T&C's Top 50 Bachelors Of 2015

Master of land (he owns a Richard Neutra house in Los Angeles) and sea (he comes from the Greek shipping dynasty), the 29-year-old's Hall of Fame dating history and dreamy looks are straight out of international playboy central casting.

That floppy hair! Those tousled curls! It's all so…Bachelor of the Year 1997! But for my money director Alex Timbers is actually ahead of his time. His forward-thinking sensibilities have sent him around the space-time curve—and his hair has gone with him. At 36, Timbers is one of Broadway's most innovative directors—twice nominated for a Tony already, once for Michael Friedman's superbly funny Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. With nerve and charm, he muscles immersive forms into the mainstream. His Rocky plopped the boxing ring into the audience, and his Here Lies Love—David Byrne and Fatboy Slim's club rock musical— makes audiences literally dance through history. But I treasure his weirder, smaller work, such as 2003's A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant, in which an adorable tyke played Tom Cruise gravely toasting Xenu. (I raved so much in a review that the Scientologists called me to…chat.) Now Timbers has film projects and an Amazon show, co-writing and helming an adaptation of Mozart in the Jungle with Roman Coppola and Jason Schwartzman. Weirdly, I fear its inevitable success. Timbers may be a bachelor, but I want him to stay married—to the theater. We loved him first and best. He's ours. Helen Shaw

Charlie Siem apologizes profusely for his delay in calling; he has only just arrived in Scot- land after a missed flight. Is the British violinist there for a concert? "I'm actually going shooting with my sister's husband," says the Eton-educated 28-year-old, his accent sleekly posh. "It sounds quite gentlemanly, doesn't it? Until I get out on the fields with my gun and it becomes a complete mess!" Siem is much more adept with his violin. Known for his graceful stage presence and romantic sound, he recently toured Europe playing selections from Under the Stars, his album of orchestral encores. "With something like the violin, you've got to figure out a unique way of playing that suits you," he says. "It's such a physical thing, and you have to really listen. Your greatest asset as a musician is your ear." Siem happens to have other assets as well. He has modeled for Dunhill and for an upcoming Hugo Boss campaign, and he appeared in Karl Lagerfeld's book The Little Black Jacket at the Kaiser's own request—so, yes, he looks quite nice onstage in his trademark fitted suit. As for life offstage, "I guess, for me, I haven't met the right person yet," he says. "I always say that if I did, I'd change my life." Music to our ears. Rebecca Milzoff

Why him? The rare director (True Detective, for which he won an Emmy, and the film Jane Eyre) worthy of drooling over. Credit his Japanese father and Swedish mother. Likes: Recently it's polo; the 37-year-old keeps ponies (Pampo and Panda) in upstate New York. Natural habitat: Transient childhood × fluency in Spanish, French, and Japanese = pretty much anywhere. Caveat: The occasional braid.

Why him? The international DJ known as Mosey, 29, fortunately inherited his looks from mother Marie-Dominique Culioli rather than father Nicolas Sarkozy. Likes: Music—from Corsican to classical, but he plays strictly house. Natural habitat: Clubs in São Paulo, Ibiza, Kiev, or wherever the work takes him. Caveat: Keep the house in the club and it's all good.

Why him? We could say some- thing about 89Plus, his pioneering multiplatform investigation of the generation of artists and digital innovators born since the fall of the Berlin Wall, but we're too busy looking at those lips. Likes: Artists before you've heard of them. The 30-year- old Frenchman runs the Swiss Institute, a nonprofit Soho gallery that specializes in emerging European (especially Swiss) artists. Natural habitat: Gallery openings, art fair VIP lounges, museum launches, nonprofit art performances—it's a job, it's a party! Caveat: Those lips will often be talking about artists you've never heard of.

Why him? If you've seen his Scorsese-directed smolder in those Bleu de Chanel commercials, you don't have to ask. Otherwise, just wait for Saint Laurent, the biopic in which Ulliel, 30, superbly, languidly embodies the late, great Yves. Likes: The man bun—a hairstyle he can actually pull off. Natural habitat: Always Paris; occasionally Twitter. Caveat: A model named Gaëlle Pietri.

