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Beauty Inversion
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An actor or actress known for their physical beauty being altered by makeup and prosthetics to play an unattractive or even ugly character, usually as Oscar Bait. This doesn't cover really deformed or monstrous characters like Freddy Krueger or Quasimodo; that would be The Grotesque. Note: This is different from Hollywood Homely, where an actor or actress will be "plained down" with unflattering clothing or hairstyle, glasses, a better-looking sibling, crippling shyness hiding their looks, or so on, but the result is only (maybe) average-looking by non-Hollywood standards. A Hollywood Homely character can quite easily be changed in-story to the actor's normal appearance for a Beautiful All Along reveal. This trope, instead, is when the actor uses makeup or prosthetics to change the look of their face to match the expectations and image of the character. This trope usually happens in biopics and serious dramas, and covers attractive actors playing below-average-looking characters (or real people), and there is a definite effort to not only play down but deliberately counteract the actor's usual good looks. Since most Hollywood actors tend to be very attractive, it's an interesting challenge for them to portray a Gonk. Compare with Unkempt Beauty, which is more along the lines of "the less makeup you wear, the better you look." If they're playing outright monsters who are usually portrayed as ugly, this may result in a Gorgeous Gorgon. See also Dyeing for Your Art, which generally covers actors who change their appearance for their roles. Contrast with Adaptational Attractiveness. |
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Precious: Mariah Carey (Precious' social worker, pictured above) is the most obvious example, but the lead actress Gabourey Sidibe (who herself was already a large woman) was also made to look larger using unflattering clothes. | |
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John Wick: Chapter 4 sees Scott Adkins — a quite handsome and very physically fit martial arts actor — playing Killa, a very fat and amoral crime boss with gold teeth, unflattering hair, and a constant coating of sweat and grease. Considering that Killa actually manages to throw down remarkably well for his size, it's pretty easy to guess that Adkins was cast specifically for his athleticism, able to fight convincingly despite wearing a fatsuit to make him look 500 pounds. | |
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Mariah Carey doesn't look too good in her role as the titular character's mother in The Butler. | |
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Ana Maria Orozco, the original Betty in Yo soy Betty, la fea, especially when compared with her Anglo counterpart who was Hollywood Homely at worst. The Colombian producers went the whole nine yards on transforming Orozco: no makeup, bad haircut, the ugliest glasses possible, orthodontics... they even hired an expert to choose specifically the most unflattering colors and styles to dress her, then the writers incorporated that knowledge on the script to justify and explain her eventual makeover and her business plan. | |
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Glass Mask does this in-universe with Utako Himekawa, who is a beautiful actress. When she performed Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker, people mention how a beauty like her was made very plain for the role. | |
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In Fargo Season 3, Ewan McGregor plays both the successful Emmit Stussy and his down-on-his-luck brother Ray. Emmit Stussy is as sharp and handsome as, well, Ewan McGregor, albeit saddled with an unflattering perm. Ray Stussy, however, is balding, portly, windburned, and sickly, all of which were accomplished with two hours of makeup that ensure you can barely even tell that they're played by the same man. David Thewlis as V.M. Varga also undergoes this though not to the extent of McGregor: Varga has misshapen, rotting teeth (done with prosthetics) as a result of his bulimia. He also has unkempt hair and dresses in cheap, ill-fitting suits, due to his desire to remain as inconspicuous as possible. |
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Big Rhonda on That '70s Show. The actress who plays her appeared out of costume in a flash forward once, and looked nothing like Big Rhonda. | |
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Any actor who plays the Witch in Into the Woods until the end of the first act. The ultimate example may be Bernadette Peters from the original Broadway production. | |
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In Epic Movie (2007), this is Played Forlaughs. Carmen Electra plays a parody of Mystique, and initially looks absolutely gorgeous, especially since it basically shows off her entire naked body, only with certain placed scales to hide her nipples and private areas. Later on, she even gets a sex scene with the main character Peter, where she seductively expands her chest and ass at his request... and then he starts requesting some rather ugly and disgusting features. The absolutely stunning Carmen Electra goes from a stunning near-naked woman with a larger rack and ass, to a fat and flabby grandma with a unibrow and crossed eyes, followed by a sloppy make-out and hardcore granny sex with Peter... | |
