Actors who look like they belong in a different era

On the early episodes of Seinfeld Elaine had a HAIRDO from the 1940's.

Carol Kane has always looked like she belongs in the early 1920s.

I've always thought that my dear friend G looks like she belongs in Depression-era rural America, as captured by Dorothea Lange.

She really does have the look OP. Your picture is from "The Hot Spot", which the novel takes place in the 50's, but the movie wasn't very specific I recall.

She looked great in Gotham, which is an 80's era movie, but she had all the "trappings" of a woman from the 40's.

That hag Cherry Jones looks like a depression era grandmother.

David Corenswet.

I always thought Luke Perry would have blended right in as the guest star on a "Bonanza" or "Big Valley" episode... and then gone on to a fabulous film career in the gritty Seventies.

I always thought that young Bette Midler was going for that 30s glam persona when she first started out

Madsen always reminded me of a prettier version of Madonna.

She looked like she belonged here.

A younger Helen Bohman Carter could have been a Gibson Girl

Faye Dunaway, Jessica Lange (before she went farmwife), and Sharon Stone seemed to be throwbacks to a more glamorous era of Hollywood.

Maggie Gyllenhaal has kind of a 20s flapper look. Her eyes are expressive and if she wore a bunch of eye shadow and mascara she could do that surprised/frightened face that silent film actresses seemed to do constantly.

r1, And it didn't help her wearing those frumpy clothes and flat shoes with white socks either. I never saw anyone else with that look in the early 90s.

Barbara Stanwyck who to me had such a hard look, looked surprisingly soft and contemporary when she was young

Amanda Seyfried should play Bette Davis.

Stanwyck looks like Jennifer Jason Leigh.

I could probably find a better image, but Clara Bow always looked 1980s (or 1970s) to me.

@r17, yeah, she does a bit

And I've always found Greta Garbo ageless. She could have belonged to any era, seamlessly.

A young JJL. WTF happened to her? That can't just be age.

Young Kevin Cline always looked old timey to me. As if he belonged in the 1930s with actors like William Powell.

Michelle Dockery of Downton Abbey does look she belongs in the early 1900s through 1950s.

Olivia Newton -John always reminded me of a greek muse. Oh wait...

Madsen has those big, expressive doe eyes and the small mouth (albeit with full lips) that a lot of old movie stars had. It's almost doll-like.

Kim Bassinger

Amanda Seyfried, she was perfect in Mank. It’s all the right make-up/hair and the most important the lighting.

I saw female friend's copy of Kevin Aucoin's Making Faces and was amazed how he transformed modern women into Hollywood's Golden Age starlets.

Demi Moore as Clara Bow.

Oops. Pic.

R29 I've seen several of those photos. They are kind of amazing. He did Courtney Love (who definitely looked like she belonged in the '90s) as Clara Bow too.

That was Jean Harlow R30.

Pardon R31, you're right--that's what I meant to write. The wires got crossed (I recently watched a documentary on Clara Bow, which Courtney narrated)

Winona Ryder as Liz Taylor.

Dicaprio looks like a vintage gangster.

I always thought a young Pierce Brosnan looked very old Hollywood. Just give him a debonair pencil moustache and he'd fit right in.

Bernadette Peters has always had the flapper/20s look to her.

R11 that's why she was cast in so many of those period films.

Drew Barrymore with the right makeup and marcel waves. Of course her last name helps with the perception.

Not an actor, but singer Maria McKee looks like she popped out of an 18th-century painting

^^ Speaking of Maria, she could be the reincarnation of the infamous Lady Hamilton (Lord Nelson's lover)

Back when the original Twin Peaks aired, I thought Sherilyn Fenn looked like she belonged in 40s or 50s.

I thought the best was his Martha/Veronica

R42 That was Martha Stewart? OMG what a transformation!

Meg Steedle looks like a flapper from her chestnut curls to the soles of her feet.

Ally McHepburn

R45, wait, who is that? Calista Flockart?

Yep

And, of course, Mildred Sarandon...

Second-Hand Isabella

Julia/Julie

for a very short time with the movie "slam dance" madsen was offered up as a modern day 1980's marilyn.....

speaking of actresses, what the heck ever happened to lolita davidovich?

The usual, r51. She turned into a character actress.

English actress Gina McKee has a face for period dramas. Here she is with Damian Lewis in the Forsyte Saga.

always remember gina mckee from the movie "notting hill"....

Henry Cavill not only looks like matinee idol, he acts like one too.

For ages, Tilda Swinton looked eerily appropriate for period movies like "Orlando". Because she has these enormous eyes and is the only actress in the world willing to appear without heavy eye makeup, so she looks eerily like all those old portrait where the painters flattered the subject by making their eyes larger than nature intended.

Plus, she's super pale, that also emphasizes the resemblance to old portraits. Or at least it did before she stopped aging normally.

Anna Camp looks like she belongs in the 1940s.