re: Great Actors/Actresses whose looks changed with age but had great career later in life

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Beyond each character looking different, Pacino looks the same.

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Pacino is pretty infamous for basically morphing into a different human being during the 80s

Brian Dennehey. Although his look never changed, his character roles (bad guy/good guy) always morphed as needed. RIP.

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I feel like this is a question that says more about us than the actual actors/actresses.

Doesn’t this boil down to “who do we still like after their good looks fade?”

Just saying that we ain’t gonna find a lotta of “Steve Buscemi’s” & “Jack Nicholson’s” in this thread despite their great careers at early and later stages of life

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There certainly is some truth in that. When I made my OP, I was watching "The Untouchables" with Sean Connery in his Oscar winning role and this is the same guy that was the handsome, dashing 007 now killing it in middle age graying and bald.

We see a lot of actors/actress start out white hot and fizzle while some break through with age and their looks changing and i I found it an interesting topic.

I think some actors try to hold on to the fountain of youth too long and not accept taking roles age appropriate and end up screwing their looks up worse with cosmetic surgery like Jennifer Grey did with her career-killing nose job.

Granted, A lot of actors age and generally look the same just older and have great careers for decades like Harrison Ford and Kevin Bacon.

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Jeff Bridges.

From Sea Hunt as kid to Last Picture Show in his 20's,Against All Odds in his 30's,Big Lebowski in his 50's and True Grit in his 60's

Guy has grown up on screen through SEVEN decades.

I'm not sure any actor has had a longer run.

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Good call. Kurt Russell could be a very similar nominee.

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What? The change in Al Pacino's look and delivery has been a popular topic for decades now, it has nothing to do with "method

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God almighty,are you actually trying to argue Al Pacino isn't method actor?Do you know what method acting is?

You couldn't have given two better examples than Michael Corleone and Tony Montana.

Little background on method acting

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Al Pacino

No list of method actors would be complete without Al Pacino. In his late 70's, the thespian now expresses some regret about his devotion to the Method even though he won a Best Actor Oscar for Scent of a Woman. He describes the process as arduous and lonely as he stayed in character both on and off the set. He says, “ If I were to go back, I would tell myself, 'You don't have to do that all the time, Al. Just be yourself, and only when it's time to act, only then get into the role.”

But, without all the hard work and preparation that method acting demands, it's doubtful Pacino would have been as successful. It's doubtful he would have a career spanning over five decades. But his words do illustrate how method actors suffer for their art and for truth

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He has become a characature of himself in his later career but certainly was the definition of Method acting in 70's and 80's

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it's damn near exactly what the OP is talking about

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LMAO! Showing 2 pictures 10 years apart is an example of an actor whose "looks changed" and had a great career "later in life"

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Despite being this creature, he had some movie success in the 2000s.

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The Wrestler is a great film

Jessica Tandy I only really know her in Cocoon and Driving Miss Daisy

Diane Keaton looks like a totally different person in Godfather compared to her later roles.

Kurt Russell. Hes been in the zone basically his entire life.

Who knew one of the Bosom Buddies was the best actor of his generation?