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To play Tess in the post-apocalyptic The Last of Us (2023), Anna Torv adopted a more haggard look with frayed hair, baggy eyes and bruised face. This is obviously contrasted with Tess's appearance in the flashbacks where she looks as gorgeous as Torv does in real life. | |
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Angela Bettis as the title character in the TV remake of Carrie (2002). Drab clothes, messy hair, and something about not washing her face or anything definitely hid any beauty that she had, making it that much more special when she went to the prom. | |
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Downplayed with Lizzie Caplan in Mean Girls. Producers were reluctant to cast her as 'art freak' Janis because of her beauty, but she gave the best audition. So instead of trying to dress her down, they gave her odd fashion choices, goth make-up, and Messy Hair. She even wears a tuxedo to the prom, subverting She Cleans Up Nicely. There are fandom rumours that Janis herself is a former Alpha Bitch, and Caplan's beauty is likely a contributing factor. | |
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The Big Bang Theory: The entire main cast is made up of exceptionally attractive people; check out this group shot◊ for proof. Yet five of them—Johnny Galecki as Leonard, Jim Parsons as Sheldon, Simon Helberg as Howard, Kunal Nayyar as Raj, and Mayim Bialik as Amy Farrah Fowler—are deliberately given unflattering wardrobes, haircuts, and makeup jobs to seem homely. Amy, for example, almost exclusively wears heavy woolen sweaters paired with floor-length skirts and keeps her hair lank and unstyled, while Leonard's default outfit is an extremely baggy T-shirt and hoodie that covers his whole body. | |
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In What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? she decided that Jane Hudson would never wash her face and only put a new layer of make-up on every day. She patterned the look off numerous homeless ladies seen on Hollywood Boulevard. When Bette's daughter saw her in the make-up for the first time, she remarked "mother, this time you've gone too far." Elsewhere averted with her co-star Joan Crawford, who struggled to look unattractive. She wanted to have full hair and make-up, despite playing a wheelchair-bound woman who hadn't left her room in years. This did however give the impression that Blanche had aged better than Jane, giving her sister another reason to resent her. | |
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Maniac: The handsome and chiseled Justin Theroux is given a ludicrous combover that he hides with even more ludicrous wigs to make him seem rather pathetic. The glamorous Sonoya Mizuno is given a cartoonishly frumpy hairstyle and Nerd Glasses. She also tends to have a cigarette hanging out of her mouth, wears shapeless laboratory coats, and tends to hunch forward with her hands high on her hips. |
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The microcephalic Pepper in American Horror Story: Asylum and Freak Show is played by the beautiful Naomi Grossman. | |
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In A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017), the murderous, balding grey-haired, and perpetually scowling Count Olaf was played by Neil Patrick Harris. | |
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Stella Maris: Mary Pickford played one of the earliest examples in the 1918 film Stella Maris. She played the titular Stella in her normal look but also played the plain and homely Unity Blake as well. Unity is the least attractive girl at her orphanage while Mary Pickford was known for her cherub cute looks. Marcia Manon played The Alcoholic Louise. She had Messy Hair and looked like she was in a permanent stupor. |
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Done to nearly everyone in Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!. Any conventionally attractive celebrity that appears on the show will often end up being made much uglier with intentionally bad makeup, lighting, and color correction (or just being directed to make weird faces through their whole scene.) John C. Reilly as the dopey Dr. Steve Brule is perhaps the most well-known example. | |
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The Terror: While almost the entire cast goes through this to some extent as they begin to suffer from starvation, lead poisoning, and scurvy, Captain Francis Crozier stands out as weary, hollow-eyed, paunchy, and generally pretty rough-looking from the start — not much at all like the usual rugged handsomeness of his actor Jared Harris. It's an unusual case, as the real Crozier had very delicate, even features that persisted even after the premature aging he suffered from stress and prior polar expeditions that left him white-haired and tremulous. | |
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In House of Gucci, the strikingly handsome and youthful looking Jared Leto is unrecognizable as the overweight, balding, and mustachioed Paolo Gucci, aided even further by Paolo's poor dress sense. | |
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Mortal Kombat (2021) has Sisi Stringer's Mileena, who while not having the hideous shark-like mouth from the games, still makes a pretty actress monstrous through cheeks full of scars and Scary Teeth. Stringer herself said it was easy to get into character just by following along the hour-long make-up process — "So I’m seeing my own pretty face in the mirror and then they're just layering and layering until I turn into something that is absolutely not me!" | |
