Last year, Bored Panda wrote about famous people who made it only after they hit 30. Naturally, we're not used to seeing these people when they were young adults, but it only makes us even more curious, because, well, haven't you ever wondered what Morgan Freeman looked like in his twenties? Because we sure did. Therefore, Bored Panda has made you a short list of people that we haven't seen as young adults and teenagers before. So scroll down below to vote for the ones that you like and that surprised you the most!
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Maggie Smith
Ian Mckellen
Helen Mirren
Morgan Freeman
He looks very handsome in his youth photo. Now, he just looks distinguished.
Betty White
Angela Lansbury
Colin Firth
Ralph Fiennes
Patrick Stewart
Judi Dench
That's Dame Judi Dench, and well deserved! She is so stunning!!
Meryl Streep
Julie Andrews
Almost EVERYONE has seen Julie Andrews young....umm, "Sound of Music" or "Mary Poppins" anyone???
Anthony Hopkins
Christopher Walken
Hugh Laurie
Angela Bassett
Samuel L. Jackson
Bill Murray
Willem Dafoe
I went to a movie premiere back in 1995 in NYC, I forget the picture now. He arrived with his wife and son, and my god. Photographs didn't do him justice. He was an absolutely beautiful man. He may photograph weird, but he was so hot in person, I did a double take. And his wife looked at us all gawping at her man like the cat who'd gotten the cream.
Bryan Cranston
He looks like he was probably just as funny when he was young as he is now.
Ricky Gervais
Don't over complicate it, he was a lovely young lady.
Load More Replies...He was actually part of new wave pop duo called Seona Dancing in the 80s. Hence, the strangely sexy picture.
He was in a New Wave duo called Seona Dancing, and was trying very, very, very, VERY hard to sound like David Bowie. That said, he wasn't a bad singer at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kuy1Z4wqQ4w
They had a hit single in my country lol "More to lose" was no. 1 in the 80s
Load More Replies...Ok, so if I take David Bowie and Clint Eastwood and mix them together I will get young(er) Ricky Gervais 😄
When I discovered a little while back that young Gervais was a wannabe '80s pop star, and a bizarrely gorgeous one at that, I know longer knew what to make of anything.
He was in a band in the '80's-Seona Dancing, tried to be New Wave. This looks like a publicity shot from that.
With most of the others, I could tell who it is by looking at the young picture only. I didn't recognize Ricky from his young picture, and never would have been able to guess. Maybe it's the angle and the lighting in the young picture...
An ambiguously-gendered Tony Curtis. Would never have guessed Ricky Gervais.
FACT: In the 80s, Ricky Gervais' band, Seonna Dancing, had a number 1 single in my country. The song was "More to Lose". yep.
and here I thought he earned his (mis)charming sense of humour overtime... I guess he was born with that talent.
His younger version looks like he could be in an 80's New Wave/New Romantic band!
He was, and one with at least one huge hit in the Philippines!
Load More Replies...He was a chart popstar type early on which didn't seem to be widely remembered a few years ago.
The young picture was the cover and is what made me click, to see who that was, because I was wracking my brain to try to figure out what woman possibly looked like that when she was younger. Not once did I think, "Oooooor.....it could be a guy!" LMAO!
It was the 1980s and he was in a pop group. What do you think?
Load More Replies...Wow! And he had/has a really good voice too. Fun 80's music. Never would have guessed!
Um... Is anyone else troubled by this picture and they're not sure why?
awww, 80'es androgyne life -angst and sadness, depressed about the worlds horrors. the EMO's of the past. he found his path by using that sharp mind and stinging wit to comedy <3
This was a classic 80s band look. I know this. I'm 57 years old and I was in a pop band in the 1980s. My band was called The Private Eyes. Lol
Looks. Like a young Romantic reminds me of Marc Almond think he looks pretty hip actually .
So good. I hope someone pulls out my 90's "I want to be Kim Deal/Courtney Love" pics at my 50th!! From where you wanted to be To where you are.. Bitter sweet XX
Ricky's always handing out jabs, here's mine: "When did he transition?"
Yes but he is also a beautiful man. Men can be feminine and beautiful.
Load More Replies...Ricky looked like a girl back then, which means he could've gotten it!
So what? Do you have a problem with it? Trash homophobic human scum.
Load More Replies...Being feminine doesn’t make you female. It takes more than that lol.
Load More Replies...He used to be part of a new wave pop duo called Seona Dancing in the 80s. That's what's up with this picture.
Load More Replies...Daniel Day Lewis
Idris Elba
Liam Neeson
Bill Nye
Jack Nicholson
Charles Dance
Martha Stewart
In every other picture I can easily see the connection between the older and younger versions. I cannot, for the life of me see it here with Ms. Stewart.
