Shelley Duval, the star of The Shining, has been photographed looking completely unrecognizable after she quit acting, twenty years ago.
The seventy-three-year-old actress posed for a photo with a fan.
But before we dive into that story, here’s a list of famous actors from the 70s and 80s and what they look like today…
Sylvester Stallone…
His career in the ’70s was defined by his role in Rocky, and we all recognize him from the greatest training montage of all time.
Not only did he reprise the role of Rocky in 2018’s Creed II…
He’s also spent the 2010s starring in the Rambo films and The Expendables.
James Wood…
He was known for his roles in Videodrome and Once Upon a Time in America, plus TV movies Promise and My Name is Bill W.
Some of his best moments were voicing himself in The Simpsons and Family Guy.
You know you’ve truly made it when you simply get to play yourself.
Martin Short…
He spent the ’80s doing work on Saturday Night Live, plus making movies. He even had his own TV shows that spanned into the ’90s.
What is certain is that he was making us laugh in the ’80s.
He’s primarily been doing voice acting in the 2010s, plus some very cool TV cameos. He even had a Netflix special with Steve Martin in 2018.
Gene Hackman…
Starring in the thriller The French Connection, The Royal Tennenbaums, and Unforgiven (the best western of all time?), Hackman had a long and storied acting career.
Since hanging up the acting boots…
Hackman’s taken up writing, having turned out three books, all in the historical fiction genre (but he’ll always be Royal Tennenbaum to us).
Dustin Hoffman…
Remember when this fresh-faced young man got a recommendation to take up a career in plastics and then slept with an older woman?
Hoffman’s role in The Graduate launched him into the upper echelon of actors.
He is the kind of actor who could appear in literally any movie, and you’d be like, “yeah, I can see him in this.” In the past few years, he’s starred in Kung Fu Panda, the HBO TV series Luck, and Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories.
Robert De Niro…
De Niro has always been an old man. But I guess he had to look fine at some point in his career, and this here was that point.
Around this time, De Niro was starring in The Godfather Part II and Raging Bull.
These days, De Niro has diversified from the prestige films that defined his early career. He can do an Irishman and also do a Meet the Parents. The man is versatile.
Donald Sutherland…
Now, I don’t want to insult the man, but does Donald Sutherland have an overall creepy vibe to him?
I mean, he was in M*A*S*H and The Dirty Dozen, but all I can think of him as is the horrifying monster man at the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Listen, you don’t cast a man to play the almost comically evil Coriolanus Snow in The Hunger Games if you don’t get a bad vibe about him (I’m sure Donald Sutherland is a wonderful man in real life).
Willem Dafoe…
Even though he was lookin’ damn good in the ’80s, Willem Dafoe still played a lot of bad guys, including the 80s movies Streets of Fire and To Live and Die in LA.
Now this is the Willem Dafoe we remember.
He’s got those crazy eyes he used on Peter Parker in Spider-Man and on the, uh, guys he had to shoot in Boondocks Saints.
Morgan Freeman…
Freeman appeared back in the day on the kids’ show The Electric Company and later earned an Oscar nomination for Driving Miss Daisy.
Listen, you can trust Morgan Freeman.
No wonder he played God in Bruce Almighty and wise mentor Red in The Shawshank Redemption.
Clint Eastwood…
Eastwood played bad***** in countless movies like A Fistful of Dollars and Dirty Harry, and you can see why.
His glance is withering…
Doesn’t it feel like this older Eastwood has a meanness to him? Maybe I’m just thinking of all the mean characters I’ve seen him play since he got old in movies like Unforgiven (yes, it is the best western ever made) and Gran Torino.
Michael Douglas…
Young Douglas, with his wavy hair and aquiline nose, is a total babe.
And today, he’s, well, he’s not not a babe.
Look, an older Michael Douglas is still a good-looking Michael Douglas. But now I’m less swooning over him than I am kind of hoping he’ll send me a birthday card with money inside, as old people are known to do.
Arnold Schwarzenegger…
When I think of the ’80s, I think of Schwarzenegger bursting through walls as the Terminator and swinging a way-too-big sword around as Conan the Barbarian.
We’re used to it now, but can we talk about how weird it was that he got into politics and became California governor in 2003?
We elected the flippin’ Terminator to oversee the world’s fifth-largest economy. What a choice that was!
Mickey Rourke dominated the ’80s heartthrob scene in movies like Diner and 9 1/2 Weeks.
Those pretty boy good looks went away in a blink. Rourke let acting go by the wayside and took up boxing in the ’90s. He’d reemerge, with a brand new visage, in the 2000s and play completely different roles in movies like The Wrestler and Sin City.
Harrison Ford…
He was the perfect Han Solo. Man, look at that face — this mug just screams confident smuggler who is barely on the right side of intergalactic law.
I guess that was the next logical extension of the devil-may-care attitude Ford had in the ’70s.
Obviously, he’s had a number of iconic roles since Star Wars, including playing the President in Air Force One and a maybe-robot (still unclear) in Blade Runner.
Kurt Russel….
Even though he was playing action movie stars in movies like Escape from New York, Russel looked so much like a dad (those big wire frame glasses will do that to a man).
All dads, once they get out of the workforce, splurge a little on black frame glasses.
Although the man’s not yet retired — these days, he’s appearing in the Fast & Furious franchise.
Elliot Gould…
The once fresh-faced Gould was a mainstay in Robert Altman’s films, including M*A*S*H* and The Long Goodbye.
