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When a story spans decades, it is often not possible for the one actor to play the same character throughout. Heavy make-up might just let the 30 year old play 90, but never 10. Instead, multiple actors are used for the same role.
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Differentiated from the other [[Actor Swap|actor replacement tropes]] by the passage of long stretches of story-internal time. If those long stretches of time have to pass during a short stretch of footage, an [[Age Cut]] will allow the actors to be swapped quickly.
This is especially popular in [[
Sometimes the necessary resemblance between Mr X and Young Mr X will be achieved by use of a [[Real Life Relative]]. If only a photograph is required, an old picture of the actor/actress will suffice.
Compare and Contrast [[Role Reprisal]].
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== Advertising ==
* Played for laughs in a Visa check card commercial, where [[Charlie Sheen]] waits so long for a store's ID verification that he ages into [[Martin Sheen]].
== Anime ==
* While this is averted in the Japanese version, several cases occur in the Funimation ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' dub:
** Goku: Stephanie Nadolny → [[Sean Schemmel]]
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** Trunks: [[Laura Bailey]] → [[Eric Vale]]
*** [[Loads and Loads of Characters|And several others too.]]
* ''[[Allison & Lillia]]'': Late-teen Allison is played by [[Nana Mizuki]]. Adult Allison is played by [[Houko Kuwashima]]
== Film ==
* ''[[Titanic]]'' had [[Kate Winslet]] as Rose in the main storyline, and [[Gloria Stuart]] as "Old Rose" in the frame story.▼
** This marks the only time two actresses were nominated for Oscars for their portrayal of the same person in the same movie.▼
▲* ''[[Titanic]]'' had [[Kate Winslet]] as Rose in the main storyline, and Gloria Stuart as "Old Rose" in the frame story.
* In ''[[I Am Sam]]'', sisters [[Elle Fanning|Elle]] and [[Dakota Fanning|Dakota]] Fanning play Lucy at two and seven, respectively
▲** This marks the only time two actresses were nominated for Oscars for their portrayal of the same person.
** Elle also plays the younger version of [[Cate Blanchett]] in ''[[The Curious Case of Benjamin Button]]''.
** Dakota did a lot of these roles early in her career. She played a younger version of [[Calista Flockhart]] on ''[[Ally McBeal]]'', a younger version of [[Ellen DeGeneres]] on ''The Ellen Show'', a younger version of [[Reese Witherspoon]] in ''[[
▲* In ''[[I Am Sam]]'', sisters [[Elle Fanning|Elle]] and [[Dakota Fanning|Dakota]] play Lucy at two and seven, respectively. Elle also plays the younger version of Cate Blanchett in ''[[The Curious Case of Benjamin Button]]''.
▲** Dakota did a lot of these roles early in her career. She played a younger version of Calista Flockhart on ''[[Ally McBeal]]'', a younger version of [[Ellen DeGeneres]] on ''The Ellen Show'', a younger version of [[Reese Witherspoon]] in ''[[Film/Sweet Home Alabama|Sweet Home Alabama]]'', voiced a younger version of [[Kim Possible]] in [[The Movie]], and voiced a younger version of [[Wonder Woman]] on ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League]]''.
* In ''Iris'', [[Kate Winslet]] played younger version of Iris Murdoch, and [[Judi Dench]] played the older version.
* The ''[[Star Wars]]'' prequels cast [[Ewan McGregor]] as the young version of Obi-Wan Kenobi, a role originated by the late [[Alec Guinness]]. Most of the other characters who appear in the original trilogy, however, are played by the same actors, either because they're voiceover roles or because playing the older version involved heavy makeup that disguises the fact that the actor has aged in the opposite direction from the character. Anakin/Darth Vader has the record for most actors: There's child Anakin (Jake Lloyd), young adult Anakin (Hayden Christensen), suit Vader (David Prowse in the original trilogy; Hayden Christensen in ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]''), voice Vader ([[James Earl Jones]]), fencing stunt double, and de-helmeted Vader at the end of ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'' (Sebastian Shaw, who also played his Force ghost form later.)
** An unusual [[Averted Trope|aversion]] of the trope: [[Ian McDiarmid]] plays Palpatine in both the original trilogy and in the prequels. He was in his late thirties when he first appeared in ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'' but wore makeup to look older; then, by the time ''[[The Phantom Menace]]'' was being made, he had become the right age to play "young" Palpatine. ({{spoiler|He also wears the makeup at the end of the prequels as well: the ''reason'' for the change in his appearance is not the lapse of time but rather a Force-related injury sustained during a duel.}})
** Wilhuff Tarkin. Originally portrayed by the late [[Peter Cushing]], he appeared briefly near the end of ''Revenge of the Sith'', portrayed by [[Wayne Pygram]], for a brief, non-speaking cameo.