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Daffney Unger and The Lovely Lacey are mildly unattractive at worst to those they are simply not the type of and considered smoking hot to many fans and wrestlers alike. However, Wrestlicious turned them into the deliberately less attractive vampire Draculetta and hoodoo bokor White Magic. | |
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Vixen was goofy and cute, but when she was flown into All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling she was made into an Evil Foreigner Brawn Hilda counterpart of Arsion's head booker Aja Kong when Aja could not make it to a show that had only announced "A Kong" would appear. This eventually went full circle when both Amazing Kong and Aja Kong would get Girly Girl baby face gimmicks in Fighting Opera Hustle based on earlier work they did where they were not trying to look like wrestling monsters. | |
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The first notable one was Of Human Bondage. Her character Mildred ends up on the streets and eventually dies of tuberculosis. Bette designed the make-up Mildred would wear for her death scene, wanting her to accurately look like someone who had died of an illness and not "a deb who had missed her afternoon nap." | |
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Devs: Sonoya Mizuno gets hit with a more mild case as Lily Chen, who is considered desirable but still has her looks noticeably toned down. She wears a very short, boyish haircut and always wears casual, unisex clothing. | |
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Most of the women in Orange Is the New Black are made to look a lot uglier than they do in real life by using a combination of unflattering hairstyles and the ill-fitting prison uniforms, and they in most cases wear minimal makeup (...which by any logic different than the Hollywood one doesn't make them uglier, but rather shows their faces closer to like they really look). The most literal examples of the trope are Taryn Manning (Pennsatucky) and her character's followers, who are given meth-teeth, bad skin, and perpetually messy, dirty hair. | |
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Lily from Sex Education is one of the weirdest-looking characters, so weird-looking that not even a topless scene could improve her sex appeal. Her actress Tanya Reynolds on the other hand is quite◊ breathtaking◊. | |
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Similarly in Maid in Manhattan, Jennifer Lopez still looks beautiful even in a maid's uniform and dowdy ponytail/bun, but the difference when she's clad in a ball gown and a fancy updo is very noticeable. | |
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Olive from On the Buses was presented as frumpy and uncaring of her appearance, though in real life Anna Karen had been a model and dancer prior to the series. When she showcased her natural look during a magazine shoot in the 1970s, viewers were shocked at just how different she appeared from her character. | |
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Bombshell actress and comedienne Jennifer Baxter was made into a zombie in Land of the Dead. Even then though, her beauty still somewhat shines through. | |
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He also gained a lot of weight and went balding to portray former US Vice-President Dick Cheney in Vice (2018). | |
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A lesser version in The Preacher's Wife While Whitney Houston is still undeniably gorgeous, her hair/clothing/makeup is far more akin to a middle-class minister's wife rather than a famous actress/singer. | |
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Father Ted: Frank Kelly was a perfectly decent-to-good-looking guy in real life. As Father Jack Hackett, he's covered in skin blemishes and sores, has a milky eye, and can't or doesn't bother shaving or combing his hair. A lot of this is either concurrent with or a result of his alcoholism, since in flashbacks to his sober days, he's just Kelly sans makeup and properly groomed. | |
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Similarly, he wore extensive prosthetics and makeup (including a cap to simulate a receding hairline) to play Whitey Bulger in Black Mass and as a result is barely recognizable. | |
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Saturday Night Live: When playing the androgynous Pat, Julia Sweeney colored her lips beige and thickened up her eyebrows with makeup to avoid any possible clues about their gender, in addition to the usual padded bodysuit and gender-ambiguous clothing. Kate McKinnon is an attractive woman in real life, but on SNL, she often plays old men, old women, or hideous monsters that aren't even human (like Shud the blobfish mermaid). Cecily Strong is one of the straight-up hottest cast members of all time and has played a number of characters and impressions that play on this. However, one of her most popular characters is Cathy-Anne, a middle-aged drug addict who lives in Michael Che's building. |
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AnnaLynne McCord in Excision (2012) not only wears no makeup, but has acne scars and badly damaged hair, and looks far less attractive than the blonde bombshell that McCord is in real life. | |
