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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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#1
Maggie Smith
Final score:
471points
Lee Kerr 5 years ago
She was usually a red head but that’s not to say it was natural
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#2
Ian Mckellen
Final score:
406points
Ryo Bakura 5 years ago
"Coming this Summer, Benedict Cumberbatch stars as a young Ian McKellen in 'Smouldering Good-Looking Guy'. Featuring someone other than James McAvoy as a young Patrick Stewart, because they look nothing alike."
CbusResident 5 years ago
In 2011 Young Ian McKellen would've been the coolest guy in Brooklyn.
#3
Helen Mirren
Kathi Keegan Chang 5 years ago
I totally agree with you, Vic....She's a top rated actor, and a joy with comedy, too!
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Ed Souza 5 years ago
I'm getting down voted because I said she was hot? LOL. These SJWs are pathetic. She's a pretty lady now and hot then. There, I said it again. Down vote away.
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Aunt Messy 5 years ago
Someone once asked her why she never wears trousers, only skirts. She declared that she never liked her legs, so skirts were the obvious choice. ...///.... She also says that for the first part of her career, every job she had involved taking off her shirt.
Jim Ellington 5 years ago
Body double and suspect editing aside, she was smoking hot in Caligula.
Chris DiFonso 5 years ago
I've seen a different younger picture in which she resembles Jennifer Lawrence
#4
Morgan Freeman
Final score:
386points
deanna woods 5 years ago
He looks very handsome in his youth photo. Now, he just looks distinguished.
Ben Steinberg 5 years ago
I saw him when he was young, on a PBS show called 'The Electric Company' (the original from the 70's). He's was great.
glowworm2 5 years ago
There's a super cute skit from there where he's "Vincent the Vegetable Vampire" and sings about it.
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Danieletc 5 years ago
Shoot, too bad it's not the picture when he looked downright groovy as "Easy Reader" on PBS's "Electric Company".
Jane Alexander 5 years ago
Loved him on Electric Company. Yes, would like this post better with some in between pics added.
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John Louis 5 years ago
Here is a video clip of Morgan Freeman on the old PBS children's TV show The Electric Company: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9eX2ajK3A4
Chris N Daisy Atkinson 5 years ago
Every time I see him I wanna say “ Hey you guys!” Don’t know if anyone else remembers that.
#5
Betty White
Susan Portanova 5 years ago
When she was even younger than the picture posted, she was an absolute bombshell! I recently saw a (much) younger picture & she was killing it!
#6
Angela Lansbury
Marky Mark 5 years ago
Kim Kardashian is butiful. Angela was/is beautiful.
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That one marvel fan 5 years ago
She is beautiful and still is You are still lovely as you get older!!! 😁😍
tuzdayschild 5 years ago
See "State of the Union" with Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. That's pretty much how she looked in that movie.
#7
Colin Firth
Final score:
366points
Raine Soo 5 years ago
The first time I had ever seen Colin Firth was when he was in 1984's "Another Country". It also featured Rupert Everett and Cary Elwes. We were all young and pretty back then, weren't we?
Ryo Bakura 5 years ago
Yep. In fact, I was so young, it took me another three years just to be born. How insane is that?
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Grumble O'Pug 5 years ago
I've seen Another Country, Apartment Zero, and A Month in the Country. He was well and truly hot as fck before he was Mr. Darcy.
#8
Ralph Fiennes
Hańka 5 years ago
Are you joking? Of course we remember him as a young man! Everybody knows "Wuthering Heights" or "Schindler's List"...
MN Free Spirit 5 years ago
I'm going to totally show my age here, but I remember being surprised he was cast as Voldemort, because the younger picture was the Ralph I always thought of.
#9
Patrick Stewart
Final score:
334points
Stephen Olende 5 years ago
He cropped up in something a few weeks ago talking about having had somebody buy him a car in i think 1966. I was surprised he was around, think the story had him acting onstage at the time too.
