Dry another day

Some might say she was more Straw Berry than Halle Berry.

With her famous crop-top hairstyle replaced by an unkempt straggle, the actress who set pulses racing in the Bond movie Die Another Day looked a little less streamlined.

She did, however, appear to be aiming to do something about it. In one hand she carried a hair-dryer, still in its box, and in the other a bottle of shampoo.

Her coiffure was not helped by her couture - a sleeveless vest, three-quarter length cargo pants and flip-flops.

Miss Berry, who won an Oscar for her role in the drama Monster's Ball, at least has an excuse for the hairstyle.

It was apparently necessary for her part in the supernatural thriller Gothika, in which she plays a criminal psychologist accused of murder and which she is currently filming in Canada. She still wears a cast on her right arm after breaking her wrist shooting an action sequence for the movie.

An onlooker in Montreal said: 'She looked nothing like she does in her glamorous film roles. Her hair was dry and unkempt and, to be honest, looked like it could have done with a comb through it.'

The overall look hardly did justice to the title of the world's sexiest woman, with which she was honoured recently by readers of FHM magazine.

At 34, she is the oldest candidate to win the award. Asked which was her sexiest feature she responded: 'My feet.'