Top 10 Celebrities You've NEVER Seen Young
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- We only recognize these celebs from a certain point onward. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the celebrities who didn’t enter the spotlight until later in life. Our countdown includes Morgan Freeman, Bea Arthur, Judi Dench, and more! Which celebrity’s younger self surprised YOU the most? Let us know in the comments below!
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I saw Morgan Freeman young because I used to watch the Electric Company! I remember the skit when Morgan Freeman tried to fight off a sneeze and when he finally sneezed he blew everything in the room away! I've held in my sneezes ever since then!
SAME THING
Same
Oh, I loved EZ Reader! That was one cool cat! ❤
My first thought when the video started was “how are you going to tell me I’ve never seen Easy Reader young?”
Yes. We were lucky!
Ridiculous saying Anthony Hopkins was 40 when he found fame. Thirteen years before that he's playing opposite Katherine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole in The Lion In Winter. A few years later he's the lead in a spy thriller When 8 bells toll. Try some research, nowadays it's not difficult.
I was gonna say the same thing!
I loved him in 1978's Magic!
Absolutely, and Dame Judi has been a major star on Brit TV for many decades!
Thank you. Just another example of "young folks" forgetting that some of us are still around who remember Hopkins as a young man, and Judi Dench when she was beautiful and young!
Just clickbait, like most of mojo's videos. They're made for imbeciles, who need simplified, even though fake factually, entertainment.
Not mentioning Helen Mirren being cast in Caligula in her young age is a crime...
Or in Excalibur....
Love Excalibur and Caligula
I agree, she was young, beautiful, and fabulous in both those 80s classics
I agree!!
I once caught her first starring role in Age of Consent on an early morning showing on Sky and that was when she was 24
Patrick Stewart was in the original version of Dune. He was also in I, Claudius.
and Excalibur! what a crappy list
I, Claudius. Brilliant tv.
love his voice work in tinker tailor and smiley people .... Ooh 🤣
'Celebrities you've never seen young' if you've never bothered to watch movies they made when they were young?
Depends how you define 'young' but the British ones were doing movies in the 1960s when they were in their early thirties or less - Helen Mirren did AGE OF CONSENT when she was about 25, and Anthony Hopkins was barely older than Nicol Williamson when he was Claudius to his Hamlet in 1969.
Pfffft. I've seen Anthony Hopkins young in 1968's "The Lion in Winter." Plus, many of the British actors have been on Tv in the 70s and 90s. I think the term "never" is not accurate, because the majority of the actors have been seen young.
Given that they mentioned 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' but magically didn't count it as having seen Maggie Smith young, completely ignoring Hopkins' Richard in 'The Lion in Winter' seems par for course.
@@DecutusThe young Hopkins was a pretty amazing Pierre in War and Peace (1971). And wasn’t the young Helen Mirren pretty well known (Morgana in Excalibur) and a bunch of other ‘80s movies?
But following Lion in Winter, he didn’t have the prolific film career that was expected.
@@Beth_Alice_Kaplanvery true. He became a star in the UK after TV’s War and Peace - but agreed that in movies he was more of a character actor (eg The Elephant Man) than star (eg Magic) for many years.
@@dave55ides I’ve never seen that War and Peace, but anyway, you’re correct about The Elephant Man…actually it was difficult to say who was the technical lead in that film?
Ricky Gervais has that David Bowie thing down❤ Who knew he was so androgynous gorgeous
Some of us first loved Judi Dench in her Britcoms that were shown on PBS in the U.S. She was in her 40s in A Fine Romance and even better in As Time Goes By in the 90s. Also, I saw The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie in the movie theater when it came out. (Oddly, I didn't care for it much.) I'm surprised you didn't include Vanessa Redgrave, who is still at it at 87. She's the narrator for Call the Midwife. I first saw her in Camelot with Richard Harris (the first Dumbledore). Actually I first saw him in Mutiny on the Bounty when I was a kid. Brando was the star but I spotted Harris, who was very attractive as a young sailor and thought, "Wow, who is THAT?"
He was absolutely gorgeous! ❤️
He also played a young pilot at the beginning of "The Guns of Navarone." You will notice him as he has a few lines. 😊
@@williambilyeu9801 Thanks - I never saw that film, but there's a brief clip of him saying his lines on YT. Such an interesting actor - and interesting guy! His hell-raising stories with Peter O'Toole are hilarious. As far as Bounty, I laughed at a comment someone posted that Richard Harris wouldn't act with Brando because of how difficult he was (I think he was difficult in most of his films), so all the close-ups of Harris are of him talking to a log while Brando read his lines off the forehead of an assistant.😂
Anthony Hopkins didn't start late, the same as Judi Dench, they were simply acting in theater, not in movies. But they are a beauty to behold!
