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
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.
I will write him in. Should have been the candidate in the last election.
Load More Replies...Don't understand the downvotes. I've always liked dorks. I think he looks adorably dorky
I love this photo. The glasses hair combo is very nice on him
We HAVE seen him looking young. Bernie’s record as an advocate for human rights goes back to his youth. He was a member of CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) when he was in college. He was arrested in 1963 in a civil rights protest: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-bernie-sanders-1963-chicago-arrest-20160219-story.html The photo of him being arrested has appeared online many times since it was discovered in 2016. A talented volunteer put together this video of 30 years’ of Bernie’s speeches, proving that his message has not changed in all that time (unlike most politicians, who keep changing their tactics, relying on opinion polls): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYxZfksAyco Now his time has come – SANDERS FOR PRESIDENT 2020!
YES!!! The Energizer Bernie!!! THIS is the guy to kick trumps ugly a*s!!! If the KGB, GOP, and DNC don't p**s in the voting machines again!!! He walked with MLK, and went to jailer chaining himself to a black woman to keep her from being arrested!! WHAT white guy do you know that would do that??? It is sad to me that the black voters of the younger generations don't even know this!!! He is a TRUE AMERICAN HERO!!! Helots family members in the Holocaust, and knows what dictators do!!! #BERNIEBEATSTRUMP2020
And his wife and kids have made a fortune off the US taxpayer
Load More Replies...Bernie for President, but NOT for the bedroom, sorry--NOT SORRY~
First of all...he's such a character. Second of all....he's such a character....truly he's genuine and says it like it is. Trump seemed appealing to those (at first and in some cases still does) and that's why they voted him in...but Bernie is just down home genuine and fair.
His hair is more controlled, but it's usually NOT THAT CONTROLLED, even now!!! Formal pic.
not my choice but same here.. will vote for our dem candidate even if its a damn loaf of bread!
i think Bernie is at least 10 yrs older than the pic on the left. LOL
You sound like very nice person. Maybe you buy one for him. :)
Load More Replies...Isn't that photo from when he spoke highly of a dictator who killed his people? #BernieNeedsToDropOut2020
Ugly then, ugly now..and his voice is like nails on a blackboard. Bernie, go back to Russia where someone might appreciate you.
Nope, Russia is capitalist dream land now. Know your facts.
Load More Replies...Dude on the left (lol LEFT) is NOT Bernie- no way no how- Current Bernie looks like a deranged, angry person with zero in him but a bitter pill. Come to think of it- Dude on the right there looks pretty damned pissed off too..
He went to the same high school in Brooklyn as Ruth Bader Ginsberg- James Madison high school in Brooklyn. Small world!
neither of these are right. Where's the wildman look he sports today?
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?!?!