Rommee Elf 5 years ago
He has alopecia areata which can come and go, so I think he keeps it shaved to keep the hair changes less obvious .
#10
Judi Dench
Final score:
331points
Jasmine Walker 5 years ago (edited)
That's Dame Judi Dench, and well deserved! She is so stunning!!
Ryo Bakura 5 years ago
Adding her title was good. Misspelling her name immediately after cost you points.
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Steve Cruz 5 years ago
She was a FIRECRACKER when she was young. Dench was the original Sally Bowles in the London West End production of CABARET! She pointed out in TEA WITH THE DAMES that she never had a good singing voice, but she could sell a song, and that was the essence of Sally Bowles' tragedy: a beautiful girl with dreams of stardom, whose singing voice was clearly second rate.
#11
Meryl Streep
Nicholas Yu 5 years ago
Young Meryl looks like woman Truman was searching for in The Truman Show. 1368208450...2b0b2c.jpg 
Shelby P 5 years ago
She also reminds me of Robin Wright (See Princess Bride)
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Shalom Faya 5 years ago
She looks like a mesh up of Leighton Meester and Sophie Turner in her young photo
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
Streep relates an amazing anecdote in which director Dino de Laurentiis' son saw her in a play and brought her to meet his dad for the casting of King Kong. The director asked his son, "Que brutta?" ("Why this ugly woman?"). Meryl speaks Italian and responded, "I understand what you're saying and I'm sorry I'm not beautiful enough to be in King Kong." (The part went to Jessica Lange.)
#12
Julie Andrews
Stephen Lyford 5 years ago
Almost EVERYONE has seen Julie Andrews young....umm, "Sound of Music" or "Mary Poppins" anyone???
spharoe 5 years ago
Thank you! I think the person who compiled this list is a twenty-something. I’ve seen more than one of these people young, and I’m not all that old.
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Nicholas Yu 5 years ago
If The Office was shot in the 60's...I would have cast her as Pam Beesly
John Louis 5 years ago
Julie Andrews was a big star when she was young. So we are used to seeing her in the Sound of Music.
Karly Codr 5 years ago
I love Julie Andrews! She was amazing in the Sound of Music and Mary Poppins <3
Stannous Flouride 5 years ago
She has been married to comedy director Blake Edwards for decades. Several of her co-stars have described how she loves to play against her squeeky clean image by telling the most graphic vulgar jokes she can find.
#13
Anthony Hopkins
Final score:
283points
Tina Frazier 5 years ago
Check out one of his earlier Drama/Horror movies. “Magic”, 1978. He’s young and good looking. It also stars Ann-Margret & Burgess Meredith. He’s a ventriloquist at the mercy of his dummy all the while trying to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart. I remember it being very scary at the time.
CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago
The first time I saw him was in "The Elephant Man," and he was pretty young still.
#14
Christopher Walken
Final score:
255points
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
Walken started acting on TV at 2-years-old. I remember seeing him in the wonderful NEXT STOP GREENWICH VILLAGE, and he walks into a cafe with tan trenchcoat and delivers a line with his Queens, New Yawk, accent, and the persona I associate with him was already fully formed: the intense stare, assertive head-tilt, and confident swagger.
glowworm2 5 years ago
I was just recently telling my coworkers that he was actually quite good looking when he was younger. Here's the proof!
Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago
Yes! He went through sort of a 'pretty' phase but IIRC he got mugged. Also, of course, time has passed. If you've never seen his video for Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice," you should treat yourself!
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Hugh Laurie
Final score:
249points
Jo Choto 5 years ago
In the UK, he was famous for his many comedic performances since back in the 80s.
Iggy 5 years ago
It's worth checking him out as the Prince Regent in Blackadder. Very silly and very funny.
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Monica Michelle 5 years ago
1. Best name ever 2. I loved him in black adder
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Robert Robi Z 5 years ago
A few weeks ago I saw him when he appeared in one episode of 'Friends'. I was so pleasantly surprised. I love that actor!