They were in BOTH all along.
Oh honey just because YOU'RE only 20 something, don't assume the rest of us are also. I've followed Helen Mirren around the acting world since I saw her in "As you like it" in 1981 or 2.
And I remember Morgan Freeman as Easy Reader in Electric Company back in 1971/2.
I remember him as Vincent the Vegetable Vampire. 😊
toshiro, thanks for representing us forgotten “over 40’s” who’ve enjoyed the performances of these talented people for years 😂
Helen Mirren As You like It was 1978
@@jasonchambers4495Yes dear, I know. But I saw it in the early 80s.
I remember Morgan Freeman as the villain in an Electric Company episode of "Spiderman" -- "You accurséd arachnid!" Fun times.
I remember I once heard Helen Mirren on an old LP recording of Shakespeare's As You Like It. What a lovely young voice she had, and what a great voice she has now.
I feel like they completely forgot Angela Lansbury! Even when she was in “younger” they had her playing older characters. She was only 3 years older than her Manchurian Candidate “son.”
Angela Lansbury was still in her teens when she was in National Velvet and The Harvey Girls. Both came after her Oscar nominated film debut (I don’t think she won, though) in Gaslight.
It is surreal watching The Court Jester where Angela Lansbury was around 30 years old when she did that but already she had quite a veteran style of acting.
I guess the title is 10 celebrities who you NEVER SAW young. I'm guessing that means that MsMojo considers some of Lansbury's young performances to be a bit too widely seen.
She played Liz Taylor's older sister in National Velvet( 1944).
I know I was raised on a VHS tape of National Velvet. But in National Velvet there were little to no hints of the Jessica Fletcher and Mrs. Potts she'll become. But that element of her was clearly starting to be present when she did The Court Jester.@@yvonneplant9434
Yikes! This list reads like the narrator thinks the world began at their birth. These actors had great careers in their youth, and 30 certainly isn't "old".
The list basically discounts any theater work that the actors did
Or anything that wasn't huge in America, as if Europe didn't exist. @@mariateresamondragon5850
Baby Ricky Gervais was so pretty!
How about Helen Mirren as Morgana in Excalibur?
This video is so embarrassing.
Ricky Gervas looked like a young David Bowie
I love Maggie Smith! I think she’s just as widely known for Downton Abbey (my introduction to her) as the Harry Potter franchise.
I remember her in Britsh films in the 1970's.
@@mariegarside8830 I remember her from "The VIP's", which she did when she was 29.
She was in a lot of movies n the 70s, Murder by Death, Death on the Nile, California Suite, Clash of the Titans and many more - she was big then - so I truly do not understand how Maggie Smith is even in this. Granted she is always #1 in my book- but not this category
Maggie Smith broke my heart in The VIPs. She was pretty good in Jean Brodie; they gave her an Oscar.
@@margaretreilly5792 Mills & Zoomers don't have a clue about anything that happened the day before they were born. You can quote me. They are incredibly unreliable sources for any subject except comic books and puter games. They wouldn't know Citizen Kane if they tripped over it (Hard to imagined they would ever be in a room with Citizen Kane). To them 28 is old. They don't realize that they are the world's oldest infants.
When MsMojo uses click bait titles for their videos that are inaccurate and misleading, you know they're in trouble as a sustainable channel.
I saw Helen Mirren and Patrick Stewart in "Excalibur" in 1982. She started her career downplaying her sexiness in interviews. I first saw Anthony Hopkins in "The Lion in Winter" and "Magic". Whoever wrote this clearly didn't vet the information properly.
Anthony Hopkins was my first crush (I'm a gal) when he played in the reincarnation thriller Audrey Rose in the 70's.
Dame Maggie Smith has said her role in the Harry Potter movies is like her guaranteed pension
Anthony Hopkins was memorable in A Lion in Winter in 1968, though mass public recognition came later. Maggie Smith was charming with Rex Harrison in The Honey Pot in 1967, just before The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Glad they're still active.
Hopkins was very good-and chilling too-in “Magic”, with Ann-Margret.
Obviously, you've never watched "As Time Goes By". Dame Dench was perfection, even then!
