We Have Compared What 15+ Movie Stars Looked Like in Their First, Most Iconic and Recent Roles

Before getting their iconic or life-changing roles, beginner actors have to grab any opportunity to appear on the screen and become even a little famous. Some actors are lucky: they get good projects at the start of their careers and become famous after such movies. But for others, success comes only when they get older.

We at CHEERY decided to take a look at how our idols have changed since their debut in movies to their most iconic roles and their most recent works.

1. Nicole Kidman

• Bush Christmas
• Moulin Rouge!
• Roar

2. Colin Firth

• Another Country
• Pride and Prejudice
• The Staircase

3. Emilia Clarke

• Doctors
• Game of Thrones
• Last Christmas

4. James McAvoy

• The Near Room
• Split
• The Bubble

5. Reese Witherspoon

• The Man in the Moon
• Legally Blonde
• The Morning Show

6. Joseph Gordon-Levitt

• Family Ties
• 50/50
• Super Pumped

7. Tilda Swinton

• Caravaggio
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• Memoria

8. Matthew McConaughey

• Unsolved Mysteries
• True Detective
• The Gentlemen

9. Jennifer Lopez

• My Little Girl
• Selena
• Marry Me

10. Brendan Fraser

• Dogfight
• The Mummy
• No Sudden Move

11. Jodie Foster

• Mayberry R.F.D.
• The Silence of the Lambs
• The Mauritanian

12. Antonio Banderas

• Pestañas postizas
• The Mask of Zorro
• Uncharted

13. Halle Berry

• Living Dolls
• Die Another Day
• Moonfall

14. Benedict Cumberbatch

• Silent Witness
• Sherlock
• Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

15. Renée Zellweger

• A Taste for Killing
• Bridget Jones’s Diary
• The Thing About Pam

16. Rami Malek

• Gilmore Girls
• Bohemian Rhapsody
• No Time to Die

Have you watched the movies or series your favorite actors first appeared in? Have they changed a lot since then?