# Actors/Actresses whose looks changed drastically **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 12, 2020, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-whose-looks-changed-drastically/922813 "2020-10-12T17:05:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-whose-looks-changed-drastically/922813/81 "2020-10-13T14:00:10Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > My first thought was Robert Redford. I have to look really hard at his [older self](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Redford#/media/File:Robert_Redford_(cropped).jpg) to see his [younger self](https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/622408/robert-redford-actor-facts). But maybe it’s just me - I’m not good with faces in general. I think that, in Redford’s case, at least some of it is that he spent a lot of time outdoors, skiing and ranching, and his face now seems to reflect that. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-whose-looks-changed-drastically/922813/82 "2020-10-13T14:03:26Z")
Yeah, but Redford is 84 now. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-whose-looks-changed-drastically/922813/83 "2020-10-13T14:09:17Z")
Yeah, I know it’s aging, but it still struck me as a very drastic change. If I look at photos of my dad when he got married and right before he died, while he was heavier and obviously older, it still looked like him. But when I see current pictures of Redford, I have to work to recognize him. But maybe it’s just me. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-whose-looks-changed-drastically/922813/84 "2020-10-13T14:49:20Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > But when I see current pictures of Redford, I have to work to recognize him. But maybe it’s just me. It’s not just you. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-whose-looks-changed-drastically/922813/85 "2020-10-13T14:50:03Z")
The inverse of the child-star-who-grew-up-plain: Jerry O’Connell. Who knew the chubby kid from _Stand By Me_ would not just grow up to be studly, but marry Rebecca Romijn?? ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-whose-looks-changed-drastically/922813/86 "2020-10-13T14:56:21Z")
Jackie Earle Haley went from the good looking kid in Bad News Bears to competing with Clint Howard for roles as the crazy looking person. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-whose-looks-changed-drastically/922813/87 "2020-10-13T14:57:22Z")
Yes!! ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-whose-looks-changed-drastically/922813/88 "2020-10-13T15:32:12Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > > [@MrAtoz](#): > > > > Eddie Van Halen’s recent death has led to my seeing pictures of what David Lee Roth looks like [nowadays](https://townsquare.media/site/295/files/2018/12/roth.jpg?w=980&q=75). I don’t know how much it’s just because he has short hair now, versus how much he’s changed due to age, but I would not have recognized him. > > > > > Okay, David Lee Roth isn’t really an actor, but I think he counts for thread purposes. > > He might not really be an actor, but he should consider it. [He’s got kind of a quasi-Clancy Brown thing](https://www.google.com/search?q=Clancy+Brown,+sleepy+hollow&rlz=1C1ZCEB_enUS909US909&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjVjKvK86_sAhUELK0KHUYiC7oQ_AUoAXoECCsQAw&biw=1536&bih=754) going on. And Roth, by nature, can ham it up all day. He looks a lot like Ray Wise, famous for playing Leland Palmer on _Twin Peaks_, in his current age photo. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-whose-looks-changed-drastically/922813/89 "2020-10-13T15:38:09Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > There are probably two big categories that are the winners for me. Child/Teen actors who did not age gracefully, like Haley Joel Osment and Jonathan Lipnicki… I have sort of a theory that with kids who are cast as “cute kids”, their exaggerated ‘cute’ features that work well as kids cause them to be weird looking as adults. That’s why a lot of “cute kid” actors don’t seem to age well. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-whose-looks-changed-drastically/922813/90 "2020-10-13T15:39:48Z")
I think that’s right. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-whose-looks-changed-drastically/922813/91 "2020-10-13T15:42:14Z")
In the “plastic surgery gone awry” category, there was Pete Burns, the lead singer for Dead or Alive. [![](https://www.betrendsetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Pete-Burns-plastic-surgery.jpg) ](https://www.betrendsetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Pete-Burns-plastic-surgery.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-whose-looks-changed-drastically/922813/92 "2020-10-13T15:54:36Z")
A few years ago there was a dedicated website done by somebody with some medical knowledge who collected, dissected, and posted disastrous celebrity plastic surgeries. I forgot the exact site title & long ago lost the url. Searching now I can’t locate it. Like so many things from earlier internet eras, it may have turned into a facebook page or pinterest group. It was always morbidly fascinating. Google can deliver hundreds of gross pix like this. It was the explanations behind the epic fails that made that site great. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-whose-looks-changed-drastically/922813/93 "2020-10-13T16:01:54Z")
You’d think a famous celebrity could afford the very best plastic surgeon, so why do their procedures look so wrong? (I remember seeing Kenny Rogers on TV someplace and he did not look good. I think he would have looked better if he just let himself look his age.) ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-whose-looks-changed-drastically/922813/94 "2020-10-13T16:35:54Z")
Julie Bowen had kind of a cherubic look when she did Happy Gilmore in the mid-90s, and looked a lot different than she did during Modern Family. I remember being surprised when I learned that was the same actress. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-whose-looks-changed-drastically/922813/95 "2020-10-13T16:53:17Z")
^^Julie Bowen did a TV show called _Ed_ from 2000 - 2004. It was kind of a transition for her looks from ingenue to frazzled mother. But yeah, if you jump from Happy Gilmore to Modern Family, it’s something of a jolt. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-whose-looks-changed-drastically/922813/96 "2020-10-13T17:04:11Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > Julie Bowen had kind of a cherubic look when she did Happy Gilmore in the mid-90s, and looked a lot different than she did during Modern Family. I remember being surprised when I learned that was the same actress. I would say from a trailer I just watched, she looks much more like a mom in Happy Gilmore than she did in Modern Family. ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-whose-looks-changed-drastically/922813/97 "2020-10-13T17:11:04Z")
> [@Didi44](#): > > She’s not conventionally pretty In what universe is that woman not “conventionally pretty”? I’m admittedly not really knowledgeable about Japanese standards of beauty, but it seems to me that she’d be considered “pretty” anywhere she went. She certainly would be here. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-whose-looks-changed-drastically/922813/98 "2020-10-13T17:16:33Z")
Nicole Eggert and Josie Davis, the two sisters from Charles in Charge. Pre-Baywatch Eggert was the cute one while Davis was a bit of a “Sarah Plain and Tall”. Then a few years later Davis became hot and Eggert kind of let herself go. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-whose-looks-changed-drastically/922813/99 "2020-10-13T17:20:07Z")
Val Kilmer > **[Val Kilmer Then & Now! | Albany Daily News | Val kilmer, Celebrities then...](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/428545720792714249/)** > > May 10, 2019 - Val Kilmer Then & Now! | Albany Daily News ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-whose-looks-changed-drastically/922813/100 "2020-10-13T17:25:46Z")
[Megan Fox](https://i0.heartyhosting.com/radaronline.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Megan-Fox-Plastic-Surgery-pp.jpg?fit=1280%2C840&ssl=1) changed greatly from her early days. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-whose-looks-changed-drastically/922813.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-whose-looks-changed-drastically/922813.md?page=6)