Which actor aged the best in middle age?

Matt who? And Sting the singer? Who has acted occasionally?

Brad Pitt. He's aging rather gracefully, with a little help I'm sure.

Matt Bomer? Matt McConaughey?

Matt LeBlanc.

Leo looks like shit.

Paul Newman

Honor Blackman, pictured in her eighties.

not me

Javier Bardem looks pretty good.

Paul Rudd.

Ian ZIering

It’s pronounced “eye-un”.

Actor not actress.

Matt Bomer

Brad Pitt, although he needs to get rid of the long hair. He has always looked his very best when sporting a very clean-cut, preppy look.

Definitely not Leo. He’s unrecognizable from his Titanic days, and when he has facial hair looks more like Burl Ives. And it’s not inevitable that twinky blonds end up that way, since Ryan Phillippe (Leo’s age) and Charlie Hunnam (a few years younger) look much better.

Dylan McDermott.

Actor.

Sting.

Bwaaaa-haaaa=haaaaaaaaaaaa!

Clooney, by far.

Denzel Washington. Shit, Denzel was looking good for three decades through the first Equalizer. Then things finally started to get rocky over the past couple years. It’s only because he let the weight creep up on him, however. If he’d lean out, he’d still look good at 65.

Sean Connery was much better looking after 40 .

Hugh Grant is aging very nicely- which surprises me. I thought he would get jowly and butterfaced. He hasnt at all.

I think Hugh Grant looks more handsome now than he did 20 years ago.

R19 lol there was a SECOND Equalizer?

R17, that's what I thought

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[Quote] Actor not actress.

Scratch an actor...

Rob Lowe

R19: Black people don't count. They always look 10+ years younger (if they don't get fat).

R27, definitely

Ryan Phillippe is a good answer

Eric McCormack

Kevin Bacon

Eric McCormack looks manorexic

Matt Bomer looks like fucking Hell lately and rumored to be poz. Nothing wrong with being poz btw but it can fuck with one's appearance.

pics, r34?

Is Matt Bomer middle aged? I thought he was in his 30s.

Matt Bomer still beautiful here a few weeks ago😻

He must be 40 by now.

He's 42, so yes, middle aged.

Matt turns 43 this year

oops - wrong link. Here you go!

I thought middle aged was around 50. People live longer now

Most people don't live to be 100

How many 120-year-old women do you know?

He looks great at r41. The grey in his beard is hot.

I don't know about recently, but for a while it looked like Frankie Avalon had found the Fountain of Youth.

I don't know about recently, but for a while it looked like Frankie Avalon had found the Fountain of Youth.

Paul Rudd looks great

Matt Bomer is has just barely entered middle age. He doesn’t count for this. Give him about 10 more years then we can judge.

Now Paul Rudd is a great example.

Frankie Grande

R50 NO, JUST NO!

Kurt Cameron. Would still do him!

Sam Elliott and Scott Glenn did alright.

Paul Rudd wins.

After him, Dylan McDermott. He was 50 in the first season of American Horror Story:

I think Matt Dillon looks good

Paul Rudd.

Ageless.

Reese Witherspoon's ex-husband with the curly hair. I can't remember his name.

You can tell he's a man of a certain age. He has that thing where his eyes look like they've receded more towards the centre of his face. I think it's common with eye jobs.

I wouldn't look at him and think he's still in his thirties, never mind his twenties.

R47 i agree with Frankie. Only know him in Grease but looked him up as an older man & he’s nice looking . Also Robert Wagner in Hart To Hart. He had to be old then. And Tab Hunter was handsome as an old man in Grease 2. Brad pitt was cute in the recent hollywood movie.

Paul Rudd is the best example. He looks gorgeous and hot, but not like he's 25 or like he's some shiny stretched alien. He's found the right balance.

I have to say Bruce Willis has aged quite well. It's probably always helped that he's been bald for most of his career, so it's not like that was some shock when he suddenly had no hair.

Speaking of bad men, John Travolta looks pretty good now that he ditched the wig.

[quote]Speaking of bad men, John Travolta

So true.

[quote] Reese Witherspoon's ex-husband with the curly hair. I can't remember his name.

R30 has the answer for you.

R50 how old is Frankie? Yes, I'm lazy....

Rob Lowe wins

[QUOTE] Speaking of bad men, John Travolta looks pretty good now that he ditched the wig.

I thought you were lying like a rug (no pun intended), but after going through recent pics it seems he really did an Old Yeller on his hairpiece. He’s gone bald before only to give up and install some new carpeting, but it’s been well over a year now and he’s still rocking the chrome dome. Hats off to him (no pun intended).

RIchard Gere looked great well into his 50s/60s.

Ryan Phillipe has had too much obvious work for my taste and actually we’ve discussed it on here before.

But no man or woman ever aged as well as Paul Newman and no one ever will. So you could close the thread there.

