# Which actor/actresses have not aged well. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 12, 2011, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894 "2011-12-12T10:19:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/41 "2011-12-13T00:46:42Z")
> [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](#): > > That’s actually not a bad way of putting it. Were I Mark Hamill, I would probably have edited the page with something a little more flattering, so kudos to him for not doing so. Did you expect him to look like a fresh-faced farmboy for 40 years? Mark Hamill was born in 1951. It is now 2011. That makes him 60 years old. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2011, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/42 "2011-12-13T00:47:24Z")
I was watching the DVD features for _The Sting_ about a year ago. They had Newman and Redford being interviewed for the twentieth anniversary of the movie. The surprising thing was that the 78-year-old Newman was looking in a lot better shape than the 67-year-old Redford. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/43 "2011-12-13T00:48:26Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > And FTR, I agree with **panache45** that Bridgette Bardot is not aging well. Bridgitte Bardot was born in 1934. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/44 "2011-12-13T01:11:39Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > Damn. I should age that poorly. Yeah, I think she’s the poster child for “women who age gracefully and well” (She looks a lot like my mother and is around the same age, I might be biased.) ---
**Author:** ![azraiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@azraiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/azraiel)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/45 "2011-12-13T01:34:18Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > Did you expect him to look like a fresh-faced farmboy for 40 years? Mark Hamill was born in 1951. It is now 2011. That makes him 60 years old. Agreed. The original post confused me when I clicked the links–comparing a 27-year-old Hamill to a himself at 60? Hell, I think he looks pretty good for 60. I think most neutral observers would come in a few years under 60 were they to guess his age. He’s aged, but he hasn’t aged badly. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/46 "2011-12-13T01:34:22Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > We privileged Americans, with our TVs and computers peopled with fantastically wealthy, styled, buffed, well-lit and surgically enhanced and corrected beings now find ourselves attempting to understand the nature of humanity, especially human appearance, through a really sad reality distortion field. > > Really sad. I just keep hearing Yoda…“When another 20 years you reach, look as good you will _NOT_.” ---
**Author:** ![tomcar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tomcar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomcar)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/47 "2011-12-13T03:10:21Z")
The ones that look bad are the ones that try to fight the aging process with surgeries, lifts and that hideous Botox crap. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/48 "2011-12-13T03:30:22Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > Bridgitte Bardot was born in 1934. So was [Sophia Loren](http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&sa=N&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=s&biw=1154&bih=1132&tbm=isch&tbnid=9nIsyxN8RACMxM:&imgrefurl=http://www.topnews.in/light/people/sophia-loren&docid=CAM1UKn4yOFdSM&imgurl=http://www.topnews.in/light/files/Sophia-Loren_1.jpg&w=395&h=594&ei=jMTmTu66MYzvggf29unbCA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=266&vpy=131&dur=4110&hovh=275&hovw=183&tx=121&ty=142&sig=115393832862358866273&page=3&tbnh=128&tbnw=90&start=85&ndsp=46&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:85). Sure, she’s had work done . . . but it looks more natural than most. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/49 "2011-12-13T04:04:40Z")
Maybe it’s partly due recently to seeing Jane Fonda everywhere lately, looking pretty fucking spectacular. The woman has had the best work I’ve ever seen in my life. And talks about it freely, which is pretty cool. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2011, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/50 "2011-12-13T04:33:23Z")
> [@LionelHutz405](#): > > Shatner gone to seed? > He looks great for 80. He just did an episode of _Psych_, and he looked in fantastic shape! Plus he was playing younger and got away with it quite convincingly. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2011, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/51 "2011-12-13T04:46:10Z")
Look… We were all cuter in the 80s, okay? ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/52 "2011-12-13T04:48:58Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > So was [Sophia Loren](http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&sa=N&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=s&biw=1154&bih=1132&tbm=isch&tbnid=9nIsyxN8RACMxM:&imgrefurl=http://www.topnews.in/light/people/sophia-loren&docid=CAM1UKn4yOFdSM&imgurl=http://www.topnews.in/light/files/Sophia-Loren_1.jpg&w=395&h=594&ei=jMTmTu66MYzvggf29unbCA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=266&vpy=131&dur=4110&hovh=275&hovw=183&tx=121&ty=142&sig=115393832862358866273&page=3&tbnh=128&tbnw=90&start=85&ndsp=46&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:85). Sure, she’s had work done . . . but it looks more natural than most. I would if she asked me. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/53 "2011-12-13T04:49:30Z")
I hardly recognize [Shelly Long](http://l.yimg.com/l/im_sigg9IWONpsdq8Pm9UDqZmOvBg---x626/tv/us/img/site/33/12/0000083312_20111020151411.jpg) these days. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/54 "2011-12-13T05:05:40Z")
[Epic fail](http://www.spaceg.com/multimedia/collection/Hollywood/how%20make-up%20works/Goldie%20Hahn.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/55 "2011-12-13T08:22:51Z")
I barely recognized Olivia Newton-John in _Score: A Hockey Musical_\* but I think that ended up being more a make-up/hair/costume choice than her having aged badly; she looks great in other recent appearances. I actually had to look it up to verify that it was her, because she looked so much _rougher_ and older. \*Yes, it’s laughably bad and full of clichés, but I’ve still seen it. Twice… so sue me…I still giggle over the Theo Fleury line: “Theo Fleury singing? What can’t he do, dammit?” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/56 "2011-12-13T09:30:00Z")
> [@tomcar](#): > > The ones that look bad are the ones that try to fight the aging process with surgeries, lifts and that hideous Botox crap. I think a single facelift and occasional peel might be okay for face, but Botox lips don’t make _anybody_ look better. It’s up there with the “beautiful women should weight 89 pounds even when they’re 40 and the mother of 3 children” wisdom that I’ve never understood. I think one reason Christina Hendricks from _Mad Men_ and Sofia Vergara from _Modern Family_ are such “Wowzas!” is because they’re hot women who look they’ve eaten since Labor Day. Writer/comedian Del Shores tells a [bitchy and funny story](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1EFr0K1jwM) about Dyan Cannon. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/57 "2011-12-13T12:23:52Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > Did you expect him to look like a fresh-faced farmboy for 40 years? Mark Hamill was born in 1951. It is now 2011. That makes him 60 years old. I am aware of this. Heck, my original post even mentioned the fact that the pictures were taken 40 years apart. I just believe (and most people I’ve talked to have agreed) that Mark Hamill appears to have visibly aged more than one would expect in that 40 year period, and thus “has aged badly”. As always with this sort of thing, aesthetics are subjective, your mileage may vary, et cetera. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/58 "2011-12-13T12:43:44Z")
> [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](#): > > I am aware of this. Heck, my original post even mentioned the fact that the pictures were taken 40 years apart. > I just believe (and most people I’ve talked to have agreed) that Mark Hamill appears to have visibly aged more than one would expect in that 40 year period, and thus “has aged badly”. > > As always with this sort of thing, aesthetics are subjective, your mileage may vary, et cetera. …and, as a character played by the above-mentioned Harrison Ford said, “It’s not the years, it’s the mileage.” ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/59 "2011-12-13T14:29:00Z")
Damn, scolds are annoying. Even a 77-year-old can look good for her age, or bad for her age. Or do all 77-year-olds look alike to you? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/60 "2011-12-13T14:31:15Z")
I notixe that the three major Star Wars actors have been mentioned in this thread (Ford, Fisher & Hamill). Coincidence? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894.md?page=4)