# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2011, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/121 "2011-12-15T01:54:50Z")
Well, to each his own I guess, but if I didn’t know better I would never have guessed that the woman in the first photo was Olivia Newton-John. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2011, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/122 "2011-12-15T02:13:50Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Sir, I demand satisfaction! May I have the honor of serving as your second, my good man? ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2012, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/123 "2012-08-14T10:51:37Z")
Liam Nesson seems to be ageless. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2012, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/124 "2012-08-14T11:39:58Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I’ve mentioned this before: Brigitte Bardot. > > From [this](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=HDQsZOrxqbdyFM:&imgrefurl=http://www.absolutely.net/Brigitte_Bardot/&docid=T6Koax_ZZ4GekM&imgurl=http://www.absolutely.net/Brigitte_Bardot/index.jpg&w=400&h=501&ei=qCHmTtXpBsOw2wXcuvyiBA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=767&vpy=147&dur=217&hovh=251&hovw=201&tx=91&ty=156&sig=115393832862358866273&page=1&tbnh=187&tbnw=149&start=0&ndsp=29&ved=1t:429,r:4,s:0) . . . to [this](http://trialx.com/curetalk/wp-content/blogs.dir/7/files/2011/03/gcelebrities/Brigitte_Bardot-2.jpg) and [this](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=jXAxuD1ahr4GLM:&imgrefurl=http://www.dipity.com/timeline/Brigitte-Bardot/&docid=R6q65282YifxXM&itg=1&imgurl=http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0fbodL34pw6PD/340x.jpg&w=340&h=245&ei=ASTmTouHMqWC2wWrnoDABA&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=356&sig=115393832862358866273&page=7&tbnh=133&tbnw=184&start=188&ndsp=32&ved=1t:429,r:15,s:188&tx=49&ty=48). And what part of grandmotherly looking does not synch with born in 1934 and 77 years old? Would you prefer she do a Joan Rivers and have facelifts until her pubic hair needs electrolysis because it turned into a beard? ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2012, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/125 "2012-08-14T17:28:49Z")
Jan Hooks was quite [attractive](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Jan_Hooks.jpg/220px-Jan_Hooks.jpg) on SNL in the '80s and '90s. The years between then and her [appearance](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UURsFGI0ahk/S2VBLGx-gnI/AAAAAAAASLg/bsckGkgziGM/s400/111.jpg) on 30 Rock a couple years ago look like they were kinda rough. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2012, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/126 "2012-08-14T23:50:09Z")
So…how about those who aren’t old yet? Under 40, say. Lohan gets a lot of press, but there are actors who are aging just as badly too, [Ethan Embry](http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/821/96301991.png/) and [Ben Foster](http://images.contactmusic.com/newsimages/ben_foster_1237889.jpg), for example. They’re 34 and 31 respectively. ---
**Author:** ![lshaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e36b37/32.png) [@lshaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lshaw)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/127 "2012-08-15T06:48:21Z")
It would be easier to identify those who HAVE aged well, because there aren’t very many in my book. But anyway - Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Sylvester Stallone, Russell Crowe… and Charlie Sheen. Man, he’s a good example of what hard living can do to you. It kills me that he’s only in his 40’s and looks like that. So disgusting. For actresses, I thought of Diane Lane and Catherine Zeta Jones. I seriously hope they are lying about their ages, because my mom has at least one or two decades on either of them, yet still looks half their age. ---
**Author:** ![Pieceofresistance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b5a626/32.png) [@Pieceofresistance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pieceofresistance)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/128 "2012-08-15T08:58:05Z")
Kelly McGillis, who co-starred with Tom Cruise on Top Gun: [![](https://i.imgur.com/lcr0c.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/lcr0c.jpg) Today she could probably play his mother. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/129 "2012-08-15T11:11:32Z")