Whoopi Goldberg
Bernie Sanders
I had to LOL at the '60s pic - straight out of Central Casting! I'll vote for whoever our candidate ends up being, but Bernie's my first choice.
Joe Biden
Oprah Winfrey
Bette Midler
Larry David
Dr Phil
Some of us old farts remember some of those old farts just fine from when we were ALL younger.
I'm old enough to remember young Meryl Streep. Pure class. A Golden Age actress in the modern age.
She was pure class until she went SJW. Also, why is ivan downvoted so much? Most of the Hollywood biggies know about lots of these Harvey's and Epsteins and said nothing and did nothing so f**k them. They can't talk s**t now.
Load More Replies...We just watched One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest and apart from a young Jack Nicholson, a 28 year old Danny Devito was in it, too, and it just seemed so wrong lol
Thats not bette midler thats mayim bialik playing bette midler in beaches
It's definitely not. Mayim Bialik did play young Cece but that is NOT her.
Load More Replies...We should get away from stating that someone ages “well” or “badly”and stop adding shame to the aging process.
So people age exactly the same and looks mean nothing? Evolution and natural selection would like to have a word with you.
Load More Replies...Tom Felton has morphed into Jonathan Price, right before our eyes.
Load More Replies...Thank you for putting them so all we had to just scroll down and not click and click and click.... so THANK YOU. I AM A FAN of bored panda.com
Bearing in mind that more than half of these people have had a sh!t load of cosmetic surgery along the way...
Martha Stewart's nose. There is no way someone's nose changes like that purely with age 🤣
Load More Replies...Even young people have probably seen Mary Poppins surely? I don't think there is a British person who hasn't seen Blackadder either!
I feel like SOME of these folks we haven't seen much of young, yes, but many of them have been in movies forever. Sometimes I get very annoyed at how "young focused" Bored Panda is, like y'all think no one over 35 comes to your site. There are plenty of us "old farts", as Jo Choto said, here. Keep that in mind, BP. Don't slip over into ageism.
some of them have always been old, but many were young when I was, and thus I'm more surprised by how they look today than how they looked back then
Me too. I'm afraid I might also look like they do - which is, of course, impossible!
Load More Replies...I used to hear the saying.."youth, divine treasure"....now i know what it means.
What's with this kind of post? It's like the 5th time some site does it with the same people and very same pictures!
Amazing. Some look better now, some look better then and some haven't changed a lick! Hollywood, who can figure it out?!?!
Some of us old farts remember some of those old farts just fine from when we were ALL younger.
I'm old enough to remember young Meryl Streep. Pure class. A Golden Age actress in the modern age.
She was pure class until she went SJW. Also, why is ivan downvoted so much? Most of the Hollywood biggies know about lots of these Harvey's and Epsteins and said nothing and did nothing so f**k them. They can't talk s**t now.
Load More Replies...We just watched One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest and apart from a young Jack Nicholson, a 28 year old Danny Devito was in it, too, and it just seemed so wrong lol
Thats not bette midler thats mayim bialik playing bette midler in beaches
It's definitely not. Mayim Bialik did play young Cece but that is NOT her.
Load More Replies...We should get away from stating that someone ages “well” or “badly”and stop adding shame to the aging process.
So people age exactly the same and looks mean nothing? Evolution and natural selection would like to have a word with you.
Load More Replies...Tom Felton has morphed into Jonathan Price, right before our eyes.
Load More Replies...Thank you for putting them so all we had to just scroll down and not click and click and click.... so THANK YOU. I AM A FAN of bored panda.com
Bearing in mind that more than half of these people have had a sh!t load of cosmetic surgery along the way...
Martha Stewart's nose. There is no way someone's nose changes like that purely with age 🤣
Load More Replies...Even young people have probably seen Mary Poppins surely? I don't think there is a British person who hasn't seen Blackadder either!
I feel like SOME of these folks we haven't seen much of young, yes, but many of them have been in movies forever. Sometimes I get very annoyed at how "young focused" Bored Panda is, like y'all think no one over 35 comes to your site. There are plenty of us "old farts", as Jo Choto said, here. Keep that in mind, BP. Don't slip over into ageism.
some of them have always been old, but many were young when I was, and thus I'm more surprised by how they look today than how they looked back then
Me too. I'm afraid I might also look like they do - which is, of course, impossible!
Load More Replies...I used to hear the saying.."youth, divine treasure"....now i know what it means.
What's with this kind of post? It's like the 5th time some site does it with the same people and very same pictures!
Amazing. Some look better now, some look better then and some haven't changed a lick! Hollywood, who can figure it out?!?!