* Ewan McGregor also portrayed young Edward Bloom in ''[[Big Fish]]'', while [[Albert Finney]] portrayed old Ed. Reportedly, the decision was made when somebody noticed the resemblance between McGregor and young Finney. Perry Waltson portrayed Ed as a child.
** The [http://robertarood.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/tom-jones.jpg resemblance] ''is'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20131012054200/http://www.oceleb.com/img/ewan-mcgregor/ewan-mcgregor-1.jpg remarkable], but is pretty much lost on most movie-goers, as they are not familiar with Albert Finney's early work.
* An [[aversion]]: [[Anthony Hopkins]] played Hannibal Lecter in ''[[Silence of the Lambs]]'', filmed in 1991, and in its prequel ''[[Red Dragon]]'', which, despite being filmed in 2003, was set in 1980, and managed to pull it off.
* [[Harrison Ford]] played adult Indiana throughout the ''[[Indiana Jones]]'' film series. [[River Phoenix]] portrayed "young Indy" at the beginning of ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]'' Not enough for you? This spawned ''[[The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles]]'' which featured ''three'' time-shifted Indys: George Hall as the elderly Indy in the framing sequences, Sean Patrick Flanery as [[Dawson Casting|16-year old]] Indy, and Corey Carrier as 10-year old Indy. Not to mention Ford reprising that role in one episode.
* In the ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]]'' series, Hagrid is played in the present and the prologue of ''Harry Potter and Philosopher's Stone'' by [[Robbie Coltrane]]. The young Hagrid in the flashback scenes of ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'' was played by former rugby player Martin Bayfield, who serves as Coltrane's body double in wide shots of the older Hagrid (Coltrane, however, dubbed the voice of young Hagrid).
** When he regains a body at the end of ''Goblet of Fire'', Lord Voldemort is portrayed by [[Ralph Fiennes]] <ref>in his brief appearance at the end of ''Philosopher's Stone'', [[The Other Darrin|Ian Hart, Quirrel's actor voices him]]</ref> As "Tom Riddle", he's played by Hero Fiennes (Ralph's nephew) at age 11 and Christian Coulson (in ''Chamber of Secrets'') and [[The Other Darrin|Frank Dillane]] (in ''Half-Blood Prince'') at age 16.
** Baby Harry Potter was played by the Saunders triplets (first names uncredited) in the first movie and by Toby Papworth in the last movie. It's somewhat amusing to note that by the last film, the Saunders triplets would be the same age [[Daniel Radcliffe]] was in the first film.
* Numerous actors portray Spock as he rapidly re-ages to adulthood in ''[[Star Trek III: The Search For Spock]]''. Throw in a scream by yet another ([[Frank Welker]]!) for good measure.
* ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' (2009) has [[Leonard Nimoy]] reprising the role of Spock in a [[Time Travel]]-related plot while [[Zachary Quinto]] plays the role of young Spock. Older versions of many of the other characters also appear briefly.
* In [[The Movie]] of ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]'', the voice of Scout as an adult narrator was done by Kim Stanley, while Scout as a child was played by Mary Badham.
* ''The Sandlot'' open and closes with an adult Scotty reminiscing about his childhood. (Benny also appears as an adult in the ending sequence.)
* ''[[The Godfather]]'' starred [[Marlon Brando]] as the eponymous Vito Corleone, while ''The Godfather Part II'' had [[Robert de Niro]] as a younger Vito, in flashback sequences. This is particularly notable because both actors received Oscars for the role, the only time the same character has received two awards for different actors. The character also appeared in the same film as a boy, played by yet another actor.
** In the same flashback scenes, the characters of Carmela Corleone, Peter Clemenza and Sal Tessio were all played by younger actors
** Michael Corleone's two children were also played by different actors from movie to movie. In fact, the boy who played Anthony Corleone in the second film was the older brother of the boy who played him in the first film.
* In ''[[Dr. Zhivago]]'', the eponymous character is played by [[Omar Sharif]]. At the beginning of the movie, there is a flashback with the young Yuri. The actor who plays the old Yuri really looks a lot like the actor who plays the young Yuri, because the two are father and son.
* Every production of ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'' needs two young Ebenezer Scrooges, for the Ghost of Christmas Past sequence.
** Averted in the [[Robert Zemeckis]] version, where through the magic of [[Serkis Folk|Performance Capture]], [[Jim Carrey]] is able to play Scrooge (and all three ghosts) at all of the requisite ages.
