These actors are way older than the characters they play

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In some cases, age matters very little in Hollywood. Adults play teenagers all the time! Here are 30 actors who were much older than the characters they played on the big or small screen....
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2022-08-21T06:00:00Z
These actors are way older than the characters they play, In some cases, age matters very little in Hollywood. Adults play teenagers all the time! Here are 30 actors who were much older than the characters they played on the big or small screen.
In Wild Things, Denise Richards plays a 16-year-old girl. She was, in fact, 27 when the film was shot, and even though her eldest daughter is now 16 herself, Richards will not let her watch the movie!
Her nickname in Dirty Dancing may have been “Baby,” but Jennifer Grey was actually 10 years older than her teenage character.
Betty from Riverdale is a 15-year-old girl, but the actress who plays her, Lili Reinhart, is actually 20. Her costar, Camila Mendes, who plays Veronica (15 years old), is 22!
Cole Sprouse, Sprouse is the oldest actor in Riverdale's cast. Jughead is 15 years old, too, but Sprouse is actually nine years older than his character.
Lucy Hale plays Aria in Pretty Little Liars, who is 16 years old at the start of the series. In reality, the actress was nearly 21 years old... and she wasn’t even the oldest cast member!
Troian Bellisario, Just like her costar Lucy Hale, the actor who plays Spencer is a lot older than her character. She was 24 years old when Pretty Little Liars began filming.
Kit Harington, In Game of Thrones, Jon Snow is around 17 years old at the beginning of the story. Harington was actually 25 years old when filming began.
The "Mother of Dragons" was 14 years old at the beginning of GoT, while Emilia Clarke was 25 in real life.
Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Brodie-Sangster, known for his childlike appearance, played young Simon in Nanny McPhee. Simon was no more than 8 or 9 years old, while the actor was actually 15.
Movie lovers may recall that at the beginning of The Terminator, Sarah Connor is a young student working as a waitress. Linda Hamilton, however, was actually 28 when the movie was shot in 1984.
She’s best known for her roles in Bridget Jones’s Diary and 24 Hour Party People, but Shirley Henderson also played the ghost of Moaning Myrtle in the Harry Potter franchise. She was 37 years old when she played the 14-year-old character!
In 1995, Emma Thompson lent her features to Elinor Dashwood, one of three sisters in Sense and Sensibility. Thompson was 36 at the time, while her character was 27 in the movie (19 in the novel!).
The series Stranger Things introduced us to some very young talent as well as adults playing younger roles! Joe Keery was already 24 when he started portraying the 17-year-old Steve Harrington.
In Les Misérables, Cosette’s age is unclear, but it’s fair to say that there's a pretty big gap between the heroine of 19 or so and the actress who played her at the time. Amanda Seyfried was 27.
In Tron Legacy, Jeff Bridges reprises the role of Kevin Flynn, who disappeared into a cyber universe in 1989. In order to create CLU, Flynn’s avatar with Bridge’s 35-year-old face, computers were used to turn back the clock on Bridge’s age!
Her most famous role was 17-year-old Carrie in the film of the same name. Sissi Spacek was actually 27 years old when she shot the movie.
Gabrielle Union was nearly 28 when she slid into the skin of Isis, Kirsten Dunst’s 17-year-old cheerleading rival in Bring It On.
In Napoleon Dynamite, the title character is 16 years old. Actor Jon Heder was actually 25 at the time.
In Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Ferris Bueller's (Matthew Broderick) best friend, Cameron Frye, is 18 years old. How old was Alan Ruck, the actor who played him? He was 30!
Andrew Garfield was nearly thirty when he was hired to play Peter Parker in a new version of Spider-Man, directed by Marc Webb (2012). You’ll recall that Parker is a 17-year-old in this story!
The Spider-Man franchise has been hiring older actors to play its characters for a long time. In addition to Andrew Garfield, Tobey Maguire (Spider-Man, 2002) was a lot older than his Peter Parker character (nine years!)
At the beginning of Catch Me If You Can, Frank Abagnale Jr. is 16 and lives with his parents, but this didn’t keep 28-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio from playing both teen and adult Frank in the movie!
When Gatsby reunites with Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby, she is 18 years old. Carey Mulligan, however, was actually 28 at the time.
A little trip back in time? In the first Back to the Future movie, Michael J. Fox was 29 years old when he stepped into the role of 17-year-old Marty McFly.
When Stacey Dash played 17-year-old Dionne, Cher's (Alici
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