John Hurt in The Elephant Man (1980)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000457/mediaviewer/rm4173760256/ (suggested by Mariojacobs)
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Poll: Man! You Don’t Look Like Yourself or Who Would Win a Lon Chaney Award
For those who don’t know who Lon Chaney was, he was a famous silent film star known as “The Man of a Thousand Faces” because he was an expert at makeup and created his own character makeup. But more importantly for this poll, his makeup was so complete that you could not recognize his face. The following is a list of actors/actresses who wore makeup for a role that you couldn’t recognize their face. And there are some characters who appear in multiple films where makeup is required — like the Joker or Frankenstein’s monster. Who is the most unrecognizable?
The best part is that since the IMDb always print the names of the people in the images, I don’t have to write the name for each entry. But I will have an IMDb link to a picture of how the actor looks without makeup. And nowhere in the film is their real face is shown except for Mel Brooks and Eddie Murphy who did multiple roles in their own films like “Coming To America” or “Spaceballs” or “Wizard of Oz”. One entry per actor.
If you know anybody else who had a makeover of the worst or weird kind for a film, the makeup chair is right over here.
Results of 250 votes:
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Gary Oldman in Darkest Hour (2017)
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Mike Myers in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000196/mediaviewer/rm4021458688/ (Suggested by Pencho15)
