# Celebrities who look like they're from a differen era. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 9, 2011, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375 "2011-11-09T06:43:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/1 "2011-11-09T06:43:55Z")
Lyle Lovett was on The Tonight Show, and I was reminded of how I always thought he should be in Newsreel footage from the Depression or something. I can picture Aaron Paul in a Civil War photo like [this one.](http://www.wildwestweb.net/cwp/cwp58.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![mac\_bolan00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/2 "2011-11-09T06:49:57Z")
right now? george clooney is a leading man for the 70s while bruce willis should be making 50s and 60s war epics with heston, lancaster and borgnine. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/3 "2011-11-09T07:01:15Z")
Scarlett Johansen (sp?) and Gwen Stefani both cultivate throwback looks, quite well imho. Scarlett seems very 1940s pinup girl, and Stefani has a late forties vibe, with the exaggerated hair color and always red lips. And Flo from the Progressive insurance ads wouldn’t look out of place as a backup singer in an early sixties girl group. Celebrities who don’t seem to cultivate a particular style, who look like they belong to another era: Hugh Laurie has always struck me as having a face that would look natural in a tintype of a Civil War soldier. And even in his younger days, Clint Eastwood looked like a western pioneer or cowboy or outlaw riding with the James Younger gang. And George Clooney could be photoshopped into a Rat Pack candid picture and look right at home with Dean and Frank and Sammy and Joey. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/4 "2011-11-09T07:02:32Z")
I agree with all the ones mentioned (though I don’t know who Aaron Paul is). Since I first saw her in the wonderful **Kaboom** , I’ve thought that [Juno Temple](http://www.topnews.in/files/images/Juno-Temple2.jpg) needs to star in a '30’s screwball comedy. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/5 "2011-11-09T07:16:59Z")
[Aaron Paul](http://www.topnews.in/aaron-paul-cathouse-grand-opening-event-arrivals-211560) :smack: I can’t believe I forgot about Clooney. ---
**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:** [November 9, 2011, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/6 "2011-11-09T07:22:57Z")
Sheryl Crow has said she’s always identified with the late seventies pop rock era and I agree. You can just picture her appearing on _The Midnight Special_ with Wolfman Jack. ---
**Author:** ![Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crown_Prince_of_Irony)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/7 "2011-11-09T07:37:14Z")
I came in to say George Clooney - you could put him on any movie poster between 1930 and 1960, and he wouldn’t look out of place. Speaking of guys who look like they below in the Civil War, I’ve always thought Norman Reedus, who plays Darryl on _The Walking Dead_ fits the bill. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/8 "2011-11-09T07:44:19Z")
[Josh Hartnett](http://www.gq.com/entertainment/celebrities/200609/black-dahlia-josh-hartnett-brian-de-palma-slideshow#slide=1) has always looked like a convict to me, so I guess any prison film would work. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/9 "2011-11-09T07:55:38Z")
Timothy Omundson, from _Psych_, could easily be from [the 50s](http://popculturezoo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/NUP_103686_1010.jpg). He was perfectly cast in a [small role](http://popculturezoo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/NUP_103686_1010.jpg) in _Down With Love_. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/10 "2011-11-09T13:46:38Z")
Of course we all realize Sam Elliot was transported from the wild west in the 1880s using a time machine. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/11 "2011-11-09T14:12:38Z")
> [@Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](#): > > Speaking of guys who look like they below in the Civil War, I’ve always thought Norman Reedus, who plays Darryl on _The Walking Dead_ fits the bill. Definitely, he would fit right in with the guys in the OP’s picture. ---
**Author:** ![Bytegeist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@Bytegeist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bytegeist)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/12 "2011-11-09T15:02:45Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Of course we all realize Sam Elliot was transported from the wild west in the 1880s using a time machine. I’ll bet he was the mumbling, frontier-gibberish-speaking old geezer seen in _Blazing Saddles_. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/13 "2011-11-09T15:32:22Z")
I saw an old photo of [John Brown](http://www.wpclipart.com/American_History/civil_war/famous_people/Brown_John.png.html), the radical abolitionist of the 1850s, and thought he looked a lot like Gary Sinise. [Laura Dern](http://www.listal.com/laura-dern) has a Roosevelt-era quality to her. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/14 "2011-11-09T15:35:16Z")
> [@Batsinma\_Belfry](#): > > Lyle Lovett was on The Tonight Show, and I was reminded of how I always thought he should be in Newsreel footage from the Depression or something. I’m willing to bet that has something to do with [this photo](http://www.famouspictures.org/mag/images/e/ee/Lange-MigrantMother.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/15 "2011-11-09T16:00:31Z")
I think Kevin Spacey has a out-of-time look. He belongs in the 1940’s with that (cute) face. Also John Hamm of _Mad Men_ has that 50’s movie-star look. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/16 "2011-11-09T17:08:58Z")
[Tilda Swinton](http://peoplesforeignexchange.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/side-note-on-tilda-swinton/) is from about, oh, 2050. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/17 "2011-11-09T17:11:54Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > [Tilda Swinton](http://peoplesforeignexchange.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/side-note-on-tilda-swinton/) is from about, oh, 2050. So true! From another era and another planet. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/18 "2011-11-09T17:12:11Z")
Christina Ricci looks like she could just step into a 30’ or 40’s film, or for that matter, a silent film. Maybe it is her eyes and shape of her head, but she just looks like what they called a “vamp” back in the day. ---
**Author:** ![Aeris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Aeris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeris)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/19 "2011-11-09T17:21:38Z")
Cate Blanchett always seemed like some sort of medieval queen to me. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/20 "2011-11-09T18:32:47Z")
Helena Bonham Carter looks like she’s from the 1800’s or earlier, which probably is one reason why she does so many historical dramas and fantasies. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375.md?page=2)