Duska Radmanovic 5 years ago
I know him very well from Black Adder when he was young so not really a surprise.
#16
Angela Bassett
Final score:
246points
just another bookworm 5 years ago
That is the iconic yearbook photo where they had to shrink it to fit the hair.
Dilly Millandry 5 years ago
She admits to cosmetic surgery... and looks like it.
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Yvonne Rochelle 5 years ago
I'm 100% positive that's she's a vampire. She's stunning and didn't change.
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
First time I noticed her was in WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT? She was built like an Olympic contender. Her character, Tina Turner, is abused by her husband Ike, and I wondered, "With those guns, she should knock him back!"
#17
Samuel L. Jackson
Final score:
245points
Toast Of Saint Louis 5 years ago
He actually plays a character on the Boondocks. He voices one the white guys in the series. White Mike or something like that.
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#18
Bill Murray
Final score:
244points
Christel Nellemann 5 years ago (edited)
if you dont see the resemblance, its because you are the kind of person who sees the surface, hair, clothes skin - look proper - see the bonestructure, how eyes are set, jawline, width of forehead etc, -
Sandra Wood-Szauter 5 years ago
I still see the young version of him in Meatballs but this pic on the right was even BEFORE that....Bill Murray is a legend.
RN Griffin 5 years ago
Bill Murray was still pretty young when he was on SNL. Why use this photo?
#19
Willem Dafoe
Final score:
243points
April Simnel 5 years ago
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.
Tara Maney 5 years ago
DUDE... Was he ever cast as a vampire? If not, someone did something wrong cuz, OMGAHH, he just looks so sly and...dark?
Jen Kauffman 5 years ago
The younger picture looks like Hillary Swank in "Boys Don't Cry"! lmao!!
Jackie Johnson 1 year ago
That's it! I couldn't put my finger on what girl he looked like, but it was Hillary Swank! Like he could've been her twin brother!
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#20
Bryan Cranston
Final score:
228points
deanna woods 5 years ago
He looks like he was probably just as funny when he was young as he is now.
Kathi Keegan Chang 5 years ago
Crickey... Bryan C always looks the same! Handsome, funny, and watch out for his inner villain! tee hee....
#21
Ricky Gervais
Final score:
216points
Jill Pulcifer 5 years ago
Don't over complicate it, he was a lovely young lady.
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glowworm2 5 years ago
He was actually part of new wave pop duo called Seona Dancing in the 80s. Hence, the strangely sexy picture.
April Simnel 5 years ago
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
rockrolla 5 years ago
They had a hit single in my country lol "More to lose" was no. 1 in the 80s
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Iris 5 years ago
Ok, so if I take David Bowie and Clint Eastwood and mix them together I will get young(er) Ricky Gervais 😄
CbusResident 5 years ago
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.
#22
Daniel Day Lewis
Final score:
209points
Nofar Cohen 5 years ago
He is aging like a fine bottle of scotch 👌🏼 and probable the best actor I have ever watched on screen.
Anne Copeland 5 years ago
Nofar, all your comments to this feed are so right on! Xo
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Six years before the photo on the right, he was a gay punk in MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE, then went on to play a very proper gentleman in A ROOM WITH A VIEW. He's always been gorgeous.
#23
Idris Elba
Final score:
193points
Deborah Brown 5 years ago
I think he was born gorgeous, but I agree, he isn't getting older, he's getting BETTER.
Jane Dorothy Warner 5 years ago
When he gets so old nobody wants him anymore, then I'll make my move...
#24
Liam Neeson
Final score:
186points
CherryAmy 5 years ago
Did not really change a lot. The question now is: Does he still look young or did he always look old?
Jordan MacFarlane 5 years ago
I think he looked really mature even at a young age
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Elsie Collins 5 years ago
One of my faves!!! Fabulous actor, super handsome in an Irish sort of way!! So sad how he lost his beloved wife!!! Wish someone had insisted she go to the hospital!! Brain injuries are so insidious, and so deadly left untreated!!!
