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
Daniel Day Lewis
Idris Elba
Liam Neeson
Bill Nye
Jack Nicholson
A great actor who's at his best when he's not just playing himself, which isn't very often.
Younger he looks like a cross between Bobby Brady and Eddie Munster.....
Has anyone seen him in the movie with Vincent Price, "The Raven" Jack-5e46f...86-png.jpg
He did a number of Roger Corman films in his younger days. The Raven, and The Terror, 1963, and starting with Little Shop of Horrors in 1960.
Load More Replies...He will always look like the kid who was sent to the principals office
I always thought he looked like a werewolf. Really wished he'd act in another movie.
what about the first picture.. the look and the position of the hair (of a woman?)
Stephen King didn't want Nicholson in The Shining, and to this day hates the movie. Jack had just won raves in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, where he played a mental patient. King did not want people thinking the father was already insane (the hotel is what pushes the father into insanity, and it's a huge arc in the book), because of his role in Cuckoo.
“Here’s Johnny” Looks like he was already set for his role in The a shining!
He's just waaaaay out thay-uh..... but a good actor, indeed. Yes, he always looks sneaky. And those eyebrows show like a small mountain peak!!!
Great actor, but I wouldn't want to hang out with him for too long!!! A bit rabid for my taste!!
Jack had at least two appearances on The Andy Griffith Show when he was young. One is where Opie and his pal find a baby that'd been abandoned, and keep it until Jack's character and his wife show up to claim it. Can't remember how they glossed over the fact that the child had been abandoned, but it must have involved some real fast talkin'. Then there was the episode I call 11 angry men and one calm lady. Aunt Bea was on jury duty, and proceeded to hold up a quick guilty verdict by refusing to believe that Jack's character could have looted the local Dept. Store, probably Weavers. Aunt Bea said jack was too good looking to be a robber. In the meantime, the real criminal decided to stick around long enough to get caught himself, while he ranted and raved that Aunt Bea was standing in the way of justice. Of course, Aunt Bea was right. Andy got him to admit a lighter dropped when the store was looted was his. Oh, and rumors that Jack those parts thru Aunt Bea's casting couch have never been confirmed.
Nicholson is amazing in THE CRY BABY KILLER (1958). He was just 21. There are scenes on YouTube.
Ah.. Jackie... he was too cool for school... I'd drink with him and mess around a bit, but I know he's a lady killer, so it'd be a quick fling...
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?!?!