By Wonderwall.com Editors
7:38pm PST, Feb 27, 2022
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Ellen Burstyn has enjoyed an impressive, enduring career and has an Academy Award, a Tony Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards to her name. To celebrate "The Exorcist" and "Requiem For a Dream" star's 90th birthday on Dec. 7, 2022, join Wonderwall.com as we take a look back at Ellen and more of our favorite leading ladies when they were young starlets early in their careers… Yes, Ellen has always been this photogenic! Keep reading to see her in her youth…
Then keep reading to see more stunning older leading ladies then and now…
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There's just so much to admire about Helen Mirren, a four-time Oscar nominee and recipient of the SAG Lifetime Achievement honor, who's 76. Her eternal beauty, which is nothing new, is only one of them…
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Blonde, beautiful and talented Helen Mirren looked gorgeous sans makeup in this photo taken in 1967 when she was 22. She's pictured here alongside actor Bruce Myers, whom she once dated.
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Did you know that late "Golden Girls" star Betty White was once a pin-up girl? You'll believe it when you see what she looked like in the 1950s! Keep reading to see young, gorgeous Betty…
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Wow! Betty White looked gorgeous in this portrait from 1954.
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No surprise here: Cicely Tyson looked absolutely gorgeous at the premiere of Tyler Perry's "A Fall from Grace" in New York City on Jan. 13, 2020. She died almost exactly a year later.
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Cicely Tyson posed for this portrait circa 1960, a decade after she started her Hollywood career in the early 1950s — and a dozen years before she earned an Oscar nomination for her performance in "Sounder."
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The style! The sass! The flawless skin! If you're anything like us, you've probably asked yourself at least once, "How the heck is Isabelle Huppert almost 70 years old?!" The phenomenal French Oscar nominee looks like she hasn't aged in years.
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Isabelle Huppert has always been stunning and sassy. The freckle-faced beauty was irresistibly eye-catching in a portrait from 1971, the year she made her television debut in her native France at age 18.
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Meryl Streep is practically a national treasure, but before she was one of Hollywood's most celebrated stars, she was just a pretty young thing from New Jersey…
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Before she was a 21-time Oscar nominee, blonde beauty Meryl Streep was a high school cheerleader. She's seen here in 1976, the same year she earned her first Tony Award nomination, two years before her first Emmy win and four years before she took home her first Oscar.
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Rita Moreno is now in her 90s, but she's still red-hot as far as we're concerned! Apparently, not much has changed over the years…
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Case in point? Rita Moreno raised temperatures in this portrait from the '50s.
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Susan Sarandon may be in her 70s, but she still knows how to work it on the red carpet. Do you remember what she looked like as a rising star?
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Susan Sarandon smoldered with one strap of her dress sliding down her shoulder in a promotional photo for 1980's "Loving Couples."
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There's a reason why we really like Sally Field — and it's not just because she's a two-time Oscar winner.
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Who's the beachy babe? It's Sally Field at age 21 in 1967!
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Most people can't help but remember a young Sissy Spacek as the titular high school outcast in "Carrie." But before her major movie breakthrough, she was actually a model.
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Sissy Spacek looked absolutely stunning in 1972's "Prime Cut."
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Jane Fonda still looks incredible in her 80s, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that she was a stunner back in her 20s too.
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Jane Fonda looked picture-perfect in a portrait from the early '60s.
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Now in her 60s, Madonna still knows how to work it for the cameras. Can you remember what she looked like when she was just a rising star in the late '70s?
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Goldie Hawn is still blonde and beautiful in her 70s, but she was truly a bombshell when she first shot into the spotlight during the '60s.
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In case there were any doubts about where Kate Hudson gets her good looks, check out this portrait of her mom, Goldie Hawn, in 1967.
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If she could turn back time, what would Cher look like? … Gorgeous!
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Jessica Lange has long proved she's one of the most beautiful women on the planet … at any age!
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Jessica Lange was in her mid-20s when she starred alongside an equally young Jeff Bridges in the 1976 movie "King Kong."
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American audiences got a bit of a late start with English actress Charlotte Rampling, who's in her 70s now.
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Charlotte Rampling was a true English rose! She showed off her stems in this 1967 portrait, which was taken around the time she made her big screen debut in her home country.
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It's been more than four decades since the late, great Carrie Fisher shot into the spotlight as Princess Leia in "Star Wars." Who could forget her famous slave costume?
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Hello, Leia! Carrie Fisher donned one of the most iconic costumes in cinema history in 1983's "Return of the Jedi."
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It wasn't until 2012 that the late French actress Emmanuelle Riva, who died in 2017, made a splash in Hollywood when she starred in "Amour." Boy, were we missing out!
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Emmanuelle Riva made her acting debut in her native France in 1957 and earned her first BAFTA nomination for her work in "Hiroshima Mon Amour" just a few years later. Is it any wonder why Japanese actor Eiji Okada, her co-star in the romantic drama, couldn't keep his hands off her angelic face?!
