Good one. Pretty much just the eyes give away that it’s Dwayne Wayne.
Am I the first to mention Vincent D’Onofrio?
Yeah, wife and I were watching “Ratched” on Netflix, and the Governor looked vaguely familiar. Went on IMDB to see who it was, and woah. Yes, again it’s mostly just age and weight gain, but he has gone through some changes for sure.
I’ve been watching a lot of Friends reruns and though they obviously all aged over the course of the series run, Courtney Cox looks very different to me somewhere around the third season(?). I can’t detect any obvious cosmetic surgery(but I’m not very good at that) but she just has a different look. Thinning her brows seems to contribute to that, at well as changing her hair.Hell, even her voice and mannerisms seem to have changed, though I guess that could be the writers gradually evolving her character.
Apparently, she agreed with you.
She seemed to get overly skinny at some point, too, making her look harsh and skeletal. I think that in current pictures she looks really good, and more natural than before.
Frank Langella used to be a devastatingly handsome, long-haired seducer, a role he played in Mel Brooks’ The Twelve Chairs and on Broadway as Dracula (and later in John Badham’s film adaptation of the play.
As he got older, he turned into the buzz-cut hard-edged dominant character he’s played in movies and onstage ever since. He never seems to smile anymore
(I was able to see him transitioning between the two forms, when he played Salieri in Shaffer’s Amadeus on Broadway.)
Oh, come on! A guy who was so old that he was wearing a World War II uniform in his “young” picture, compared to how he looked when he was an “actor” with cameos in movies three years ago? That’s just plain old age.
Well, his look did change over the years (mostly changes in his facial hair).
And then there was his 1970s leisure-suit-and-pornstar-mustache phase
What do you mean? Here he is, clearly smiling…
So who was it?
I was replying to Superdude, who had mentioned Vincent D’Onofrio.
In season one, there was a cliched love triangle between Ed, Julie Bowen’s character and Rena Sofer’s character. At the time I considered Ed the luckiest man that ever lived. Julie Bowen has been consistently flawless looking for 20+ years (so has Rena).
The one I always think of when this topic comes up is Linda Kozlowski:
She hasn’t acted in ~20 years and is no longer married to Paul Hogan (himself not much of a celebrity anymore), so I’m not sure of she counts as a celebrity. Maybe a former celebrity, or has-been celebrity…
In the “got old and fat” category, there’s also Alfred Molina. Remember that he was Mister “Throw me the idol and I’ll throw you the whip!” in his young, svelte days. He’s slimmed back down a little now but he was quite portly for a while.
I’d say that he looked like fat and old Alfred Molina the whole time though.
No time to argue!
Did anyone mention Henry Winkler?
His transition from studly Italian greaser to nerdy Jewish director was quite striking. I guess that is partly due to his character acting in the 70s, but if someone hadn’t told me it was the same guy, I would never have guessed.
I just saw the Goo Goo Dolls performing in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Lead singer John Rzeznik was unrecognizable. If they hadn’t introduced the group by name, I wouldn’t have known who it was.
How about Michael Crawford. Here he is in “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum”
Here he is as the Phantom of the Opera
What? He looks practically the same, just older.