The entertainment industry is very big and broad. The actors and actress usually tend to hide their real age. Many actors have played much younger roles on screen than their real age. It seems that they can hide the real age quite flawlessly, all thanks to the makeup and surgeries. Here, we are counting 7 old actors playing much younger roles on screen that their real age.
There are multiple ways to make an actor look younger. Sometimes, the production team uses extensive prosthetic to make the actor look younger. Sometimes actors are so impressive that we forget to even care about the real age.
1. Eddard Stark
King in the North, Eddard Stark was played by Sean Bean. We lost our beloved character Eddard Stark, as his head was chopped off by the end of Game of Thrones Season 1. Sean Bean was already in his 50s when he portrayed 35-year old Eddard Stark in Game of Thrones Season 1.
2. Daenerys Targaryen
Daenerys Targaryen is one of the main lead roles of popular series Game of Thrones. Actress Emilia Clarke portrayed the dragon mother on the screen. The actress played a 17-year-old girl, whereas her real age is 30 years. Daenerys is one of the most popular characters on the show, she wants to sit on the Iron Throne and she has three dragons to accompany her.
3. Peter Parker
Peter Parker or Spider-man is one of the most favorite superhero characters of all time. In The Amazing Spider Man (2012), Andrew Garfield played a 15-year old Peter Parker. At that time, the actor was already 28 years old. The Amazing Spider Man was a box office success, as it grossed $757.9 million.
4. Danny Zuko
Grease was one of the most critically and commercially successful romantic musical films of 1978. John Travolta played a 17-year old school student Danny Zuko. But in real life, his age was 24 years old back then.
5. Severus Snape
Harry Potter film series is the highest grossing film series ever. Every character of the movie became instantly popular, once the first movie was released. Severus Snape played by Alan Rickman was one of the mysterious characters on the series. Severus Snape’s age was 31 years old, whereas Alan Rickman’s age was 55 years old. We lost legendary Alan Rickman last year.
6. Yentl Mendel
Barbra Streisand played 16-year old Yentl Mendel in the movie. The actress was 41-years old when she played the teenage girl in Yentl. Yentl is a romantic musical drama film directed and starring Barbra Streisand. The actress played a Jewish girl in Poland, who dress and love like a boy in order to get an education in Talmudic Law after her father dies.
7. Clu
Popular actor Jeff Bridges portrayed a 31-year old in the sci-fi movie Tron Legacy. The real age of the actor was 61 years. Tron: Legacy was a successful sci-fi movie. Jeff Bridges played Kevin Flynn, the former CEO of ENCOM. Bridges also played Clu (Codified Likeness Utility), better and advanced incarnation of Flynn original hacking program. Clu was designed as an exact duplicate of Flynn with digital makeover and voice.
