The most egregious example of this that I can think of is actually from television…LeVar Burton playing the young Kunte Kinte, and John Amos playing the character as an adult. I’m a white girl, and I look about as much like John Amos as LeVar Burton does.
Mila Kunis was a remarkably believable young Angelina Jolie in Gia.
You’re right, of course. I spaced on the point of the OP, realized it after the edit window closed, and thought it would be better not to draw any more attention to my post.
This never happened. This never happened.
Ms. Thompson in Back to the Future.
Isn’t that the opposite of the OP’s request, though? In BttF, Lea Thompson plays the young as well as the old Lorraine.
I don’t think anyone has mentioned Kate Winslet and Gloria Stuart playing, respectively, the young and old Rose DeWitt in Titanic. Both were quite accomplished actresses.
Crap…reading comprehension skills…must work on.
I think that is a pretty good commercial. I have always thought that those two should do a role like that someday. They did play a pretty believable father/son combo in Wall Street. 
They look so much alike and have such similar mannerisms that playing older/younger versions of the same character would come out really well.
Ye gods, I shouldn’t know this - the movie really is crappy, after all. The flashback scene where Sarek snubs his newborn son is when Sybok does a mind-meld with his half-brother Spock to get at the source of his “pain” (totally ignoring the audience’s pain, but that’s of an entirely different order of magnitude).
The “different movie” was Ken Loach’s 1967 directorial debut, Poor Cow, according to both Wiki and IMDb.com.
Not what the OP was asking about, but still interesting, I think: it’s been suggested that Gene Hackman’s eavesdropping, paranoid, technophilic character in The Conversation also appears, much older and under an assumed name, in the movie Enemy of the State. It’s a nice theory.
You mean like in post #22?
They don’t use famous actors very often, but in every single episode of Cold Case Files, they have different actors playing younger and older versions of the persons involved in the case (except for the victim – they only need one, young-or-whatever actor for the victim).
Noah Taylor & Geoffrey Rush in Shine.
Michael Gohlke paid a young T-Bag on a very creepy episode of Prison Break
Thought of a few more…
Kirsten Dunst and Samantha Mathis as Amy March in Little Women
David Moscow and Tom Hanks as Josh Baskin in Big (okay, Moscow isn’t that well known, but he did play the lead in a sitcom on the WB – as it then was – some years back)
Mary Badham and Kim Stanley as Scout Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (I admit this is another stretch, since Badham’s only famous for this role, and Stanley is only in the film as narrator…)
Freddie Bartholomew / Tyrone Power as the lead character whose name I forgot in Lloyds of London
If we’re allowed TV shows, then here are two from Roseanne…
Sara Rue (lead in ABC’s “Less Than Perfect”) played Roseanne’s younger self in an episode; also, John Goodman played a grown-up version of D.J. (usually played by Michael Fishman) in a pseudo-“flash forward” tag in a later episode.
Also off-topic, but Rebel Alliance leader Mon Mothma was first played by Caroline Blakiston in Return of the Jedi, and then as her younger self by Genevive O’Reilly in the prequel Revenge of the Sith.
I’m not sure this applies,but Mickey Rooney plays Tom Edison as a boy.Spencer Tracy plays Edison as a man in a sequel.
Moscow might be a little more well known than a lot of people realize: he has a movie-specific fandom for his work in Newsies*. Somewhere out on this crazy web, there’s a site that notes, quite sadly, that he is never in the shot during pelvic thrust-based choreography.
*Technically, specific two movies: Newsies, and the movie the “newsies” made called “Blood Drips Heavily On Newsies Square.”
Sure, I read that one. Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez definitely have the father/son similarity of looks going on and I should check that movie out. The difference though is that I think Martin Sheen and Charlie Sheen are so strikingly similar in looks and mannerisms that it is kinda spooky.
Emilio
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Charlie
