12 Actors Who Were Too Old for Their Roles, but No One Noticed

Films
5 years ago

Sometimes viewers notice that the cast wasn’t picked out in accordance with the age of the movie characters. But there are situations when we don’t pay attention to this discrepancy because of the amazing acting skills of the Hollywood stars.

We at Bright Side never get tired of admiring the talent of world-famous actors and actresses.

1. Natalie Dormer was 32 years old when she was playing the role of 18-year-old Margaery Tyrell (Game of Thrones).

2. 27-year-old Charisma Carpenter was perfect in the role of a high school student (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season One, 1997).

3. 27-year-old Carey Mulligan easily transformed into 18-year-old Daisy Buchanan (The Great Gatsby, 2013).

4. Stockard Channing played a high school student at the age of 34 (Grease, 1978).

5. Robert Pattinson was 26 years old in the last film of the famous saga, while his character, Edward Cullen, was still only 17 (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2, 2012).

6. 28-year-old Felicity Jones easily played 18-year-old Sophie (Breathe In, 2013).

7. 25-year-old Taylor Kitsch managed to play the role of a 15-year-old teenager (Friday Night Lights, 2006).

8. Kitsch’s colleague on set, 26-year-old Minka Kelly, effortlessly transformed into a 16-year-old girl (Friday Night Lights, 2006).

9. 27-year-old Winona Ryder played 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen (Girl, Interrupted, 1999).

10. Alison Lohman played the role of a 16-year-old teenager when she was 27 years old (Flicka, 2006).

11. 32-year-old Eric Christian Olsen played a high-schooler (Fired Up!, 2009).

12. 40-year-old Peter Hayden Dinklage played the iconic role of Tyrion Lannister who was only 23 years old in the book and 32 years old in the TV series (Game of Thrones).

Which actor’s age came as a surprise to you? Do you know any other actors who could be in our article?

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Belinda
5 years ago

And one more really really famous... Daenerys is 13 years old at the beginning of Game of Thrones While Emilia Clarke was 27 or so.

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George
5 years ago
Belinda

Daenerys was 17 years old whenGOT began, 17 years since Robert's Rebellion — when she was born. She's about 24 on latest GOT and the time of her death she would be 25. Emilia Clarke is 32. ;)

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Emily
5 years ago

I'm not surprised with Pattinson at all, anyway any time there is a movie about American high schoolers, all of them look like they are 25+ :D

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Sophia
5 years ago

This moment when I'm always so into the film that I almost never bother checking how ild the characters actually are ?

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Amy
5 years ago

I'm kind of used to watching actors playing young roles when they're actually way older than that

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Alyson
5 years ago

Loved Winona Ryder on Girl, Interrupted. She really embodied the young essence of her character

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Laura
5 years ago

Who would have thought Tyron, who was 23 yo, was played by a 40-ish-old man…

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Rayna Bruce
5 years ago

Even the cast of the series 13 reasons why most of them are 20+ and are playing high school students

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