Worst Wigs in a Film or TV Series

Would it have killed you to have at least posted a picture or link OP? Would it? I mean would that have really been that hard? Would it? Why don’t you try to think more of others next time before you post? Can you give us a straight answer? At least be honest for once in your life and tell us why you were so inconsiderate?

Karl Lagerfeld said Chanel poster girl Nicole Kidman had a "bizarre body make-up: endless legs and not much in the way of breasts. What she shows to the world is not her. Her perfection is an illusion: she knows it and couldn't give a damn."

He basically said she looks like a stork and yes, she has bad hair.

I watched Mean Girls again recently and was surprised how obvious Rachel McAdams' wig is. I don't remember noticing it when I first saw the movie years ago.

Somebody call me?

Barbara Stanwyck in "Double Indemnity" - but it was supposed to be a bad wig. The director wanted her glamour to be shifty and chintzy.

A studio head reviewing stills evidently grumbled "We hired Miss Stanwyck. We got President Washington."

I have no luck posting links to pics. Maybe this will work.

Andrew McCarthy "Pretty in Pink"

Diane Keaton - The Godfather

Ann Bancroft - 66 Charing Cross Road

Her wigs in this movie distracted me throughout.

Gwyneth in the reshot scenes of "Hush" -- they didn't even try to match her hair in the other scenes. HORRIBLE.

Loretta Swit in "MASH." Those wigs she wore got progressively worse and worse. One of them made her look like Harpo Marx.

Julianna Margulies in "The Good Wife".

I cant wait for the Janeane Garofalo's Wig Troll to show up.

R13 You rang.

Sarah Paulson in Ratched

Ok, she’s not really on a series, and she seems like a sweet gal, but journalist Leslie Stahl.

Come ON, girl!

R16 What is under that thing?

Sheryl Lee’s wigs and hairdos in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me were distracting because they looked so different from the TV show

R9, it's 84 Charing Cross Road.

Moira Rose's wigs on Schitt's Creek. Pick any one of them. (Granted, they're meant to be laughable.)

Jaclyn Smith in Charlie's Angels. She apparently was a look-alike for this murdered woman. Exact in every way except the plastic hair.

Sharon Stone's wigs in Ratched are also super fake. Nice sets and costumes though.

Isabella Rossalini in "Blue Velvet". Still hot with it though.

Susan Lucci's blonde wig in Mafia Princess. She played Giancana from teen (Of course) to washed-up and asylum bound blonde. .

[quote]Moira Rose's wigs on Schitt's Creek. Pick any one of them. (Granted, they're meant to be laughable.)

Jocelyn Schitt's wigs are really bad too. They're supposed to be her real hair, unlike Moira's, but I don't think they're going for ultra realism.

Also on Schitt's, Stevies wigs make her look like late-stage Michael Jackson from some angles. We've been calling her character Michael Jackson because of it.

Joni Ernst as Senator for Iowa in the film of her life.

Jeanette Nolan in Avalanche. She was only 14 years older than Rock Hudson who played her son so the makeup team went out of its way to make her look as ancient as possible with that pearly white wig.

Sharon Stone is also pretty much bald, wigs are her only option.

Kidman had frizzy, wiry dark blonde hair. A think all these decades of lightening and straightening it damaged it beyond repair.

R29 Sharon always wears her real hair. She was just on James Corden and her hair looked fine.

Kidman’s natural hair.

Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween II has to take the cake. Really awful.

At least her wig in the new one was better.

Sam Heughan in Outlander, roadkill skunks look better.

If an actor complains about hair looking bad, does this translate to them as being difficult or should they just let the cosmetician do their thing? Cause surely they all saw the atrocities in the mirror before going in front of the camera, right?

Colin Farrell's wig in Alexander was abysmal

He looked like the lead singer in an 80s hair band

All the season 1 wigs in Game of Thrones give away the then-low budget.

Season 1

Trump's wig on The Apprentice

R35 sometimes, these wigs are made to achieve a certain look. They can say "hey, this wig looks cheap" but that doesn't mean the production will have the money to make a better one unless a producer complains.