* ''Truly'' averted in ''The Limey'' (1999), where the young [[Terence Stamp]] is shown by reusing footage from his earlier movie, ''Poor Cow'' (1967).
* ''[[Almost Famous]]'' used Michael Angarano as the 9-year-old [[Author Avatar|William Miller]] for the first 20-odd minutes and Patrick Fugit as his 15-year-old self for the rest of the movie.
* In ''Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai'', [[Forest Whitaker]]'s younger brother Damon was used as a younger version of the main character during a flashback.
* In the ''Tenacious D'' movie, ''The Pick of Destiny'', amazingly similar-looking child actors are used for young [[Jack Black]] and Kyle Gass.
** The kid who played Jack Black also played a young version of Black's character in ''Nacho Libre''.
* Averted in ''[[X-Men: The
** Played straight in the opening of the first movie with the young Erik Lehnsherr, who would be Magneto (Sir Ian McKellen's character) in the present.
** This is also done in ''[[X-Men:
* In ''[[The Lion King]]'' (both movie and musical) Simba and Nala are played by one person as cubs and another as adults.
** The sequel does it as well. Young Kiara is played by [[Michelle Horn]], and then by [[Neve Campbell]] as an adult. Young Kovu is played by [[
* Richard Linklater's upcoming{{when}} movie ''Boyhood'' looks to be an aversion to this trope. The movie takes place over 12 years, using the same cast. The catch is that the movie started production in 2002, and will not be released until 2013. This means that the actors will actually age with their characters.
* Averted in ''[[Back to The Future]]'' Parts 1 & 2, each actor played the same characters and used heavy makeup to look the right age for the time period.
* ''[[Watchmen (film)|Watchmen]]'' tried to avert this to the best of their ability by casting young and then aging up. This meant that [[Carla Gugino]] and Jeffery Dean Morgan spent most of their screentime under heavy makeup.
* In ''A Home at the End of the World'', [[Colin Farrell]]'s character is played by Andrew Chalmers and Erik Smith, and Dallas Roberts's by Jonathan Glover (no, [[Smallville|not that one]]). Sissy Spacek, on the other hand, stays on throughout; eight years isn't that much when you're already over 50.
* While a child actor had to portray the 10 year old version of title character in ''[[Little Big Man]]'', [[Dustin Hoffman]] wore make-up to portray the character's centenarian self. He made his voice sound old by going into his dressing room and screaming at the top of his lungs for an hour.
* In ''[[The Curious Case of Benjamin Button]]'', different actors play Benjamin as he grows younger into his "childhood". Daisy was also played by different actresses as a little girl and a teenager.
* An interesting aversion was done in ''[[Stardust (film)|Stardust]]'', where [[Michelle Pfeiffer]]'s character goes from old to young and then ages rapidly throughout the film. Instead of using two different actors for the different ages, they used make-up to more accurately portray her aging.
** Played straight with the character of Dunstan, who's first played by [[Prince Caspian|Ben Barnes]] (credited as "Young Dunstan") and then by [[Nathaniel Parker]].
* ''The Goddess of 1967'', both for the female lead (Bree Beadman is the young version of Rose Byrne) and her mum (Satya Gumbert is the young version of Elise McRedie).
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* ''[[The Butterfly Effect]]'' was set around three different periods where the main character is around 8-10, then around 14-16 and finally the present 20 odd. Not only did casting need to find child look-alikes for the main character, but all the other main characters; they did a pretty good job, too.
* ''[[Citizen Kane]]'', being a fictionalized biopic, presented the title character in all ages. All of them are [[Orson Welles]] in makeup, except for eight-year-old Kane, played by Buddy Swan.
* In the movie of ''[[The Time
* In ''Atonement'', Briony is portrayed as a child and adult by two newcomer actresses who bear a remarkable resemblance to each other. Then [[
* Averted in the film ''[[Ghosts Of Mississippi]]'', which took place over five years (1989-1994). However, neither the protagonist's children nor those of his second wife age one bit.
* A strange case in ''Gangster No. 1.'' [[Paul Bettany]] plays the unnamed gangster in the '70s, and [[Malcolm McDowell]] plays him in modern times, but none of the other characters change actors. Also, Bettany is much taller than McDowell.
* In the Soviet sci-fi film ''[[Moscow Cassiopeia]]'', a minor character is first shown as a teenager and then (due to the main characters experiencing [[Time Dilation]]) as an adult. They are, obviously, played by different actresses. This serves more to give closure to a minor subplot involving a love letter that she anonymously sent to the boy who would become [[The Captain]] that she wrote with her off hand in order to hide her handwriting. She admits it was her as an adult.
