Look How These 18 Actors Have Changed Since Their First Roles

We often want to turn back the time while looking at our childhood photos or the pictures when we were young. Don’t we? It is almost impossible for us to do that but it is quite simple for superstars to go back to the time when they were young. They can find their movies with a quick wave and go back to the time when they were 25 or even 5. Here at Born Realist, we have found some actors whose initial acting parts were quite different from as we know them now.

18. Tilda Swinton, 1986 and Now:

Actors Have Changed
Actors Have Changed

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Swinton played her first part in a German Drama Egomania — Island Without Hope.

17. Matthew McConaughey, 1993 and now:

Actors Have Changed
Actors Have Changed

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He played one of his first parts in Dazed and Confused.

16. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, 1987 and now:

Actors Have Changed
Actors Have Changed

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He took a role in some of the episodes of Family Ties at the age of 7 and played the part of Dougie.

15. Dakota Fanning, 2004 and now:

Actors Have Changed
Actors Have Changed

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Dakota started her career at the age of 6 when she starred in the very famous TV show FRIENDS as Mackenzie.

14. Jennifer Connelly, 1983 and now:

Actors Have Changed
Actors Have Changed

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Jennifer Connelly played the role of young Deborah in Once Upon a Time in America.

13. Emilia Clarke, 2010 and now:

Actors Have Changed
Actors Have Changed

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The very famous Daenerys in Games of ThronesEmilia started her career with her first movie Triassic Attack.

12. James McAvoy, 1995 and now:

Actors Have Changed
Actors Have Changed

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His first movie that came out was The Near Room and his role as Kevin in the movie. He started his career at the age of 16.

11. Reese Witherspoon, 1991 and now:

Actors Have Changed
Actors Have Changed

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Started her acting career in 1991 and is a fine winner of Oscars but she started her career way before that when she was only 15, she played the role of Dani Trant in The Man in the Moon.

10. Christina Ricci, 1990 and now:

Actors Have Changed
Actors Have Changed

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At the age of 10, Christina Ricci’s debut happened in 1990 as she performed with Mrs. Flax in a very famous movie Mermaids.

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9. Michael Fassbender, 2001 and now:

Actors Have Changed
Actors Have Changed

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Nominated twice for Oscars, Michael started his acting career in 2001 in the Band of Brothers TV miniseries as Burton P. Christenson.

8. Kirsten Dunst, 1990 and now:

Actors Have Changed
Actors Have Changed

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She starred in the movie, The Bonfire of the Vanities at the age of 8 but became famous when she has cast alongside Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt in Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles.

7. Norman Reedus, 1998 and now:

Actors Have Changed
Actors Have Changed

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The superstar of TV series, The Walking Dead, started his career in 1997 and played the role of a young man in Dark Harbor in 1998.

6. Keira Knightley, 1995 and now:

Actors Have Changed
Actors Have Changed

 

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Well, Star Wars wasn’t her first movie, as she played the role of Celia in Innocent Lies at the age of 10 in 1995.

5. Hugh Jackman, 1995 and now:

Actors Have Changed
Actors Have Changed

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Hugh started his career by doing the role of Kevin Jones in the Correlli TV series.

4. Chuck Norris, 1972 and now:

Actors Have Changed
Actors Have Changed

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One of the best debut ever as Chuck himself had to literally fight with Bruce Lee which happened in The Way of Dragon, 1972. Norris played the role of Colt, the main antagonist.

3. Jodie Foster, 1972 and now:

Actors Have Changed
Actors Have Changed

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Jodie played the role of Samantha at a young age of 10 in her first featured movie, Napoleon, and Samantha.

2. Michael Caine, 1964 and now:

Actors Have Changed
Actors Have Changed

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Started his carries in movies in 1956 with Zulu being his one of the early movies, playing the role of Lt. Gonville Bromhead.

1. Anthony Hopkins, 1968 and now:

Actors Have Changed
Actors Have Changed

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An Oscar-winning British actor started off with his carrier in 1960 with one of his first feature movies, The Lion In Winter, and in the movie, he played the role of Richard.

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