". She also played a Eurasian doctor with William Holden in "Love is a Many-Splendored Thing" and as an amnesia victim with Joseph Cotten in "Love Letters".

Classic movies and classic porn...can't get any better!   


Jennifer Jones (Love is a Many-Slendored Thing)



As Bernadette Soubirous (Song of Bernadette)