# Celebrity X is how old? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 22, 2012, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-x-is-how-old/625906 "2012-06-22T02:03:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-x-is-how-old/625906/1 "2012-06-22T02:03:42Z")
Ann Curry is 55. That leaves me completely gobsmacked. I probably would have missed guessing that by 15 years. ---
**Author:** ![Svejk\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@Svejk\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Svejk_1)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-x-is-how-old/625906/2 "2012-06-22T02:06:33Z")
We were watching **Contact** , in which there is some degree of romance between Jodie Foster and Matthew McConnaughey, which struck me as wildly off, agewise. I thought there’d be 10-15 years between them, but it was only a few years when we looked it up. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-x-is-how-old/625906/3 "2012-06-22T02:15:58Z")
[This](http://blogs-images.forbes.com/jennagoudreau/files/2012/06/0823_ann-curry-1_300x300.jpg) [Ann](http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/2ei9dcsZNH4EBJwR135WrA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYwMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/HollywoodLife.com/062112_annCurry_ftr120621092242.jpg) [Curry](http://thecelebritycafe.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/image_display/_img/2012/06/ann%2520curry.jpg) [is](http://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/news/nbc-plans-to-replace-ann-curry-on-today.jpg) [55](http://xfinity.comcast.net/blogs/tv/files/2012/06/today-curry.jpg) [years](http://www.perfectpeople.net/photo-picture-image-media/Ann-Curry-303x400-26kb-media-2715-media-140470-1221334501.jpg) [old](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UaLWp72nij4/TABSIe5J9bI/AAAAAAAANHk/2_GU-eQn-2c/s1600/ann-curry.jpg) [?](http://www.topnews.in/files/images/Ann-Curry1.jpg) ---
**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 22, 2012, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-x-is-how-old/625906/4 "2012-06-22T02:17:21Z")
> [@Mullinator](#): > > Ann Curry is 55. That leaves me completely gobsmacked. I probably would have missed guessing that by 15 years. You want to be gobsmacked, Katie Couric and Matt Lauer are both also 55. Meredith Viera is older than all of them, at 58. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-x-is-how-old/625906/5 "2012-06-22T02:25:13Z")
Gabrielle Carteris, who played a high school student on _Beverly Hills 90210_ in the early 1990s, is 51. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-x-is-how-old/625906/6 "2012-06-22T02:31:07Z")
I was shocked at the ages of William Hickey and Jeff “The Frugal Gourmet” Smith at 69 and 65, respectively, when they died. I would have thought they were that old 20 years previously! ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-x-is-how-old/625906/7 "2012-06-22T02:32:02Z")
Vallerie Bertinelli is 52. She is older than I am. I’m ashamed and deeply, deeply jealous. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-x-is-how-old/625906/8 "2012-06-22T02:59:00Z")
This one still gets me: _Inside the Actor’s Studio_’s [James Lipton](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lipton) is freakin’ **85!** Pact with Satan I’m guessing. That, or a ton of make-up… ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-x-is-how-old/625906/9 "2012-06-22T03:41:21Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > [This](http://blogs-images.forbes.com/jennagoudreau/files/2012/06/0823_ann-curry-1_300x300.jpg) [Ann](http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/2ei9dcsZNH4EBJwR135WrA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYwMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/HollywoodLife.com/062112_annCurry_ftr120621092242.jpg) [Curry](http://thecelebritycafe.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/image_display/_img/2012/06/ann%2520curry.jpg) [is](http://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/news/nbc-plans-to-replace-ann-curry-on-today.jpg) [55](http://xfinity.comcast.net/blogs/tv/files/2012/06/today-curry.jpg) [years](http://www.perfectpeople.net/photo-picture-image-media/Ann-Curry-303x400-26kb-media-2715-media-140470-1221334501.jpg) [old](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UaLWp72nij4/TABSIe5J9bI/AAAAAAAANHk/2_GU-eQn-2c/s1600/ann-curry.jpg) [?](http://www.topnews.in/files/images/Ann-Curry1.jpg) I know! She looks great! ---
**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:** [June 22, 2012, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-x-is-how-old/625906/10 "2012-06-22T04:20:20Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Vallerie Bertinelli is 52. She is older than I am. I imagine she always has been, and you should have anticipated that one day she’d be 52. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-x-is-how-old/625906/11 "2012-06-22T04:26:19Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I imagine she always has been, and you should have anticipated that one day she’d be 52. Huh? ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-x-is-how-old/625906/12 "2012-06-22T04:37:58Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Vallerie Bertinelli is 52. She is older than I am. I’m ashamed and deeply, deeply jealous. She stayed young by absorbing her former [husband’s](http://timworstall.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/10/06/scary_eddie.jpg) life force. Note that he’s only four years older than she is. ---
**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:** [June 22, 2012, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-x-is-how-old/625906/13 "2012-06-22T04:54:14Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Huh? I thought you were amazed that she was older than you. That’s how I read it. ---
**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 22, 2012, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-x-is-how-old/625906/14 "2012-06-22T04:54:17Z")
A picture gallery of [Elizabeth Hurley](http://www.zimbio.com/Elizabeth+Hurley/articles/ZhsV1u3ea7I/Elizabeth+Hurley+2012+amfAR+New+York+Gala) from last February. She was 46 when these pictures were taken (she turned 47 earlier this month). ---
**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 22, 2012, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-x-is-how-old/625906/15 "2012-06-22T04:59:06Z")
Another surprising actress is Kristen Bell. She’s played so many young characters in her career and only recently has began playing adult roles. She’s 31. (She was 24 when she was cast as high school student Veronica Mars.) ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-x-is-how-old/625906/16 "2012-06-22T06:19:31Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I thought you were amazed that she was older than you. That’s how I read it. I am surprised she’s older than I am. I thought I was at least a half a decade older. Another star who was always older than me that I didn’t know about was Johnny Depp. Vallerie I learner about when I saw an infomecial where she says “I’m almost 50!” I looked her up and saw she was passed 50. Depp was giving an interview when his age was mentioned. I thought I had 10 years on him at least. ---
**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 22, 2012, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-x-is-how-old/625906/17 "2012-06-22T07:09:14Z")
The reverse of this is Abe Vigoda. I’m assuming many people have seen him playing Sal Tessio in _The Godfather_. Vigoda was only 51 when he played that part. George Clooney and David Duchovny and Sean Penn and Hugh Grant are all 51. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-x-is-how-old/625906/18 "2012-06-22T08:38:56Z")
Mark Harmon is 60. I remember when he played quarterback at UCLA. Larry Hagman is 80 and once again playing J. R. ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-x-is-how-old/625906/19 "2012-06-22T08:54:32Z")
Johnny Depp and Brad Pitt were both born in 1963. I was born in 1965. I’ve aged. Those bastards look as good as they ever did. ---
**Author:** ![MostlyClueless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MostlyClueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyClueless)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-x-is-how-old/625906/20 "2012-06-22T09:02:24Z")
It’s more that it makes _me_ feel old, but Eminem is 40. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-x-is-how-old/625906.md?page=2)