Today, he’s looking pretty not young…
Nowadays, Gould is doing voice-over work for animated shows and video games and also popped up in the Showtime show Ray Donovan.
James Caan…
And since he was in The Godfather, he is one of the ’70s biggest stars. That’s just how it works when you’re in one of the greatest movies of all time.
After a quick retirement in the mid-’80s, Caan returned to acting, starring in Stephen King’s Misery…
But most importantly, as Will Ferrell’s dad in potentially the greatest Christmas movie of all time, Elf.
Jon Voight…
Appearing in Deliverance and Coming Home in the ’70s, Voight has always felt like an actor’s actor (even if he was as handsome as any Backstreet Boy has ever been).
Voight is now the kind of actor you add to your movie if you want that hint of prestige.
That’s how he ended up in the original Mission: Impossible and Enemy of the State. And Voight’s also in Ray Donovan?! Was that show just created to give these old serious actors a playground to run around in and act?
John Cleese…
If only because he’s so well-known for his role in the sketch group Monty Python, I always assume Cleese is down for a goof.
Cleese would go on to become British acting royalty…
Appearing as Q in a single James Bond movie (which must be every British actor’s dream, right?) and Nearly-Headless Nick in the Harry Potter movies.
Sidney Pointier…
Before becoming the top box office draw in 1967 for his roles in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and In the Heat of the Night…
Pointier became the first African-American to win a Best Picture Oscar for his work in Lillies of the Field.
Pointier’s last film role was in 1997’s The Jackal, although he has popped up in a few documentaries since then.
I feel like he knows more than he’s letting on; like he has the upper hand. Maybe that’s why he was so convincing playing intense characters like he did in The Deer Hunter.
Remember when Christopher Walken danced in that Fatboy Slim video? Yeah, the dude is wild. He can do anything. We are all at his mercy.
Richard Gere…
In the ’80s, if you wanted a good-looking man to star in your movie, Gere was your first call.
You might have seen him in American Gigolo and An Officer and a Gentleman, where he showed his range by picking up a girl and letting her put on his hat as all his Navy friends cheered for love.
Gere hasn’t been in a major studio movie since 2008’s Nights in Rodanthe, but at least he went out on a high note…
Kevin Costner…
This man popped off in the ’80s, starring in movies like The Untouchables, Silverado, and Field of Dreams.
When a movie needs to add just a dash of seriousness to their movie, they cast Costner as, the FBI chief or something.
Over the last few years, he’s been in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit and Hidden Figures as a suit-wearing businessman.
Ben Kingsley…
Kingsley played Ghandi. Just imagine being trusted with that role. And he was so good at it that he won the Best Actor Oscar!
Not to rag on the guy, but Kingsley no longer has a great track record. He’s kind of in… every movie?
The guy popped up in Species, Lucky Number Sleven, and the abhorrent Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Plus, he played Marvel’s worst villain in Iron Man 3. I wonder if he knows he’s allowed to turn movies down?
Steve Martin…
This picture makes me think that the Wild and Sexy Guy character he played on SNL might not have been that big of a reach?
Martin gets to host the Oscars pretty much at-will, which is a big deal for any comedian.
I can’t even get on stage at open mics anymore.
During the ’70s and ’80s, Bridges was earning accolades for is roles in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot and Tron.
Bridges’ iconic portrayal of The Dude in The Big Lebowski is one of those roles that defines an actor forever. It’s hard to imagine the shaggy, bearded Bridges doing anything but chillin’ at home and admiring the way his rug pulls the room together.
Carl Weathers…
He has a connection to one of the previous actors on our list: he played Apollo Creed opposite Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky.
Plus he was in Predator with Arnold Schwarzenegger, so he has serious “cool” cred.
He starred in the first season of The Mandalorian and even had a small part in Toy Story 4. Now that’s an IMDb page we can get behind.
Robert Redford…
Redford made what was arguably his biggest movie in 1973: The Sting. But that just kicked off 2 decades of fantastic films.
All the President’s Men, Out of Africa, and Ordinary People also dropped during the ’70s and ’80s.
He founded the Sundance Film Festival and started a production company called Sundance Productions. He fully retired from acting in 2018.
In 2002, the actress left the Hollywood business due to mental health problems after her time on the set of The Shining.
Director Stanley Kubrick allegedly pushed Duvall harder than he did her onscreen husband, Jack Nicholson.
It was even reported that Duvall suffered mental health issues on set due to Kubrick making the cast and crew isolate her, forcing her to re-do scenes hundreds of times and not telling her what he and Nicholson (her co-star) were improvising so as to scare her more.
Duvall explained that in order for her to get into character for the filmmaker, she had to get her mind in a state of panic.
She said: “Kubrick doesn’t print anything until at least the 35th take. Thirty-five takes, running and crying and carrying a little boy, it gets hard. And the full performance from the first rehearsal. That’s difficult.”
Duvall admitted that before shooting a scene she had to listen to sad songs, and think of unhappy memories to get into that headspace of playing Wendy Torrance.
She added: “You just think about something very sad in your life or how much you miss your family or friends. But after a while, your body rebels. It says: “Stop doing this to me. I don’t want to cry every day.” And sometimes, just that thought alone would make me cry.”
And through all that, it seemed like the actress gained a huge fanbase for her role in the movie.
On Wednesday, the seventy-three-year-old was caught posing for a photo.
She wore casual clothing in the picture.
Duvall, who once had jet-black hair, was seen looking very different with short grey locks and a tooth missing at the front of her mouth.
You can see the photo here.
What do you think?