Actors/Actresses whose ages genuinely shock you.

[Jonathan Michaels]

I was watching Soapdish, for example, and as I watched I casually looked up the Wikipedia page, looking at some of the actor’s pages.

I found out Cathy Moriarty, who was also in Raging Bull and Casper among other things, is currently 59 years old, which means she was only 29-30 when Soapdish was made, and only 34-35 in Casper.

It also means she and Robert Downey Jr are only four years apart, and I couldn’t believe they were that close together age wise.

Anyone else ever been shocked to find out someone was older or younger than you thought?

[Welfare Willis]

Elizabeth Hurley and Selma Hayek are 50+. Which is uncanny when you see recent pics.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Ming-Na Wen, age 30:



Ming-Na Wen, age 56:

I'm pretty sure she looks younger now than she did in 1994.

[Vampiro138]

not an actor but musician, a year or so back I saw Chubby Checker was coming to town for a show and I had to look him up, assuming he was nearing his 90's just caus he was around for ages, and he is in his 70's only. He apparently got started super young, "The Twist" came out when he was 16.

[cabbageboy]

Having watched Ben Browder in the last 2 seasons of Stargate SG-1 and then all of Farscape I was surprised he was about 41 when Farscape ended and was mid 40s during the SG-1 episodes. Pretty sure his character in both was born in about 1969-70, but in reality he was born in 1962.

[adamclark52]

Poor guy just announced he has cancer this weekend but LG Petrov of Entombed looked 48 20 years ago. I thought he was at least his late-50’s.

[Deleted]

James Lipton being in his 70's-80's throughout most of Inside the Actors' Studio.

[RadcapRadsley]

Would have never guessed Keiko Agena was in her late 20's when she was playing a teenager on Gilmore Girls

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Aug 10, 2020 22:32:49 GMT -5 cabbageboy said:

Having watched Ben Browder in the last 2 seasons of Stargate SG-1 and then all of Farscape I was surprised he was about 41 when Farscape ended and was mid 40s during the SG-1 episodes. Pretty sure his character in both was born in about 1969-70, but in reality he was born in 1962.

Speaking of Farscape and SG-1, Claudia Black was 31 when Farscape ended and 36 when SG-1 ended, and has barely aged a day since... albeit she's always looked mid-late 30s.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

I was amazed when Axl Rose didn't look as cool in 2008ish when he was pushing 50 as he did in the 90's in his 20's. Amazed I say!!!!

[Fade]

A recent one I stumbled upon, Alyson Hannigan is 46 and she has’t aged one bit since her Buffy/Pie days.

[BorneAgain]

Samuel L Jackson being 71 is just baffling to me. Guy essentially looks the same to me now like he did circa Phantom Menace.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Aug 10, 2020 23:27:55 GMT -5 Fade said:

A recent one I stumbled upon, Alyson Hannigan is 46 and she has’t aged one bit since her Buffy/Pie days.

Definitely vampires.

[Bo Rida]

Pauley Perrette, Abbey in NCIS. She's currently 51.
In her early 40s she looked in her early 20s.

The last kingdom is weird with ages but the actress that plays Alfred's wife is six months older than her onscreen daughter but is actually believable as her mum when you watch just through good acting, hair and make-up. Seeing her Instagram page blew my mind.

[CMWaters]

Makes sense when you think about it, but Cassandra "Elvira" Peterson being almost 70 and still looking great (and almost ageless when done up in the Elvira get-up).

[Dr. T is an alien]

Aug 10, 2020 23:30:59 GMT -5 Mighty Attack Tribble said:

Aug 10, 2020 23:27:55 GMT -5 Fade said:

A recent one I stumbled upon, Alyson Hannigan is 46 and she has’t aged one bit since her Buffy/Pie days.

Definitely vampires.

I mean, she has definitely aged if you do a Google search of her but it’s not outrageous by any means (and she can clean up nice enough), but he has defied Father Time more despite being 8 years older.

[Dr. T is an alien]

Raquel Welch clearly used her money to look as good as she does at 79, but there has to be some good genes at play as well. Her 58 year old daughter, Tahnee, has gone for aging naturally and still looks pretty good (in addition to still modeling and even doing nude shoots after 50 (and looking DAMN FINE doing so).

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Aug 11, 2020 1:35:07 GMT -5 Dr. T is an alien said:

Aug 10, 2020 23:30:59 GMT -5 Mighty Attack Tribble said:

Definitely vampires.

I mean, she has definitely aged if you do a Google search of her but it’s not outrageous by any means (and she can clean up nice enough), but he has defied Father Time more despite being 8 years older.

Yeah, she's definitely aged but she doesn't look any older than mid-30s. Meanwhile Alexis has aged better than anybody in the Buffyverse except maybe Amy Acker.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CDIlnaHAdo2

[saneiac]

Ralph Macchio was 23 when he made the first Karate Kid movie in 1984. He was supposed to be playing a 17 year old, but he looked younger.  Now he's 58 and looks to be in his mid-30s.

Ric Flair age 56 vs. Ralph Macchio age 56

[adamclark52]

Aug 10, 2020 23:30:28 GMT -5 BorneAgain said:

Samuel L Jackson being 71 is just baffling to me. Guy essentially looks the same to me now like he did circa Phantom Menace.

He told age to f*** off and it listened