Jim Ellington 5 years ago
If you haven't already, you simply must check him out in Excalibur, which also featured a young, already-bald Patrick Stewart.
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Cliff Anderson 5 years ago
Google "liam neeson young" and you'll get a picture a lot younger than the one on the right
#25
Bill Nye
Final score:
184points
Jasmine Walker 5 years ago
Hahaha!! Oh yes! This was probably his bowtie at the time
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Debe Sanders Deehan 5 years ago
Perverted butthead who knows much less than he thinks he does.
#26
Jack Nicholson
Final score:
179points
Jim Ellington 5 years ago
A great actor who's at his best when he's not just playing himself, which isn't very often.
Jen Kauffman 5 years ago
Younger he looks like a cross between Bobby Brady and Eddie Munster.....
Laura Mortensen 5 years ago
Has anyone seen him in the movie with Vincent Price, "The Raven" Jack-5e46f...86-png.jpg 
Eulalie Grace 5 years ago
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.
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#27
Charles Dance
Final score:
163points
Neale Devenish 5 years ago
"I just shot somebody, I did it on purpose... I said I have murdered a man, and I want to confess!"
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Chris N Daisy Atkinson 5 years ago
He creeps me out every since I saw The Golden Cild Movie.. he just looks evil
Jennifer Erdossy 5 years ago
This guy just looks like he was waiting for age to distinguish him a little.
#28
Martha Stewart
Final score:
152points
Ben Steinberg 5 years ago
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.
Catlady6000 5 years ago
I know. She used to not only look like a model, she dressed like one. Now she looks sorta frumpy. Although, from personal experience, as some of us (me) get older, you're not as focused on appearance so much as comfort.
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Layla Corman 5 years ago
Martha used to be a model AND work on Wall St! She was, is, and always will be amazing!
Stephanie Choice-Farkasdi 5 years ago
I always had heard that Martha was a model in her earlier years.. Now I'd just want her to feed me!
#29
Whoopi Goldberg
Final score:
148points
Nicky OldfieldDesciple 5 years ago
Please realise I am not saying this in a racist way but it is true ; black don't crack and I say that as a very jealous milk white woman.
Donna Leske 5 years ago
Photo on left was a bad choice, glasses cover the eyes, must be 1,000s of other photos that would be better.
#30
Bernie Sanders
Final score:
141points
Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago
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.
E Menendez 5 years ago (edited)
I will write him in. Should have been the candidate in the last election.
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Catlady6000 5 years ago
Don't understand the downvotes. I've always liked dorks. I think he looks adorably dorky
Katie and Jared Coates 5 years ago
I love this photo. The glasses hair combo is very nice on him
Gipsy Kings fan 5 years ago
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!
Elsie Collins 5 years ago
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
Bill 5 years ago
And his wife and kids have made a fortune off the US taxpayer
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#31
Joe Biden
Final score:
135points
#32
Oprah Winfrey
Final score:
130points
AuntyJem 5 years ago
The earlier picture is close to her days as a news anchor here in Maryland. She also was a co-host of "People Are Talking" for WJZ in Baltimore. She also lived in Columbia, Maryland. She used to go a lot to the Hickory Farms Cheese shop in the Columbia Mall, where my sister worked.
Chris Carver 5 years ago
Uhh her eyes naturally sink in or was she just eager to see the world more then than now?
Jagi Lachance 5 years ago
Yes, well she NEEDS the few hours of make-up everyday to look glam-ish.....but shows what make-up CAN do for a not very pretty gal..
JozeeMom 5 years ago
Why you so upset about it? You must be very unhappy.
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#33
Bette Midler
Final score:
126points
Caroline 5 years ago
I can't say that she ever was a classic beauty, but you could still have chosen a more flattering picture!
Kathi Keegan Chang 5 years ago
Oh, how well we all remember the framed glasses on the right..!! And Bette, you looooook MAHHHvelous!!!
