I can’t think of any off the top of my head, but there have been times when I’ve looked at an older actor and thought they kinda sorta looked like someone but I wasn’t sure. Between makeup, hairstyles, and weight fluctuations, it seems pretty simple to look very different years on.
I was just looking at 2 pictures of me - one taken at 19, one at 50-ish. My head was at the same angle to the camera and my smile was similar, but I don’t know if someone would match the two as both being me. In those days, I had a strong resemblance to my mom, but as I’ve aged, I see more of my paternal grandmother in me.
I saw a picture of Linda Kozlowski, perhaps most famous for her role in Crocodile Dundee, a couple of days ago and thought she was unrecognizable. She still looks great, just completely different.
For me, it’s most disturbing when you see actors who have plastic surgery that radically alters how their faces look. Actors (particularly women) face tremendous pressure to maintain their looks as they age, but for so many of them, the surgery changes their looks entirely.
I’d say Kids in the Hall Mark McKinney and Superstore Mark McKinney are two different people, if I didn’t know the truth. In fact, I didn’t even recognize him at first on Superstore and didn’t realize who it was until I looked him up. Compare that to his other KitH cohorts like Dave Foley or Kevin McDonald who are easily recognizable upon sight.
It is true that there are some Hollywood actors who don’t seem to show their age. Tom Cruise, Harrison Ford, Paul Newman, Keanu Reeves, and so on.
But even among the elite most of them are subjected to the same aging processes as everyone. And some, like Carrie Fisher, have some really hard years of substance abuse and mental illness mixed in, which can age you prematurely.
That’s not even getting into botched plastic surgery, or gaining 100 pounds.
And, she has been dealing with health issues for a long time. She publicly confirmed that she has MS in 2002, but apparently had started noticing symptoms 20 years earlier. She also suffered a brain aneurysm in 2006.
Harrison Ford looks his age. But he’s still recognizable because he’s remained active in the movies. In fact, he reprised his role as Han Solo in 2015’s The Force Awakens and is set to shoot Indiana Jones 5.
The only reason Edwards looks more different is he’s bald. If he still had his hair he wouldn’t look any more aged than Cruise does.
The thing is, Anthony Edwards started losing his hair a long time ago. When he was on “ER” he was balding. So this isn’t a recent change for him - it happened twenty years ago.
I don’t know about that. He also looks older than Cruise in the face. Not to the point that he could play Cruise’s dad, but he definitely looks his senior, even ignoring the hair.
