History Main / CharacterAgedWithTheActor

** The ''Series/DoctorWho'' special "[[Recap/DoctorWho2007CiNSTimeCrash Time Crash]]" has Creator/PeterDavison -- now rather older -- and Creator/DavidTennant sharing a [=TARDIS=] as the Fifth Doctor ends up crossing paths with the Tenth. The Fifth Doctor still looked young when suffering the events of "The Caves of Androzani," so how can he, in "Time Crash," look like he'd aged as much as Davison ''just for this adventure?'' They HandWave it away by saying that the temporal disaster that's brought them into the same place seems to have affected Davison roughly.

** ''Series/StarTrekPicard'':
*** The series premiered just over seventeen years [[note]]Dec. 2002 -- Jan. 2020[[/note]] in real life after Creator/PatrickStewart last played Picard in ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'', so Jean-Luc Picard is also correspondingly older at the start of the series, with [[https://nypost.com/2020/01/21/star-trek-picard-which-next-generation-characters-are-back-which-are-new/ promotional material]] indicating that he is 94 years old. That said, it's not unreasonable, as 24th-century medical technology in-universe frequently has humans living well beyond 100 or even 130 years of age.
*** Data returns, a good fifteen years ''after'' Creator/BrentSpiner insisted that he be heard but not seen because unlike him, Data doesn't age. A little DigitalDeaging helps.
*** Creator/JonathanDelArco was in his mid-20s when he first played Hugh in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', and he was 53 years old during principal photography for Season 1 of ''Picard''.
*** The character Seven of Nine is reprised by actress Creator/JeriRyan, who was 51 years old during the filming of Season 1.
*** In "Nepenthe", we also see William Riker and Deanna Troi reprised by Creator/JonathanFrakes and Creator/MarinaSirtis, respectively, both clearly older than they were in ''Nemesis''.

*** Guinan had been established as part of an alien race capable of looking the same over centuries. Obviously Creator/WhoopiGoldberg looked older by 2022 so when Picard notes how he thought El-Aurians didn't age, Guinan replies they can if they choose to. She found people put off by her looking the same decades after meeting them so "allowed" herself to look older.
*** Season 3 has Creator/LeVarBurton, Creator/MichaelDorn, and Creator/GatesMcFadden playing Geordi, Worf, and Crusher, respectively, all now visibly older than they were in their last appearances in ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'' twenty years earlier.
*** Season 3 also has Creator/DanielDavis reprising the role of the holographic Professor Moriarty for the first time since the TNG episode "Ship In A Bottle" thirty years earlier. Like de Lancie, Davis is now in his late 70s. So, like Q, the Moriarty hologram now physically appears at that same age, rather than in his forties as he did during TNG. This may be justified in-universe due to the original holodeck programming persisting and Moriarty still experiencing the passage of time even while outwardly deactivated.

** Ian [=McDiarmid=]'s case is something of a strange inversion in that he became age-appropriate for Palpatine in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', filmed 16 years after ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''; in his original appearance, [=McDiarmid=] was [[UnderageCasting a younger man playing an elderly man]] with prosthetic makeup on to appear older.

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', though the human characters, including Andy, have aged; the toy characters age with the condition. The only [[WatsonianVersusDoylist Doylist]] reason for this is that the kid who provided Andy's voice doesn't exactly have that little voice anymore. This is basically just the plot of the movie; it wasn't forced.

** Creator/DanielCraig ([[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 started in the role at age 37]], [[Film/NoTimeToDie ended at age 51]]). The later films embrace the idea of an aging Bond, showing the mental and physical toll his years of service have brought and exloring whether agents like him are still necessary in an increasingly modern world.

--->'''Annie (Creator/CecilyStrong):''' But, Daddy, I'm your little girl!

* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': When Creator/AdamSandler hosted SNL in 2019, he played Opera Man in the "Weekend Update" segment for the first time in 24 years, something he humorously acknowledged, singing "So very long since I’ve been around-ah. [[SelfDeprecation 24 years and 24 pounds-ah]]!".

*** Season 3 has Creator/LeVarBurton, Creator/MichaelDorn, and Creator/GatesMcFadden playing Geordi, Worf, and Crusher, respectively, all now visibly older than they were in their last appearances in ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'' 20 years earl;ier.