Show me a little sympathy, please! My favorite actress, Bette, put me through quite the infatuatory (this isn’t a word, but it should be) roller coaster over the years. One year, I’d consider _“tappin’ it”,_ the next year I wouldn’t _“do that”_ with a 10 foot pole. Very frustrating. She started off pretty enough: **[A](http://minaday.com/movies/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/bette_davis.jpg)**, only to let herself go a few short years later: **[B](http://www.themakeupgallery.info/images/age/1940s/skeffington2.jpg)**. 5 years later she cleans up her act and turns back into a sex kitten: **[A](http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Davis,%20Bette/Annex/Annex%20-%20Davis,%20Bette%20(Beyond%20the%20Forest)_02.jpg)**, only to let herself transmorgrify (this is a word, but it shouldn’t be) once again into a scraggly ol’ alley cat a mere 13 years later: **[B](http://www.wildsound.ca/images/bette_davis_in_whatever_happened_to_baby_jane.jpg)** Then, after a few years of eating well and exercising, she turns herself back into someone I wouldn’t kick out of bed for eating crackers: **[A](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KoDX4NYsBWc/T_qjG4VLY0I/AAAAAAAATWU/A7DUO4Pc3x0/s1600/amanda-seyfried-header.jpg)**, only to let it all go to hell in a hand basket a short while after that: [**B**](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3600/3414572306_ea9f9ff3d5.jpg) …well, ok, I wouldn’t kick that last one out of bed for eating crackers, either, but still… ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/130 "2012-08-15T11:16:45Z")
I have to wonder how much of the differences are young/made-up/studio shots vs. candid/real-life/paparazzi photos. Especially since some of the “now” shots I’ve seen seem to have been chosen to be as unflattering as possible. I think it would be interesting to get an older celeb posed similar to a younger headshot, professionally made up and lighted. Seems to me that would be a fair comparison. Or perhaps a candid, real-life shot of the younger self compared to a similar photo of the older self. Some of the comparisons I’ve looked at are apples-and-oranges. To me, the ones who have aged the worst are the ones who seem to refuse to accept that they’ve aged at all. Some plastic surgery results are downright terrifying! ---
**Author:** ![Lochdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@Lochdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lochdale)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/131 "2012-08-15T13:46:57Z")
Ellen Barkin was on the recent roast of Roseann and she looked like an alien. Katy Sagal looked amazing for 58. I would still do her. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/132 "2012-08-15T14:06:17Z")
> [@lshaw](#): > > …For actresses, I thought of Diane Lane and Catherine Zeta Jones. I seriously hope they are lying about their ages, because my mom has at least one or two decades on either of them, yet still looks half their age. So your mother is in her fifties or sixties and looks half as young as [this](http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&biw=1093&bih=482&tbm=isch&tbnid=R6nR9F7o2Y4QOM:&imgrefurl=http://www.temptalia.com/diane-lane-2012-golden-globes&docid=pVRSr2D_x-xR6M&imgurl=http://www.temptalia.com/images/spring2012/goldenglobes_dianelane001.jpg&w=550&h=549&ei=l6srUMjTFpSK8QSRpoCwAw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=92&vpy=131&dur=2487&hovh=224&hovw=225&tx=117&ty=115&sig=107201900366172767359&page=1&tbnh=131&tbnw=133&start=0&ndsp=14&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:73) and [this](http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&biw=1093&bih=482&tbm=isch&tbnid=4biP8D-uFG5EiM:&imgrefurl=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-13073676&docid=DGxNdicylvXx3M&imgurl=http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/52157000/jpg/_52157089_52157088.jpg&w=640&h=360&ei=EKwrUOmxE4bo9ASTmoDQBg&zoom=1)? Wow, how fortunate to be a part of your gene pool. Sorry for the snark, it just strikes me as odd that you would choose an actress who is known as much for how well she’s aging as for her acting skills (Ms. Lane) ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/133 "2012-08-15T14:07:02Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > So…how about those who aren’t old yet? Under 40, say. Lohan gets a lot of press, but there are actors who are aging just as badly too, [Ethan Embry](http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/821/96301991.png/) and [Ben Foster](http://images.contactmusic.com/newsimages/ben_foster_1237889.jpg), for example. > > They’re 34 and 31 respectively. You take back what you say about my boy Ben Foster! You take it back right now! Um, I mean, yeah, he probably looks a little older than 31. But I still love you, Ben! ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/134 "2012-08-15T19:33:11Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > So your mother is in her fifties or sixties and looks half as young as [this](http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&biw=1093&bih=482&tbm=isch&tbnid=R6nR9F7o2Y4QOM:&imgrefurl=http://www.temptalia.com/diane-lane-2012-golden-globes&docid=pVRSr2D_x-xR6M&imgurl=http://www.temptalia.com/images/spring2012/goldenglobes_dianelane001.jpg&w=550&h=549&ei=l6srUMjTFpSK8QSRpoCwAw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=92&vpy=131&dur=2487&hovh=224&hovw=225&tx=117&ty=115&sig=107201900366172767359&page=1&tbnh=131&tbnw=133&start=0&ndsp=14&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:73) and [this](http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&biw=1093&bih=482&tbm=isch&tbnid=4biP8D-uFG5EiM:&imgrefurl=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-13073676&docid=DGxNdicylvXx3M&imgurl=http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/52157000/jpg/_52157089_52157088.jpg&w=640&h=360&ei=EKwrUOmxE4bo9ASTmoDQBg&zoom=1)? Wow, how fortunate to be a part of your gene pool. > Sorry for the snark, it just strikes me as odd that you would choose an actress who is known as much for how well she’s aging as for her acting skills (Ms. Lane) That’s my opinion too. Lane has aged very well. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/135 "2012-08-15T20:01:38Z")
> [@Lochdale](#): > > Katy Sagal looked amazing for 58. I would still do her. [I totally agree!](http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Katey+Sagal+Comedy+Central+Roast+Roseanne+Rih4rDozUspl.jpg) I was watching that roast and was distracted by [how hot she looked.](http://i.imgur.com/3trXo.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/136 "2012-08-15T20:16:59Z")
> [@freckafree](#): > > Whatever she looks like, I’m cutting her some major slack given her diagnosis of MS in 2002 and brain aneurism in 2006. I imagine either of those things would contribute mightily to one’s inability to stay fit and trim. That’s no excuse. She should be at the gym this moment for my viewing pleasure! ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/137 "2012-08-15T21:22:12Z")
> [@Tibby or Not Tibby](#): > > Then, after a few years of eating well and exercising, she turns herself back into someone I wouldn’t kick out of bed for eating crackers: **[A](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KoDX4NYsBWc/T_qjG4VLY0I/AAAAAAAATWU/A7DUO4Pc3x0/s1600/amanda-seyfried-header.jpg)**, only to let it all go to hell in a hand basket a short while after that: [**B**](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3600/3414572306_ea9f9ff3d5.jpg) Boy Amanda Seyfried has not aged well at all. It looks like she went from being 26 to 90 in a short while. Not to mention she now apparently looks like Bette Davis did before she died. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/138 "2012-08-15T21:23:22Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > [I totally agree!](http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Katey+Sagal+Comedy+Central+Roast+Roseanne+Rih4rDozUspl.jpg) I was watching that roast and was distracted by [how hot she looked.](http://i.imgur.com/3trXo.jpg) I’d say she looks better now than she did in ‘8 Simple Rules’. Hubba, Hubba. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2012, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/139 "2012-08-15T21:23:52Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > before she died. and, presumably, for at least a short time after. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2012, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894/140 "2012-08-15T22:29:53Z")
Having posted pictures of Elizabeth Hurley before, I’ll add another age-defying beauty to this revived thread: Elle MacPherson in [1987](http://i.cdn.turner.com/sivault/multimedia/photo_gallery/0806/best.swimsuits.1980s/images/006273680.jpg). Looking good at 23. Elle MacPherson in [2012](http://www.hji.co.uk/blogs/celebrity-hair/2012/01/09/photos/elle-macpherson-hair-2012.jpg) (or [here](http://exshoesme.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Elle-Macpherson-in-Zac-Posen-closeup-at-the-2012-Golden-Globe-Awards-on-Exshoesme.com_.jpg) or [here](http://www.pier59studiosblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Fitness-Magazine-May-2012-Elle-Macpherson-Naomi-Kaltman-Pier-59-Studios-2.jpg)). As far as I can tell, her body hasn’t noticed the passage of twenty-five years. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-actresses-have-not-aged-well/605894.md?page=8)