R40 If they do a wig gag/wig reveal, they usually get a cheap one laying around, because using an expensive one would cause damage when it gets pulled/ripped off.

Very few women over 25 appear on film unaided by some hair addition. Their hair gets tortured. No excuse for cheap wigs, though.

Bette Davis in Dead Ringer, one of the all-time worst wigs ever worn by anyone. And Davis wore this travesty for several years in her personal life, it wasn't just for the film.

Sharlene Frame from Another World

Here the daughter of Shirley Knight POISONS Sharlene!

Bette in the Dead Ringer wig at some public event.

Rose Byrne as Gloria Steinem

r16 Leslie looks like an old whorehouse madam there!

Donald Trump as "American President"

Ralph Macchio’s wig in Cobra Kai looks so precariously perched on his head it seems a sudden rapid breeze would send it flying.

Some of you are confusing bad/poorly styled hair with wigs.

Dame Joan Collins' wigs in S2 of 'Dynasty' (her first season on the show) were notoriously bad. In one of the 'Dynasty' fan groups I'm a part of (I know, gay), one of the ladies on there said she knew a hairdresser on 'Dynasty' who claimed Joan provided all her own wigs that season, and that she purposely bought the cheapest ones possible because she felt they were easier to style and had more bounce. Not sure if that's true, but she alternated between wearing her own hair and the hideous wigs...it was always easy to spot her own hair because her hairline was (and still is) fairly thin at the front. Joan herself claimed that's why she started wearing wigs, after being a starlet in the 50s and having a studio hairdresser tell her she had thin hair.

R51 What's the name of the fan group? How come they never had them rip each others wigs off?

R52, just search "Dynasty" on Facebook. Not sure it'll let me link it here, but it's the one with the profile pic that's cartoon renderings of the main characters inside the letters spelling out 'Dynasty'. There used to be a lot of inside sources from the show who posted on there, but they either disappeared, died, or got scared off by the crazies. Very similar to DL, in other words!

R53 Interesting.

"The Doors", and "Brokeback Mountain" have some of the worst wigs of any movie since "Mommie Dearest"!

Laura San Giacomo in The Stand. That thing was fucking career ruining.

When they'd show flasbacks of Angel as Liam.

R55, Anne Hathaway's wig in BM was particularly hilarious.

This actress in Requiem. The wig is so distracting that I can't focus on the plot.

R58 In that scene, I thought she was supposed to look ridiculous.

I'm a big fan of Don, but even as a young one, I knew that was a bad rug on Three's Company. Seems like it should have been part of the joke/characte , like Stan on GG. But, no.

Laura San Giacomo in The Stand. That thing was fucking career ruining.

Yes, it was bad, wasn't it? I read "The Stand." "The character she played, Nadine, apparently had striking hair; thick and black, "shot with skeins of purest white." The hair Giacomo sported in that mini-series looked like old lady hair; long and limp and gray.

Molly Ringwald wore a ridiculous wig in that production, too. Her character, Fran, had long dark hair hanging halfway down her back. In "The Stand" mini-series, she had an unflattering bob hairstyle, incredibly out of date for the time period and obviously a wig. The hairstylist on "The Stand" should have been fired.

The blond atrocities is the Twilight movies own this thread.

[R56], it's like she killed and skinned Cousin It and is wearing his scalp like Hercules did the lion.

Woody Harrelson in Venom.

Courteney Cox's bang wiglet in 'Scream 3' is notoriously laughable.

R66 That was actually her real hair.

Nicole Kidman’s wig in Lion looked like something fished out of a pile of charity shop donation rejects

R68, I recognize that wig from the 3rd national non-equity tour of Annie

Kidman has always had shitty wigs.

Nicole Kidman's wig in Lion was atrocious.

Nicole Kidman's wig in Lion was atrocious.

Winona Ryder in Edward Scissorhands

R62 Fran in the book had long “chestnut” hair, which I took to mean a rich, medium brown.

