Shelley Duval, the star of The Shining, has been photographed looking completely unrecognizable after she quit acting, twenty years ago.
But before we dive into that story, here’s a list of famous actors from the 70s and 80s and what they look like today…
His career in the ’70s was defined by his role in Rocky, and we all recognize him from the greatest training montage of all time.
He’s also spent the 2010s starring in the Rambo films and The Expendables.
He was known for his roles in Videodrome and Once Upon a Time in America, plus TV movies Promise and My Name is Bill W.
You know you’ve truly made it when you simply get to play yourself.
He spent the ’80s doing work on Saturday Night Live, plus making movies. He even had his own TV shows that spanned into the ’90s.
He’s primarily been doing voice acting in the 2010s, plus some very cool TV cameos. He even had a Netflix special with Steve Martin in 2018.
Starring in the thriller The French Connection, The Royal Tennenbaums, and Unforgiven (the best western of all time?), Hackman had a long and storied acting career.
Hackman’s taken up writing, having turned out three books, all in the historical fiction genre (but he’ll always be Royal Tennenbaum to us).
Remember when this fresh-faced young man got a recommendation to take up a career in plastics and then slept with an older woman?
He is the kind of actor who could appear in literally any movie, and you’d be like, “yeah, I can see him in this.” In the past few years, he’s starred in Kung Fu Panda, the HBO TV series Luck, and Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories.
De Niro has always been an old man. But I guess he had to look fine at some point in his career, and this here was that point.
These days, De Niro has diversified from the prestige films that defined his early career. He can do an Irishman and also do a Meet the Parents. The man is versatile.
Now, I don’t want to insult the man, but does Donald Sutherland have an overall creepy vibe to him?
Listen, you don’t cast a man to play the almost comically evil Coriolanus Snow in The Hunger Games if you don’t get a bad vibe about him (I’m sure Donald Sutherland is a wonderful man in real life).
Even though he was lookin’ damn good in the ’80s, Willem Dafoe still played a lot of bad guys, including the 80s movies Streets of Fire and To Live and Die in LA.
He’s got those crazy eyes he used on Peter Parker in Spider-Man and on the, uh, guys he had to shoot in Boondocks Saints.
Freeman appeared back in the day on the kids’ show The Electric Company and later earned an Oscar nomination for Driving Miss Daisy.
No wonder he played God in Bruce Almighty and wise mentor Red in The Shawshank Redemption.
Eastwood played bad***** in countless movies like A Fistful of Dollars and Dirty Harry, and you can see why.
Doesn’t it feel like this older Eastwood has a meanness to him? Maybe I’m just thinking of all the mean characters I’ve seen him play since he got old in movies like Unforgiven (yes, it is the best western ever made) and Gran Torino.
Young Douglas, with his wavy hair and aquiline nose, is a total babe.
Look, an older Michael Douglas is still a good-looking Michael Douglas. But now I’m less swooning over him than I am kind of hoping he’ll send me a birthday card with money inside, as old people are known to do.
When I think of the ’80s, I think of Schwarzenegger bursting through walls as the Terminator and swinging a way-too-big sword around as Conan the Barbarian.
We elected the flippin’ Terminator to oversee the world’s fifth-largest economy. What a choice that was!
The kind of guy you wanted but knew you shouldn’t want.
Those pretty boy good looks went away in a blink. Rourke let acting go by the wayside and took up boxing in the ’90s. He’d reemerge, with a brand new visage, in the 2000s and play completely different roles in movies like The Wrestler and Sin City.
He was the perfect Han Solo. Man, look at that face — this mug just screams confident smuggler who is barely on the right side of intergalactic law.
Obviously, he’s had a number of iconic roles since Star Wars, including playing the President in Air Force One and a maybe-robot (still unclear) in Blade Runner.
Even though he was playing action movie stars in movies like Escape from New York, Russel looked so much like a dad (those big wire frame glasses will do that to a man).
Although the man’s not yet retired — these days, he’s appearing in the Fast & Furious franchise.
The once fresh-faced Gould was a mainstay in Robert Altman’s films, including M*A*S*H* and The Long Goodbye.
Nowadays, Gould is doing voice-over work for animated shows and video games and also popped up in the Showtime show Ray Donovan.
And since he was in The Godfather, he is one of the ’70s biggest stars. That’s just how it works when you’re in one of the greatest movies of all time.
But most importantly, as Will Ferrell’s dad in potentially the greatest Christmas movie of all time, Elf.
Appearing in Deliverance and Coming Home in the ’70s, Voight has always felt like an actor’s actor (even if he was as handsome as any Backstreet Boy has ever been).
That’s how he ended up in the original Mission: Impossible and Enemy of the State. And Voight’s also in Ray Donovan?! Was that show just created to give these old serious actors a playground to run around in and act?
If only because he’s so well-known for his role in the sketch group Monty Python, I always assume Cleese is down for a goof.
Appearing as Q in a single James Bond movie (which must be every British actor’s dream, right?) and Nearly-Headless Nick in the Harry Potter movies.
Before becoming the top box office draw in 1967 for his roles in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and In the Heat of the Night…
Pointier’s last film role was in 1997’s The Jackal, although he has popped up in a few documentaries since then.
There’s something about those Walken’s eyes…
Remember when Christopher Walken danced in that Fatboy Slim video? Yeah, the dude is wild. He can do anything. We are all at his mercy.
In the ’80s, if you wanted a good-looking man to star in your movie, Gere was your first call.
Gere hasn’t been in a major studio movie since 2008’s Nights in Rodanthe, but at least he went out on a high note…
This man popped off in the ’80s, starring in movies like The Untouchables, Silverado, and Field of Dreams.
Over the last few years, he’s been in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit and Hidden Figures as a suit-wearing businessman.
Kingsley played Ghandi. Just imagine being trusted with that role. And he was so good at it that he won the Best Actor Oscar!
The guy popped up in Species, Lucky Number Sleven, and the abhorrent Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Plus, he played Marvel’s worst villain in Iron Man 3. I wonder if he knows he’s allowed to turn movies down?
This picture makes me think that the Wild and Sexy Guy character he played on SNL might not have been that big of a reach?
I can’t even get on stage at open mics anymore.
He is the scruffiest little baby, isn’t he?
Bridges’ iconic portrayal of The Dude in The Big Lebowski is one of those roles that defines an actor forever. It’s hard to imagine the shaggy, bearded Bridges doing anything but chillin’ at home and admiring the way his rug pulls the room together.
He has a connection to one of the previous actors on our list: he played Apollo Creed opposite Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky.
He starred in the first season of The Mandalorian and even had a small part in Toy Story 4. Now that’s an IMDb page we can get behind.
Redford made what was arguably his biggest movie in 1973: The Sting. But that just kicked off 2 decades of fantastic films.
He founded the Sundance Film Festival and started a production company called Sundance Productions. He fully retired from acting in 2018.
Duvall starred in the 1980 movie The Shining as Wendy Torrance.
Director Stanley Kubrick allegedly pushed Duvall harder than he did her onscreen husband, Jack Nicholson.
Duvall explained that in order for her to get into character for the filmmaker, she had to get her mind in a state of panic.
Duvall admitted that before shooting a scene she had to listen to sad songs, and think of unhappy memories to get into that headspace of playing Wendy Torrance.
And through all that, it seemed like the actress gained a huge fanbase for her role in the movie.
She wore casual clothing in the picture.
You can see the photo here. What do you think?