Todays Hottest Red Heads

Marcia Cross

She may never let her hair down as tight-laced Bree on Desperate Housewives, but off set, Cross sports long, flowing locks with an occasional bounce of curl.

Julianne Moore Julianne Moore admits that she didnt quite embrace her natural hair color as a child, enduring the nickname Freckleface Strawberry. These days Moore prefers the red. Speaking about the time she dyed it for a role, she told People, I spent all my life wishing for different color hair, but now I felt too weird to enjoy it.

Kathy Griffin A natural red-head, the comedian, who recently turned 50, plays around with her color, going lighter and darker from time to time. Her fiery antics are a perfect fit for her firey hue though.

Debra Messing Often compared to Lucille Ball during her time on Will & Grace, the actress claims that once she died her hair for one role, she started landing audition after audition.

Melissa Gilbert She may be best known as red-headed, pig-tail wearing Laura Ingalls from her days on Little House on the Prairie, but the grown-up Gilbert looks ravishing with a more modern look these days.

Reba McEntire Reba McEntire keeps it short and sweet with her natural red locks. The country singer refers to her tresses in her song All the Woman I am: But I can light up New York City with my red hair and rhinestones.

Wynonna Judd When the Country icon showed off her 60-pound weight loss on Oprah in September, she quipped of her red hair, I'm on fire. From head to toe."

Kate Walsh Shes gone a darker shade lately, but the star of Private Practice is most well known for her deep red roots.