Danny Thomas loved a rich, medium brown. Except it wasn't a wig.

if there was a thread for best wigs in a film or tv series- I would nominate Tilda Swinton's wig in Trainwreck.

R76 Time to create one.

[quote]Yes, it was bad, wasn't it? I read "The Stand." "The character she played, Nadine, apparently had striking hair; thick and black, "shot with skeins of purest white." The hair Giacomo sported in that mini-series looked like old lady hair; long and limp and gray.

It's a pity as Laura San Giacomo has great hair.

Her character in the tv movie The Stand was actually a combination of two characters from the book... villainess Nadine, as well as the "older attractive woman" that Larry meets in the park, Rita Blakemoor. They merge the characters halfway through. So the wig is to make her look older as well as more witchy. She also wears a terrible white wig later on.

[quote] She never seems to wear her natural hair onscreen anymore. However, when she does she's always in some shitty wig.

Huh? This sentence makes no sense. She never wears her natural hair anymore, but when she does she's in a wig?

When the plot calls for an actress to cut off her hair or suddenly have short hair and a) that same plot requires for her hair to be long at some point in the movie or b) the actress refuses to get a haircut, the resulting wigs used are usually dismal.

Speaking of The Stand, I don’t know if Jamey Sheridan’s hair was real, a wig, or some combination but it was awful and made his character laughable instead of chilling. This is what everyone’s been so afraid of?

You don’t like, r21? I have many more for you to choose from!

Some of you cunts are idiots. You realize some of the pics in this thread are the actor/ess's REAL HAIR just in horrid condition or styled badly? It's called performance art honeys. It is not meant to be Insta photos filtered beyond recognition. Perhaps spend less time trolling the Gram and believing people actually look like the selfies they post there? Your life may improve.

Well, r83, don't leave us hanging. Which ones aren't really wigs?

R67, I thought I recalled reading at the time that it was a wiglet. What about Drew Barrymore's 'Scream' hair? I had a lesbian friend in college (not the Garofaholic) who had the poster up in her dorm room and swore that was Drew's real hair. But I've read since that *that* one was a wig (which it totally looked like).

R85 Nope, she cut it herself. Neve Campbell wore a wig in Scream 3.

R85 How the hell could your friend have thought that was Drew's real hair?

R87, she swore she read somewhere that Drew wanted to go very meta to play Casey Becker, and that she had her hair cut that way. This was before the Internet was readily available, so I had no way to disprove her.

Unrelated to the 'Scream' series, but JR's toupee on 'Dallas' was never believable, and got worse as the series went on. Even as a child I knew that couldn't be his real hair. Then Larry Hagman played a judge on a show called 'Orleans' in '97 and wore his real hair to differentiate from JR Ewing.

"Speaking of The Stand, I don’t know if Jamey Sheridan’s hair was real, a wig, or some combination but it was awful and made his character laughable instead of chilling. This is what everyone’s been so afraid of?"

Yes, I thought Randall Flagg, "The Dark Man", was funny looking as hell in that production. I'm not familiar with the actor who played him, but he looked and sounded ridiculous. More funny than scary.

The bounty hunter in Critters.

Henry Cavill in the Witcher

You rang?

Carrie Ann Inaba is now wearing wigs on "The Talk" and "DWTS" What's up?

R93 She thought she was going to lose her hair due to meds she was taking, but she didn't.

R90 one of the few characters who wasn't insufferable in A Chorus Line.

Rob Huebel has the worst hairpiece I've ever seen.

R96 It's his real hair.

All of the wigs that Crystal Bernard wore in her Hallmark movies.

Related.

R91 wins

Whatever dead rodent is shaved and applied to Donnie Wahlberg's head on Blue Bloods.

Get fucking transplants!

R101 Fortunately, it only for the show.

the kids in Villages of the Damned...both versions

Her wig was awful too

Personally, I found her hot in this wig. Angelina Jolie in "Life Or Something Like it".

She looks awful as a blonde

Wow! That "Calla" wig Jaclyn Smith is sporting is what drag queens call a "Shake & Go" wig, lol.

