Anonymous
05/11/2025 07:44
Subject: Do Actors Age Faster due to Extensive Use of their Facial Muscles and body?
Anonymous wrote:1) a lot of assumptions are being made on this thread that just don't bear out. I live in a community with a lot of actors, ranging from working actors who play bit roles to a couple A list stars. So I see these people. On whole, their skin is better than most people, they are not suffering from accelerated skin laity, etc.
2) Actors tend to use more aggressive skincare than the average person. Yes, everyone has botox and filler. But lasers and PRP are what actually make your skin look younger and most people are unwilling to get painful treatments for beauty. But actors are willing and get these regularly.
3) I don't see actors making bigger expressions or more sustained expressions for on-camera acting. Maybe for theater, I don't know, but on-camera acting is about subtlety. People commonly get bounced for "over acting." Both of my kids (minors) act and one is pretty successful. I think playing Fortnite or watching their football team lose makes them make more exaggerated expressions than acting.
And one more thing to add: the notion that actors all live hard isn't accurate either. Like any other group, they participate in a range of behaviors.
There is one A list actor in town that is in the age demographic that would normally be associated with hard partying. She orders a bottle of white wine and splits it with friends-- drinks but in moderation. She's not rowdy, even with her friends that you'd think would be rowdy.
I actually can't think of any actor with a rep for partying. Acting is really hard work-- much more goes into it than it appears from the outside. People who don't take it seriously will not book work. The industry has never been more competitive and they will find someone else who comes to work on time, without a hangover or puffy face, and ready to do a scene over and over without complaint.
Anonymous
05/11/2025 07:38
Subject: Do Actors Age Faster due to Extensive Use of their Facial Muscles and body?
1) a lot of assumptions are being made on this thread that just don't bear out. I live in a community with a lot of actors, ranging from working actors who play bit roles to a couple A list stars. So I see these people. On whole, their skin is better than most people, they are not suffering from accelerated skin laity, etc.
2) Actors tend to use more aggressive skincare than the average person. Yes, everyone has botox and filler. But lasers and PRP are what actually make your skin look younger and most people are unwilling to get painful treatments for beauty. But actors are willing and get these regularly.
3) I don't see actors making bigger expressions or more sustained expressions for on-camera acting. Maybe for theater, I don't know, but on-camera acting is about subtlety. People commonly get bounced for "over acting." Both of my kids (minors) act and one is pretty successful. I think playing Fortnite or watching their football team lose makes them make more exaggerated expressions than acting.
2) Actors tend to use more aggressive skincare than the average person. Yes, everyone has botox and filler. But lasers and PRP are what actually make your skin look younger and most people are unwilling to get painful treatments for beauty. But actors are willing and get these regularly.
3) I don't see actors making bigger expressions or more sustained expressions for on-camera acting. Maybe for theater, I don't know, but on-camera acting is about subtlety. People commonly get bounced for "over acting." Both of my kids (minors) act and one is pretty successful. I think playing Fortnite or watching their football team lose makes them make more exaggerated expressions than acting.
Anonymous
05/10/2025 20:50
Subject: Do Actors Age Faster due to Extensive Use of their Facial Muscles and body?
Anonymous wrote:I think so OP. That plus sun exposure due to lifestyle and filming outside.
The female actresses are religious about staying out of the sun, I’ve seen it in action.
Anonymous
05/10/2025 19:25
Subject: Do Actors Age Faster due to Extensive Use of their Facial Muscles and body?
I'm pretty confident actors aren't spending 40 hours a week making Jim Carrey type facial distortions. Actors are by and large better looking than the rest of us. But they are subject to the same skin aging issues as everyone - sun, hydration, drinking, smoking, not sleeping enough, poor diet. And I'm assuming actors are using weight loss drugs more so than others. And the Ozempic look always seems to add years to someone's face. But a lot of actors got into this when very young, and if they had some success, living hard in their 20s is almost a given. And no 24 year old is thinking about what they're going to look like at 44.
Anonymous
05/10/2025 19:11
Subject: Do Actors Age Faster due to Extensive Use of their Facial Muscles and body?
And don’t forget gobs and gobs of drugs and alcohol
Anonymous
05/10/2025 18:01
Subject: Do Actors Age Faster due to Extensive Use of their Facial Muscles and body?