Don't forget Helen's role in Caligula!
She certainly wishes we’d forget! 😬
Helen mirren was absolutely gorgeous back in the day. She is still pretty but in her 20s, she resembled a damn lingerie model.
I remember two major roles she had in the 80s that called on her to utilize her Russian side - “2010: The Year We Make Contact” and “White Knights.”
Bea Arthur surprised me the most. I had no idea she was in the Marines.
I knew she was a Marine in World War 2
Why is Alan Rickman not on this list?
I remember young Morgan Freeman as Easy Reader on Electric Company.
The first time I saw Harry Potter all I could think was they had that one goddess from Clash of the Titans playing one of his professors. Maggie Smith is awesome.
I grew up watching Morgan Freeman on the Electric Company, which he did for four years. Even then, it was obvious he was capable of bigger and better things. But by the time the Electric Company came along, he was already 34. So it makes sense that he was in his fifties by the time he became a household name.
🎵🎵 EZ Reader - that's my name - un - un - un - un ....🎵🎵🎵🎵
What was the point of having some of these actors on the list if you’re not going to show them when they were young lol
True or you can clearly look them up on Google. Google is always a choice 😁
For me Seeing a young Jeff Goldblum in Death Wish, and recently seeing a video on CZcams of Mike Myers as a kid on a Canadian TV show (and he was a redhead😂😂)
Not to mention a young Christopher Guest in Death Wish as well...
Judy Dench has never changed in age the only difference shes older but she looks great.
I am old enough to have watched the original Electric Company program.
Of course, Freeman wasn't yet a mega star, and I would have been too young to know celebrities by their real names if he had been a mega star. 🤷😄
Dame Judy Dench I Think She Was In James Bond for 2 decades
She also played Sally Bowles in the OG London production of Cabaret
it kind of defies the title of the list when the number 1 celebrity "never seen young" won an oscar for best actress in 1969
R.I.P Stan Lee
You DO realize that Anthony Hopkins co-starred with Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter in 1968?? I think you do, but increasingly Ms. Mojo is pandering to its audience, assuming that Gen Zers who may watch this channel know nothing beyond Taylor Swift and what they see on their phones. Go over and watch Be Kind Rewind and learn a little about the 20th Century and the Western cultural past. This channel is getting lazy, but, worse: it's becoming like the 1950s television networks, pandering to its audience's ignorance, and assuming it's just fine.
I saw Maggie Smith in a play in London in 1974. She was GREAT!!!
Lucky you! Nothing like live theater when it's good (nothing worse when it's bad ...)
My dad use to watch British T.V. reruns on P.B.S. She was on a show called As Time Goes By in the late 70’s.
RICKY GERVAIS IS like the opposite of what a has-been 80s rock star would look like
That may be because he was a never-was :)
You never showed us what Ellen Abertini Dow looked like young.
I was thinking the same thing.
Alan Rickman is another one who we didn't saw young.. his first movie when he was 42
Helen Mirrin: EXCALIBER! 1981 - With PATRICK STEWART, Nigel Terry and Liam Neesom!
Thanks for making me feel older than I already feel. I remember lots and lots of these personalities when they were young!
Your number one choice didn't start when she was older. You can see her 40 or 50 years earlier. Some of the rest of them you can't
I recently looked at a picture of Bob Marley when he was in his teens and holy crap, he's so handsome! Don't get me wrong, he's handsome with his dreadlocks, but pre-Rasta, he reminds me of my brother’s friend.
Leave, your brothers friend alone.
No one asked you.
Agreed, I know that he was only 36 when he died, but he still looks insanely youthful in his pre dreadlocks era.
Bob survived the assassination attempt. His cause of death was melanoma. I knew about the assassination attempt when I saw a stage production about his life in 8th grade and initially thought he died that way. I was surprised that he survived given the numerous assassinations of political figures a decade earlier.
Ricky’s early music is amazing. I love Ricky!
Morgan Freedman taught me how to read as "Easy Reader" on the Electric Company. Oprah Winfrey was on my local TV station. Maggie Smith and Judy Dench have been doing movies and TV for decades. Helen Mirren was a young knock out in "Caligula" in 1979. She was the go-to for foreign accents in films. She's been acting steadily in film since she was in her early twenties.
Wasn’t Ellen Albertini Dow on The Golden Girls and Sister Act BEFORE The Wedding Singer?
I love it when magazine articles or youtube videos tell me that I've never seen something that I grew up with.