Cheap wigs come in a plastic bag. You yank it out, give it a shake and plop it on your head. It's not like attempting to style it will make it look any better.

R107 Love Jaclyn's wigs.

No more wigs to conquer.

Colin Farrell in "Alexander."

James Earl Jones in "Conan the Barbarian."

[quote]Worst Wigs in a Film or TV Series

Kristen.

This one (from "Lion") always makes me laugh.

Anna Kendrick, "Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates"

This is so bad it's in Ted Koppel territory.

Angelina Jolie in Girl, Interrupted.

Jodie Foster, the Accused.

Sharon Stone, Casino.

R113 Looks like Tina Fey.

R116 She looked attractive in that wig.

How has nobody mentioned The Muppet Show yet??

This sow’s wigs are nothing more than greasy rat tails.

R118, reminds me too much of Carol Brady.

R119 Wocka Wocka Wocka!

R121 She was hot too.

Companion thread.

[quote]Jeanette Nolan in Avalanche. She was only 14 years older than Rock Hudson who played her son so the makeup team went out of its way to make her look as ancient as possible with that pearly white wig.

Speaking of pearly white wigs, Estelle Getty's ludicrous white wigs on "The Golden Girls" always looked like something bought for $1.98 at an Eva Gabor clearance sale.

Marilyn Monroe wore a very fake looking, unflattering wig in "The Misfits." At the time of her death her hair was so overbleached and burned up from all the hair treatments that a wig was used to cover it up. Supposedly she was interred wearing a wig from "The Misfits." That was probably a mistake. The daughter of Marilyn's possessive psychiatrist Ralph Greenson was at Marilyn's funeral. She said that when the lid of the coffin was lifted for mourners to pay their last respects "a shock of yellow hair popped out. I couldn't bear to look."

Nicole Kidman in The Undoing.

Riz Ahmed in Jason Bourne. It looked like the hairstylist grabbed a wig off a Walmart mannequin, then plopped it on his head. His own hair was growing in from the bald scenes he had previously filmed for The Night Of, the wig was needed.

R134 Not as bad as Mama’s wig.

Not sure if this was simply Riz's own dyed hair blond or a full wig with dark roots. This look was for Riz's recent Sound of Metal film. The tats are fake.

Riz has badly thinning hair on his crown. If this is a wig, it's amazing. It looks like the type of hair a punk rock drummer, his character in the film, would have.

Riz's real hair, notice the obvious thinning on the crown area.

Anybody just catch Maura Tierney on "Your Honor"? Monster wig.

anything kidman is in....she plops cheap wigs on her plastique face.....peculiar.

The Doors

Brokeback Mountain

Mommie Dearest

David Spade.

In anything that he's in. Terrible wigs. Is he bald? Why does he wear them? They are so bad they are distracting.

This thread was made for anything Tyler Perry produces

Re: Tyler Perry

“In an interview with Hello Beautiful, Perry and A Fall from Grace’s star Crystal Fox revealed that they got into a heated argument about how awful her wigs were. “We had a knockdown, drag-out argument about the wigs in one of the scenes,” Perry revealed. “It was very emotional for her. “As long as you figure it out before it’s time to shoot. I’m good. I don’t have time to wait five hours and spend $10 million to figure out which curl is right for you” Perry was quoted as saying.”

..... so these are the options?! Wait five hours and spend $10million vs get the cheapest bargain basement wigs possible?? No happy middle? Ms.Perry you are trash

she jus plain cheap.....but luv da hi end male ho's ??

Jennifer Jason Leigh in SWF?

[quote]Some of you cunts are idiots. You realize some of the pics in this thread are the actor/ess's REAL HAIR just in horrid condition or styled badly? It's called performance art honeys.

That's not what performance art is, R83. You might want to stop calling others idiots and cunts.

Maura Tierney is back on Your Honor with her monster Patti Smith wig.

Big applause for the James Earl Jones link. He deserves so much better but damn, that wig made me laugh the hardest.