He might not really be an actor, but he should consider it. He’s got kind of a quasi-Clancy Brown thing going on. And Roth, by nature, can ham it up all day.
@Lamoral ?
I’m not familiar with her in anything but The Princess Bride and House of Cards. To me that’s just a difference in age and casting. There are miles between a princess in a kids’ movie in 1987 (age 21) and a villian in an adult TV show in 2013 (age 46). I mean, the lighting is totally different for one. To me, she’s still got that same “Robin Wright Jaw” and has kept her size and hair color. She just looks a bit older.
Same for Natalie Portman and Brooke Shields, IMHO. They both have features that I feel were prominent in their early and later careers.
Thanks, Zipper. I have been finding that sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn’t. I’ll keep tinkering.
I think it matters if it’s an actual file that ends in .jpg, or a link to a page servelet that doesn’t.
In the same category as Irene Ryan:
Walter Brennan (who surprisingly won more Oscars than any other male actor besides Jack Nicolson and Daniel Day-Lewis).
Buddy Ebsen, originally a dancer
Patrick Dempsey was typecast as a nerd in his twenties. But in his forties, he became “McDreamy”.
Sure, but 2/3 of the people in the thread are people who just got old. I mean, you can tell that’s Irene Ryan in both pictures, and that David Lee Roth is just older too. Or that Ricky Gervais is older and a bit fatter now. Same with Haley Joel Osment. And Weird Al just lost the mustache and glasses and otherwise looks the same. James Spader is VERY clearly the same person.
My point with Robin Wright Penn is that she looked very young and fresh-faced as Princess Buttercup. She was very pretty and very youthful looking. I didn’t recognize her at first in “Wonder Woman”, and I’ve seen her in things in the interim since “Princess Bride”. That’s enough in my book to have changed significantly.
That’s the thing- people look pretty different as they age, especially as they become elderly. I’m more impressed/intrigued by people who look substantially the same as they did when they were young. (like Salma Hayek)
One example I thought of but then rejected was Lynne Marie Stewart, who was Miss Yvonne in Pee Wee’s Playhouse and Charlie’s mom on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. She was heavily made up as Miss Yvonne.
Looking at her pictures from other roles, from the 70s to now, she’s pretty much always looked the same. Her difference between these roles was just a matter of costume and production (which is kinda how I see Robin Wright).
Osment is only 32 – he’s changed markedly as a young adult. And he’s had kind of a “mountain man” look going for at least five years now … so really, he changed a lot between 22 and 27 or so.
Definitely James Spader. looking at Stargate then seeing him in Blacklist-The look, the pacing, the voice, all different. A complete reinvention, in my opinion.
I never made the connection that Miss Yvonne and Charlie’s mom were the same actress.
I strongly disagree with your assessments in every case except for Weird Al, with the possible exception of David Lee Roth (maybe because I saw him on the tubes recently). Funny how we all see things so differently.
99% of people, even British people, would not have a shot in hell of recognizing that younger picture as Ricky Gervais, if shown it without any context.
Irene Ryan was in her 60’s during The Beverly Hillbillies and didn’t looked much closer to her real age in real life than Granny where she wore a lot of makeup. Here she is on Password during that period.
It seemed to me that Carrie Fisher went through several incarnations. Simplifying mightily look at: Star Wars, Blues Brothers, her talk-show overweight druggie years, and finally, ref the pic on wiki, a recovery shortly before her untimely death.
It’s clearly the same person, but there are some real “Oh my gosh, is that her? I’d never have guessed unless you told me!” moments as the years go by. Of course she aged; we all do that. In her case it’s not just aging. And it’s also not just drugs and dissolution; certainly lots of celebrities go through that wringer too.
You thought Carrie Fisher was clearly the same person in her later appearances? In the last three Star Wars movies, I genuinely could not recognize her.
I know Ms. Fisher had some hard years. There are other cases where I’ve seen actor in roles that are decades apart, and there’s always something familiar; a laugh, an expression, or some mannerism in their speech. She’s the only actor I’ve ever seen without some moment of recognition from her early years.
For me, what struck me most about how Carrie had changed, compared to her younger self, wasn’t her appearance (I could always see “her” in her eyes), it was her voice, which, by the time of the Star Wars sequel films, was radically different.
Should be: “…looked much closer to her real age in real life…”
One of my favorite Family Guy bits. Peter needs a cute little kid, so he summons Jonathan Lipnicki. FamilyGuy s09e03 Jonathan Lipnicki Joke - YouTube