*** Data returns, a good fifteen years ''after'' Creator/BrentSpiner insisted that he be heard but not seen because unlike him, Data doesn't age. A little CGI de-aging helps.
*** Jonathan Del Arco was in his mid-20s when he first played Hugh in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', and he was 53 years old during principal photography for Season 1 of ''Picard''.

** Ian [=McDiarmid=]'s case is something of a strange inversion in that he became age-appropriate for Palpatine in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', filmed 16 years after ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''; in his original appearance, [=McDiarmid=] was [[PlayingGertrude a younger man playing an elderly man]] with prosthetic makeup on to appear older.

** Anne Kirkbride first played Deirdre Rachid (later Barlow) in the 70s when she was introduced as an eighteen-year-old. She remained on the soap until 2014, shortly before her death from cancer.

Compare with RoleReprise.

* ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' [[spoiler: features the return of Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield to their own versions of the characters, as well as the villains from their respective films. While the villains are subject to CGI de-aging and other effects to mask their actors' true ages (such as Flint Marko being stuck in sand form), the legacy Spider-Man characters are simply older. This is most noticeable with the Raimi-verse Spider-Man, who pretty much behaves as a TeamDad since he's in his forties. A cured Octavius even lampshades KidHeroAllGrownUp when he finally meets up with the Peter Parker he remembers.]]

** Also the case with the tenures of Creator/PierceBrosnan ([[Film/GoldenEye started at 41]], [[Film/DieAnotherDay ended at 49]], though his haircut change between ''Film/GoldenEye'' and ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'' also gave that impression - even though those were only two years apart) and Creator/DanielCraig ([[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 started at 37]], [[Film/NoTimeToDie ended at 51]]).

* The later part of Creator/ClintEastwood's career has been [[RetiredBadass him playing the over-the-hill]], [[CoolOldGuy but still extremely badass, hero]]. For a more concrete example, he noticeably ages throughout the ''Film/DirtyHarry'' series (and it's lampshaded). Indeed, Clint has stated that there won't be another ''Dirty Harry'' movie, because, at his age, Harry would be retired. Doesn't stop a lot of people from dubbing ''Film/GranTorino'' [[SpiritualSequel "Dirty Harry 6"]]

* ''Series/ICarly2021'', the revival of ''Series/{{iCarly}}'', features all returning characters played by their original actors after nearly a decade. Carly and Freddie are now adults.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', baseball player Mike Scioscia made a guest star appearance in Season 3. He later returns in Season 22, with a much older appearance, while the rest of the characters remain under the perpetual [[NotAllowedToGrowUp floating timeline]]. Because celebrities are linked to pop culture and aren't established characters in the series, they're exempt from the floating timeline. However, this doesn't apply to recurring celebrities like Creator/StephenHawking and UsefulNotes/RupertMurdoch.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': The [[MediumBlending live-action]] Chief from the episode "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V" played by Martin Olson in Season 3 returns in the episode "Swamp Mates" in Season 12. You can tell he has quite aged in the time lapse between both episodes.

* ''Series/ICarly2021'', the revival of ''Series/{{iCarly}}'', features all returning characters played by their original actors after nearly a decade.

* At the start of ''Film/BeyondReAnimator'' (2003), Herbert West has served 13 years in prison since ''Film/BrideOfReAnimator'' (1990).

** Guinan had been established as part of an alien race capable of looking the same over centuries. Obviously Creator/WhoopiGoldberg looked older by 2022 so when Picard notes how he thought El-Aurians didn't age, Guinan replies they can if they choose to. She found people put off by her looking the same decades after meeting them so "allowed" herself to look older.

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* Video game example: ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' -- which averts DawsonCasting in both the English and Japanese voice acting -- aged Sora up approximately a year between the first and third games, to allow for the voice actors going through puberty.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', baseball player Mike Scioscia made a guest star appearance in season 3. He later returns in season 22, with a much older appearance, while the rest of the Simpsons remain under the perpetual [[NotAllowedToGrowUp floating timeline]]. In addition, because celebrities are linked to pop culture and are not established characters in the series, they are exempt from the floating timeline. However, this does not apply to recurring celebrities like Creator/StephenHawking and UsefulNotes/RupertMurdoch.

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