Anonymous wrote:This thread is just weird. Do yall honestly believe that actors, as a population, are less attractive than the average person? That you put a cubicle dweller next to an actor, and the pale, soft, pudgy office type is... more attractive? Okay.
The topic is wrinkles/lines, not overall attractiveness.
Actors DO wrinkle around the eyes, forehead, and mouth faster due to acting expressions. Not as bad as in the old Silent Movie era where overexpression was the norm, as Brando and the like brought about method acting, but still is a thing.
Deadpan actors like Aubrey Plaza might wrinkle slower, but there's also genetics.
Plus southern Cali is sunny af and sun/radiation exposure is the main cause.
Anonymous
05/10/2025 14:30
Subject: Do Actors Age Faster due to Extensive Use of their Facial Muscles and body?
This thread is just weird. Do yall honestly believe that actors, as a population, are less attractive than the average person? That you put a cubicle dweller next to an actor, and the pale, soft, pudgy office type is... more attractive? Okay.
Anonymous
05/09/2025 20:26
Subject: Do Actors Age Faster due to Extensive Use of their Facial Muscles and body?
Anonymous wrote:Actors spend their whole like emoting strong emotions and putting themselves in dark psychological mindsets for the sake of their craft. Even for regular actors, having to smile and laughing and cry for most of their lives...do they develop lines and wrinkles faster due to all the usage?
I wonder even about public figures...Kate Middleton, for example, has to have a smile plastered on her face since she married Prince william at age 30. Does she have more crows feet and laugh lines and other women?
Of course. Also all the toxins in the makeup they use, plus the tanning and fake tanning lotions, and stressful schedules, etc. it all takes a toll.
Anonymous
05/09/2025 12:46
Subject: Re:Do Actors Age Faster due to Extensive Use of their Facial Muscles and body?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Turns out good actors are causing their bodies to literally FEEL what they're emoting. Awful example was a pregnant actress playing an abused pregnant woman who miscarried in an episode she filmed. The actress then miscarried in real life a week later. Linda Hamilton's twin sister abused pills and booze and accidentally died in her hot car during height of covid. She looked a lot younger than Linda even though she was abusing herself. It is totally the emotions and your body believing what you tell it.
What pregnant actress? Name the name.
Miscarriage is common. No way to prove causation.
Anonymous
05/09/2025 11:23
Subject: Re:Do Actors Age Faster due to Extensive Use of their Facial Muscles and body?
Anonymous wrote:Turns out good actors are causing their bodies to literally FEEL what they're emoting. Awful example was a pregnant actress playing an abused pregnant woman who miscarried in an episode she filmed. The actress then miscarried in real life a week later. Linda Hamilton's twin sister abused pills and booze and accidentally died in her hot car during height of covid. She looked a lot younger than Linda even though she was abusing herself. It is totally the emotions and your body believing what you tell it.
What pregnant actress? Name the name.
Anonymous
05/09/2025 11:18
Subject: Do Actors Age Faster due to Extensive Use of their Facial Muscles and body?
I'm no actor, but I have been laughing, smiling, crying, etc for most of my life...
Anonymous
05/09/2025 10:53
Subject: Do Actors Age Faster due to Extensive Use of their Facial Muscles and body?
Anonymous wrote:They can afford top of the line beauty treatments so they often look younger than regular people of the same age. Look at Demi Moore and Nicole Kidman.
Most actors do not have that kind of wealth
Anonymous
05/09/2025 10:52
Subject: Do Actors Age Faster due to Extensive Use of their Facial Muscles and body?
Stage actors party a lot after shows. At a minimum, they eat dinner very late at night.
Do that every week for years, way past the age where adults are normally out until 2AM drinking, and you are going to start aging quickly.
Do that every week for years, way past the age where adults are normally out until 2AM drinking, and you are going to start aging quickly.
Anonymous
05/09/2025 09:27
Subject: Do Actors Age Faster due to Extensive Use of their Facial Muscles and body?
You’d be surprised how much is genetics. My grandma smoked a pack a day for 50 years and had zero lines. She just had insanely good skin.
Anonymous
05/09/2025 08:52
Subject: Do Actors Age Faster due to Extensive Use of their Facial Muscles and body?
Anonymous wrote:They can afford top of the line beauty treatments so they often look younger than regular people of the same age. Look at Demi Moore and Nicole Kidman.
Botox, fillers and more surgeries than the rest of us can afford is what you mean.