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One of the earliest examples of the trope came from Kathleen Byron in Black Narcissus. Her character Sister Ruth begins the film as a devout nun, but slowly suffers Sanity Slippage and eventually turns into a Yandere. In the last act of the film, make-up is used to put her in the Uncanny Valley — giving the impression she's wearing a corpselike mask. | |
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In The Baader Meinhof Complex, Martina Gedeck and Moritz Bleibtreu are noticeably made to appear grubby and unkempt◊ in order to more closely resemble the real Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof. | |
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The Stand (2020): Ezra Miller has a certain chiseled, androgynous beauty about them, but they are nearly unrecognizable as the psychotic pyromaniac Trashcan Man, between the constant mumbling, wild hair, and junkyard-scraps-over-tighty-whiteys fashion choices. It veers into The Grotesque towards his final scenes when he is deformed from radiation poisoning. | |
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Missi Pyle as Fran Stalinovskovichdavidovitchsky in DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story. Of course, this doesn't stop Owen from falling in love with her. In the epilogue, she is shown to be substantially more attractive, though. | |
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Kate McKinnon is likewise a very beautiful lady. In Ghostbusters (2016) she's dressed down with Messy Hair, constantly seen in overalls, and portrayed as something of an oddball. | |
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The Batman (2022) uses extensive prosthetics to transform Colin Farrell into Oswald "Oz" Cobblepot, better known as "the Penguin". The special effects give him a more heavyset appearance along with a scarred, pockmarked face and a hooked nose that make Farrell completely unrecognizable. | |
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As an overweight balding conman with a bad fashion sense in American Hustle. He gained the weight and shaved the hair himself to affect an authentic combover. | |
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Once Upon a Time Season 5 featured Jennifer Morrison in her Dark One make-up, and the stress and exhaustion Emma is going through in her Trauma Conga Line is conveyed with make-up to have her look continually weary and tired. | |
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She wanted to do this for Now, Voyager, padding her costumes out to make Charlotte look even heavier in her 'before' appearance. The studio rejected this look for being "too grotesque" and she's Hollywood Homely in the finished film. | |
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Being John Malkovich: Cameron Diaz wears frumpy clothes and frizzy hair. John Cusack in that same movie also does not look too attractive with his greasy hair and unclean skin, descending into seediness at the midpoint of the film. |
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He also lost a significant amount of weight for The Fighter, in which he played a man addicted to crack cocaine. | |
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In The Dropout, the series about the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes, CEO and founder of Theranos, this trope is averted for Amanda Seyfried as the equally attractive Holmes. However, Naveen Andrews was portraying COO Sunny Balwani. Between a weight gain of 25 lbs (11.34 kg) and prosthetics, the resemblance to the paunchy real-life figure is uncanny. | |
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He starved himself down to a dangerously skinny weight as an anorexic insomniac for The Machinist. | |
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For her recurring role as Estelle in Friends, June Gable wore an unflattering wig, too much jewelry, and Uncanny Valley Make Up. She also affected a voice to suggest the agent had been a chain smoker for years. | |
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Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace: Wallace Huo is made to look downright plain as the older Qianlong◊. | |
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Portia Doubleday in Kimberly Peirce's 2013 remake of the above does a different take on this trope to play Chris. In contrast to previous films showing the Alpha Bitch as one of The Beautiful Elite, this version is done up to look like an over-tanned, made-up Snooki wannabe with ratty hair extensions and trashy clothes. This adds a layer of subtext that Chris could be jealous of Carrie's more natural beauty. | |
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Actors who play the title character in The Phantom of the Opera, most of whom are quite handsome in Real Life. | |
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The actresses playing the maids in Downton Abbey were dressed down considerably to look plainer and less glamorous than the aristocrats. | |
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In Babylon (2022), Tobey Maguire as James McKay is less flattering in comparison to the rest of the cast. Even with wearing a suit, he has a pale complexion, Creepy Shadowed Undereyes, and crooked yellow teeth. | |
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