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In movies and television shows, an actress often tends to look younger than the age her character is supposed to be. When the character is middle-aged or older, this is a case of '''Hollywood Old'''. A character can be "supposed to be" a certain age in two ways: Either an age is stated outright in the story, or the character is a historical person.
Hollywood Old activates in three slightly different ways.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In one episode of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', Captain Picard is reunited with a woman he dated 20 or so years ago. The woman looks like she's 25, as a result of 24th century medical science. Similarly, "The Survivors" features 67-year-old John Anderson playing 85-year-old Kevin Uxbridge and 55-year-old Anne Haney playing 82-year-old Rishon Uxbridge. The pilot has 67-year-old DeForest Kelley playing 137-year-old Admiral McCoy (although he does look pretty withered).
** In the episode "The Pegasus", [[Terry O'Quinn]] plays Commander Riker's former CO, Admiral (formerly Captain) Pressman. Pressman is, presumably,
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Girl in the Fireplace", (adult) Reinette looks exactly the same no matter what year she's shown in.
* ''[[Lost]]'': With all the flashbacks {{spoiler|and flashforwards and time travel}} going on, the same character can be Hollywood Old and looking too young in the same episode. In later seasons this is sometimes averted by making the same character be played by different actresses (who look really similar but with a clear age difference) in different time periods. This series contain several cases of [[Playing Gertrude]] that are NOT also cases of Hollywood Old.
* Happens a lot in the present-day scenes in ''[[Cold Case]],'' particularly in episodes where the case in question took place before about 1960.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130612153416/http://the-tudors.maxupdates.tv/the-tudors-season-4-episode-6-you-have-my-permission/ This] is the 50-year-old King Henry VIII according to ''[[The Tudors]]''. [[wikipedia:File:Hans Holbein d. J. 074.jpg|This]] is the 50-year-old Henry VIII according to Hans Holbein the Younger.
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