Rob Lowe is a walking chemical peel now.

lloyd bridges

Robby Benson

Jason Bateman and Will Arnett, about ten years ago...

The world tends to forget just how old Jason Bateman is. I think it’s the hair. That’s not what a 51 year old man’s hair is supposed to look like. I wonder if it’s a transplant.

James Brolin and Sam Elliott, they look their age and very handsome

John Saxon looked great in middle age.

John Saxon looked great in middle age.

I think we can probably guess the relative ages of the posters by their choices. If you’re in your forties you’re thinking of someone like Matt Bomer, in your fifties you’re probably considering Rob Lowe, any older and you’re going to mention Sam Elliott.

So congratulations to the nearly 110 year old who chose Lloyd Bridges.

Cesar Romero aged really well

56 year old Rob Lowe looked pretty good until a few years ago. He shot a close up video from a diner not too long ago and you could see he has gotten noticeably over.

51 Year old Paul Rudd in January is a great example of someone who is aging best.

(Matt Bomer is far too young to be in this crowd at 42. He still looks good, but is noticeably getting older without makeup. None of that is surprising.)

Go Paul!

What am I, chopped liver?

Regarding today’s definition of “middle age,” I would say that in the old days (back when our beloved Ann Romano had her meltdown) it started around 38/40, now it starts about 45/50.

Thankfully, I don’t make the cut just yet.

Aged well: Paul Newman, Richard Gere, Paul Rudd, Dylan McDermott, and Jason Bateman.

Tom Cruise looked really good in his late 40s when he was promoting Mission Impossible 4. His cosmetic surgeon was an artist. Ryan Phillippe hasn't aged much, but he looks tweaked. I think Brad Pitt also had cosmetic work, but he still looks tired.

Aged badly: Leo (hit the wall HARD), Hugh Grant (rough), Ben Affleck (bloated mess), Matthew Perry, and Val Kilmer (didn't he have cancer?).

Not an actor, but an athlete who aged very very well: Brett Favre. He was okay when he was young, but now? Wow. Sexy older man. He got more chiseled as he aged.

Yes , the middle-aged version of Leo looks horrendous. It's not even the fat and wrinkles, it's that expression he always has now. Like he just smelled something repulsive. I first noticed it in The Beach, and over the years it seems to have engraved itself into his face.

Cary Grant for the win! Elegant and impeccably coiffed well past middle age.

Okay, he's just not aging well in my opinion. To each their own. He was incredibly hot just a couple of years ago.

Johnny Depp looked great until he was circa 50. He probably still would if he hadn't started drinking again.

I win. Bigly.

That doesn't even look like Matt Bomer at R86. Something about the cheek/mouth area looks drastically different

Bomer reminds me of some other actor in that pic, but I can't put my finger on it. In any case, he doesn't quite look like himself.

[quote] I think Brad Pitt also had cosmetic work

Brad Pitt is a plastic surgery.

Pierce Brosnan, Richard Gere, Rob Lowe, Paul Newman

They all aged pretty well.

Bobby Cannavale is holding up pretty well.

[quote]Okay, he's just not aging well in my opinion.

This is Matt Bomer without makeup a little less than 3 months ago.

Sean Connery looked fantastic into his 60s. He didn't look that young - even in Dr. No, when he just 30 he looked older. That's the thing, he had incredible features and an awesome skeletal frame. So, he exuded masculinity.

Below - Sean at 30

Sean at 60 -

Definitely not Leo. He looks like an Aryan-ized Olmec head these days.

Leo has that permanent scowl and furrow line in between his eyebrows. It's probably so deep that botox couldn't even help anymore. Seems like that's his only way to emote, so he's given it quite a workout over the years.

Dylan McDermott and Dermot Mulroney.

R86 Still looking pretty good today I think

I think it's a mistake to go higher with one's hair when aging.

Matthew Perry is looking rough these days. Thought he would get in shape for the upcoming friends reunion. I looked up his age and he is only 50yo. Wow.

Once you have that loose neck, is it permanent? Losing weight won't tighten things up?

OP, if you are referring to Leo DC, he was never good looking and he has not aged well. No type of window dressing will make that face look pleasant.

John Slattery looks good for whatever age he is and hasn't changed much.

Whoever upthread said Clooney, sorry I disagree. Lately he looks skeletal and frail with huge ears and older than his years. Not long before this when he was heavier and had the scruffy beard (facial hair not wife) he looked like Raymond Burr circa Ironside.

Another vote for Brad Pitt. He’s much more appealing now than in his scrawny Thelma And Louise days.

This is going to be controversial, but I think Justin Theroux looks good. Yes, I know it's all fake. Even the work that's been done on his work has had work. He does look pretty good, though.

Brad Pitt looks great still, at a whopping 57 years of age. He's aged into total DILF (GILF?) now, and that's hard for a lot of pretty boys like he was to pull off. I cast my vote for him.