* Bobbie Anderson, Jean Gale, Jeanine Anne Roose, Ronnie Ralph, and Georgie Nokes play the child versions of, respectively, George Bailey ([[Jimmy Stewart]]), young Mary Hatch ([[Donna Reed]]), Violet Bick ([[Gloria Grahame]]), Sam Wainwright ([[Frank Albertson]]), and Harry Bailey ([[Todd Karns]]) in ''[[It's
* In ''[[Balto]]'', Rosy was voiced by Juliette Brewer as child, and played by Miriam Margolyes as an adult.
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* Notably averted in ''[[Tron: Legacy]]'', where relatively new techniques are used to make [[Jeff Bridges]] appear much younger than he actually is during the flashback sequences.
* Also averted in ''[[Ant-Man]]'' for [[Michael Douglas]], thanks to the same techniques.
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' trilogy, Bilbo Baggins is played by [[Ian Holm]], even during the scene in the opening sequence where he obtains the One Ring during the events of ''The Hobbit''. [[The Hobbit (film)|The actual films for that particular book]] will cast Martin Freeman in the role of the character.
* Averted in ''[[Toy Story (franchise)||Toy Story 3]]'' where (the now adult) Andy is actually still voiced by the same actor that played him in the first two ''Toy Story'' films. Played straight during the film's prologue, however.
* ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]'' features a shot of Red's prison file, complete with mug shots that look like a much younger [[Morgan Freeman]]. The actor in the mugshots? One Alfonso Freeman.
* ''The Chronicles of Narnia: [[The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe]]'' has a short scene at the end with the grown up Kings and Queens of Narnia. Rachael Henley, Mark Wells, Noah Huntley and Sophie Winkleman play the older versions of the Pevensies, which are played by Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley and Anna
* The 1990s film of ''[[Little Women]]'' had [[Kirsten Dunst]] play the younger Amy, and [[Samantha Mathis]] play the older Amy.
* Played with in ''[[Walk Hard]]''. While a young Dewey Cox is portrayed by a child actor, John C. Reilly plays him all the way from age 14 into Dewey's
* Hilariously inverted in [[Austin Powers|Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery]], when Dr. Evil returns to his lair and his evil organization in 1999 after thirty years of being cryogenically frozen ... {{spoiler|and sees that his wife, Frau Farbissina, looks exactly the same as before.}}
* ''[[Mission to Mars]]'' has a brief one of these in a flashback montage. Interestingly, the boy playing Gary Sinise's character as a boy was Sinise's own son, [[Mac Canna]].
* In ''[[Atlantis: The
* In ''[[Top Gun: Maverick]]'', Miles Teller plays the thirty-years-older Bradley Bradshaw, who was played in the first ''[[Top Gun]]'' as a child by twins Aaron and Adam Weis.
== Live Action TV ==▼
* In ''[[Rome]]'', Gaius Octavian is played by Max Pirkis as a teenager and Simon Woods as an adult. The change happens while he goes to war. Upon seeing the adult Octavian for the first time, his mother makes a remarks about military rations having made an effect on him. The trope is bizarrely averted, however, with Vorenus's children, who should be in their thirties by the final episode. One is played by the same actress who played her as a fourteen-year-old, the other two are played by actors who are at most twelve.
* In the 1996 [[Miniseries]] ''Rhodes'', Cecil Rhodes was played by Martin Shaw and "Young Cecil Rhodes" was played by Shaw's son, Joe Shaw.
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** Done even earlier in Season 1's "That '70s Episode," in which a time travel spell sends the sisters back to when Prue and Piper were children.
* Four actors have played the eponymous character in ''[[Dexter]]'' in flashback scenes, including star Michael C. Hall.
* ''[[Lost]]'' has needed these occasionally due to its flashback structure.
* ''[[Lost]]'' has needed these occasionally due to its flashback structure.<br /><br />We've seen Jack, Sun, Locke, Ben, Charlie, Sawyer, Eko, Faraday, Sayid, Kate, Hurley, Yemi, Juliet, Rachel Carlson, {{spoiler|Jacob}} and {{spoiler|the Man in Black}} as children in flashbacks. Locke and Ben have also been depicted as newborns. "Cabin Fever" saw Locke as an infant, a child, a teenager, and an adult. "Dead Is Dead" had Alex as a newborn and a child.<br /><br />Walt was already a 10-year-old child during seasons 1 and 2, but also appeared as an infant in the season 2 episode "Adrift". However, the season 2 episode "One of Them" averted this by using an actual photo of a teenage Evangeline Lilly (Kate) for a flashback scene where her character's father is looking at a photo of his daughter. Emily Locke appeared as an adult and as a teenager when she was pregnant with John.▼
We've seen Jack, Sun, Locke, Ben, Charlie, Sawyer, Eko, Faraday, Sayid, Kate, Hurley, Yemi, Juliet, Rachel Carlson, {{spoiler|Jacob}} and {{spoiler|the Man in Black}} as children in flashbacks. Locke and Ben have also been depicted as newborns. "Cabin Fever" saw Locke as an infant, a child, a teenager, and an adult. "Dead Is Dead" had Alex as a newborn and a child.