Ricky Gervais was a total shocker. 😮
I remember Antony Hopkins from The Lion in Winter from 1968. He was pretty young then. Other movies followed as did roles on American tv.
Ellen Albertini Dow - loved her in The Wedding Singer. I have watched that one performance of her doing Rappers Delight over and over again!
Wow, Rickie impressed me. I never knew....very handsome.
Your Maggie Smith listing is, to be kind, nonsense.
She was well-known in the Sixties. You mention her Oscar was for a 1969 film. That's FIFTY FIVE YEARS AGO.
I guess the point is the Millennials who are the audience for this channel aren't aware of that. (I saw that movie in a theater. When it was new. Obviously I shouldn't be viewing your channel. )
As for actors who ACTUALLY started late people unfortunately have forgotten Peg Phillips, who began at 64.
She was featured in "Northern Exposure " which just now reached streaming. Hopefully a new generation will discover her.
william hicky, i saw him once in an old movie and helooked young, when i saw it i said "holy crap, i thought he was just born old"
Ridiculous young people who think no one existed until they saw them. Meh
This is clearly a video for under-30s. At age 71, I was aware of nearly all of these performers long before they appeared on you kiddie-winkies’ radar. Back in the 1950s Bea Arhtur starred in the first English language production of Brecht/Weill’s 3 Penny Opera then co-starred in the 1960s with Angela Lansbury in Mame. I was mesmerized by Hellen Mirrin in 1981’s Excalibur, where I also first encountered Liam Neesom. Patrick Stewart also appeared in that film, but I already knew him from his role as Sejanus in 1976’s BBC mini-series I, Claudius which also starred John Hurt (Alien), Sian Phillips (Dune), and Patricia Quinn (Rocky Horror Picture Show), never mind Dereck Jacobi as the title character. Anthony Hopkins first made his cinematic mark in 1968’s The Lion in Winter alongside Peter O’Toole and Katherine Hepburn, while Maggie Smith’s epochal performance in Jean Brodie far eclipses her Harry Potter work. I know you make these videos for Gen Z, X, and etc. But really. Your research is…well…so-so at best.
I'll have to go and watch I Claudius again...
That old lady singing Rapper's Delight LOL
I think part of the issue is theater - especially Broadway - is not that accessible to the average person. It’s expensive, and grows more expensive every year.
*EDIT* So if an actor who has a career mainly in theater doesn’t begin appearing on film or tv until after their 40s, I can see how many viewers - unfamiliar with the stage and many actors who primarily perform there - will think of those who don’t take onscreen roles until much later in life as “always old.” (Subjective, I know.) Why Dame Maggie Smith is on this list *after* pointing out her wildly-known 60s film “The Prime of Miss Jean Prodie” is confusing.
Beth: Hollywood is not accessible to me, but if I was doing a project about movies l would do some homework first. Goes without saying, unless you borrowed $60 thousand dollars to get a degree in Communication.
@@JackMason-oq8lf ?????
I remember him!!!!
Bea Arthur played Vera in 1966 to Angela Lansbury's Mame on Broadway, as well as Lucille Ball's Mame in the film version in 1974.
Anthony Hopkins and Judy Dench were well known on British television for years, before their film careers took off. Hopkins was in a British television version of War and Peace and Judy Dench was in a British sitcom with her husband, before she was successful in films.
Most British film actors have had both stage and television roles, because of the quality required for British television means, that often actors have been on stage. Although it isn't always a rule, it is very common.
You forgot that Maggie Smith is better known as Dowager Countess Grantham ( Violet/ Grandmama ) in Downton Abbey.
All the oldest British actors you mentioned are Dames and Sirs, knighted for contributions to British acting, McKellen ( who you didn't show ), Hopkins, Smith, Dench, Mirren and Stewart.
This is obviously aimed at the youngsters and makes me feel very old😂.
Most of the British actors featured had numerous theatre and television roles years before they were in any American movies. Clearly whoever put it together hasn’t researched particularly well.
Never seen any of the Golden Girls young. For me they were always these elderly women
I've seen many movies of Anthony Hopkins when he was young, including his first movie, THE LION IN WINTER when he was 30.
Love maggie smith my favourite film .The Prime of Miss jean Brodie 👍👍👍👍.Great Film.
I nearly threw a glass at the tv when Morgan Freeman didn’t win for Hoke in ‘Driving Miss Daisy’.
