Beauty is permanent, and it is valued at all stages of life. The youth of our twenties and thirties, the maturity of our forties and fifties, and the wisdom of our sixties and seventies. Every age has its own charm, and discovering them as the years pass is one of the most fascinating things about aging.
This is no different for celebrities. They manage to prove that getting older isn't something to be afraid of, from their first big-screen appearance to lifetime achievement awards.
In this article, we'll look at some A-list celebrities who have aged gracefully and look extremely fabulous at any age. Who is your all-time favorite actor?
#1 Courteney Cox
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Courteney Bass Cox is an actress, director, and producer from the United States. She rose to international popularity as Monica Geller on the NBC comedy Friends, for which she got seven Screen Actors Guild Award nominations and won one. She also gained national attention for her role as Gale Weathers in the horror film franchise Scream. She also played Lauren Miller in the NBC sitcom Family Ties, Lucy Spiller in the FX drama series Dirt, and Jules Cobb in the ABC/TBS sitcom Cougar Town, for which she received Golden Globe and Critics' Choice Award nominations.
#2 Diane Keaton
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Diane Hall Keaton is an actress from the United States. She is known for her unique personality and fashion style. She has won numerous awards throughout her six-decade career, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and the AFI Life Achievement Award.
#3 Gillian Anderson
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Gillian Leigh Anderson is an actress from the United States. Her credits include FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in The X-Files, ill-fated socialite Lily Bart in Terence Davies' film The House of Mirth, DSU Stella Gibson in the BBC/RTÉ crime drama television series The Fall, sex therapist Jean Milburn in the Netflix comedy-drama Sex Education, and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Crown's fourth season. She has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards, among other awards.
#4 Glenn Close
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Glenn Close is an actress from the United States. She has received numerous awards throughout her four-decade career, including two Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and three Tony Awards. In addition, she has been nominated for an Academy Award eight times, holding Peter O'Toole for the most nominations in an acting category without winning. She was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2016 and named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world in 2019.
#5 Helen Mirren
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Helen Lydia Mirren is an actress from England. She is the only performer to have won the Triple Crown of Acting in both the United States and the United Kingdom. She also won an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen, a Tony Award and a Laurence Olivier Award for the same role in The Audience, and three British Academy Television Awards for her role as DCI Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect, and four Primetime Emmy Awards, two of which were for Prime Suspect.
#6 Hugh Grant
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Hugh John Mungo Grant is an actor from England. He rose to fame thanks to his roles in Merchant-Maurice Ivory's (1987), for which he won the Volpi Cup. During his career, he also received A Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, a Volpi Cup, and an Honorary César. His films have grossed almost $3 billion globally from 29 theatrical releases as of 2018.
#7 Jamie Lee Curtis
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Jamie Amanda Lee is an actress, comedian, and writer best known for her roles in Girl Code, Crashing, I Love..., Ridiculousness, and The Wedding Coach. She was named one of the top 11 comedians to watch in 2017 by Elle Magazine. She's also been named one of Nerve's "Top Five Comedians Who Should Be Movie Stars," The Huffington Post's "Top 18 Women You Should Be Following on Twitter," and Refinery29's "52 Female Stand-Up Comedians You Need to Know."
#8 Jane Fonda
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Jane Seymour Fonda is an actress, activist, and fashion model from the United States. Fonda has received numerous awards, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award, the Golden Lion Honorary Award, the Honorary Palme d'Or, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award.
#9 Jeff Bridges
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Jeffrey Leon Bridges is an actor from the United States. He has won numerous awards throughout the course of his seven-decade career, including an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. For his role as an alcoholic singer in the 2009 film Crazy Heart, he won the Academy Award for Lead Actor. Other Oscar-nominated roles include The Last Picture Show (1971), Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), Starman (1984), The Contender (2000), True Grit (2010), and Hell or High Water (2016).
#10 Jodie Foster
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Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is an actress, producer, and director from the United States. She won two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and the honorary Cecil B. DeMille Award. She was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for her work as a filmmaker and declared the most beautiful woman in the world by People magazine in 1992, and she was chosen number 23 on Channel 4's list of the 100 Greatest Movie Stars of All Time in 2003. In 1996,
Entertainment Weekly ranked her 57th among the 100 Greatest Movie Stars of All Time. In 2016, she was honored with a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which can be found at 6927 Hollywood Boulevard.
#11 Kevin Costner
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Kevin Michael Costner is an actor, producer, and director from the United States of America. Costner appeared in a number of films, including Fandango, American Flyers, and Silverado. His standout performances in The Untouchables and No Way Out catapulted him to prominence (1987). He has received two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
#12 Laura Dern
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Laura Elizabeth Dern is an actress and producer from the United States. Dern began her acting career in the 1980s and rose to recognition for her roles in Mask (1985), Blue Velvet (1986), and Wild at Heart (1987). She has won a number of awards, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and five Golden Globes.
#13 Meryl Streep
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Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an actress from the United States. She is typically referred to as "the best actress of her generation." Streep is well-known for her adaptation to different accents. She has collected numerous awards throughout her four-decade career, including a record of 21 Academy Award nominations, three of which she won, and a record of 32 Golden Globe Award nominations, eight of which she won. She has also been nominated for a Tony Award and six Grammy Awards and has won two British Academy Film Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Primetime Emmy Awards.
#14 Michael Keaton
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Michael John Douglas is an actor from the United States. Keaton won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor—Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal in Alejandro González Iárritu's black comedy film Birdman, which he received in 2014. He had previously been nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his portrayal in Live from Baghdad, as well as five Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, four of which he won for his roles in Birdman, Spotlight, The Trial of the Chicago 7, and Dopesick.He was awarded a Career Achievement Award from Hollywood Film Festival and presented as Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters of France on January 18, 2016.
#15 Michelle Pfeiffer
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Michelle Marie Pfeiffer is an actress from the United States. She was one of the most successful actresses in the 1980s and 1990s. Pfeiffer has garnered various awards and nominations over the course of her career, including a Golden Globe Award and a British Academy Film Award, as well as three Academy Award nominations and a Primetime Emmy Award.
#16 Sally Field
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Sally Margaret Field is an actress from the United States. She has received numerous awards and nominations, including two Academy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, and Tony and British Academy Film Award nominations.
#17 Sigourney Weaver
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Susan Alexandra "Sigourney" Weaver is an actress from the United States. Weaver has earned numerous awards and nominations for her work in science fiction and popular culture, including a British Academy Film Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and nominations for three Academy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and three Tony Awards. She was one of just two women in the Top 20 on Channel 4's selection of the 100 Greatest Movie Stars of All Time.
#18 Susan Sarandon
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Susan Abigail Sarandon is an actress and activist from the United States. She has won numerous awards and nominations, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a SAG Award, as well as a Daytime Emmy Award, six Primetime Emmy Awards, and nine Golden Globe Awards. For her services to the film industry, she was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2002.