Why him? The 28-year-old Friday Night Lights grad (surely reason enough) will fire up the Human Torch in this year's Fantastic Four reboot. But the smile alone will wreck you. Likes: Pretty much any sport; photography; New York deli sandwiches. Natural habitat: The kitchen; like his chef dad, he loves to cook. Caveat: He socked Zac Efron in That Awkward Moment—but maybe that's a good thing?

Why him? The Guatemalan-born, Miami-raised Isaac, 35, has old-school matinee idol looks and the chops of a Juilliard-trained actor, a combination that proved irresistible in last year's The Two Faces of January. Likes: Playing guitar. The result: His convincing crazy-talented folk singer in Inside Llewyn Davis. Natural habitat: Regularly gigs around New York City with a band called NightLab. Caveat: He's the lead in Star Wars: Episode VII, so beware Comic Con geeks.

Why him? He's Steve McQueen's grandson, so there are the genes—amply displayed on the CW show The Vampire Diaries and in a 2014 Abercrombie and Fitch campaign. Likes: Poetry. The 26-year-old has a Robert Frost title, "The Road Not Taken," tattooed on his back. Natural habitat: That six-pack means serious gym time. Caveat: Vampire Diaries fans.

Why him? What's good enough for Angelina Jolie is good enough for us. (See: Brad Pitt.) Jolie handpicked the 24-year-old O'Connell to star in last year's Unbroken. Likes: The formerly infamous party boy (who essentially played himself on the titillating British soap Skins) has mended his ways, with guidance from Jolie, an expert on reform. Natural habitat: London. Caveat: At press time he was sharing love bites with Cara Delevingne.

Why him? If Ansel Elgort is our golden boy, 28-year-old Teller (Elgort's co-star in the Divergent franchise) is our dark star, bringing gripping, Brando-style realism to every part (see Whiplash, The Spectacular Now). Likes: To apologize to ex-girlfriends for bad behavior. Natural habitat: The dance floor. "I do the moonwalk every chance I get. If you can do that you don't have to do anything else." Caveat: He moonwalks every chance he gets.

Why him? The Cambridge-educated actor, 29, is equally mesmerizing as a psychopath (in the BBC series Happy Valley) and a courtly gentleman (Death Comes to Pemberley), so you get good boy and bad boy rolled into one! Likes: His mum's roast beef; poaching eggs; punctuality. Natural habitat: A lane at the pool, followed by a stool at the pub: "I'm not very good at staying in." Caveat: A fan of Peter Pan, and we all know what that means.

Why him? If Robb Stark, his character on Game of Thrones, was too dirty for you, the 28-year-old scrubs up nicely as Prince Charming in Kenneth Branagh's Cinderella, out in March. Likes: To shop and "dress smart"—enough to be Most Stylish Male at the 2014 Scottish Style Awards. Natural habitat: Grew up in Elderslei, Renfrewshire, which is not, in fact, a Hobbit town but a suburb of Glasgow. Caveat: Guilty of bad train etiquette: A British Tumblr shamed him for sitting with his legs too far apart on the Tube.

Why him? Fashion designer, actor, artist, Armagnac producer. Likes: Playing the Renaissance man. In between all of the above, the 31-year-old has appeared in a Nespresso commercial with George Clooney and created a Bûche de Noël with Pierre Hermé. Now he's starring in a Ferragamo short film. Natural habitat: The family château he shares with his father, designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac. Caveat: You'd better like Armagnac.

Why him? The 30-year-old heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune has built his own fashion and retail empire through a $200 million holding company called Assembled Brands. Likes: New acquisitions. Natural habitat: Barneys, checking the sales of his clothing line, Protagonist; or at his latest investment, the Line, a Soho concept store where everything is for sale. Caveat: A man this busy buying companies might not be available to buy you dinner.