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** Due to time travel, ''Lost'' showed younger versions of characters in its fifth season without explicitly revealing who they were as a form of a twist. A younger {{spoiler|Charles Widmore}} (two, one in {{spoiler|1954}} and one in {{spoiler|1977}}), {{spoiler|Danielle Rousseau when she was shipwrecked in 1988}}, {{spoiler|Eloise Hawking}} (again, two, in {{spoiler|1954 and 1977}}) and {{spoiler|Charlotte Lewis}} (in {{spoiler|1974}} and {{spoiler|1977}}) appeared that year. The actress who played {{spoiler|1977 Eloise}} also appears in a flashback with Daniel Faraday the same episode that era's {{spoiler|Eloise}} first appeared.
** In the second half of the show, after pre-Island flashbacks were mostly gone, {{spoiler|Aaron, Ji Yeon and Desmond's son Charlie}} appeared as newborns around 2004/05 (in-story) and as toddlers in 2007. Similarly, Clementine Phillips was shown as a baby photograph in a pre-Island flashback and as a child in 2007.
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** Michael Gambon plays the miserly Kazran Sardick in the episode "A Christmas Carol"; his younger self is initially played by Laurence Belcher, then becomes a teenager as Danny Horn. (Then {{spoiler|back to Belcher to get "shown his future"}}).
** In "The Impossible Astronaut", Canton Everett Delaware III is initially played by William Morgan Sheppard, before the TARDIS crew travel back in time to meet him played by Sheppard's son, [[Mark Sheppard]].
** The episode "[[Doctor Who
** In "Let's Kill Hitler", Amy and Rory's childhood friend Mels, {{spoiler|in actuality River Song before she regenerated into [[Alex Kingston]]'s incarnation}}, is played by Maya Glace-Green as a kid and Nina Toussaint-White in the present. In "A Good Man Goes to War", {{spoiler|River, then called Melody and in an even earlier incarnation is played by twins Harrison and Madison Mortimer}}, while in the opening two-parter "The Impossible Astronaut"/"Day of the Moon", {{spoiler|she's slightly older and played by Sydney Wade}}.
** We meet Rose Tyler as an uncredited baby and as a child played by Julia Joyce in "Father's Day", and at age 19 by [[Billie Piper]]. Also in "Father's Day", Mickey Smith is played by Casey Dyer, while as an adult he's played by [[Noel Clarke]].
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* An episode of ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air]]'' had a flashback to before the Banks became rich, in which every major character excluding Ashley, who wasn't born at the time of the flashback, were played by different actors. However, in a later episode where the cast are watching an old video tape of Vivian and Phil, they are played by the same actors. Which is bizarre when you think about it, as this footage was supposed to have been before the children were even born, and therefore Phil and Vivian would have been younger than in the previous flashback where they were played by younger actors.
* ''[[The Golden Girls]]'' had occasional flashbacks to when Dorothy was a young adult. The casting director did a good job of finding an actress who looked like a younger version of Bea Arthur's character (Estelle Getty was simply able to take off the white wig and age makeup for her scenes).
* Adam Kolkin plays a younger Kurt in ''[[Glee]]'', bearing [https://web.archive.org/web/20130621125630/http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/Adam-Kolkin_Chris-Colfer_Kolkin-Family.jpg such an impossible resemblance to Chris Colfer] that many people were convinced that the flashbacks had been done using technology, or at the very least that the two were related in some way. They aren't.
* ''[[iCarly]]'' had a young Sam and young Carly for a flashback.
** [[Miranda Cosgrove]], who plays the regular Carly, was a 'young' Lana Lang on [[Smallville]]. Making her someone who has been both a younger version of a main character, and had a younger version of one of her main character.
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* In ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall]]'''s ''[[Superman]] vs. the [[Terminator]]'' #1 episode, Linkara's self from 2039 was played by his real-life father.
* Hilarious played straight in [https://web.archive.org/web/20100619122631/http://picnicface.com/videos.php?videoID=18 this Picnicface video.]
== Western Animation ==
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