#34
Larry David
Final score:
99points
Binxyminxem 5 years ago
That's what I thought! Apparently Jason Alexander based george on Larry David in Seinfeld (after first basing his character on Woody Allen)
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Kate DiLiberto 5 years ago
I now see how George Costanza was based off of him . That young photo brings it all together!
Chris DiFonso 5 years ago
With a haircut, the younger Larry David could pose as Eugene Levy's twin
#35
Dr Phil
Final score:
50points
earringnut 5 years ago
Is it me or has his head *literally* gotten bigger?
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KT Trondsen 5 years ago
pathetic excuse of a "psychologist". He exploits people on his show who are desperate for help. It's more of a jerry springer trash exploit now
Isabella Fagan 5 years ago
They ask for his help KNOWING they'd be on TV. How's that exploiting them if they’re signing up for it? If they didn't wanna be on TV they shouldn't sign up.
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Linda Gentile 5 years ago
Douche, it’s spelled douche. Try to spell correctly when disrespecting others.
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Vicki Thill 5 years ago
I used to love watching his show until he jumped on the "let's make 'em cry first" tactics; there is a better way to help people. You can actually help people without humiliating the entire family. It used to be a great learning opportunity, but now it's just a cheap shot show. I still love the guy, but damn...
Katie and Jared Coates 5 years ago
Even in that pic it looks like he gave unsolicited advice like around high school or something.
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
I once heard him say, "Children tell on their parents. You can tell a lot about parents by how their kids turn out." His son is a drug-addicted creep living in one of daddy's mansions that he packed full of terrible "art" -- except for the dining room, where there is a display of two-dozen military-grade assault rifles on the wall.
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Jo Choto 5 years ago
Some of us old farts remember some of those old farts just fine from when we were ALL younger.
Rob Chapman 5 years ago
I'm old enough to remember young Meryl Streep. Pure class. A Golden Age actress in the modern age.
Full Name 5 years ago
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.
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Lisa T 5 years ago
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
emma hunton 5 years ago
Thats not bette midler thats mayim bialik playing bette midler in beaches
Lea S. 5 years ago
It's definitely not. Mayim Bialik did play young Cece but that is NOT her.
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Kayla Engle Lewis 5 years ago
We should get away from stating that someone ages “well” or “badly”and stop adding shame to the aging process.
Full Name 5 years ago
So people age exactly the same and looks mean nothing? Evolution and natural selection would like to have a word with you.
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Tony Midyett 4 years ago
Tom Felton has morphed into Jonathan Price, right before our eyes.
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RoseAnn Rosie 5 years ago
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
Le Panayi 5 years ago
Bearing in mind that more than half of these people have had a sh!t load of cosmetic surgery along the way...
JoJo Errington 5 years ago
Martha Stewart's nose. There is no way someone's nose changes like that purely with age 🤣
Load More Replies... Jo Choto 5 years ago
Some of us old farts remember some of those old farts just fine from when we were ALL younger.
Rob Chapman 5 years ago
I'm old enough to remember young Meryl Streep. Pure class. A Golden Age actress in the modern age.
Full Name 5 years ago
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... Lisa T 5 years ago
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
emma hunton 5 years ago
Thats not bette midler thats mayim bialik playing bette midler in beaches
Lea S. 5 years ago
It's definitely not. Mayim Bialik did play young Cece but that is NOT her.
Load More Replies... Kayla Engle Lewis 5 years ago
We should get away from stating that someone ages “well” or “badly”and stop adding shame to the aging process.
Full Name 5 years ago
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... Tony Midyett 4 years ago
Tom Felton has morphed into Jonathan Price, right before our eyes.
Load More Replies... RoseAnn Rosie 5 years ago
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
Le Panayi 5 years ago
Bearing in mind that more than half of these people have had a sh!t load of cosmetic surgery along the way...
JoJo Errington 5 years ago
Martha Stewart's nose. There is no way someone's nose changes like that purely with age 🤣
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