Night night- must get beauty sleep or my husband might think I'm over 70, when in fact I'm only young middle aged!

Not a huge difference but Harry Reid is 24 but he looks 20 like his character Ben Mitchell to me.

June Brown is in fact 26 - unfortunately it must be all those fags she smokes.

Ooh I say.

She looks terrible for 26.

Doesn't help that her husband looks more like her younger brother as he is so baby-faced

No, trust me, if you have that many wrinkles in your early thirties then you would be concerned.

There isn't suppose to be any difference between how you look at twenty or twenty four.

When I was 24 I looked the exact same as I did at 20.

No way does Anthony Cotton look 28!

I don't agree.

People still look teenage to me when they're 20. By 24 they usually look more manly IMO.

I'd say he looks mid 40s

Edit - double post

In the last couple of years he's started to show his age more I think.

Gillian Taylforth who plays Kathy Beale is 61 and her character is 66 yet she could pass for a woman 20 years younger. Seeing her hanging around with the likes of Jane, Linda and Sharon in Fridays episode she didn't look any older than them yet is actually old enough to be their mother. There is a whopping 27 years between the characters of Linda and Kathy (21 years between the two actresses) yet they could be mistaken for being the same age.

We do have this thing about age though in this country and not so much in places like Spain and Italy where they value the older generation much more. Here your seen as past your prime by 25 almost, that's what it seems like anyway.

The only one I have ever been shocked at recently is Charlie Slater actor Derek Martin is 83!!!

And Laila Morse, his on-screen mother-in-law, is 71

The ages of Charlie and Mo have always been a strange one. In 2000 at the time of casting the Slater family the Lynne, Kat and Little Mo actresses were in their early 30s. They then cast 67 year old Derek Martin as Charlie and 55 year old Laila Morse as their grandmother Mo. She was barely enough to play the girls mother never mind their grandmother and more than a decade younger than her onscreen son-in-law. It would have made more sense to have made Charlie and Mo husband and wife or Mo Charlie's sister or sister-in-law.

I knew it

Ireland and the UK doesn't have as rapid of a greying population compared to the rest of the European countries.

Now she really does look her age, or even older! Same with Babe.
The thing is, many actors do have work done, because they are in the public eye and high definition tv is not kind to ageing faces. Therefore it can be hard to work out out if they look their age, or not. A sharp jawline, and absence of double chin, hooded eyes and eye bags is suspicious over 50!, though some on here on similar threads, claim to not have so much as a wrinkle at 60, and no work done! Hmmmm!
Not so much the character actors , of course, who rely on their looks for specific roles.

Jane Danson- She looks like she is about 45
Clare King- She looks like she is at least 65 and I honestly think she is lying about her age.
Anthony Quinlan- He looks like he's 40
Danny Miller- Always thought he looked older I would put him in his early to mid 30's
I can't remember her name but the girl that plays Steph on Corrie looks way older than 21, she looks like she is 30.

Is that true? If so, then that one does surprise me.

I'm not shocked about Tina O'Brien, because I always knew she was older than she looked, but she genuinely does still look very youthful. When she played a schoolgirl in Waterloo Road, she really could pass for a schoolgirl, even though I knew she was a good bit older than the part she was playing.

When you consider that Richard Blackwood, who plays her son, is 44 that is very surprising indeed. Because of the character she plays, I would never have guessed that Ellen is only 52. The character is clearly supposed to be at least 60.

One that always surprised me was Vicky Entwistle, who played Janice Battersby in Corrie. She is 48, which means she was in her late 20s when she first appeared in the show. I genuinely thought she was at least ten years older than that.

Jack P. Shepherd is 13