You wouldn't recognize them: what Hugh Laurie, Melanie Griffith, Robert De Niro and other actors looked like in their youth

Not all movie stars became famous at a young age. Many of today's famous actors gained fame well after the age of 30, so their fans have no idea what celebrities looked like when they were barely 20.

Often, over the decades of a career filled with stressful filming, busy schedules, and exhausting routines, artists change beyond recognition. OBOZ.UA decided to show what famous actors used to look like.

Hugh Laurie

The star of the TV series "House" became most famous when he was already 45 years old. The image of the cynical doctor stuck with the British actor for many years, even though he started his career 23 years earlier.

Robert De Niro

The American actor, producer, and director, best known for his roles in crime films, is associated with statuesque, aged villains. However, few people saw him in the 60s, when De Niro's career began.

Al Pacino

The actor became famous for his gangster roles in the Godfather trilogy, Scarface, and Scent of a Woman. Until the 1970s, he played minor characters, so the young Al Pacino is hardly remembered.

Sylvester Stallone

The hero of the cult films Rocky, Rambo, The Expendables and Escape Plan became famous when he turned 30. However, the actor got his first full-fledged role when he was 24 years old in the movie The Italian Stallion.

Melanie Griffith

The popular actress of Swedish, German, and Norwegian descent got her first serious role in Arthur Penn's 1975 film Night Moves, but the young beauty was not widely known at the time. Fame came to her only 13 years later with an Oscar nomination for Best Actress.

Jason Momoa

The brutal actor with a long beard has appeared in a number of fantastic action and fantasy films, such as Game of Thrones, Aquaman, Stargate: Atlantis, Fast and Furious 10, Fast and Furious 11, etc. However, the star made his debut in 1999 in Baywatch.

Earlier, OBOZREVATEL wrote about what Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, Tina Karol and other Ukrainian stars looked like when they were kids.

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