Young is relative. Mirren rocked Prime Suspect and she was only in her 30s I think.
I agree. My mom loved her in that show. She was even younger in the early 1980s BBC productions of Shakespeare plays.
@@sazfretz1945 I'm thinking this list must be for young Americans who haven't grown up with classic British TV. Cause even Dench and Smith had been on TV shows and British movies when they were in their thirties.
I think Helen Mirren was in her mid to late forties when she first played in Prime Suspect (1991). She was so great in it.
@gwendolynsmith9532 No! Pretty sure she kicked off my love for older women. I was 7 in 1991 🤣
@@freddie488 She was born in 1945, according to Google. Prime Suspect debuted in 1991, I believe.
That singing from Gervais.
I has watched the PBS series The Electric Company in the early 1970's. It took me quite a while to realize the the Easy Reader character was the same Morgan Freeman that became much more famous decades later.
And Laurence Fishburne was Cowboy Curtis on Pee Wee Herman's Playhouse. Gotta start somewhere....
Helen Mirren and Patrick Stewart were in one of my favorite movies together. Excalibur(1981)
I had a pick one I don’t know maybe Judy Dunn, that
You know it just goes to show you, that even if you’re 49 or even 80, it’s never too late to pursue your dreams, no matter how old you are.
It's none other than Stan Lee (RIP) he'll always be in our hearts. Happy friday afternoon, Kirsten. Take care and God bless you, greetings from Colombia to you as well.
I remember Ian Mckellen as the villain across from Anthony Andrews and Jane Seymour in "The Scarlet Pimpernel."
This give me hope that your never too old to make something of yourself
Dench
Do your research! Anthony Hopkins played Richard the Lionheart in the 1960s in a major production, "The Lion in Winter" with Katherine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole.
What about Conchata Ferrell (2 1/2 Men), Katherine Helmond (Who's the Boss), Shelley Morrison (Will & Grace) and Holland Taylor (2 1/2 Men)?
Let's be fair, Patrick Stewart had already done at least 2 sci-fi movies prior to becoming Picard, and one of them was Dune, so was a fairly well known sci-fi flick at that....
Someone that most people only remember as an older supporting actress is Wendy Hiller. I remember her as Eliza in "Pygmalion" with Leslie Howard. She was beautiful and brilliant. 😊
Wendy Hiller was in "I know where I'm going" as a young actress. Wonderful British film set in the Hebrides.
@@dew7545 I will try to find and watch that. Thanks! 😊👍
So..... We're not going to mention Bea Arthur's definitive role as Ackmena, and her musical number "Goodnight, But Not Goodbye"?
I am a little surprised Walter Brennan didn't make the list he was playing an old man in 1940 through 1970.
Excaliber 1981..
Helen Mirren was amazing. And young
Morgan Freeman was 34 years old in the movie Lean on Me. Enough said.
Was any research conducted for this MsMojo episode?
Dame Helen Mirren was outstanding in The Long Good Friday and in Excalibur, both of which were filmed when she was in her early to mid thirties.
I have also never seen Steve Martin young either.
So sir Anthony Hopkins started in TV in his early 20’s and movies in his mid to late 20’s.
Again.. Patrick Stewart was also in Excaliber 1981
I saw Helen Mirren in EXCALIBUR (1980).
Morgan Freeman only got into acting when he was 50, so it seems almost bizarre to see pictures of him as a young man, pre acting career.
Morgan Freeman was on my television 5 days a week when I was in elementary school in the early to mid 70s, so I don't think he started in his 50s. Otherwise, he's around 105 years old now.
Anthony Hopkins was in the Lion in the Winter with Katherine Hepburn.
Anyone who saw Dame Helen Mirren play Morgaine le Fay in EXCALIBUR knows damned well we HAVE seen her young!
Gabby Hayes & Walter Brennan
Gabby Hayes. YOU get the Oscar in this room. If you live long enough, you too can look like Gabby Hayes. Trust me I know what I'm talking about. Gabby Hayes. That Walter Brennan was limping around our living room TV as far back as forever and a day.
I feel like this should be titled "Top 10 Celebrities I'VE Never Seen Young" - because there are an awful lot of us here you HAVE seen them young. And saying Maggie Smith is "proof you can still teach an old dog new tricks" is just flat out offensive. She's an actress with a remarkable career who continues to work - SHE isn't the one being taught anything.
Yes you are so right...
Bea Arthur served in the US Marine Corps.
Keith Richards anyone?
Hey