Celebrities that are aging or aged with dignity

Jane Fonda owns this thread.

How about that young dewy 20-something, Catherine Zeta-Jones I think she's called?

Bruce Springsteen

Ruth Gordon

Kitty Carlisle Hart

The Landers sisters.

Tina Turner

Sharon Stone. Dresses with class and style. Madonna could take a page from her.

Nikki Blonsky from the movie, Hairspray

Dignity doesn’t pay your bills

Mel Gibson. He's aged poorly, but hasn't resorted to plastic surgery and fillers and doesn't dress like a teenager.

I don't understand the question.

Shirley Temple, Doris Day, Gene Hackman, Kate Nelligan

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Cary Grant

Heather Graham

Jamie Lee Curtis

Fran Drescher

Lee Purcell

Olivia Hussey

Mary Pickford

Brendad Ickson

Lauren Bacall.

I enjoy Julianne Moore and she looks marvelous at age 61.

Perhaps she just doesn't get offers for interesting, age-appropriate roles. But it's a little off-putting to see her in movies like DEAR EVAN HANSEN, where she's playing a character in her late 30s/early 40s, no matter how youthful she appears. She may wind up like Joan Crawford if she's not careful.

[quote]In 1968, Oscar-winning actress Joan Crawford, at the time over 60 years of age, filled in for her ailing daughter, Christina, who played the role of Joan Borman Kane, a character aged just 24.

On the basis of pulling his life together, keeping in shape and not fucking with his face/overall looks, I would say RDJ.

But his occasionally dressing up as the Easter Bunny may cancel that out.

Sally Field

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R25 He used to be so handsome. He's aged horribly.

Judith Sheindlin

Meryl Streep

I’d want to claim a seat at Maggie Smith’s table more than anyone else’s, with the possible exception of Alan Arkin.

Diana Rigg

Timothée Chalamet

Mamie Van Doren

Julie Andrews

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Grace Jones

Joy Behar

QE2

DL Icon Susan Sarandon

Sean Connery

Omar Sharif

Anthony Hopkins

Audrey Hepburn

Cary Grant

Roddy McDowell

Sigourney Weaver

Diane Keaton

Helen Mirren

Candice Bergen

Warren Buffett

David Souter

Sophia Loren

Helen Mirren

Sharon Stone

Ann Margaret

Ben Stiller actually looks better now than when he was young.

Ex-Emperor Akihito of Japan

Ex-Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands

Ex-Pope Benedict of the Vatican

Chesty Morgan

Julia Louis Dreyfuss actually looked the best in her 40s/50s. I don’t know how she looks now since she battled cancer, but then again that’s not just “normal” aging.

Vladimir Lenin

Mao Zedong

Ho Chi Minh

Walt Disney

Princess Grace

Catherine Deneuve

Dame Maggie

Dame Judi

Dame Helen

Dame Vanessa

Paul Newman

Gregory Peck

Cary Grant

R47 Princess Grace actually aged terribly. She was all jowly.

Mary Pickford

Mary Fuckin Pickford!....she was a terrible drunk with botched plastic surgery....remember that last interview at Pickfair when she was accepting an award, she was in la la land!

Mamie Van Doren! Christ, if that's what you think dignity is!

Emma Thompson

Cyd Charisse, Jackie Onassis and Lee Radziwill, Joanna Lumley, Jacqueline Bisset, Ann Miller, Olivia De Havilland,

Madonna

David Attenborough, Sidney Poitier, Robert Wagner, Prince Philip

Mae West

In the middle-aged group, Frances McDormand, obviously. Blood Simple was a long time ago, but she's kept her face and her range of expression.

Naomi Watts is another. I read one of those articles recently from a woman writer who was so glad to see wrinkles and expression lines on Watts's face in that Netflix series because they're the same age. "I felt like I was seeing myself on the screen, and I never do," etc. I dislike those pieces on principle, but she was right on the facts. If La Watts has had anything done, it's been subtle. She looks just like the Mulholland Drive character, 20 years older.

Abe Vigoda

R56 While watching The Handmaid's Tale, I noticed that Yvonne Strahovski has lines on her face, and realized how rarely you seen that onscreen anymore.

] Princess Grace actually aged terribly. She was all jowly.

The OP said 'dignity' not appearance/beauty. Your looks can fade, but you can still have dignity. Dignity is a mindset- the way you hold yourself, the way you dress, the way you talk and what you talk about, and what you keep to yourself. Someone can also look great for their age and lack dignity.

Tracy Ullman, Alice Krige, Loretta Young, Betty White, Isabella Rossellini, Marsha Hunt, Olivia D. & Joan F., Cyd Charisse, Doris Day, Audrey Hepburn, Lauren Bacall, Lena Horne

Ellen Burstyn

Grace Kelly was not jawly. Her jaws were not saggy, of course they lowered, not more than it is normal for her age and the shape of her face (she always had stronger jaws). Besides, she was rarely beautiful for her age and she looked healthy and radiant. She gained just a little bit weight, which made her look better and had no visible work done. Her face wasn't changed unnaturaly. She was lucky not to be wrinkly type.

She was clever not to insist on being skinny, cause this is what makes most modern female stars look old and warn out, skinny rarely looks good on older women. And having a bit of jawls is much better option than turning into alien with plastic surgeries.

Someone mentioned Daneuve. She did gain weight naturally, but had too much work done on her face.

[quote] Dame Helen

Dame Helen has a bangin' bod.

Meh. Helen Mirren has always been a tits-and-ass girl.

Dame, indeed.

Jerry Hall

Jerry Brown

Jane Fonda has overdone the plastic surgery now. Martha Stewart is looking good.

Among ex-Presidents, Carter seems to have done the best job of retaining his dignity, with honorable mention to Bush Jr, simply because he's had the good grace to just disappear.

Michael Lucas

R48, jowly or not, Princess Grace had DIGNITY and that was the OP's request.

Vanessa Redgrave

R48 doesn't understand that aging with dignity includes a bit of jowls as opposed to having an alien face trying hard to look 25 at 60.

Here is exhibit brought before the DL jury. 50 years old Grace.

R48 is used to modern HW "dignified aging" a la plastic Skeletor.

R73 ummm - not really. I was just pointing out that she wasn’t aging WELL - and it makes sense too, given that she had a massive stroke less than 2 years later - not exactly common for women in their early 50s. So one would think there was at least some connection between her aging appearance and her deteriorating health.

And yes, she did look older than the average woman her age - I wasn’t comparing her to over botoxed or over surgeried people.

Kylie Minogue

No, not Minogue.

R74 I am not sure if she did look older than an average woman her age. In these days it was common for 50 years old women to look matronly. You are applying modern standards when women, at least celebrities and middle class professionals, are expected to look like Barbie doll in their 50s (though average American is more obese than ever).

Matthew Perry

Gary 'Land of the Giants' Conway, now 86. 81 in this photo...

And in his prime 55 years ago...

Natalie Merchant.

Lisa Whelchel

The incomparable Miss Bette Davis!

I think Cary Grant and Paul Newman are still the gold standard when it comes to men aging gracefully.

Jane looks great and natural.

Hepburn was miserable about aging. “I think we all rot away and it’s too damn bad” was what she thought.

She let her looks though but that’s because she accepted the tragedy of rotting away.

Alan Kim

Jane does look great, but that's a wig at R85. And some of the best cosmetic surgery money can buy. Good for her.

I don't understand why so many people here seem to think "aging with dignity" means looking old, drab, and awful. I mean, Frances McDormand may be dignified, but she is genuinely unpleasant to look at.

R88

Yet she was one of Mouseboy love interest in that Wes Anderson’s film...

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