# Celebrities who look better with grey hair? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 10, 2018, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-better-with-grey-hair/815807 "2018-06-10T06:56:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![russian\_heel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2018, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-better-with-grey-hair/815807/1 "2018-06-10T06:56:31Z")
Sadly Anthony Bourdain, who looked much better as a grey haired man IMO, made me think of this. Typically, in American culture grey hair is seen as a sign of aging. But for some celebrities it works, here are a few of mine: Bill Clinton Helen Mirren Steve Martin John Slattery Anderson Cooper ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2018, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-better-with-grey-hair/815807/2 "2018-06-10T07:04:43Z")
Jeff Bridges. Although the beard might also be a factor. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2018, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-better-with-grey-hair/815807/3 "2018-06-10T08:03:40Z")
Emmylou Harris looks nice with her white locks. ---
**Author:** ![c\_carol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@c\_carol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_carol)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2018, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-better-with-grey-hair/815807/4 "2018-06-10T14:02:30Z")
Peter Capaldi ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2018, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-better-with-grey-hair/815807/5 "2018-06-10T14:17:44Z")
Many of the bald ones. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2018, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-better-with-grey-hair/815807/6 "2018-06-10T14:23:17Z")
Ted Danson ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-better-with-grey-hair/815807/7 "2018-06-10T14:55:41Z")
Lorne Greene ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2018, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-better-with-grey-hair/815807/8 "2018-06-10T16:54:03Z")
Jerry Garcia looked better grey. ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2018, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-better-with-grey-hair/815807/9 "2018-06-10T18:58:23Z")
Donald Sutherland aged really well. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2018, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-better-with-grey-hair/815807/10 "2018-06-10T19:41:37Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > Ted Danson That’s the first one I thought of, especially as I was used to seeing him both ways. So, since Ted was already mentioned, I’ll add in Leslie Nielson. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2018, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-better-with-grey-hair/815807/11 "2018-06-10T20:08:51Z")
Alec Baldwin is still salt and peppery but I think his gray hair softens him up a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2018, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-better-with-grey-hair/815807/12 "2018-06-10T23:16:00Z")
Ricardo Montalban IMO looked better with gray hair than he did in his younger days. ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2018, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-better-with-grey-hair/815807/13 "2018-06-10T23:25:24Z")
David Byrne. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2018, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-better-with-grey-hair/815807/14 "2018-06-11T01:40:40Z")
Leon Russell also, Jamie Lee Curtis Patrick Stewart Jimmie Dale Gilmore Annie Lennox Tilda Swinton Hilary Clinton (it might cost her votes, but it looks good) John Lord Bowie Christopher Walken Lucille Lagacé With a lot of these, it’s the age as well as the hair color that does it. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2018, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-better-with-grey-hair/815807/15 "2018-06-11T01:48:51Z")
A couple years ago at one of the awards shows (Oscars? Golden Globes?), Amy Poehler and Tina Fey introduced the next presenter as someone who made “the young George Clooney look like garbage.” The presenter was the middle aged George Clooney. Clooney looks pretty damned good with gray hair. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2018, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-better-with-grey-hair/815807/16 "2018-06-11T02:10:14Z")
Anderson Cooper went gray so young that people don’t remember him [with dark hair](http://www.thedistilledman.com/dont-wait-to-be-picked/young-anderson-cooper/). ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2018, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-better-with-grey-hair/815807/17 "2018-06-11T02:35:47Z")
George Clooney looks _fine_ now > **[Home](https://beverlyhillscourier.com/)** > > The Beverly Hills Courier is the news publication of Beverly Hills, California, one of the world’s most well-known destinations but horrible younger [![](https://www.classmates.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/science-club-officer.png) ](https://www.classmates.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/science-club-officer.png) [https://images-production.global.ssl.fastly.net/uploads/photos/file/240254/george-clooney-throwback-6.png?auto=compress&crop=top&fit=clip&h=500&q=55&w=698](https://images-production.global.ssl.fastly.net/uploads/photos/file/240254/george-clooney-throwback-6.png?auto=compress&crop=top&fit=clip&h=500&q=55&w=698) ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2018, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-better-with-grey-hair/815807/18 "2018-06-11T04:07:27Z")
I gotta say, [grey-haired Matt LeBlanc](https://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fpmcvariety.files.wordpress.com%2F2017%2F08%2Fepisodes-season-5.jpg%3Fw%3D1000%26h%3D563%26crop%3D1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fvariety.com%2F2017%2Ftv%2Fnews%2Fmatt-leblanc-episodes-series-finale-interview-1202518382%2F&docid=Z-0tvRf4CvZWXM&tbnid=uNlLXqAIUHEC_M%3A&vet=1&w=1000&h=563&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim) in Episodes looked just as good, if not better, than Joey Tribbiani in Friends. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2018, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-better-with-grey-hair/815807/19 "2018-06-11T04:12:01Z")
Former R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills has stopped dyeing his hair, and let it revert to gray. It looks MUCH better this way IMHO. Grace Slick has been white-haired for quite a few years, and she looks good that way. I’ve seen it both long, and close-cropped. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2018, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-better-with-grey-hair/815807/20 "2018-06-11T05:54:20Z")
> [@cornflakes](#): > > Leon Russell > also, > Jamie Lee Curtis > Patrick Stewart > Jimmie Dale Gilmore > Annie Lennox > Tilda Swinton > Hilary Clinton (it might cost her votes, but it looks good) > John Lord > Bowie > Christopher Walken > Lucille Lagacé > > With a lot of these, it’s the age as well as the hair color that does it. Patrick Stewart? WTF did he ever have ANY hair? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-better-with-grey-hair/815807.md?page=2)